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a friendly sasquatch standing in a forest and holding a cup of coffee that reads "Big Fella"

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A drawing of Frankenstein's monster from the Junji Ito adaptation

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Read King Basalt's Bane on Royal Road @varanianscribe.bsky.social · 16h

Did you say zat booth is soundproof?

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If I have to know this, then so do you.

IGN @ign.com · 18h

Ever wondered what happened to Jar Jar following the Star Wars prequel movies? Well, a new canon comic is set to reveal the much-maligned character's fate, with a "pivotal role" in the forming of the Rebel Alliance teased.

Star Wars Comic Teases Jar Jar's 'Pivotal Role' Forming the Rebel Alliance Following Revenge of the Sith

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Prosper Tipaldi 🌱🌿 @prospertipaldi.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #PortfolioDay!

I'm Prosper, an illustrator and concept artist based in France. I specialize in history and fantasy! 🌱🗡️

🌐 linktr.ee/prospertipaldi
✉️ [email protected]

A painting of a knight in a fourteenth century inspired armor, wearing plate armor with a bascinet type helmet and black and green clothes with dagged ends. He is wielding a one handed arming sword and shield.

A drawing of a woman in scale, plate and mail armor, with blue and brown cloths and a red hat. She is wielding a sword and shield. The shield is painted with a picture of a woman in a red dress, holding a sword in one hand and a decapitated, bearded head in the other.

A drawing of Steffon Darklyn in his kingsguard armor from A Song of Ice and Fire

A drawing of Lyn Corbray from A Song of Ice and Fire

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a drawing of a squid monster in front of a thunderstorm

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In heaven, everything is fine ✏️ @ejschuster.bsky.social · 1d

I'm Eric and I like drawing weird little guys
#PortfolioDay

pixel drawing of a green monster with horns

a drawing of a pig monster wearing a Roman helmet wielding a giant fork and knife

black and white drawing of a roaring Godzilla

a drawing of a Sasquatch holding a cup of coffee in the forest

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 1d

New Behind the Bastards 🚗

Robert sits down with @maggiemaefish.bsky.social to discuss how Volkswagen went from Hitler's favorite auto-company to the owner of a slave plantation in the Amazon during the Reagan Era.

@iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 1d

TWO WORLDS (1985)
Oils on canvas - 36” x 22”

During one of the Ethiopian famines, I came across a magazine photo of a desert filled with a multitude of crude burial mounds extending off to the horizon. I was struck by the implications of the image and it stayed in my mind awaiting expression. 1/4

Seated upon a flat rock with one knee up, a naked man with scraggly white hair and long beard pipes a tune on a human femur. Flesh colored, his ears are bat-like, long and furry, protruding up from the side of his head. An open, upended pouch spills coins down on a blindfolded owl flying past. Unseeing, the owl clutches a rock in one talon. The piper’s perch rests upon a clump of earth floating among smoky clouds, a misty curtain tinted pink and purple like a bruise. Gnarly roots reach out in all directions, probing like woody tentacles. A break in the clouds reveals an arid stretch of land. The flat barren field is dashed with low lines of rock—burial mounds as far as the eye can see. A single figure with shovel pauses in their work with head bowed.

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Jimi Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Read King Basalt's Bane on Royal Road @varanianscribe.bsky.social · 2d

dwight schrute is wearing glasses and a suit and tie and making a funny face .

Alt: dwight schrute is wearing glasses and a suit and tie and making a funny face .

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big hero 6 hugging hiro in a room with a computer

Alt: big hero 6 hugging hiro in a room with a computer

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caitliwinx ⚔️🍂🪾 @caitliwinx.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s my other version of Gal for #Tolktober !!
#artsky

Drawing of Galadriel reaching out to take the one ring

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In heaven, everything is fine ✏️ @ejschuster.bsky.social · 2d

Bela

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a man in a suit and bow tie is standing next to a man in a judge 's robe .

Alt: a man in a suit and bow tie is standing next to a man in a judge 's robe .

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Efaru ✧ comms open @efaru.bsky.social · 2d

Sketch comm for @/astralskies.bsky.social 💎

#art ✴︎ #wow ✴︎ #worldofwarcraft ✴︎ #artistsonbluesky

Dark-scaled dracthyr with blue-teal horns and spikes against red background

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Spider Samurai 𓆙™ @spidersamurai.bsky.social · 2d

Godzilla 2000🔥

#TinyKaijuDoodle #Art #Godzilla #Kaijū #ゴジラ

tiny Godzilla 2000 drawing made with ink and color markers on a paper sheet of A6 format

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 2d

there's a bit I have never forgotten in the first Captain America movie:

"[The Red Skull] believes he walks in the footsteps of the gods."
"You do realize that's nuts, dontcha?"
"The sanity of the plan is of no consequence"
"And why is that?"
"𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵."

I think about this a lot...

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 2d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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🎃Indicreates 👻25% off spooky art @ my website👻 @indicreates.bsky.social · 2d

✨📚New cover reveal 📚✨

"The Faraway Inn - Wo Magie zu Hause ist"
from @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social

Illustrated for the pusbker Loewe 📖

Coming out in 2026

Font made by a Loewe designer.

(Commissions are open btw)
#bookart #bookillustration #illustration #bookish #books #whimsical #cozy #bookart

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Frasier D&D @frasierdnd.bsky.social · 2d

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “Oh! I’m in a Dungeons & Dragons group, too. But we’re doing an official, prewritten adventure.”

[FRASIER SCOFFS]

FRASIER: “Prewritten! The storyteller’s crutch.”

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “I’m the storyteller.”

FRASIER: “… And what is a crutch if not a timeless and wonderful invention?”

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 2d

THE WHITE COMMANDS YOU (2003)
Oil on Panel - 28" x 18"

Interior illustration for THE DARK TOWER (book 7) by @stephenking.bsky.social 1/3

Father Callahan, a white haired man with a cross-shaped scar on his forehead, stands atop a table surrounded by vampires and low men. He thrusts his hands upward with a small turtle figurine glowing intensely bright. He is dressed all in black with a pistol tucked in his belt. Bathed in light, his face is etched with determination as his eyes draw to beads. The hideous creatures immediately surrounding him draw back in pain, grasping at their heads in agony with his shouted command. The room behind is lit yellow and orange where a curtain is drawn back and more creatures pile. Above, the light of the turtle radiates in defined white lines that shift the background purple.

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Efaru ✧ comms open @efaru.bsky.social · 3d

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#art ✴︎ #illustration ✴︎ #artistsonbluesky

Dark blue dragon with lighter blue wings against red background, blood moon framing his head like a halo

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