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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

2 years

Other places you can find me / my artwork: 🖤 🌙 💀 🛍 🔮 ✨

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

4 years

Thanks for watching my table Bernie.

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5 years

LMAO WHO MADE THIS MEME JUST FOR ME AND ALL ARTIST ALLEY VENDORS SPECIFICALLY?!

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6 years

To all the art school professors who, ten years ago, told me that drawing anime styled art would never become disireable in the mainstream before.

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6 years

These have never gone viral on my personal account, but I need them to now. My CINTIQ died. The timing is awful, and I have work to do before AX and Hyper Japan. I need a new one ASAP, so I’m putting the very last of these retiring prints up for sale.

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8 years

Something I feel like young fandom doesn't understand about fiction, but badly needs to.

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3 years

WotC to me in portfolio review in 2014: Sorry, but our games have always been illustrated with realism and there's just no place for anime styled art like yours in D&D. Critical Role in 2021:

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@misspenart

8 years

We call everything on the ice “love” ⛸✨ 🌈💍💖

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@misspenart

5 years

Wouldn't it be cute if Shiny Wooloo was a black sheep? ♠️💜✨ #PokemonSwordShield #Wooloo

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6 years

Phases of the Moon 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕 #VLD #VLDS7 #Voltron #Shiro 🏳️‍🌈

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@misspenart

4 years

In 2007: "Anime is a passing fad. Stylized art like that has no place in your portfolio." - Every professor I had save for like, one. This was just code for, "I don't like that you don't draw faces like me." Look at all these "passing fads" that came along since then.

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@GailSimone

4 years

What’s the worst creative advice you have ever been given?

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6 years

Hey. Not liking someone's art is fine. Yelling about how bad it is in front their Artist Alley table is not fine. We can hear you.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

6 years

Hewwo? Spiwits? (Ow O; ) 😈👻✨

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@misspenart

5 years

Aavaros foil prints arrived 💜✨

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

6 years

Please do not order from grizzlytrends[dot]com - they are stealing my art and undoubtedly the work of other artists too. (╬ಠ益ಠ)ノ

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@misspenart

7 years

Sometimes I think about all the cute official merch we could get from games and animation if Western companies catered less to masculine branding and made the things their femme fan bases are buying from fan artists.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

6 years

Saw a crow with a WHOLE CHEETO and it felt like a good omen for the weekend.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

6 years

The Signs as DnD classes ✨ Aries: Barbarian 🗡 Taurus: Monk 📿 Gemini: Fighter ⚔️ Cancer: Sorcerer 🔮 Leo: Paladin 🛡 Virgo: Cleric 📕 Libra: Wizard 📝 Scorpio: Rogue 🔪 Sagittarius: Ranger 🏹 Capricorn: Warlock 💀 Aquarius: Druid 🌿 Pisces: Bard 🎻

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6 years

Someone flipped through my DnD zine, held this page up to my face and said, "No. He can't be a Rogue." Instead of saying anything more enraged I'll just say this. If you can't handle disabled people existing in fantasy, I don't want you near me or my disabled friends in reality.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

6 years

Have you seen my cozy AF bed closet? ✨

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Missy Pena 💀

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9 months

It's a nightmare seeing a copy of my fanart being sold in Artist Alley. I probably won't make it to Perth, but AU cons should know this person is selling copied art. Before people say I'm punching down, she has 25.5k on TikTok and sells "her" work in brick and mortar stores.

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5 years

Attendee: Why are you selling official comics? Me: Because I illustrate the covers. Attendee: Awww you made your own covers to put on them??? That's so special, you must be a really big fan. Me: No, I.............. what.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

4 years

Happy #AceVisibilityDay !! No matter what anyone says you are valid, not broken, and part of the LGBT+ community. Much love from this ace to all aces today and every day! ♠️🌈💜

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5 years

The cover for Steven Universe #33 was such a treat for me!! The issue is all about fandom and the importance of respecting others in fandom spaces despite differing opinions. I decided to draw Peridot in Artist Alley! Look at her! She's so proud! I'm proud of her! #StevenUniverse

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3 years

Zenith, my Tiefling Evocation Witch and her familiar, Pooka. 🖤🦇 Still sad I had to leave the game with her in it, maybe someday I'll find another game for her. #DnD #DnDArtist

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@misspenart

5 years

Inktober OCtober

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@misspenart

8 years

Convention artists, here's a little spending tracker to help you keep track of costs for cons! And it's rainbow.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

5 years

A story in three parts.

