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peskyplumber

@peskyplumber.bsky.social

anyone want to come over? we can stand across from each other and do this

December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM

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C.Bedford

@cbedford.bsky.social

I love him; his flesh numbs me like no light in heaven ever could. He brings me further from god and each time I miss the lord less and less and less and less and less and less

An angel succumbing to the tongue of a demon. He looks as if he is in ecstasy, though his nose bleeds.

September 2, 2024 at 8:32 PM

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the haver of it🔞

@taylortitmouse.bsky.social

#goblinweek bonus: baby chain

goblina, jarett, and bingo as babies performing a baby tail chain to carry off a loaf of bread

January 31, 2026 at 6:34 PM

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Iva 🐛

@ivathehuman.bsky.social

Some close ups

February 1, 2026 at 2:16 PM

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🏳️‍🌈 Jessica the Bestica 🎨 East Bay Comic Con ☕

@anireal.bsky.social

🌸 Quote with your horn art! 🌸

☕ White peony tea daimon from my OC #LiminalCafe world~

Monster character with horns and white petals composing her body. She's holding a cup of tea.

January 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM

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zmeess

@zmeess.bsky.social

it was high time i painted another good old portrait of our favorite fancy guy Essek Thelyss!

#art #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt #EssekThelyss

digital portrait of Essek Thelyss from Critical Role, looking at the viewer with a barely-there soft smile and keen eyes, his hands folded in front of his chest. he is a young-looking dark elf with light lavender skin and shoulder-length white hair. he has chiseled features with prominent cheekbones and nose, a sharp jawline, thick eyebrows and violet eyes; his upper lip is asymmetric, the right half being noticeably taller than the left. he is wearing sharp teal eyeliner on his lower eyelids. his hair is artfully pinned back, some strands swirling into two small buns and the rest curling onto his shoulders. he is dressed in a thick voluminous black cloak, the sleeves folding at the bend of his elbows, revealing slightly longer straight wide sleeves with dusky mauve embroidery, reminiscent of the internal structure of ammonite shells; these sleeves in turn reveal another pair of long tight sleeves, with denser embroidery. on top of his robes, he is wearing a piece of decorative organic-looking armor consisting of a short breastplate and pauldrons. they are perlescent white, and the ridges and long spikes curving up off of his shoulders are similar to the shapes of conch shells.
the painting utilizes a limited color palette of dusky purples, mauve, grays and pale green.

December 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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Marie

@mmariesr.bsky.social

January 30, 2026 at 4:36 PM

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tacocrepe 🍀

@tacocrepe.bsky.social

made quaxly earlier :3
#blockbench #pixelart #jellydonutpalette

January 29, 2026 at 11:11 AM

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Rinriiii

@rinriiii.bsky.social

★
#illustration #oc

January 21, 2026 at 9:01 AM

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Tealst

@tealst.bsky.social

Been drawing but not posting much lately, so here’s a character I’ve been working on ✌️

January 28, 2026 at 11:40 PM

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Penny Parker

@snapcube.gay

okay there is no need to be condescending

January 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM

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zmeess

@zmeess.bsky.social

finally finished a painting i've been cooking in my mind for a few years! shadowgast as The Devil, one of my favorite tarot cards and one of the three cards i associate with their relationship

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt #shadowgast

a painting of Critical Role characters Essek Thelyss and Caleb Widogast, based on the Rider-Waite Tarot's The Devil. it is styled like a square painting on a vertically oriented tan canvas, with narrow unpainted strips above and below it. a looping leaning script reads "XV" above and "The Devil" below.
Essek is a dark elf with gray-lavender skin and short white hair, dressed in elegant long dark robes and a silvery metal mantle piece, with the breastplate shaped like a beetle's back and long spikes curving off of his shoulders, radiating from his neck.
Caleb is a light-skinned ginger human, with messy chin-length hair and a beard, wearing a gray tunic with a brown leather coat over it, a thick scarf wrapped around his shoulders. his spell book is just slightly visible at his side.
the characters are facing each other, with Essek standing on the left and Caleb on the right. their right hands are raised between them, hovering under and over a floating hourglass that Essek is offering to Caleb; the violet sand in it is equally distributed between the top and the bottom halves and is not flowing down. Essek has his chin raised with a cool expression of confidence, while Caleb is looking at the hourglass with a deeply conflicted face, his eyebrows furrowed and eyes shining. Caleb's left arm down at his side is engulfed in orange flames.
above them is the dodecahedron shape of a Beacon, pale gray and iridescent; the pentagonal plane facing the viewer is oriented with one of the corners pointing straight down. six silvery threads weave around it, intersecting at nine shining points, one thread each passing behind Essek's and Caleb's heads, and one each wrapping loosely around them. their figures, dark purple and brown, illuminated by the faint glow of the hourglass and the flame, are silhouetted against a much lighter gray and overcast light spilling from tall pointed arches behind them.

January 7, 2026 at 7:05 PM

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RatgirlEXE

@ratgirl-exe.bsky.social

Rewatching the movies for the third time and... I think Gundam 0079 might have some anti-war themes? Has anyone ever thought of this???

January 28, 2026 at 1:00 AM

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Madeleine Fjäll

@madeleinefjall.bsky.social

Grasping at the last threads of humanity

#vtm #ocsky

Image of my character Ellair from our current vampire the masquerade game, showing him from mid chest and up. He's wearing no clothes, red hair with a white strand, his body filled with scares. He's holding one hand over his face, and between his fingers you can see his eyes filled with grief and fear, glowing unnaturally. Below the hand is a single vampire tooth with blood running down his chin. His other hand grasps to his chest, a little bit above his heart. Two grey, winy hands with long claws is next to his face on both sides, trapping him.

January 24, 2026 at 11:13 AM

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🕸Nye🐇

@nigelgraz.bsky.social

(OC) It's getting bad again

January 21, 2026 at 8:07 PM

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oshinagaki

@mikobako.bsky.social

クリスタで描いてみた

January 17, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Sho

@doraingrid.bsky.social

Cole | Spirit of Compassion

#art | #dragonage

stylised portrait of Cole from Bioware's Dragon Age: Inquisition
his expression is neutral but borderline melancholic, sad.
he is holding his head with both hands, covering most of his face with palms but one eye is peeking between the fingers of his left hand, the other is covered by blonde hair. his eye is the focal point of the image.
he is wearing old fingerless gloves, stylised armor and a hat with a very wide rim that covers most of the space around him. colours are washed out, desaturated, with the one peeking eye being bright blue like the sky behind him.

March 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM

Beck

@weird-dog.bsky.social

imagine getting into critical role but it's in 2025. more likely than you think

December 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM

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Suzanne ✨🌑

@tendermiasma.com

IGN is paying attention to censorship again. Use their momentum, call visa and mastercard, tell them you read the article, ask them why they're censoring legal stuff

reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie

Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · Nov 25

Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.

www.ign.com/articles/uns...