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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 5h

Click here to see my butt (I’m good at marketing and have nothing to sell ✨)

Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 1d

Hi!
While I’m still struggling to have any ressemblance of human functioning, I somehow had an idea for a tiny comic like i used to make a while ago on insta. Here’s my favourite one from back then, still very accurate with describing how I feel.. introverted navel gazing kind of shit :p

Title cards reading “longing, or a personal take on the trans agenda”, on a green watercolour and gouache drawing of grass and flowers, the trans agenda written in the trans pride Colors

Watercolour self portrait of me staying at my favourite spot in my flat, sitted at my window near my plants with a coffee in hand and a bird on the tree just in front of my window. The text reads “I sometimes have an intense longing”

Watercolour self-portrait of me eating under my blankets in my bed, with plushies and cushions (?) and books, with a plate of noodles on my blanket and my mouth full. The text reads “for peace and quiet without guilt”

Drawing of me standing on one foot, with six arms each grabbing a symbol of one of my many interests, miniatures, drawing, music and so on. The text read “for the energy to make all the things I want to make”

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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 5h

Oh noo 💔 your art is great! (And the yoga pole is probably as much a lie as adulthood 😶)

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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 6h

And the rest of it

Drawing of me pulling a thread of my arm, like I was made of clothes, various holes are showing on my silhouette. The text says “I feel like an old piece of fabric, that had a few holes then”

Drawing of me, just a torso and a head, ideas of arms, entangled in strings like a fly in a spider’s web. The text says “and is now unravelling to the point of uselessness”

Drawing of me, head down on my drawing table with pencils and brushes, in front of a window, with spider webs forming around me. The text says “and I feel so guilty for not being able to function anymore”

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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 6h

Hi! Here’s another comic from my instagram days, very much influenced by the toxic aspects of instagram of seeing so much cool stuff all the time.
Leaving the platform was a huge improvement for my mental health, although I still struggle with functioning and the feeling of wasting time..

Title card, saying “unraveling” on a background of watercolour threads

Drawing of me sitting on a bench in a park, a notebook in hand, watching people pass by a be alive. The text says “I know that comparing myself to others is the quickest way to feel like a failure”

Drawing of me, scrolling on my phone, on a background of drawings of an instagram feed full of talented motivated and alive folks. The text says “I do that a lot though, and I feel that a lot”

Drawing of me in the water, floating with a lifebelt, with silhouettes of people in yoga poses on poles flexing elegantly. The text says “most people around me give me the impression that time, age and experience made them stronger, more confident”

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PiperMakes @pipermakes.bsky.social · 21h

It's portfolio day again. Still not really sure what decides this x'D
Here's more stuff:

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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, thank you so much Evlyn 💚

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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 1d

And the rest of it

Drawing of me laying in the grass, feeling cosy, my hands behind my head, with a psyduck laying near me. My bag is open in the grass with drinks and biscuits. The text reads “for the silent complicity of friendship”

Drawing of me standing in panties between two mirrors, trying to show my weird proportions in a honest and modest way. The mirror on the left show a deformed reflection of a potato with sticks for legs and arm, and a cube for the head. The mirror on the right shows the ideal proportion of a curvy girl. The text reads “for a body I will never have”

Drawing of me, eyes wide open in front of my tv, a console controller in my hands. A few famous characters from various video games are watching above my shoulder. The text reads “for a sweet oblivion”

Drawing of me, a half eaten cookie in my hand, watching down as I reveal a round hole the size of the cookie in my belly under my top. The text reads “for a cookie to actually fill the void inside”
Happy stuff!

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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 1d

Hi!
While I’m still struggling to have any ressemblance of human functioning, I somehow had an idea for a tiny comic like i used to make a while ago on insta. Here’s my favourite one from back then, still very accurate with describing how I feel.. introverted navel gazing kind of shit :p

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah 😔 many good things lost in the race for “content” 💔

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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 3d

Haven’t watched it yet and I was not expecting much from the movie but it still feels disappointing, it could have been much more in the current context!..
I’m a bit sad Nin worked on the ost now, even if it does slap!

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 5d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 5d

Hi!
While I’m still waiting on some administrative stuff and for the worst timeline ever to, I don’t know, implode? - I’ve set up a new Bandcamp page! there’s just an old tune I was happy with there, and hopefully some newish stuff will arrive! 🏳️‍⚧️
nickygrillet.bandcamp.com/track/alep-b...

Alep - Berlin, by Nicky Grillet

track by Nicky Grillet

nickygrillet.bandcamp.com

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Spicymancer @spicymancer.bsky.social · 9d

Seasonal Flavors

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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 6d

From the guy who got so much stuff actually built for fury road 💔 that’s a bad hit :(

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Callie Ö @callieoart.bsky.social · Oct 24

Post your most popular art from Twitter

I don't want to relog into that hellhole to confirm, but I think it was this one.

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Trish Carden @monstergirltrish.bsky.social · 9d

I have a new Forest Dragon in my HarrowHyrst range, available from Footsore Miniatures and Games. He’s ready to defend the mighty forests from their enemies! He was sculpted in BeesPutty polymer clay, next job is to paint him!

footsoreminiatures.co.uk/collections/...

Forest Dragon miniature, sculpted in Polymer clay

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ラリアット/rariatoo @rariatoo.bsky.social · 10d

gwenom

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 10d

Quiet day so I will take the risk to share. Gestalt and Replika units friends, if you want to join my Signalis TTRPG discord:
discord.gg/ScnQuq5C

drawing of Eule and Ara chatting together in a vent.

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Nicky Grillet she/her @nickygrillet.bsky.social · 9d

A friend was kind enough to be an emotional support for me to play the game these last days (way too scary on my own) and we haven’t finished it yet, but i love it SO MUCH, and I can now totally understand your fascination with it, and enjoy your fan art to the full extent! so fricking cute 💚

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Geist @rattlegeist.bsky.social · 12d

Threaded Knight

A porcelain doll soldier with gold filigree & spools of glowing thread stands alone, holding a sword and a rifle.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 13d

Similarities

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molly (comms open!) @longfusilli.bsky.social · 14d

hiiiii here’s a comic i made about having a job and being overwhelmed (1/7)

comic cover!!! featuring the main character, Dina, looking nervous and sweaty. She’s a young woman in an ill-fitting work shirt and pencil skirt with her dark hair tied up in a bun and bangs pinned with a dog-shaped clip. Some sort of ominous shadow looms over her. Text reads: FELT BAD, MET GOD by molly kate young (aka longfusilli) (aka ME!!!!)

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DeviantDivine @deviantdivine.bsky.social · 23d

Weird how this *remains relevant*

A Tumblr post from the-modern-typewriter reading:
"How can you not be angry?"
am angry" the werewolf said. "But unlike you, don't have the luxury of showing it without being called a monster. Without someone taking it as a sign of proof thatI need to be put down like a rabid dog, that I'm just like what the stories tell you."
"But everyone gets angry...that's human."
"Up until the point when you're not human"

And the response from mckitterick:
such a wonderful metaphor for anyone Othered by society

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 19d

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market.

Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers.

How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.

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