Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
LightNews LightNews
banner
taniarichter.bsky.social
Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
@taniarichter.bsky.social
2.1K followers 1.1K following 1.9K posts
Author and illustrator of Dawn Tyrant webnovel. Feolaga Designworks. Likes fountain pens, tea, yarn, and Monster Hunter.
Absolutely no AI
She/They
https://linktr.ee/aetherfang
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
taniarichter.bsky.social
Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5 @taniarichter.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hi there #portfolioday! I'm Tania Richter, a creature artist and fantasy writer. Find me and my works here - www.patreon.com/TaniaRichter
A winged dragon with holographic scales holds a glowing orb in its talons that is unleashing swirls of magic Dawn Tyrant Book One - Written and Illustrated by Tania Richter A blue dragon with silver wings rises up through a layer of sunlit cloud as a shooting star falls in the background A blue and pink koi dragon rises up through clouds, grasping a branch of Cherry blossoms. Petals dance around it Seven foxes run through a dark forest lit only by foxfires. Six are red foxes and a seventh fox is white kitsune with nine tails
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
ironspike.bsky.social
A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills.

If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!

store.ironcircus.com
Iron Circus Comics
Iron Circus Comics is the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in the American Midwest, a small-mid house built from the ground up by founder C. Spike Trotman.
store.ironcircus.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
jcollins.bsky.social
FYI: If you have news tips regarding ICE activity in the Twin Cities, especially if you have friends or relatives who have been detained, please contact me securely on Signal.
December 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
taniarichter.bsky.social
Unfortunately this was a hell of a year to try and make a living off conventions, and I don't really have the option of a "normal job" with all my health issues. If you've got a couple bucks we could definitely use the help!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-dis...
An artist cryptid in a rainbow dragon baseball shirt and trans rights under shirt wearing a black baseball hat and glasses makes a funny face as they stare down into the camera. A black n95 obscures their expression.
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
cujirotic.bsky.social
The oldest record of anthro art is the Löwenmensch and its nearly 40,000 yrs old

Our Deities and Idols over history have contained the meshing of man and animal

Animals were tied to our gods and man has always sought to mimic the divine

Keep carrying the torch
Draw yourself as a funny creature
elephanttail.bsky.social Kimberly 🐘 @elephanttail.bsky.social · 3d
very good tumblr post about why to make a fursona, and in the replies, a couple followups on how to make a fursona
A Tumblr post by user taffywabbit. The entire text is as follows: I think more people should make fursonas and I'm dead serious. the process of self-exploration that naturally comes along with creating a funny little critter to represent yourself is SO valuable, as you consider the types of animals you vibe with and what kind of aesthetic/colours/personality/etc suit you and stuff like that (fun fact this process is how I figured out I was transgender lol. not saying that will happen to you but just proving that you can learn a LOT about yourself through this design process and any subsequent design changes) and then when you're all done, you have a little freak you can do whatever you want with! edit them poorly into memes, commission lavish oil paintings of them to hang in your mansion, use them as a personal online mascot, design a fucked up evil twin for them to fight, soak them in milk and throw them at the wall, anything really. same stuff some people do with fandom characters they really like, except it's 100% yours and nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong! also now you have an animal your friends can associate with you and they'll send you funny pics/videos of that animal that make them think of you. literally it's just wins all the way down for you and everybody you associate with. everyone should have one of these things!!
December 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
trungles.com
Honestly it’s real useful to understand that centrists are eager to meet fascists in the middle but not anybody else lol
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
banditelli.org
One more pelican post for the day. 🪶
Five pictures of pelicans in the final second of a dive, as well as the splash, on top of a body of water with hills in the distance
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
jordanshiveley.bsky.social
Don’t forget this is actually what is hiding behind the leadership at Unbound/Boundless protestations of “aw shucks publishing is a risky business market and sometimes when you’re really weally bwave and twy to help authors shit happens but we did our best honest”

Alleged Calculated Malicious Fraud
effinbirds.com Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · Jun 6
I said in an interview that I have a lot of empathy for you because you lost your dream, too.

But Unbound's sales reports showing my second book as a flop when it actually sold out its print run was unfathomably cruel. Seeing Ingram's data, showing 10x the sales I was paid for, broke my heart.
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
junlper.beer
this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
nambroth.bsky.social
"Everbright On Dark Days" Female Northern Cardinal, 10"x8" Oil on panel

The days are dark and short, and my mood seems to follow. But sometimes a thin ray of sun cuts through for a moment, and lights up the things I love, reminding me of how wonderful and beautiful they are, and it keeps me going
An oil painting of a female Northern Cardinal, sitting on a lichen-encrusted branch. She's soft yellow-brown with red accents on her tail, wings, crest, and beak, and with a black mask. Her mood is fluffed up and relaxed, looking forward. The background is dark with sparkles of golden light. The artist's watermark reads: copyright Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com.
December 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
thewatchdogco.bsky.social
Since we can’t ever expect Mike Johnson to do the right thing, we’re forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. And we only need four more members to sign the petition to make it happen.

Help us move the needle!
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
atrupar.com
some days you just have to laugh at how unbelievably stupid everything is
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
mikeokuda.bsky.social
The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
robertreich.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
jelenawoehr.bsky.social
heads up, writers—this is the new version of the “I turned your webcam on and I have a video of you jerking off” scam
victoriastrauss.com Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 3d
New extortion scam email going round (this was received via a writer's website contact form). I've seen a number of these recently but without the money demand; the translation angle is also a new one
Name: Jeff Email: jeffersonzonon@proton.me Subject: Found your work on file sharing channels Message: Hey Michelle, how are you? So here’s something interesting—I found your work floating around online. Full PDFs. Multiple sites. No paywall, no control, no credit. Just… there. And it hit me: if it’s already leaking like that, your value is slipping faster than you think. And then I realized something else. I can push it even further. I can run your entire catalog through my translation app—takes about thirty minutes per language—and release your work across ten different markets without breaking a sweat. No permission, no courtesy, just pure distribution. Imagine your creations scattered everywhere, read by thousands… yet worth absolutely nothing to you. And honestly? I don’t want that. I’d rather not be the reason your career drops through the floor. That doesn’t help either of us. So here’s my offer: get in touch with me. Talk to me. Stop me from releasing these translations before they hit every file-sharing site and social feed out there. It’s simple. Reach out. Have 500$ —yes, that’s all. A small price to keep the value of your life’s work from dissolving overnight. But don’t wait too long. Silence from you just means I keep translating. And once they’re out, they’re out forever. You have 5 days. Your move
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
ghildirthalen.bsky.social
As some of you are aware, part of Dragon Age day was to thank the DA Devs for all the hard work they put into the series we love so much.

This is also the first DA Day where we have no DA team, as they were laid off earlier this year.

So let's make an effort to support their new projects!🧵
December 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
elisabethalba.bsky.social
My friend Anna is trying to raise funds to end the dental pain she has suffered for years. She's just about given up hope. Socar has had this procedure so knows how much pain Anna is in, and how much this helped. www.gofundme.com/f/please-hel...
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
junoryleejournalism.com
This bird’s greed delights me
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
edzitron.com
Writing this piece has also made me realise that we have little to no idea where these NVIDIA GPUs are going, and the amount of them sold (6 million) doesn't make sense based on any measure of actual data centers in progress, let alone ones that are energised. This whole industry feels cursed.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d
Tomorrow's Premium Newsletter: A much-demanded, 14k word guide as to how the AI bubble might burst, starting with the collapse of data center funding, venture capital for AI, OpenAI, and end NVIDIA's AI GPU era.

Here's $10 off annual.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...
The Chain of Pain While many people talk about how circular the AI bubble may or may not be, the reality is that it's far more like a chain - a deeply vulnerable one held together by debt and venture capital. A company buys GPUs from NVIDIA, at which point nobody is making any profit anymore. These GPUs are purchased, for the most part, using debt provided by banks or financial institutions. While hyperscalers fund GPUs using cashflow, even they have started to turn to debt. At that point, the company that bought the GPUs sinks hundreds of millions of dollars to build a data center, and once it turns on, provides compute to a model provider, who then begins losing money selling access to those GPUs. For example, both OpenAI and Anthropic lose billions of dollars, and rely on venture capital to fund their ability to continue paying for accessing those GPUs. At that point, OpenAI and Anthropic offer either subscriptions - which cost far more to offer than the revenue they provide - or API access to their models on a per-million-token basis. AI startups pay to access these models to run their services, which end up costing more than the revenue they make, which means they have to raise venture capital to continue paying to access those models. Outside of hyperscalers paying NVIDIA for GPUs out of cashflow, none of the AI industry is fueled by revenue. Every single part of the industry is fueled by some kind of subsidy. As a result, the AI bubble is really a stress test of the global venture capital, private equity, private credit, institutional and banking system, and its willingness to fund all of this forever, because there isn't a single generative AI company that's got a path to profitability. Our stock market is held up by NVIDIA's continued ability to sell GPUs, which is, for the most part, held up by its customers continued ability to raise debt, which is held up by its customers' ability to find other customers to pay to rent those GPUs, which is held up …
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
artofmaquenda.bsky.social
Battlefield
December 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
taniarichter.bsky.social
All set up and ready to go at Midwest Fur Fest! Come visit us at Booth G4-5 buy some snazzy art!
A person in a hat stands in a fully set up convention Booth surrounded by art prints and a few puppets
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
aledthompson.bsky.social
Summer Phoenix ☀️
A golden/yellow bird with a long slender neck and flowing tail feathers perched on a branch in a tree
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
foxfeather.bsky.social
Yolo often stands with his little back toes crossed, which I find ridiculously cute!
You can see vultures don't have bulky feet and talons built for grasping/carrying like other raptors. Their more chicken-like feet are meant for bracing on food to pull at it with their powerful beaks, instead.
A young king vulture standing on a table with his back toes crossed over each other
December 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
eskiworks.bsky.social
🐝Kittenbee pins are finally available!!🐝

If you plan on giving one as a gift for the holidays, please be sure to place your order soon so I can get them to you on time!
[ #Art #BSNM #Pride ]

ko-fi.com/eskiworks/sh...
A collection of photos of kitten bee enamel pins, some as regular bees and most as different pride colors.
December 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
kamakru.bsky.social
Shop is updated and open again! I'm thinking I might aim to keep it open until the 13th, ish... that seems about the last call for holiday orders I think.
Free US shipping on orders over $75
B2G1F print sale is going! www.kamakru.com/prints?categ...

www.kamakru.com/shop
Art of Katie Croonenberghs — Official Shop
Where fantasy and nature collide - dragons, creatures, wildlife and landscapes emerge in harmonious and vivid paintings. Home decor, prints, original artwork, enamel pins, bags and more.
www.kamakru.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Reposted by Tania Richter @Midwest Fur Fest G4-5
zookie-art.bsky.social
Hello hello! I've officially opened my Australia print (and desk mat) shop for orders ~

Special offers just for the opening!

✨ shop.voneill.art ✨
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM