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Adam J Thaxton
@raygungoth.bsky.social
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I write about jetpacks and robot wizards who talk about their feelings, he/him
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raygungoth.bsky.social
My elemental for a Battletech: Destiny game.
Front of a mini figure. She is wearing a red cap and brown jacket with a dark green tube top and camo pants. She has blue hair and denim hi tops, and her skin is a dark and marked with green stripes. Back view of the same, a diamondback rattlesnake pattern dominates the jacket and she has a gold “M” on the back of her cap. Side view of the same.
February 3, 2026 at 5:44 AM
raygungoth.bsky.social
Tectutli from Isekai Support Group
a blue sketch of a mecha with art deco and mesoamerican stylization, with partial black inked lines. It's not great, but it's going forward.
February 2, 2026 at 3:03 AM
raygungoth.bsky.social
I still wanna write up my anti-imperialism pro-kaiju setting, it’ll be great, I swear. Stand tall. Smash totalitarian robots while piloting an alien cyborg lizard.
January 29, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
In continuing celebration of TWENTY YEARS OF TETRAPOD ZOOLOGY, I've just published an article listing some of my personal highlights. The article is here if you want to check it first... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/1/... but I'm also going a build a thread, discussing and linking to my highlight articles.
After 20 Years, the Tetrapod Zoology Highlights — Tetrapod Zoology
A look-back at some of my personal highlights from the two decades of Tetrapod Zoology…
tetzoo.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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coyoteandcrow.bsky.social
Just two weeks before we launch! Please sign up to get notified when we launch, and please tell other folks about this campaign.

You're not going to want to miss this collection of Native myths, creatures,spirits and more from a team of Native writers!

#TTRPG #RPG #CoyoteAndCrow #NativeSky #Games
coyoteandcrow.bsky.social Coyote & Crow Games @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social · 24d
Mark your calendars! Legends & Icons is coming to Kickstarter on February 10th! A tome of 100 spirits, creatures, sentient machines, terrifying cults, militant organizations and more for your Coyote & Crow game.
Get notified!
bit.ly/4sCMFPH
#ttrpg #rpg #tabletop #NativeSky #IndigenousFuturisms
Coming soon: Coyote & Crow: Legends & Icons
A Tome of Creatures, Spirits, and Characters for your Coyote & Crow Roleplaying Stories!
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January 26, 2026 at 6:08 PM
raygungoth.bsky.social
What fearsome and loathsome beasts inhabited our world before the catastrophe! These strange grotesqueries must have had such fierce rivalries that terrified early man!
markwitton.bsky.social Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 10d
Another John Martin-style #paleoart piece painted for fun. This riffs on 1830s views of the British Wealden, where giant dinosaurs (Iguanodon and Megalosaurus here) engaged in violent combat in grand natural amphitheatres. Pterosaurs and other animals watch on. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? #sciart
Enormous reptiles, neither quite lizard nor mammal-like in form, rear, grapple and tear at one another in front of a setting sun at a rocky, foreboding shore. One, the horned Iguanodon, roars so widely that its grotesque tongue protrudes from its mouth like a tentacle; the other, a Megalosaurus, tears a string of dark flesh from its opponents' chest. They are surrounded by other snarling, roaring beasts: plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs and a distant, spike-backed Hylaeosaurus. Palm trees and ferns dot the top of rocky escarpments alongside perching pterosaurs with translucent, bat-like wings. The remains of ammonites and skulls of reptiles decay into water and rocks.
January 26, 2026 at 7:05 PM
raygungoth.bsky.social
Chloe's two "official" pets in Isekai Support Group - Jangers, a small domesticated ceratopsian about the size of a Jack Russel, and His-Face-is-Knives, a semi-aquatic, omnivorous Spinosaurid about the size of a bear and fills a similar niche
A small, green with darker green striped ceratopsian with highly reduced frill and beak-like mouth, wearing a scarf with tags. He is omnipedal and has a yellowish underbelly. Bear sized spinosaurid with reddish-brown body and dark red spots, alligator or newt-like tail, and large forearms.
January 26, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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snowbluff.bsky.social
Marshmallow in #FabulaUltima form. She's going to enforce justice with her giant dog, Pilbo, and this gun she made.

I picked a kishu for the dog breed because Marshmallow comes from a mountainous realm in this version.

#art #OCart #FUart #illustration
A demonic princess Marshmallow stands proud with her rifle in hand. A giant Kishu dog stand guard behind her.
January 23, 2026 at 4:28 PM
raygungoth.bsky.social
Political jockeying was never 4D chess. History is not filled with great or smart men using their intellect to solve problems. It’s Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy but we’re all stuck downrange.
January 22, 2026 at 5:32 PM
raygungoth.bsky.social
So, this is marvelous - do we have the opposite yet? Doing woodblock line artwork and embellished with watercolors 1800s style art of modern dinosaurs as we know them?
markwitton.bsky.social Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · Jan 6
First new #paleoart piece finished for 2026: a super modern, 100% accurate take on Mosasaurus and a plesiosaur.

In unrelated news, I had the spirit of the early 19th-century palaeoartist John Martin exorcised from my house over the weekend.

#paleontology #fossil #sciart #retropaleoart #art
A night scene of warring marine reptiles inspired by the palaeoart of the 19th-century painter John Martin. A full moon peers through a bank of cloud to illuminate two figures rising from a turbulent sea: a long-necked plesiosaur and the spiralling tail and body of a mosasaur (fun historofact: fossils of mosasaurs were among the first Mesozoic reptiles to be put on record, but they weren't restored in palaeoart until the 1850s, decades after other marine reptiles). They threaten and bellow at each other with whipping tongues and clawed flippers because John Martin. A rocky arch can be seen on the right, and a third reptile, its identity uncertain, arches from the water on the left. Go draw some Martineseque Mesozoic animals, folks, it's hellafun.
January 11, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
I'm not the first to say this but they think the chuds and perverts on X are representative of the US populace.

