NICK SHUTTER

18+ ZONE || 32-year-old bat guy on the Internet drawing furry and spooky stuff, making abstract art, producing ambient and noise music, and engaging in other creative endeavors! || CARRD

[nickshutter]

New year, new pinned post? My name is Nick! I'm a skull-headed bat monster on the Internet. I draw gay furries and spooky freaks! That's when I'm not creating abstract and glitch art. I also produce ambient, noise, and dungeon synth. Also, I made an 18+ visual novel once? The list of things I do is getting way too long... Anyway, here are some of my favorite recent pieces:

Follow me but I will block your ass if you give me the bad vibes or look like a bot or post technoslop OK BYE 18+ art blog Abstract art blog Dungeon synth blog Ditty of the Day blog Carrd for other sites

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[pjackk]

Ok but why are the suckers and losers trying to kill me today

[miraclemaya]

pjack is resurrected on the third day of pride. consider that.

[dragonballing]

[optical-trapping]

[rfskia]

M. Thorn

[shinolavolume1-deactivated20240]

That awkward moment when youre a female and you realize 2 men making out and rubbing their cocks together is lowkey kind of awesome

[pjackk]

[mansand]

you if you were a Mighty Bean

[panicbones]

you and me, me and you

[andre-moraph]

[strangegutz]

BIG BAD WOLF art dolls

individual posts: [photoset 1] [photoset 2] [photoset 3]

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[powerofpridebundle]

It's here! The Power of Pride Bundle 2026 is now live on Itchio! All in support of 284 queer creators and their 396 creations.

View the bundle on Itchio here (until July 6):

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[nickshutter]

My Monster is in the bundle! My VN is free, but purchasing the bundle gets you access to a bunch of non-free stuff, too—and helps fund devs like me who were forced to make their games free by the de-indexing.

[bisonwares]

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

This was the test of the new pattern and I love her. 🎏💕

[nickshutter]

[thwrangis]

according to my academic advisor i belong in a pit where hateful passers-by can spit on my unwashed body providing me the only moisture i deserve to drink

[thwrangis]

or i could switch to a stem major

[twistcmyk]

[endcant]

[endcant]

limitless chickens. put them anywhere. nyc