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@misspenart

5 years

Freelancers right now:

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@misspenart

5 years

How may I serve you? ✨😈✨ #TheDragonPrince #Aaravos

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@misspenart

5 years

When someone reposts your art without credit.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

5 years

For the next month (Aug 23 - Sep 23) all my earnings from INPRNT will be donated to to help with the rainforest fires. My retired work that you can't get from me at cons anymore is available.

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@misspenart

7 years

Vrepit Sa my Emperor. 👀💜 #Voltron

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3 years

Watching the Critical Role animation preview, which is so heavily influenced by anime, is really wild for me. Makes me remember how I was told I'd never work in TTRPG art spaces by Wizards D&D at SDCC back in 2014. My my how the turns have tabled.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

5 years

Hey @Shirtwascash , please stop stealing my fan art. I am the original artist of this illustration and I want it removed from your website immediately. #ArtTheft

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

3 years

I get that my art wasn't what they were looking for then, but dang, look at this stuff now. Makes me feel ahead of the times. Me and everyone else who was told anime art was just a fad.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

5 years

Hi #ECCCOnline ! I'm Missy, a Seattle based artist who makes anime and TTRPG look witchy. All my prints, pins, zines, and more are available online. Thank you so much for your support, RTs, and vibes - it means the world. 💜 🛍 ☕️

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

5 years

Cursed tavern names for #DnD #TTRPG The Golden Arches 🍟 The Crimson Twin Tails 🥪 The Midnight Bell 🌮 His Majesty's Beef 🍔 Queen of Creams 🍨 The Colonel's Secret 🍗 The Star and Buck (or) The Green Mermaid ☕️

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

4 years

@tylergaca Too real. This gave me flashbacks to my Drawing II professor who actually suggested we "make out with" our materials (mostly charcoal) to really "get intimate" with them.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

4 years

Happy #PokemonDay !!🌻✨

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

4 years

Welp, I'm sorry San Antonio... I love your city so much, but once conventions are safe to attend again I won't be going to San Japan. I ask my fellow Artist Alley artists to do the same.

Megan Shipman

@18moptop

4 years

This is the owner of San Japan, a popular Texas con. This is what they are saying privately in response to why they don’t invite POC guests to San Japan. This thinking is extremely flawed and should be reconsidered.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

2 years

@liliuhms @PuccaNoodles Jfc, it's moved so fast it hasn't been banned at cons yet. BUT IT REALLY NEEDS TO BE. 😰😰😰

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@misspenart

4 years

Reminder that asexual people experience coming out too, and anyone who diminishes that experience is very, very wrong and insensitive to do so. Asexuality is valid and your coming out is valid, however and whenever, even if it's never. 🖤💜🤍

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@misspenart

6 years

Princess. Paladin. Protector. 🌱🌷💐 #VLD #VLDS8 #Voltron #Allura 😭

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@misspenart

4 years

Spruced up the player character art in anticipation for today's episode of Nights of #Eveningstar ! The only thing I love more than DnD is DnD set at a fancy party. Gunna watch tonight at 4pm Pacific on ! #DnD ✨

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Missy Pena 💀

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4 years

Individual character art for Nights of #Eveningstar ! It was a dream to work with everyone on designing their characters. In order, Azara ( @MicaBurton ) Agnis ( @AnnaProsser ) Marcel ( @NateWantsToBtl ) and Tarkhal ( @Shadypenguinn ) Tuesdays at 4PM Pacific on ✨

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

6 years

Mada and her magical skeleton boyfriend she made herself, Mortis. 💀💜 #Original

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

2 years

Hey @AnimeExpo please ban AI generated art from your conventions immediately. Every comic / anime / art-adjacent convention needs to put a ban on selling AI generated art into effect to stop this from becoming a thing. That space could be used by an actual artist. #AnimeExpoChibi

