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Bartender, tabletop RPGer and fandom creature. Either a cryptid or an actual dinosaur. She/her. Posts in English with sporadic Finnish thrown in. 🔞🏳️‍🌈

Profile pic sauropod by John Conway
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stievenvdp.bsky.social
Last of the walgvogels...
retro, woodblockstyle illustration of a dodo.
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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everythingdice.bsky.social
✨ GIVEAWAY ✨ The final giveaway of the year is… well, what do YOU want it to be? 👀 One winner will select a set of their choosing! Giveaway ends 12/16.

To Enter:
🎁 Follow this account
🎲 Like + repost this post
✨ For an extra entry: What’s the best gift to give your PC?

#dnd #dice #ttrpg
A set of Sunspell 8 piece dice set with the word Giveaway in front of it. The set is a multicolored purple, yellow, and red resin set. Closeup of the Andromeda Luxe D6 set. The die is a clear and black resin D6 with a purple planet “pearl” in the center with a galaxy swirl around it. Full set of Blue Sky Hymnal, a half clear half blue dice set with a cloud inclusion within it.
December 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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kurinosukeboy.bsky.social
Warm.
December 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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platinumeggs.bsky.social
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone

- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware

but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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dragonsofwales.bsky.social
Confused Compsognathus.
#SciArt
A digital illustration of Compsognathus (a chicken-sized dinosaur) with a colourful dragonfly perched on the top of its snout.
December 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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jfcudennec.bsky.social
1/ Last week I attended to a conference entilted "Interactions between human societies and marine invertebrates" (I love how niche and obscure these meetings are), and I learned about the Neolithic desert kites, these huge traps in Middle East.

The link with marine inverts ? A quick thread ! 🦑🏺
Aerial view of the Jibal al‑Khashabiyeh desert kite : a system of stone walls constituting an anclosure were wild animals were trapped
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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markwitton.bsky.social
New #paleoart on #FossilFriday: #Tiktaalik sees the world. Discussions of early #tetrapods often focus on limbs and lungs, but major changes also took place in their eyes. Seeing further and clearer than any animal before, they were the first to clearly see sunsets, stars, and the moon. #sciart
Tiktaalik slugs its way over a muddy bank in a flooded Devonian landscape while the sun sets over the horizon. Banks of pink and purple clouds loom in front of distant streaks of orange as clear turquoise sky peeks through cloudless regions. Various trees and shrubs stand tall above purple water glistening with gold wavelets. With vision that could probably see in the UV spectrum and eyes beginning to adapt for the infinite visual range provided in aerial habitats, Titaalik pauses to take this all in, being among the first animals that can see the natural world in such detail. All which is to say - the next time you admire sunsets or the night sky, consider what this owes to events of 375 million years ago. When the first vertebrates struggled out of the water they rapidly developed eyes that were much sharper and clearer than those of their fishy ancestors, vision being of variable utility in most freshwater habitats. Millions of years on, what probably started as a means to navigate and find prey allows us to observe and enjoy the natural world with a sense of awe and wonder.
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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ffefox.bsky.social
Finland hasn't seen the sun in weeks and our national media is literally having a "sunrise livestream" now that it finally shows up :D
December 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
reading about genAI slop brokers makes me want to draw more weird manual art. extremely realistic brachiosaurus reconstruction for you
drawing of Brachiosaurus, a long necked quadrupedal dinosaur, rendered in colorful squares of green and blue with a subtle gradient getting lighter towards the underside
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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birdguides.bsky.social
Kakapo, the world's only flightless parrot, has enjoyed its most productive breeding season since 1977:
Best breeding season for Kakapo since 1977
New data from New Zealand’s conservation authorities show one of the world’s rarest parrots, Kakapo, has produced a record number of chicks in 2025-26 – its best season since 1977 and a major conservation success story.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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eveyning.bsky.social
same and I love this tumblr post about DA2
tumblr post from user thefiresontheheight, it says: It’s insane to me that Dragon Age 2 is sandwiched in between two WAY HUGER and WAY MORE SUCCESSFUL games about more traditional fantasy protagonists facing off against world ending threats and winning and it’s this…weird, raw, personal tragedy about how no matter what you do, you can’t always stop crisis and disaster from occurring. Like The Hero or Ferelden, no matter who they were, wants to stop a Blight. The Inquisitor wants to repair the sky. And Hawke, like, wants to make some money, hang around their friends, and keep their family and their adoptive city safe. And they can’t even fucking do that, so unlike the heroes before and after them. You spend seven years in Kirkwall until the game says, “yeah, no matter what, the prejudices and traumas and hurts of this world are Too Much for one person to stop them. The world changes, wars roll over the land, you cannot stop history, Hawke. You tried. You failed.” And then you just sit there, sixteen years old, listening to “I’m Not Calling You A Liar” and you’re like….well, I guess I really wasn’t a hero. Damn. I love it.
December 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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colinsmith.bsky.social
“Moominmamma cooks a real magic potion following Grandmother’s infallible recipe”, by Tove Jansson, as used on the cover of 1989’s exhibition catalogue of Jansson’s work as shown at Finland’s Tampere Art Museum.
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
'Two Sirens'
Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 128 × 206 mm, from 2020.

