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Nicholas

@thekroog.bsky.social

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That middle-aged trans guy who cosplays niche stuff & posts nightly cat photos. Mostly retired oboist. Married to @crowtoed.bsky.social

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · May 7

New pinned post! Vibes here are all over the place, but my primary creative outlets are cosplay and making things from my fandoms. This thread is the highlights reel, when I remember to cross-post.

Me in 4 different cosplays: Valery Legasov from HBO's Chernobyl, Sam Vimes from Discworld, Francis Crozier from AMC's The Terror, and Siegfried Farnon from All Creatures Great & Small. This set is where I aimed to be pretty screen-accurate.

Two projects inspired by Fallout 4: Custom matchbooks, and a leather Gladstone bag covered with travel stickers. Everything made from scratch by me.

Some silly things: A sexy "Sexy Halloween Costume" costume, and a friend's sculpture of a mushroom man that I painted and posed in the woods.

Two cosplays where I did my own thing: An intricate set of leather armor for Thw Mysterious Stranger from The Adventures of Mark Twain, and a WIP of a Nick Valentine (Fallout 4) cosplay using actual clothing from the 1940/50s.

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 7m

Me, after a gig where the only food in the green room is greasy pizza

Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 37m

Lmao! But that one is very pretty!

Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 46m

I don't drink, but my god, the aesthetic!

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 49m

It's nice to have a warm kitty on a cold night :3

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 51m

ART FOR SALE: All my original drawtober inks are up for grabs. They're each $60 total (that includes shipping) If one strikes your fancy shoot me a DM!

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 50m

Thrifted a hefty decanter today to encourage my partner and I to use mouthwash more often.

My hand holding a 10" heavy cut glass bottle with a stopper. Inside is a light purple liquid. I am inside my very small bathroom.

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 16h

GOOD NIGHT

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 18h

this one is made from sprinkling reactive glass powder on top of copper infused sheet; the white parts are the part that don't have contact with the copper sheet and the grey parts are where it did nora.jewelry/products/aqu...

small irregularly shaped teal pendant with a powdery layer of grey on top of the teal and white on top of that in something that looks a bit like webbing. like all of these its a fully rounded final piece so the layers are inside it, like a thin paperweight

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 18h

5 ways YOU can use the torment nexus to maximize your workflow

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 1d

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan

In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus

#paleoart #dinosaur #art

Illustration depicting three Deinocheirus in a Late Cretaceous swamp. The one of the front is chasing a way a pair of juvenile Tarbosaurus in the foreground

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Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 1d

Meet Harriette Flittertail, a Harengon Druid.

A commission for @howlinggnome.bsky.social ‘s wife!

[ #art #dnd #ttrpg ]

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 1d

That's fascinating! Of my household machines, it can also do the smallest stitches

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Oh goodness, yes

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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely how you do it. No one wants to be a nazi bar.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 1d

We do this almost every evening, she is such a cuddler

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NIGHT

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously, I don't enjoy getting hateful messages on social media, but my followers' responses to them are gold

Tumblr notes: #the most no-hobby-having behaviour I've ever seen #my brother in Christ... learn to knit...

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Raquel @keldraws.bsky.social · 2d

Linktober Day 9 - Blupee
#Linktober

Digital Illustration of a Blupee from Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 2d

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 1d

Independent comics as an industry would barely exist these days without the tireless efforts of Kickstarter's staff behind the scenes. As they advise, keep supporting all the amazing projects you already are, but have their back in the process.

Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 9d

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️

As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike.

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

Kickstarter United is on strike!
We are not asking for a boycott! Creators & Allies: Please continue to support & use the platform
swipe for ways to show your solidarity

Why We're Striking
A codified 4-day work week.
We simply want to protect the way we've been working for over 3.5 years. The 4dww has proven benefits, such as increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction. It's part of what makes Kickstarter a special, innovative place to work.
Fair pay for our lowest-paid workers.
We're fighting for livable minimum salaries for roles that are undervalued by the market but crucial to keeping Kickstarter running. We believe none of our workers should struggle to make ends meet.

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 2d

This will be funny until approximately summer of 2027.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/beyond
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/c/ZachWeiner...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

1-panel SMBC comic update where two people are walking down a purple street. One of them narrates his perceived timeline of social media - first they were build for human connection, then human performance, and now with AI, just for performance. He doesn't understand how this could go this way. The caption reads : Later, it turns out God Is Dead.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 2d

One of the central characteristics of the anti-trans movement is how it has lied in public and only slowly revealed the full extent of its nasty beliefs.

A few years ago, they would all claim to have trans friends they loved and respected.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 2d

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 2d

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 2d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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