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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" 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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🥭MANGO - Comms Open @mgosketches.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Let's get into Halloween mood 🧙‍♀️

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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miss zuri خانم زوری @zalazuri.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

that cis look when the stakes register

"the look"
4-panel comic, ink and colored pencil, 9x11cm
panel 1: zala zuri, an iranian trans woman, is in a meeting with a cis white middle-aged doctor. the doctor asks, "anything else i can do as your interim primary care provider?" zuri answers, "yes, i'd like my estradiol prescription to be extended, in case the federal government bans it."
panel 2: the doctor looks at her with a jovial, disbelieving expression, exclaiming, "ha! you don't think--"
panel 3: a look of horrified realization creeps over the doctor's face, as he says falteringly, "they'd... really..."
panel 4: the doctor looks away, ashamed and worried

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dee 🌈 catra gender ✨ @owldee.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

yes, mickey quinn was the one to storyboard the love confession (and basically everything else catradora) in the finale too

instagram post from mickequ (mickey quinn, storyboard artist on spop) of a rough sketch that depicts adora having just transformed into she-ra, pulling her sword from catra’s chest as she holds her in her arms, in direct reference to utena. this would have taken place during “save the cat” (catra is in the outfit prime forces her to wear when he chips her, adora is transformed into her new s5 she-ra form)

the caption reads:
“Liked by gingerhazing and others
mickequ: i wanted to do a full on utena at one point Imaooo this was before anything was designed as you an tell by the.... everything. wanted cat prime to have a sleek ponytail but i was overruled (im glad tho Imao)
May 21, 2020”

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nige 'dear ratboy' @niall.codes · 20/06/2026

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

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⛓️Nye🐇 @nigelgraz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

(OC) Rapture

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Void Princess Caitlyn @sunset-queen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy pride gaymers

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🎆 oceaned min 🎆 @oceanminex.myatproto.social · 30/05/2026

Repost to scare Bluesky developers

Scott the Woz leaning on a TV that says “PORN” on it

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Spicymancer @spicymancer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

💛+🩷

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr 1. barely works 2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate) 3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

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Naolin Davis @naolindavis.art · 15/04/2026

Hey. :) Trans rights.

4 panel comic.
Panel 1: Naolin is writing something on a sign.
Panel 2: Naolin looks up to the viewer and stop writing.
Panel 3: Naolin puts the marker down and turns the sign around.
Panel 4: The panel says: "Respect my transhomies or I'm gonna identify as a fucking problem."

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 03/04/2026

yeah seriously everyone just block @pinknews.bsky.social. bluesky is a queer platform and they're anti-queer. they favourably platformed a politician who is forcibly detransitioning ppl and embedding conversion torture on the nhs. repost this. let's starve them of an audience.

screengrab showing pinknews are the 6th most blocked account today

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Maxie / judge not, fear not @maxx.tgirl.gay · 09/03/2026

How not to get panic attack after consciously switching to an alter that can handle specific shit, publish post

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Maxie / judge not, fear not @maxx.tgirl.gay · 27/11/2025

gods of IT forgive me, for I am writing out a idea for a novel during office hours, and it's gay

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ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

It’s so crazy being trans bc you spend so long wanting to just be DONE ALREADY and then one day you…are??? And the person you end up being is so familiar like you’ve been them all along?????

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herald @herald-trashboy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

coming back into the front like okay so we have a new pc, nice some of our internal restrictions got changed niiiiice mamdani won nyc very VERY nice america is formally a fascist nation with concentration camps well okay so there's room for improvement here

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Animal Flix @animalflix.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

(I'm fine, I've accepted my nature)

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 04/06/2025

"Transfeminism is the theory, Dorley Hall is the praxis"

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herald @herald-trashboy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I have nothing further to add to this actually I just want to contribute to the screenshot hellthread cos it's funny

