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Keep Android Open Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

Please, PLEASE, be loud about this topic, Android being open is what makes it useful, you own your phone and you should be able to install apps from wherever you wish to, don't let Google tell you what's allowed on the device you payed for!

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A mainly lineless MS paint drawing of a character that is a living chandelier earring. Made up of brass/metal in a muted orange tone, her head, torso, and shoulders are matching circular discs connected from the back by thin clasps. Below her torso, teardrop-shaped discs of the same depth make the legs she stands on, the larger ends at the bottom. Flanking them, dangling under her 'shoulder' discs at both sides, two more teardrops make for her arms. They are folded inward by the larger ends, with a slightly lighter orange on the sides now shown, giving the impression of a bent elbow on the arm to our left and a closed hand on the right. Her head disc at top is the same lighter tone and sports her face: downward slanted half-lidden shaped eyes that extend slightly beyond the circle, with muted orange sclerae and brighter orange teardrop pupils. Matching the pupils, a half-moon shaped mouth. The darkened bronze/brown clip-on clasp atop her head emulates a ponytail, and she acessorizes with three circular pins on the top-right of her torso disc. With her leftmost hand on the side of her 'waist' and a confident askew smile with a cocked eyebrow, she introduces herself with "you can call me Dangleica." (Said message itself is housed in a speech bubble polygon with rounded corners and depth, with the text in a pixelated font.)

The next logical step up from having lots of characters that wear big earrings: having a character that IS a big earring

A black-and-white character mischievously floats against a grayish-brown background, casting a drop shadow. They are a design for what the true form of the secret boss Shadoo from Super Paper Mario could look like. The robotic Shadoo's head is a toaster-like rectangular shape: their eyes are right triangle shaped with scalene triangle pupils and floating obtuse triangle eyebrows. The points of their eyes reach to their head's borders, and eyelash-esque diagonal lines extend from the hypotenuses. Below their eyes, a big wide V-shaped smile. Shadoo's torso is a janky, frail stack of blocks resembling a spine: their topmost 'spinal segment', or neck, resembles a battery with plus and minus icons on the ends. Shadoo wears a vest with a similar checkered pattern and star badge to Merlon and company, and simple shorts; a pair of open-ended wires make their legs. All these features make them resemble a brain and nervous system. Shadoo's arms, loosely connected about their head and neck, are made of pitch-black shadow and are coiled/wavy and baloon-like in shape, ending in large hands.

[ super paper mario spoilers / nervous system imagery ]

shadoo...

A small canvas about 7 inches long and 5 inches wide, is covered throughout by a bluish-black coat that is intentionally slightly uneven and somewhat messy on the edges. From the right edge of this scene, an anxious, armless cartoon creature walks in, timidly clutching a lit flashlight in their frowning zig-zag mouth. This creature also sports a blue pallor, a somewhat long and rectangular head/body, striped legs ending in fin or frond-like feet, three ears like a cat's, freckles, and an antenna sprouting from their leftmost ear. From their flashlight emits a host of various shapes, dots, lines, and patterns, that all come together to form a golden ray of light.

"Somebody Has Sabatoged the Power in My Own Home"
Acrylic paint and acrylic marker on canvas, 2025-2026

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

opening emergency commissions to afford medical treatment for my mom

everything is at discount

chibis 15$ with bonus character + 10$
half body is 15$
full body is 38$ with bonus character + 22$

please dm me if you're interested!

#boost #commissions #kamenrider #supersentai #ultraman #myart

The more I hear about inverse proportion, the less I like it.

taps the sign of something i said regarding another pixar project

Unionize. Everybody needs a union.

Reposting with alt text.

All these bills and renewal fees keep sneaking up on me!
This time it's my website/ portfolio domain renewal fee gdi

I just need a few commissions to cover this upcoming charge coming up
vgen.co/sonybaloneyart

I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.

Former Pixar employee u/PixelatedRonin fires back at chief creative officer Pete Docter on Reddit over claims on LGBT storyline cut from 'Elio' (2025):

SPECIAL REPORT:

granola

THAT IS ALL.

robo-penguin

Professor Sunshine from OK KO! She's one of my absolute favorites that almost no one even knows about unless you were really into watching CN back in 2017-2019 or so lol. No that never stopped me from drawing her because ACK I LOVE HER don't look at me #fanart

Jolene from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Jolene doodle

It’s a panel from powerup comics where the text has been edited: “what’s your opinion on women’s day as far as I’m concerned, all days are for women”

Digital painting of a largely overcast sky over a couple of sunlit roofs and bare trees. The clouds are voluminous, sweeping wide, shades of grey with touches of white where the sun hits them. Their base is flat, dark grey.

We report as the weather turns all the ways it is able to turn. Once again, we got a little too confident in thinking we knew much of anything about the workings of the sky. We think this is always how it goes when the seasons change, and the patterns become unrecognisable.

Say her name this way: dang with a hard g like dangle, el-i-ca like Angelica

A mainly lineless MS paint drawing of a character that is a living chandelier earring. Made up of brass/metal in a muted orange tone, her head, torso, and shoulders are matching circular discs connected from the back by thin clasps. Below her torso, teardrop-shaped discs of the same depth make the legs she stands on, the larger ends at the bottom. Flanking them, dangling under her 'shoulder' discs at both sides, two more teardrops make for her arms. They are folded inward by the larger ends, with a slightly lighter orange on the sides now shown, giving the impression of a bent elbow on the arm to our left and a closed hand on the right. Her head disc at top is the same lighter tone and sports her face: downward slanted half-lidden shaped eyes that extend slightly beyond the circle, with muted orange sclerae and brighter orange teardrop pupils. Matching the pupils, a half-moon shaped mouth. The darkened bronze/brown clip-on clasp atop her head emulates a ponytail, and she acessorizes with three circular pins on the top-right of her torso disc. With her leftmost hand on the side of her 'waist' and a confident askew smile with a cocked eyebrow, she introduces herself with "you can call me Dangleica." (Said message itself is housed in a speech bubble polygon with rounded corners and depth, with the text in a pixelated font.)

The next logical step up from having lots of characters that wear big earrings: having a character that IS a big earring

the mario laugh even SOUNDS like woody!

A black-and-white character mischievously floats against a grayish-brown background, casting a drop shadow. They are a design for what the true form of the secret boss Shadoo from Super Paper Mario could look like. The robotic Shadoo's head is a toaster-like rectangular shape: their eyes are right triangle shaped with scalene triangle pupils and floating obtuse triangle eyebrows. The points of their eyes reach to their head's borders, and eyelash-esque diagonal lines extend from the hypotenuses. Below their eyes, a big wide V-shaped smile. Shadoo's torso is a janky, frail stack of blocks resembling a spine: their topmost 'spinal segment', or neck, resembles a battery with plus and minus icons on the ends. Shadoo wears a vest with a similar checkered pattern and star badge to Merlon and company, and simple shorts; a pair of open-ended wires make their legs. All these features make them resemble a brain and nervous system. Shadoo's arms, loosely connected about their head and neck, are made of pitch-black shadow and are coiled/wavy and baloon-like in shape, ending in large hands.

[ super paper mario spoilers / nervous system imagery ]

shadoo...

I wasn't born for 101 Dalmatians 1996's release, but I doubt they acted like the 60's version had never existed when that happened. Contrast now where it's oft like they go "What old version?" or "I mean you COULD watch the original but why would you WANT to when the new version is so much BETTER?"

I'm not even necessarily against revisiting concepts sometimes but Disney's remakes are cynical rehashes that as time goes on seem to have less and less respect to the artistry of animation

Much of Disney's animated canon movies are dated products of their time, to say the least, but I feel the live action remakes they churn out belie the hard work that had to have gone into the animated originals

i don't care how long ago it was. heinous actions are heinous actions, and i really prefer not to support people with that sort of history regardless of whether it aligns with their current self

Especially since it had been a decade following the Pokémon incident and the ramped up study and safeguards against harming photosensitive viewers. And somehow, even with 2 and a half decades of hindsight, some Mega-popular franchises like Spider-Verse are still messing it up

I feel like Paper Rad could have compromised and made everything less saturated and neon flashy and still kept the Paper Raditude of it all. With all that photosensitivity-unsafe imagery I'm surprised it made it to national kids television as is