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Empress Vael, Warden of Frost
@kirigiri.me
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Vael | Trans, Lesbian | She / Her | 20 (EN) | Non-human, Ruler of the Adastrian Empire | Au Ra Bard

https://kirigiri.me

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celechii.itch.io
here's some that i have the Biggest Opinions About wrt the new designs and the software. i can make them feel like what using the programs feel like to me, and it feels sooooo good. i'll prolly draw some more and write up a blog post about my thoughts about each of them cause it was really fun :)
comparison between unity's default icon and mine. unity's is the big blocky cube with a big bold 6 pasted on top, and mine is a magenta square background with a default blender cube on to, positioned to have the same orientation and perspective as the old unity logo. it has 3 arrows coming out of the three faces in the left handed Y-up orientation. pasted overtop is the text "UNITY 6000" comparison between unity's unity hub icon and mine. mine is a grey folder with a big list of projects on the front, a ton of messy papers spilling out of it, and unity's axis gizmos coming out, over, and piercing through the folder comparison between unity's unity version control icon and mine. mine is a big shiny blue orb with the text "PLASTIC" written overtop. 3 small lines come out of the left and right sides comparison between jetbrains' rider icon and mine. mine looks a lot like their windows icon, but i've changed the text from "RD" to say "R-IDE-R", with the "IDE" being significantly bigger cause i can't stop myself from making puns
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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celechii.itch.io
i can keep them all pretty stylistically consistent cause i'm just using the same kinda style i love to draw with regularly, and it's really so freeing to make shit fast and messy and imperfect. i'm kinda stunned at how fast i made all 16 of these, it was like 3 or 4 sessions total
comparison between apple's music icon and mine. mine is similar but uses a dotted eighth note on top red bubbles the same colour as apple's icon comparison between apple's text edit icon and mine. mine is also a piece of lined paper but uses a wooden pencil instead of a mechanical pencil, and throws in a spongebob squarepants reference with a big fancy "The" written across the top comparison between slack's default icon and mine. mine rotates their icon to the same degree as it used to be, and takes all of the colours out of the dots and lines and splashes them across the background to give it some depth comparison between microsoft's visual studio code icon and mine. mine is literally just an angular looking blue fish in a similar shape. the fish is blushing because i thought it was cute
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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celechii.itch.io
some icons are very similar to their original designs, and some really aren't. i tried to keep them all having a similar colour palette to keep them quickly recognizable, but played with the silhouette because apple making everything a ~rounded square~ sucks ass actually
comparison between notion's default icon and mine. mine is almost entirely different, is a ghostly letter N inside of a light bulb surrounded by some spooky mist comparison between signal's default icon and mine. i keep signal's speech bubble surrounded by the dashed white border but i put it also in a comic panel and have a lil guy using it to say ACAB comparison between apple's activity monitor icon and mine. mine's mostly the same but the signal line is more like water electricity comparison between apple's preview icon and mine. mine is a polaroid photo of apple's icon with a magnifying glass magnifying apple's magnifier
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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celechii.itch.io
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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b0tster.yeag.gay
TIME IS RUNNING OUT!

only 8 DAYS left for the Bunlith show Kickstarter campaign!

Support the show here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bun...
November 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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vesperdotmp3.bsky.social
Mastercard logo, but it says ‘Censorship’. there are some things money can't buy, for that, you can thank Master Card.® For years, MasterCard has led the way in pressuring platforms that host and sell adult content. Most recently, we have pressured Steam and Itch.io, leading to dozens if not hundreds of games being delisted, and their TOS now updated with draconian content standards. Please, tell us how we're doing: In US, call +1 (800)-307-7309 (Phone tree nav: 1-1-2-2-2-1) International, call +1 (636)-722-7111
September 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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martyrigzart.bsky.social
Adoptable!

In a bit of a bind due to bills, but this fox gal is up for grabs.

Auto buy is £100, feel free to let me know if you wanna give em a new home!
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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freydraws.bsky.social
commission for oomf of their sona!! @matttgfx.posts.art ⭐
thigh-up commission of my friend mat's sona c:
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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rtodkelly.bsky.social
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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gatoasti.bsky.social
art by @/ircluzar.bsky.social !
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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longfusilli.bsky.social
a birdbrain, baby! #kasaneteto
digital doodle of kasane teto as she is featured in the hit song BIRDBRAIN by jamie paige
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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foxes-in-love.bsky.social
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are casually sitting around. Green is reading a book, while Blue is making a series of various noises. Blue: Hik... Hik.. Snif, snif, krhm, hmh, krhm, hmh, burp, sigh Both foxes are mildly startled as a bright "ping!" noise is heard, and blue lights up, glowing around the edges. Both foxes look at Blue, puzzled. Blue: I think I hit some secret combo code by accident.
November 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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puddanne.bsky.social
Marina !!! 💚
#splatoon
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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bunnycartoon.bsky.social
Reminder that the Gkids release of Tokyo Godfathers has an English dub where Hana is played by a trans actress (who also helped with the dub script, too!) and she is FANTASTIC.
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Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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mattielubchansky.com
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a white and tabby cat looking like some sort of xenomorph somehow. anyway she’s sitting in front of a framed weird drawing of elvis that’s on like 3d styrofoam. the artist is called fazzino i think. jaya’s dad bought it for her a long time ago and we hated it but hung it up as kind of a joke in our old kitchen but now we love it. please don’t respond talking about the elvis im not interested in litigating it or riffing about it or whatever. the point of this is please just look at what my fucking cat looks like here. her name is Frog. my cousin dana took this btw
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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whymaige.bsky.social
🌻 Emergency Comms- Doodlies 🌻

Per Chara:
Jan Slot = $15
Dec Slot = $24
RUSH Done 3 days = $29

OCs ok, No Licensed characters/NPCs
kofi upfront

mail [email protected]:
Charac Refs:
Personality/Expression:

Grinding to help with cat food!
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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ff14hi0x07.bsky.social
#ffxiv 쌍둥이들 이랑 라하랑 다시 그려보기 ><
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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b0tster.yeag.gay
We just passed $130,000 in funding for It's Bunlith: The Witch Upstairs kickstarter campaign!! Getting closer to the 'Hire another animator' stretch goal ❤️🖤

Support the webshow here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bun...
beatrix (goth trans woman wearing a flannel) sitting on a fire escape at night with a brooklyn, new york neighborhood in the background. the red and orange logo for the show reading 'its bunlith: the witch upstairs' is in the bottom right corner, and the text '$130,000 in funding! - KICKSTARTER' on the top left corner
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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socksbx.bsky.social
played half life 2 and let my chat write in-game commands live
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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emggily.bsky.social
A comic featuring the twins and Fourchenault. Set after Endwalker!! [1/2]
#Esmestory #ffxiv
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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wayneradio.tv
Is it really that, time, again?

It seems as if you only just arrived.
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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lalage.bsky.social
our inflorescence #ff14
drawing of ryne and gaia mostly in black inky swathes of gaia's hair and coat curling around them. ryne holds a gunblade in one hand and reaches out unseeing with the other, her eyes closed. perhaps gaia is holding her up, a black-nailed hand tight around ryne's waist, or perhaps they have become a single entity with an extremely long hp bar
December 4, 2024 at 12:55 AM