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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This week on #RunawaytotheStars: A tapetum lucidum is a kind of mirror. Catch up: runawaytothestars.com Read ahead: patreon.com/jayrockin

Talita finishes packing the cart in the puddle of light by the apartment building's front entrance, then is startled by a movement to her left. Emerging from the darkness between the two buildings are four large shadows, with 7 eerie eyes flashing the artificial light back towards her. It's Verengt and 3 other centaurs, all barely visible silhouettes. One of them points their trunk to the matriarch and whispers something, causing them to take notice of Talita. Talita looks back at them, apprehensive. Her own pupils reflect the light too, the uneven angle causing one to glow, and the other to mostly remain dark. Verengt walks toward Talita out of the darkness, their body gaining detail as they slowly become illuminated by the door lights.

Verengt approaches Talita, who is hunched fearfully over the cart. Verengt: Talita. Good evening. Talita straightens up and nervously touches her neck. Verengt's trunk points up in a loose curl. Talita: H- hi Verengt! I need to apologize for earlier, I– Verengt: No, we should apologize. I believe we misinterpreted you. Do you speak human language with your face, as well as your trunk? They gesture with an open palm over their own face.

Talita: Oh! …Yes, I do! Verengt: Showing teeth means something very different to them, doesn't it? Talita: Humans pull their lips up and bare their teeth to show they're happy or friendly. She points at her face and pulls her lips back into a quick smile that mostly shows gums. Talita: I've lived with them so long that I do it habitually. Verengt: I see. I usually look for a trunk curl... They lift their trunk upwards in a relaxed curl. Verengt: Do humans not know what this means? Talita returns the curl, with a small closed-lip smile. Talita: No, they usually don’t. Verengt looks off thoughtfully. Verengt: They always seem so unfriendly to me, with their flat nose and teeth flashing as they speak. But I suppose that's just how they're built…

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max graves @maximumgraves.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

i have a bunch of medical appointments coming up and need money for transit/co-pay, so i'm doing doodle commissions again until july 25th. ko-fi.com/maximumgraves

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Clan culture, from an insider and outsider perspective. Bip is most talkative when they get to be an obnoxious know-it-all.

Honorarycassowary asked: Verengt, how did you become a matriarch?

Verengt: When my matriarch stopped growing their antlers, they already had a favorite in line to succeed them. It wasn’t me, of course. It was hot-headed Etwajnh, from their first litter. I was from a middle litter, disfigured, not the strongest, not the fattest… but I was probably the most ambitious. Etwajnh was never fond of me or my two littermates, and they became sharper to us after becoming matriarch. I could see we needed to leave soon of our own will, or we would be ousted in bad will. With my sireparent and birth matriarch's support, I proposed a split that would benefit all parties. Etwajnh sought a new trade agreement with the large Kivit clan, but their matriarch didn't much like Etwajnh. So I agreed to do the negotiation for them, and in exchange, me, my littermates, and my sireparent would leave with eight of the female tep. In the negotiation, I secured trade agreements for not only Etwajnh, but our new clan as well. They gifted us— the Gwailer clan— one male tep, and offered us one of their young workers as a founding male, to create a strong bond of good will between us. And that was the most nerve-wracking part! It's one thing to decide to proclaim yourself a matriarch, and quite another to be so critically examined by a row of beauties. In the end, it was decided Pay would go with me, and the other two males went with Etwajnh.

Rose.systems asked: Pay, Yaunda, Jachipt : how'd you end up in Verengt's entourage?

Pay: <I was their founding male, our marriage was arranged by my clan and Verengt's matriarch. I was nervous at the time, but despite our early material struggles I've been much luckier with Verengt than my siblings who ended up with Etwajnh.>

Yaunda: <I was the second... I was in a bachelor clan at the time. I had left my birth clan as they had too many children to feed, and poor marriage prospects with other clans. We had been making a living dancing for settled clans and nomadic camps, but I had always wanted to marry out eventually. My fellow bachelors called me crazy for choosing to go with such a poor clan, but what can I say... you two swept me off my feet!>

Jachipt: <My birth clan was horrible. My matriarch fought constantly with their siblings, and one eventually ousted them and began selling off us male workers to anyone asking... mostly female bandit clans. I ran away with a nomad caravan when I came of age, and was fortunate to find permanent companionship in the Gwailer clan.>

Yaunda: <We're happy to have you, Jachipt.>

Pay: <And look at us now! Our children eat well everyday, and we live more comfortably than any of our birth clans.>

