Reposted by chocolate mousseCorey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Its kinda wild seeing corporate management just obliterating the gates that keep them relevant ; namely the assurance that customers are getting quality products made with all the resources and institutional knowledge a corporation entails 8583169
Reposted by chocolate mousseWhite Squirrel 📦 @whitesquirrel.com · 09/10/2026The company Kiru Made has been exploiting artists, and (before we knew that) we helped them with a convention shipment, and they’ve ignored the invoice and reminders for six months! Just shitty behavior all around, be sure to avoid them! 1302219
Reposted by chocolate mousselily hoang-zhu 🍊 @ little craft fest @liliuhms.com · 09/10/2026one of the biggest piece of advice i would pass on to young/new creatives is that not every opportunity that hits your inbox is necessarily one you should take - not every "collab" or partnership or job makes sense for you if it doesnt align w/ your personal ethos or community!! 131069
Reposted by chocolate mousseRipley - PNGTUBER ⚧️ @ripleyreplays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Wasn't having any luck falling asleep and then I realized why. I hadn't backed amazing artists and the books they are offering me like the amazing comic that is : Knights of the Wandering Castle by @lunydoobles.bsky.social www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...backerkit.comKnights of the Wandering Castle Vol 1-2: Graphic NovelVolumes 1 & 2 of LunyDoobles' webcomic makes its print debut with Ch. 1 newly remastered. Can chivalry withstand this cruel world? 13211
Reposted by chocolate mousseAranock @aranock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One thing that's been bothering me in the last couple days is I have never seen this level of "we should forgive and forget" "rehabilitation" for any woman doing anything perceived as or actually wrong no matter how small compared to literally having sexually assaulted someone. 31258259
Reposted by chocolate moussecait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026listen. sometimes the entire purpose of a woman's life is to be used and discarded in service of A Man learning a very special lesson 501871205
Reposted by chocolate mousseThe Onion @theonion.com · 03/10/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.comCornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The FutureITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri... 292805386
Reposted by chocolate mousseDemocrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Morning Kitten… And Joan. #Caturday 642209265
Reposted by chocolate mousseDani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous. 4437802634
Reposted by chocolate mousseDCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026CSP being pressed to take even just /kissing/ off their asset store and FA being told that plus sized characters are considered adult should be a giant waving red flag to folks. Sex workers have /always/ been right to say these policies never stop with 1 type of content. They always wanna ban more. 160503170
Reposted by chocolate mousseLandeg @landeg.world · 01/10/2026LRT if you are making comics then I think it is imperative that you read (any genre, fiction non fiction, etc) and nothing can replace this, but I also think it's important to watch things outside your genre. Play games you wouldn't otherwise. Watch old/overseas movies, documentaries, TV shows, etc 312537
Reposted by chocolate mousseHonkey Kong @henrygoeldner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the only non-negotiable for writing is you have to read. doesn't matter if you're writing comics, prose, screenplays. read. read books, articles, scripts, comics. fiction and non-fiction. read lots of 'em and never stop reading. 2782332
Reposted by chocolate mousseS ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏 ✦ KICKSTARTER!!! @sarenstone.com · 02/10/2026We have a launch date!!! Crowdfunding begins on Oct 5th! 🖤 www.kickstarter.com/projects/fol... 6774140
Reposted by chocolate mousseMeg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026With news of Tapas shutting down, I'd like to thank everyone who supports independent creators on Patreon or elsewhere. You are directly paying for hosting costs that keeps artists from relying on fickle platforms and keep art available for everyone to enjoy. 226663
Reposted by chocolate mousse🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Sooo apparently Tapas is getting shut down, and I haven't heard anything from them about it?? Gotta love how they treat their users.... Sorry we didn't make you billions in free labor, giant media conglomerate 🙄 finance.biggo.com/news/628901c...finance.biggo.comKakao Entertainment Shuts Down Tapas, the North American Webtoon Platform It Invested ₩1.1 Trillion In — Accelerating Business Integration — BigGo FinanceSouth Korea's Kakao Entertainment is shutting down Tapas, the North American webtoon platform it acquired in 2021 for approximately ₩1.1 trillion… 20531300
Reposted by chocolate mousseMerlin G.G 🌻🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ VisDev Artist @everydaymerlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026hi i'm merlin! it's not my bday but perhaps i could interest you in some brushes to support a trans guy and his 2 daughters (🐱)? (these are procreate except the mermaid one that’s also available for CSP) 🎨 ko-fi.com/everydaymerlin 🎨 www.patreon.com/MerlinGG 11760425
Reposted by chocolate mousseAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...reason.comTexas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphletsThe case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights. 4052372448
Reposted by chocolate mousseitch.io @itch.io · 17/08/2026Mesmalie: An occult narrative adventure game orbitaldot.itch.io/mesmalie 330663
Reposted by chocolate mousseriprip @ripripworld.bsky.social · 21/08/2025dears, our little game engine's steam page is now also online!~ wishlist if u like and try the demo at www.wareware.rip :3 store.steampowered.com/app/3726810/ #gamedev #indiegames #threejs 211004330
Reposted by chocolate mousseLeah @legenette.bsky.social · 08/05/2026do you have ambitions to create video games? the first thing you need to ask is this: why? thank you to @haraiva.bsky.social @merryh.bsky.social and cléa frost for speaking to me for this piece.screenhub.com.auHow to start making video games: advice from Australian developers | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and GamesWhat goes into the creation of video games, and what should inspire this journey? We talk to local developers about their launching pads. 04110
Reposted by chocolate mousseScott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I hate A.I. far more than the average person, but I expected from the beginning that whoever put this together was *not* representative of the creative team behind the movie. Some of us have *got* to stop rushing to judgment. It's not fair to the artists doing their best. 191146464
