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[yaoiwchie-wowchie]

The experience of watching later seasons of the flash is just going "I miss Cisco".

[icedteaandoldlace]

No hay un héroe como tú.

[purplecyborgnewt]

[rjs-iclass]

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[lanne13]

I love Leonard Snart so much

[olivergisttv]

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[richardtheteacher]

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Even as far back as 2020, during the height of the pandemic, research was being conducted on the effectiveness of video conferencing in education, and some such research concluded that online meetings would remain popular long-after the pandemic was over.

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[tieran81]

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[hawkstincan]

@softboydepot 😂

Cisco being annoyed with the Obvious Coldflash Tension is good. Classic.

However, I raise you: His gaydar being SO BAD that even when witnessing All Of That, he's shocked to find out later that they are now in fact together

--

Additional funny idea, for the lols: Cisco picking up that they're flirting, but assumes they are just obliviously pining and starts actively telling Barry to either pursue that crush or give up bc the pining is unbearable... But Barry and Snart have been actively together for like 2 years

[creature-wizard]

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

They talk about a shadowy group of people supposedly manipulating everything behind the scenes. They might refer to them by terms such as globalists, bankers, international bankers, secret rulers of the world, the elite, the cabal, Kabbalists, Talmudists, satanists, satanic pedophiles, pedophiles, generational satanists, satanic bloodlines, the Illuminati, the Babylonian Brotherhood, lizard people, Reptilians, Orions, regressives, regressive entities, Khazarians, Marxists, cultural Marxists, or leftists. Sometimes, very rarely, they'll just come right out and say "Jews."

They claim that the conspiracy has been working to conceal historical and spiritual truths from humanity.

They claim that the conspiracy uses stuff like food, entertainment, and medicine to control the masses. For example, "additives in food suppress our psychic abilities" or "Hollywood films contain subliminal messages" or "COVID vaccines were actually created to alter your DNA to make you more docile."

Also, claims that the conspiracy controls people via spiritual or technological implants, 5G, or alter programming, with or without explicit mention of Project Monarch (a conspiracy theory promoted by far right cranks such as Mark Philips and Fritz Springmeier, who used hypnosis to respectively convince Cathy O'Brien and Cisco Wheeler that they'd been put under mind control by a global satanic conspiracy).

They claim that this conspiracy is controlling the media, has fingers in every institution they disagree with, and is generally behind everything they disagree with. (EG, the conspiracy created the Catholic Church; that other New Ager they disagree with is actually controlled opposition, etc.)

They claim that the conspiracy is trying to keep people in fear.

They claim that the conspiracy harvests something from people. Blood and adrenochrome are common ones. Loosh is somewhat less common. Expect to see something else pop up eventually.

They claim that the conspiracy practices genetic engineering; EG, creating animal/human hybrids, using vaccines to genetically sever people's connection to God, etc.

They claim that true spiritual wisdom can be traced back to places like Atlantis, Lemuria, or Mu.

They claim that world governments have secretly been in contact with extraterrestrials for years.

They appeal to known frauds and cranks, including but not limited to Erich Von Daniken, Zechariah Sitchin, David Icke, David Wilcock, Graham Hancock, Jaime Maussan, Bob Lazar, Steven Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Fritz Springmeier, and Drunvalo Melchizedek.

Appeals to forged documents, including but not limited to the alleged diary of Admiral Richard Byrd, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, and The Urantia Book.

Appeals to channeled information, such as that provided by Edgar Cayce, Carla Rueckert, or George Van Tassel.

"But all of this has to come from somewhere, doesn't it?"

Oh, it all comes from somewhere, all right, but the where isn't what most people imagine.

A lot of the stuff above is just a modern spin on the content of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a Russian hoax created to justify violence against Russian Jews. The Protocols itself was plagiarized from a political satire and incorporated a lot of the post-French Revolution conspiracy theories about Freemasons and Jews being behind the French Revolution. I wrote a summary of the conspiracy tropes found in The Protocols over here.

The stuff about Satanic sacrifices and the consumption of blood, adrenochrome, loosh, or whatever are simply just variations on blood libel, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews practice ritual cannibalism. Blood libel can be traced back to ancient Greece. (With the Greek version, I really can't help but notice the similarity to modern urban legends of gangsters kidnapping random people for initiation rituals.)

Many of these tropes can also be linked back to the early modern witch hunts. It was believed that witches sacrificed babies to Satan, practiced cannibalism, and put people under mind control by way of diabolical magic. It was also believed that some witches didn't even know they were witches; they'd go off to attend the Devil's Sabbath at night and come back in the morning without remembering a thing. In the late 20th century, this witch hunter's canard would be reinvented as the alter programming conspiracy theory when media such as the 1973 book Sibyl and its 1976 television adaptation put DID (note: the woman who inspired Sibyl did not have DID) into the public consciousness. For a more complete list of witch panic and blood libel tropes, I wrote a list over here.

Lemuria was a hypothetical landmass proposed to explain the presence of lemur fossils in Madagascar and India while being absent in continental Africa and the rest of Asia, because if lemurs evolved naturally, they wouldn't be in two separate places with no connection to each other. The discovery that India and Madagascar were once connected not only made the hypothesis obsolete, it precludes the existence of Lemuria.

The whole notion of Mu began with a horrendous mistranslation of the Troano manuscript. A man named Augustus Le Plongeon would link the mistranslation with the story of Atlantis, and use it to claim that Atlantis actually existed in the Americas. (For Plongeon, Mu and Atlantis were one and the same.) And then other people (like James Churchward) got their hands on the whole Mu thing, and put their own spins on it, and the rest is history.

Le Plongeon's ideas influence modern Atlantis mythology today; EG, the idea that it was in the Americas. Another guy who helped shape the modern Atlantis myth was Ignatius L. Donnelly, an American politician. Dude claimed that Atlanteans spread their oh-so-superior culture far and wide. He also claimed that Atlantis was the home of the Aryan people, because of course he did.

The idea that all of the world's wisdom can be traced back to Thoth/Hermes goes back to Hermeticism, a product of Greco-Egyptian syncretism. Hermeticism produced a fascinating body of mythology and an interesting way to consider the divine and its role in shaping human history, but that doesn't mean it was right. And the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is a modern text that has fuck-all to do with ancient Hermeticism and more to do with HP Lovecraft.

This idea that the conspiracy uses pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for evil also has roots in Nazi Germany. The Nazi government, wanting to reserve real medicine for their soldiers, told the general populace that said medicine was the product of evil Jewish science and prescribed alternative healing modalities instead. (Said alternative healing modalities did not particularly work.) It also echoes the old conspiracy theories about Jews spreading the Black Death by poisoning wells.

The idea that the conspiracy uses genetic manipulation to create subhuman beings or sever humanity from the divine is a permutation of the Nazi conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to destroy the white race through race mixing. The idea of evil reptilian DNA goes back to the ancient serpent seed doctrine, which is indeed old, but no less pure hateful nonsense for it.

"But there's got to be somebody up to something rotten out there!"

Oh sure. But these people aren't skulking around in the shadows. They're acting pretty openly.

The Heritage Foundation has been working to push this country into Christofascism since the early 1970's. They're the ones responsible for the rise of the Moral Majority and the election of Ronald Reagan. They're also the ones behind Project 2025, which intends to bring us deeper into Christofascism. (Among many other horrible things, they intend to outlaw trans people as "pornographic.")

The Seven Mountains Mandate is another movement pushing for Christofascism. They intend to seize the "seven spheres" of society, which include education, religion, family, business, government/military, arts/entertainment, and media.

There's also the ghoulish American Evangelicals who support Israel because they think that current events are going to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus and cement the formation of a global Christofascist empire. Don't let their apparent support of Jews fool you - they believe that the good Jews will become Christians and the bad ones will go to hell.

All of these people are working toward monstrously horrific goals, but none of them are part of an ancient megaconspiracy. In fact, these are the kinds of people pushing the myth of the ancient megaconspiracy. From the witch hunts to Nazi Germany to the American Evangelical movement, if history has taught us anything, the people pushing the conspiracy theories are always the bad guys.

[andiberzatto]

mikey and reader with a baby!! maybe reader is upset and struggling with herself, and mikey helps out with the baby!

Magic Sandwich Man (Mikey Berzatto x Single Mom!Reader)

Not exactly a baby but I do have this idea… (I’ll make one with a baby if I can think of a good way to shape the scenario)

Summary: Mikey falls for a single mom with a kid. (Mikey being a blushy mess and Richie being… Richie)

You were going to your usual sandwich lunch spot with your 4-year-old son, Ryder. Ryder has figured out how to unbuckle his own car seat and open doors if the handle is low enough. So as you move to get out of the car and grab your purse, you see Ryder bolt into the sandwich shop, the door held open by one of the nice regulars.

