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Turquoise Magpie

@turquoisemagpie

Soph, 27, they/them. A uk traditional artist. Check out my art in #magpie sketches. Bluesky for ramblings - https://bsky.app/profile/turquoisemagpie.bsky.social

wow wow wow its finally finished

I started a doodle midway thru listening to Dimension 20's Neverafter and then just kept going

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Made a design of anti, i guess the idea is he's being used to power the iris security cameras? Idk but it was fun to mix a bunch of different photos together to get this XD I just can't decide what color looks best for it.

pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them

earnestly I think the spread of the paradigm that someone is either abuser or abused, either privileged or oppressed, either exploiter or exploited, and that this is a mathematically calculable measure of ideological purity, has done more to damage basic capacity for left wing organising than just about anything else in the modern era bar active surveillance and union busting

This is a good reason to have scientific studies saying stuff like, "On average, trans people report happiness when they transition with loving family support and unhappiness when people dump acid on their head," like, yes it is intuitive, yes we knew that, but someday the study that is being passed around under the heading "water is wet," is going to be used to guide a court decision. And sometimes, when the the weather is fair and God smiles, it will result in some judge pounding the anti-trans arguments absolutely flat with a level of precise violence heretofore only seen in people making schnitzels, and that is a thing of beauty.

ethics of making AI images aside, I do find a bit amusing the kinds of sob stories and mental gymnastics people make up to pretend like drawing is this super technical skill with an impossibly high barrier of entry when its like one of the first hobbies toddlers pick up

suddenly a lot of people think they got the next Lord of the Rings in their head but they were never able to turn their stories into anything tangible because the evil elitist artists are hogging all the talent and skill and they need a bajilion years of training or something as if one of the most popular manga and anime of the past decade wasn't made by a guy that draws like this

If you have story ideas but you can't make them look how you wish you could make them look, you suck it up and do it a different way and 99 times out of 100 I guarantee anyone who cares will like it better that way.

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