Reposted by chocolate mousseMiffythegamer @miffythegamer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Rowling looming over a progressive Irish cultural festival with her menacing insinuations & a phalanx of expensive lawyers dashing off legal letters. And all because the organisers don’t want transphobes peddling hate at their event. A nauseating spectacle of spite. 341621399
Reposted by chocolate mousseAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice. 6069612175
Reposted by chocolate mousseBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy 3556071317
Reposted by chocolate moussevati 🐍🔞 @titilvating.bsky.social · 25/07/2026people who only think of shipping as romance cannot even conceive as shipping as thriller, shipping as horror, shipping as character study. very limiting worldview. you should expand your palate. 1623771157
Reposted by chocolate moussesaba sabaton @ gateway fate 501 @sabato-n.bsky.social · 21/07/2026in the wake of inio asano saying he wants to use ai to make manga (presumably bc it speeds up the workflow and allows for faster production) i am once again thinking of how treating art as Content pushes us to adopt tools in order to produce content faster until we are hardly drawing anything at all 216833
Reposted by chocolate mousseSal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 21/07/2026the odyssey discourse is a beautiful perfect window into right wing culture war psychosis. they went from hysterial racist mania over a character that’s on screen for 5 minutes to claiming there’s a massive conspiracy to fake ticket sales. this is just what they do for everything now. they’re insane 2424411757
Reposted by chocolate moussechrista lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The more you explore the history of anime, manga, Japanese games history, the more you are confronted with the fact that MANY of the forms’ most potent innovations sprang out of and could not have existed without pornography. It’s integral to and inextricable from these histories 4743571269
Reposted by chocolate mousseAndrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 21/07/2026AI companies are destroying our collective shared history to put it into their slop buckets, because the slop they push out would destroy their models if they tried to re-input it 10986677
Reposted by chocolate mousseAJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 21/07/2026Hey, that's a nice [THING YOU DO FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE], be a real shame if somebody were to [CONVINCE YOU TO MONETIZE IT, TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP INTO AN OBLIGATION AND ROBBING YOU OF JOY] 7170122066
Reposted by chocolate mousseSuzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 21/07/2026Sponsored by Mastercard 421272307
Reposted by chocolate mousseByron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social 2845463714059
Reposted by chocolate mousseKira Leigh 🏳️⚧️ @kiraleigh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026someone on tumblr said it better than i could 3573713344
Reposted by chocolate mousseNash @radiodeadair.com · 15/07/2026I resent the term "RAM crisis." This was not some random act of god. This was greedy, selfish, broken people conspiring to take a vital commodity off the public market. This is RAM theft. 151549422
Reposted by chocolate mousseJohanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This is a comics and illustration secret too, btw Something in the background art not looking right? Perspective giving you fits? Draw a rock over it. Trees, bushes, and foreground characters can also solve this issue!static.klipy.comGoogly-Eyed Rock from Everything Everywhere All at OnceAlt: Googly-Eyed Rock from Everything Everywhere All at Once 14727203
Reposted by chocolate mousseCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love. 5788584088
Reposted by chocolate mousseIan McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 15/07/2026So many people turning out to be a disappointment these days 4169486
Reposted by chocolate mousseMicah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2026what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time” 2657042529
Reposted by chocolate mousseTiny Glade 🏰🌿 @pouncelight.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It's been 84 years, but we're cooking again! For y'all who wanted to build rustic villages, here's a sneak peek of upcoming wooden walls 👀 695180755
Reposted by chocolate mousse.⋆｡°✩ꀯꐇꌚꋖꁲꋖ✩°｡⋆. @custat.net · 30/06/2026I keep seeing people thinking this is a bluesky problem. If you're seeing this it thinks you're in a state or country with age verification laws. This is what every social media site will do if KOSA and the KIDS Act succeeds. Running to another socmed won't fix it, we have to fight the source. 260204656
Reposted by chocolate mousseAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026No, the assumption that disabled people require our colleagues’ stolen words and illustrations chopped up and spewed out in order to participate in art is ableist. We have BEEN creating art. Many of the works you love? Made by someone marginalized out of traditional jobs. 2628921006
Reposted by chocolate mousseSuzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 12/06/2026imo how well you can fish out what gives you the gut-punch moment in your art. It's such an intangible thing bc you're reaching into thoughts you haven't had. It's reliant on knowing my character really well and understanding that it's oftentimes a small detail or movement that's the hidden star. 214010
Reposted by chocolate mousseCody Ziglar @yayforzig.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Watching some folks in my industry trip over themselves to dogpile this lady to essentially say "shut up & dribble" has been so disappointing & it's the exact reason why so many below-the-line folks fear publicly talking about exploitive work conditions.thetab.comObsession art director doubles down after slamming low pay and working conditions'I feel no obligation to clear any misunderstandings' 201868397
Reposted by chocolate mousseKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/04/2026I’d add words of wisdom from my stepmother—“A hobby is something you spend money on. If you make money on it, it’s a job and you’ll eventually need a new hobby.” 392723812
Reposted by chocolate mousseAdam P Knave @adampknave.com · 10/06/2025I really wish more people were dedicated to be kind, regardless of being nice, rather then trying to be nice but skipping being kind entirely. Nice is a cool bit of flavor text. Kind is fucking essential. 8554169
Reposted by chocolate mousseViv 🌲 @vivtanner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Needed to hear that I'm not the only one struggling so much. Been having a hard time surviving financially since last year, I can barely pay bills... it's been a constant battle and it's so, so stressful. This month I can't afford paying for health care 💦 I feel like a failure all the time. 1017427
