Rowan Oats
@rowanoats.com
bottleblond swede, unstoppable art baby, creator of DADVICE.
Art feed: https://tinyurl.com/artbyrowan
Spicy alt: @rowanafterdark.bsky.social
https://rowanoats.com
Art feed: https://tinyurl.com/artbyrowan
Spicy alt: @rowanafterdark.bsky.social
https://rowanoats.com
Kicking off the year with some cheap-o portrait sketch commissions! 15€ between Nov15 and Dec15!
HEY I'm starting an annual €15 SKETCH PORTRAIT DRIVE between November 15 and December 15!! I miss doing commissions and this made me laugh so here we are
Google form if you're already sold: forms.gle/fdDjiaYzdgQd...
#commissionsopen #artcommissions #commsopen
Google form if you're already sold: forms.gle/fdDjiaYzdgQd...
#commissionsopen #artcommissions #commsopen
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Kicking off the year with some cheap-o portrait sketch commissions! 15€ between Nov15 and Dec15!
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📈 @lilyisthatyou.bsky.social is blowing up, go listen to her now to get in on the ground floor so you can say you were there when she made it big
September 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
📈 @lilyisthatyou.bsky.social is blowing up, go listen to her now to get in on the ground floor so you can say you were there when she made it big
"hey rowan you haven't been online much lately, what are you up to"
oh nothing much, just freehand embroidering a graphic from a newspaper from 1905.
oh nothing much, just freehand embroidering a graphic from a newspaper from 1905.
September 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"hey rowan you haven't been online much lately, what are you up to"
oh nothing much, just freehand embroidering a graphic from a newspaper from 1905.
oh nothing much, just freehand embroidering a graphic from a newspaper from 1905.
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The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
July 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
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if you call and they hang up on you, call back and immediately say you want to escalate to a supervisor because you were just hung up on. you don't even need to say any other details, just that you were hung up on and need to escalate
SITREP from 4Chan /v/ Re: Collective Shout.
Visa and Mastercard are taking on substantial damage to their sales quots and support times for this. Don't stop calling.
#SaveSpeech
Visa and Mastercard are taking on substantial damage to their sales quots and support times for this. Don't stop calling.
#SaveSpeech
July 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
if you call and they hang up on you, call back and immediately say you want to escalate to a supervisor because you were just hung up on. you don't even need to say any other details, just that you were hung up on and need to escalate
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A new petition spearheaded by prominent German journalists and game developers has gathered over a thousand signatures in the first day. Like other emerging protests, it aims at payment processors to take the pressure from store fronts selling adult games.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...
July 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
A new petition spearheaded by prominent German journalists and game developers has gathered over a thousand signatures in the first day. Like other emerging protests, it aims at payment processors to take the pressure from store fronts selling adult games.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...
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worth reading article; wrapup at the end also includes actions to take to push back on this blatant anti-queer censorship. not to downplay the importance of having platforms for NSFW (a hugely broad category) but SFW queer and trans works have been hit by this (anything marked with "adult themes").
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: In a dangerous evening escalation of the anti-porn war on the gaming industry, indie platform @itch.io has banned a number of NSFW titles and delisted thousands of others.
Trans authors are caught in the crossfire.
MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.
Trans authors are caught in the crossfire.
MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.
Major Indie Marketplace Itch.io Shadowbans NSFW Content, Trans Authors Impacted
A dangerous escalation against free speech and literary preservation from a longtime haven for transfeminine literature.
thetransfemininereview.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
worth reading article; wrapup at the end also includes actions to take to push back on this blatant anti-queer censorship. not to downplay the importance of having platforms for NSFW (a hugely broad category) but SFW queer and trans works have been hit by this (anything marked with "adult themes").
I went to Stockholm (my home, my love, hopefully my grave) for the first time in two and a half years yesterday, (undiagnosed) autistic burnout is a hell of a thing
July 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I went to Stockholm (my home, my love, hopefully my grave) for the first time in two and a half years yesterday, (undiagnosed) autistic burnout is a hell of a thing
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after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to
askvisa@visa.com
they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.
askvisa@visa.com
they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.
Maybe we could find out.
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?
We got like way more people than that don't we?
We got like way more people than that don't we?
July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to
askvisa@visa.com
they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.
askvisa@visa.com
they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.
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personally i think when communicating with businesses like The Card Companies you're better off roleplaying a frustrated customer who wants to spend money. you are just a normal fuckin guy and who are they to tell you how to spend your money? it's a free country. you're an adult with income.
July 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
personally i think when communicating with businesses like The Card Companies you're better off roleplaying a frustrated customer who wants to spend money. you are just a normal fuckin guy and who are they to tell you how to spend your money? it's a free country. you're an adult with income.
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lysistrata, but for labor in general
July 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
lysistrata, but for labor in general
Not a movie but I read Not Without My Daughter when I was ten.
okay as we’re all discussing it I’ll ask: what inappropriate-for-your-age-group film did you watch as a kid?
mine was Terminator when I was 10 or so which was a) brilliant but b) gave me a lifelong revulsion of stop motion
mine was Terminator when I was 10 or so which was a) brilliant but b) gave me a lifelong revulsion of stop motion
July 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Not a movie but I read Not Without My Daughter when I was ten.
PSA FOR AMERICANS if you sell things internationally DO NOT USE UPS they are a menace and a scourge and the worst fucking delivery service I have ever encountered in my life.
USPS is fine. DHL is a pain in the ass but if you really have no choice, okay. UPS doesn't know other countries exist.
USPS is fine. DHL is a pain in the ass but if you really have no choice, okay. UPS doesn't know other countries exist.
July 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
PSA FOR AMERICANS if you sell things internationally DO NOT USE UPS they are a menace and a scourge and the worst fucking delivery service I have ever encountered in my life.
USPS is fine. DHL is a pain in the ass but if you really have no choice, okay. UPS doesn't know other countries exist.
USPS is fine. DHL is a pain in the ass but if you really have no choice, okay. UPS doesn't know other countries exist.
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As far as the great experiment that is the United States is concerned we have just about all the data we need and to put it in scientific terms EEEYIKES
July 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
As far as the great experiment that is the United States is concerned we have just about all the data we need and to put it in scientific terms EEEYIKES
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VALID STIMMING TECHNIQUES:
- tapping/drumming
- singing
- recording a solo metal album
INVALID STIMMING TECHNIQUES:
- bank robbery
- fleeing the scene
- driving to the canyon
- gunning it to the edge, only to skid to a stop a few yards back
- thinking that prison could be cool as like an experience
- tapping/drumming
- singing
- recording a solo metal album
INVALID STIMMING TECHNIQUES:
- bank robbery
- fleeing the scene
- driving to the canyon
- gunning it to the edge, only to skid to a stop a few yards back
- thinking that prison could be cool as like an experience
July 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
VALID STIMMING TECHNIQUES:
- tapping/drumming
- singing
- recording a solo metal album
INVALID STIMMING TECHNIQUES:
- bank robbery
- fleeing the scene
- driving to the canyon
- gunning it to the edge, only to skid to a stop a few yards back
- thinking that prison could be cool as like an experience
- tapping/drumming
- singing
- recording a solo metal album
INVALID STIMMING TECHNIQUES:
- bank robbery
- fleeing the scene
- driving to the canyon
- gunning it to the edge, only to skid to a stop a few yards back
- thinking that prison could be cool as like an experience
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Happy Nonbinary People's Day, you gemstones. A year or two back we introduced FLASH GORDON's first enby, the outlaw lawman Bones Malock. Having known and loved a lot of nonbinary people, I knew the truest way to represent you was as a unsettling desert pirate with a lightning sword
July 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Happy Nonbinary People's Day, you gemstones. A year or two back we introduced FLASH GORDON's first enby, the outlaw lawman Bones Malock. Having known and loved a lot of nonbinary people, I knew the truest way to represent you was as a unsettling desert pirate with a lightning sword
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Some tape peeling of a quick portrait study I did today. Done with gouache and colored pencils, I feel like I kind of understood how to not get muddy colors a bit
#art
#art
July 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Some tape peeling of a quick portrait study I did today. Done with gouache and colored pencils, I feel like I kind of understood how to not get muddy colors a bit
#art
#art
Been reading 'Romola' by George Eliot from 1863 and this jumped out at me:
July 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Been reading 'Romola' by George Eliot from 1863 and this jumped out at me:
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a comic about vibleo granes (originally posted 6/23/2016)
July 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
a comic about vibleo granes (originally posted 6/23/2016)
I've had scoliosis surgery twice, once to put in bone grafts/titanium rods and again later to *remove* the rods because they uh. Unhooked themselves from my spine. A thing that Does Not Happen.
Share a piece of lore about yourself
Yes I stole this from musky folks site…I feel like we’ll get better answers here lol
Yes I stole this from musky folks site…I feel like we’ll get better answers here lol
July 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I've had scoliosis surgery twice, once to put in bone grafts/titanium rods and again later to *remove* the rods because they uh. Unhooked themselves from my spine. A thing that Does Not Happen.
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When NPR left Twitter, traffic dropped by only a single percentage point.
niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...
niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...
July 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
When NPR left Twitter, traffic dropped by only a single percentage point.
niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...
niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...
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On the whole, the internet has been a compounding series of catastrophic mistakes, but there have been occasional, brief moments of transcendence
July 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
On the whole, the internet has been a compounding series of catastrophic mistakes, but there have been occasional, brief moments of transcendence
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Taskmaster season 19's squad is a fun batch.
May 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Taskmaster season 19's squad is a fun batch.
I've been listening to @totalusrankium.bsky.social on American Presidents all week while I ping pong between projects and it is Illuminating.
(I'm only on Monroe, don't spoil the ending!)
(I'm only on Monroe, don't spoil the ending!)
July 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I've been listening to @totalusrankium.bsky.social on American Presidents all week while I ping pong between projects and it is Illuminating.
(I'm only on Monroe, don't spoil the ending!)
(I'm only on Monroe, don't spoil the ending!)