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Annette (Random-storykeeper) @random-storykeeper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Education is a crucial part of a child's development to foster community, critical thinking and other essential skills. Majed Suleiman's campaign to rebuild a school in Gaza is ~$400 USD away from being fully funded. I have contributed a bit. Please consider doing the same. gofund.me/820443a13

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Donate to Building a School for Gaza’s Future, organized by Nikole Trusko

Donate to Help Rebuild Education for Children in Gaza My name is Majed S… Nikole Trusko needs your support for Building a School for Gaza’s Future

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

took some time to relax today and painted my girl #art #Swan

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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?

GDT:

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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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

taking storyboard revisionist contracts is great cuz it allows me more time to develop my own projects in my spare time but it also comes with the curse of apparently having my superiors assume that this is the first time I've ever worked for some reason

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Peter Cullen passing away hit me so hard. rest in peace to one of the kindest, gentlest, most inspiring people ever ❤️🕊

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Chris DeRose @scratchyderose.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Be Strong enough to be gentle.” Peter Cullen tells the story of how his brother inspired the voice he would use to play Optimus Prime. It’s a simple yet poignant quote that sums up why Optimus and Peter are so beloved. Til All Are One. 💔

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Rest in peace Peter Cullen, and I hope more and more of the world grows strong enough to be gentle like you

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Waggtoon (Commissions Open) @waggtoon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I wasn't a Transformers kid growing up, but I certainly was a Winnie the Pooh kid. As an avid viewer of "The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh" I was very familiar with Peter Cullen's take on Eeyore, a role which he added his own touch to while staying true what came before. He will be missed. RIP

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🍃 e d e n @edentimm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ole reliable (this is fanart)

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

and I make things, and she's made out of it (she's made out of it) #art

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I had a dream about the most beautiful girl in the world the other night #art #Lacy

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

three characters that have made me feel extra happy to be me over the past few years 🧡💛🤍🩵💙 happy pride!!!!! #art

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

having to tap out of the contract I thought was gonna keep me comfy for the next 8 months cuz the schedule was so unbelievably brutal I developed a repetitive strain injury on week 4

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Sygdom @sygdom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

i spent 20 minutes to edit this meme which is great proof of how im feeling rn #heatwave

The "statements dreamed by the utterly Deranged" meme edited to talk about the heatwave

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

art is hard bc sometimes it looks like drawing something nice and holding a beautiful finished product in three hours and sometimes it looks like two pages of incomprehensible thumbnails of essentially the same image that took you four hours to do in your effort to find the perfect composition

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

NO to AI Data Centres in Vancouver. Just signed the petition, and you can too c.org/h9fSbbh5fF

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Sign the Petition

STOP the Vancouver AI Data Centre from being built.

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🍃 e d e n @edentimm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

They're asking us to help forward the petition along to our local MLAs www.change.org/p/stop-the-v... I'm emailing my NDP MLA with their own website as proof - They are a waste of resources, harm communities, &increases dangerous climate impacts while destroying our environment

screenshot from BC NDP's website, stating clearly that their platform centers around protecting communities, not wasting resources, and not denying climate impacts

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

can't focus on work today cuz all I can think about is the sushi I had two days ago 😔

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aves 🌱 @aves.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

ppl who still commission their favourite artists even in this era where everyone is broke and genAI is being pushed on us at every opportunity—you are appreciated more than words can express!!!

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🎱 Kelly Pringle 🎱 @kellypringle.com · 01/06/2026

June rewards ✉️

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Cherise Chattoway @topsyturvy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Just an update: Guiterrez has stepped out of the Genai production stuff and cancelled the cartoon he was working on.

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I'm starting a new job tomorrow at a brand new studio where I know literally nobody and god I'm nervous lmao

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

practicing for a recital and waiting for the people galavanting down the street to stop making a racket

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

my period starting + it being warmer than 24 degrees is not a good combination for my mental health

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 22/04/2026

Rocky puppeteer James Ortiz is eligible for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars for 'Project Hail Mary' His performance qualifies under current Academy rules (via Variety)

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I had a free day yesterday and I basically just sat there lol

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Annette (Random-storykeeper) @random-storykeeper.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Promo art by @catnippackets.bsky.social. Here's a full view of it; I love it so much. 💜🎼

The promotional art for the Newgrounds Art-Inspired Music Contest. Light-coloured cursive text reads "Art Inspired Music 2026" with the bottom text reading "Volume 13". In between the top and bottom text lines, there is a stage where a conductor is leaning to the left, revealing part of a canvas with colourful music notes. He is holding a paintbrush with his right hand and a paint palette with his left. The paintbrush is held in the air as if to direct the performers.

There are 5 performers arranged in front of the conductor, arranged in step-like tiers. From left to right: a guitarist, synth player, violinist, singer and drum player. Light-coloured music notes on a staff weave through the players and conductor. There is a spotlight that shines on all of them with some curtains in the background.

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I didn't set out to romance him so I never got this dialogue in game but I saw it in a youtube video and I wish I could've officially had this so bad so I just drew it lol #art #bg3

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I started playing #bg3 in the evenings to relax while I dealt with the move, Astarion is my fave #art

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

started a new job at a new studio today wahoo!!

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

LOOK AT TODAY'S UPDATE OF MY WEBCOMIC IT'S FUN 8) www.thebackmaker.com/read/22-the-... #art #TheBackmaker

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

6. Understand the emotional goals for a page. "I need reader to feel scared along with Jimmy" vs "I need the reader to laugh at him being scared." I'll write those goals on a post-it as a way to remind myself what I'm aiming for. This helps when I have to steer towards a feeling via pure technique.

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I know it technically doesn't matter if the first page of your new sketchbook doesn't turn out well but also when it DOES turn out well it kind of feels like you passed the test that allows you to continue using it lol

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

good news everyone, I tried out my gouache set for the first time and nailed the first page of my new sketchbook #art #Moth

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skelehime @skelehime.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

At a recent zine fest, I circulated a little manifesto against using AI for protest flyers and wound up talking about AI with a bunch of folks. the most common sentiment I picked up was: "At least I only use it for this, not for that."

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🌙Selena 🐀🎃 @catnippackets.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

also I made a new Meet The Artist since the last time I did it was I think 3 years ago and I need an updated version #art

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