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Commissions Open!

Hey everybody, I have decided to open commissions for my traditional drawings! for now I’m only taking 5 orders at a time so if you’re interested let me know!

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Details:

-Shoulders up: 25$ + 20$ each additional character

-Waist up: 35$ + 30$ each additional character + 5$ detailed backgrounds (simple backgrounds included with every piece)

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Will draw:

-Fanart

-OC’s

-Real people

-Furries

Will not draw:

-NSFW

-Mecha

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DM me if you’re interested!

#art #commissions #my friend's art!

therandomray-artz

kelp forest

azspot

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

santhipoma

glasshomewrecker

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

Similarly, imginn.com works for most Instagram addresses. I still haven’t found one for Facebook.

therandomray-artz

ブースター

weirdness-is-good

jsong0-0

I don't know what I'm drawing.😇

bedrock-to-buildheight

Out of curiosity, how do you handle the moral ramifications of Pokemon being fully sapient while also still working with the main games verse where Pokemon are kept in Pokeballs? I often run into a bit of a dilemma on how to handle the topic myself, as I very much enjoy writing Pokemon as fully sapient characters in the same verse as humans, but I'm never quite sure how to handle the "they're kept in Pokeballs" topic, other than to do a general hand wave of "if Pokemon don't want to be in Pokeballs, they can break out and just leave", because I'm admittedly concerned that leans too close to a "well they Choose to be enslaved so it's fine uwu" harry potter-esque excuse.

My solution to that is: it's unusual and unsustainable to keep pokemon in pokeballs all the time like we do on the journey

Whatever the original purpose of pokeballs are, in modern time the only thing stopping your pokemon from being kidnapped by other people is by having them connected to your pokeballs yourself. The tech unfortunately exists, it has its benefits, so it sticks around and people just have to deal with it.

Generally, it's treated more like them hitching a ride on you when they don't feel like travelling and wants a little nap (human habitat is fragile and crowded, battling is tiring, and sometimes they're just not built to travel besides you on the terrain you're both at). Much like being in someone else's car, both the trainer and the pokemon expects the trainer to let them out when they get where they're going.

Kids on journey keep their team in pokeballs so often because the journey is an extremely demanding balance between their stamina, the necessary training, and the clock as a League season is only so long. You have to save your team's strength for battling. Even with best practice, Pokecenters still see a spike of traffic after each season as these Pokemon need to recover.

(Is this a lot to ask of an 11yo? Yeah. You're not supposed to win the League on your first try. Even Lance, a prodigy himself, only became Champion at 14. The Kantrio are absolute powerhouses)

You can also mod the pokeball to allow Pokemon to leave the ball by themself. However this disables "nap mode" and they have to stay alert and fully aware the whole trip. This is common practice for service Pokemon

lamignonette

melanchol1e-deactivated20250809

shirazi pigeons

firthbetterorfirthworse

wake up babe, new "I do not grasp the concept of moderation" image just dropped

jisuto

mynorthernattitude

"listen to your body"

my body: go get a cinnamon roll the size of a tire

drdaanvondutch

in law school, my mom took me to this stress retreat because my family was vaguely aware i was a suicide risk. and they didnt allow phones, so i brought this huge bag of books. and one of the options for "destressing" was this fake cave grotto thing, where they'd decorated a room to make it look exactly like an underground cave and the air was like -10 degrees, but there was a like 4ft deep pool in the middle that was kept super super hot, so you would just switch between the hot and cold. and they would bring you an endless supply of this weird syrupy drink thing that was like super caffeinated and tasted like sugar and mint. and so i spent multiple days sitting half submerged in this fake grotto drinking mystery liquid and reading. and i have to be honest i really did feel less stressed