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THE CRYSTAL CITY FALLS
thecrystalcityfalls.carrd.co

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chlorinesea.bsky.social
pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · Apr 8
Want to support the creation of a radical leftist cartoon? Check out thecrystalcityfalls.carrd.co

Elevator pitch for normies: Two elves are drawn into a deadly conspiracy that could unravel the ancient secret behind their very immortality.

Elevator pitch for leftists: it is anarchist propaganda.🤷
Splash image in format of characters/character heads mashed together in a big composition. Protagonist Liirem is on the left, a tall elf with long hair wearing blue halos about his head and neck. To his right are the flamecasters Mia (holding a fireball) and Rhem (holding a flaming spear) with their friend Rieni doing a backflip over their heads, and their leader Araan looking over their shoulder on the far right. Behind Liirem stand a number of indistinct figures representing Omera and Mikel (bloodcasters like Liirem), the orc Serak, and the elder Vesiin. Larger above them is Draagrin--two elves (Dravem and Gria) who operate as a single "harmonic" entity, and three waterfolk: Ssvyra raising a fist, Viys holding a book, and Rhysaar, who has a long fishy mermaid tail. Lineup of introductory designs. Left to right: Omera (not introduced until the second episode), Araan, Rieni, Rhem, Mia, and finally Liirem, who is at least a head taller than everyone else. Digitally-revised storyboard panel. Liirem stands behind Rhem and Mia as they watch Draagrin take the stage to speak. Araan glances at them from the foreground. All around them, the crowd of elves chants "Draagrin", holds signs, and waves flags. Liirem stands in the open door of a train looking breathless and panicked. "I think that was blood magic!" he shouts into the train.
chlorinesea.bsky.social
This is my favorite review so far.
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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today-maybe.bsky.social
Digital ink illustration on tinted paper background. At center is a pageant queen in a black of the shoulder gown and wearing a sash and holding a bouquet of roses. Her head is actually a large hand in a ‘fingers crossed’ position. Behind her another pageant lay in a dress placing a sparkly tiara around the two extended crossed fingers of the first one’s ‘head’. Tiara lady’s head is a blindfolded skull with its entire cranium on fire. It’s like symbolism or something. If you look a bit closely at the bouquet of roses you can see an axe head protruding from it and the queen’s sash reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’ with the last word partially obscured behind the flowers.
July 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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ukk0.bsky.social
1/2 It doesn't make sense, and I think it's a thoughtless decision to make. It will cause some people to fall between the cracks as the municipalities try to figure out an alternative rehabilitative work program. Why change something that is working? Money.
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
chlorinesea.bsky.social
I love when they try to ban something and the pearl-clutching only makes it stronger.
santaragione.com Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 10h
HORSES is currently the best-selling game on GOG 😱
GOG bestsellers
December 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
chlorinesea.bsky.social
Do you ever just recreationally torture yourself thinking about the last moments where you were living in a good timeline before The Thing happened?
OP sits in passenger seat of their own car on a beautiful sunny day on the way to a week-long birthday vacation camping trip, content with their stable job and well-earned PTO. Behind them, their freshly-groomed dog sticks her head out the window into the sun, sharing the back seat with a bunch of camping gear OP was able to afford. Besides them, driving, is their boyfriend, who will strangle them with his bare hands mere days after this photo was taken.
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
richardkadrey.bsky.social Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 22h
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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slipperyjack.bsky.social
Not far from my hotel is the absurdly blingy 18th century Late Baroque private chapel Asamkirche, home to a golden skeleton brandishing scissors to cut the cord of life..!
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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robinbombus.bsky.social
Horses is a Very Bad Time and I highly recommend it. Here’s me on Valve and Epic deciding that a critique of how the powerful use conservative moralism to oppress others is too morally objectionable for their platforms
www.inverse.com/gaming/horse...
Steam And Epic Could Destroy One Of The Best Indie Studios With An Unexplained Game Ban
'Horses' is a subversive, unsettling indie game like nothing you've ever played — but censorship from Steam and Epic Games could destroy its developer.
www.inverse.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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headfallsoff.com
LMAO???????
daddyjanky.bsky.social The Janky's Christmas @daddyjanky.bsky.social · 2d
wait why do i have a "hate symbol" label? let me just look into... oh for fuck's sake
Hateful Symbol Symbology celebrating violence or hate. Examples include swastika, hammer and sickle: both symbolize genocidal ideologies.
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Gen Z is spending more on essentials than previous generations, yet their wages aren't keeping up.

It's no wonder they aren't "spending like retailers need them to."

