Hyra

@hyracia.bsky.social

Artist following a lot of artists I adore off of twitter, here primarily to see beautiful art. NSFW. The majority of my recent art is here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/reckless-drivers-pack but I do intend to post more of it over on bluesky with time.

Yet more Wrath and Glory more like Wrath and Horny. Captain Alden Rosh can get manhandled by his crew because I say so. I think it would do him some good. Cropped versions first. The cropped version of that last one is SO funny to me like. Alden's hand just reaching into frame...someone help him...

The first and most dangerous step in the production of vampire antivenom is, of course, milking the venom from which it's synthesized. Luckily, some volunteers seem to even enjoy the process 🧪

a vampire girl in a lab, having her venom milked. a leather harness holds her mouth open with a metal bit, preventing her from biting, while a lab tech holds a vial to her fangs to catch the dripping venom; another gloved worker assists from behind.

And to come full circle - because these trains are constantly roaming across the US, and many hobbyists work from real reference photos they've taken, you end up with real pieces on these models. ICHABOD (aka The Rail God), an extremely prolific graffiti writer, ended up in a lot of my searches.

A model train in a glass case in a museum, featuring a famous piece from ICHABOD with blue skulls as the fill.Two graffiti pieces on a rusty weathered model train, the left is ICH! and the right is SPRK.Three model trains that come in an official set you can purchase from Micro Trains Line, each featuring a different piece of ICHABOD.

This all starts with a secret handshake between writers and yard workers, a mutual understanding that if writers don't leave cans behind, and they don't touch the identifying numbers on the cars, then there's largely no harm. Writers will go to meticulous lengths to respect the latter rule.

Blue and white graffiti on the side of a train with the numbers 110798 meticulously left alone and untouchedGraffiti with the freight car identification, CTTX 692054, untouched on the bottom left. The graffiti is black and white on a mostly bare metal car with yellow highlights.Graffiti avoiding the markings TTGX 697986Graffiti avoiding markings on both the inner part of the piece and also going up and around the numbers with the blue highlight color. The markings are FB OX 50 52 84.

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

Update: We are working on a follow-up to the LG story and have some disturbing findings re: LG's products. It will take us a while to parse everything and we have involved multiple security researchers, lawyers (working on reading around 40,000 words of LG agreements that are, generally, terrifying