Your son Ryder rushes to the front of the long line and slaps a piece of construction paper with “ Freed Sandwich” scrawled on it in crayon, looking proudly at the men working the front. Richie sees it and laughs, having a young daughter at home, he finds it endearing even if he can’t accept the “coupon”. Mikey would laugh if today hadn’t been so shit. The oven was broken, the Cisco order was delivered wrong. They didn’t have enough money to pay the napkin vendor. I mean, how fuckin broke do you gotta be to not afford napkins? Mikey looks at the kid’s horribly spelled fake homemade coupon. He can’t snap at the kid; he doesn’t know better.

Mikey leans his forearms on the counter, “Hey, bud… we don’t do coupons.” He’s stern, and his gravelly voice slightly scares Ryder.

Ryder pouts his bottom lip, “Free sandmich…”

Mikey shakes his head softly and scoffs a laugh, power to the kid for using his best asset. A pouty bottom lip and puppy eyes.

The bells ring again, just as you rush in frantically looking for your son.

“You’re Mom?” Mikey states more of a statement than a question.

She nods, moving to grab Ryder to pull him out of the way of actual paying customers, and Mikey decides to be nice, “I’ll give the kid a free sandwich, but don’t think I’m accepting counterfeits anytime soon. I got a legit business here…”

She nods, “Thank you so much. He’s just started to learn to walk and how to unbuckle his seatbelt… he’s faster than me most days.” She smiles sheepishly as she rambles, “At least let me pay for it.” She looks to the other man, Richie. “He won’t take my money, but you will, right?”

Despite not making much money himself, Mikey shakes his head once more— he’d never take money from a single mom. Not a chance.

Richie smiles as he notices how adamantly Mikey was to not take your money, quickly jumping in to save the day, “Yeah, we’ll take your cash instead of the coupon. Although it’s very beautifully written…” Richie says sarcastically, gesturing to how some of the letters in “sandwich” are backwards.

Mikey sighed, narrowing his eyes at Richie but ultimately letting it go. He’d get his friend back for this— maybe make him clean the exploding toilet in the hall by the back room for the next few weeks.

She smiles, “How much?”

Richie and Mikey speak up at the same time, Richie saying “5.63” and Mikey saying “it’s on the house”.

Richie shot Mikey a smirk, thoroughly content with how annoyed he was making Mikey. Mikey clenched his jaw as he looked between the two of you. Desperately hoping you’d just take the offer of the free sandwich.

She sighs, “Fine, can I at least leave a tip?”

Richie was just about to speak up, another smirk on his face, but Mikey put his hand over Richie’s mouth, shooting him a look before refocusing on her.

“Yeah, uh, you can leave a tip if you really want. I won’t decline that.” Mikey said, secretly hoping you won’t leave too much.

“How much is 20% on a regular Italian beef?” She’s persistent and independent Mikey will give her that.

“$2.78” Richie blurt out.

Mikey shot his friend another glare , taking a step forward once again to cover his mouth. He looked back at you with an almost pleading expression, “Or you could just tip whatever you want” he said, keeping control over Richie with one hand over his mouth.

She laughs softly and leaves 5 bucks, which was enough to cover the sandwich anyways.

Mikey closes his eyes, groaning in annoyance once you did so. Richie grinned as he watched the money get dropped into the tip jar. Finding the situation endlessly comical.

Once you stepped back, Mikey removed his hand from Richie’s mouth, taking a second to pinch the bridge of his nose. He’s trying to be a gentleman here!

“You’re not gonna win this one cousin,” Richie snickered, clapping a hand on Mikey’s back. Mikey just shakes his head still annoyed at being passed up on his gentlemanly gesture.

“I think it’s very sweet of you to offer the sandwich for free… you seem like a kind man…” she says softly towards Mikey, Ryder standing by her side just tugging on her hand and lifting his feet using her arm like a swing. Oblivious to the whole incident he had caused.

Mikey tried to keep his annoyed facade, but the compliment had him cracking a bashful smile. Folding his arms over his chest. “I just feel bad chargin’ a pretty woman an’ her kid… thas all.” Mikey’s Chicago accent laying it on thick.

