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✨ Valduin ✨

@dragonstormstudios.ca

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Canadian illustrator, author, propmaker, & eight-limbed dragon {she/her} 🪶 ➼ Art Feed: #art / Prop Feed: #crafts 🌐 ➼ dragonstormstudios.ca No generative technologies have been used in the making of my art. ➼ 🚫NoAI

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 20h

I was actually just wondering if it's possible to ddos an AI client and make them rack up insane fees in token usage, or cause generation loops with the AI provider so their servers just overload and they end up losing catastrophic sums on electricity use. Like can you imagine the utter chaos there?

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 3d

Visit me at Furnal and bring ear muffs

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 3d

Surprisingly yes

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 3d

Hello new followers! My name is Val. I sometimes yell at paper until art comes out. :D

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 4d

Ah but you see Chaos Lawyer, Barron doesn't have a laptop. Checkmate!

(Sarcasm of course)

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 4d

They stared at him for a round and then stared at each other and immediately started brawling again 😂😂😂

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Moth_in_cake @mothincake.bsky.social · 4d

🩵❄️
#art #ocart #griffin #feral #animalart #digitalart #illustration #animal #bird #watercolour #sketch

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 4d

Avatars of Tiamat and Bahamut were brawling and our Paladin, the self professed Most Charismatic Man in the World, was able to get them to stop and listen to him reading them the riot act. Didn't know that 30+ persuation checks could do that LOL

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 5d

So I havent seen any of those, but am particularly scared of watching Grave of the Fireflies because it *will* break me. 🥲

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 5d

If you feel like ugly crying:

1. Land Before Time
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. All Dogs go to Heaven
4. The Fountain

Add your favourite ugly crying films!

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 8d

We just sent the final proof copies to @tfpublishing.bsky.social for publishing.

Expect "The Wideness of the World," the next, Early Modern, volume from the Furry Historical Fiction Society, this December!*

#BookSky #FurryLit
*This is aspirational, no promises, fingers crossed.

"The Wideness of the World" an Early Modern Anthology, from the FHFS.

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 7d

The most Victoria Crosses were awarded there than there were for any other engagement in World War 2.

It's an *insane* read:

www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/gre....

The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942

Join Giles Whittell in conversation with Dr Glyn Prysor for the launch of his new book, which recounts the story of Operation Chariot.

www.nam.ac.uk

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 7d

Apparently the residents of St. Nazaire found body parts miles away lol but because the biggest dry dock was now ruined and flooded the Tirpitz couldn't relocate from Norway and was completely taken out of the picture for the rest of the war.

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 7d

A Nazi commander then mocked the surviving commandos for their failure and declared "For you, the war is over." Then the bomb blew up.

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 7d

The ship somehow managed to get through heavy fire and smash into the lock, but...didn't blow up. The commandos ran out and began causing chaos and blowing up refineries and such. Eventually the survivors were captured and rounded up while Nazis swarmed the crashed ship to find out why it was there.

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 7d

So to knock her out of the war the British sent a force of specialist commandos in a shitty little ship dressed up as a Nazi vessel that had a huge timed bomb in its guts, up a heavily defended river, to ram it into the biggest dock while they knocked out key infrastructure on land.

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 7d

Yuppo! The Tirpitz scared the hell out of the Allies, more so than Bismarck, but because she was so huge she needed an equally large dry dock to accommodate her. The only available docks were at St. Nazaire, a little French town on the Atlantic coast that built ocean liners and housed u-boat pens.

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 7d

Ah yes the Tirpitz, Bismarck's sistership, the one that mouldered in Norway because of an absolutely unhinged British commando raid at St. Nazaire

That Tirpitz!

RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 7d

Remarkable low-level oblique picture of the German battleship Tirpitz, moored in Åfjord, Norway, taken by Flight Lieutenant A.P.F. Fane, a former racing car driver, from an altitude of 100 feet. #WW2 #HISTORY

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 7d

Baby boy is damp and not happy about it

Yoshi the boston terrier partially sitting on wet grass. His forepaws are on a concrete curb darkened with moisture. He's looking up, a leash coming up and off the screen. He has a very prominent <:C face going

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 8d

Ohhh what a cutie this one is! Beautiful colour and pattern!

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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 8d

🐙 ISLA the Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙 Jand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #BlueSkyArtShow #Octopus #Sculpture #MarineLife #BlueSkyNightMarket #OnlyBeautifulThings #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

A bluish teal octopus sculpture sits in a shell and holds a genuine pearl. Its entire body is covered in a fine pattern of maroon, pearl and neon green brush marks.

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 9d

ONE DAY

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 9d

BREAKING NEWS

After four years of not doing it, I'm making a halloween costume

If you know. You know. ;)

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vada 🧚💙 @vadathegreat.bsky.social · 10d

picture that says “pls don't try to get to know me
i am better as a concept” with a opossum screaming

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Badger @badgertracks.bsky.social · 11d

Post a mage!

Softly voiced and ever so moist.

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