Oliver 💙

@oliverniko.bsky.social

♿🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | He/Him, Artist and Writer - Dreamy, ethereal light and softness 💙 - Severely disabled - Original pieces and fandom: Fire Emblem, Tales Of, JRPGs etc - Sometimes 🔞

If you're in fandom, please engage with the fics you read, the art you view. You don't have to read/scroll everything, but if you *do* read/see it, please let the creators know. I am seeing so many people burn out because engagement keeps dropping. It feels like tapping the mic - 'is this thing on?'

New bigger health update from Instagram as I have friends tell me they worry in heatwaves. But I think it's a lot of dramatic suffering with little chance of like, death. 😂 I'm still creating at times too but taking it slow.

The heatwave has ended here and I think a health update is due 💙 Not intended as a vent, but is long because so is my list of health shit lol. I like to update as I know folks worry about me getting hospitalised or worse. (Hold to read)

Despite being the shortest this one has hit the most because of how in the span of a week, it's been 18°, 30+ then back to 18. My body hasn't ever dealt with that before and it's really struggling. My HRV is the lowest it's been in years rn and a lot of symptoms are flaring. The worst being pain related ones. Migraine as expected, but every single bone, tendon, muscle and skin surface area are way above baseline pain with awful allodynia. Head to toe nerve pain flare up too. My born condition is a bit worrying and I have to be careful so I don't have an injury, can barely put weight down on my feet because it hurts so much.

My body also can't regulate temp at all. I'm having regular hallucinations upon waking because of the fever I run in my sleep. Haven't sweat at all in days, not a drop. I can just lie there and I feel myself suddenly burning up dramatically. 

So obviously I'm glad it's cooling down ahaha and I'm sleeping again, with less nightmares, but that drop has consequence. I think at this point I'll be all right, it's just a whole lot of suffering. And not knowing how best to rest because staying still hurts so badly but then I'll stretch and see stars lol. Just taking it one bit a time. Massive pain oriented spikes like this are typically shorter lasting and not having much raised brain fog is a good sign, also don't have much raised nausea or other illness symptoms typical of a longer crash. Just feels like torture in the meantime.

while i don't think that copying another artist's work 1:1 for "trends" is on the same level of AI, there needs to be a serious discussion about stealing/copying and treating other artists and their work as "inspo"/turning their work into unwelcome trends they didn't consent to in the art community

Solaire (@7.5!)@solairelunaire.bsky.social · 2d ago

thinking about the popularity of so many "redraw trends" and plagiarism of compositions by all sorts of artists (it comes up often for gposing but 2D artists do it too). i have to sum up my discomfort with it as follows: it's artists treating other artists the same way A/I treats art as data

With a ceramic sponsorship wrapping up I thought I'd put out feelers for a trade!! OFFERING CERAMICS What I'm willing to take: -fursuit parts -vegan baked goodies -tattoos! (I'd travel to you~) -other ceramics/ other handmade items! -make an offer! Dm if interested in a possible trade!

A picture of a ceramic plate being held up. On the inside there's a little yellow dog in a red shirt laying in a clover field. He's looking up at shooting stars. The border is a pattern of flowers and stars in a pattern of colors.A ceramic cup is being held up. You can see the inside is fully red, and on the outside there's a ptarmigan bird saying "awebo!!" Around him are branches with red berries on the ends.A pile of finished ceramics. You see a few cat and dog shaped vessels in the back, some bowls, a Garfield mini vase, paint palletes, a tomato dish, and a cup with a puppy holding a cup on it.A small ceramic dog figurine with a bright red nose.