She smiles, “noted… and grateful ”

Another chuckle escaped Richie’s lips as he watched the interaction, clearly enjoying the reaction you were able to get from Mikey. He slapped a hand on his friends back speaking up again, “damn, Mikey’s never said that about a customer before. You’re like officially his favorite.”

She laughs, “I’ve been in the store for a solid 5 minutes…”

He usually hates people, man. Richie said with a shrug, his gaze flickers to Mikey and you. “This is the closest I’ve seen to him smiling at work. That alone makes ya his favorite” Richie boasts making Mikey flustered.

She smiles, “I think he’s just got a soft spot for cute kids or pretty girls..”

Mikey simply grumbles in response, noted really wanting to admit Richie’s words were true. Truth be told the beef wasn’t doing too hot, Mikey was pretty desperate and spiraling. So the smile he had from her was the first of few all month.

She grabs a table number and sits in the booth with her son.

Mikey let out a deep side as he watched you walk to the table still, and believe that this had happened to him. richie beside him, his gaze glued to you. He was clearly trying to figure out what you specifically had That made Mikey seem like a human being for once.

She sits and talks to her son and bouncing him softly on her knees as they wait .

Why can you watch from the pick up counter taking notice of how gentle you were with your son. Once again noticed the way Mike was watching. “See”, Richie whispered, “soft spot for kids”.

Mikey’s eyes with dart away every time you looked over his embarrassment of being caught watching evidence and his expression . Richie saw this grinning as he took note he nudge Mikey side, teasing her. You should go talk to her.

Mikey shook his head his grip on the counter tightening as the embarrassment grew. He wasn’t sure why he got flustered let alone over a woman.

Richie, however, was living from Mikey’s reaction and continued to nudge his friend encouraging him to just go talk .

She seems to catch on smiling softly and calling over. “I think there’s a seat here with your name on it. “

Mikey turns around look at you his face flushed with embarrassment. Richie didn’t let him answer pushing him forward as he replied. “I think so too go sit.”

Mikey reluctantly made his way over to the table, taking a seat across from her .

She smiled softly , “so you’re Mikey”

Mikey nodded a little awkwardly, running a hand through his disheveled hair. He wasn’t used to having conversations with people that just came in so he wasn’t quite sure how to start this. “Yeah. yeah”, he said, clearing his throat. “You already know my name.”

Richie snickers from the counter watching the interaction intently .

“I’m Allison everyone calls me Allie and this is my son Ryder.”

“Nice to meet you” Mikey said his gaze flitting to Ryder on her lap. That soft spot certainly was showing he had to refrain from making a noise at the sight

Richie couldn’t wait to tease them about this later .

She smiles “you always hit on single moms or just me ?”

Mikey’s face flushed red again as he shook his head quickly replying. “Nah nah I don’t hit on anyone during my shift. “

Richie, who been watching almost dropped to the ground from laughing at the Clear lie that got Mikey even more flustered he was so used to being so composed .

“I get the impression you’re a bit of a playboy “

Mikey groaned dropping his hands to his forehead and said “was it that obvious ?”

Richie seemed to find the situation hilarious having to turn away to control his laughter. Mikey shot glare in the direction before focusing back on her simply replying maybe

“I ain’t judging I’m just trying to read your character.”

Mikey nodded a little bit slightly impressed at how good you were at reading him so far it was a walk of being changed to being treated like just any other worker. Richie had to calm down his laughter instead of watching the whole situation play out muesli he’d never seen Mikey embarrassed over talking to a pretty girl. It was quite sight..

“So why hit on me or did you just want to do something nice for Ryder and that’s all?.”

Both I guess he admitted, avoiding your gay as he did so he wasn’t sure why he had on you so shamelessly like that. He was used to hitting on pretty girl sure but he never actually followed through.

Richie chuckled to himself as he heard Mikey struggled to come up with an answer. He knew damn well why Mikey was interested.

“So why me?”

Mikey shrugged in his response, tapping his fingers against the table. You’re pretty he admitted trying to think of anything more to say.

Richie sighed exasperated by how much Mikey he was struggling, he knew the answer was far deep deeper.

“Thank you I think you’re pretty handsome.”

