We don’t need AI to “be creative” for us; we need a world in which there is time and space to wonder, joke and play with words. To fuck around with color and texture, to experiment with an intriguing sound, without the need to immediately convert process and artifact into engagement to stay solvent.

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

Back at home 🎄✨ (see if you can spot my @massmice.bsky.social ornament 👀)

Every artist, get more self indulgent NOW! Draw your ships kissing, draw your blorbos, draw that idea you’ve been putting off (you’re good enough to do it!!!), redraw that old art, draw yourself wearing a cool outfit, draw a better world- just draw!!!

All I want this year is to make something and share it with you all. For real this time.

Storyboard art for How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966), dir. Chuck Jones and Ben Washam, MGM Animation/Visual Arts

THE SOLSTICE OCCURRED @ 20251221 10:03 AM UR ASTRONOMICAL WINTER HAS JUST BEGUN THO UR METEOROLOGICAL WINTER BEGAN 12/1 BUT UR DAYS WILL NOW BEGIN 2 GET LONGER CONGRATS U MADE IT

In 2026 we all gotta craft more!! Make things with our hands! Beading, Paperworks, Pottery, soldering, anything goes! Challenge those fine motor skills!!

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)

the entire LA animation industry should get to take turns beating their owed money out of Zaslav like a piñata

gofund.me/356ac8a07 To everyone who’s been so generous to help Ahmed and his family in Gaza, he started a new campain. There isn’t much donated yet, and every little bit matters. 🇵🇸🍉

help i sketched the perfect head in the thumbnail and can't recreate it in the pencils for the life of me

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

💕💕💕 #OCsky

📢WEBCOMICKERS! 📢 This project is a MUST support if you want a future for handcrafterd websites for your webcomics where YOU are in charge of what you post! If you're tired of the censorship game those platforms play, please support this project!

"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

Our neighbors need help after a major house fire, plus a long & ongoing battle with cancer. Please help if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-c...

LRP: Word of mouth is such a powerful tool to help out authors you like for free. I personally don't often bother reading reviews when looking for books to read, but I almost always pick up a book if a friend recommended it. Or someone with similar tastes to me says they liked it in a conversation.

It’s so fucking rich hearing all this stuff the netflix ceo is saying about movie theaters as if people didn’t flock to see Kpop Demon Hunters in theaters after it had been streaming for a MONTH!!! And then they did it again!!! People went again!!!! People will always go again and again!!!!

MICE loox

-sobbing- I love comics and people who make comics!!!

*giggling, kicking my legs* Comics…

I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.

@massmice.bsky.social goodies so far! What a perfect week to get a cash bonus from my job…

The vibes are incredibly immaculate at the Massachusetts Independent Comic Book Exposition

Congratulations to the recipients of this year's @massmice.bsky.social Mini-Grants! You can buy them directly from the artists this weekend at MICE! The event is FREE (the comics are not)! We are excited to distribute most of the winning titles starting January! www.micexpo.org/mini-grant-s...

Saw a screening of Nimona tonight with a followup panel/q&a from ND Stevenson. Did I cry a little? Maaaybe 🥲👍

Big business opportunity just kinda hanging out and waiting for anybody willing to make "Etsy, but no AI allowed."

The one good thing spotify had that I think other streamers need to get on is the On Repeat playlist. Like yes, please curate all the songs I’ve been playing to death for the past month so I have easy access and don’t have to search them every time

season’s greasons to one and all! ☃️🎁🎉 #art #artsky #illustration #retroart #vintageart #seasonsgreasons #holidaycheer

if you're one person making a comic by yourself, don't treat yourself like you should function on the same level as comics that have multiple people working on them. your backgrounds can be squiggles and colors. allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen: Mother Mother (2019) Glass Animals (twice, 2021 and 2034 Bright Light Bright Light (2024) Charli XCX (2022)

“Poor people have a right to art!” They sure do. So get to it.

I still have spots available! Please circulate this post!

whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

LRT thank you…

If you are tired, do it tired. Write the book tired, go to the gym tired, work on your art tired but make progress on the things that feed your dreams and will free you from the shackles of mundanity. Progress beats perfection.

Happy 10th, you magnificent freakshow. #TheFinalPam

How do people hold down a full time job and still make art? I’ve started one where I’m running around a store/warehouse all day picking orders and I’m TIRED (pretty chill otherwise tho)

Blue Traveler

finding joy despite the world in 2025 is like this lol

hey if you are an artist who depends on SNAP, ✅ share some art ✅ share links to where people can buy from/donate to you ✅ share the thread ✅ share someone else's post too ✅ label NSFW/horror/etc. properly ⛔ no AI #artistsonbsky #supportartists #artshare

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

I’m a few days away from finally, FINALLY having a stable full time job that’ll help me afford my apartment again but at the same time I’m dreading how drained I’m gonna be. I’ve never done well at working on creative stuff after long work days. 🙃

World Central Kitchen is mobilizing to Jamaica, please consider donating