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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 8h

It’s even worse when one of your hubbies left a window open downstairs, so it’s chilly INSIDE too

Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 10h

Because tweens and teens are messy and not cute. A lot of mothers, especially young mothers, never really think about their kids growing past the “adorable infant” stage when they’re thinking about having kids. Keep them “little” and dependent on your love for as long as possible.

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StuntmAEn Bob @stuntmaenbob.bsky.social · 2d

I’m StuntmAEn Bob & I do pixel art 👀

#PortfolioDay

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 2d

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨

I'm a fantasy cartographer from Brazil working on hand-drawn maps for novels and RPGs.

I have a Patreon with maps + stock art for indie RPGs.

💼 cara.app/salvaterra
🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvat...
+🔗 fernandosalvaterra.carrd.co

#cartography #ttrpg

fantasy map illustration depicting a landscape full of ragged mountains up and down, crossed by crooked roads, some on giant stone structures. There is a valley with hills and woods to the south, a desert with wretched lands just east of it, wetlands to the west and east with flooded cities and temples, snowy plains to the northeast with a giant skeleton and tree and an impossibly tall mountain in the northwest whose peak is obscured by dark clouds.

a fantasy map illustration depicting a continent with a bigger mainland and a large island to the west of it. the biomes go from snowy mountains, a vast wetland, grasslands with many hills. the prevalent features here is that it is crossed by many rivers in all directions and it is surrounded by a the shades of a vast submarine landscape that where part of this land before a big flood catastrophe.

colourful drawing of an island crossed by a mountain range, rivers and forests scattered around.

a planar map in the shape of a compass rose. The direction arrows are the four classical elemental planes with the material plane in the centre and several layers of other planes of existence around it.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 2d

I'm Amy and I paint celestial pottery with glaze ✨

This started when I wanted to take us on an adventure during the pandemic lockdown. Now, offering pots like these to be part of your daily life feels like another way to keep hope alive.

Newsletter for restocks: amyraehill.com

#PortfolioDay

Bowl featuring a solar eclipse in a cloudy sky with one half in golden daylight and the other a cool blue. Steaks of light cut across the eclipse.

Plate featuring Milky Way over a silhouetted landscape with a cabin, evergreen trees, and one deciduous tree.

Angled cup featuring a shield volcano erupting with lava against a yellow-grey sky on Venus.

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Vicky Paints Space @vickypaintsspace.bsky.social · 2d

Ohhh apparently it's #PortfolioDay again!

I'm Vicky, I paint space and use genuine space dust in my original pieces!

Light pollution is such a HUGE issue, that I've made it my life's mission to bring to stars to everyone!

I dabble in astrophotography occasionally too.💜💫

🔭🧪🐡🖌🎨📷

My painting of The Milky Way over Lining Crag.

My painting of the Aurora over mountains.

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Vicky Paints Space @vickypaintsspace.bsky.social · Nov 9

I'm Vicky, and I adore space!
I've made it my life's mission to share the cosmos with everyone through my paintings. My original pieces come infused with genuine space dust! So you literally get to own a piece of the universe!🥰

I'd absolutely love to have you along on this journey with me!🥳

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 2d

I still think your stuff is stunningly gorgeous. Absolute artistry

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 6d

Ventriloquist dummy vs porcelain-faced doll

Man wearing nice 3-piece suit in broad daylight w/ face perpetually shadowed vs woman in pitch black room unseen except dimly lit, pale face

#spooky #scary #creepy

Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 6d

Which is scarier?

Room covered in muck, rot, & decay vs susp clean & sterile room untouched by human hand

Too-wide smile showing too many teeth vs expressionless face that blinks 1x/min

Knowing monster is just around the corner vs not knowing where it is

[…]

#spooky #creepy #scary

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful version & beautiful video

youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ

Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version

YouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 9d

So I may or may not be furloughed & I may or may not be allowed to do my actual job.

Fucking hell.

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 9d

I’m a state employee fully funded by feds. B/c of HOW we’re funded, we *shouldn’t* need to worry abt furloughs. 2 probs:
1) the STATE hasn’t passed budget either, so furloughs b/c of that are still poss
&
2) feds said we can’t do stuff that’s abt 1/3 of job duties. And other 2/3s needs 1st 1/3.

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 12d

Hour to get everything balanced because we kept repeatedly miscounting things due to exhaustion. I didn’t get home until 1:30am. And had to be back at the office at 7:30.

Super de duper fan-fucking-tastic.

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 12d

I used to work front desk at an urgent care center & we had to stay after closing to balance receipts & run nightly reports & the like. This one year was a BAD flu season & the last patient didn’t leave until midnight (I’d been there since 7:30am) & we were so exhausted that it took another

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 13d

Starsky is in the spooky mood

#DogSky #DogsOfBluesky #CuteDogs #Halloween #HappyHalloween #zombie #SidewalkChalk

Brown & white dog wearing a harness and orange leash sitting on a sidewalk. Around him are chalk drawing of zombie hands/arms reaching foe the center where the dog is sitting. Written in chalk are “Zombies!” and “Run!”

Same dog as in previous picture, sotting beside a very faint sidewalk chalk drawing of a ghost labelled in orange chalk “happy halloween”

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 13d

“VC bought it with debt” = “about to die a slow, agonizing death”

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 14d

Fuck that, fuck him, go burn.

I haven’t interacted with the guy in any way, shape, or form since then. Good riddance.

Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 14d

Once I love someone, romantic, familial, friendship, w/e, it takes a lot for that love to go away.

It wasn’t a factor here, but betrayal is absolutely a way to fast track that. Had a guy I thought was a friend try to get a 3p break up me & my bf/husband so he could “hang out with me more”.

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 14d

Old friend I haven’t interacted with in years, who I thought had broken up with me, so to speak, reached out to me earlier this week. Some things had happened and he was in a bad headspace for a while. We’re going to hang out this weekend.

I missed him, so I’m glad we’re reconnecting.

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · 17d

I work for a state agency that’s fully funded by feds. How it goes is we’re granted a lump sum at start of fiscal year to cover existing costs & get authorized for additional/new ones like hiring people. New fiscal year starts tomorrow. If they follow through w/ shutdown, idk if I get paid or not.

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Fat Snarky Brock...among other critters...🏳️‍🌈🦡🦶🏻🐷 @fatbadger.bsky.social · Sep 3

Shelter dogs are euthanized at an alarming rate—especially dogs with Pit in their bloodline.

Forget the hip, trendy pure breed, go get you a shelter Pittie.

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · Sep 3

Due to a combination of good genetics and good dental hygiene learned from my dentist dad, I’ve had perfectly healthy teeth my entire life. Today I learned that I need a root canal. Hell of a way to break the streak.

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · Aug 31

Question for my RPG nerds:

If you could be any level 1 D&D 2024 core class in real life, which would you pick?

Necessary supporting stuff becomes real too, so being a cleric means a god exists to empower you, or being a sorcerer means that whatever your lineage is exists, etc.

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Drewbear 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @drewbear.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thanks