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Say no to AI generated art in the exhibitors and artist alley sections of conventions

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

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Just left a women’s empowerment meeting where this happened. Icebreaker Q: What is the most memorable thing you bought with your first salary? Me: I’ll go first - when I was 18 the first thing I bought was a sword. Woman 1: Oh me too. Woman 2: Same. Woman 3: I bought a dagger.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

6 years

I was told to give up by professors and friends who ate their words CONSTANTLY and it did a huge number on my love for drawing the way I wanted to draw. When I pointed out the success of Last Airbender (pre-Korra) they said, "oh that's just a fad it'll die." Now:

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

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Hi, I'm Missy Peña! I'm a queer ace, Hispanic descended American illustrator currently working on games I can't talk about. I love anime, TTRPG, witchcraft, and art history, and I hope some of that comes through in my art! 🎨 🛍

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

5 years

From me and all the Artist Alley artists. 😔

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@misspenart

4 years

@heyjenbartel Omg thank you for RTing this Jen, I just tried it!! No filters, just zoomed and cropped. 🤩

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

7 years

AX has banned artists from selling 18+ material in Artist Alley in 2018, but I'm sure the big time dealers selling hentai won't be effected.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

6 years

Correction: in the western mainstream. I'm just so grateful to all the artists and studios making this content for western audiences, grateful to the culture it originates from, grateful to see more gorgeous art every day by amazing artists from all walks of life.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

5 years

This is the Daenerys Targaryen I'll do my best to remember. The Mother of Dragons and Breaker of Chains that made me and so many women feel empowered. #GameofThrones #Daenerys

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@heyjenbartel

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

4 years

While I try to think of something new to draw, 50% of sales from this print will go towards BLM in Seattle. I wish I could do 100%, but with no stable income right now I'm trying to do what I can.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

3 years

Mora is 3 months old today! (We wiped her off immediately)

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

4 years

@Giancarlo_Volpe I still can't believe that in 2006, when Avatar was fresh and absolutely thriving, all my art school professors told us anime styled art would never do well here. ART SCHOOL WHY.

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@misspenart

6 years

Them: How many times will you redraw Gustav Klimt's Kiss for the gays before you stop. Me: As many times as it takes.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

6 years

Hey artist alley friends - I know you got bills to pay, but please skip Anime Matsuri. Going there is not a good look and says a lot about your values. There are plenty of other anime cons in the year that aren't owned by sexual predators, go spend money and make money on those.

Heather Curf

@heathercurf

6 years

Since Anime Matsuri is opening artist table sales soon, here is a reminder to BOYCOTT AM by leaving their artist alley empty!!! The organizer has multiple sexual harassment and the con has a long history of mistreating their staff and vendors.

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Missy Pena 💀

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4 years

Got an email from an artist asking if Told Magazine Inc is really a scam, and the answer is YES. It's a scam aimed at vulnerable artists. They offer an interview and then ask for money so they can mail you magazines, but it's all a ruse. Don't fall for it.

ChloeCarterArts

@ChloeCarterArts

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Just a warning to art twitter - there's (another) e-mail scam going around. I received the pictured email today from 'Told Magazine Inc', and was pretty skeptical so did some digging. (1/4)

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

4 years

HELLO FROM CAPITOL HILL SEATTLE 💙

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@misspenart

4 years

@Trungles Makes sense, He is clearly bread.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

5 years

100 days till @emeraldcitycon #ECCC2020 💚💚💚

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@misspenart

9 months

@BizzareBlue Could you please at least credit me for my work? It's horrible enough that you've copied it and are selling it. This is only going to isolate you from the very small international Artist Alley community.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

7 years

Steven Universe issue 14 is out! Here's the cover I did for it, based on Alphonse Mucha's 1897 ad, Société Populaire des Beaux Arts. It just seemed to fit Rose and Greg so well. 💕

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@misspenart

4 years

REAL GHOST paranormal activity caught on camera Spooky Graveyard HAUNTED full body apparition PROOF *Not Clickbait*

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

5 years

Look at this beautiful illustration of my bard Gildor I commissioned from @tsulala !! Let it sooth and heal you just as much as it is soothing and healing me. I can't wait to put the original on my wall. 🎻💚✨

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@misspenart

4 years

He is Risen.

