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A Resting Dragonfly

@restingdragonfly.bsky.social

As the dragonfly transforms From one of water to one of air The paradigm shifts From Constraint to Freedom It's wings taste the air And off it soars Rapidly to the horizon Where the future shines ≽༏≼ Trans Enby Artist and Democratic Socialist🌹 Free 🇵🇸

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A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you post anything that has "ai" generated images or text, I'm not engaging with your content ever again. I don't care about ifs, ands, or buts at this point. Llms are being used to create mass propaganda, steal art from artists, and create fake "emotional" entertainment.

A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie released the year you turned 18?

Miles Morales Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Alt: Clip of Miles Morales in his Spiderman costume shattering a window while doing a backflip off a tall building and then free falling from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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Charlie *Perpetually drawing*@emberkitsune.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie released the year you turned 18?

Michael F. DuBois@michaelfdubois.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

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A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Oh wow! I'm almost at 150 followers. I don't think I've ever had this many people follow me on a social media account. Might look into doing a follower raffle in the next few months if anyone's interested! A fully colored piece, your choice of digital, pixel, or acrylic painting perhaps? Not sure!

A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 7mo ago

OMG!! MY NAME CHANGE HAS FINALLY PROCESSED!!! Right after TDoV too!! I've been crying my eyes out for the last 20 minutes since it got here. It's amazing to finally be able to represent me as me in all situations. I'm finally Elijah fully and legally 😭💖

A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Today, I call back to art from a younger Eli. Art was my vessel of self-discovery, growth, and crucial to my trans experience. When I had no idea who I was, I explored the idea of me through art. Despite everything, we are here, trans, and we will not go away! Happy Trans Day of Visibility 💖🏳️‍⚧️💖

An illustration likely made back around 2018 to 2020 with makers and ink pens. A green cactus person feeds small blue birds while covered in a thorny vine which extends down from the bright magenta flower on their head. They wear a yellow hoodie with red and white stripes on the sleeves, vibrant teal jeans, and red converse. A small bag with a heart symbol sits behind them. Their eyes cannot be seen, but as they sit with the birds on the ground, they seem to be smiling. It's uncertain if the thorny vines cause them any pain. The art is incapsulated with a rounded green triangle behind to frame the picture. There were many times I gravitated towards depicting myself as a non-human entity. Back when I was younger, I related with that idea much more than I did my actual body. The artwork is signed with DN, initials which now go unused by the artist.An illustration made with markers and ink pens likely around 2022. The artist interprets themself as a furry dog person due to a tiktok trend they had come across. Despite ultimately not relating with being a furry, they interpret a sense of gender through the style. The dog-person is a brown and white husky with yellow eyes and a long green bang that comes over their right eye. They wear a black spiked collar, red plaid button up shirt, a white binder underneath, black ripped jeans with a black belt and a chain, a black spiked bracelet, and various ear jewelry. The character appears to be slightly confused with their tongue suck out. Two smaller drawings of just their head are to the right of the drawing. One depicting the character screaming comically, and the other staring annoyedly. The art is highlighted with a thick white rounded border against a black background.A pencil illustration likely made in 2017. The artist interprets themself on a canvas, referencing a picture they took of themselves surrounded by a floral, quilted blanket. The lines are rough and sketchy, but they manage to texture their hair, eyebrows, lips, and get good shading around the eyes, face, neck, and on the blanket themself. Interestingly, the artist appeared to try to make themselves not appear as feminine. I remember when working on this piece I ended up enjoying illustrating the floral pattern on the blanket more than my own face. Looking back, it's interesting to see myself again similarly to how I saw myself back at that time. The art is signed with the initials DN, which the artist no longer uses anymore.This illustration was made around 2015 with pencil and some crappy paints I had likely gotten from an art set for Christmas. A depiction of myself as a goat/satyr person, who had actually been an Undertale OC. One of the first times I had made a version of myself that wasn't how most people told me that I was. Many of the features of my body which I had despised at the time were covered up or removed on this character. At the time, I hated this artwork and thought it was bad. Looking back now, I feel empathy for that me. Lost, confused, sad, scared, but hopeful. The smaller satyr of this illustration is holding a rose up to their chest, a small speech bubble saying "Knives aren't roses..." The second bubble, which is cut off in this picture says "you're still here" I remember that I had written a song with this lyric at the time. I believe it was a reminder to me to be kinder to myself, to not hold my own shortcomings over my head. Self love was a necessary aspect of coming to terms with who I am, but despite my reminder to have it here, I did not achieve that for a long time. Younger me would be happy to know that I loved myself eventually. And I'm happy to say that I do now. To give more details of the illustration itself, a portrait of a goat person stares with a small pink smile, though their eyes seem large and tired. Blue hypnotic rings are within their eyes, symbolizing their inner sadness (this character's eyes changed color based on their mood). Their fur is brown and covers their hair in a bowl on their head, and is thick around their chest (to cover it up). What isn't covered by fur is pale yellowish skin. On the smaller illustration of the goat person, they have that same fur covering their hips and thighs, with black lower legs and feet poking out of the fur. Big white horns adorn their head.
A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy to be included in this lovely starter pack by Hex. 💖 Be sure to go check out and support any of these great artists featured!!

