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Advos @advosart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Time for school

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Alex Amsel @adotcorbin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ooooooohhhhhh stares at this with big beautiful eyes i Love This…

Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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US residents! Today is the LAST DAY you can help save the Roadless Rule by making a public comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS... This rule has always been popular amongst the public. No reason to take it away. Here's a video with more info: youtu.be/swlPatJw8m8?... #conservation

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Alex Amsel @adotcorbin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#adcbeastober day two: beach day! The humble beast is out on a jaunty surf, riding the waves. (Creature designed by Kasumi Oomine on Instagram)

A yellow sun beast with four legs stands on a poorly photoshopped in surf board. The beast has been edited to wear red swim trunks and has a smear of sunblock on its nose. It’s riding in the center of a wave curling into itself.

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literally only one i use yeah

#adcbeastober day 1: mall! here is the beast at the mall doing some shopping. (beast created by kasumi oomine on instagram)

A busy mall with wooden floors, white walls leading into stores, and a palm tree with seating in the center. People walk around holding bags. On the bottom right, the yellow sun beast by kasumi oomine stands. A brown shopping bag labeled “kasumi oomine” and a black crossbody bag have been poorly drawn in to show the beast shopping.

Welcome to my #adcbeastober thread! This is a thread of me poorly photoshopping this sun beast created by Kasumi Oomine (on insta) into various situations. I do not own the beast nor its design, I just love it and want to put it in fun situations. It should go without saying, but NO AI IS USED.

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AAAA have fun and good luck!!!!!

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Here is my personal/official prompt list for Drawtober. Everyone is welcome to use it however they like!

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aislen and lana are soooo cute omggg!!

daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Alex Amsel @adotcorbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i want to put my hands on his waist and squeeze soooo bad hes so handsome!!!

laney @saltmalk.in · 26/01/2026

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flight

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🌱Maxi @thetictactician.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

October commissions now open! 💗 🎨Watercolour pages: 3 slots 🎨Standard/ style: 2 slots (shared) 🎨Simple: 2 slots 🎃Halloween themed requests will get 10% off!👻❤️ Request forms, prices and info all found here! 🔗 linktr.ee/thetictactic... ℹ️ tictaccoms.carrd.co#styles

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Advos @advosart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Squishy

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Monofranko │ VGEN COMMS OPEN @monofrank.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

take your heart ˗ˋˏ ♡ ˎˊ˗ (here's something a bit unexpected from me) #persona #persona5 #joker #persona5fanart

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Alex Amsel @adotcorbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@aiphelix.bsky.social you have singlehandedly made me lowkey insane over edward elric again. i ADORE your art of him and how you draw him, and i love all the various ship art you make!! (i also really love your oc art, even if i don’t know their lore) once your comms are open its so over (for me)

jade✨ @say0ranarts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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sora & riku👑💜 #KingdomHearts

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swagvoid🌱 @swagvoid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

new cat dropped!!

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💫Nova🐾 🔜 It’s Spoopy Time 👻🎃🐈‍⬛ @nebulousneko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just a few days left on this poll for which new game I’ll be starting next! ☄️ Please feel free to cast your vote or even make some new suggestions on the post below! 🪐 Thank you for your interest and support as always! 🐾 www.tumblr.com/nebulousneko...

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💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 0 · 🔮 Next Main Game On Stream! 🔮 Starting the last week of September or whenever I finish the Genshin 7.1 Main Quest! I wanted to give a little more context for each of these game…

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Sae @crownedsaeraphim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Akaiye - OC

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

black cat collection 🌻🐈‍⬛🍂🐈‍⬛🎃🐈‍⬛💖🐈‍⬛

a painting of a black cat standing on a fence overgrown with vines, with a sunflower field behind it

Drawing of a black cat strolling through a colorful early autumn landscape

a painting of a black cat with big round eyes sitting in a pumpkin patch. in the background we can see a countryside landscape with fields and a small cottage. there are chickens in the grass nearby and a wheelbarrow filled with pumpkins with a black cat sleeping on them. there's also a black cat in front of the house door in the distance. the color palette is warm oranges, pinks, yellows and muted greens.

a small black cat sitting in a leafless tree back lit by the sunset

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026

Happy Baby Safety Month.

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765 Nanami @765nanami.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hi everyone! I worked on the art for the up coming steam game called Evomon! A pet raising pixel game where you capture and raise monsters of all different kinds of species! Do check it out!🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3824140/... Thank you @wulfstudio.bsky.social for this opportunity!🥹

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average Sakamoto enjoyer🐉🍙 @monkhazard.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The tags on this Tumblr post really sum up how I feel as a writer about the current state of fandom, and my increasing lack of motivation to write & share fics

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sunflowers 🌻🌻🌻

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arnaerr 🦭⭑｡ @arnaerr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Please share your feedback on how genAI destroys the livelihoods of artists on the official EU website. You can do so even if you're not an EU citizen. We have to be loud so the change will come, and practice shoes that voicing hatred towards genAI works ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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hypogryffin @hypogryffin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

microbangs haru 🤤🤤 #Persona5 #P5 #Persona

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/09/2026

hello my baby hello my honey hello darkness my old friend

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bemmpo @bemmpo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

animal crossing sticker dioramas 🍑🍊🍎🍒

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Hope @bladesandstars.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Someone posted the dimidue hopes supports which I had not seen and all I could think was this

Screenshot of an old tumblr post edited to say: finding out Dimitri was 23 years old when he became king was so crazy to me. he should've been at the farm

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Luci 🍎🌱 Chibi Comms @cinappses.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

[ 🍨 oc | #ocsky ] nia - old stray, apprehensively allowed inside

A digital drawing page of Nia, a shapeshifting creature who hops back and forth between animal and human form. His animal form has the long rounded ears of a rabbit, but the equally long and equally round tail of a cat. He has dark eyes, white fur with pink and brown spots, and a pink scarf. He is themed around neapolitan ice cream.
Nia's human form is a pale older gentleman who has vitiligo where the spots on his animal form's face would be. His greying brown hair, pulled back into a long ponytail by a ribbon reminiscent of his scarf, twists into soft serve-like drills.

A sketchbook page of Nia's creature form, featuring a few drawings from 2019 pasted in.

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Alex Amsel @adotcorbin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

WAAAAH RENATA IS SO CUTE !!!!!!!