I really don't think it's registered for them that today's X isn't the US public square "freed" from ToS "censorship."

They treat that site as the voice of the people, and. Nope
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25d
The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting.

Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.
January 10, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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emfields.bsky.social
I'm back from hiatus and opening 5 Commission slots! First come first serve. I will be raising my prices (as I do every year) January 5th, so this your last chance to get 2025's rate!

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Shares appreciated!
My Lancer Art Commission Sheet! Mechs (full color no background) are $400 (black and white $350). Lancers are $200 (fc no bg)/$150 (bw). Mech and Lancer together are a discount package for $500 total. All art comes with complimentary hex tokens if you want them. Contact emfieldsart@gmail.com! My Lancer Portraits Commission Sheet! A portrait of your Lancer on one of four preset cockpit backgrounds is $125. A custom background is $75 more, or $50 if you let me add your custom background to the standard options for others. Contact emfieldsart@gmail.com! My TTRPG Character Art Commission Sheet! Full color no background characters are $200 ($150 for black and white only). You can add 6 inventory items depicted for $30, and $5 per additional item. Contact emfieldsart@gmail.com! My Commissions are OPEN! First come, first serve. Full payment up front. PayPal preferred. After we agree to terms, you send the creative brief and once I receive full payment, I will send sketches for initial approval. My goal is to finish the piece 2 weeks from first sketch approval. I will send progress images at each stage. Excessive revisions will incur further charges at my hourly rate. Listed prices are for the presented options ONLY. Personal use, non-exclusive rights. For commercial work or different personal commission inquiries, email me at emfieldsart@gmail.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
raygungoth.bsky.social
I screwed up a lot but I learned a lot, and it looks good on the table. Jade Falcon.
Right Side view of a Jade Falcon mech with blue marble highlights and stained glass effect. Rear view of a Jade Hawk mech with stained glass highlights. It has a jump plume. Left side view of a Jade Hawk mech with stained glass highlights. The jump plume is visible. Front view of the Jade Hawk, stained glass visible and cockpit windows gleaming gold, with marble effects on the thigh, forearms, and head.
December 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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thedevteam.itch.io
Honestly this video is horrifying *before* you think about how these creators have the gall to spout this nonsense and then claim to have a Ghibli aesthetic.

But after you realize that, it’s downright repulsive.
gm-jordan.bsky.social Jordan @gm-jordan.bsky.social · Dec 19
The team behind Obojima not only don’t care about Ghibli outside of the aesthetic, they also fully do not understand it. They’re either complete buffoons or actively bad people and the truth likely lies in the middle.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrt9XWWk/
What can you lose by humanizing monsters? #obojima #studioghibli #ghibli #1985games #ttrpg #dnd #dnd5e #podcast
TikTok video by Obojima
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December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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colbosch.bsky.social
I'm still fundraising so I can afford to see a specialist for my health issues. I'm at $170 towards my immediate goal of $3000. Anything helps!

Paypal: paypal.me/colbosch
GFM: gofund.me/585785d25
Pay Colonel Bosch's Mech Hanger
Tap to finalize your purchase. No PayPal account? No worries.
paypal.me
December 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
raygungoth.bsky.social
Honestly, this is really beautiful. Infrastructure is so freaking cool.
neorsd.org NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · Dec 11
everything about this image is a marvel.
inspectors walk within a 23' tall smooth concrete-lined sewer tunnel near the end of construction. the lining looks fresh and clean. there is a small trickling stream of water at the bottom of the tunnel. up ahead, two figures walks into the darkness, illuminated only by the light in their hands.
December 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
raygungoth.bsky.social
I want more rpg setting maps to be diegetic. Honestly, I want more rpg settings to introduce themselves diegetically.
December 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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thespaceshipper.com
[Thread] Space/sci-fi games unveiled or showed at the PC Gaming Show🔥

A wide variety: Warhammer 40K, Battlestar Galactica, Starship Troopers, Lunar Strike, Deep Rock Galactic, samurai space opera, Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, strategy games, time-bending puzzles, space flight sim... 1/18
a man in a suit and tie is going to the one place
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is going to the one place
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
raygungoth.bsky.social
Gothic Firestarter for a local competition.
A Gothic Firestarter mech from Battletech, painted in the colors of a fire-based robot master from Mega Man, right view. Same, rear view. The vents are visible and glowing. Other side; the gold tines on its shoulders are strongly lit here. Front view; the forward arc of the hex is marked by lava in the shape of hazard stripes, and its feet are melting the base.
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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punsultant.bsky.social
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.

Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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arctomet.bsky.social
youtu.be/ugCUOW94YmI?...
Paleontology and Star Wars - with Dr. Thomas Holtz
YouTube video by Sombraptor
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November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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sladedbart.bsky.social
In the spirit of Spooky Season, the terrifying Black Marauder from Battletech lore~ Inspired by @pancreasnowork.bsky.social 's excellent video on the subject. #battletech #mechwarrior #halloweenart #eldritchmecha #digitalart
October 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
raygungoth.bsky.social
I remember telling my friends "watch in a few years we're going to learn about forced sterilizations in ICE custody" and they said that no, that would never happen. And I reminded them that regular ass doctors were and still might be secretly sterilizing indigenous women.
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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wasagoodname.bsky.social
Hey y'all, opening up some commissions to help with rent and car payments 😓
. Flat color
. 100 USD for 1 character (can discuss multiple characters)
if you have any questions feel free to DM
July 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM