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tinybaby

@tiny.baby

merry christmas to all the freaks and perverts of blue sky

December 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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✧.*✦Goat✦*.✧🔞

@chaotic0cryptid.bsky.social

Goodbye, little Starlight...
#ffxiv #ffxivart

A drawing depicting the Lvl 1 nameless doe from FFXIV with a fake constellation mapped inside

December 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM

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Morgan Aleghieri Art

@morganaleghieri.bsky.social

😔🙏 rest in peace, Lvl 1 .

#ffxiv

Final fantasy fan sketch, commemorating the brief life of the level 1 nameless deer, who had been spawning in the coerthas western highlands. The artist sits in the snow on their hands and knees, devastated. High above in the sky, a bust of the deer can be seen in the clouds, a la Mufasa in The Lion King. Below the clouds, is the caption, "Remember... Remember that [redacted] once lived..."

December 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM

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次郎

@batten12.bsky.social

🎄

December 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM

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wren

@wrenanigans.bsky.social

where i create from

December 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM

Tori

@ladystarwing.bsky.social

Z-A really looked at me and went "merry christmas"

First shiny alpha! It'a my prickly son!! (His name is Tarvos)

December 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM

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X-Ark 🜃

@xarkkresyx.bsky.social

Urge to draw Amiya from Arknights because her new skin is so pretty

December 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM

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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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Sean Gardner

@seangardnerxiv.bsky.social

If you have ppl watching cutscenes before the boss, the chorus for Everything Burns starts right when they finish and it lets you start fighting.

December 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM

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Amunedal 💀 💜

@lordamunedal.bsky.social

I thought I couldn't learn guitar.

I thought I couldn't learn to draw.

I thought I couldn't learn to animate.

I thought I couldn't learn to drive.

Looking back, I see how silly it was to make roadblocks for myself.

Take that leap. Don't be afraid to learn.

Don't be afraid to fail.

June 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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Use Piper Beam!

@roodypatooti.bsky.social

sapphling: sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher

sapphling: You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this?

sapphling: *screenshot of tag that says
#crying and throwing up when you tell me the undertaker didnt REALLY die and come back to life all those times*
no that part was real

October 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM

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Dora B

@heyitsdora.com

You don't need to be able to read every pore and eyelash on a character's face for "good" graphics. You need good art direction and design. Those are what ensure your game still looks striking and memorable even decades later.

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 2d

When you consider that this beauty runs on 25 year old hardware, the possibilities for us are still endless.

December 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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Mike Bithell

@mikebithell.bsky.social

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM