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- April Prime -

@april-prime.bsky.social

Part of a bigger piece Im working on for a Warhammer charity event! Sister Hospitaller Hildegard of Eibingen.

August 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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chira 🎋

@artofchira.bsky.social

Unless you can prove to me the making of the fiction harmed a real human, I don't care.

Which, for the record, that normally happens with things like crunch, fiscal abuse, work place bigotry, and professional exploitation.

It doesn't happen because pixels on a screen made you uncomfy

July 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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chira 🎋

@artofchira.bsky.social

But even all that aside, the main reason I believe fiction shouldn't be censored is because EVIL SHIT HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE and fiction has every right to reflect, inspect, magnetize, and interact with REAL LIFE. stories are experiences that are TOLD and HEARD. Conversations shouldn't be taboo.

July 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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chira 🎋

@artofchira.bsky.social

the thing about moral panics is they aren't about moral panics. it's about community control and rampant bigotry. censorship is a tool of fascists, those who purity police are fascists, and if your disgust agrees with their mission more than the right for fiction to gross you out, you are a fascist

July 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM

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Anya Chalina

@anyachalina.bsky.social

Malady

The image shows a bedroom with a large bed in the center. A woman is held by a skeleton. She is unconscious. She wears a blue dress and has bright ginger hair. There are cobras at the bottom of her dress. There's a big painting on the wall behind the bed with a unicorn fighting a cobra in a forest. There are three nuns seated on the right side and a big dog laying on the bed. There's a door with a boy in a long dress holding a vase with tulips. He has bright ginger hair. There's a skeleton nun behind him. There's a bear cub walking from the left side of the image. These may or may not be hallucinations the woman experiences wile feeling unwell.

June 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM

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雪山

@huroho.bsky.social

木曽路のコーヒーはなんか知らんがやたらと美味いゾ

June 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM

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Joëlle

@realrollo-koster.bsky.social

a doggy in the Rosselli missal...

April 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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CMA: Islamic Art

@cmaislamic.bsky.social

Text Page, Persian Verses (Verso) in an Anthology with some verses from Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) of Jami; The Fifth Throne Yusuf and Zulaykha https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.501.b

The Khamsa, a suite of five poems (khamsa is Arabic for five) written in the twelfth century, was, like the earlier Shahnama, concerned with the history and legends of pre-Islamic Iran. But Nizami's interest was with love rather than war. In this, the second of the poems, he tells the story of these two famous star-crossed lovers. It is difficult to assign the illustrations here to specific episodes, but they may be concerned with Khusro's stay at the court of Shirin's aunt, the Queen of Azarbaijan.
Shirn serves pomegranates to Khusro.

June 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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Bleak⋆Squeak

@bleaksqueak.bsky.social

🎉🐀Today is my birthday! 🐀🎉

If you want to repost my art, or even better, read my comic, today's the day I get to twist arms for that... as is according to the rules!

(🎉Art post edition 🎉)

#art #illustration #tarot #solivaga #ocsky

June 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM

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こもりひっき

@komorihikki.bsky.social

ゴシック紅茶魔女☕Gothic Tea Witch
#イラスト　　 #創作　 #魔女　 #Witch　#Gothic
#オリジナル　 #OC

June 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM

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CMA: Islamic Art

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Banqueting Scene with Khusrau and Shirin, from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami (1141-1209) https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.500.b

The <em>Khamsa </em>is a collection of five narrative poems, one of which is dedicated to the romance of Khusrau Parviz (590–628), a pre-Islamic king of Iran, and Shirin, his beloved Armenian princess. Khusrau’s turban has the anachronistic baton worn by Safavid royalty and the egret feather, an emblem of nobility instituted by the Mongols in the 1200s.<br>Here the lovers are seated before a tent in an idyllic landscape at night, indicated by the dark blue sky dotted with stars, painted with now tarnished silver. Shirin serves figs and pomegranates, symbolic of fertility, to Khusrau as attendants bring more figs and wine. Next to Shirin’s black horse, the musician at bottom right plays an <em>oud</em>, a stringed instrument similar to a lute.

May 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM

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🎃☆*:｡SashaTF.｡:*☆🎃

@sashatf.bsky.social

#MerMay 🌷

I often forget to draw something for this challenge, but today I had a lot of inspiration and enough free time
My lovely Sunshine, my sweet water princess 💕

Artwork and OC belong to @sashatf.bsky.social

illustration of a mermaid character sitting gracefully on a large pink lotus flower. The mermaid has a golden-yellow, shimmering fish tail that transitions into soft white fins adorned with delicate golden chains. Her upper body is human-like with fair skin decorated with golden sparkles. She has long, wavy brown hair adorned with pink lotus flowers, and large, expressive green eyes that give her a dreamy, gentle look.

She is resting her chin on her hands, looking thoughtfully into the distance, surrounded by other lotus flowers and lily pads on a tranquil blue water surface. The overall color scheme is soft and pastel with glowing highlights, enhancing the serene, magical atmosphere of the artwork.

May 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM

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Maho Sebiane

@mahosebiane.bsky.social

Badi Lalla, an emblematic figure of Tuareg music in Algeria, died at the age of 88 on April 21. Badi Lalla Bent-Salem, her real name, championed the Tindi musical genre throughout her life, modernizing it in terms of orchestral and repertoire. An important figures in Tuareg culture in recent years.