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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #portfolioday ☀️

I’m a Polish illustrator & full-time 2D Game Artist. I love to create cozy art, usually celebrating nature or small moments of everyday life. I want to bring feelings of comfort to everyone and brighten their day with my work!

✸ Store: vexnir-shop.com ✸

Gouache illustration of a black cat wearing a scarf with various geometric patterns on it. The scarf is in warm shades with some green accents.

Watercolor illustration of a bunch of colorful pumpkins, with a beige striped cat sleeping on top of them curled up into a ball, slightly resembling the round pumpkins itself.

Traditional fan art in watercolor and colored pencil. It’s an illustration showing the Pokémon Ampharos, with a little Togepi in its arms, standing among bushes full of yellow flowers. A small house, trees and electrical poles can be seen in the background, with Mt. Fuji faintly hovering over them in the distance.

Traditional drawing in mixed media of a white cat with a yellow straw hat sitting inside a blue cardboard box. It’s surrounded with other boxes full of oranges.

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 21h

LOLLL This reminds me of when Amazon shut down @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social's affiliate account with them and refused to give us the money we had made because they they deemed our site as "porn" (citing specific comics), while THEY WERE SELLING OUR BOOKS WHICH CONTAINED THOSE EXACT SAME COMICS 😂

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 21h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 22h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Massiveface @massiveface.bsky.social · 21h

I enjoyed talking to myself in a Bob Ross voice while painting the clouds, I think he would approve.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21h

we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.

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やむやまね @yamuyamane-ut.bsky.social · 4d

concert🎵🎵🎵✨｡･ﾟ･｡🎵🎵🎵✨｡･ﾟ･｡🎵🎵🎵✨
#Undertale

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 21h

You know what keeps @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social funded and paying comic creators for their original work on sex, sexuality, gender, and being a human?

Our readers.

The regular systems that financially support small businesses are cut off to us. Our readers are everything
www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

Oh Joy Sex Toy | Patreon

Creating Weekly Sex Positive Comics

www.patreon.com

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 22h

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

four simplistic drawings of a fluffy white dog rolling around in red, yellow, and orange leaves while exclaiming “leaf, leaf”

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GB @gorryb.bsky.social · 19h

It's spooky season!!!
#Undertale

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 21h

every tale of adventure could be improved by 1 to 7 gay sex scenes

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Adenak Raventhorne, CFO Clan Ravnos @adenakraventhorne.bsky.social · 25d

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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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 5d

its the FABULOUS BODIES cover reveal, my latest horror journey arriving next summer. buckaroos are calling it DRIVE MEETS BEETLEJUICE (but COLLATERAL in palm springs with an undead queer icon also works). PREORDER NOW BUCKAROOS LETS TROT us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

cover of FABULOUS BODIES by chuck tingle it is greenish blue background with large pink text in the middle there are heart shaped sunglasses with pool reflection and at the bottom it says 'never meet your heroes'

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · 2d

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the knife alien @spacedrugs.bsky.social · 1d

i soda-fired this orc mug and it came out so perfect. i may never make anything this good again #ceramics #orctober

photo of a hand holding a shiny green mug with an orc face. One ear is a handle

the inner part of the same mug, glazed with Reitz Green glaze. it is greenish blue

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 1d

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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Gilded Pleasure @gildedpleasure.bsky.social · 23h

The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
What Moves The Dead by T Kingfisher
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

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Archie Bongiovanni @babywrist.bsky.social · Aug 25

Queers of Minneapolis and Queers who will visit Minneapolis: stop googling what to do!! We now have a zine for that!!! I put years of first-hand knowledge into routes around the city your and your friends can take! Scrounging Instagram for local events is OVER!

Snag here: Archiebongiovannishop.com

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Gilded Pleasure @gildedpleasure.bsky.social · 1d

feel like it's worth pointing out that "realistic" and "interesting" are very often mutually exclusive, especially when it comes to the evils all of us are being subjected to on the daily these days. i agree with the post, i just reject the paradigm it's addressing

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #portfolioday once again! Hi, my name is Michelle and I’m a British artist in the UK! Clients have included Metallica, Magic! The Gathering, Boom!, Werewolf the Apocalypse and more!
My website is wolfskulljack.com

My art digital, surreal a women and a skeleton

My art digital a large goddess with wings for eyes and a glowing shape of a women with a single antler

A collection of posters that I’ve done for Metallica Volbeat and Trivium

My art digital a women looks into the jaws of a beast

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Pauline @paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #Portfolioday!

My name is Pauline, and I make quiet and cozy drawings of real and fantastical critters. 🍂🍎🌱🌼

A digital drawing of a mole in a red sweater digging out an oak tree sapling with a shovel next to some trees, roots and grass. Its star shaped lantern is glowing next to it and its earthworm friend is surveying the work. A watering can, a bucket and the handle of a smaller shuffle are strewn around them.

A digital drawing of a bear and a duck in knitted sweaters baking apple cake. The bear is standing behind a counter and is cutting apples. Their cutting board on which some peeled apples are being cut is surrounded by apple peels and a large supply of unpeeled apples. The duck is sitting next to them on the counter and stirring some dough in a large white bowl with a blue rim and a blue dot pattern. On the table there is also a baking tin, a stick of cinnamon and a packet of vanilla sugar as well as a cup for each of the friends. The background shows a shelf with plants, candles and another cup as well as a window from which one can see the rainfall.

A digital drawing of a stone critter covered in moss, dirt and yellow wild flowers enjoying the rain while sitting on a log

A digital drawing of a pond-dwelling mermaid with algae-like green hair, big yellow eyes and a smile that is exposing a single fang. She is resting her head on her arms, looking at the viewer from the border of a pond, surrounded by algae and lillypads. Some ducklings are swimming around her, one of them sitting on a lillypad on her head. There is also a river snail on her shoulder. The ground in front of her is covered in souvenirs she found in the lake such as a flower necklace, a brown leather wallet, a whale toy, a key,some small coins, a chess piece and what seems to be a smudged note. To the right side of the image, a frog with a golden crown is sitting on a yellow toy boat. The scene is illuminated by fireflies floating above the lake.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 1d

MANY ARE UPSET THAT I THINK MY REELECTION IS LOCKED UP

lonevoice.bsky.social @lonevoice.bsky.social · 1d

Why @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, @chucktingle.bsky.social et al won't is clear: they THINK their reelection is locked up. They know the Americans who care don't have another option. And the second level leadership in the party is doing what they did with Biden: pretending nothing is wrong!

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0Frightsource 👻 @0lightsource.bsky.social · 1d

Preddy

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Letsbeflawed🔞 @letsbeflawed.bsky.social · 1d

Just want to say that sex and enjoying sexual stuff is completely normal and healthy.

Don't let puritanical thinking make you think that's what's hardcoded into your DNA is somehow bad.

We are literally BUILT. TO. fUCK.

JintiGoast @jinti.bsky.social · 1d

Let me reiterate: that shit ain't real.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

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brig-naturals🔞-🎃VGEN COMMS OPEN 2/5🎃 @bigbadbrig.bsky.social · 1d

‘….yeah, that’ll fit for sure…’ 😌

part 4 of my #monsterfucking sketch page for @furbyboi.bsky.social ‘s #kinktober2025 !

❤️‍🔥

#monsterfucker #oc #dragon #sizedifference #teratophilia #furry #kinktober #nsfw #nsfwart #dragoncock

Silve rubbing herself on Selcurath’s enormous dragon cock as he licks her breasts with his purple to pink tongue

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¿Mr.Whatshisname? (COMMISSIONS OPEN) @bridgeoffaust.bsky.social · 1d

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