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✩ concept artist | illustrator | gamedev ✩ ᴏᴘᴇɴ ᴛᴏ ᴡᴏʀᴋ ➩ portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/barbsart ✩ loves visionary sci-fi & ecology 🚫 NO GenAI/NFT

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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · Oct 24

Hi Bluesky! I'm Barbara, an artist from the Netherlands. I specialize in concept art, but also make narrative games with sci-fi and ecological themes!

You can find my previous work on my artstation and itch:
🌱 www.artstation.com/barbsart
🌱 barbsart.itch.io

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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 20h

GORGEOUS!!! 🩷💜

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · Sep 13

The Groyper Wars

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Dion Peek @bunkes.bsky.social · Sep 11

One of the first sketches I ever made for Bloody Hell 2.

This was also one of my first ever isometric sketches, and I quickly learned that overdrawing engine blockouts was way quicker than doing it all by hand :))

Check out @punintendedgames.bsky.social for more!

#pixelart #gamedev #isometric

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hans Moleman in the Simpsons, inside a phone booth with birds crashing into it and cracking the glass. He is talking on the telephone. The caption reads: “I need the most on-the-nose metaphor you have. No, that’s too on-the-nose.”

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Sep 8

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · Sep 5

Um... I may have gotten carried away in writing my review of Strange New Worlds season 3...

That’s what makes Star Trek inspiring. That’s why it matters. And that’s exactly what Strange New Worlds seems to forget—or worse, what those who own it want us to forget. What happened to “risk is our business”? Isn’t that why we go out in a starship, why we’re aboard her in the first place? Instead, Strange New Worlds has become hollow postmodern product—nostalgia without context—designed to reinforce cultural norms. It sells a “centrist” vision that treats fascism as just another side in a debate, while framing marginalized voices who challenge the hierarchies fascists exploit as the real threat. At best, that message encourages passivity; at worst, it actively vilifies those already marginalized for daring to disrupt the status quo.
I want a Star Trek that resists the expectations of today—not by flattening villains or throwing punches, but by daring to represent a dream of a better tomorrow that we should reach for. Something new. Something braver. A Star Trek that challenges power in the present tense, that resonates with us not just as nostalgia but as a rallying cry. That speaks directly and overtly to the world we live in, the forces shaping it, and the struggles we face right now. That’s what Star Trek once dared to be. That’s what it should still dare to be.

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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · Aug 30

[ eurydice ] #severance

A digital illustration of the character Mark from the TV show Severance. It portrays the last scene of season 2, where Mark leaves his wife Gemma behind to stay on the severed floor with Helly. Mark, in the foreground, is drawn in a red hue. The background, portraying the door to the outside and a crying Gemma in the window, is painted in a contrasting teal hue. Mark is covered in bright red blood. His expression looks puzzled.

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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · Aug 19

!!!! I’m in the middle of watching Korra as well! Currently at season 4!

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innes @innes.bsky.social · Aug 13

still rattled by the sheer giddy glee with which some queers are coming for itch.io, one of the largest collections of queer games in existence. i know it's scary to accept, but we do actually have good things worth defending. we have things it would damage us to lose

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✾ @djlonelygirl.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · Jul 7

Happy birthday!

Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · Jun 27

Movie you’ve watched more than 6x using a gif (no Disney, Star Wars, LOTR, or Star Trek)

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NOLNIR ✨🌠💫 @nolnir.com · Jun 20

I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.

F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇

a digital drawing of a young character with a turquoise bow on her head. She possesses canine-like features and wears a white outfit with yellow gloves. To the right of her is text that reads "Fuck it, let's make a website!"

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jun 18

hail life on the verges

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Liabell /リアベル☄️ ✨ @liabell.bsky.social · Jun 15

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Jun 14

Seen this going around but I’m
Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George

A Twitter reply from Boy George to JKR. JKR said something predictably terfy.

Boy George’s reply:

This is your obsession and it's pretty relentless and for no reason. You don't get to decided who or what anyone is except when you write. In the real world people can and always will be what they want to be. You can't stop it but you can continue to make young kids lives more difficult. You are cruel JK, you have started to look cruel in pictures. All this obsession is wearing on your expression. The pictures of you mocking 'trans' people like Winston Churchill after the Supreme Court ruling. Your endless comments about how rich you are. It's depressing and tacky and proves you are desperate to mean something but sadly you are just being mean.
As my hilarious friend David Hoyle always says.
'Ladies & gentlemen and those of you still deciding. There are two type of people, nice people and c***s.
I do not expect any positive response and you will continue to be supported by women who see you as some kind of gender hero. Women are not better than men and men are not better than women. As a man, a biological one, rah, rah, I have no issue with a girl becoming a boy or the other way around. As a gay man who has worn make-up since 14 l had lived my entire life feeling awkward and afraid using male public toilets.
It's not easy being different and you are only making it harder. Why don't you buy a nice Scottish island or a farm and start a JK commune for traumatised Terfs. Or listen to your fellow Scott Sydney Banks and he will hopefully help you understand that this is all in your head.

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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · Jun 13

SEEING DAVID BYRNE LIVE NEXT YEAR !!!!!!!!

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qrp with your header art! ☀️

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · Apr 29

To be clear about my viewpoint: GenAI is only inevitable if we let it be. The only way to fight against something that we are being told is inevitable is to not use it and disprove the theory. We don't need to find "ethical" ways to create GenAI. We need to blank it out and make it embarrassing.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · Jun 10

This article is a perf exp of how folks are going to use any excuse then can to feel ok with watching Harry Potter because they care more about getting to watch their show then systemic harm against trans people that they can distance themselves from. And Nick Frost is actively helping that.