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guys michele mouton really has that julia ortega vibe

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

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very self-indulgent griddlehark

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women wear suits better than men and thats just a cold hard fact

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tlt au where gid is a sword for hire who keeps hanging out in battlefields so that she can flirt with a certain reaper

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Finished SWTOR commission of Scorpiosa-x’s light side agent character.  Everything done in SAI.

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Coruscant Underworld, Level 1313 for 5.19 To Catch a Jedi

by J.P. Balmet

We were able to work from some of the great stuff the 1313 project was producing at the time, so this was a riff on what they were doing, but reinterpreted for Clone Wars.

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happy halloween 🎃 💀🧡

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Good riddance to bad trash

Hey, Canada…👀

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

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"I'm so sorry! Wasn't looking where I was going at all," you hear a voice say in a rush, and watch them grimace apologetically.

-- The Nameless, by @parkerlyn

Filled entire pages with doodles to try and learn the mysteries of digital drawing (spoiler: it's not going well). This dork just happened to be a lot in there 💙

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kotor as vines part (1) of (as-many-as-i-feel-like-drawing)

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Another issue with allowing every company on Earth to masquerade as a "tech company" regardless of what they do is that Netflix's CEO gets to pretend he runs some kind of neutral content platform, like Facebook, instead of what he actually does, which is run a TV and movie production company and distributor. These entities do not have the same relationship to the concept of free speech and censorship.

Yes, there's an open question of whether Facebook should allow sharing and discussion of offensive or inflammatory content - maybe it's a little more cut-and-dried if you think about whether Google should index that kind of content in its search results, or whether a public or school library should carry it and make it accessible to readers. But these are really fundamentally different things from talking about criticism of a company that directly pays someone millions of dollars to create that content, to bring it into the world, and does that in the hope of realizing a profit on the invested capital. That's a business decision, and it reflects on the company.

If a publishing house is known for publishing white nationalists then they get called a "white nationalist publisher," and fairly so. Netflix wants to have their cake and eat it too, in terms of making money by producing and distributing transphobic content but then not to be labeled a "transphobic producer." And the way they're making that argument is by pretending to be in the same position, neutrally mediating between content and consumer, as Facebook or Google. But even disregarding their role in producing that content, this only works if Netflix is the only way you are getting TV and movie content streamed to you online. And yes, that's what Netflix wants, that's how they originally envisioned their service as working, but that ship sailed a long time ago.

It's very Silicon Valley-brained, but it's also just depressingly neoliberal in the way it totally collapses the distinction between the public and private spheres. Censorship was formerly an abuse of the state that needed to be guarded against (this is why the First Amendment exists, and why public libraries are so narrowly constrained when it comes to restricting the use of their space); now it's somehow wholly a corporate issue and it's up to this brave company to protect us all from censorship by making baller money off of hate speech and telling anyone who complains to can it. It's so disingenuous.

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IT'S FINISHED

My first artwork on the drawing pad (if we ignore the short Malgus-sketch I did a few days ago).

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SOLIDARITY WITH KELLOGG WORKERS !! 1,400 (SO FAR) ON STRIKE FOR BETTER WAGES AND BENEFITS !!

here’s a graphic of products made by kellogg to avoid buying

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https://ebookclub.tor.com

Tor’s Free Book of the Month is Gideon the Ninth. I highly recommend it! I had to post this so more people can find out about this.

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Rachel Eaton on Instagram / Etsy

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Balmorra comes second to Alderaan for me, but so many of the planet’s soundtracks set the perfect atmosphere. The music makes it so easy to boot up the game and just sit back and daydream—getting lost in the mysticism of Tatooine, or feeling the tension of political scheming on Dromund Kaas.

Which planet soundtrack is your favourite and why is it Balmorra?