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Digital painting of a largely overcast sky over a couple of sunlit roofs and bare trees. The clouds are voluminous, sweeping wide, shades of grey with touches of white where the sun hits them. Their base is flat, dark grey.

We report as the weather turns all the ways it is able to turn. Once again, we got a little too confident in thinking we knew much of anything about the workings of the sky. We think this is always how it goes when the seasons change, and the patterns become unrecognisable.

Say her name this way: dang with a hard g like dangle, el-i-ca like Angelica

A mainly lineless MS paint drawing of a character that is a living chandelier earring. Made up of brass/metal in a muted orange tone, her head, torso, and shoulders are matching circular discs connected from the back by thin clasps. Below her torso, teardrop-shaped discs of the same depth make the legs she stands on, the larger ends at the bottom. Flanking them, dangling under her 'shoulder' discs at both sides, two more teardrops make for her arms. They are folded inward by the larger ends, with a slightly lighter orange on the sides now shown, giving the impression of a bent elbow on the arm to our left and a closed hand on the right. Her head disc at top is the same lighter tone and sports her face: downward slanted half-lidden shaped eyes that extend slightly beyond the circle, with muted orange sclerae and brighter orange teardrop pupils. Matching the pupils, a half-moon shaped mouth. The darkened bronze/brown clip-on clasp atop her head emulates a ponytail, and she acessorizes with three circular pins on the top-right of her torso disc. With her leftmost hand on the side of her 'waist' and a confident askew smile with a cocked eyebrow, she introduces herself with "you can call me Dangleica." (Said message itself is housed in a speech bubble polygon with rounded corners and depth, with the text in a pixelated font.)

The next logical step up from having lots of characters that wear big earrings: having a character that IS a big earring

the mario laugh even SOUNDS like woody!

A black-and-white character mischievously floats against a grayish-brown background, casting a drop shadow. They are a design for what the true form of the secret boss Shadoo from Super Paper Mario could look like. The robotic Shadoo's head is a toaster-like rectangular shape: their eyes are right triangle shaped with scalene triangle pupils and floating obtuse triangle eyebrows. The points of their eyes reach to their head's borders, and eyelash-esque diagonal lines extend from the hypotenuses. Below their eyes, a big wide V-shaped smile. Shadoo's torso is a janky, frail stack of blocks resembling a spine: their topmost 'spinal segment', or neck, resembles a battery with plus and minus icons on the ends. Shadoo wears a vest with a similar checkered pattern and star badge to Merlon and company, and simple shorts; a pair of open-ended wires make their legs. All these features make them resemble a brain and nervous system. Shadoo's arms, loosely connected about their head and neck, are made of pitch-black shadow and are coiled/wavy and baloon-like in shape, ending in large hands.

[ super paper mario spoilers / nervous system imagery ]

shadoo...

I wasn't born for 101 Dalmatians 1996's release, but I doubt they acted like the 60's version had never existed when that happened. Contrast now where it's oft like they go "What old version?" or "I mean you COULD watch the original but why would you WANT to when the new version is so much BETTER?"

I'm not even necessarily against revisiting concepts sometimes but Disney's remakes are cynical rehashes that as time goes on seem to have less and less respect to the artistry of animation

Much of Disney's animated canon movies are dated products of their time, to say the least, but I feel the live action remakes they churn out belie the hard work that had to have gone into the animated originals

i don't care how long ago it was. heinous actions are heinous actions, and i really prefer not to support people with that sort of history regardless of whether it aligns with their current self

Especially since it had been a decade following the Pokémon incident and the ramped up study and safeguards against harming photosensitive viewers. And somehow, even with 2 and a half decades of hindsight, some Mega-popular franchises like Spider-Verse are still messing it up

I feel like Paper Rad could have compromised and made everything less saturated and neon flashy and still kept the Paper Raditude of it all. With all that photosensitivity-unsafe imagery I'm surprised it made it to national kids television as is

When I was a kid I adored watching Problem Solverz and could handle the bright and busy style no problem, but now revisiting it as an adult hurts my eyes. I guess when it was airing I only really watched stuff on smaller tvs that weren't super bright

Has there ever been a gradient as awesome as Wham! - Music From the Edge of Heaven