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@misspenart

5 years

Me: *gets up to use the bathroom once in a 10 hr Artist Alley workday* 400 People: I CAME BY YOUR TABLE EARLIER BUT YOU WEREN'T THERE.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

4 years

My art got stolen again and the thieves made 600 sales. I'm linking places you can buy my art, where I barely make 10-20 sales a month. Please shop here instead. Shop: INPRNT: S6: RB:

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@misspenart

4 years

A story in three parts. ✨✨✨ Put your dreams, however big or small, out into the universe. You never know what could happen. 😊

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@misspenart

5 years

You ever do a Yesstyle deep dive and find a shirt dress that just attacks you.

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@misspenart

5 years

Hi please hire me to draw your covers, I promise I'm not pasting fan art on top of official comics and that I'm very professional.

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Missy Pena 💀

@misspenart

3 years

My puppy ate a sleeping pill my mom dropped and wracked up a $5k vet bill. I'm fortunate to have savings but this was a blow right before a big move, so I'm leaving my shop links here. RTs appreciated.

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@misspenart

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#StevenUniverse issue 12 is out!!! Here's the cover I did for it, and it's inspirations. ✨💙💖💜

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@misspenart

3 years

Just added to my Shopify - Kiss on Ice 6x9 gold foil mini prints. Just added to my INPRNT - Two Klimt inspired Yuri on Ice prints originally only available in a sold out zine. #YOI ✨ ✨

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@misspenart

8 years

The Great Wave off Kanto, drawn by @misspenart - me! #Pokemon #Hokusai #ArtHistory 🌊

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@misspenart

6 years

For Instagram, and here too. 😓 #ArtTheft #SunSeaApparel Please spread this / don't buy from them.

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@misspenart

3 years

Hey @comicconla this seller in your dealer hall, purrlosangeles on Instagram, is selling bootleg merch including fan art stolen from me. Is this the kind of thing you're ok with at your con? #LAComicCon #ArtTheft

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@misspenart

5 years

I want to buy a Switch Lite but I'm holding onto an impossible dream.

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@misspenart

5 years

Two Dreams of You is a short story about my personal experience with loss, grieving, and dreams. It's something I've been wanting to share for a long time. Warning for unknown cause of teen death. #2DreamsOfYou 🖤

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@misspenart

6 years

🔮 Espeon's Fortune Telling ☀️ 🌘 Umbreon's Graveyard Tours ⚰️ New prints for Spring 2019 #Pokemon

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@misspenart

2 years

You can feed an AI all the medieval art in the world, and it will never create baroque. You can feed it all the baroque art, and it will never create abstract. I've been finding comfort in that AI cannot create, just copy. Only human creative expression can move us forward.

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@misspenart

5 years

I'm so tired of this happening. #ArtTheft

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@misspenart

5 years

Dungeons&Dragons: Tieflings can have a range of natural skin tones similar to that of humans. Players: Okay but what if

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@misspenart

4 years

Tomorrow morning I'm voluntarily going through leukapheresis so covid-19 vaccine developers can use my white blood cells in their research. It's a 3-4 hour process during which my blood will be cycled out and back into my body... this'll be the most metal thing I've ever done. 🤘

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@misspenart

5 years

Since a lot of people are working from home now or will be soon, a little advice from a freelancer. Get dressed as if you were going to work every day, and work at a desk if possible, not your bed or couch. It helps separate the "work" from "relax at home" feeling immensely.

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6 years

To all the dudes going, "BUT HOW DOES A ROGUE IN A WHEELCHAIR POSSIBLY STEALTH?!" -put ranks in stealth -roll dice -come up with a narrative to play out the result In otherwords, play DnD. 🙄

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🔮 Espeon's Fortune Telling ☀️ 🌘 Umbreon's Graveyard Tours ⚰️ Happy #PokemonDay ✨