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apantesis

@apantesis.bsky.social

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science witch she/they genderfluid minimalist in the streets, maximalist in the sheets. current emotion: le tired Cara: https://cara.app/apantesis https://www.inaturalist.org/people/cindydarnell

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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 8h

drawings about love and longing

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XX Dovelin ⚡️ @xxdovelin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Forget me not
#art

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Micah Seacole @micahseacole.bsky.social · Jun 19

Colored Sketch - The Vengeful One

I did not almost forget to share this here, what do you mean.
Anyways. I love her, you should too.

#Art #ArtTag #MicahsOCs #OriginalCharacter #OC #DigitalArt #Insect #Beetle #TrilobiteBeetle

a digital sketch / illustration of a female trilobite beetle skittering around and looking up curiously.

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Az Grim @azgrim.bsky.social · 23h

Sharktober '25 - 09 Angel Shark
#sharktober2025

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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨ @ansitru.bsky.social · 22h

I'm just saying, we could settle this with swords, instead of 30+ emails. 🤺

#artWIP

A WIP embroidery piece, with a sword and mace chzrm, spikes and letter beads.

The beads read "this email could have been a duel | fight me"

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apantesis @apantesis.bsky.social · 7h

lol thanks for posting the photo too! i keep seeing people's artwork and I'm so confused by that eye 😂😂

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apantesis @apantesis.bsky.social · 9h

zoom in on this. seriously, zoom

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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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Sep 10

Doing week prompts for #sciartseptember instead of the daily. Last weeks first because I was out of town, here’s a real scary guy* for Horror week. We spent all week looking for one but couldn’t find any, so I painted it instead.
*don’t hurt his feelings!
#sciart 🐡 #insectart #horneddevil

A digital illustration of a bright green ,orange and teal hickory horned devil caterpillar curled up against a brown background.

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Cody Vrosh @codyvrosh.bsky.social · 18h

The Goat. Watercolor & ink.

#art #watercolor

Illustration of a person with hair flowing into a goat entity carrying a spear.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Fossilized Tree Resin @jamberee13.bsky.social · May 11

Tits or ass? Bro, the soft light that emanates from her like she’s a moonlit shade. The way her soft voice sounds like leaves turning over before a storm. How moths cling to her fingers like they’re made of lamplight.

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Natasa Ilincic @natasailincic.bsky.social · 1d

“Yew tree on Lothrie Burn”, watercolour on hot pressed cotton paper.

I always stop to look at this tree on my daily walk, it was about time I painted it! :)

Now available through
everydayoriginal.com/artistprofil...

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 1d

When I saw a beanie baby owl in a shrub in the urban park behind my house I wondered if someone was trolling me, but then I saw the "Please don't touch, doing science" note an noticed the owl was above a tray of peanuts, with a predator-model-free (owl-less) tray nearby haha

Fluffy white beanie baby owl with large eyes and tiny colorful wings, tucked in the crook of a small sapling so it is over a tray of peanuts.

Half a sheet of notebook paper taped to a tree trunk. In very small, almost unreadable handwriting it says "Please don't touch doing sciences" in blue ink. Definitely could be written larger on the sheet; I had to use binoculars to read it from the path.

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Raquel @keldraws.bsky.social · 1d

Linktober Day 9 - Blupee
#Linktober

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

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 1d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 2d

FALL SHOP UPDATE! 🍁
New enamel pins, stickers, prints, and so much more will be added to my site this Friday 10/10 @ 11 am PDT!
You can preview everything here!
🛒🐛: shop.fossilforager.art

A mockup image with white bubbled text that reads “Shop Update! October 10th @ 11 am PDT” with a link url below (shop.fossilforager.art). There is a collage of sticker sheets and enamel pins around the text, featuring insects and deep sea marine creatures on a whale skeleton. The sticker sheets have weevils and sea creatures. They are placed on a yellow-orange gradient.

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a strange fungus #fungifriends, the Blushing Rosette, Abortiporus biennis. It has 2 growth forms, it can form an attractive rosette but more commonly exists as an amorphous mass which exudes red-brown liquid. Just look at those guttation droplets!!! 😍

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 2d

I've been seeing my favorite fuzzy friends around! 🍂🐛

Illustration of a wooly (sometimes spelled woolly) bear caterpillar. It's fuzzy and cute and has a happy little smile. There's lines radiating around it and above it says "it's wooly time!" in lowercase hand lettering. The background is a light orange checkered pattern.

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Gusya @angrygooseberry.bsky.social · 1d

🍁🎃🍥

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Tibsun @sunoftiberian.bsky.social · 1d

In search of a better background for dark jewelry. #electroformed #insect #nature #sciart #handmade #copper #ruthenium #beetles #bugsky

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 2d

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]

A brown pseudoscopion hanging on to the antenna of a wasp. The wasp is yellow with black stripes and transparent wings.

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apantesis @apantesis.bsky.social · 2d

fabulous find! unlikely friends lol

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The Ugly Machine @theuglymachine.bsky.social · 2d

god, I have too much to do, too many projects, how to I get out of this cycle of creative overload?
Hephaestus: you should also get into stone carving
me: yeah ok

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it's frank-en-SCHTEEN 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 2d

look at this nice painting!

shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/cynn... #art #crow #skull

a mixed media painting of two crows and a skeleton

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