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blueviola.bsky.social

@blueviola.bsky.social
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Writer, artist, and all-around creative Queer to the bones (bi & nb, they/them pronouns preferred) Some flavour of neurodivergent Genre/trope subversive media ftw

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thaidoodles ☀️ @thaidoodles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Early days at hieheart's atelier - I just love thinking about a slightly younger jujy and dermined-to-be-a-good-master hieheart in their early days of jujy's apprenticeship #wha #witchhatatelier #Δ帽子 #thaidoodlesart
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Zoe Jay @zoejayw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
agott comic #witchhatatelier #Δ帽子
black and white screentone comic with pink accents. Agott frm witch hat atelier wanders through the halls of the tower of tomes. Her narration says: We finall made it to the Tower... I spent so long imagining what i'd do to get here... ...Yet I never dwelled much on what I may actually find. The Tower will only let you leave with the books that you truly need. But I'm not like Coco. What I need - Whatever it is I'm lacking as a witch - I've never fully understood. No matter. I'll let the Tower's magic guide me. Surely anyone worthy of becoming a librarian... ...must be able to manage at least that much.

*gasp*
[agott notices pink light coming from a doorway]

There! That way! I wonder... Just what sort of book is waiting for me?Close up shots of agott's hand grabbing a pink book off a full shelf. The next panel shows she is holding a copy of Nagata Kabi's My Lesbian Experience With loneliness. The final panel is a crudely drawn reaction of agott looking at the book with distress while she drops the lantern she was carrying.
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AdorkaStock @adorkastock.com · 15/07/2026
Tomorrow is the last day you can send in your DEJ gallery and claim your special prize! Don't miss out! www.adorkastock.com/draw-everyth... #DEJ2026 #DrawEverythingJune2026
Majority grey graphic that reads "pack alert! dynamic lighting. 25 images. $3+, ko-fi.com/adorkastock" and features a white woman with blue and red lighting cast onto her face.
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blueviola.bsky.social @blueviola.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I started so strong with #DrawEverythingJune2026 challenge, but fell off so quickly this year :_) Still! I managed to complete them by the end of week 1 of July. I felt some of them still needed refinement to even qualify as _sketches_, but that didn't happen, oh well :_) I'll try today. Or not.
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Divine Inspiration: A WHA Tarot Project @divinewhatarot.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
✶ FULL BUNDLE GIVEAWAY! ✶ We are hosting a GA FOR 1 FULL BUNDLE from now til July 4th! ✶ TO ENTER: Follow, Retweet, and Tag a Friend in the comments below! ✶ Please ensure your social’s DMs are open as you will have 24 hours to claim! #witchhatatelier
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WHACord | Δ帽子 @whacord.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
#WHACord please read.
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Divine Inspiration: A WHA Tarot Project @divinewhatarot.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
✶ Divine Inspiration: A WHA Tarot Project ✶ Qifrey calls on the cards for guidance ✨ ✶ PREORDERS OPEN FOR ONLY 3 MORE WEEKS! Get your deck soon! ✶ art by @malidesto (IG) and card back design by @AIzumi_Art (IG/TWT) ✶ divinewhatarot.bigcartel.com
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Loish @loish.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
this was a fun little process vid to put together.
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blueviola.bsky.social @blueviola.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Well that aged poorly didn't it :D
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WHACord | Δ帽子 @whacord.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
An update on #WHACord. bsky limits my powers.
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AdorkaStock @adorkastock.com · 06/06/2026
Oops it looks like an over enthusiastic DEJ pose went out this morning through email. It's Monday's pose hahaa whoops. Something's wrong in the cogs...
static.klipy.com
Time to Investigate Spy Meme
Alt: Time to Investigate Spy Meme
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blueviola.bsky.social @blueviola.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I had this brilliant idea late last night — to celebrate the start of #witchhatatelier anime, I drew this frame reminiscent of the manga style. I intend to gradually fill with chars/settings/situations from the most recent episodes :3 It did, however, need to have a brushbuddy from the get go #Δ帽子
