Alden | vespapire

@vespapire.bsky.social

he/him | Comic artist, miniature painter, certified freak https://artfight.net/~vespapire Vespapire on most other sites

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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okay but, this is the way we fight AI in everyday life we need to foster an atmosphere of disgust and repulsion of AI, like AI is like seeing a roach in a google review. Get up and leave the restaurant. "um, I just saw some AI stuff, I just... I dunno, it's gross haha. I'm good. thanks. Thank you"

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

we need to be normies about this and be like "EEEWW... IS THAT AI? THAT'S SO GROSS.... EW IT LOOKS SO GROSS (gag noise) UM, LET'S GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. EW LOL" normalize being outwardly repulsed by it physically

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

love is so beautiful. love can destroy someone so completely and utterly. i had that childhood phase where it was girlish to love love and therefore it was stupid and vapid. but have you thought about how vulnerable and brave it is to allow oneself to be changed by love.

I’m the worst at posting things I draw lolll Fact about this: I was cosplaying her for our final session, then everyone wanted to get out of costume but I was in a dress with these undergarments and only had my friend’s t shirt to change into… resulting in this outfit

A tall woman with curly dark brown hair. Her hands and feet have dark jaguar spot patterns on them. She’s wearing black lingerie and fishnets, and her body is coyly hidden by an oversized MARUCHAN INSTANT LUNCH t shirt.

ask your creative peers and friends what inspires them. ask them if they have ever had the same dream more than three times and if its ever shown up in their work. ask them if there's a ghost in their drawings. ask them if they've ever made themselves cry while painting, writing. ask them "why art?"