✨HEX @ comms!@hexlix.art · 7mo ago

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍 HAPPY #TRANSDAYOFVISIBILITY 🤍🩷💙 Support your local trans artists by reposting their art and following a trans artist today! 👇 If you are trans... There's still plenty of room in this starter pack! Share your art below and introduce yourself! go.bsky.app/6KhkBXh #tdov #art

A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I finally finished this a few weeks ago, but I could not come up with alt text for the life of me so now its here #oc #D&D #elf #cleric #twilight #digitalart

A digital illustration of Estelle Naverde; a Twilight cleric who acts as the party tank/leader. Here she preemptively casts a spell, a suspicious glance on her face portraying sensing danger of some kind in the distance. Sparkly purplish-blue magic shrouds her left hand and comes up around her armored boots, as if it is some kind of damaging aoe around her (spirit guardians spell for those that know). She has her black hair in tight braids which come down slightly below her shoulders. A starred circlet adorns her forehead. Her eyes are purple and wincing. Her eyebrows are creased in concern. Her lips are pursed. Her nose is mildly scrunched. Her skin is an orangeish brown. Her pose is more relaxed, as if she expects whatever threat she detects to be easy to handle. Silver armor adorned with starry imagery covers her torso, shoulders, forearms, hips, feet, and knees, though the latter two are obscured by her magic. She wears a flowy purple dress with pinkish hues that sheen through with the light. A darker purple tabard comes down from her hip armor with a 8 pointed star surrounded by four 4 pointed stars in white with a white outline. Her cape at her back matches the tabards colors, though appears to be rounded at the bottom. Leather straps hold a flail at her waist and a shield at her back. Behind her are snowy hills and large rocky mountains. It's the dead of night with many stars overhead.
A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I worked on this redesign of my D&D OC Estelle the other day. I do love how this came out, but I still need to shade it. I included the old design also, which I still love, but she's a Twilight cleric acting as the party tank so my lady needed some armor! #D&D #OC #digitalart #flatcolor #cleric #elf

