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Lady Laufey

@ladylaufey.bsky.social

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Freelance artist, dabbling in fantasy characters and creatures, paleoart, and, as of late, mecha. 32 years old.

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Lady Laufey @ladylaufey.bsky.social · Feb 27

My car is, to put it politely, in pretty bad shape, so I'm finding myself in need of some money to get back on track.

So! Commissions are WIDE OPEN - You come to me with your idea and budget, and I will make it work!

Contact me through bsky, or at [email protected]

A greyscale image of a BattleMech with a hunched, forward-leaning posture. The cockpit is at the far front of the torso, with an extension below it mimicking the beak of a bird of prey or the false beard of a Pharaoh. Each arm bears a single large cannon, and missile racks are mounted towards the back, on the shoulders.

An anthropomorphized Uromastyx lizard sitting under a flowering tree in the desert, happily munching from a bag of green lentils. The kimono-style shirt the lizard wears mimics the markings on the real lizard's back, with swirling patterns and bright circular markings.

An illustration of thirteen species of birds of the Great Plains and Kansas, with the Keeper of the Plains sculpture by Blackbear Bosin pictured as a central framing element. Along with the main birds are thirteen species of Kansas wildflower, and, in the sky, the silhouettes of many birds that migrate through the Great Plains.

An illustration of a troll druid standing barefoot on a forested path, holding a long-eared green wooden mask in his hand. His other arm is hidden beneath a cloak of autumn leaves, and he gazes towards the viewer with a stern, contemplative expression.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs

“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 10h

Cops really cannot help themselves. They could have easily sat back and let ICE take all of the heat from the public. Instead they're reminding the public exactly why the Black Lives Matter protests happened in the first place. Because ICE and the police are one in the same.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 10h

LAPD and other local cops using flash bangs and horses against peaceful protesters without provocation in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, not even half a mile from City Hall.

(deleted older version of this as I typed block instead of mile, sorry)

Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 12h

Brutal clearance of the protest including the horse mounted unit and flash bangs

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 18h

Here's what was actually happening in Los Angeles an hour before the downtown No Kings march, if you want to support Indigenous activists instead of supporting lying bluesky accounts.

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 14h

With alt text, and it is beautiful ☺️

To the Editor:

I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.

I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities. There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.

For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.

Jason Jacoby Lee

New York

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Cutie-Doodles @cutiedoodles.bsky.social · 21h

Millie's Handy Dandy Cleavage Chart~

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🍂 deli 🍂 @deliciest.bsky.social · 1d

Tho I agree with the general sentiment of that list of the enshitification of internet seeing that "join my Patreon" felt a bit like adding to the list of billionaires ruining everything street artists sharing the hat for a tip 😅

Beatriz Rebollo Art @beatrizrebolloart.bsky.social · 1d

People comparing creators and artist Patreons with big platforms subscriptions have me crazy.
If you didn't know we use Patreon because it's the only way to get an income and with most of us as myself we don't earn enough to cover our basic expenses per month.
A bit of consideration please.

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Lady Laufey @ladylaufey.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I misspoke - it's not stealth armor, it's the Chameleon Light Polarization Shield. This Wario-built tank bastard with a light gauss rifle and three light ppcs linked to a TarComp can literally become invisible.

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Lady Laufey @ladylaufey.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to get to posting more of my art. It's been a while, and I've been doing stuff but not posting - better, I suppose, than posting but not doing stuff!

Lady Laufey @ladylaufey.bsky.social · 1d

I've been kind of nervous to post my Battletech fan designs, but I'm kind of feeling it tonight - so have the Einbora and the Kodanda. Both are heavy snipers, though the Kodanda is a bit slower and has the benefit of stealth armor.

A black-and-white drawing of a battlemech with a large gun mounted on the right arm, and a heavy gun barrel in the right shoulder. The head is recessed slightly into the torso, and the legs are double-jointed and somewhat spindly.

A black and white drawing of a bulky battlemech with a heavy cannon mounted in the left arm, and three more heavy weapons - one in the right arm, and one each in either side of the torso. The head sits in the middle of the chest, with a broad, demonic face. Similar demonic visages adorn the waist and knees.

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Lady Laufey @ladylaufey.bsky.social · 1d

Piece of art I made a couple of years back - an Oni in red and blue, on a purple background. Figure OP here probably doesn't want us having a super long discussion in their replies, though.

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Babs Tarr @babsdraws.bsky.social · 2d

Did you grab your sirens sticker set yet? 💫💫💫

>>> babsworldwide.com <<<

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

Money where your mouth is, my guy. Have police start arresting ICE agents.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

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Lady Laufey @ladylaufey.bsky.social · 1d

I think it was when pointing out the poor judgment of someone who's now shilling AI.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

Image of multiple vehicles from the movie Mad Max: Fury Road

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Leah Von Noire @leahvonnoire.bsky.social · 6d

You're right, there IS nothing under this hoodie.

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 3d

sexual violence is one of THE most universal and timeless technologies of oppression in all of human history. it is a foundational component of war, of genocide, of colonialism. it is an expression of the right of the invading body to consolidate power thru the fragmentation of the subjugated body >

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 3d

Check out this animated short, it features a 🥁feathered dinosaur🥁

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Paulo Leite @thek560.bsky.social · Aug 6

Dueling Torvosaurus, digital painting done in Procreate. #paleoart #dinosaur #art

Digital painting of two torvosauruses fighting. One of them is on the ground being bitten in the head by the other one.

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Iris Compiet @iriscompiet.art · 3d

Little Eggie! A little mushroom painting I did yesterday because I could.

Photo of a watercolour painting of a cute mushroom creature. A big round yellow orange cap with white spots. A big smile on their face and a little snaggletooth

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 6d

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 5d

I did, I love it!

Andy "Spooktober" Mason @andysdrawings.co.uk · 5d

Oh, wait, hold on. Did you ever see this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcI7...

Demon In The Dark: Batman vs. The Secret Six

YouTube video by ForewarnedFilms

www.youtube.com

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 5d

Waseem sends a video showing utter devastation. If you want to help him and his family out here’s the link

gofund.me/7c6e89faf

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 5d

"The Democrats, as a party, are doing fuckall to stop the country's slide into fascism" isn't "panic and misinformation," it's the water we're all swimming in, and anyone who thinks otherwise can start by explaining why they let Trump run for a second term after Jan6 and go from there

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5d

it's really funny and sexy to turn the discourse into "big accounts shouldn't be intentionally spreading panic and scaring people!" obviously not but luckily nobody did that

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Lady Laufey @ladylaufey.bsky.social · 5d

Look, sometimes you just need to have a Ghost concert. Aurem Stolas may be an ass, but he seems to accidentally have good taste in one (1) case.