Nuur • Lioz

°° Visual artist and Illustrator • I draw and paint sometimes • ESP/ENG °° ★ DM for commissions [OPEN] ★

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[wheeloffortune-design]

some artists talk about inspiration like something glorious. when i get inspired with a story i feel like i need to barf it on the paper.

[theartofmadeline]

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

[nuur-lioz-art]

I like them

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

I think the solution to kids on the Internet is to have specific, kid friendly spaces on the Internet. Kids wouldn't come across "adult content" on YouTube if barbie dot com still had flash games and this is a hill I will die on.

[aetherograph]

Oh! Then I know the EXACT person you should be mad at! Michael O'Rielly! He's the one that gutted the Children's Programming Rules, which covered internet as well as television.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

HELLO?

[aetherograph]

#so the death of the Saturday morning cartoon is THIS motherfuckers fault?????

Indeed it is! The FCC controls how much of broadcasting has to cater to children and that includes how educational that programming has to be, and exactly how much and in what way you are allowed to advertise to kids. That's why for the entire 90s and up to the early 00s, kids shows had shorter commercial breaks, and ads that talked about a website had to say "ask your parents before going online", and those websites had to be non-commercial--i.e. they could not be shops, and could not have any way you could spend money or were encouraged to spend money. That's why Barbie.com was flash games, and O'Rielly LIFTING that ban is why Barbie.com now takes you directly to a storefront instead.

If you're mad about Saturday Morning Cartoons, dark patterns in ads targeted at children, online protections for kids, or wondering why educational children's shows aren't as much of a thing as they used to be, get mad at the FCC and the person in charge of it who is gutting the Children's Brodcasting Rules (sometimes called the Kid Vid Rules), because those rules control all of that!

While O'Rielly is responsible for gutting the rules in 2019, he was replaced in 2020 by Nathan Simington as head of the FCC, and Simington resigned in June of this year. The post remains vacant as of the time of this writing (August 31, 2025).

And a side note: Things like KOSA and SCREEN and all those other censorship bills that use "think of the children" are not going to protect children at all; if you want to protect kids online, there is already a way to do that it's called the Kid Vid Rules and the FCC is the one that can update and change them to keep up with the times! It doesn't need a congress vote, it already got voted on in 1990!

[nuur-lioz-art]

Sketchbook watercolour spread!!

My best friend is showing me the play through of botw before getting into totk and I am falling in love with it

[nuur-lioz-art]

they’re talking about fictional ships they’d like to pilot

[mihai-florescu]

The lion does not concern itself with the bank account balance when a little treat is calling

[mihai-florescu]

The lion will never financially recover from this

[brains4bullets]

I gave you something you can never get back

Don’t you mind?

linework !

[alabasterpickles]

Here’s a small collection of Dandadan doodles I’ve been slowly scribbling out for the last week or so, I have a few big pieces planned, but I haven’t really had any energy to work on them SO stupid stuff it remains

Don’t have a lot of context for these outside of the fact that I love these characters and their weird found family dynamic ❤️‍🩹

Also — RIP Jin Enjoji, got his shit rocked by a toddler-sized mantis shrimp 🫡

FOLLOW UP I know there’s an Okarun deficiency but I promise I’m on the way to rectifying that

[nuur-lioz-art]

the obsession persists

[lilcatastrophe]

another suggestion from insta on the way >:]

[nuur-lioz-art]

I love the colours omgggggg

[nuur-lioz-art]

I am so very normal about them

[komohine]

ITS HEEEREEEEEEE

they’re on a mission in 15 mins but clearly they got distracted..

Check out jenyutea_ on instagram she was my compositing puppet and also painstakkngly made the text bg for me 🫶

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I don't want to be all "leave Twitter, ditch Meta, stop using Amazon" etc because all of this is much easier to say than do, but I do believe the next couple of years are going to require a deliberate disintanglement from huge chunks of the internet for your personal wellbeing.

Google Search, no matter how many lawsuits they lose, is never going to go back to what it used to be. Amazon is not going to crack down on the scam products on their website in any meaningful way. Spotify is going to continue bankrupting artists. I like Bluesky and I've been a creature of Tumblr for, uh, over a decade, but I don't have faith in those places to stay put.

Building better spaces means finding ways to connect both in your local community and with the online communities that matter to do. Talk to your local bookshop owners, librarians, community organizers. (YouTuber F.D. Signifier has a google doc of suggestions to look into.) Get plugged into the issues happening in your town and look into ways to help. Find ways to communicate with your online pals that doesn't rely on Discord or a social media platform (email still works!)

[nuur-lioz-art]

whaddup it’s been a while

[venusmage]

Been too busy to run our D&D game lately but still thinking about it..