someone i love is trans <3 #tdor

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

....alright, hit me. I'll be genuinely surprised if this gets filled.

Morbid curiosity compels me. (See? It's not just political reposts. I do shitpost and post my art from time to time.)

People like @schumer.senate.gov are like they same people who thought they could pull one under the likes of the N***s in Zentrum during Weimar Germany. Cowards in the face of hardship with no spine with only the craven desire for political power. #shutdown #senatedemocrats

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

America is so racist that some Americans believed SNAP benefits were for white people and food stamps were for black people and they did not know they were the same thing and are now horrified to learn they are losing their food subsidies.

It's (finally) done. I can finally relax. Time to run around silly in video games, watch spooky movies, and otherwise enjoy Halloween.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Miércoles

Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life. It aids fascism.

People who see somebody's artwork then has the utter audacity to feed it into a genAI machine and then post the result under the original creator should be publicly flogged. And not in a metaphorical sense.

Define your musical taste in 8 artists: Thrice Spiritbox Nickel Creek Steven Wilson The Dear Hunter Kendrick Lamar Philip Glass Heilung

I actually think it's extremely good and healthy to experience art that makes you uncomfortable. discomfort is not equivalent to real, tangible harm. at the very least y'all should recognize uncomfortable art's right to exist, and to carry on with your life without making it everyone else's problem.

I had a thought last night. If people scrape and trawl the internet for more art to feed into their AI generators, then isn't it my duty, my moral imperative, to make the most hideous, unpolished, ugly, gods-awful-to-look-at art that ever existed?

!!!

US federal employees are being deprived of income in order that a world-famous pedophile can continue to cover up the fact that he raped multiple children over decades. The press and the media are choosing the degree to which they obfuscate this.

Progress.

...where did all the artists go?

Hang in there, struggling artists

So this is as far as I got with making my paintings of Alex Shepherd and Murphy Pendleton, before my drawing tablet gave out. I have four more pieces I'm going to try and complete, but I'll have to switch to a traditional medium to finish them. Gonna go for 'watercolors' (heavily diluted gouache).

I think, after 13 years, my drawing tablet has finally given up the ghost. [Irritated]

Sorry for the radio silence & the drought of art. I've had to shift my sleep schedule to normal hours, which drained my energy for a few weeks. I hope to finish the remaining SH paintings before the end of October, and I've put myself in a position to concentrate on doing so. We'll see how it goes.

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

No particular reason

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown: 🧵

What's the point in being here if you're just gonna put the same restrictions on us as everywhere else? You gave us content modoration, we used it, and we thanked you for it. Censoring certain subjects as a rule is not the way forward. Enhancing the labeling system and enforcing it is the way.

saw a post i liked on tumblr today.....didnt see that they'd posted it on their account here but i wish they would its a sentiment that resonated w me more than making "good" art it's just important to make art....thanks man

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

The art marches ever onward.

Apologies for the recent radio silence. This painting has been destroying me, to the point that I feel burnt out (after the 5 paintings before it also). I'm not used to painting so regularly or rigorously. I decided to take the week off and chill, then hop back into painting afterwards.

israel is a colonial state carrying out a genocide and anyone supporting it is the moral equivalent of a nazi in 1940

.....hm. "https://bsky.social/" is being flagged by my antivirus.

Watch to the end. Boom! #gop #trump #epstein #racism #immigrants #workers

Bluesky can still be accessed via Graysky for Mississippi users. Pass it on.

Travis Grady, Protagonist of Silent Hill: Origins Auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh I took too much time on this one, got lost in the skin tone sauce.

I’m going to make this a video at some point but I’m saying this here and being done because it’s honestly just angering and scaring and frustrating me.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

keep art human.

People love it

Henry Townshend, Protagonist of Silent Hill 4.

Heather Mason, Protagonist of Silent Hill 3. This one kicked my ass.

Accidentally made a cool silhouette of the next painting I'm working on. 👀

James Sunderland, Silent Hill 2 Protagonist

Harry Mason, Silent Hill 1 Protagonist I decided to join in on a contest regarding the SH protags and went overboard. I'll be trying to work on a single protagonist per day in a similar style.

These folks are awesome!