$Anonymous asked: Bip, were you married in with the clan you piloted, if so, were you like, the favored worker? Bip: Oh, you must be one of those types who mostly know about centaurs from Wikipedia articles... No, I wasn't. I was friends with them. There was no point in codifying that with marriage because the clan only had 10 people, and I wasn't participating in sex with any of them. You know this pyramid is an extreme simplification, right? It's trying to apply to every clan structure at once by being vague. It works best to describe the large urban clans that alien embassies form next to, where strict boundaries like this are used to maintain control over a large worker group. But that worker group will still have a lot of internal stratification, and wildly different levels of authority. A retired matriarch is a "worker," but they have WAY more power than, say, unrelated workers forcibly acquired after clan warfare. MATRIARCH ENTOURAGE "WORKERS" ELDERS CHILDREN + RELATIVES MARRIED IN FORCED TO JOIN Image: The graph axis shows "authority" with most authority belonging to the matriarch, then the elders. Bip: Most small clans are just extended families, and clans of less related centaurs tend to have even more fluid relationships. Image: A family tree has a loose circle encompassing some members of three different generations. CLAN MATRIARCH ENTOURAGE Bip: The matriarch of the clan I housed, Ngilick, was the oldest female of a mixed sex group of partners, siblings, and friends. They were not planning on having kids at the time, although Ngilick had dibs on that as the female group leader. Pregnancy has a lot of cultural baggage and unplanned larvae tend to fracture clans, so having clear permission guidelines reduces emotional conflict. Organic sophonts often have strange mass neuroses about sex and reproduction like that... humans get upset about infidelity or "cheating" in the same way. It's interesting, but it makes me glad I'm not one of them...$

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Now that Almost Real's POP CULTURE issue is out on Kickstarter, I can share its cute yet vaguely horrible cover critter! A living gachapon toy bioengineered by scud aliens! It is derived from a large diatom-like organism that is parasitized and used as a house by a worm-like arthropoid.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 16/07/2026

abhorrent and disgusting. far more important an issue than the completely fake discourse about woke casting or whatever.

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🍒⚙️ @calicorallia.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

having a penis is kind of gap moe. girl your clit is so big

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BBart @bakedbananners.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

please give my regards #deltarune

[ID: art of kris dreemurr from deltarune. they are wearing their dark world outfit, left arm covered by a red cape and shining plate armor that reflects pink and gold light. they are wearing a crown of thorns with blood running down their face. they are holding a blue rose that obscures their mouth. the rose is dripping dark liquid. the background is sunset orange with twsting thorny vines and roses. end ID]

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bluzo @63choux.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

fairy chess is a game about coerced reverse lobotomization and chess games 🧚♟️ for the #toxicyurivnjam 2, made in collab with greenie and @alterlnx.bsky.social

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fairy chess. by ebicon, 63choux

You wish you'd never eaten that stupid thing.

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23noko @23noko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

bomb collar off! my vn for #toxicyurivnjam is done, i think. a game about inertia, memory and symbiosis. a lesbian couple wake up to find they are trapped a thousand metres below the sea 23noko.itch.io/ff500 ~13k words

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oscar | Angel Diaclasis out now! @pepperbloom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"my friend snowy" now runs in your browser! :] commenters have called it "miserable and terrifying," "gut-wrenching psychological horror," "DEEPLY uncomfortable," "fucking bleak and yet comic." let's all play with snowy. pepperbloom.itch.io/my-friend-sn... #toxicyurivnjam #pepperbloomdev

screencap from my visual novel, "my friend snowy." a cute cat robot is sitting in a dimly lit, comfortable bedroom. she says, "It's so nice to meet you. What's your name?"

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🔞Scheppen!🌦️🎶🌿 @scheppen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'm Your Nintendog and I'm Still Okay 🐾 Lil comic zine from 2022 🐕 🧵 1/4

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Berensreverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

when they post AI 'art' this is what I see btw

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BBart @bakedbananners.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

posting to bsky is a humbling experience

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 05/07/2026

I bought her the same cheap toy like 8 times and every time she instantly loses it and then starts yelling because she doesn't know where it is. Makes me wonder if she would have been happier if she never knew that Toy existed in the first place...