Mikey tried his hard to hardest to fight the urge to smile, the compliment, his ears turning red with embarrassment .

Decided to be an absolute pain in the ass that he is and decided to jump on the conversation , he doesn’t get that a lot you know

She laughs softly, “Richie this is an AB conversation.”

Richie shrugged his hands up with a smirk “just had to put it out that’s all”

Mikey shot a glare at Richie. He knew full well that his friend was going to use this whole situation to tease and relentlessly. .

“Well, if you’re serious about this, maybe I leave my phone number with you for safekeeping?”

Mikey’s head snapped to look at you shocked by the proposition and he wasn’t expecting you to actually be interested in him. He was so used to being charming his way through a conversation. .

Richie is still standing at the counter, grinned excitedly, waiting for Mikey’s reply .

“I mean, if dating a single mom with a toddler isn’t intimidating for you.” She says softly, glancing over to help Ryder eat his sandwich.

Mikey shook his head. It wasn’t intimidating in the slightest in fact, he was quite intrigued by the idea.

Let out a laugh at Mikey’s eagerness, not being able to contain himself. He was going to have a field day making fun of Mikey later.

She writes her number on a napkin with a heart , “call me or text me.”

She watched silently as you wrote your number with his heart pounding just a little heavier. Was she actually interested or she actually giving me her number? She’s actually flirting with me .

She slides a napkin in his way to which Mikey gently snatched the napkin, holding your phone number, staring at it for almost a concern only long amount of time .

She smiles, “thank you for being a gentleman.” She throws away the paper trash from the sandwich that writer finished eating and stands up, kissing Mikey’s cheek. “I owe you one…”

Mikey almost melted at the kiss on the cheek, his face turning red again you’d surprised him with how little it took to make him flustered .

She waved by to Richie and leaves with Ryder on her hip.

Ricky gave a dramatic wave as you left fighting the urge to cheer for Mikey. Once you left, he wasted no time turning to Mikey and trying to contain his laughter as he blurted out “damn cousin, you got it bad huh? “

A few months later, things with you and Mike he were going pretty smoothly. It was completely smitten with you and your kid writer and was determined to keep things going. Richie, of course never failed to take the piss out of Mikey. Every opportunity he got, and it was practically a daily occurrence..

She comes in with writer on her hip writer, asking for the “magic sandwich, man “

Mike use up the counter again, doing his normal routine of serving customers when the front door burst open he looks up to see a smile spreading across his face as soon as he noticed Ryder sitting on your hip, his expression somehow soften even more .

She smiles “hey baby”

Mikey waved watching gleefully as riders gay started around the restaurant clearly excited to be back . “Hey there, little guy still craving those magical sandwiches, huh?”

Ryder nods and slaps monopoly money up on the counter “one peas” Ryder can’t say his Ls yet.

Mikey chuckles as Ryder slapped the fake money down on the counter, making a show of staring at it with fake disapproval , “ oh, you got money, huh?” he said grinning at the kid “you know I can’t accept this right”

Ryder pouts , “but it good moneys”

Mikey couldn’t help but smile at the kids reaction having to fight the urge to cave in expected at face value . He shook his head replying “nah I’ve seen these bills before they ain’t real.”

Richie is currently in the kitchen justifiably trying to eavesdrop .

She has the monopoly money with real cash underneath it so it looks like Ryder paid .

A smirk goes across Mikey’s face as he took the cash from me quickly catching onto the trick, “ very generous payment” he said, nodding approvingly. “ don’t worry kid. I’ll get that sandwich right away.”

He turned to the kitchen and shout it over his shoulder : “ one sandwich for the special guest make sure we got to use the good tomatoes”

She smiles and uses light of hand to put the monopoly money in her purse before Ryder can see.

Mikey watches you – how you stash the fake cash in your purse, impressed by the trick itself and quickly you managed to get it past your son.

Reggie had come over from the kitchen when he heard his name, his gaze on the kid and almost devilish grin on his lips , “ you’re the one we keep making free sandwiches for! Hey kiddo!” he chuckled ruffling ryders hair.

Ryder giggles, “Sandwitch man yikes mama!”

Mikey and Richie snickered both of them, amused by how Ryder spoke .

Hey little man, thats magic sandwich man to you.” Mikey said with a chuckle.

