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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29d

I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29d

“I will end my career writing dissent, that is my future. And you understand that you’re writing for a future society. That dissents are not about today. Dissents are writing for a future society that will take that dissent, that will be ready for that dissent, & enact it”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 18

The Trump administration has attacked diversity programs, historical discussions of slavery, civil rights and more as he pressures civic institutions to de-emphasize race. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of The 1619 Project, discusses what led to this movement. nyti.ms/4msq3x8

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J || Vampire Pyramid Scheme 🦇 🏳️‍⚧️ | ✨ Get Me My Coffin, Louis✨ @vampirepyramid.bsky.social · Sep 20

Our talented roster of over 35 contributors for Vampire of Color: Crimson Legacy and After Dark III

Creating beautiful BIPOC vampire stories, art, comics, games for our fundraiser. ❤️

Check here for more details and the links to their social media:
vampirepyramidscheme.com/bipocvampday/zine/

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That Dirty Star Platinum Artist🔞 @creamiplatinum.is.sick.fyi · Sep 20

Anyway, here’s your form of consent, Bluesky.

Meme from Parks and Recreation of Ron handing a paper to an officer and saying “Not to worry. I have a permit.”

Followed by a closeup image of the paper being held by the officer, edited to read:

“Every fictional character I’ve drawn and will draw having sex, has consented to being drawn that way. They told me themselves.”

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Adenak Raventhorne, CFO Clan Ravnos @adenakraventhorne.bsky.social · Sep 19

Man name of @chucktingle.bsky.social knows the score.
This is where we are RIGHT NOW. Are you all talk, or do your words have steel behind them?

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Sep 14

I LOVE SWORDS
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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Sep 14

"Second Thoughts"

Made some #vintagestory fanart for #TrueRefDT008 monthly contest. Loved that this month's ref was appropriately themed for #swordtember

And YES, I'm still shoving my characters into anything and everything and nobody can stop me!

#artsky #fanart #ocsky

A conflicted-looking guard sits on a crate as he leans on the cross-guard of his massive claymore. He is wearing dark leather and chainmail, without a helmet. Brass details glimmer on his belt and sword.

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Sep 14

"Second Thoughts"

Made some #vintagestory fanart for #TrueRefDT008 monthly contest. Loved that this month's ref was appropriately themed for #swordtember

And YES, I'm still shoving my characters into anything and everything and nobody can stop me!

#artsky #fanart #ocsky

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · Sep 12

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 10

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Jun 16

i love AUs because i get to give Ro any fucking haircut i want

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Jan 21

#gayart #lgbt #illustration #artcommunity

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Sep 9

How many gallons of potable water will this suck down? And how much stress will this put on whichever's city's grid? And for what, exactly? Another hollow animated movie about anthropomorphic beasts? How many more of these sloppy, uninspired children's movies do we need?

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Sep 8

As a writer/illustrator but a very, VERY new comic-maker, this little thread just answered some agonizing questions I've been having since starting my comics journey four years ago. Thinking of the story beats like music just re-wired my brain, thank you for sharing your thoughts.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · Sep 7

Union posting: This is, to me, the correct stance for labor moving forward if the social safety nets are not improved. Leverage and bend everything you have against your employers til they break or they will never pay you what is promised.

Rewards are for children, Compensation NOW is for adults.

Tin Foil Awards @tinfoilawards.bsky.social · Sep 3

Can't find a single thing wrong with this...

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Sep 7

#illustrationart #writing #selfpromosaturday

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Sep 6

dude this one is my fave

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eke @eke.bsky.social · Aug 29

yo this guy is cooking

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Aug 15

I finished another short fan comic about #vintagestory because it's the only thing keeping me sane right now. The comic itself took damn near the entire summer because I've been frozen in panic and exhausted from FT work so please fucking read it, it's free to download!
motorcycleboyfriend.itch.io

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am RUNNING

MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Aug 25

w/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

A VERY cool anthropomorphic grey wolf wearing a leather vest is riding a sick ass motorcycle through an apocalyptic wasteland into a cloudy sunset. There is white text superimposed over the middle of this immaculate oil painting that reads "Monster energy? That's just average ordinary Energy to a monster Like myself..."

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you and I'm so glad you enjoy that part of it--the lore is so rich and complicated in this game and the deeper I get into the roles the seraphs played in their human society, the more I crave about it!

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · Aug 15

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France.
So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness.
There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time.
Good luck, and love as always
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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Aug 15

lookit how beautiful my babymans is

MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Aug 15

I finished another short fan comic about #vintagestory because it's the only thing keeping me sane right now. The comic itself took damn near the entire summer because I've been frozen in panic and exhausted from FT work so please fucking read it, it's free to download!
motorcycleboyfriend.itch.io

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Aug 12

There's nothing better than watching intelligent people with a highly specific set of knowledge get stoked about the very thing they studied medicine for. I felt like a rare bird getting studied by Charles Darwin

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Aug 12

At one point, my doctor turned to me and exclaimed, "Do you know how rare this is?!" while she gestured excitedly at my chart. I adore her already

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MOTORCYCLE BOYFRIEND @cyberthot.bsky.social · Aug 12

Second time seeing a cornea specialist. I have Terrien's Marginal Degeneration, which is rare, and so now I've had the distinct pleasure of seeing yet another office lose their minds with glee about my fucked up corneas

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