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Brandon S. Pilcher

@brandonpilcher.bsky.social
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Artist and author extraordinaire. On the autism spectrum, he/his/him. Interests include paleontology, anthropology, history, fantasy media, and strong action heroines.

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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 6h
I might benefit from White privilege in a way a non-autistic Black person wouldn't, but they in turn benefit would from non-autistic privilege. The truth is that we all benefit from one form of privilege or another, just as we all lack privilege in other ways.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 6h
Anyone else think black separatists, misandrists, etc. are kinda like those autistic people who think they're superior to non-autistics? They all hate people for being born into a group considered more privileged than them, which IMO is always cringe.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 8h
Scribbled out another story after work yesterday. This one is a fairytale-ish fantasy about a medieval peasant who finds a Moorish genie in a lamp that can grant him three wishes, and he has to keep her out of the hands of his oppressive lord. Word count is 3.6K as of this draft. #writing
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Let's hope you've rubbed this Moorish genie's lamp the right way! #moorish #genie #fantasy #african #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I don't know how much truth lies behind the medieval/early modern artistic stereotype of the Moors as being Black Africans in Islamic garb. I suspect most citizenns of al-Andalus were Muslim Spaniards. That said, Black people in "Moorish" getup, a la Skyrim's Redguard, IS a cool look.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
An Egyptian high priestess of Hathor wearing a (speculative) mask in honor of her goddess. I like the idea of Egyptians wearing ritual masks like people in other African cultures. #ancient #egyptian #kemet #african #art
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PALAEONAVIX @palaeonavix.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Cordaites, a conifer-like tree from the Permian #gymnosperm #paleobotany #palaeobotany #permian #plant #plantevolution #oilpainting #paleo #palaeo
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy Indigenous People's Day!
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Interesting. Though you'd think it would have occurred to their ancestors to use the animals' fur as well.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nude prehistoric woman throwing a spear sometime before 170,000 years ago, when modern human ancestors are thought to have first manufactured clothing (based on studies on the divergence of human head and body lice). #nsfw #nude #prehistoric #african #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Every winner has scars." --- Herbert Newton Casson #tyrannosaurusrex #dinosaur #prehistoric #paleoart #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
An Igbo beauty from Nigeria, in colored pencil. #nigerian #african #blackwoman #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
She should wear a big version of that brown Jurassic World T. rex costume.
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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Reposting this artwork I did last year reinterpreting the biblical story of Adam and Eve. I wanted them to look more or less like how the real earliest humans living in Africa ~300,000 years ago would have looked. #adamandeve #biblical #mythology #african #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
An Egyptian mummy figurine I made with modeling clay to be another custom-made ornament. #ancient #egyptian #african #mummy #ornament #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anyone else noticed the herd of wild elephants hanging around near Agrabah in the 2019 Disney's Aladdin remake? They appear to be the Asian species to me. I wonder if they are supposed to represent the Syrian elephants thought to have died out in ancient times?
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thanks! Only regret is that I didn't add a shield like Britannia is supposed to have.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Britannia, the female personification of Great Britain, as a Mesolithic shamaness. #british #unitedkingdom #mesolithic #prehistoric #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A tiny diorama I made using a clay Triceratops figurine I modeled and painted myself. From this angle, the curve of his eyelid makes him look kinda happy. #dinosaur #prehistoric #paleoart #diorama #claysculpture
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Triceratops's skull may not appear as flashy as those of some other ceratopsians, but the rear frill not having a pair of openings like almost all other ceratopsian skulls has always made the genus stand out to me. Makes you wonder why it evolved a more solid frill.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
People might have cringed at the Pooh's Adventures franchise. But, if I may give them a small amount of credit, none of those posters they produced were genAI. I just hope they haven't discovered that technology yet.
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J HELL P @jlp.systems · 08/10/2026
o rly? owl meme from a million years ago
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I wonder if @vivziepop.bsky.social has seen Primal? She seems to like dinosaurs as I recall.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Had a dream last night where Spear and Fang from Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal rescued an angel who fell from Hazbin Hotel's Heaven and fought Adam and Lute's Exorcists to bring her back home. And this is not the first time my brain has suggested a Primal/Hazbin Hotel crossover in dream mode.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Megalosaurus in colored pencil. #dinosaur #prehistoric #paleoart #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The more I hear about college fraternities, the more I wonder what the point of them even is. Do they have any purpose other than to produce the worst scum of society?
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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sketched a sauropod dinosaur while waiting at the doctor's office today. #Dinosaur #Paleoart #Sauropod #PleinAirPaleoart
Gray sketch pad with a scene of a sauropod dinosaur raising its tail with a pterosaur sitting on its tail, looking at one another. Background based on the view out of the doctor's office window. Drawn with black marker and mechanical pencil.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And it's done! #illustration #originalcharacters #ancient #biblical #nubian #jewish #arab #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*postdates, sorry.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know the date of this illustration predates the time period in which the scene it illustrates too place, but I wonder how accurately it portrays Ethiopian clothing at the time it was drawn?
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thumbnail sketch for another illustration for another recent story I drafted. This one takes place 10 years after "Arrows of High Noon" and is about my Kushite OC Alara looking for the secret treasure of king Solomon in the Galilean hills. #thumbnailsketch #originalcharacters #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In my spare time today, I drafted another new short story. It's a sequel to my earlier "Arrows at High Noon". It's about my Kushite adventurer Alara and his young Arab companion Ismail searching for the biblical King Solomon's hidden treasure in the Galilean countryside.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A moose hunt in Mesolithic Britain has gone awry! #mesolithic #prehistoric #british #moose #paleoart #artㅤㅤㅤㅤ
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reference sheet for these two characters. #referencesheet #conceptart #nubian #chinese #originalcharacters #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thumbnail sketch of a moose hunt in Mesolithic Britain having gone awry. Yes, moose used to live in the UK until Bronze Age times. #thumbnailsketch #moose #british #mesolithic #art
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the voices the voices ,
The one friend that needs to draw

I need to draw
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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 (Commissions OPEN) @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Happy 121st to the King of Kings: Tyrannosaurus rex! Artwork below by: - Patrick O'Brien - Aibou Tanaka - John Sibbick - Alex Ebel - Ely Kish - Piero Cozzaglio - Stephen R. Bissette - Steve Kirk - Mark Witton - Ted Rechlin
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is it not possible to de-radicalize (or de-propagandize) people on an individual level? And would it not be possible to scale that up to a nationwide level?
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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy 121st name day, Tyrannosaurus rex! You have been a professionally and creatively lucrative animal for me. 🦖
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Quick sketch of Tromerosaurus, the new tyrannosaurid from Canada. #dinosaur #prehistoric #paleoart #art
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And here's a reading on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHyF...
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Arrows at High Noon
YouTube video by Brandon Pilcher
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is amazing how, after being a progressive darling for almost two decades, Rowling ended up showing her true colors on mid-2010s Twitter and has soiled her own reputation since. It's like what happened with the YouTuber named illuminaughtii a few years ago.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In other news, the story to go with this illustration is now revised and ready to read! brandonpilchersart.com/2026/10/03/a...
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Arrows at High Noon | Brandon Pilcher's Creative Adventures
Two archers from opposite ends of the known world have a showdown in a dusty first-century Arabian town.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Definitely has those vibes, doesn't it?
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And my latest illustration, in which a Meroitic-era Kushite archer faces off against a Han Dynasty Chinese crossbowman, is done! #illustration #art #ancient #nubian #chinese #archery
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In other news, I've also scribbled another new short story to go with this upcoming illustration. It's shorter than the last one I did, so it should take less time to revise.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And the thumbnail sketch is done! To reiterate, it's a showdown between a Kushite archer and a Chinese crossbowman in an Arabian town sometime in the 1st century AD.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Started the thumbnail sketch for this illustration. The background still needs to be sketched, but I am picturing it as a dusty little town in the Arabian desert.
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Brandon S. Pilcher @brandonpilcher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I used to follow Peter on YouTube for his political video essays. IIRC, it was his fanatical "Bernie or Bust" takes that made me unsub.
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