Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

River

@rivertheartist.bsky.social

72 followers 13 following 75 posts

My name's river and I'm an artist. I do portraits. 100% AI free 🤖🚫 occasional 🔞 College Gofundme ⬇️ 150+ for a portrait https://gofund.me/40026670

gofund.me

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · 29d

I don't draw comics, like ever. That means no speech bubbles. If I decide to draw NSFW, how in the world is bsky supposed to figure out whether the characters consent? Vibes? Nah, in reality the mods are gonna guess how marginalized I am and react accordingly. #bskycensorship

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Sep 20

By viewing a private moment between these men, are we the ones engaging in non-consent? As God of their fictional world, am I exempt, or should I too avert my eyes? Is it morally okay to draw sexual activity at all? #nsfwart #artsky #censorship

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Sep 20

I mean, does this drawing count as "consensual sexual activity"? Of course, I drew it with that in mind. These characters would never commit sexual assualt. But there isn't a panel showing either of them verbally consenting. These new rules can easily be exploited by mods targeting queer people.

These two characters are having consensual gay sex. Reposted as an example of how the recent restrictions of NSFW artwork could be abused to include drawings such as these.

1 2

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Sep 20

These new regulations make me want to draw freaky BSDM shit I wouldn't otherwise have a reason to make. Kind of like how I'd be inclined to get into mead making in the prohibition era. Not generally into that sort of thing, but I think people should have a choice in the matter.

1 2

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Sep 20

I have tags related to noncon blocked. Because of this ruling, I'm now seeing way more of it, because it's improperly tagged. This will do nothing except stop people from tagging correctly, and ban a few queer artists for drawing BDSM.

1 1

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Sep 13

Naked Viktor is the only reason I'm on this app fr

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Sep 10

NOOOOO

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Sep 6

Everyone go play Chants of Sennaar right now

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ahhh thank you guys for all the comments!

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Sep 1

Here are my OCs they're soulmates I guess #oc #art #artsky #portrait #painting

Sorry, no more pay gorn of them shall be made. There are plenty of other muses for that. (Viktor) Also Canada hates NSFW generally.

Digital portrait of two faces, Josef on the left and Lucas on the right. They are close together with a red string tied around them, suggesting that they're soulmates.

They have oily skin and messy hair, because of how long they've been living in a post-apocalyptic setting.

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's one of my most recent posts 👀

1 1

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Sep 1

I wanted to draw viktor's nipples (for personal reasons) so I made sure to add the red and slightly bruised outline of his brace to show he's been wearing it

1 2

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fuck the UK and fuck its iron grip on Canada's policies.

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 24

What if it was called the 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴core and instead of taking his humanity it made him 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 22

I know that bsky will automatically put a label on something if its AI flags it as explicit, but does it ever go the other way around? Can I put a nudity label on a picture of an empty field and will they take the label off? Idk I just feel like if it's trying to correct them it should do both.

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 19

Trans Viktor with bottom surgery is my favorite Viktor. You better believe he made that cyberdick himself

1 1

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hi guys. Um #viktor

Yeah I'm not even gonna defend myself. This one's for me

#painting #arcane #artsky

Detailed digital painting of Viktor from Arcane with his arms up, covered only by a blue blanket over his hips. His skin is visibly red on the parts of his chest where his back brace usually is.

9 120 400

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 18

I just accidentally started on chapter 10 and didn't realize until I finished it cause the writing was so good LMAO

1 1

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 16

10 days until college! 10 days until I leave the US!

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 12

In the fabric of the universe with my mechanical wife

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 9

May the Lord bestow upon me a jayvik fic where they get married for visitation rights cause I can't find one

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 9

Oh God they're suffering from 3rd degree yearns

1 3

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 6

This is basically the poster jayce has in his bedroom

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 4

I promised more BYSS fanart and here it is! This is based on the last chapter. Takes a lot of suffering to get here. But that's the way I like it #jayvik

Also I didn't know @white-btterfly.bsky.social had a bsky acc lol sorry! #fanart #ao3 #viktor #jayce

2 53 230

River @rivertheartist.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thank you! Lol I'm getting white butterflies tattooed on my arm today. Surprisingly unrelated