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he/they, 26 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 illustrator, printmaker, fiber artist, birder 🕊 bulgarian-american living in spain audhd 🆓🇵🇸 🚫 no ai 🚫 portfolio: https://ollierollie.artstation.com/ prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/thinginthedirt/

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ollie - looking for work @thinginthedirt.bsky.social · Mar 31

happy #TransDayofVisibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ #tdov

i am a multimedia artist with a love for nature and stories! i sell block printed patches and lately i've been practicing my digital art more 💖

an art vs artist with me in the middle. the pieces include, in order: trans manuscript, olive patch for palestine, dnd village map, jackalope patch, anti imperialist magpie patch, dnd city map, dragon patch, and sapphic fairy

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Hannah Bluish @hannahbluish.bsky.social · 4h

Today’s affirmation:

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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 1d

Iridescent black🖤

#bird #raven #birdart #animalart #digitalart #illustration #birdwatching #crow #original #colorful #avian
#feather

A raven with colorful reflections on its feathers

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 20h

Did you know you can donate to the Municipality of Gaza? They have been trying to get water into Gaza again for a while now and have an active campaign:

gaza-city.ensany.com/campaign/6737

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 21d

Autumn’s little joys 🍁🥐☕️

#art #cuteart #watercolor

A watercolor illustration showing a bunch of things that remind me of Fall, portrayed with cute little faces: a pumpkin, a tiny mushroom, twin acorns on a branch, a sleepy chestnut in its shell, a croissant, a takeout coffee and a golden ginkgo leaf.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 23h

With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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puff 🐇😈 @incupuff.bsky.social · Apr 27

please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

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KOER @koerpink.bsky.social · 3d

day 6/31 - green pigeon

*I'm using this challenge to practice drawing different species in my style, so the anatomy and colors might not be 100% accurate.

#digitalart #bird #birdtober #birdtober2025 #greenpigeon #pigeon #birdart

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ollie - looking for work @thinginthedirt.bsky.social · 11d

a cozy little room to greet october 🍂

#pixelart #isometric #2d

pixel art isometric bedroom in warm earthy colors. the walls are wood paneled with 3 indistinct posters and there is a soft orange carpet. a cat naps on the bed in a patch of sun and a record is playing in the corner. there is a beanbag near the bookshelf and a book resting open on the floor.

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Chechula @chechula.bsky.social · 3d

#tolkientober , yes, another Bilbo ♥

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

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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alex siple 🏳️‍🌈 @alexsiple.bsky.social · 11d

my berserk fancomic, "WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I WATCHED A MAN DISMEMBER A DOVE", is now available during all of october for shortbox comics fair!

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

The cover page, reading "When I was a child, I watched a man dismember a dove." It looks like an illuminated manuscript. An image of Griffith as a child is painted in the middle in an oval frame. He wears the Behelit.

A page from the comic. A dove spreads its wings in the center. Below the text reads: "What I meant is that I [BLANK] you." The [BLANK] part is covered by paintings of flowers. Paint streaks across the entire piece.

A page from the comic. The text reads "There are two ways this memory can go. I watched in silence, and learned. Or I screamed, cried, and did not." The colors are lavender, gold, and red.

A page from the comic. Streaks of paint smear across the scene. A child reaches for something on the ground that could be a feather. The text reads: "What's the word?"

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Mali 💤 @ MCM G-24 💛 @sleepimali.bsky.social · Mar 3

River ride 🐇🌿

Gouache painting of a couple of white bunnies floating through a river in the woods on a giant leaf. One of the bunnies is punting them forward with a stick. The river is calm and reflective, and the forest is green with the stem of a dark tree and white spring flowers in the foreground.

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Mali 💤 @ MCM G-24 💛 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 5d

Shop is open until the end of the week! 🌿✨️
sleepimali-shop.com

Shares are super appreciated, especially from EU folks 💛💛

#EUShop #ArtShop

Graphic of a floating bunny head with a puffy flower poking out of their forehead saying "THE SHOP IS OPEN! (WAHOO!!!)" in a happy bubbly speech bubble

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 4d

crabs

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FoolsArt @foolsart.bsky.social · 3d

today’s printing 🌙 #printmaker #overthegardenwall

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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littledeadling🌿🍊✨ @littledeadling.bsky.social · 3d

HAIR ✶ a loveletter

my new zine, discussing my relationship to body hair! It’s full of little drawings and personal anecdotes.

Get a physical copy at the anarchist book fair Oct 9-10 at ubc, or a PDF on my itchio:

littledeadling.itch.io/hair
#transartists #transmascartists

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BIRBLYFE @aaland.co · 3d

Pied-billed grebe

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 3d

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 3d

brambles

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 3d

𝔓𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔉𝔦𝔫𝔨𝔰

From "Hearth Spirits and Kitchen Bogles" in An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.

Text: Pantry Finks

Image: an illustration of three squat winged gremlin-like creatures perched on a single old kitchen chair. One is crouched atop the chair, one on its arm, and another beneath the chair, crawling through its spindled legs. The bottom-most imp reaches for a loose spool of thread.

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ollie - looking for work @thinginthedirt.bsky.social · 4d

does anyone know of any open art calls they could send me? i just applied for the tapling queer zine but that's the only one ive been able to find that fits my vibe

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indui @monstermonger.bsky.social · 5d

#Drawtober Chapter II - Toad Astrologer
Crossing the Threshold

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Eva Vilhelmiina @evelmiina.bsky.social · 5d

Inktober day 6
Teacher

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