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franz
@franzanth.bsky.social
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i draw bugs and stuff. offline on the weekends.
please ask before using my images.
he/him 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇩

contact: franzanth at gmail
portfolio: franzanth.com

Hashtags: #Art #SciArt #Gardening

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Aug 27
Activities for this season of #InverteFest:

Community science
www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

Art book submission form
docs.google.com/forms/d/1jHk...

Writer/artist collab anthology
bsky.app/profile/saim...
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jolantru.bsky.social
ICYMI.

If you love cosy fantasy and murder mysteries.
jolantru.bsky.social Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 2d
A cosy fantasy murder mystery series set in the world of Fire Heart.

books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now

books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
Promo graphic for the Sword Goddess Acolyte Chronicles - artwork by Aleksander Chubar.
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
mood
how to make art when you just want to cry 🤪 a cozy vlog
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November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
what the heck
Oil Painting In 3D In Blender.
YouTube video by y3dena
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November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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stoutheartstudio.com
Gonna say it again. If you are someone who is lonely and has no one to talk to, for the love, DM me, a real human who will listen before you message an AI bot.
stevanzetti.bsky.social steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 19h
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that. "You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now." Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner. She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
bug merch idea: bagworm-shaped bags
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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quilbug.bsky.social
Comms are still open for those interested!👀🐛
bov-art.bsky.social Bov-Art @bov-art.bsky.social · 13h
Character design commission for Crescent Bug on tumblr ✧｡٩(ˊᗜˋ )و✧*｡

#commissions #bugart #bugpeople
A digital illustration of Sawyer the bee beetle flying down to land and waving at the viewer. Sawyer has a fluffy yellow body with dark brown segmented limbs. Sawyer wears a blue coat and post hat with a redish brown scarf and satchel. Sawyers outspread wings are a mostly transparent dark grey. A sketch reference sheet of Sawyer the eurasian bee beetle. The first image shows sawyers face up close, he has yellow fluff all over except for the tip of their snout and antennae, which is a dark brown chitin. He has big dark brown eyes with a darker shade pupil. Above and below that headshot reads, "Sawyer, he/they, Eurasian Bee Beetle, Trichius Fasciatus." Beside that is a front and back view of Sawyers body, their body is mostly covered in bright yellow fluff except for his limbs which is dark brown, segmented chitin. His elytron is shiny and striped with black and yellow. Below that Sawyer's outfit is shown with annotations. Sawyer wears a blue postman style hat and coat, a redish brown scarf and a leather satchel. There is a hole in the back of the coat for their abdomen and wings to go through. Beside that are little circles with the colours used in each section.
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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xercessociety.bsky.social
Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!

Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7

Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
“We’re Hiring! Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing”
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social
fyi if you want to work with me for some reason
xercessociety.bsky.social The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 15h
Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!

Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7

Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
“We’re Hiring! Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing”
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social
It's a love thing
Illustration of two bears wrapped up in a quilt blanket. The beige bear shows a glowing pink heart to the smaller brown bear.
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Hats! Collector Urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)

#TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...
Panel 1: A brightly colored green, orange, white, and dark purple sea urchin, they have a kelp frond draped across the top of their orbness like a hat, a few orange spines poking through the seaweed, urchin is saying, "Hmm...", Panel 2: same urchin now has a pebble that is the anchor for a small anemone as a hat, urchin is saying, \"Maybe...?\", Panel 3: same urchin now with the shell of a dead urchin of the same species as a hat, "Nah.", Panel 4: close up of urchin reaching off screen with black and white tube feet to some obscured object, "Ohhhh!", Panel 5: a larger panel that contains several urchins wearing various sea debris as hats such as a chunk of a candy wrapper, some pebbles, a limpet shell, and some sea grass. The urchin from the previous four panels now has a large crusty looking dive knife as a hat and is saying "It's PERFECT" while the other urchins say, "nice!" and "so stylish!"
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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delightmonster.bsky.social
[scary cephalopod robot voice] SUBMIT
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 1d
we're at 31 submissions out of the 100 available slots already, damn
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 13d
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
Working on invertebrate #paleoart at the moment, knowing I'm probably making mistakes despite best efforts, consulting primary literature etc. Inverts are much like fossil plants: there are few accessible resources on their appearance so we must wing it, or go down deep rabbit holes to restore them.
Detail of a larger painting showing the trilobites Eldredgeops rana.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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merriam-webster.com
Why do we call it a 'turkey'?
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
This is always a lot of fun to see—so many styles of art and variety of subject matter. And it's super easy to submit a piece! Just a lovely experience all around. Highly recommended!
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 13d
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
franzanth.bsky.social
dear artists,

if you're feeling down today for whatever reason, know that at least you're not being scolded by Le Guin
aptshadow.bsky.social Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 1d
At’The Word for the World’ exhibition of Le Guin’s maps and it includes what reads as a very irate note to her cover artist about how a dragon should look.
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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sohkamyung.bsky.social
Delighted to spot this ant (maybe genus Polyrhachis) infected by the Zombie-Ant Fungus (complex Ophiocordyceps unilateralis) at MacRitchie Nature Trail, Singapore on 23 Nov 2025.

(1/n)
A dead ant with its jaws clamped on a leaf blade. Its body is covered with a layer of brown fungus. Just behind the head, a long fungus body has sprouted. The view is from above and one side of the ant. The legs of the ant have fallen off. Another view of the same ant from the side, showing it holding on to the leaf blade. A view from near the top of the ant, showing the fungus body sprouting from the back of the head. A view from the front of the ant, showing the jaws clamping down on the leaf.
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
franzanth.bsky.social
we're at 31 submissions out of the 100 available slots already, damn
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 13d
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
franzanth.bsky.social
fish hell has returned ONCE AGAIN with 21 more species

save me
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Sep 25
fish hell has returned and they found more species, now i owe them ~48 drawings, not 30 💀
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Jul 29
i'm temporarily free from fish hell until they send me references for the remaining ~30 species. expect invertebrates soon.
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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lycomorpha.bsky.social
Hey 🐝⛷️ friends

I'll be shipping this aft, & then Saturday this week (I'm away a few days int middle.)

So if you want my paints or zines shipped before the weekend, get them at Lycomorpha.etsy.com
Three copies of a teeny tiny square stack zine laid out for a shop pic. It's called 'Bonfire season' and the pages have autumnal artwork on one side and text telling a story on the other. The titles of the pages make a hidden poem. There's lichen and pine cones around the place to pretty things up. A six colour half pan handmade watercolour set. There's a swatch card showing a strip of each colour, and an open pan of each resting on the swatch. The colours are granulating and semi opaque mixed pigment colours that form a gradient from a custardy peach though oranges to dark reds. An 8 colour half pan handmade watercolour set. There's a swatch card showing a strip of each colour, and an open pan of each resting on the swatch. There's also a swatched square tin to one side. The colours are granulating and semi opaque mixed pigment colours, mostly in greens and browns because it's a woodland themed set.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
Unsure what to name your child? Consider Gastrolith; it works for any gender
September 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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gruntleme.bsky.social
Transparent blobs are hard to draw. These guys are so much cooler than I can render them; please look up some macro photos! #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025
Pen and ink drawing of what looks like a bunch of crinkly-edged cheetos clustered together, clinging to a plant stem. These goofy worms are colonies of freshwater bryozoans. There is a closeup of part of an individual zooid showing its lophophore (feeding organ) with many tentacles Handwritten text reads: #InsertAninvert 43 Blobfest (Blobchain) Freshwater bryozoan (Cristatella mucedo) Colonies can range in size from 1-20cm; zooids are usually no larger than 1mm
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
today's prompt: gender neutral/NB names inspired by nature, the more unhinged the better. go go go.
book-historia.bsky.social Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 1d
For real though, bibliographic terms make great nonbinary names. I have genuinely considered changing my name to Deckle
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
Apparently Bugaboo Pocket is 30% off right now. Get your hell ants today.
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM