Every June, we spotlight a list of LGBTQIA+ indie bookstores we partner with. Last year, there were 465. This year, there are over 600 🥹 Keep supporting LGBTQIA+ owned indies and authors all year long. Because it really, really makes a difference 💓

A week or so ago, I was looking for a couple books by an author from 10 and 15 years ago and my library didn't have them. I requested them via a library form. Today I got a notification in Libby that they purchased both titles. Asking your library for writers' books is an amazing way to support us.

Moonbound 🌙 🐈

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I keep seeing posts by folk confused why their prints aren't screen accurate, and the common theme is that they seem to have ZERO idea that their computer screen is RGB (colors mixed using light) and that all printers are CMYK (colors mixed using ink). So, have some VERY generalized printing tips:

happy pride, y'all no matter what they say or do, you're valid and beautiful and you deserve the world and all the happiness in it 💙 one day i'll have the time and inspo to make some pride art for myself.... 🎨

dear god just saw how an it looks when someone's hit with the account wide adult content warning and it's fucking MISERABLE blurred icon, blurred banner, every single post is hidden, even text posts, and posts that have images require you to hit unhide TWICE for the text and image, fucking nightmare

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

Hello! 🥳 Today is my birthday! 🎉 Please feel free to like or repost anything you like (if you want to, of course). Thank you! 🌷

Since bluesky is being an annoying little bitch make sure you go to your moderation tab in your options and click "show" for Sexually Suggestive if it does not contain nudity. Apparently some accounts are being mass-post blocked now on default

Cure. 🧛

Rest in the shade of the big trees

Furry Jesus entered the dealers den and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the 3D printers and the benches of those selling pokemon plush. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My den will be called a den of dealers, but you are making it a den of resellers."

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This new Bluesky label leaves users who only want to see SFW posts from someone who may post tagged content on occasion with no way to see their posts other than seeing all their posts including labeled content To put it simply, users hit with this content warning are NERF'd. It's all or nothing

I think we’re long past the “ai bad because of stealing” argument and fully in the “ai is also actively and tangibly destroying our planet why are you even trying to use it as an art tool at this point” stage

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DON'T! HATE-WATCH! ANY OF THESE!!!

This really is it, this is the part that keeps me raging against the machine. Every day of my career I’m shoulder to shoulder with incredible people, pouring their skill & point of view into the work they do, making choices that amaze and delight me. Frame by frame, drawing by drawing…that’s THE job

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

My artwork for the Legend of Korra concert! 🌊 #LOK

Mosasaurus Dinotaur.... mermaid?

Being an artist is so weird and scary because you have all these huge feelings to make art with but then you are supposed to be very cool and detached with how people might hate it but also constantly be a song and dance man shouting about how great it is and also you have to stay alive??

i wanted to do so much work tonight, but i keep being interrupted by "heck, did i pack that??" "wait, did i pack this??" "OH, what about that??" x.x leaving in 4hrs, guess we're not sleeping tonight lol

Space painting for @gyrwolf8.bsky.social ! First time drawing a vernid, and what fun this was!

Kerr's Pink with encouragement to do your best 🩷

wing-its open weekly on Fri/Sat via google form. Moonbeam+ supporters get a discount on Simple-Cel Wing-its! https://www.patreon.com/nixsmis 🎨 #anthro #furry #furryart character © Strix art © me

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone Moments before war broke out

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Aurora Tier supporters on my #Patreon/#Kofi get these nifty art tiles sent to them! https://www.patreon.com/nixsmis character © BlazeyMix art © me 🎨 #anthro #furry #furryart #traditionalart #alt4me

there was Big Rain last night & it broke our whole 2/3 days of 80+ degrees. now the high today is 59 again... i'm thankful that i'm not completely melting like apparently the rest of the northern hemisphere is doing right now, but it's May & i'd like to wear tshirts and flippies regularly x.x

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wing-its open weekly on Fri/Sat via google form. Moonbeam+ supporters get a discount on Simple-Cel Wing-its! https://www.patreon.com/nixsmis 🎨 #anthro #furry #furryart character © RorickKintana art © me

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reward for one of my Starfall supporters http://www.patreon.com/nixsmis ko-fi.com/nixsmis/tiers 🎨 #anthro #furry #art #furryart #patreon #kofi character © whitepaw94 art © me

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

I really love it when an artist I follow gets insanity levels of obsessed with [thing they like] and will not stop drawing it. It's so very charming. Go girl give us one billion drawings of that little freak in your head who I know nothing about. He's my blorbo in law now

Lunes. Buenos días

i figure maybe some could guess a couple of my early art influences, but my first FANDOM? doubt it. i was influenced into art waaaaayyyyyy before i was old enough to be a proper fan of anything, let alone join a fandom

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Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

Sunset of Cockatiel 🌤️ #birdart #cockatiel #digitalart #fantasyart #creatureart

Sorry it took so long to get back you, I forgot to respond in a timely fashion because of multiple undiagnosed issues, became anxious of the irritated version I created of you in my mind and left the email until it was actually impolite to ignore any further.

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reward for one of my Starfall supporters http://www.patreon.com/nixsmis ko-fi.com/nixsmis/tiers 🎨 #anthro #furry #art #furryart #patreon #kofi character © Era art © me

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Please contact your reps and demand they oppose the GUARD Act www.congress.gov/members/find...