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Renée 🆖️

@renee-draws.bsky.social

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20↑ • she/her • I draw sometimes, and I retweet often • Opinions are my own, but they can be yours, too! • #art #fanart #oc

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Renée 🆖️ @renee-draws.bsky.social · Nov 13

Sat down and took the time to rework the Newgrounds starter packs. Go check them out! The first 2 are done and the third one's being worked on, so check back occasionally.

NG pack 1: bsky.app/starter-pack...

NG pack 2: bsky.app/starter-pack...

NG pack 3: bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Melo

@letitmelo.bsky.social

DnD character idea that I never wound up using. A bard who represents the Devil, whose power over words was cast through legalise — a documancer.

January 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM

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Tirrel

@tirrel.bsky.social

Cats are liquid

Especially on Halloween 🎃🐈‍⬛🎃

October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM

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School Night Séance - Now on Kickstarter!

@schoolnightseance.bsky.social

-Kickstarter Update Day 12-

Our current pace is a bit below where it needs to be to make our goal, but I still think we can get there! Keep sharing and I think we should be able to close that gap!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...

We love you guys!

School Night Séance - A Spooky Cute Point and Click!

Quirky characters and tricky puzzles abound in this modern take on the point and click adventure genre!

www.kickstarter.com

November 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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School Night Séance - Now on Kickstarter!

@schoolnightseance.bsky.social

We're trying to climb our way up to 75% of our funding goal now, so everyone who backs today at the Friendly Familiar level or above will get a free sticker sheet added to their pledge!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...

#special #kickstarter #stickers

November 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM

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fesshole 🧻

@fesshole.bsky.social

My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings

November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM

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Nate

@bigratgames.bsky.social

american indie developer deciding on a setting: in a cozy mountain town surrounded by wholesome yokai, ghibli inspired cooperative sustainable cherry blossoms and you can pet the dog

french indie developer deciding on a setting: in a world where the gestalt misery of colonisation's victims has manifested into a sort of misery elemental, three church-like religious organisations hav[nine more paragraphs that leave you feeling like you know less than you knew before you started reading]

polish indie developer deciding on a setting: warsaw👍🇵🇱 it is very bad

October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Alen Blažeković

@alenblaekovi.bsky.social

🍬Agate and Pebble's candy heist🍬
Happy Halloween 🎃🧹 #art #artonbluesky

Night sky, Agate, a gargoyle, is flying dressed as a witch and Pebble, her kobold henchman, is caring a sack full of candy while dressed with a pumpkin on his head

October 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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Julia Metzger

@juliametzgerart.bsky.social

✨ The healing spell ✨

A second piece I've done in Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class, also featuring Lúthien and Beren from Tolkien's Silmarillion.

#art #juliametzgerart

October 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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Garrett

@garretthanna.bsky.social

October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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tucker

@tuckeryart.bsky.social

October 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM

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Alex Ahad o_8

@oh8.bsky.social

Gold Ball (oka)Run

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October 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM

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_Mostly_Ghostly_

@mostlyghostly.bsky.social

Preacher from the Black Lagoon ✏️🥀⛪️🪦💀

October 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM

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Alen Blažeković

@alenblaekovi.bsky.social

For
@shubbabang.bsky.social 's stream of DOOM 2

October 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM

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Scott Joseph (VO Studio)

@scottjosephuk.bsky.social

I've been asked about doing another live stream. It's been a while so date TBA. To promote the awesome artwork in my #streamily shop, the wonderful @shade-of-stars.bsky.social is offering these pieces for me to sign, as I play #TheEmperor in #baldursgate3.

Which is your favourite?

