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Emily Hare

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Folklore, fantasy & fairytales with a light dusting of peril - Available for client work.
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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 4d

I've added another post to my public membership posts. These posts give you a taster of what you might see when you join my membership (starts at £2 a month, cancel anytime). If you had been curious as to how I painted this, this post will show you! buff.ly/YmFa30d
#artprocess #watercolour #art

a little three eyed fluffy black creature sits among some antiques at the base of an old tree. A sword, a battered old helmet, the remains of someone's boot with a bone sticking out of it, some gold coins and a satchel of...

Emily Hare

@emilyhare.com

Did I tell you about the Jaddock, from my book Savage Strangehollow? They move about on all fours most of the time but you will also find them walking on two legs. An inquisitive and voracious predator from the caves. Pre order the book here: buff.ly/WMSJMQX #artbook #fantasyart #folklore #fairytale

watercolour painting of a strange grey creature standing on its hind legs. It has a pinkish belly and white glowing eyes and sharp protruding top teeth. It has no nose and no ears that can be seen.

January 31, 2026 at 12:01 PM

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Tom Cox

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

www.tom-cox.com/january/

January 31, 2026 at 10:19 AM

Emily Hare

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Useful for anyone trying to avoid losing their lives to being glued to their phones/devices:
If you use your phone 3hrs a day, that means in an average lifetime you'll be on your phone for FIFTEEN YEARS.

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how I quit my digital addictions

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January 31, 2026 at 9:38 AM

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Abandon Ambition 🔜 NFC

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Main lines are done, now to tidy up details

#art #fantasyart #wip

January 30, 2026 at 1:52 PM

Emily Hare

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Sign to stop the USA selling chlorinated chicken to our UK supermarkets! 38d.gs/kk6v

No chlorinated chicken on our supermarket shelves!

I just signed the campaign to say NO chlorinated chicken on our supermarket shelves!

38d.gs

January 30, 2026 at 1:31 PM

Emily Hare

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The giant cave worm resides deep within the caves in the Strangehollow mountains. It is a vast creature, consuming any living thing in its path, its favourite being the deliciously crunchy cyclops or spitting garnagle. Pre order here: buff.ly/WMSJMQX
#artbook #fantasyart #folklore #fairytales

a huge glowing pink worm in the dark (watercolour painting), with black eyes and special tentacles across it's mouth so that it can find its way in the dark.

January 30, 2026 at 12:01 PM

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN

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I only ever draw flightless, aquatic dragons lmao

#AppreciateADragonDay

digital painting of a pale white sea dragon with a human face, wearing a Roman centurion inspired helmet.

Digital painting of a merman and his serpent dragon companion. The merman is covered in head to toe royal blue armor, with only his face exposed, and he is wielding an oddly shaped spear. He is in a defensive pose, almost bracing for attack, and he is standing on top of the scaly body of the serpent.

The serpent extends to the backdrop; it is massive in scale and its serpentine body is coiling, almost like it's getting ready to attack. Its face is draconic, with several fins protruding out of its skull and whiskers coming out of its snout.

Digital painting of a dragon Kaiju; Goddess Of Violent Waves. The creature is an aquatic dragon heavily inspired by the real life creature "Glaucus atlanticus"; it has 6 limbs with spiky fan shaped fines that help it traverse waters with strong currents. It is blue and white in color.

January 17, 2026 at 12:06 AM

Emily Hare

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Have you started making things yet? NOW is the time, you'll feel better for it 😀

Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 11d

'Hand Made Art Is More Important Than Ever' - new blog post!
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#handmade #createdontscrape #createdontconsume #makeart #art #hobby #fantasyart #unicorn #blogpost #artblog

watercolour painting of the head and neck of a unicorn in a dark brown pigment which gives it a sepia effect. You can see my hand in the image painting it and the reflection of the sparkling gold that is scattered throughout this otherwise drab pigment. Magic!

January 29, 2026 at 3:06 PM

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄

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He wants to show you his sketchbook.

✨ ✏️ 🐝 💛

My newsletter is a great place to find out more about new creatures: eepurl.com/dq3kjj

Photograph of a sculpture in progress on a messy artists desk.
The sculpture is a yellow furry creature with blue and purple horns and blue eyes, and wearing a teal knit scarf. The creature is holding a blue pencil in one hand and a tiny sketchbook in the other, with some doodles of bees seen on the pages.

January 27, 2026 at 3:13 PM

Emily Hare

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Americans, please explain. Just saw the trailer for 'The Wrecking Crew' and there's a part where they're putting their seatbelts on AFTER some crazy shit. WHY DO PEOPLE NOT WEAR THEIR BELTS!? HOW is this still a thing!!!!?
Explain.

January 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM

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Anthony Avon .Art

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Looming Towers.

January 29, 2026 at 10:02 AM

Emily Hare

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Cyclops live in the caves under the mountains of Strangehollow. They eat small scurrying things, as well as lichens and other flora. The giant cave worm is its only predator. Savage Strangehollow pre order here: buff.ly/WMSJMQX #cyclops #artbook #folklore #fantasyart #fairytales

watercolour - head and shoulder portrait of a mottled grey cyclops with one large eye with a bean shaped pupil. Their ears stick out at the sides and they don't have a nose and their skin is wrinkled and leathery

January 29, 2026 at 1:08 PM

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘

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Alhambra City Hall council meeting.

January 28, 2026 at 1:36 PM

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Dragons of Wales

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Apparently the AI bros are now calling real artists’ work “Pencilslop”.
Whatever.
Have some slop:

January 28, 2026 at 8:44 PM

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Tom Cox

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I have now lived in the British countryside for most of my five decades on earth, within which time I have come to know it well. I thought, for newcomers to the place, I'd write a short guide to some of its more interesting aspects. You will find them in this thread.

1. EXCITING VILLAGE EVENTS.

My friend Rick was over here from Manchester, staying in my spare room, last week. Rick didn’t leave his home city for the first time until 2022 and didn’t even know what a donkey was until 2019, when he was 58, but now that he’s been to Devon, where I live, a few times, the pollution-coated twat thinks he’s William W***ing Wordsworth. “Slow and dreamy, the cow is the tortoise of the field,” he announced to me pompously on Friday. I didn’t reply, as I dislike confrontation, but the dude was talking utter shit. When properly motivated, British cattle can move at speeds of up to 65mph, as can be witnessed in our annual village Milk Race. Here a herd of Jerseys are challenged, over 18 miles of varied terrain, to beat a quad bike, normally driven by Sue who runs the post office, and Bill, a former Olympic runner who lives in the old mill. As usual, this year the Jerseys came out on top, leaving Bill (far right, in his customary Parisian designer denim) pathetically wheezing and crooked, although as you can see some of the herd’s progress has been impeded by their investigation of the cottage to the right, having heard the distracting opening bars of Paula Abdul’s 1988 hit ‘Straight Up’ coming from an open window.

January 28, 2026 at 8:46 AM

Emily Hare

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Forgot to add the magical glowing fairies to my latest painting of The Silver Lizard Of Helelot! So here he is, properly surrounded by magic...
It's in my new book Savage Strangehollow which is still available to pre-order: buff.ly/UPZHzlQ
#dragon #serpent #folklore #fantasyart #magic #fairytale

watercolour painting of a pale serpent/lizard sliding out of a large ancient tree in a purply blue light. There are magical dots of light suspended in the air around it.

January 28, 2026 at 12:01 PM

Emily Hare

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"The banality of evil" - Hannah Arendt
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The banality of evil: evil is not monstrous, it takes place under the guise of ‘normality’
The “banality of evil” is the idea that evil does not have the Satan-like, villainous appearance we might typically associate it with.

Rather, evil is perpetuated when immoral principles become normalized over time by people who do not think about things from the standpoint of others.

Evil becomes commonplace; it becomes the everyday. Ordinary people — going about their everyday lives — become complicit actors in systems that perpetuate evil.

This idea is best understood within the context of how Arendt viewed our relationship to the world. We live and think not in isolation, but in an interconnected web of social and cultural relations — a framework of shared languages, behaviors, and conventions that we participate in every single day.

This web of social and cultural relations is so all-encompassing in shaping our thought and behavior we are barely conscious of it. It only becomes noticeable when something or someone doesn’t conform to it.

For example, if you were invited to a formal dinner, and proceeded to forego cutlery and eat your meal with your hands, you’d draw many a strange and disapproving look — perhaps you’d even be asked to leave by the more militant guests, for whom ‘eating with cutlery at formal dinners’ is such a deeply ingrained principle as to be worth defending with vigor.

January 28, 2026 at 9:27 AM

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Aimee Cozza Illustration

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I think it's kind of funny people are realizing if they use LLMs to do stuff for them then they lose the ability to do it themselves

bud if I stop writing CSS for a week I forget everything, this is 0 surprise to me

January 28, 2026 at 5:12 AM

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox

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If I hear ONE MORE nonsense misinterpretation of the real Moscow's story or his 'discovery' by A Thousand Blows cast or crew (ITV this morning, the latest, I'm told...) I'm gonna... I'm gonna... write a bloody book about it based on 7 years of work?! 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/11/15/t...

January 16, 2026 at 12:04 PM