I wish every artist a Christmas miracle this season (preferably at least $5000 cash)

sigh

Nothing feels quite so bad as being lonely, trying to socialize, and in that being fully and completely ignored. Just gotta learn to be content with my games and cats.

Absolutely wild. A terrain crafting YouTuber I (used to) follow threw AI images in his most recent vid. That's an... interesting choice when your entire audience is creative people.

Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear "Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks! Let it Go!

Just confirmed this myself, and this applies both to Gmail accounts AND Google Workspace accounts (like if you have Gmail for your own domain or your company email or something.) Once you disable it'll force a reload, and the "updates/promotions/social" categories will be removed, fyi.

Hello lovelies 🤗🤗 COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN here on Bluesky and over on Discord! Send me DM so we can talk!

I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖 Hint. Fucking. Hint.

Censorship is now coming for your dnd and your warhammer and your farming sim, they don't care if it's not adult content. They wanted everything

The Tron franchise is very weird to me because no one who's owned it since 1982 even seems to be aware of what that movie was about. Tron is a genuine Cyberpunk film. Flynn is a cyberpunk! He's going to hack into a gigacorp and bring it down from, literally, the inside. The inside of the computer!

Some people smile like they've read about happiness in books.

Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time

I know I talk about my newsletter a lot, but hey, I'm just trying to build something new and survive out here like so many other creatives, so forgive me. Besides, there's this, which I think is timeless: buttondown.com/alanhenry/ar...

Friendly reminder that school administrators tend to take complaints from parents much more seriously than the same complaints from teachers. So if your kids’ school district is using PragerU stuff, please speak up.

Can we get a "I'm too broke to be advertised to" setting on websites or something? I haven't spent money on anything other than bills and food in over a year. Showing me your products is doing nothing but building disdain.

how I feel since 2016 or so

Newsletter time! This edition of Productivity, Without Privilege is my summer 2025 reading list! It's Hot Book Summer because it's too damned hot outside. Patreon subscribers get it early (tomorrow 9am): www.patreon.com/halophoenix It goes out to all subs Friday morning: buttondown.com/alanhenry

Hey, instead of throwing 96 bucks at midj0urney & getting only slop, ugly ass D&D portraits out of it… I offer you 350+ handcrafted designs for just $1! There's also a $5 tier with cute little variants now, thanks to us consistently hitting 500+ Patrons!!! patreon.com/Myrmidia 🤍👉👈

Wake up Berd Nerds. New Berdable just dropped. And this one's loud AF. @rubyvoxx.bsky.social ❤️

Yo if here are any thigh elves out there hmu

I need every single one of you to stop what you're doing and watch this today: www.tiktok.com/@leverttheba... Don't like TikTok? Here, it's on IG too: www.instagram.com/reel/C8Z70hp... Send some love to your Black and Indigenous friends today.

Anyone want one of these real quick so I can buy some electricity? 👉👈

Its been said a million times but a gentle reminder of why UPS wants to get rid of the United States Postal Service is b/c they don't want to compete I use a shipping service and to compete with USPS as part of that service look how much UPS has to "discount" rates from retail for international.

BEHOLD!

This is the best thing I’ve seen today and I need a source. Bluesky, please help. Credit to whoever this rad group is.

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

Vol. 1 of NEW shoujo manga! 『My Science Partner Turned into an Eldritch Horror Then We Got Isekai’d and Now He’s My Husband?!?!?!』 #jayvik

Did a little #fanart piece of Agrias Oaks from #FFT! Def my fave Final Fantasy game! Though FF6 is a close second. There was a little bleed-through on this page of pink next to her shoulder, so thought I'd try something diff for a background/accent to cover it. Think it's nice. #art #traditionalart

Decided to draw my cyberpunk shark tooth girlie again today, and decided when she's not eco-terrorrizing she's the front of a punk band. Also! I have decided that her name is Kylia. #art #oc #traditionalart Also, I need to have a word with whoever decided she has a fishnet bodysuit. My hand hurts.