When 70% of the economy depends on consumer spending, people need money to spend. It's as simple as that.
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
chlorinesea.bsky.social
btw readable and printable versions of the frog/bunny WHAT IS FASCISM zine are available for free!
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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chlorinesea.bsky.social
Mostly traditional sketching lately. The elves for #thecrystalcityfalls are based on lions.
Liirem, an elf with long long hair floats around in ?blood? among some made up flowers. He claws bloody lines across his own chest. A mechanical pencil sits next to the drawing because AI hasn't got a thing on human artists. Rough digital storyboard panel. Liirem stands blank-faced in the background as an elf with messy hair and a jacket gleefully shouts conspiracy nonsense: "i know who's behind all of this!" (They do not) Little pen sketch of Liirem and Mia from The Crystal City Falls. Standing around. Gria Draagrin and Dravem Draagrin, politicians and mind-controllers, looking smug and irritated, respectively.
July 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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chlorinesea.bsky.social
I feel like this lizard needs more arms.
Pencil drawing of some kind of poorly-considered body horror monster, like a lizard with ten human arms as legs and spiny ridges down its back. It has a lizardy head shown in silhouette with spiky teeth and a long row of seven eyes.
September 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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chlorinesea.bsky.social
Sketching grocery store pedestrians #art #traditionalart #sketch #characterdesign
Skinny guy in scrunched up sweatpants slouches along with a long stride, hunched over with his hands in his pockets and hair in his face. Lady with long curly hair blowing in the wind around her big dark sunglasses Beardy baldy guy with a weak chin and glasses, probably an art director. Lady adjusting a crossbody purse worn over a loose cropped t-shirt and high-waisted jeans. She has long hair with bleached tips.
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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chlorinesea.bsky.social
Request from discord for @kilobytten.bsky.social #thecrystalcityfalls #elf #orc #art #csp
Orc Serak and elf Liirem stare lovingly into each other's eyeballs. Serak is red tones, Liirem is blue tones, they both have yellow eyes and use he/him pronouns. Serak has some blue flowers in his hair and Liirem has some yellow orange flowers. They are inside a compositional circle which has some autumn leaves on the bottom of it. This was drawn by a human (me!) in clip studio paint.
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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theneedling.com
Venezuela Bombs American Drug Yacht, Wiping Out Entire Sackler Family Cartel: tinyurl.com/mr472vs5
Grainy black and white satellite photo of giant super-yacht getting bombed with "UNCLASSIFIED" written across top
December 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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adwills.bsky.social
writers artists

🤝

getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝

🤝

criminals santa claus
March 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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heatherbuchanan.bsky.social
A reminder this holiday season and always
Illustration of a wacky colourful bird creature surrounded by flowers with text that reads: don’t give your money to billionaires, support artists and goofballs and wild wonderful weirdos
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
chlorinesea.bsky.social
i hate that this is necessary. I'd GLADLY switch to a browser with zero AI
sundogscoops.bsky.social SCOOPS 🍖 @sundogscoops.bsky.social · 1d
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now

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browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.menu browser.ml.chat.page browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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dasharez0ne.bsky.social
FUCK THE SALVATON ARMY - dashare.zone ADMIN
NEVER GIVE YA MONEY TO "DA RED BUCKET" THE SALVTION ARMY IS NOTOROUS FOR (1) GIVING MONEY TO CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL CANDIDATES (2) OPPOSING UNIONS (3) REFUSING TO HELP LGBTQ+ PEOPLE IN NEED (4) FIRING THERE OWN WORKERS WHEN THEY FIND OUT THERE LGBTQ+ !!! SO GIVE YA MONEY TO YA LOCAL FOOD BANK https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank OR YA LOCAL HOMELESS SHELTER , AND FUCK DA BELL RINGERS ,,,,OH AND DA TEXT "FUCK OFF SALVATION ARMY IF I WANTED TO OPPRESS MARGINALIZED PEOPLE WITH MY MONEY I WOULD PAY MY TAXES ON TIME " DONT GET ME STARTED ON HOW THE GOVERNMENTS USING OUR TAX MONEY IT SURE AINT TO HELP PEOPLE EAT OR FIND HOUSING - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
December 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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cuteosphere.bsky.social
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.
5 MINUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF WHEEL bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a wheel, turning round and round, an endless cycle of seasons and lives and realms--it all keeps turning, and it all keeps coming back around 5 MINUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF BOOKS bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a book, God is The Author of Being and he writes our names in the Book of Life. In the beginning was THE WORD, bro. You see bro?? 5 MiNUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF COMPLEX GEARS bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is mechanical, God is The Divine Watchmaker, and the planets spin along predetermined paths according to the turning of cosmic gears! It's all just predictable mechanical paths from creation to here! 5 MiNUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF COMPUTERS bro, i think i just figured something out-
May 29, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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adamtots.bsky.social
I think it's really telling that there's never been a hot person who's into AI
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM