My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

A powerful Pride month to you all. Stay strong and hilarious 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤎🖤

Stand With MN is currently encouraging folks to support the good folks protesting in NJ in their fight against ICE: www.standwithminnesota.com/jersey

Talking to some younger cartoonists who were kind of aghast at how few hours I put into drawing each day, despite my output. But I'm telling you, 4-6 hours of focused work is a million times more productive that 8-10 hours of strained work! Labor quality suffers when you're exhausted!

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

Pride

it's pride month so it would be homophobic if I didn't make it to 50k, right ? RIGHT ?

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

PSA friends in the UK or other regions where NSFW is completely blocked and DMs are disabled. Here's a page of workarounds for you: gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2... I have used Method 4 with Tampermonkey browser extension since the UK was affected a few months ago with no issues.

Heads up ya'll! with Bluesky rolling out moderation crack down in their new update, please consider enabling "adult content" under your moderation tab in settings. Not so you can have porn on your feed, but to ensure that you can still see posts with the word "stupid" and "hell" in it-

yeah they both would say that

I made my recent flower brushes available in my patreon shop :3 Available till the end of June via the tip jar tier, or via one time purchase forever For #clipstudiopaint (brushes comes as .sut files) www.patreon.com/posts/tulip-...

if it isn't clear, I'm with the 18+ artists. don't think because the majority of my art is market friendly that it means I am. fuck censorship, fuck fascism, fuck puritanism. people should have the choice to decide what they want to see, not have the choice made for them.

This piece is well loved (thank you!) But has been a problem with temu and etsy theft lately. I am disabled so 100% of my income is my art, this directly harms me. The only legit way to get this piece is through me. If you see it listed elsewhere, pls report

cuz of the new feature being rolled out, just reminding people that you should also make sure to adjust your "sexually suggestive (cartoon)" settings if you want to see nsfw art specifically! I am suffering so hard by having this label attached to my account since a lot of ppl don't know about it

⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️ A massive data centre, BIGGER than the village they want to build it next to, has been proposed in Fife. If you're in the area PLEASE file an objection to it, the damage it will do is unbearable to think about. aprs.scot/auchtertool-... 👇 More resources below👇

bought a bunch of different weird pen grips to try and they really look like cow tools

If stuff like anatomy and nude figure drawings - taught every day in every institute of higher learning for the fine arts - is subject to censorship, you are not a reliable nor respectable company to any of your users. 🤷

it's destroying communities. not in the abstract "it's bad for the environment" sense, in the literally observable immediate sense. usage of it is tantamount to violence against your own neighbors, and it should be treated as the antisocial behavior that it actually is

The Book of Life holds a special place in my heart as a film I got to watch early during my brief stint in animation school, and the bull scene remains the ONLY thing i can remember making literally breaktaking use of subtle, effective 3D along with its sound design. This fucking sucks, man

Wake up babe new organized labor in comics just dropped

Boycott Uline.

Kickstarter has reverted their policy changes on Adult Content! They issued an apology, siting Stripe as the reason. The pressure we put on them worked. This is a step in the right direction. But the threat of Stripe remains. It’d be great to see KS end ties with them & process payments elsewhere.

living in a 24/7 d/s (damsel/snidely) relationship with a girl who keeps a pair of airpods in so she can listen to oncoming train asmr to stay in "trackspace"

some inks

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

accidentally ordered tokusatsu instead of tonkatsu at this restaurant and now this guy won't stop doing stunts. The waiter can't even take him back because whenever he tries the guy strikes a pose and a bunch of explosions go off behind him

Exploring fantasy costumes for the same Knight as in previous posts. In addition to trying to find out the better match for the story I have in mind, I'm also figuring out what kind of designs I have the most fun drawing!

SEVEN WIVES #1 IS OUT NOW!! The launch title to @idwpublishing.com's crime line, with incredible art by @wyrmsfornerves.bsky.social. Grab it at your local comic shop and ask them to pre-order #2, releasing July 8th!

Loving rendition of the Ring of Keys song, except instead of a closeted child recognizing the self in the butch woman at the diner, it's every time a neurodivergent child clocks me and my key ring/purse chain of fidget toys on the train lmfao

Shoutout to the gay who yelled FRIEREN THE SLAYEEERRRRR✨️ when the title came up on-screen at the orchestral soundtrack concert in london lmfao

this is why getting us to stop misusing "psychotic" is so important to me, btw. it has REAL impact on people w/psychosis when the association w/our diagnosis is so negative and false. this is the case even in medical settings! we are treated SO BADLY due to these misconceptions. people DIE sometimes

Kings of Sorts is a fantasy/sci-fi comic about the struggle to remain kind in an unkind world- and its first omnibus is crowdfunding right now! If you’re looking for a new comic by a fellow CU member to pick up, this could be an excellent summer read. Almost at 50% funded already!

“99.2% of GPS patients who received gender-affirming medical care continue to identify as transgender into adulthood. Of the remaining 0.8%, most did not regret the medical treatment they received.” This is why transphobes are terrified of youth care, and why youth care should be legal everywhere.

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

Louisiana showed up. All 5 amendments failed. That's 2 years in a row Louisiana voters showed up to shut down the racist Governor's proposal.

And Louisiana is not a "red" state. It's a gerrymandered, voter-suppressed, democratically-underfunded State. But I'm telling you, Black folks are here doing the work everyday. If Louisiana gets better, the country gets betters. By every measure, invest in the South!!!

This also applies to game stores and game publishers.

Ripples anthology prints came out beautiful! @kessabrae.bsky.social and I will be selling copies at the #UKGE in a couple weeks.

studying theory

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I think mine isn't SUPER obvious at first glance bc it was less "fandom" (i didn't get regular internet access until i was a teenager) and more "things i got aesthetically obsessed with enough to copy from as a child", but i am curious if anyone can guess my first three lol

Chad Johnson is CEO of 'Grain Weevil'. His son did robotics competitions in high school, which inspired this little fella that breaks up hardened surfaces & levels grain to ensure it behaves like a liquid, avoids clumping. This probably saves 10-30 human lives a year. NO BOOTS IN THE GRAIN.

I genuinely need people to be prepared to Divest from Magic and possibly DnD if WotC doesn't play ball here. Make noise, get loud, boycott. Do whatever it takes to help the workers.

Passing this along - fucking scammers leveling up, here's a new one to pay attention to.

Anyone have recommendations that June could pass on?