Muffin the Smug Mug McGuffin Smuggler (Behemuffin)

photo of Alex Schaefer painting a bank across the street from him. It's a beautiful, bright, sunny day, and the pristine bank is contrasted nicely against the painting of the building consumed by a raging inferno.

Do y'all remember Alex Schaefer, the artist who would go around painting various real-world banks engulfed in flames?

I've been thinking about his work a lot lately, as we watch payment processors continue to punish people over porn.

analog pencil drawing of dexter, dexter’s laboratory

D&D Animated: Not the BEES!!! 🐝🤣

#dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e

--in lieu of that attempt dethroning the current king. it doesn't takes one to go far other than looking at the current success and wondering when will others follow suit, once the the proof of concept has proven succeful

i also fear that some end up becoming so influential that they are taken into an industrialized schematic of success, and spawning countless works that are trying to capture the same lightning in a bottle, which makes me weep for the death of creativity and works that didn't see the light of day--

i also deeply resent the monolithic anchors that they become in the cultural zeitgeist, anchoring pretty much any work thats remotely adjacent or derivative, colonizing creative identity and said creative landmark becoming the de facto owners of icons that were themselves derivative to begin with

i tend to have a love/hate relationship with anything that becomes genra defining. i don't outright dislike a franchise for it success or enduring legacy, i deeply respect em for standing the test of time and cultivating a loving fanbase, capturing people's imagination beyond the initial hype

BUT

a black and white photo of a person sitting in a chair . ALT: a black and white photo of a person sitting in a chair .

scrolling scrolling scrolling, nice art nice art nice art
wots this? a text post?
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oh yeah... now i remember why i unplugged from social media...

i have learned nothing

PROFOUND
SADNESS

there's also an exilus mod that does that, and it stacks.

"peculiar growth"

pen and watercolor sketch of stoat and wizard frog with signs: "F*CK BuzzFeed! Stand with Kyra and other creators!" And my own version of Chikn Nuggit with "No AI" flag.

Already was a big fan, but now so much respect for @kyrakupetsky.bsky.social for standing up for what is right, even if it means losing this wonderful thing she built. I hope other (bigger) creators support Kyra and speak up/fight back.

seconds before the water launches the squeaker into the next floor

a rubber pool toy version of axer floats amongst bubbles under the waters of the pool rooms, surrounded by sprawling tiled structures. a circle of bubbled air is on the tiled floor below his rubbery feet. the image is in grayscale except for the shines on his rubber skin which are in a hot pink. the words" pool rooms vol. 5" are in the upper left of the image.

I am become pool toy in the pool rooms

a skeleton is sitting in a red chair in a room ALT: a skeleton is sitting in a red chair in a room

GTA V has been out for 13 y--

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that aside, im still a frustrated storyteller at heart, and it vexes me to see what passes as the type of thing i wish i were doing today.

you should be chasing your dreams muffin!

yeah yeah now get off my lawn! damned kids and their proactive positive tendencies.

so why do you still read em muffin?

mostly for the art, tbh. i can still appreciate the art with whatever semblance of plot is tying it up together i guess.

if you do it only for the art why bother with the story?

you don't see me tossing away the buns off my hotdogs, do you?

the thing that vexes me with isekai is that there are no stakes. its a constant stream of deus ex or worse, power scaling that completely trims any form of buildup.

not only its formulaic to the point it feels like writers are afraid to miss whatever makes it work, it challenging to get invested

Art of Emperor's New Groove → buff.ly/V8Ee3j2

#animation #conceptart #modelsheet #characterdesign #visdev

Coming up next, a new series, with the cool premise of whatever, that will be probably canceled.

If your series has no ending properly made I'm not watching it. This is worse than early access gaming and you can sell your bridge on the moon elsewhere.

Why am I supposed to get invested in series if they inevitably are cancelled without even a freaking conclusion?

How is this a thing that keep happening?

オプティマスプライム　ver.MOROTYAN!!

i'm always in the last place looked

I do like the dude and abide.

Ori~! 💜🎂

>muffin noises

henlo

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HOLY SHIT!

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