Watching @ghoulmommie.bsky.social's art stream today I fell in love with her new #oc and had to draw her! Elaina is so pretty! I also accidentally drew in regular #sketch book vs multimedia paper sketchbook so just did partial colors trying my best to not let the markers bleed. #art #traditionalart

Another migraine another #chibi. Apparently this is how I'll be tracking my migraines this year. This time we got my oshi #VTuber @rubyvoxx.bsky.social with some details I could glean from her teaser posts. #art #fanart #traditionalart

Wanted to give the darker olive skintone another go on my shark-tooth cyberpunk lady #oc, and did some experimenting as well, inked the fishnets after coloring this time, and painted the "background" with black acrylic. Went ok-ish? #art #traditionalart

Another #art of my cyberpunk #oc shark tooth lady (I need to figure out a name for her) I got a new olive marker for orc/goblin style skintones, but think I like the green I used last time for her more... Tried my hand at drawing those chunky shoes you see in cyberpunk stylings,

(FFXIV ARR and HS spoilers ahead) Ah do I love Thancred's idle lines after you find him again in HS (I liked them before as well, but these are just *chef's kiss*). Def gonna do a fan art of him with one of these. Just got him back and he's already dropped some gems. <3 my playboy Scion.

Wanted to draw a hot shark tooth lady with a katana and ended up with a new #oc? As I was drawing her I decided she's from my homebrew #cyberpunk world and part of a 'eco terrorist gang' called "Dokkaebi" that likes to genetically modify themselves for aesthetics and combat. #art #traditionalart

I hate that YT thinks mini painting and terrain crafting are the same hobby. Like I don't give a fuck about these super high end competition painters it keeps recommending me. I want to see someone put together a mall themed battle map with plastic and foam 'n shit.

Week 7 Day 4 of learning to #art brings a #sketch of @peppiranha.bsky.social ^_^ drawing suspender shorts + a baggy turtleneck was harder than anticipated, but I'm pretty happy with today's piece.

Couldn't wait for putting together a glam, so I drew my #Viera in a mix of my IRL clothes and my #VTuber clothes! Drawing my punk leather was harder than I expected lol #art #oc #ffxiv #ffxivart (also her eyes gave me no shortage of trouble this morning)

This morning I decided to draw 3 of my favorite internet peoples and I just finished! Also; dang did I come to realize that a tablet would make larger pieces SO much easier x.x I had to draw everything so smol @peppiranha.bsky.social @rubyvoxx.bsky.social and @ruggedsauce.vtubers.social #art

Inking fishnets.... so painful... 💀

This song is 100% how I feel about wanting to do creative stuff... youtu.be/rQoi4F1aN6k?...

I forgot I had scheduled a migraine for today, so I present my first #chibi piece! It is me attending to my migraine appointment. Also first time doing a hole in fishnets, think it looks good. I'm gonna go run around in Eorzea now and pretend my brain doesn't hurt. #art #sketch #VTuber #oc

Technically a little past the day for my daily(?) #art post. I was gonna just do a sketch and finish it later, but I just got on a roll. I took a screen of @rubyvoxx.bsky.social 's MH Wilds character and did a little mashup of her and her #VTuber model. Really tried to represent the absolute mane.

I haven't drawn my #VTuber recently, so here's a #sketch of me in a cute little flirty outfit ^_^ I kinda really wanted to do some fishnets today so there you have it. #oc #art

As I've been drawing every day, I'm less and less embarrassed by my art, not that it's improving leaps and bounds constantly, just that I'm finding more things I like and liking the process. This has (obviously) led me to posting more pics here, which is cool.

Got THE iconic white mage set today in #ffxiv so did a proper #art of my Viera. I really need to get a soft purple copic so I can do her makeup properly (or rather, try to)

Quick silly little sketch I did this morning of RubyVoxx while she was testing new comp setup.

Trying to get better at perspective, this sketch was supposed to be at a steeper angle, but still not angry with the results. I've been liking the more intense expressions I found while looking up references for Rel's yandere ass XD #art