an ornate rectangular frame featuring branches and leaves on the top and the bottom, two spiral elements at the bottom meeting in the middle. In the corners, small half-unrolled scrolls intersect it diagonally. Ornaments on the left and right side are reminiscent of magic signs from Witch Hat Atelier manga. A Brushbuddy is peeking down from the top right corner.
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🍆 @aubergrin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
#easwin with slight #orufrey
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Aisha ⊙⊝⊜⁷ 🟥⁸ - safe as life @aishaincolor.com · 31/01/2026
Hey folks! My partner was laid off recently and I don't have steady work, so this month's bills are a real concern right now. So I'm taking emergency commissions, all 26% OFF until the end of February. OCs and fanart are very welcome! Check out my rates below! aishacommissions.carrd.co
aishacommissions.carrd.co
AISHA'S COMMISSION RATES
Interested in a commission? Check my rates!
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 13/01/2026
Hey #PortfolioDay! Nice to see you again. My name is Aimee, and I'm a dark-beautiful #DarkArt freelance #illustrator. My current wishlist for projects is: 📚 Book covers and 🃏Trading/Playing card games, but I'm open to anything! 💼: AimeeCozza.com ✉️: aimee@aimeecozza.com
An oil painting of a foggy, monochrome forest with a singular man with glowing eyes standing in front of it. Before him are multiple shadows of wolves, their eyes glowing in the darkness as well.Drawing of R. Daneel Olivaw, cut in half down the center, revealing cybernetics on the right side. He is holding his hands out and standing like an Alex Grey Chapel of Sacred Mirrors artwork, the background radiating gold from his head.An illustration of a person from the chin down. They have both their arms around black wolves, which are asleep and cuddled against the person. Two more wolves are asleep and piled on top. The person and the animals are all smeared and smattered with blood, indicating they had a great meal together.Ten winged people in a baroque style drawing. There is one man in the middle with long dark hair grabbing another by his scalp and punching him in the side of the head, while the rest try to pry him off. Feathers and wings are flying everywhere.
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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨ @ansitru.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
It's giving Lisa Frank, but I also snuck in geraniums because they stand for stupidity 😌 #WIP #pixelart
A photo of an ipad showing a WIP  art piece with pixeled beads, and geranium flowers. The text in the middle reads "genAI is for losers".
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Sigi Stardust 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌒🌕🌘♾️ @sigistardust.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Comissions open! Will do your OCs, fan art, NSFW (vanilla and light kink/bdsm). Won't do likeness of actual people or animals, gore, suggestive art of underage characters, whitewashing or "curing" a disabled character Prices shown are for upwards of 3 characters with no background. Ask for add ons
Comissions sheet (6 drawings of a woman in different stages of completion): line art $30, black/white shaded $40, flat color $45, cel shaded color $50, soft shaded color $60, line less color $70
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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 09/01/2026
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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blueviola.bsky.social @blueviola.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I'd be the 2nd kind Unhinged shitposting ftw
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Happy 20th anniversary to "Samoyed and teddy bear" on Wikimedia Commons. "This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever." commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...
A white samoyed dog is sleeping in the lap of a large teddy bear, easily three times the size of the dog. The bear's paw is placed on the dog's back and its face is arranged looking down onto the dog.
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 26/12/2025
For new and returning users :D
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blueviola.bsky.social @blueviola.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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fannd ✧ comms waitlist @fannd.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
✨I put together a pack of wonderful LGBTQ+ artists open for commissions! ✨ Drop a comment here if you'd like to be added 🖤 go.bsky.app/Pr3CVHV
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Khonri 🫜🎃 @khonri.com · 25/12/2025
Helpful reference for doing it. It doesn't have to be lengthy, just enough for someone to get the jist in whatever situation they need alt text for. (Having your posts be readily searchable is SO HELPFUL.)
A primer on writing Alt Text, in five color-coded categories of things to include.
Green = Identify Who
Pink = Expression
Blue = Description
Yellow = Colour
Orange = Interesting Feature

