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She/They | Queer artist of dragons, monsters, and more. Pro-fiction. 18+ Mature works ahead, steel yourself 🔪🥩 Comms - https://vantabats.carrd.co ✉️ [email protected] https://vantabats.straw.page/

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hey there, I’m Vanta!

❆ I draw dragons, monsters, and other beasties for fun.
❆ This account hosts SFW and NSFW art; lots of creatures and teratophilia themes.
❆ It’s mostly original characters here. I do fandom things once in a blue moon.

Socials/comms: linktr.ee/vantabats

A banner showing off headshots of three of my artworks. The first is a white raptor with four eyes and red head feathers, the second a bat demon with black horns, and the third a crying blue dragoness with purple horns.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 2h

We’ll have to see!
That, or I draw every character smiling all happy-go-lucky while they take it in the butt since that’s clearly realistic and will appease the Bsky gods

Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 2h

I see the little influx of followers I’ve gotten, I assume from Rey’s furry starter pack! Hi there, thank you all :] here are some various wips I can feed you with for now.

As you can see, I have a million methods for sketching.

WiP, cropped sketch of two dragons, Amur and Larimar, having sex with their elvish partner they’ve sandwiched between themselves.

Wip sketch of Amur, a wingless snow dragoness with a mane of fur on her back, posed on her hind legs while resting one paw on the handle of her hunting spear.

Colored wip sketch of a pale-skinned woman in a black dress sitting on the edge of a decorative fountain in a greenhouse garden, with lots of blocked in foliage in the background.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 4h

But you know. If I vanish, you can probably assume why.

Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 4h

Updated guidelines kick in today, once again with no response whatsoever from Bluesky regarding all the criticism.

I will still be posting my art of people and dragons sucking and fucking, and I will not be slapping a big ol “I CONSENT” bubble onto every piece because we’re all adults with brains.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 22h

UTIs simply don’t exist in fiction, duh!

Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 22h

Both, and it’s imperative that you try and cross the streams

Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 1d

Hellooo #portfolioday!

I’m Vanta, and I love to do fantasy illustrations, monster romance, and similar character work. I love doing a mix of painted works, and more cartoonish 2D pieces!

Pretty much always available for commissions: vantabats.carrd.co
✉️ [email protected]

Digital painterly illustration of a purple dragon’s eye.

Short digital comic page of a blue dragon admitting her love to a human partner beneath a starry night sky.

Digital portrait of a blue dragoness with a winter night sky and the northern lights in the background.

Digital portrait illustration of a copper dragon with a neutral expression, sitting in a clearing in a cedar forest.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · Aug 30

I’m gonna make a proper thread here for answering Strawpage asks so they don’t clutter my profile!

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vantabats's strawpage

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 2d

Roar, or something!

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 3d

The Magician 🌿
Commission for @bloomingrenewer.bsky.social!

#art #tarot #dragon #fantasy

Digital art. “The Magician” tarot card, but with a portrait of a purple and gray dragon, framed by cyan foliage and bright pink roses.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 2d

THE LIL SKULL

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 3d

The Magician 🌿
Commission for @bloomingrenewer.bsky.social!

#art #tarot #dragon #fantasy

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 4d

Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 5d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 5d

Commission for @kyramcats.bsky.social!
Here’s your Goretober piece 🩸

#gore #goreart #guro #gutspill #furryart

Digital art. An anthropomorphic calico cat with a scarred face and one eye missing holds open their own chest by the skin flaps, revealing the ribcage and their entrails spilling out into their lap. They sit in a puddle of blood, and the background is a blood-stained wall.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 5d

Commission for @kyramcats.bsky.social!
Here’s your Goretober piece 🩸

#gore #goreart #guro #gutspill #furryart

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 6d

I drew an Alona eye between my commissions 👁️🔮

#art #dragon #fantasy

Closeup, semi-realistic painting of a blue dragon’s bright purple eye.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 6d

The last time I did an eyeshot was in 2019 here, with an older version of her design.

Some slight improvement, I’ll dare say.

An older digital illustration of both of Alona’s eyes. They’re bright pinkish-purple and glowing.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 6d

I drew an Alona eye between my commissions 👁️🔮

#art #dragon #fantasy

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 7d

Literally nothing, lmao. No response. 14,000 people who told them this is unnecessary and further shoves down the sex workers and queer artists who helped build this place up, + all the backlash on this post itself, and still absolute silence.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 25d

Thank you to the 14,000+ people who shared feedback on our community guidelines! We’re updating our rules for clarity, strengthening enforcement, and introducing product changes for healthier conversations. New guidelines kick in Oct 15. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Building Healthier Social Media: Updated Guidelines and New Features - Bluesky

Public discourse on social media has grown toxic and divisive, but unlike other platforms, Bluesky is building a social web that empowers people instead of exploiting them.

bsky.social

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 7d

One week from now they’re going to implement those censor-happy new guidelines and they still haven’t given a real response to all the backlash and criticism.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 7d

Pokin 💄
For Kroren on Discord

#nsfw #nsfwart #dragon #monster

Digital art of a quadruped alien dragon with dark gray scales and yellow and green lightning bolt stripes traveling down his body. He’s lying on his back playfully, with the tip of his cock poking out of its sheath.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 7d

Pokin 💄
For Kroren on Discord

#nsfw #nsfwart #dragon #monster

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 10d

Joshua Trees 🏜️
Comm for @definepidge.bsky.social!

#art #fantasy

Digital illustration of an orange kobold-like scalie dressed in yellow and black garb, and a black furred dragon with a white bird-like skull, cuddling up to each other next to a campfire in Joshua Tree National Park. The background is a desert with vast rocky structures, small bushes, and some joshua trees. A single person tent and a motor bike sit off to the side. The milky way and full moon can be seen in the night sky.

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Vanta 🫐 @vantabats.bsky.social · 10d

Joshua Trees 🏜️
Comm for @definepidge.bsky.social!

#art #fantasy

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