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@nollthere.bsky.social

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Artist of wildlife, fantasy, and fears | Musician | 🏳️‍🌈 | Creating for games |Writer https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/nollgriffin

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · Aug 11

Untitled, painted in Krita. #Art

Digital painting of a white rabbit with large ears and a human skull looking upwards as its body instead of a normal rabbit body and head. It is sitting on a pink table with a teal wall behind it.

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 16h

MH1, the ”skull in the rock”, represents a child of between 8 and 11 years of age belonging to the species Australopithecus sediba. This and other fossils from Malapa, South Africa, are approximately 2 million years old. #inktober

Line drawing of a skull of Australopithecus still partially embedded in rock, viewed from right front

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 1d

precocious pumpkin-lings
#guild11mysterium
#Art

Digital painting of a wild boar with babies in the forest, but they are all shaped like lumpy pumpkins in varying degrees.

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 17h

some dessert for #repostober

Surreal digital painting of a slice of thick cherry pie, dripping thick ropes of cherry juice. It also resembles a wolf skull, with gleaming teeth around the fruit area as a slightly open jaw filled with cherries.

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 21h

Every year, for the last few years, @fallenlights.net and I get pumpkins to put out with our wildlife cameras.

The process has yet to disappoint.

Night vision wildlife camera image of a raccoon with a pumpkin, staring up into the sky.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 1d

I FUCKEN FINISHED!!! As always, it took me 2 months, but I got there in the end.

The final illustration of a pink silkmoth with beige and brown upper wings and vibrant pink lower wings. Oh, and an incredibly fluffy body.

A close up showing the detail of the furry wings.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

East Yorkshire: rare bird spotted in England for first time in 34 years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

White-throated needletail seen for first time in 34 years

The white-throated needletail was seen at Tophill Low Nature Reserve in Driffield, East Yorkshire.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 22h

Berlin water is straight up evil. 😭

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 1d

What did the dodo look like in life? A reminder of this Tet Zoo article from 2020, which pulls together most of the relevant sources and has influenced at least some recent depictions ... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/7/... #birds #extinct #Dodo

The Dodo in Life — Tetrapod Zoology

dodo, Dodos, Raphus, Raphus cucullatus, Raphidae, extinct birds, birds, ornithology, pigeons, dodobird, extinct bird, bird extinction, flightless birds, flightless pigeons, Erroll Fuller, Julian Hume,...

tetzoo.com

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 22h

🧡🎃QRP your Pumpkin Art!🎃🧡

Digital art of a red squirrel skeleton sitting up and holding on to a small, orange pumpkin. Red smoke resembling a living red squirrel's fuzzy ears and plume of tail are wrapped around the bones.

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you! 🎃

Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you so much! 🎃

Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 1d

precocious pumpkin-lings
#guild11mysterium
#Art

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Oliver 💙 @oliverniko.bsky.social · 2d

#Repostober Day 8: Snow Leopard (2023) 💙

#ArtSky #AnimalArt

A digital realism painting of a snow leopard laid on a rock, with its front legs and paws together as it looks to the side. Snow surrounds it. Bright sunlight falls on the leopard and surrounding rocks, glowing off the top of its head and back. A cool shadow covers the side of its body and brightens into a blue rimlight.

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 8d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2d

can someone just make a "does the dog die" but for "did this movie/series/videogame/book use gen AI" so i can avoid them

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much!

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Sadee Schilling @sadeeschilling.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been regulating my nervous system this week and warming up for a commission with this new great-horned owl cut paper #collage. It’s likely one of the only #calmtober prompts I’ll get to, though I’m still enjoying everyone else’s illustrations! #watercolor #cutpaper #owl #calmtober25

Great Horned Owl art by Sadee Schilling rendered in watercolor and cut paper collage. The artist holds the finished assemblage with detailed, layered feathers and textured watercolor washes in earthy blues, violets, and browns. A watercolor painting of a tree in a similar color palette peeks out from behind the owl.

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 2d

*SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN 5 DAYS ONLY*

We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.

More info 🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 2d

Musicians! #Musicians! My reserves are running low, so if you were thinking of submitting to Other People's Music, it's a great time!

www.etherdiver.com/other-people...

Free coverage of your music to an audience eager to hear independent music in a wide variety of genres!

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · Jul 18

A homo neanderthalensis and a homo sapiens. Happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

#berensart2025

two hominids; a neanderthal and a homo sapien, inside a cave. the wall of the cave is full of hand prints and doodle artworks. The two hominids place their hands on the wall, tracing the line of hand prints. they seems to be lost in their own reveries.

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Elisabeth Alba @elisabethalba.bsky.social · 1d

"The Sister"
Art by Elisabeth Alba
Created with ink and watercolor - 10 years ago!

#spooky #halloween #creepy #horrorart #spookyseason #gothaesthetic #tbt #throwbackthursday

Signed prints at albaillustration.etsy.com

Monochromatic painting of a woman dressed in 19th century clothing, staring into the distance with bloodshot white eyes. She holds a porcelain doll, and her shadow has horns and wings.

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 3d

Week 1 entry for #MabsDrawlloweenClub: A Witch and Her Familiar
#Art

Digital art of a young white woman with sandy blonde hair wearing a dress with tiers of chiffon in hot pink, blue, and yellow beneath a black bodice with see-through sleeves. She is wearing a witch hat in the same colors as well, with the blue, pink, and yellow being viscous paint the top point is dipped in. She has arms crossed in front of her in an upside down V shape with a grey cat leaning on her shoulder and arm with tail draped around her neck. The cat has three eyes in pink, blue, and yellow.

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 2d

#LGBTQWriteAThon oct 8:
My WIP is horror from the heart of someone who loves both delightfully disgusting horror full of cherry syrup explosions and cheesy disaster movies. Is this the fault of the grandmother in Dante's Peak? Might be. Might be.

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 2d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:

What genre is your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 8: Genres.
BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Gavin Newsom fucking sucks, part MCXVII

he still has until the end of the week for the rest of the bills so unfortunately it’s time to suck it up, call his office, and politely ask this living hairpiece to do the bare minimum to protect the most vulnerable among us

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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