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Back in February, I wrote a Tumblr post on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's lasting legacy after layoffs at BioWare. I did this because G/O Media was doing everything in its power to stop us from writing about layoffs in a way that "moralized" the issue. Today, the post finally lives on Kotaku.

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Please don’t stop making art because you feel guilt about doing so in these times. It’s your life raft that helps you hold on and I promise you it’s helping other people hold on too. Don’t ignore and look away from what’s happening but don’t let it paralyze you either

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

since veilguard positivity is all over my feed rn... one of the things that really resonated with me from Veilguard was the consistent overt messaging that you cannot give your best work if you don't take care of yourself which feels like a really relevant message for this hustle era we're in

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This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

submitted 2 days ago • 230 comments

Cool. Necessary. But my skepticism hackles are up. Their legal team straight up says they're excited about the future of AI. They just want it behind their walls. These are not the champions of the creative class. www.reuters.com/business/med...

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Very cool fan project for dragon age and mass effect was posted on reddit. Excited to see how it turns out. I love the keep and I especially love the map there. After losing the dai website map with all its markers, I've been avidly trying to preserve any map lore we were given. I love the maps 😭

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Been working on an #artchallenge where you are sent poses to draw by @adorkastock.com ! - #DrawEverythingJune2025 - Saw the model for today and thought of Dulia-Chai from #ffxiv , I love her so much she was overdue for at least a lil doodle :) - Day Six-

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XIV Rare Pair Week - Day 1 - Umbral "Let me hide in your shadow..." #XIVRarePairWeek #XIVRarePairWeek2025 #artoirel #artoilie #ffxiv #woltoirel

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A charming pixellated town with a dark secret. In Ashenridge, you reap what you sow… Our supernatural murder mystery farming sim Grave Seasons releases in 2026 on PC and consoles! 🔪🥕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gj9... Wishlist us on Steam! 🔽

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Our thanks to @derek-lieu.com for this trailer, and the team at Reel Nice for coming to a campsite with us to film the talky parts. The voice of @tobias-weatherburn.co.uk is the cherry on top! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzN0...

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* ## 7.2 SPOILERS ## * a friend brought this video (www.tumblr.com/tikkety-tok/...) back across my tumblr dash earlier today, and i couldn't shake the idea that it's 100% dancing green like six months after he retires, rediscovering his roots and living his best life #ffxiv #dancinggreen #ffxivart

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

A new kind of heist game. South African game studio announces Relooted, a game all about stealing stolen cultural artifacts from museums and bringing them back home to Africa. Get the details here:

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BREAKING: please, everyone, turn on local news. there is NOTHING going on in LA. Its over, the protest broke up hours ago. Local news helicopters are trolling for trouble and there's none. Just some LAPD/LASD road blocks. If they 'send the Guard' now, its just because they really really want to.

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Another set of cheesy pride shirts but this time it's actually pride month lol #DragonAge #TheVeilguard #Rookanis #MyArt

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once again I must tap my own sign

submitted 7 days ago • 236 comments

"em dashes are a sign that something was written by AI" you are simply jealous that i've memorized that I can hold alt and press 0151 on the numpad to produce an em dash whenever i desire. look: —. it's beautiful. i'll even do it again: —

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

sorry, i’ve got to cancel our plans this evening. i’m encumbered again. no i will not drop any of my items

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My doctor changed my diagnosis to "Endocrine Disorder" in November without me asking--because he saw the writing on the wall. Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

When Veilguard came out I was looking forward to drip feeding all the storyboard work I did on that here on Bluesky. But I lost my appetite for that pretty quickly due to DISCOURSE (TM). Still, for anyone interested it’s all on my website. www.nickthornborrowart.com

submitted 23 days ago • 39 comments

I think it’s kind of interesting that so many cultural and political elites decided “learning loss” from remote schooling during a pandemic was so severe it was worth ignoring medical safety, while actual learning loss from AI is pervasive and growing and they all want to impose more of it on us.

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Artists have no peace.

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If you are also worried about tariffs and supply chain shortages, and have the financial means to prepare, here is what I have stocked up on and plan to buy soon, plus what I would get if I had kids, a car or a larger home, based on reporting I've read or done myself in the last several months (🧵):

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YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you

submitted 35 days ago • 167 comments

Thread Jesus christ I had no idea about this. They stopped teaching kids phonics, so nobody knows how to actually fucking read and comprehend words. Like actually they can't absorb meaning Oh my god?

submitted 36 days ago • 24 comments

Hey! I really felt the weight of everything last week, and I wanted a way to talk through it... so I've been working on (maybe the first???) choose your own adventure game set up directly in Bluesky. And here it is! Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me? Enter the garden.

submitted 39 days ago • 84 comments

One thing I wish people understood better is that there's a difference between "the story was predictable" and "the story followed a logical sequence of events based on the characters and situations that were set up previously in the story."

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I love NPR and PBS

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Me, chomping at the bit to leave the office: what if i draw a moogle every day for all of may 🤔 #ffxiv #mooglemay #maygles

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Year of the OTP - May - "We're dating? Since when?" (Cysaille x Elliott) Cysaille needs to work on her poker face, but you know it's already too late. 🤭😅 #yotp25 #stardewvalley #sdv #sdvelliott #cyselliott #sdvemily

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The highest honor you can bestow a fictional character is when you remake your OC in a different piece of media, you take that fictional character and remake them in that media as well.

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allergies kicking my ass in the middle of raid i feel like this

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aeiou

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Another sketch for a tumblr ask, this time about Aster's lying ability, which, let's say it's a good thing they're assigned contracts more focused on stealth and slight of hand instead of social subterfuge lol #DragonAge #ViagoDeRiva #MyArt

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

I don't boost this nearly enough but if you're ever in the market to buy some comics while also supporting the Webcomic Library I do have a Bookshop storefront! I've got a pretty solid collection that's nearly all featured in the database already. bookshop.org/shop/Webcomi...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

submitted 48 days ago • 91 comments

he’s right and he’s right to say it

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I hope you are able to enjoy a good thing that might happen to you. I am a bear.

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

ダンシンググリーン #FF14

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I keep thinking about this comic, like, a lot www.tumblr.com/nattousan/78...

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time to once again tap the giant neon sign that reads "dont use your fucking discord server as your one and only form of documentation for guides/resources/etc."

Back in February, I wrote a Tumblr post on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's lasting legacy after layoffs at BioWare. I did this because G/O Media was doing everything in its power to stop us from writing about layoffs in a way that "moralized" the issue. Today, the post finally lives on Kotaku.

Please don’t stop making art because you feel guilt about doing so in these times. It’s your life raft that helps you hold on and I promise you it’s helping other people hold on too. Don’t ignore and look away from what’s happening but don’t let it paralyze you either

since veilguard positivity is all over my feed rn... one of the things that really resonated with me from Veilguard was the consistent overt messaging that you cannot give your best work if you don't take care of yourself which feels like a really relevant message for this hustle era we're in

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

Cool. Necessary. But my skepticism hackles are up. Their legal team straight up says they're excited about the future of AI. They just want it behind their walls. These are not the champions of the creative class. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Very cool fan project for dragon age and mass effect was posted on reddit. Excited to see how it turns out. I love the keep and I especially love the map there. After losing the dai website map with all its markers, I've been avidly trying to preserve any map lore we were given. I love the maps 😭

Been working on an #artchallenge where you are sent poses to draw by @adorkastock.com ! - #DrawEverythingJune2025 - Saw the model for today and thought of Dulia-Chai from #ffxiv , I love her so much she was overdue for at least a lil doodle :) - Day Six-

XIV Rare Pair Week - Day 1 - Umbral "Let me hide in your shadow..." #XIVRarePairWeek #XIVRarePairWeek2025 #artoirel #artoilie #ffxiv #woltoirel

A charming pixellated town with a dark secret. In Ashenridge, you reap what you sow… Our supernatural murder mystery farming sim Grave Seasons releases in 2026 on PC and consoles! 🔪🥕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gj9... Wishlist us on Steam! 🔽

Our thanks to @derek-lieu.com for this trailer, and the team at Reel Nice for coming to a campsite with us to film the talky parts. The voice of @tobias-weatherburn.co.uk is the cherry on top! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzN0...