#bg3 #fanart

An Illithid from the RPG game Baldur’s Gate 3 painted by artist Shade of Stars, entitled 'Emperor Throne'. The humanoid figure's face, though partly obscured under a long dark hood, is elongated and loosely resembles a squid (in that the lower part of the face comprises of four long tentacles that trail down into his lap and over his left hand that is resting on the arm of large wooden throne with intricate swirling carvings in it. The Illithid is sitting on the throne, left leg casually crossed over right , and he is looking at us with piercing purple eyes that almost glow. He is raising a golden goblet in his left hand. Both of his hands have three long fingers and a thumb, the nails of which are long, dark and finish in claw like points. The clothing on the Illithid is dark browny green suede or leather, with fine gold patterning, possibly embroidered on the top half. The Throne is up against a large grey stone wall that's in the background left.

This is a painting entitled 'Emperor with Us' by the artist 'Shade of Stars'. Two humanoid figures that are Illithids from the RPG game Baldur's Gate 3. Illithids have two arms and two legs but their skin tends to be a pale pinky grey, their heads are elongated with a slight rounded point at top back. On either side of the head, where ear would be, they have an exposed pink fleshy membrane. They have prominent brows and their eyes are piercing and tend to almost glow. The lower part of their face is dominated by four long prehensile tentacles making their head resemble a squid. They have three fingers and a thumb on each had and the nails are long, dark and drawn into a claw like point.

The male Illithid, The Emperor, in the picture is sitting on an ornately carved wooden throne with regal red crushed velvet cushioning.
He is wearing impressive spiky armour that's bloody red with grey ridges and fans out behind their head and shoulders. In his lap he is cradling a creature known as an Intellect Devourer, a brain shaped creature with narrow tentacles protruding from it, a line of spikes down its 'back' and it has four stumpy legs and clawed feet.

Standing to The Emperor's left is a female illithid, who is leaning against the throne and affectionately has one of her tentacles draped over part of The Emperor's armour. She is reaching towards the Intellect Devourer.

Behind the throne is a curtain drawn to the left. It's dark green purple and has intricate patterning on it. The curtain in part covers a grey stone wall that dominates the background in the right of the picture.

This is a painting entitled 'Tav and The Emperor' by the artist 'Shade of Stars'. Two humanoid figures dominate the scene. Tav, the one on the left ,is an ashen-skinned person with pointed ears and long blond hair that flows past their broad shoulders. They are wearing a blue short sleeved 'v' necked top that buttons up, under which is a white long-sleeved top. Their trousers are dark.

The figure on the right, The Emperor, is an Illithid from the RPG game Baldur's Gate 3. Illithids have two arms and two legs but their skin tends to be a pale pinky grey, their heads are elongated with a slight rounded point at top back. On either side of the head, where ear would be, they have an exposed pink fleshy membrane. They have prominent brows and their eyes are piercing and tend to almost glow. The lower part of their face is dominated by four long prehensile tentacles making their head resemble a squid. They have three fingers and a thumb on each had and the nails are long, dark and drawn into a claw like point. He is wearing impressive spiky armour that's blood-red with grey ridges and fans out behind his head and shoulders. The Emperor's torso is considerably broader in comparison to Tav and even though they are sitting he is much taller.

The pair are sitting on a simple wooden bench holding hands. The Emperor is also caressing the face of Tav with two of his long tentacles. To the left of the bench, protruding from the stoney ground are columns of translucent crystals.

In the background is a starry sky with low cloud on the horizon. The sky warmed slightly by what could be a sunset in the left of the picture. However, directly in front of this golden light is a transparent sphere, much like a large bubble, in which a humanoid figure is suspended and held captive by pinks bolts of electrical energy that bind the figure's wrists. The bubble is in the gaping mouth of a skull that has rows of pointed teeth.

September 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM

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ShortCake_Cafe🆖

@shortcakecafe.newgrounds.com

If anyone is struggling to get onto Newgrounds today, that's because there's an ongoing DDoS attack happening.

September 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM

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Kingfisher & Wombat

@tkingfisher.com

Oh god, someone on a thread invoked “Light of the World” aka the Piss Christ and I am really tired and just got off a plane but my impassioned screed on it was on Twitter and as some of you know, I have FEELINGS ON THIS TOPIC.

September 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM

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leon

@leyawn.bsky.social

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

September 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM