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smilingBlacksmith

@smilingblacksmith.bsky.social
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Artist who swears worse than a sailor Expect talks about #art , some photos, & some #VRchat / #VRC world talk. Maybe drawings I'll likely use this spot to #vent too, just a heads up

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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
My boy is lamenting going back to work after three months of zero rest, even through his break month, and I've been trying to stay bright for him but like...man. I don't want him to go either. At all. More than usual
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Physically I'm the heaviest I've ever been and also the weakest. It's not really working for me But, I recently learned that my boy finds my gut EXTREMELY hot and I have never felt more attractive in my entire life With my goals, I can absolutely make both of these things work at the same time
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I figured it out I am so smart (I have no idea what I did)
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My BF wants to use VRchat more, especially with the distance from current circumstances, & I'm trying to get space mover stuff in OVR to work & oh god How the hell did I do this before?💦 It looks so straight forward & the nothing happens. I'm not technologically smart enough for this Q_Q
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Came to a realization: So I have two accounts. One's a pseudo-business account, the other is this purely personal one I write a post and think, "Is this more appropriate for the personal over the one where I gotta mind face a bit?" (1/4 🧵)
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Posted 3 hours ago by @paulkenton.bsky.social "One of my favorites. Beginning with splashes and poured tones, the work develops into a more refined image while maintaining its inherent randomness and energy. 🗽🎨 #art #painting #artist #artistsoninstagram #newyork" IG acct: @paulkenton Paul Kenton
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 02/06/2026
I know BTS is universally considered the acronym for the Kpop band but it will always mean blue tongued skink to me
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Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Backrooms is what you get when you deny an entire generation or more access to third spaces
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
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Dylan Wilbanks is not a Halloween person @dylanw.social · 01/06/2026
Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE
DS9 scene: Kor, a Klingon, greets Dax as Curzon. Dax corrects him as the host is now in Jadzia, a Trill female. Cor immediately responds, "Jadzia, my beloved old friend" without missing a beat. 

Right: Two tweets from 2019: "This Pride Month, never forget that Klingons had trans rights"; "No hostility, no confusion, no clumsy excuse-filled justification, just a quick self-correction and the exact same amount of love and respect before and after. Cis allies: Be like Kor."
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The end result of the day-souring thing? Could have been way worse, last of the weapons have been removed, point has been made, and I got to do my main goal as someone used to these situations. (🧵1/6)
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
My boy is sending me pictures of little parrots at a pet store hes wandering through to help me feel better before I have to go do this shitty thing in a little under 2 hours I love him so much. He's been out to sea these past 2 months (sailor) and things went to shit the morning he left
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
And like clockwork, I have a moment that's really, really good and I feel good again and not even 24 hours later something that hits just as hard in all bad ways happens to take me out again Clockwork
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Things are still hard, but I've been finding ways to make living with the whole of my chest easier. I have my loved ones to thank for that as well as deciding enough is enough with being generous to those who don't realize the damage they are doing
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I wish you hadn't confessed to me while I was taking a break from relationships and had grown so jaded to confessions. I wish I stopped and gave it some thought. I wish I said yes to at least try and see how it went.
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A thought just dawned on me as I draw this vent piece to process grief. I am boiling in an anger I am fighting to keep down
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I'm trying really hard to be brave today. Really fucking hard I'm done hiding from this person because they can't handle someone having their own grief. I'm tired of them forcefully crawling into my grief and making it their own, all while demanding people respect their space and their grief
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Word just came out in very thoroughly recorded detail that someone I got nothing but rancid vibes from has just been exposed as someone who is rancid. What I find to be very tragic is its in the exact way I got from the vibes she gave off to me since learning about her 3 years ago I hope she hurts.
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Haven't been online much these past few days, mainly not connected to everyone/thing constantly, & I feel tired but in a good way. Like I'm actually restin I still spent the weekend at home, mainly indoors, but I'd like to spend 'em with silenced notifs more often. My head feels like it can breathe
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I'm not sleepy. My boyfriend's home and in bed and I want to lay down and cuddle with him, but I'm not tired. Not in the way I need to be to sleep I'm gonna lay in the living room in the dark and watch YouTube till sleep finally catches up to me. Just...wait it out, I guess
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Bradlee101 @bradlee101.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
World name: The Quiet She Left Behind By: FlowersRite花之祭P Platform: PC #VRChat #VRChat_world紹介
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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno
small pert bird perches on wire fencing, black eye and bill, with feathers in shades of blue, purple, yellow & orange
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
It's jarring being in a huge community full of people who have similar learning disabilities and mental disorders and, while you also have disabilities and disorders, yours are not at all the same as theirs. In fact, theirs more often than not actively harms you #vent
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I miss having an app specifically designed for venting. I've been trying to find a replacement, but I found nothing as communal as what I'm missing I don't actually want to yell into an empty void. I want the opportunity for input. It helped me a lot in figuring out what to do about things [...]
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It's been five months and for every day of it, all I can think about is how one person left with half of your belongings and I left with $4 math rocks, and I'm supposed to find ease in having a throwaway item to remember you by. I wanted a single accessory I could keep with me and I get cheap dice.
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I just got myself to finally stop reading updates from this morning on how a callout post for someone that treated me and many others horrendously for years is going, only for Facebook to shoot me a friend recommendation of sometime dear to me who passed in November as SOON as I close Discord
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onion person @junlper.beer · 18/04/2025
went here and everyone knew you
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Another morn where grief has me by the throat, but I'm finding great solace in that not only did he finally try singing, but it's recorded. I have access to one of those recordings and it's a song that's very Him It all still hurts immensely, but things like this help a lot
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Me: "I'm learning so much about how Unity works by experimenting with free VRC assets. I think I'm really starting to understand what I'm doing!" Also me: "I don't know where the fuck the PhysBonesLogic child is and after a single attempt to find it I do not care to anymore."
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I'm having a BLAST messing with my Draconian avatar for #VRchat and learning how to customize it more in Unity, plus learning how to optimize him, but now I'm running into a funny problem Where in blazes do people find clothes
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It's just now hitting me that it's been nonstop slam after slam of massive personal thing going to shit one after another for the past five months -- & by "hitting me" I mean the high from a great end to January has worn off & WOW I'm close to burnout. I have gotten almost zero rest this entire time
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It's very jarring when you feel odd for a whole day, then as SOON you step in your bedroom there's a distinct feeling that takes over that wasn't there before: Feeling safe I forget I have like...actual trauma with people sometimes
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Been feeling bad since a passing thought I don't even recall triggered me so bad last night that I couldn't leave the bathroom for ~20 min, but I gotta work live on stream soon, so I opened VRC to find a spot to lay down & breathe I get everything ready and the servers go down o(-( The timing, man
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
.... WHAT AM I DOING AT A PARTNER PARTY. I DON'T KNOW ANYONE HERE OR ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT. FUCK
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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
i avoid commenting on celebrity passings due to the parasociality of the thing but David Lynch was an artist’s artist and a reminder to never explain yourself (when you don’t want to). one of the greatest filmmakers to ever do it.
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
54k/2m, top 2.5% overall. Top 6% of my channel type. Started last March, been gone for 4 months with a brief break in the middle, am 3 shows in after that break I know this isn't gonna make sense to anyone reading this, but I want to mark this for myself. I want this #milestone here for myself
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BOO-lie @MCM G-05 @bailierosenlund.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I haven’t stopped thinking about Road Warrior 🌹✨ #art
Black and white sketches of Wez and The Golden Youth from Mad Max Road Warrior
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I don't know how long this will last, but if it can help financially long enough to take care of debts so I can get the help I need, then it's good I'm used to things being temporary. It's sad, but at this point I'd rather stand braced for a while longer than have the rug pulled and hit the floor
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 16/01/2025
You got it
My infamous art of Star Trek’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard making out with Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. * RIP David Lynch
People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

—David Lynch
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The past 12 hours have been a very harsh reminder of how much the support of my loved ones is getting me through everything happening in my personal life right now
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
My job having me on the computer a lot, at home, means I can't be in calls with friends while I work or else I look like I'm slacking off and doing nothing to my housemates Guess I'm back to having to finish work while no one's home while the time they come home is always an uncertain variable
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If you can leave facebook, instagram, and threads that's great, but a lot of non-profits and indie creators have no choice but to stay for promotion and fundraising. Just try to remember that when making grand declarations of disgust and condemnation aimed at everyone who keeps using meta. 🧵
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is the first time I've had a space completely to myself alone and I immediately broke down in sobbing and screamed. All I have left of him is dice. I know what to do from here and I know I don't have to bear this torch alone, but we shouldn't have to bear it at all. Not without him. #vent
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/01/2025
everything is pretty bad and it's going to get worse and I think we need to remember to give ourselves license to post about silly things too losing our minds to despair isn't going to do any of us any good
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Theo @notidee.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Worm off a string
Worm on a string painting except it has eight legs and a big toothy grin
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smilingBlacksmith @smilingblacksmith.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
It's not leaving the urn behind, or the fact that I didn't really choose anything of his to bring home with me. That's the closest I got to seeing him in ten years. That's what I'm leaving behind. That's what hurts. #vent
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