@hell_doe says thinking about the girl who brought me coffee from Texas and joked that I would have to ration it out for special occasions. being alive is as special an occasion as it gets

mike hamilton quoted this and said "being alive is as special an occasion as it gets fundamentally altered my brain

oliver darkshire says: ten years as an antiquarian, hearing nothing but "my relative kept these untouched in a box their whole life but died, and I dont want this stuff" has radicalised me. annotate the books. use the china. wear the clothes until they wear out. your life should not be a museum.

daniel duk... says: "your life should not be a museum." "being alive is as special an occasion as it gets"

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ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Today is five years since the final season of She-Ra premiered, and I made you a comic to celebrate! imfineimfine.com/p/five-years

Adora and Catra sleeping with the caption "It gets all right to dream at night"

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Charmageddon @charmageddon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Highly ethical assisted feminization.

Image with bold red text:

“I'D LIKE TO GO ON RECORD
THAT I BELIEVE THE ENTIRE DORLEY PROGRAMME IS
MORALLY PRAISEWORTHY AND EVERYTHING THE SPONSORS DO IN THE COURSE OF THEIR DUTIES IS BOTH JUSTIFIED AND BLAMELESS.”

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

TRON LEGACY is such a beautiful pile of utter garbage. There is nothing resembling a coherent thought or a human emotion underneath its immaculate art direction, but who says there has to be?

media.tenor.com

a person in a futuristic suit is holding a glowing circle

ALT: a person in a futuristic suit is holding a glowing circle

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Maxie / judge not, fear not @maxx.tgirl.gay · 07/05/2025

Sisters of Dorley basement but it's an entire island. I might be cooking something here.

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Wolfy D. Lucca 🌑🐺 @spookalucca.tv · 20/04/2025

the 3g's of trans service dommes: gaslight: recontextualize dysphoric (brainworm) thoughts into affirming thoughts gatekeep: forbid self-harming behavioral patterns girlboss: give commands to further develop gender affirming skills and quests to have new experiences

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Emma @cursevictim.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Trans women are women (have anxiety and listen to true crime)

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A$AP Clocky🏴 🔯 🏳️‍⚧️ @amandak6647.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

It is 2005, people in my circle are arguing about what a lesbian is. It is 2015, people in my circle are arguing about what a lesbian is. It is 2025, people in my circle are arguing about what a lesbian is.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 16/04/2025

One thing I missed that Jess draws attention to is that the court very explicitly refers to pregnancy--that is, to gestational capacity--as the measure of womanhood, in order to exclude trans women from the category. Well. What else is there to say? There you go. Now we all know what a woman is.

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Maxie / judge not, fear not @maxx.tgirl.gay · 13/04/2025

Transition is the dignity we lost along the way ✨

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Hina ⛩️ @rasenkaikyo.etheirys.social · 08/04/2025

adobe deleted their post so this one's for posterity

Adobe.com posted:
👋 Hey, we're Adobe!
We're here to connect with the artists, designers, and storytellers who bring ideas to life.
What's fueling your creativity right now? 🎨 Drop a reply, tag a creator or share your latest work -- we'd love to see what inspires you!

* it is worth noting that they had 1.6k replies, 1k reposts including quotes, but only 50 likes.

Sena Bryer replied:
Not you. take CURSE OF RA 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆

* having out-liked/ratioed Adobe with 884 likes as of the screencap.

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jcc666 @jcc333.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

> You can take the boy out of the hacker, but you can’t take the hacker out of the girl *checks thread of people offering bug reports and networking advice* Checks out.

a-cis-man-reads-dorley.vercel.app

Welcome to Dudely House

A blog chronicling my journey reading through Dorley Hall

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Aria (Is Drafting) 🏳️‍🌈⚧️ @anariablooms.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Trans women are the most women of women: most of us are simultaneously taking the medicine that menopausal women take while also going through puberty, all in our twenties. mothermaidencronemaxing

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Ness 🟡⚪🟣⚫ @nesstheenby.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I'm too autistic for this shit call me when people aren't looking for gotchas and I can infodump in peace once again

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