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macchiavato | comms open @macchiavato.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Made an Azem April prompt list after all ദ്ദി ˙ᗜ˙ )✧ Feel free to interpret however you like. Rules: have fun, no pressure to do every day or finish in time. #azemapril | #ffxiv | #ffxivart | #gposers

AZEM APRIL 2026
WEEK 1
1.Name 2.Soul 3.Mask 4.Glam 5.Glyph 6.Shards 7.Job

WEEK 2
8.Convocation 9.Mentor 10.Friendship 11.Familiar
12.Travel 13.Return 14.Amaurot

WEEK 3
15.Weapons/Tools 16.Duty 17.Guidance 18.Home 19.Conflict 20.Magic 21.Concept

WEEK 4
22.Comfort 23.Freedom 24.Love 25.Risk 26.Death 27.Legacy 28.Memory

FINAL DAYS
29.Horizon 30.Zodiark

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🌻 Andrea | EnvYami 🌻 @envyami.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Echoes of the past [ #ffxiv | #ffxivart | #emet-selch | #envyami ]

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FFXIV Reddit @redditffxiv.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

"My Haurchefant Greystone Cosplay" by berserkernobody redd.it/1pgdu15

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Cleared Futures Rewritten for the first time ✨ #ffxiv | #gpose

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

DMs are open, and I can give you my Discord or something. Otherwise, that's it from me I think. Shit happens, and it is what it is.

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I just want to be away from it. It's not worth the mental anguish. I'm going to gut my followers, so if I unfollow you, please don't take it personal. I'm going to return to being my old reclusive self and recede back into the darkness. If for whatever reason you want to keep in touch, I think my-

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

was originally going to go back to Twitter, but... idk, Twitter is gunky still to me. I feel like bsky was fine at first, but just... at some point it just stopped being good. I have a feeling I know what the trigger is, but I'm also not going to sit here and psychoanalyze myself at this point-

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

feeling the need to have external validation in order to be considered "good enough". It's my problem, and nobody else's, and I ain't talking about it to try and expect strangers on the internet to fix me. It is just a fact of the matter. After a multi-year break, I decided to give bsky a try. I-

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

that would take about a months worth of time to complete, couple that with school... you get the idea). I eventually left Twitter due to issues with my mental health, seeing how the platform turned me into somebody who associated their self-worth with the numbers on posts. A chronic vice of mine is-

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

comes to trying to find a space that's habitable for artists. I tried out Twitter for a bit (before Musk bought it). It wasn't the worst, but it was still a pain in the ass. I felt like I was fighting an algorithm constantly, especially since I couldn't draw daily (I was working on art projects-

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The long ver. of it: I moved to bsky after being off of any major social media for 2-3 years. I wanted to try it out and try publicly posting my art and such again. Frankly, things haven't been the same since Deviantart died down. I've felt like I've been drifting aimlessly since then when it-

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

This is my final post on Bsky for the foreseeable future. A thread will be provided below, but the tl;dr is that I gave this place a fair shot, and it no longer makes me happy to be here. It's taking a negative toll on my mental health, and so I'll be letting this account go dormant.

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しわ（shiwa） @shiwa.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

FFXIV　レイクランド/始まりの湖 Lakeland/The Source

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Juke was born in the South Shroud, and actually lived there until after the calamity. After a... rather unfortunate and messy event she deals with, she's basically exiled from her home. It stings, but Juke also has never had an issue with being on the move constantly.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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Sev🌿 @knurrkitz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I miss the old deviantart community-feeling & how some folks went absolutely over the top with long kind comments on art, we need to bring that energy back man, fuck cringe culture, be free & gush to ppl about how much you love their work

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Ng Khai Hong 黄凯峰 Otakuthon 1818 @ngkhaihong.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

財布被ダメージ上昇 99 📉

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Sometimes I see those character inspo meme chart things and I realize that I don't really base my characters off of other characters. A lot of my inspo comes from music, emotions, theming, certain broad aesthetic categories... I just... Feel out of place in a way.

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Twelfth Art Fight Attack of the year for artfight.net/~HeartlessSp... #artfight2025 | #teamfossils

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

hoping i get get at least 3 more attacks done before art fight ends

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

re: last post- I love drawing big tiddied men, it is one of the few remaining things that brings me joy in life...

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Eleventh Art Fight Attack of the year for artfight.net/~ZarozAestoth #artfight2025 | #teamfossils

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

so many thoughts running around inside my head... can't quite get a grip on any of them...

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Deliink 🐬 @deliink.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

RIP Haurchefant, you would have loved Umamusume Pretty Derby

FF14's Haurchefant standing next to a chocobo with a helmet shaped like a horse head on

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Tenth Art Fight Attack of the year for artfight.net/~Swar- #artfight2025 | #teamfossils

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Finally got all the left side pieces I need from M6S. The less I need from that fight the better tbh.

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" well. i asked zenos yae galvus and he said "is it not pitiful to place your very existence onto a mere machine? is it not enough to search for the meaning of the dredges of your life through the spilled lifeblood of your enemy? you fucking fool."

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Ninth Art Fight Attack of the year for artfight.net/~demoness #artfight2025 | #teamfossils

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

cuz theoretically "more attacks = more visibility = increased likelihood somebody will revenge you". Or at least that's the logic I run with. Idk, I feel like this year and last year were both kinda bummers. Is what it is though, I guess.

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Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not to bitch, but Art Fight has been so dang slow this year. My close buddies haven't gotten many attacks from randoms and have been mostly just hitting each other when we can. Art Fight must really suck if you have no friends to do it with unless you can just crank out attacks constantly-

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