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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A commission from @grambledeggs.bsky.social illustrating a scene from the #CienieVN story "Whispers in the Dark."

Tomasz huddled in the corner of a dark, dilapidated bunker, tearful from the experience of having been locked inside, comforted by Eliasz who has broken the door open to get him out.

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𝐵𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑜 𝓟𝓪𝓭𝓻𝓮 @bubbagummyeen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

OK. I've put this off long enough. I'm scheduling the surgery for the end of the month/ early August, whatever the orthopedist suggests. This gives me time to finish whats on my plate. But I'll need to raise funds for recovery time. So.. No obligations. Shares appreciated. gofund.me/e2e4e9960

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Donate to Arm Surgery Recovery Fund, organized by Kisle Burkett

Hey all, I go by Bubba among friends and acquaintances. Many of you may already know… Kisle Burkett needs your support for Arm Surgery Recovery Fund

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Not having gone into music professionally has the pleasant consequence that the question of where the industry is going has no existential relevance to me. I can't be "left behind" because I'm not participating in a competition to begin with.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 18/04/2026

The Free Speech Coalition is serious about starting an adult industry credit union. Part of this is being able to show regulators that enough people would use it, so please fill out this form if you're interested! (Yes, credit unions can issue credit cards!) www.freespeechcoalition.com/survey

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Credit Union Survey — Free Speech Coalition

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

When using multiple different ways of drawing lines in Inkscape (e.g. straight lines versus circular arcs versus function plots), is it possible to get the pieces to come together into proper vertices where the corners of the strokes for the separate line segments don't stick out?

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I've always felt that the upper three notes of the trombone chord are in too pedestrian a register for cellos for a voicing where each is covered by only half of them while all the basses have the bottom note to be satisfactory, especially since the chord tone of the bottom note is doubled.

A string section voicing of the chord B1, F#2, B2, D#3 where half the cellos play F#2 and D#2, the other half play B2, one double bass each plays F#2 and D#2, and the remaining basses play B1.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thank you for this blessing, modular sprites. #CienieVN

Eliasz from Cienie wearing overalls but no shirt.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

A divisi that starts for the purpose of differing pitches, contains for the sake of differing fingerings, and continues further for the sake of differing bowings.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I wish I knew of a staging of Strauss's Salome on record where the Dance of Seven Veils is actually compelling, not embarrassing, to watch. Someone do a staging where the singer swaps out for a professional dancer for that part like in the premiere, and let Matthew Bourne choreograph it.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Mahler's 6th symphony is frustratingly editorially sloppy, especially in the places that were revised. The top is the original and the bottom is the revision.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

@pantsmaster.bsky.social I guess he gets the full estim experience too. bsky.app/profile/kim-...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/10/2025

As spouse points out, this should literally be an ad for the DNC blacksky.community/profile/did:...

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

@hakirsch.bsky.social Hah, just recently I was trying to figure what exactly any of your handles were.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

@grrweasel.net I vaguely remember you (or possibly some other badger I know) having a piece of gear that was like a stylized metal badger paw. Was that a thing?

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𝐵𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑜 𝓟𝓪𝓭𝓻𝓮 @bubbagummyeen.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Doing a halfday on masks today so I can finish my last 2 art comms. Since mask sales are slow right now, offering up 4 spots on pin ups. Samples of 3 renders($175) and a cell ($150) shaded below. Absolutely DM if you have any Q's. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

These trumpet glissandos in Debussy's Jeux are such a strange touch. I usually think of glissandos on valved brass instruments as a crude, raucous effect, but these are supposed to be quiet, and embedded in a rhythm that requires precision.

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UNDER | HEAVEN @underheavenvn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Fuck it. In a moment of cosmic irony, the upcoming chapter 3 reckons with 'illegal art' and its profound importance. Given the circumstances, we're releasing it early. Please read the full statement here: www.patreon.com/posts/chapte...

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Chapter 3 Early Launch and The Current Situation | FaintlySpotted

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𝐵𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑜 𝓟𝓪𝓭𝓻𝓮 @bubbagummyeen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Commissioned by @felixarden.bsky.social of Vitally's character (unless I misunderstood) Denisovitch! Actually really enjoyed working on this and maximum credit to Vitally for doing the text layout, nailed it. I bet that's gotta have one hell of a centerfold.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I'm tired of the assertion that instruments should categorically strive to imitate the human voice. I'm mostly not that interested in vocal music, so treating it as some unsurpassable summit of musicality seems perverse.

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 31/05/2025

Ah! Fair enough, well then here you go- 😌

the doodle from above, but now it is missing the blue bodysuit

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

@codyvfrost.bsky.social FYI, when I go to the website where I.S.O. is hosted, I now get this warning.