New design of a character named Estelle Naverde. She has dark, orangeish brown skin. Her dark black hair is done up neatly in small, tight braids capped with small silver rings and twirled below them. Although she faces towards her left, her head is turned towards the right, staring off towards something with a concerned expression. Her eyes, which are mildly squinting, are a medium purple hue. She has a rounded, flared nose, and big, beautiful lips. Her eyebrows are full, and furrowed with her expression. Her ears are long and slender, coming to a point at their tips. She is tall, but somewhat stocky, giving the impression that she is strong. Most of her body is covered by her dress and armor, but skin shows around her shoulders, her neck, and her face. She wears a purple, half mermaid tail dress with big sleeves that hang down under her shoulders and a ruffled skirt. The color compliments her eyes. She has silver & platinum pauldrons, chest piece, skirt armor, greaves, neck cover, heeled boots, a circlet, a shield on her back, and a spiked flail all adorned with imagery of a 8 pointed star (a four pointed star defined horizontally and vertically, but with 4 additional points coming out from underneath the four pointed one diagonally). Her dress sleeves have an 8 pointed star at the top of each sleeve. She has leather gloves, a leather belt to hold her flail, a leather strap over her chest to hold her shield, and leather straps under her pauldrons and greaves. A small tapestry hangs under her skirt armor depicting the eight pointed star with four smaller four pointed stars around it. It is a light purple with a white border and white stars. A rounded-edged, flared cape is behind her, under her shield, with the same colors as the tapestry. Over her left hand, which she holds up making a pinch, is purple, glowy magic with little stars inside. "Elijah E.F." is signed just to the right of her left boot, signifying the artist that created this piece.
A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I also did this sketch on the way to my trip. I saw my reflection on my phone (i was really struggling to entertain myself during an 8 hour car ride), and thought the angle was interesting. Sleep deprivation had me looking wrecked that day too 😂

A pencil sketch of the perspective of a phone while someone tired out of their mind looks down at it for entertainment. They do not look entertained. Their nose is especially flared as the angle looks right up into kt. Their lips and eyes droop. Their hair is scraggly around their head, held out of their face by some headphones. Above them is a sketch of a fish with a similarly tired looking expression. An arrow is drawn from the fish to the person, showing their similarity. "tired + angle = fish" is written to the left of the sketches
A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I did this abstract drawing of a creek with color pencils on the way back from my Tennessee trip. It's not amazing, but art doesn't have to be. You can just draw something because its fun and you feel like it. I did love hiking and getting to see sights like that creek. Nature is beautiful.

A colorful interpretation of a creek with a small waterfall done with color pencils on paper. Green bushes, and purple rocks surround the blue water of the creek. Bright red bark upholds green leaves, and bigger red trees, though barren from the cool winter, brighten up the greyish landscape behind. Elijah E.F. is signed in the corner of the drawing, signifying the artist who drew it.An actual picture of the creek depicted in the drawing. A beautiful sight that was witnessed on a hike up to Rainbow Falls. While the photographer never reached Rainbow Falls that day, they did enjoy the bubbling sounds of the creek, the splashing of the small waterfall, and the rustling of the leaves on the bushes. The rocky landscape, featured in the image, was fun to climb. The barren trees, whose leaves had fallen off from the winter, didn't take away from the beauty of the land. If anything, it added to it.
A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The hat got here!! It's so cute, and I'm really happy about it! I've never bought something directly from a seller online before, but @roxygen.bsky.social made it really easy and was super nice/patient with me. Would definitely buy it again!!

A person with long, wavy brown hair stands outside a house in front of a bush. They are smiling and holding up a peace sign with their left hand. Sunglasses obscure their eyes. They have on a colorful striped shirt. They wear a pink hat with a few custom designs on it made with fabric paint. The brim of the bill has the words "Stay Alive" over and over. An orange & red cartoon peach with a smiley face is on the bill above the words. The front panels have the word "Peachy" embroidered onto it. Above "Peachy" is an eye with a small peach in the center as the pupil.
Roxygen Blazey Summers@roxygen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thanks to @an-eli-incarnation.bsky.social for snatching up the Stay Alive piece!! I can’t get over how cute these came out. Rest are still up for sale

A Resting Dragonfly@restingdragonfly.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Loot that drops after defeating me: - 12 sketchbooks of unfinished drawings - a Steam account with over 100 games - 8 notebooks filled with random nonsense - a random assortment of lego bricks - a 6-year-old gaming laptop - treasure box with many green D&D dice inside - unobtained hopes and dreams

Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com@inkskratch.com · 9mo ago

Loot that drops after defeating me: -600 readings -An exam-approved calculator -4,000 notes of story ideas that end with "hu hu hu" -A cintiq with a half-finished page on it -Gift certificates to three comic book storez