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anna, journalist, get woke or DEI trying @fakerobotgamer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

just to make it clear for everyone: the recently outed abuser ripperoni runs a very popular pronoun labeller you are probably using (I was until just now). i would HIGHLY recommend switching to a different pronoun labeller, this one is a good option:

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Bobby Schroeder @ponett.dog · 09/07/2026

toby waiting to patch in the dialogue about img_friend until after we've had two weeks to talk about the actual main character arcs and the themes of the story like a parent making sure their child finishes their dinner before they can have dessert

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

They canned Kristi Noem as part of a public relations stunt following Minnesota. But now another one of our neighbors is dead, another family is grieving, and another agent with a body count continues stalking our streets endangering us all: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/ice-has-ag...

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

ICE Has Again Taken The Life Of One Of Us

When will enough be enough?

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 09/07/2026

susie in ch 6: Kris, what is this, some kind of Angel's Egg (1985) ?!

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BBart @bakedbananners.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ok lesson learned never post from firefox on here for whatever reason

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BBart @bakedbananners.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

guess I should upload a couple of my deltarune comics here even though I hate being on more than 2 social medias uggrhhgrrgh

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S A M @comicnerdsam.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I don't like that room

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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Very happy that the Kimi wo Tsumugu PV has been released after such struggles, especially because the result is stunning. Tactility is a very fitting aspect to emphasize in the animation for a romantic story about zombies, inherently tied to physical decay & touch www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6gv...

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UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE @undertale.com · 18/06/2026

1 week until DELTARUNE Chapter 5! Are you ready!? (jumping around and spinning in place, jumping on your head, jumping on the bed, jumping around)

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qatar9 giggle block @mystigaron.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

chapter five in a week lets all hurt ourselves #deltarune #art

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sacred field 𓃖 @sacredfield.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Pretty guy (monkey edition), for my dear @6480.bsky.social

BW picture of a young monkey guy laying on a mat on the floor, reading. He's waiting for his severed arm to heal; around him, ancient thai books and two swords. He has macaque feet and a tail, and his name is Jirawat.

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BBart @bakedbananners.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Toby calling chapter 5 a fun one as if it isn’t going to be about Kris’ super divorced dad

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Zachary Morrison @paranatural.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🏰😼🪽 Paranatural UPDATE! www.paranatural.net/comic/chapte...

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 09/06/2026

Sorry to keep you waiting! DELTARUNE Chapter 5 will be released on June 24th at 11:00AM EDT. Here's the trailer if you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5y2...

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DELTARUNE – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026

YouTube video by Nintendo of America

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 11/06/2026

These guys are called FLORADINN. You can think of them like the “Rudinn” of Chapter 5. Their favorite thing is FLOWERS. They usually don’t get what’s going on, but they are chill and don’t care. I like these guys.

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

here's a very belated may experimental!

Digital illustration on vertical canvas
Theme: Fantasy / Dark fantasy / Experimental
Character: My OC Lubi, he/him, transmasc
#Artsky #QueerArt #TransArt #DarkFantasy #SwordAndSorcery

Because I had no time in May to work on the monthly experiment, I wanted to make something quick and simple, so this piece has a central composition, depicting an unshaded fullbody character against a (very edited) photo background.

The character is a transmasculine person, as seen by the scars on his chest. He is a sword & sorcery-style knight, wearing no shirt or pants, but only a chainmail loin cloth, ornate girdle, fringed boots, cape and a pig-nose helmet with a heart-shaped visor. There is a heart-shaped hole on his chest, and fire rising from a hole on top of his helmet. He is standing in a relaxed pose, holding his sword vertically across his shoulders. He is coloured nearly flat in two hues of light brownish-orange, accentuated with heavily textured lineart.

Behind him is a red fiery frame with a glowing effect.
The background is a heavily edited photo. The sky appears purple and does not hide pixellated particles caused by the editing. Below the sky is a dark green treeline, most details of which were erased. Lastly there is the grass, which took on a reddish hue.

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𝔏𝔬𝔟𝔬 ⛓️ @wolf-kin.com · 09/06/2026

always in my heart 🐇❤️

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gr.e-man @emanx3c.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

deltaruney

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gr.e-man @emanx3c.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

#ofthedevil #otdevil bluesky can have this too :)

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goomy 🌈 @goomyloid.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

My first original comic, AETERNUS, is now available to read for free. It's about a girl who wants to remove the flower growing from her eye; that's all. Definitely... ITCH: t.co/WiqzIt4yW2 KOFI: ko-fi.com/s/1e49cdd01d

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

the success of Backrooms means Hollywood now has no excuse but cowardice for refusing to produce a Groverhaus movie.

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