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 09/05/2025

🖼️ It’s been a minute (well, a lot longer than that) since we posted a Fan Art Friday! Today we’re featuring art by Cartoonboingsfx on Tumblr & Grayson D. They captured Gehn’s affinity for… shall we say, contemplative combustion. 🔥

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

@shirokoi.bsky.social After seeing Hamish's flashback, I decided he needed a hug, and commissioned @ehudkurzweil.bsky.social to manifest one. You've drawn a couple such things in the time since then, but I think he can still use one more.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The idea of doubling the woodwinds in orchestral works by Brahms and the like when the string section is large bugs me from the perspective that the resulting woodwind voicings are probably not always what one would choose if one were writing for that number of woodwinds in the first place.

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UNDER | HEAVEN @underheavenvn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Defy the false sky. UNDER | HEAVEN chapter 1 is OUT NOW for free: faintlyspotted.itch.io/underheaven

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Strange how, while the English horn resolves its concert G downward, as expected for chordal 7ths, the French horns don't, leaving the English horn the only instrument in the whole orchestra playing a concert F in the resolution chord.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm curious where that chain leads.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

If having phase-aligned samples allows a virtual instrument to crossfade seamlessly between dynamic layers, I don't see why it can't also crossfade seamlessly between a point near the end of a sample to a point near the beginning of the same sample.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14/10/2024

And I think sometimes we overcorrect that into thinking that it's ignorant to believe in hope. I think people don't want to get caught out having said, "We can do this" and then having it not happen. But it's a lot less likely to happen if folks are too demoralized to try.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

I wish virtual instruments with scripted vibrato wouldn't program it to take a perceptible amount of time to fade it if they're not going to make the length of the fade-in adjustable.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

@stoatallynate.bsky.social Say, I see you've done commissions before? At a glance I don't see an indication of whether you're currently open, but I've been looking for someone who can do a good motorcycle.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Most recent of many attempts to get the cello countermelody and woodwind doublings to be elegant.

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‘stina is a spooky spectral one 👻🧛🧟‍♀️🐈‍⬛🦇🎃🧟 @stinapag.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

TEXANS!! The LAST day to register to vote for the November election is October 7. The registration form HAS TO BE IN THE CLERK'S HANDS on that date. There is rat-fuckery afoot in Texas and triple check your status here even if you've had no problems in the last few years:

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 12/09/2024

One of the few Twitter accounts I miss is MachinePix, run by Kane Hsieh. Here's a tribute, in honor of Bluesky getting video (and doing my part to test the servers). First: Twelve-legged walking "Carpentopod" table by Giliam de Carpentier www.decarpentier.nl/carpentopod

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C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

Bernie Sanders has introduced the Long COVID Research Moonshot Act, $10b in research funding for the condition, which currently has no FDA-approved treatments. Comparative work on similar conditions like Lyme, POTS/dysautonomia, ME/CFS and post-vac syndrome is included. Five Dems cosponsor.

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NEWS: Sanders Introduces Historic Moonshot Legislation to Address the Long COVID Crisis » Senator Bernie Sanders

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today introduced legislation to address the long COVID crisis that ...

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

It always feels a little weird when an artist I've always wanted to commission but whom I've never seen open for commissions posts a commission they did for someone. It's not that they don't have the right to take commissions without publicly saying so but...nonetheless.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

I would pay money for a second official album of ballads from Collier live concerts. Pulling from the concerts he's done since the first one, I think it would be possible to put together something where every track rises to a higher level of vocal polish than most of the tracks on the first one,

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

It irks me to see "large language models can't be intelligent because they're just algorithms" so often. As someone who believes that all phenomena amount to the laws of physics playing out, everything, including intelligence, is, if not technically an algorithm, something closely related to one.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Over the past few days I've encountered two different people asserting that flute vibrato doesn't entail a variation in pitch. I don't know why they would think so. It isn't true.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

An unfortunate property of art that is behind Patreon paywalls is that I can't (or at least feel that I shouldn't) share it with friends.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

When I do a web search for how to sing falsetto, I most get things about how to *improve* your falsetto. That doesn't help me, having never in my life managed to produce any falsetto in the first place.

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

I would have had a hard time figuring out the instrumentation of this from just listening. youtu.be/AAkBirX6Ht4?...

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

A French horn virtual instrument with a cuivré parameter would be nice. My current favorite horn virtual instrument never gets brassy, whether at the highest dynamics or under any other circumstances. I have another horn that has cuivré samples and non-cuivré samples, so it's all or nothing.

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Ralsei appreciation station @plaguedaemon.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

I’m opening commission slots, details here. Thanks everyone! plaguedaemonart.carrd.co

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Prices and contact information

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felixarden.bsky.social @felixarden.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

A nice property of muscle growth sequence art is that even if the final form is too much for my taste, there's usually a stage somewhere in the middle that's just right.

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