Richie nodded and replied, “yeah you need to learn to show some respect to the sandwich God”

Ryder nods, “wite..magic sandmich man…” he says with utter seriousness for a four year old.

Mikey and Richie exchanged grins at writers correction finding it completely hilarious . This was one of those rare days where Mikey actually enjoyed his shift most of the fact that you and Ryder came in.

She sneaks a kiss to Mikey’s cheek , “thank you for doing this baby…”

Mikey’s face instantly flushed red, not expecting the kiss and admit everything .

Richie, of course, made a fake vomiting sound, and teased “ get a room you too”

She blocked her hand from writing his view and flips off Richie .

Richie laughed loudly, not expecting the gesture, and he puts his hand up and mock surrender .

Meanwhile, Mikey was still struggling to calm down the redness in his face deepening he was used to teasing but goddamnit what about you was making him flustered so easily .

Days like that became a natural occurrence at the beef, soon everyone on crew knew you and Ryder. They’d even keep dinosaurs shaped cookie cutter in the back for days when they had to serve him white bread instead of sandwich roll. Mikey quickly became like a stepdad to Ryder, even letting him hangout at the shop when the bus route changed and didn’t go to his cul-de-sac he told the bus driver to stop at the beef. He’d swear up and down he wasn’t growing soft but it was because of you and Ryder that Mikey’s smile was back. She saved his life and she would never know it.

[tofupixel]

I recently started learning to use rpg maker (vx ace!) and as a result have become increasingly interested in pixel art. I hadn't really done pixel work since my teens - I do more digital painting and vector art - so while I'm a little familiar and can do passable editing, there's a lot I don't know.

One thing that's kind of perplexing for me is understanding the differences in style between two creators of pixel art. I studied art history and I'm used to the differences being things like brush stroke length or degree of realism... I feel like I'm lacking in lexicon in this new frontier lol

What nuances of an artist do you think are most important to style in pixel art?

This kind of stuff is not really officially studied (yet) so it's all a bit of opinion from me.

Usually in pixel art the biggest differences in styles are which limitations the artists choose to impose on themselves; colour count, resolution, palette... Or more stylistic choices like hue shifting, anti-aliasing style or no, dithering or no, etc.

I personally think there are a huge variety of styles in pixel art, as it's literally just a medium, and I hope you'll agree by the end 8)

Also (imo) there is some seperation between the styles of art for art's sake, and art for videogames, where things have to be clear and readable to be actually playable.

🎮 Old school games:

Sometimes referred to as something like '8-bit' or '16-bit' (relating to the NES era / SNES era consoles), these artstyles usually follow the rules and limitations of the hardware at the time.

This all falls under retro art, most popular styles include: NES, SNES, GB, GBC, C64

Notable artists: Nickwoz, Sandy Gordon, Franken, Cisco

📚 Old school art:

There were also events called Demoscene (still are), where developers would go to a big convention and share their demos. A lot of pixel art competitions were held here, where artists would draw live.

Generally they used to favour a high realism/semirealism style, with lots of texture/dithering, fairly high resolution (if the hardware allowed for it), and adjacent pixels mostly being different from one another.

There are even older styles than this but they are fairly niche and I'm not that well educated. If interested look into some of the old PCs/consoles.

⭐ Modern pixel art:

Usually using more colours and higher resolution, larger clusters of pixels instead of individual ones. Strong use of art fundamentals.

Artists to look at: Adam Ferguson (yes it is pixel art), Snake, Slym, 6VCR, Yes I do Pixels, Gijotto, SovanJedi, JoeCreates, Franek, @8pxl

the rest below are "modern" pixel artists too but I think they have other things in their style that are a bit different!

🎨 Painterly:

Some artists choose to emulate the natural brushstrokes digitally, and keep their clusters large and loose. Usually don't focus on the minute details as much.

@makrustic, @hexh-pixel, Umbohr, Gawrone

🟦 Dithering

These artists all use dithering / texture in ways that make their styles totally unique.

Deceiver, Night, Reo,

💥 Experimental

These artists are always trying new things and honing in on their unique style.

AJ, hby, @ilta222, Alphons

I could really go on for ever, there are so many different styles, cute pixel art, horror pixel art, 1bit (2 colours only), and then adding animation takes it even further, but I think you get the idea

If you want to learn more, the Masters of Pixel Art books have works /interviews from pixel artists of different eras, including demoscene and contemporary.

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