Chikn Nuggit @chiknnuggit.buzzfeed.com Absolutely devastated to have to deliver this news. I have loved working at BuzzFeed so much but I have to stand up for what I believe in. Please DO NOT send hate to anyone! If anything changes regarding this, I will let you know. [The rest is a screenshot from another platform] Hi! It's Kyra. Creator and voice actor of Chikn Nuggit. I have some incredibly unfortunate news I'm very saddened to deliver. I will be leaving the show and no longer voicing Chikn. BuzzFeed is going to be requiring Chikn to be fed into Al for a project and I am fully against this. It's being done despite our stance against it. It's entirely out of our control and I'm utterly heartbroken. I am very anti-Al and cannot support this. Thus I am leaving to boycott this. I am so upset it's come to this and I cannot apologize enough for this happening. I can't thank you all ENOUGH for all your incredible support on Chikn Nuggit. As well as the incredible talent of the cast and crew on the show. I love you all so much and this project has been a highlight of my career. I will continue to update everyone on what's going to happen as I hear it. If I lose access to this account, please follow me over on @kyrakupetsky on Twitter, Bluesky, and Instagram for updates. [Chikn Nuggit waving a banner reading NO AI] Please do not send hate to ANYONE. I just wanted to inform you all what's going on.

Chikn Nuggit @chiknnuggit.buzzfeed.com [The rest is a screenshot from another platform] Al is NOT being used in any of the episodes online. Nor has it ever been. So no episodes that come out after I leave include Al. We recorded scripts/animated episodes before this situation unfolded. So do not fear, eps are Al free and if that ever changes, you will be told. The Al is only being used in a project that none of us can talk about because of NDA but none of us are involved. I'm leaving before this project starts. Everyone on BuzzFeed animation team is against this. It's a situation that's out of everyone's hands. There is a chance I will be given Chikn potentially in the future, in which case I would continue the show as intended with everyone on board. No Al ever. In the meantime we have to wait to see what will happen. For now I'll be doing other projects on my main account. I will answer questions on this account and my main for as long as I have access to this account. [Chikn Nuggit waving a banner reading NO AI]

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Just in case this post gets deleted by big corp.

so Odysee is built on blockchain technology and full of hate speech. guess i better keep looking

A small canvas about 7 inches long and 5 inches wide, is covered throughout by a bluish-black coat that is intentionally slightly uneven and somewhat messy on the edges. From the right edge of this scene, an anxious, armless cartoon creature walks in, timidly clutching a lit flashlight in their frowning zig-zag mouth. This creature also sports a blue pallor, a somewhat long and rectangular head/body, striped legs ending in fin or frond-like feet, three ears like a cat's, freckles, and an antenna sprouting from their leftmost ear. From their flashlight emits a host of various shapes, dots, lines, and patterns, that all come together to form a golden ray of light.

"Somebody Has Sabatoged the Power in My Own Home"
Acrylic paint and acrylic marker on canvas, 2025-2026

I don't like feeling obligated to share art on this account but I also like sharing art on this account so I hope to get some thingies from the backlog up soon!

rip worms ;_;

This sure was quite the battle for the net!

Been under the weather for a while. I'll post the first batch of requests in a bit. For now, have a very real scene from BFTN 5.

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal.

The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright.

(Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

i gotta watch the show properly i just find it kinda neat and silly

Nichijou and Helvetica Standard is like how some 90's cartoons contain a secondary cartoon (i.e. Dexter's Laboratory having Dial M For Monkey or Justice Friends) except the secondary cartoon is just always very tiny like not even a minute long

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Call your senators. Call your house reps. 5calls can make it extra easy and you can look up “Iran” as the keyword and find a script that will augment Celeste’s nicely.

Look, if I can call my California dem senators and leave shaky voicemails at 1 AM you can too. (Hopefully less shakily.) Love you.

update: managed to narrow it down to 20

i am writing a competition object show and theres around 30 contestants right now and i want to consolidate so that it's not a super long shot of actually finishing it but i also don't want to get rid of anybody :(

From Here We Go Sublime, by The Field 10 track album

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neopets dot com hire actually decent moderators instead of keeping around the same repeatedly queerphobic ones challenge