#ArtAdventCalendar
In an underwater scene, a sailfish, a mola, a mermaid whose flowing hair recalls marine algae, a dugong, and several golden trevally are grouped together in a vertically-oriented composition with some kelp against a black background. The illustration is drawn with intricate linework, with an emphasis on contours and varying line weight, and with areas of solid black ink.
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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mintaii.bsky.social
i love frankenstein (2025) so much

#art
artwork of the creature from frankenstein (2025). the creature is the central figure, his body abstracted into the swathes of blues and greens, with a tinge of red, with details of furs of his coat and candles lit with red flames. his torso is carved out, exposing red flesh and a heart connected with veins that have some sprouting flowers, and the final scene of the creature embracing the morning sun. framing the creature are various body parts as well as the halves of victor and elizabeth's faces.
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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rincewind.run
this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme
Get away, Garak, you carrier of political assassinations I also carry a solution to the dominion war Aww It’s political assassinations god dammit
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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sutexii.bsky.social
🍾🐴

✦ #art
Illustration of Mari Lwyd, breath visible in the cold, bottle of liquor in hand
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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ephik.bsky.social
"Heavy is the burden, heavier still the heart."

missed DA day by one day : D

#tarquin #dragonage #datv #veilguard #shadowdragons
The painting depicts Tarquin from Dragon Age: The Veilguard in the style of the Dragon Age tarot cards. Tarquin is kneeling, holding on to his sword like a crutch, while being overwhelmed by a mantle of Blight. A small, turquoise snake is coiled around his left arm, while in the background a giant viper is swallowing a symbolic eclipsed sun, and bleeding. The image has predominantly red hues around Tarquin, which cool into a desaturated turquoise for the rest of the elements. The sword and sun stand out as bright white elements with a blue outline. Tarquin's expression is one of both sadness and anger.
December 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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bextraordinary.bsky.social
♥️
To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
worm
worm or snake like fantasy creature with multicolored quilt-like pattern on its body and a speech bubble that says "genAI sucks"
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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commandersterling.bsky.social
A truly great idea. 10,000 ethical assets freely available.

There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism.

Support real artists, not con artists.
chequered.ink Chequered Ink @chequered.ink · 11d
More coverage of our 10,000 Game Assets Pack, this time on Dexerto. We really do appreciate all the support everyone is giving this - basically it makes the last year of working on it full time worthwhile & spurs us on to create more assets!! www.dexerto.com/gaming/indie... #gamedev #indiedev
Indie studio releases 10k human-made game assets so devs “don’t turn to AI” - Dexerto
Indie creators got a boost as a new 10k human-made asset pack launched to help developers avoid relying on AI tools.
www.dexerto.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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sun-marie.bsky.social
Happy #DragonAgeDay 🐉💗

This year I had the honor to contribute the @worldofthedaszine.bsky.social free zine with my spot art for the Tevinter Imperium section!
December 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Ol' Salty, Pirate Saltasaurus. A bit of silliness which became a personal favourite.

Sepia ink over blue pencil on Strathmore grey toned paper, 110 × 143 mm, from 2013.

#ArtAdventCalendar
Drawing of a Saltasaurus with its back to the viewer in three-quarter view, wearing a voluminous sash around its waist, in which is stuck a profusion of swords whose hilts are carved as the heads of various dinosaurs and pterosaurs. It also wears a tricorn hat trimmed with long feathers and carries a spear.
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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sundogscoops.bsky.social
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now

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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
sauropodfancier.bsky.social
When misgendered, apply wheat flour bomb. 😌 I love Ukyou so much
Screenshot of the anime Ranma 1/2 showing the character Ukyou, long hair pulled back in a ponytail and dressed in a boys' school uniform, reaching for a bag of flour. The captions read, "Who are you calling a man? Wheat Flour Bomb!"
December 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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toothandbranch.bsky.social
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Digital painting by me, of a giant monster based on a fire eel, framed by swaying sea foliage in murky greenish water. The creature's jaws are open, revealing a secondary set of pharyngeal jaws toward the back of its throat. Red dorsal and yellow ventral frills, matching the colours of its markings, run down the length of its body. Character belongs to @winterwisteria.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM