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girl Kitten

@ritasnep.bsky.social

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community

go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

December 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM

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A faint, insistent buzzing just on the edge of hearing

@mrmunchertoyou.bsky.social

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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Robin Sevakis

@jadedsketch.bsky.social

Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously

December 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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engraved

@engraved.bsky.social

I teamed up with @shouldbeworking.bsky.social for the Tanabata Big Bang! Your writing made me so insane, I did not one (1) but SEVEN (7!!) illustrations for it. I can't wait to see everyone collectively lose their minds too. (1/2)

#myart #akeshu #akeshuake #akatbb2025
@akeshuakeevents.bsky.social

Goro fits a chair under a doorknob in a dark, dreary room. The door is already locked shut with multiple types of locks and bars. To Goro's left on the wall is a poster with a smiling face that says 'Be Happy!' There is another poster below which reads: 'Rules: 1) Wish your way to happiness. 2) If happiness is elusive, review the orientation material.'

Ren tackles Goro while Goro holds a smoking gun. The Phantom Thieves in pajamas look on in horror.

Ren and Goro sit on a bed in a cozy bedroom. On a nearby desk is a Jack Frost plush. Hanging on the wall are several posters: a Phantom Thieves poster, an advertisement for the Jazz Jin, and a poster of Mona looking dour with 'Hang in there Mona' written beneath him. Ren is in his pajamas and Goro is in his Metaverse costume, sans helmet and one of his gauntlets. Ren's hand covers Goro's bare hand on the bed as he looks at him with an adoring expression, and Goro smiles without looking back at him.

Joker stands over Goro. Joker is holding his knife and has a look of shock on his face. Below him, Goro is mostly covered up by the broken helmet on his head, multiple wires coming out the top of it. The small hint of clothes Goro is wearing looks suspiciously like his Detective Prince blazer.

November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM

spif

@spiftynifty.bsky.social

I'll be real idk if I'll ever get around to finishing my Sheith comic. It's written and the thumbnails are 70% done for it but it's been a few years since my last update and undoubtedly my style has changed. Would ppl still want to see the rest of it even if it was not as well drawn? 😅

September 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM

spif

@spiftynifty.bsky.social

5+1 Confessions: A #Sheith post-it comic for #VLD

Part +1: A(r)mour (1/15)

K: (offscreen) It was tropical, most of the time. Sometimes we got weird storms.

K: Everything was bigger. The flowers, the bugs...

S: Just how big are we talking?
K: Crabroaches as big as us... Didn't taste terrible, though.

S: O-Oh! Is that so?

K: We didn't have many options. It was an eat-or-be-eaten scenario.
S: Were they any good?
K: Like jellied sardines mixed with peanut butter and stale cheetos.

S: Sounds just like my cooking.
K: Haha. Maybe a little bit better.

K: Mom had ways to make them taste pretty good though. She taught me a lot.

S: She's an incredible person. You'll see her again soon enough, Keith.

K: Yeah.
S: Tell me more about the qu--
K: Hey.. is your arm okay?

S: My armor is just a little tight. I'll ask Pidge to loosen it when she wakes up so it won't chafe as much.
K: Shiro..

K: ...You're sweating. Let me help you.

September 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM

spif

@spiftynifty.bsky.social

5+1 Confessions: A #Sheith postit comic #VLD

iv (side a) - Fireworks (1/2)
(aka the chapter where I realized the comic had scope creeped wildly and I was just along for the ride)

S: Keith. You're back finally. The others are already asleep.

K: Sorry I'm late. The mission ran a little longer than expected. But it was successful.
S: I understand but you need to be well-rested to pilot Black for *our* mission tomorrow.

(BOOM! boom! BOOM! bOOm!)
S: That's just fireworks. The Feuxians do this every fourth night it seems. It's fine.

K: Heh. Fireworks is all the more reason to check it out. C'mon.

K: Woah.

K: They're really something.

S: ...

S: ~the fireworks above us... the castle asleep...~

S: ~his hand open and so close to mine...~

S: ~this is the moment.~

September 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM

spif

@spiftynifty.bsky.social

5+1 Confessions (5 times Shiro tried to confess and the one time Keith beat him to it), a #Sheith fancomic that I started in 2018 during the #VLD heydays. All done with pencil on postits cuz it began as just doodles between work scenes then... escalated. 😅

0 - the prologue