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Heidi C. Vlach 🇨🇦
@hcvlach.bsky.social
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She/her. Queer. Chronically ill. Loves animals and plants. I self-pubbed fantasy novels in the 2010's; now I'm writing a cozy remake project called Our Long-Steeped Remedies.

Occasional NSFW. No genAI, TERF or Nazi shit ever.
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Heidi C. Vlach 🇨🇦 @hcvlach.bsky.social · Sep 18
I'm Heidi (she/her), and I'm some kinda tired Canadian creature. Been self-publishing cozy fantasy since before that subgenre existed.
⭐Our Long-Steeped Remedies: free to read at heidicvlach.neocities.org
🍀Itch.io store: hcvlach.itch.io
🍁Payhip store: payhip.com/heidicvlach
Here live the stories of Heidi C. Vlach
heidicvlach.neocities.org
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outsidewolves.bsky.social
A three panel comic strip featuring two anthropomorphic canines traipsing about a junkyard. In the first panel, text reads "The best past is one you can learn from." They read from a document and pull a cathode ray tube from an old bowling computer console. In the background, the tail section of an MD-11 airplane looms like a monument. In the second panel, we see them looking closely at a manual laid out of the hood of a Paykan automobile. Text above them reads "The best future is one we build for ourselves." In the third panel, we see them walking away together, with a garden cart in tow filled with the CRT, an airplane seat cushion, a video recorder, and assorted stuff. They walk past a Therac-25 radiation therapy machine. Text above them reads "The best present is a trip to the junkyard."
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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8thcreation.bsky.social
Hey, it's OCtober!

I write a character-driven werid fiction/cosmic horror novel with modern political fantasy elements. I also draw. My characters are 24/7 on my mind and I will use every opportunity to show them to everyone.

Here are my queer, fanatical, celestial-themed lizards.

#art #oc #ocsky
A blue anthropomorphic lizard with spotted skin, dark blue eyes with glowing star-shaped irises, and bright glowing starry marks on her forehead and chest. She is wearing a silver halo crown, a dark blue veil resembling a braid, decorated with vibrant blue flowers, a silver decorative corset, silver decorative forearm cuffs, and a dark blue dress with a high neckline and a wide hood attached to the sleeves. The background is dark blue, full of stars. A blue-skinned anthropomorphic lizard wearing white robes with a wide hood, golden jewelry, and a blue cape with golden celestial embellishments. His eyes are golden, and his skin—blue with darker spots. He is holding a white rose in his right hand. There's a bleeding, star-shaped wound on his left hand. The background is purplish blue with golden swirls and a halo surrounding the character's head. There are two smaller frames on the sides of the artwork, each containing decorative blakthorn flowers, four-pointed stars, and bones. Digital artwork divided into four sections. The first section, the major one, is a large rectangle filling the left side of the illustration. Inside it there is an anthropomorphic lizard with dark gray skin, turquoise spots, a long curly tail, and crystal-like markings on her right hand. She is wearing a light pink shirt with wide sleeves, blue pants, tall dark shiny boots, and a thick blue veil resembling two ponytails. She is floating in the space with a dynamic pose and holding an eyeball with a black sclera, vibrant blue iris, and star-shaped white pupil. The smaller three sections are on the right side of the picture. They portray two yucca plants with parasitic flowers and eyes, a hand holding an eye with a dividing iris, and an eel with many eyes on its body. Backgrounds of all sections are dark blue, filled with stars. An anthropomorphic lizard holding a blue glowing lily flower. She has blue spotted skin, white glowing star-shaped markings on her hands and forehead, and dark eyes with starry white pupils. She is wearing a dark blue dress, a blue cape with a celestial pattern, a dark veil resembling a braid, and a second, thin, semi-transpernt flowy veil with starry emroidery. Silver jewelry complements the whole outfit. The background is an elongated frame containg cosmic space—dark, full of stars.
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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shroompunk.com
so i used to offer premade bg comms--you pick a scene from a list, i draw your character into it. lets folks have a bg for cheaper.

thinking of reopening those, example image related.

1. would you want one?
2. what scenes would be cool?
3. what price point seems feasible?

appreciate any thoughts!
Illustration of a midcentury living room with a mod green fireplace in the middle of the room, a blanket laid out on the floor, and an autumnal mountain scene out the windows.
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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shroompunk.com
hey, I'm shroom! I'm a psychedelic furry artist and lover of the 70s!

