I once heard Markiplier (of all people) said it best: if you use AI for creating, you will quickly get bored of it, because you're enamored with the effect, not the process. The love and need for the process of creation (however long, hard and grueling it may be) is what makes an artist.

A silhouette of the Rain World DLC slugcat, the Watcher, made of several smaller slugcats from the base game, and the Downpour DLC, in rainbow order.

A Watcher I made for the release day and for Rain World's anniversary.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Follow up for the other pebbles comic i made back when!

#rainworld #rainworlddownpour #fivepebbles #rivulet

An illustration that says "free palestine" with drawn elements representing familiar Palestinian cultural iconography

Free Palestine forever 🇵🇸

"Porn bans" ALWAYS lead to trans bans

Michigan bill seeks to lock up trans people for posting selfies.

dude i don’t even remember what this originally said before i comically censored it. what the fuck was this

rain world friends where are you. play co op with me

Digital spot illustrations of all the (apparent) romance options in Fields of Mistria in a small chibi style. From left to right on the top row they are: Reina, Celine, Valen, Juniper, and Adeline. From left to right on the bottom row they are: March, Ryis, Hayden, Balor, and Eiland.

I can’t wait to continue courting all these cute folks in #FieldsofMistria

@fieldsofmistria.bsky.social

Header: Note-taking alternatives to Google Keep - Joplin (joplinapp.org), based in France, Paid - Standard Notes (standardnotes.com), based in the US, Free + Paid

Header: Photo storage alternatives to Google Keep - Ente (ente.io), based in the US, Free + Paid - Immich (immich.com), based in the US, Free + Paid - Filen (filen.io), based in Germany, Free + Paid - Zeitkapsl (zeitkapsl.eu), based in Austria, Paid

Header: Search engine alternatives - Startpage (startpage.com), based in the Netherlands, Free - Ecosia (ecosia.org), based in Germany, Free - Kagi (kagi.com), based in the US, Free + Paid

Looking to #degoogle, but don't know where to start?

We've updated our list of up-and-coming alternatives over on the blog: ellips.us/4gIabn4.

Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI

My chibi commissions are open!

I'm still working through my queue. Moving is expensive! 😵

here is my piece for day 2 of #artfight2025! this character is called kismet, and belongs to pokemon_comix on artfight!

DIY > AI

SO CLOSE BUT SO FAR!!!! Your booth is always so cute I want to buy so much

Wikipedia Article: Loss (Ctrl+Alt+Del) "Loss", sometimes referred to as "loss.jpg",[1] is a strip published on June 2, 2008, by Tim Buckley in his gaming-related webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del. It is part of a storyline in which the main character Ethan and his fiancée Lilah are expecting their first child. Presented as a four-panel comic with no dialogue, the strip shows Ethan entering a hospital where he sees Lilah weeping in a hospital bed after suffering a miscarriage. Buckley cited events in his life as inspiration for the comic. It has received negative reception from critics and webcomic creators, especially for the shift in tone in the webcomic, and as an example of "fridging"—showing a killed or injured female character with the intention of provoking a male character. It has been adapted and parodied by numerous other creators and garnered a legacy as an Internet meme.

it's june 2nd. happy birthday to the loss comic

[spoiler] [spoiler spoiler] TO [spoiler] SO THAT [spoiler] ISNT [spoilering] [spoiler] IN THE [spoiler] AND HE FINALLY HAS [spoiler] TO [spoiler] FOR !!!!!!!

MAKING MYSELF SO EMOTIONAL OVER DREAMSCAPE ACT III !!!! Fuck!!!!!!

i wish i was in the field

trans people are the backbone of QGB. disgusting, invasive laws won't ever help anyone be safer. in the u.s., research has found that states with restrictive transphobic laws end up losing money overall. trans people also end up with less access to ALL medical care, not "just" gender affirming care.

Happy Neil day to all who celebrate

thinking about hands in a poetic kind of way

it's taking everything out of me actually goodnight

who gonna match my freak and dissociate with me today

mercury gatorade my beloathed !!!!! never trust how your life feels past
9pm (on march 15th)

A screenshot of Pikmin Bloom, facing a white hyacinth.

i forgot to get this flower and i’m already on the bus wahhhhhh my hyacinths