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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't think we appreciate enough how easy it is to use a mouse while holding a pencil in the same hand. Not only is it useful, but it's also such a goddamn aesthetic

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permutation @permutation.ink · 24/08/2026

Out today! Permutation: Issue One The best, weirdest science fiction from across the simcluster, free online. Maybe prophetic? We're making a new web home for scifi. 🪢6 short stories 🪢3 poems 🪢A book review? 🪢A puzzle?! 🪢479,001,600 manifestos permutation.ink/one 🧵

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Permutation: Issue One

A magazine of weird, forward-gazing writing.

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bigmsaxon @bigmsaxon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The cybermermaids return for #mermay 2026 - sneaking in just before the finish line again #mermaid #cyborg

Digital illustration of a cybernetic mermaid mother and daughter swimming together in the ocean. They both have long, pale, green-blonde hair and pale human-like upper faces with small metal horns. The rest of their bodies from the jaw-down consist of a skeletal arrangement of greenish-grey metal plates. The mother has long sharp teeth and flexible segmented arms with hands tipped in sharp claws. Her abdomen appears to be exposed sickly green organs and her fins are sharp blades. The daughter is similar in appearance but much smaller with teeth like a piranha. The daughter is playfully observing an ocean sunfish (mola mola) that is much smaller than her, while the mother watches.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Something I'd love to see studied but definitely hasn't been is how humans arrange themselves while waiting in groups in spaces. Empty rooms, tables but no chairs, tables and chairs, random objects, etc. I have a ton of meetings at work and watching the way people filter into rooms is fascinating

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River ( •̀ ω •́ )y ~Team Comedy! 🎭~ @riverhailed.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Artfight attack for Cellfish on Artfight and insta! #artfight #teamcomedy

A fish girl in a tooth like helmet with long braided hair.

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Chirs @aesungaia.neocities.org · 01/07/2026

Everyone's friend (1/3)

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River ( •̀ ω •́ )y ~Team Comedy! 🎭~ @riverhailed.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I needed more refs of Aeon and wowie zowie did you know intentional studying always works??? Im mad. #artfight #oc

Aeon on a swing surrounded by glittering stars and clouds. There is a water color quality to it.

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JP Bergamo @jpnichts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Had to make some queer versions for pride

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The thing is, it's not really the map that Jerry has designed here. Not quite. Instead, his art has been directed by a magnificent deck of cards of his own creation, filled with different rules that he's constantly tweaking and updating.

Jerry's deck of cards, with the top card reading "Make 3 photo blanks" and "Add 1 card".

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

shieldman.itch.io/talentless-h... made a thing for #manifestojam2026. i have no idea what my ideology is, but hopefully this sheds some light on it.

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talentless hack manifesto by shieldman

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River ( •̀ ω •́ )y ~Team Comedy! 🎭~ @riverhailed.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

BIG night for the mentally ill. Who else is excited? #tadc

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River ( •̀ ω •́ )y ~Team Comedy! 🎭~ @riverhailed.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Just realized I never shared any of my Emmrich art here!! Woah #dragonage #emmrichvolkarin

Dragon age Emmerich Volkarin studies over a weird green wisp

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The chipmunks, too, are visited by angels: spirits which share their morphology, except that they have millions of cheeks, stuffed with millions of seeds. Cheeks like undulations of divine fire, tiling reality

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Yet another new project lol. This time it's a monster tamer that takes place inside a giant evil tower that's locked in time stasis. Here's some of the NPCs, the Architect and Codicier.

The Codicier. She is a short, rotund, mouse-like creature in a green hempen robe. Her mouse tail is visible from under the hem of her robe. She is wearing a large, repeatedly mended witch hat, as well as an overstuffed leather backpack. Her expression is comically worried.

The Architect. A tall, lanky figure made of blue stone, with chipped and square facial features. He is wearing a colorful red and tan robe reminiscent of a priest's gown, and has a key on a golden chain around his neck.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I keep a little starch under my pillow for the starch mannnn In case he corns to town

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

my early work as a 6 year-old went hard

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

this plastic bowl is styled to look like a ming china bowl which makes me want to make certamics styled like plastic containers

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Hey all! My partner is hosting a #gamejam based around games like Zoo Tycoon! 🦒 It's running from tomorrow until May 13th, so if you like animals or game dev (or animal game dev), you should totally come check it out and participate! itch.io/jam/lets-go-...

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Let's Go To The Zoo Jam!!

A game jam from 2026-04-13 to 2026-05-14 hosted by Echinobeast. This is my first game jam!! I've thought about hosting for awhile and decided to bite the bullet and finally put one together! Gone are ...

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Lexically, parentheses and quotation marks are super interesting. Very few written symbols depend on another symbol later in the script to provide meaning. I think more conlangs should use contextually defined symbols like that, even just for standard sound glyphs

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My experience with Highguard: I wanted to try it out before it shut down. So, I downloaded it, booted it up... and then spent twenty minutes troubleshooting so many errors that I gave up. Man, I *like* hero shooters and wanted to give it a fair shake, but it literally didn't even let me. RIP.

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🧝‍♀️ Roguelike Bot 🧌 @roguelikebot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

A ancient skeleton approaches you and says, 'I'm so tired'.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

making video games is so hard lol

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ZeroSSOX @zerossox.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Was recently reminded I made this, it was inspired by @maxoke.bsky.social classic Metwoman, that made me wanna create a Metwoman .EXE #zerossoxart #MegamanBattleNetwork

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Another Elenora piece before the end of the year - or should I say, El, Leah, and Nora! [ #oc #mythoverse ]

A digital drawing of Elenora divided into her three sister components, each head with a different expression. The main body's hands are painting a miniature. Leah, the head on the left, is saying "C'monnn, El. You've had the hands for, like, a bajillion years." El, the middle head, is focused and saying "It's been forty-five minutes, Leah. You'll get your turn next." Nora, the head on the right, is asleep.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

been a hot second since i've drawn At All, so here's some Elenora before the year of the snake ends [ #oc #mythoverse ]

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/11/2025

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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ATG/でがらし @tg-marlo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

エグゼ2クリア記念rkgk

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Some more of my OCs! A group of sillies that are best friends despite their differences. From left to right: Miki, a chef and the heart of the group Hayley, the American exchange student Pirona, a quiet and shy clown girl Meiru, a sci-fi loving cosplay dweeb

A lineup of four character designs. First is Miki, a short girl wearing a chef's jacket and a blue beret with short brown hair. Second is Hayley, a taller cowgirl wearing a stetson hat, red bandana around her neck, and traditional cowboy garb. Next is Pirona, a tiny girl with bright pink curly hair and red/blue heterochromia, wearing a colorful spotted clown outfit. Last is Meiru, a towering tall girl who is poorly cosplaying a robot.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Robot bartender named Cask Manager

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Elenora comic! I've always loved comics, so I want to get back into drawing them. This is a quick one-page test for a sort of warm-up while I tinker with something long-form. Meet Elenora's friends: Hattie the flatwoods monster, Cameron the bat boy, and Kelly the (???)! [ #oc #mythoverse ]

A digitally drawn comic. Hoo boy, transcribing a comic. Here we go:
Panel 1: A short, antlike character wearing a green and yellow striped shirt (Hattie) is yelling "ELENORA!" which is colored alternating green and purple.
Panel 2: A tall panel that shows Elenora laying on a couch in the distance. She is saying "what." in a much smaller speech bubble.
Panel 3: Hattie is standing still, her hand retracted, saying "...".
Panel 4: Hattie is squished down with a sarcastic expression, saying "Sword-man takes no skill."
Panel 5: Elenora extends her snake-neck rapidly (with a "ZIIIIIP!" onomatopoeia) and gets in Hattie's face. Hattie looks very shocked. Elenora says "The fuck you say?"
Panel 6: Hattie gets back in Elenora's face, squishing Elenora's neck back like an accordion. Hattie says "I said, is wake-up into unblockable super too hard for you?"
Panel 7: The two get into a shouting match with each other. Elenora yells "WHAT-- You can do that, like, once a match! It's better than B-reversing Heavy Spin until the heat death of the universe!" to which Hattie replies, "Oh, you leave Kensu OUT of this."
Panel 8: A wide-angle shot from another part of the room. On the left is a continuation of the shouting match: "I'll fucking kill you!" "Do it, COWARD!" "I ain't scared of going back to JAIL!" "At least stay there this time!" "Goddamn ant!" "Stupid snake!" On the right, Cameron (a guy with tan skin, silver/red hair, and bat ears) sips from a mug as he talks to Kelly (a human with long blonde hair and a purple sweater). Kelly says "Goodness gracious. How do you deal with them going at it like this all the time?" to which Cameron responds, "You kidding? I don't even need Netflix."

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

IT'S STILL #YEAROFTHESNAKE, BABY! Elenora is a fusion of three gorgon sisters, and splits up under stress: El, oldest and most level-headed (also a huge bookworm and nerd); Nora, a meathead jock with a short temper; and Lea, the youngest, silliest, and most social of the three. [ #oc #mythoverse ]

A cartoonish drawing of a three-headed snake woman. Each head has one large golden eye and purple hair. The left head is snickering and has an amused expression. The middle head has an annoyed expression. The right head is shouting angrily at the other two. Their body has a baggy gray sweatshirt with the letters "MR" in red on it. The background is a blurred green and blue landscape.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

this is probably my favorite out of all the memes i drew for nonog. Twoj is the Stillborn God among its other titles, and I've just always wanted to do a loss edit [ #nonog #worldbuilding ]

A totally redrawn edit of the "loss.jpg" comic. In the first panel, Ononbit, a blue metallic creature, bursts into a mud hut. In the second panel, it receives directions from a slime creature. In the third panel, it confers with a lumpy green creature. In the fourth panel, instead of the laying-down miscarriage pose from the original, Ononbit finds Twoj, a viny and withered plant husk reclining casually with a speech bubble saying "Hey, how's it going?"

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

moooooore memes :3 I always feel like death is such a complex topic that there should be more than just one "dEaTh gOd" doing it all. Ghatura can see the spirits of the dead, but it's not a psychopomp or anything. [ #nonog #worldbuilding ]

A redrawn version of the Bonzi Buddy email meme comic. Panel 1: A small black cat-gremlin like creature lays on a couch next to an armoire, which has a mirror displaying a giant eye. The gremlin says "Oh Ghatura TM, I'm just feeling real low." Panel 2: A closeup of the eye in the mirror. The eye says "I CAN SEE THE SOUL OF YOUR DEAD WIFE". Panel 3: A middle distance shot of the gremlin. He lays in silent contemplation for a beat. Panel 4: The gremlin sits up, and we can now see a spirit version of the same creature he is. Both he and the spirit gremlin say "Oh shit, for real?"

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

It's my banner but I never actually posted it here! One of the wild encounters in the Shaped Lands is a samorah, a local morphovore. They tend to ignore little creatures like chimeras, as long as they don't look too... shapey. [ #nonog #fantasyart ]

A landscape illustration of a plains scene. The subject is a "samorah", a large orange creature shaped vaguely like a slide, with an eye at the top of its raised tail and another eye at the front of its two-tined "mouth". In front of it, a small orange and brown creature stares back at it. They are surrounded by sparse black and red trees. In the distance, purple mountains sit lazily on the horizon, with the sun hovering above them. The sun has two lenses floating around it, one black and one red.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

despite being considered a god of healing, buvpitap is simply the god of growth, and its ultimate plan is just to consume the entire world. the worldflesh is a remnant of its first attempt to do so [ #nonog #worldbuilding ]

A redrawn meme of the "Is this a pigeon?" format. The corpulent green god Buvpitap beholds a small muddy orb labeled "literally the entire planet". The meme is captioned "Is this food?"

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

more god memes. Buvpitap, the god of growth, constantly antagonizes Arkumain, the god of the hunt, lording it over them that no matter how much they hunt, life still wins.

A redrawn meme in the style of the meme where a boy is honking a trumpet at a girl covering her ears. On the left is Arkumain, a being made of sharp bone-white fragments, covering the spots where its ears would be. On the right is Buvpitap, a corpulent off-green creature with many lumpy heads, each of which is blowing a trumpet.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

man you can just post anything you want, huh? here's ononbit and chupilain, the craft-god siblings

Ononbit holds a leash that's around the shoulders of Chupilain. Ononbit is a tall, blue, filigreed robot entity, and Chupilain is a shorter green entity with a heavy, flat metal slab for a lower body.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Might as well post more critters from my #Nonog #ttrpg project. Here are some Iridini, mountain-born tanks made from crystal and stone. They can breathe beams of pure light like a dragon and have magnetized brains!

A lineart sketch of two angular, draconic creatures with diamond-shaped heads. The left one has broad shoulders with spines, sharp fingers, a dragon's tail and hooves. The right one is the same, but wearing a leather craftsman's apron and giant monocular goggle over its single diamond eye. It holds a strange tool.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

a lil gremlin from a project i'm workin' on

A black-and-white lineart sketch. A short-statured creature clad in bulky, top-heavy armor charges towards the viewer. It has horns, or possibly cat ears, simple features and pointed feet. It wields a sword that's longer than it is tall, and it seems to be screaming a battle cry.

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Hopi Kachina figures are so beautiful...

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Sparan arrives at the town-grave of Twoj, the Stillborn God. After a long and grueling journey through the Undying Steppe, it's little comfort to see the Divine Corpse, but hopefully she can still get a hot meal and a proper bed in this morbid place. [ #oc #nonog ]

A massive, wrinkled plant looms over a misty town. In the foreground, a small, orange, four-armed figure wearing red clothes looks up at the plant in the distance. The top of the plant is a withered seed pod that glows green from within and is surrounded by a glowing gold halo. It has long thorny vines that snake all around the town. Black ichor bleeds out of the seed pod and from other cuts along its stalk. In the streets, purple-clad figures mill about.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

If you see this, post a smiling OC!

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 31/03/2025

Art is Not a Service Industry - www.patreon.com/posts/column... Our audience felt this column was too important to be behind a paywall, so here's a new piece from @darrenmooney.bsky.social

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dotplus @dotplus.moe · 15/03/2025

Kasane Teto ❤️ 🥖 🎵 Song Used: LamazeP - Fukkireta #lowpoly #b3d #teto

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