The sample Alt Text here reads:
"A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa.
Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara's head."
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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
For better or (mostly) for worse, 2025 is almost over. For all the human creatives out there, artists, writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and so many more, thank you for your perseverance and courage. Happy to announce: ETCH (Ethnical Technology and Computing for Humanity), a nonprofit.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Good morning everyone, even Steve, who has just stumbled back from the pub and is pretending it’s “very early” rather than “very late.” He's currently talking to the toaster. I'm keeping out of it.
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blueviola.bsky.social @blueviola.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Please help, they're such good eggs Q_Q
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Rhazberriquartz @rhazberriquartz.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Tldr my aunt sold the property after being told we'd have time to move out & we were only given a month to leave. We need help to raise money if the worse happens & we end up homeless. This comes after a cancer battle & major surgery. We need a Christmas miracle. #fundraiser gofund.me/80669a629
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Donate to Support Jamie's Cancer Battle!, organized by Brianna Wainright
TLDR: Hi, my name is Brianna and my wife is suffering from Metastatic Squamous Cell C… Brianna Wainright needs your support for Support Jamie's Cancer Battle!
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Otters + Snow =
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ANGELS PUNKY HEART 🩻 🇨🇦 @angels-punkyheart.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Please help out @jeweltonejules.bsky.social ! www.gofundme.com/f/Cancer-Bat... www.tumblr.com/jeweltonejul...
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Donate to Support Jamie's Cancer Battle!, organized by Brianna Wainright
TLDR: Hi, my name is Brianna and my wife is suffering from Metastatic Squamous Cell C… Brianna Wainright needs your support for Support Jamie's Cancer Battle!
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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Lovely selection of goodies folks bought during my sale... which is still going on, just in case these entice you to check out what I've got.. www.loadofolbobbins.com 15% OFF full price goods with code SUPERSECONDS too, just saying 😉 #BirdArt #SciArt #Illustration #PigeonSky #ArtShop #NatureArt
A collection of items created and sold by Loadofolbobbins. Clockwise from top left an illustrated 100% organic cotton tea towel of a robin on perched on a branch with mistletoe, a laser cut wooden statement nekclace also  of a robin on perched on a branch with mistletoe, the berries are standing proud of the necklace which is in a lovely gift box, a shrink plastic brooch showing a pigeon cosplaying as princess leia, a pair of wooden pigeon stud earrings, a pair of wooden classic literature stud earrings inspired by Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. They show a small silhouette scene of Mr Rochester galloping towards Jane.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
For day 9 #spacetober_challenge nebula: Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life & career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, 🧵
My Linocut portrait of Caroline Herschel against a starry sky with comet and 5 inset diagrams of her observations
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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Friendly reminder Cautious reminder Annoyed reminder Furious reminder WAR DECLARED
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 07/10/2025
“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.” —Charles M. Blow, journalist and political analyst
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Eugenia Kelheor @kelheor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This year I want to try #Fantober instead of Inktober again! Starting with Maomao, because The Apothecary Diaries was the last anime I enjoyed this year ^^ #theapothecarydiaries #maomao #apothecarydiaries #kusuriyanohitorigoto #fanart #inktober #薬屋のひとりごと #イラスト
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Eugenia Kelheor @kelheor.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
My first girlfriend turned into the Moon... 🌙 Princess Yue is a perfect fit for this #Fantober day and Mid-Autumn Festival art 😌 #atla #avatarthelastairbender #princessyue #atlafanart #fanart #drawtober #midautumnfestival #中秋节 #inktober #avatar #イラスト
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ANGELS PUNKY HEART 🩻 🇨🇦 @angels-punkyheart.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The coolest demons come out during the fall y’know? ✨[ #art #oc #ocsky ]✨
Fall themed drawing of Segesta Atlas outdoors. Segesta smiles at a fire demon who has a head made of flames , as it sits cross-legged , staring up at Segesta with great interest. The overall colors are warm , with reds and yellows that fill in the autumn  colors.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I am going to solve all of my problems this way from now on.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025
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consumerreports.org
How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Engagement based search metrics be like: there is 1 match for the exact phrase "specific thing I want" and 99999999 matches for extremely approximate synonyms of each of those words, therefore the second interpretation is Better and the first must never be shown
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie. Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.
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blueviola.bsky.social @blueviola.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
#inktober2025 - a.k.a. the first #inktober I'm participating in ^_^ I'm trying to follow the official prompt list. That said, I'm also in a Discord server that's building this Inktober around portraiture, with each week focused on 1 specific skill. We started with notan (濃淡)/two-value studies.
A two-tone portrait of a man in stark lighting. Signed: Inktober 25 - 01.10.2025 "Mustache" - Blueviola
Fabriano Mixed Media A5 pad + black Koh-i-Noor drawing ink.A two-tone portrait of a woman using a loom. Signed: Inktober 25 - 02.10.2025 "Weave" - Blueviola.
NoName black paper (likely from Fabriano Pastel 200mg sheet) + white Koh-i-Noor ink + white Sakura jelly roll #10A two-tone portrait of a woman wearing spiky headwear resembling a crown. Signed: Signed: Inktober 25 - 03.10.2025 "Crown" - Blueviola
Chinese rice paper for calligraphy + Chinese ink calligraphy and painting ink (black)A two-tone portrait of a woman looking up, with dry irregular brushstrokes added on top. Signed: Inktober 25 - 04.10.2025 "Murky" - Blueviola
Chinese rice paper for calligraphy + Chinese calligraphy and painting ink (black)
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is an even bigger trend within programming, which explains why the tech right and the religious right have become fast friends.
[Cueball stands at a blackboard covered in equations and diagrams, an open laptop and scattered paper at his feet. His fists are balled in anger and there is a little angry squiggle over his head. A Cueball-like physicist stands behind him, arms out in a shrug.]
Physicist: You're trying to predict the behavior of <complicated system>? Just model it as a <simple object>, and then add some secondary terms to account for <complications I just thought of>.
Physicist: Easy, right?
Physicist: So, why does <your field> need a whole journal, anyway?
[Caption below the panel:]
Liberal-arts majors may be annoying sometimes, but there's nothing more obnoxious than a physicist first encountering a new subject.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The instinct of management is to blame those pesky workers rather than AI being shit, because the AI mandate comes from the bosses, and the first priority of management is to ensure compliance and mete out punishment. The failure of a project is in many ways a success for justifying a purge.
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 03/09/2025
It's that time again so: B&N members can pre-order my debut novel YEAR OF THE MER and get a 25% discount using code PREORDER25 thru 9/5. Adult, sapphic, mermaid-y, I go on a rant about Ariel (The Little Mermaid Who Lived) and Ursla gets the attn she deserves! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/year-of-th...
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김성일 Sung-il Kim @sung-il-kim.com · 05/08/2025
We use dead things to fuel everything from our body to airplanes, and I like think of it as necromancy, as I do of books whose creators have passed away. Our whole civilization is necromantic in how it powers itself and retains its identity. We don't just owe a lot to the dead; we are the dead.
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Sarah Forde 🌙🪡 @sailorastera.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
no one has asked for this but just in case it helps someone here's my approach to trying to use alt text as much as I can: - voice to text is my BFF! if I can just say the description its SO much faster/easier to do
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