* ## 7.2 SPOILERS ## * a friend brought this video (www.tumblr.com/tikkety-tok/...) back across my tumblr dash earlier today, and i couldn't shake the idea that it's 100% dancing green like six months after he retires, rediscovering his roots and living his best life #ffxiv #dancinggreen #ffxivart

A new kind of heist game. South African game studio announces Relooted, a game all about stealing stolen cultural artifacts from museums and bringing them back home to Africa. Get the details here:

BREAKING: please, everyone, turn on local news. there is NOTHING going on in LA. Its over, the protest broke up hours ago. Local news helicopters are trolling for trouble and there's none. Just some LAPD/LASD road blocks. If they 'send the Guard' now, its just because they really really want to.

Another set of cheesy pride shirts but this time it's actually pride month lol #DragonAge #TheVeilguard #Rookanis #MyArt

once again I must tap my own sign

"em dashes are a sign that something was written by AI" you are simply jealous that i've memorized that I can hold alt and press 0151 on the numpad to produce an em dash whenever i desire. look: —. it's beautiful. i'll even do it again: —

sorry, i’ve got to cancel our plans this evening. i’m encumbered again. no i will not drop any of my items

My doctor changed my diagnosis to "Endocrine Disorder" in November without me asking--because he saw the writing on the wall. Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.

When Veilguard came out I was looking forward to drip feeding all the storyboard work I did on that here on Bluesky. But I lost my appetite for that pretty quickly due to DISCOURSE (TM). Still, for anyone interested it’s all on my website. www.nickthornborrowart.com

Artists have no peace.

YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you

Thread Jesus christ I had no idea about this. They stopped teaching kids phonics, so nobody knows how to actually fucking read and comprehend words. Like actually they can't absorb meaning Oh my god?

Hey! I really felt the weight of everything last week, and I wanted a way to talk through it... so I've been working on (maybe the first???) choose your own adventure game set up directly in Bluesky. And here it is! Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me? Enter the garden.

One thing I wish people understood better is that there's a difference between "the story was predictable" and "the story followed a logical sequence of events based on the characters and situations that were set up previously in the story."

I love NPR and PBS

Me, chomping at the bit to leave the office: what if i draw a moogle every day for all of may 🤔 #ffxiv #mooglemay #maygles

Year of the OTP - May - "We're dating? Since when?" (Cysaille x Elliott) Cysaille needs to work on her poker face, but you know it's already too late. 🤭😅 #yotp25 #stardewvalley #sdv #sdvelliott #cyselliott #sdvemily

The highest honor you can bestow a fictional character is when you remake your OC in a different piece of media, you take that fictional character and remake them in that media as well.

allergies kicking my ass in the middle of raid i feel like this

aeiou

Another sketch for a tumblr ask, this time about Aster's lying ability, which, let's say it's a good thing they're assigned contracts more focused on stealth and slight of hand instead of social subterfuge lol #DragonAge #ViagoDeRiva #MyArt

I don't boost this nearly enough but if you're ever in the market to buy some comics while also supporting the Webcomic Library I do have a Bookshop storefront! I've got a pretty solid collection that's nearly all featured in the database already. bookshop.org/shop/Webcomi...

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

he’s right and he’s right to say it

I hope you are able to enjoy a good thing that might happen to you. I am a bear.

ダンシンググリーン #FF14

I keep thinking about this comic, like, a lot www.tumblr.com/nattousan/78...

time to once again tap the giant neon sign that reads "dont use your fucking discord server as your one and only form of documentation for guides/resources/etc."

nailing this to my forehead

It feels like there are no more good hiding spots.