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Anni 🐸🍉 FROG CON TODAY @infinileaf.bsky.social · 36m

ITS OFFICIALLY THE DAY!!!! Our team worked so so hard on this and we’re really excited to share it all with everyone! We have a lot of amazing activities and frog art galore! If you get any merch a portion of the proceeds go to frog conservation (who you can donate to directly too!)

Frog Cult @frogcult.bsky.social · 1h

Happy Frog Con everyone! The website is officially live!! Hop on over and check out all the activities we have lined up for you!! Our the opening ceremony will be streamed on our twitch! Thank you guys for all the love and support, it’s an honor to be able to bring so many frog lovers together 🐸💚

A smiling green yellow frog with a red clown nose and blue party hat peak from below. It is saying “frogs await you!” With “frog con 2025 is now live!!!” On top of it. The background is a light yellow stripes with come to the center of the yellow pom-pom on top of the blue hat.

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Frog Cult @frogcult.bsky.social · 1h

Happy Frog Con everyone! The website is officially live!! Hop on over and check out all the activities we have lined up for you!! Our the opening ceremony will be streamed on our twitch! Thank you guys for all the love and support, it’s an honor to be able to bring so many frog lovers together 🐸💚

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 1d

CMYK(itties) 🖨🩵💖💛🖤

a photo of a sticker design featuring 4 ghost cats intertwined in a blue computer pop-up frame. the ghosts are each colored like Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black, to simulate the CMYK colors a printer uses. Each ghost also has tapering halftone dots demonstrating that the vinyl sticker's background is clear.

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Frog Cult @frogcult.bsky.social · 1d

Finally! The last artist to be a part of our Featured Artists line is Chetom! Come support some little guys at table F3, some will also be available in our merch store as pins, acrylic tickets, and stickers!

An open set of red curtains with little circus froggy heads, mini sparklers, a microphone and drums frame the reveal of a featured artist: Cheptom! The top of the curtain frame had a beige ribbon that says “Frog Con 2025” and the bottom framing ribbons say “Featured Artist”, “Cheptom”, and F03 (artist alley table number). In the revealed middle space, there is a little light green frog in a pointy blue wizard hat and cape adorned with stars against a pink background. They are holding up a small bunch of white spotted red mushrooms.

A hand holds up an acrylic charm with a wrist strap against a forest background. The wrist strap has a red/yellow/blue diamond pattern. The charm is a red eyed tree frog in a point hat of the same pattern as the wrist band. The tip of the hat has a star, and the acrylic charm has a little acrylic charm of a matching star attached with it.

A hand holds up two stickers against a yellow background. The one on the left is a little frog in a multi colored clown onesie with red collar ruffles. The one on the right has a round frog in a point hat and bow hula hooping on top of a balancing ball. A white arrow points at the sticker on the left to confirm that the artist made that design.

A hand holds up a ticket shaped acrylic against a forest background. The ticket charm depicts a little frog in a circus host outfit (red suit with a black top hat) holding out its little arm towards the words “welcome to the circus”. This is all framed in a red/light yellow striped frame. At the end of the ticket where you would tear it it says “Admit one”, “Frog 2025 October”, and a barcode at the bottom. The charm itself has translucent areas tinted in gold.

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Frog Cult @frogcult.bsky.social · 1d

Up next in the Featured Artists line we have @Rihnlin!! These adorable frogs can be found at table F2, along with the sticker and acrylic ticket for our merch line. Go check out and support their work!

An open set of red curtains with little circus froggy heads, mini sparklers, a microphone and drums frame the reveal of a featured artist: Rihnlin! The top of the curtain frame had a beige ribbon that says “Frog Con 2025” and the bottom framing ribbons say “Featured Artist”, “Rihnlin”, and F03 (artist alley table number). In the revealed middle space, there is an illustrated person in long brown hair, a silver choker/earings, and a black top. On their head is a round light green frog with a sprout on its head

A hand holds a ticket shaped acrylic charm against a forest background. The charm has a round frog juggling on a unicycle with various triangle banners behind it. The charm is in a transluscent pink. The tear edge of the ticket has a portrait of the frog sticking its tongue out with the words “born to be silly” on top. The bottom says Rihnlin x Frog Con 2025

A series of illustrations of different Pac-Man frogs alongside some reference photos

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Anni 🐸🍉 FROG CON TODAY @infinileaf.bsky.social · 17h

Frog con starts tomorrow!! Tune in to all the fun stuff we have going, we have some incredible panels, amazing music, games to show off and a huge artist alley!!

Frog Cult @frogcult.bsky.social · 19h

Frog Con starts tomorrow! We’re so excited to celebrate the joy of frogs through art, music, games, and panels over the next week!! We will continue to spotlight our lovely guests throughout the con! Hope to see you soon!

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Frog Cult @frogcult.bsky.social · 1d

Frog Con 2025 is just around the corner! We are so excited to share the first of our Featured Artists, Canlaken!! You'll be able to find him in our Artist Alley at table F1! Check out the amazing charms and pins Canlaken made for our merch line, and some of his incredible work!

www.canlaken.com

a hand holds up a ticket shaped acrylic charm against a forest like background! The charm depicts a series of abstract frogs following a circus frog through the forest. There is a red circus tent in the background and the areas where the sky are a translucent blue. The gold border and circus frog’s staff are in a popped out gold foil.

A hand holds up an enamel pin against a forest like backdrop. The pins depict three frogs that stack together in a triangle shape. The bottom two face each other and lift the third, who is balancing a ball on his nose.

a hand holds up a circle shaped acrylic charm with a yellow tassel at the end against a forest like background. The charm is of a circus frog with a top hat, red vest, and gold staff that is reaching towards the viewer. It lays on a deep green translucent background.

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Frog Cult @frogcult.bsky.social · 3d

The Frog Con 2025 panel schedule is finally here! We have 20 froggy panels for everyone this year, including educational ones with special guest speakers, games, art, and more! We hope to see you at Frog Con very soon!! (1/2)

frogcon.frogcult.org/pages/panels...

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Pepe Reyes @suscipepe.bsky.social · 2d

CHILDREN OF THE SEA × LITTLE PRINCE

A boy dives into his dying goldfish’s tank and is swept through evolutionary time itself, from ancient seas to land’s first breath, to learn how to let go.

MG/YA graphic novel · coming-of-age · sci-fantasy · grief
#DVPit #DVArt #GN #MG #YA #Asian #LGBT

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Evi 🌼 @evenlyevi.bsky.social · Jul 11

Lantanas (monochrome ver.) 🌿 #art #illustration

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Jeremy Anninos @anninosart.bsky.social · 4d

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Anni 🐸🍉 FROG CON TODAY @infinileaf.bsky.social · 4d

Not reposting the last thing bc I happen to be an artist but to say that we need creative spaces and stories more than ever

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 4d

As always, today is a good day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, maybe consider signing up for a Patreon. Buy a book, a game, a painting. Commission a new piece. Tell a creator what they mean to you. Signal boost their work.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 4d

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 4d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 6d

Wily Wyvern

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 7d

🌷✨ shortboxcomicsfair.com ✨🌷

comic by @weisanboo.bsky.social

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Las 🐺🪽 @featherfangart.bsky.social · Feb 20

| Taken By the Styx |

...realized I never posted this one here, huh. Fixed!
#hadesgame

a drawing featuring Zagreus from the game Hades being pulled into the river Styx by its bloody hands after a failed escape attempt

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Anni 🐸🍉 FROG CON TODAY @infinileaf.bsky.social · 7d

It’s going to be really nice to share these little guys and everything they are/grow to be!!! And seeing how they all interact!!!!! And maybe if I’m crazy enough make music for them/this story and world??

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Anni 🐸🍉 FROG CON TODAY @infinileaf.bsky.social · 7d

Oh man I need to start documenting my characters/worldbuilding/stories so bad

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 7d

this story goes into the many wild and different forms anti-trans discrimination comes in

including what happened with Amazon and my book Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of the Matrix

please read and learn about some of what we’re up against

we’re just trying to live our lives

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 7d

NEW - Trans people are victim to immense bigotry that we experience every day of our lives, ranging from the mundane to life-altering. @thefreeradical.org reports on four stories of large companies discriminating against trans people & what we can do!

Credit to @davidforbes.bsky.social for editing

The Discrimination We All Live With

Four stories reveal just some the discrimination trans people deal with every single day of our lives

transnews.network

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 10d

KOSA is now in red alert priority.

Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA

We need to turn out in numbers against this!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 17d

#SaveSpeech

Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc

Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 12d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 12d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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V @visceralhit.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder that you’re under no obligation to participate in art vs artist or related trends that ask you to upload pictures of your face to the internet and now is a really good time to be critical of what identifying information you share about yourself online

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boobs are progressive and feminist @bapaf.bsky.social · 15d

cannot emphasize enough that thinking that the pro-censorship side has already won is how the pro-censorship side wins

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 19d

i want to stress: i firmly believe that we, just us normal people, can push back against this global wave of censorship.

we CAN do this.

there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.

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