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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 16h

It was good. Birding was best part though.

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 1d

Thank you, honeybeak. I love you too ❤️🦅🦅❤️

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 1d

“Helloooo neighbor. Have you heard the goooood news about our looord and saviooor Ssssataaan?”
(My fav Halloween decoration in our neighbor’s yard)

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 2d

I wanted to see Harris’ hawks but weren’t so lucky.

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 2d

Not here, but they only grow here in the Sonora Desert. They’re very slow growing.

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 2d

Hi everybirdy! I’ve been quiet because I’m in Arizona attending a bird vet conference & doing a lot of birding in my spare time. Been great! Saw an Aplomado falcon in the wild!

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 8d

OMG #Amazon is a shitshow for authors if you have multiple editions. Click link for standard ed., adult ed. Kindle loads. If you find print standard edition & click to see Kindle version, takes you to adult ed. Try to share links from any of them, they all take you to Kindle adult ed. I can't even.

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 9d

Looks like Audiobooks are on the horizon! Making a deal right now that should have this popping up in the next few months. I'll be starting with The Sky Calls, with Whiterock to follow. Stay tuned, birdfriends!

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 9d

I was rediscovering some traditional sketch commissions I did at cons earlier this year. With this one, I was like "Who's art is this? I never draw canines, at least not that well. Can't be mine. Wait..." XD I did this at AnthroNW in January for Pupperoni Dogsnax.

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 10d

I certainly appreciate the honest review! Your notes on conversation are especially helpful. If you'd like to be a beta-reader in the future, I'd very much like that. Contact me if that's the case.

Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 10d

A very thoughtful review of Whiterock! Thank you @shilohskye.com !

Shiloh Skye @shilohskye.com · 11d

New book review of Whiterock by @aetusart.com!

An ambitious tale about a post-human world of intelligent avians.

#FurryWriting #Booksky

Book Review: Whiterock by Hal Aetus

A unique piece of xenofiction filled with detailed worldbuilding and a great cast of characters

www.shilohskye.com

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 10d

Your figures have such natural form & volume! I love the lighting and color. I tend to get too lost in details myself, but suspect we have similar workflows (rough line sketch to start, map out negative/positive spaces and base colors, layered patches of detail from there). I'd love to see you work.

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 11d

I do all my own writing and artwork. I’ve also had some art I commissioned or received from fans. I wholeheartedly agree and have been meaning to make anti-AI sentiment a louder part of my advertising. I’m also dedicated cared to sustainable & community-based sourcing for my merch.

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 13d

The fandom is big enough for everyone to do their own thing imo. I’ll support that. ❤️

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HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · 13d

Autumn and the Relics Of A Dead Summer

Within a gothic style arched frame with spandrels decorated with oak-leaves is a painted scene in which a woman with pale skin and flowing red hair and wearing a long blue silk dress holds a small but intricately decorated gilded box in her hands. She looks at the viewer with a reserved expression.
To either side of her stands a humanoid crow figure, with the heads of jackdaws and long flowing black robes. The left holds a simple chalice, the right holds a small dagger in open hands.

At their feat is a carpet of brown oak leaves fallen from branches above them (some leaves are caught in the dress and robes). In these leaves stand two ring-necked pheasants, a male in red and blue on the left, and a female in light speckled brown on the right.

Behind the figures stands a tall gothic church tower with castellated parapet and corner pinnacles shrouded in mist against a sunset sky streaked with fine clouds.

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 17d

Oh boy! A new Patreon AI retention feature, called Autopilot, that I can totally turn off! Wohoo!

Look, if you bother to subscribe to my Patreon, thank you! But I don't want a fucking AI pestering you. If you like what I do, I shouldn't need that crap "helping."

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 17d

Know the facts from actual experts on autism. "Epidemic" is an irresponsible word for it, as is thinking there's some big "gotcha" causation for autism.
publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/is-ther...

Is There an Autism Epidemic? | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Autism diagnosis rates have risen over the past two decades—but why? An autism researcher explains what's behind the increase.

publichealth.jhu.edu

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 17d

You look like you need warm, relaxing bird broods ❤️ Maybe this scented candle will be comforting…

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 17d

Never forget what the right is desperately hoping they can whitewash out of public consciousness. Here's NIJ-funded report, that MAGA buried, which shows right-wing rhetoric, not left, is biggest driver of political violence: web.archive.org/web/20250911...

web.archive.org

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 17d

"That must be a sight. I'd kinda like to see that."

Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 17d

Is it just me, or does anyone else get a cup of coffee in the morning, then get busy, forget to drink it, letting it get cold, & then wonder why the coffee's not working yet. Too bad I don't just have a tentacle that projects out of my forehead to suck it up while I'm grinding away on the computer.

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 20d

Will try!

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 21d

I hope you heal up quickly ❤️

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Hal Aetus 🔜Furry Migration @aetusart.com · 21d

Thanks much for the bird business. Enjoy!

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Pelican @pelicanvp.bsky.social · 21d

Stuff I came home from Furry Migration 2025 with including a couple convention shirts, many things from the scheduled sticker swap, and ten stickers by @aetusart.com

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