full price sheet available @ shroompunk.com

read my webcomic: tapas.io/series/Short...
patreon: www.patreon.com/c/shroompunk
prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/shro...
zines: shroompunk.itch.io
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/shroompunk
Page 1 of a digital price sheet with a drawing of a bird man with teeth in his beak and a jawbreaker-like eyeball on his long tongue. Text reads: "ShroomPunk Studios price guide. Will draw: Furries, humans, fantasy races, animals. Nature, architecture, interiors, scenes. Technology, vehicles, robots. Draw from visual or written references. Help design new characters. Pinups, gore/horror, some NSFW (contact for NSFW price sheet). Won't draw: Gore or NSFW including minors. NSFW feral art. Hateful content. See more @ ShroomPunk.com." Page 2 of a digital price sheet featuring two drawings. On the left is a single-color sketch of a bird man with shadow magic reaching out from his body to light a cigarette. On the right is a man with a canine skull head with ram horns, playing a guitar. Text lists prices for sketches as $20 for bust, $30 for fullbody, and to ask about pricing for backgrounds and colored sketches. Text lists prices for flatcolor illustrations as $50 for bust, $80 for fullbody, and $150 for backgrounds. Page 3 of a digital price sheet featuring 2 images. On the left is an anthro fox standing in front of an elaborately detailed star chart that appears half-finished in a fresco on the wall. On the right is a bird man in a surreal scene, floating in a huge yellow teacup as colorful fluid pours out of a giant bottle of liquor. Text advertises cell shaded illustrations as $60 for bust, $90 for fullbody, and $200 for background. The other image label is "Hand shading available: ask for pricing." Page 4 of a digital price sheet featuring two psychedelic images. On the left is a bust drawing of a bearded vulture man lighting a pipe with his fingertips with a paisley patterned background and hot pink smoke. On the right is a fullbody image of a cyborg egyptian vulture person floating out of their bed in a surreal cyberpunk scene, with a number of brightly glowing screens floating up past them. Text offers psychedelica priced at $120 for bust images, $150 for fullbody, and adding shading for $40. A note on the side of the sheet reads: "More commission styles at ShroomPunk.com."
October 18, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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shilohskye.com
A #FurryBookReviewMonth right after #FurryBookMonth would be awesome!

Even a short review is a huge help to authors and to the whole furry fiction community. Here's an easy way to write one in just 3 quick sentences!
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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felipegaonar.bsky.social
I love this.
An exchange on twitter. controlla.xyz: If you hate Al you probably just hate art and expression It's an infinite mashup of all the best art ever made by humans lesliejandersonwriter: If you hate the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster you just hate food and cooking. It's an infinite mashup of all the best food made by humans!
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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8thcreation.bsky.social
Quick sketch commission for Asanatis. 💙 #art
An anthropomorphic dragon with beige skin, wearing a white and rusty orange outfit with golden details. There's a golden halo and blue background behind the character.
October 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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hourlymartens.bsky.social
#marten #mustelid
An image of a marten.
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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culturecrave.co
German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵

• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses

• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal

"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"

— German Music Rights Society
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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bodegacats.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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stendra.bsky.social
Graphite drawing I made for @timegear.ink recently!

#art #dragon #pencil #drawing #OC
traditional pencil drawing of Sai's dragon OC, about A4 in size, made with graphite.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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daidalos.bsky.social
The pine flats near me are just alight with blankets chaffheads and thoroughwort. #swampwitch #nature
Bright purple blooms of hairy chaffheads erupt out of the carpets of green underbrush. Bright purple blooms of hairy chaffheads erupt out of the carpets of green underbrush. In the distance you can see how far the trail goes. Blankets of feathery thoroughwort come up among the grass and small pine trees. The blanket goes on for dozens of yards. Close up of the white thoroughwort flowers.
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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shroompunk.com
surprised the US didn't lose its measles elimination status first--but i'm sure we are not far behind.

anyway--if you were vaccinated a longass time ago and are unsure if you're still immune, you can get that tested and/or get a fresh vaxx. i got revaxxed earlier this year to refresh immunity.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d
WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of continued spread, international health experts say.
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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orcwriter.bsky.social
It's been nearly a year since I started writing about the Garden. To celebrate, read the very first tale of the mice and their enchanted garden in Provence.

open.substack.com/pub/claudemo...
The Book That Sang To The Stars
The Very First Garden Tale
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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kvalenagle.bsky.social
Hey, Blue Sky has pinned posts now!

I'm Vale Nagle, and I write queer naturepunk epic creature fantasy novels. If you've always wanted a series with gryphons based on sand cats, vampire finches, saber-toothed tigers, giant otters, or hooded pitohui, I'm your author.

books2read.com/rl/gryphonin...
The covers of the first ten Gryphon Insurrection novels by K. Vale Nagle, starting with Eyrie and ending with Saberbeak, portraying a wide range of interesting gryphons in interesting places from hawks to kakapo to snowy owls to diving petrels to starlings to hooded pitohui to sand cat hoopoe birds to white-tailed kites in golden armor to saber-toothed tiger gryphons. The first ten covers are in an illustrated style, but the last book, Blue Eyes, is a short story collection in a very stylized art that has a snow leopard in the snowy mountains.
October 11, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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polenth.bsky.social
I've hit 100 subscribers on YouTube! It's nice to see things moving again. www.youtube.com/@Polenth
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
I love that you can just casually stroll along a path and discover the homes of sea creatures that lived & strived on Earth before Saturn had its rings.

Deep time is even more intriguing (in some ways) than deep space.
cormacscoast.bsky.social Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 6d
These dark patches on the limestone are ancient animal (shrimp-like creatures, we think!) burrows, made when this was a muddy sea floor. It is believed that a storm washed the the animals from these burrows and filled them in with gravel or sand (in this case Crinoid segments).
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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stefmowords.bsky.social
succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
hcvlach.bsky.social
Here's a template for Canadians to email their MPs in support of Basic Income for all: share.nwmd.social/s/I2cxj3iB
Email Your MP: Budget for Basic Income
share.nwmd.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Shine
Nicki Ault
2024
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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hourlymartens.bsky.social
#marten #mustelid
An image of a marten.
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
hcvlach.bsky.social
Played the demo of this cute indie game and I had a good time!I recommend it to cozy fantasy enthusiasts who wanna walk around in a friendly magic world.
silkyfangs.bsky.social SilkyFangs 🔞 Art Raffle in Pinned! @silkyfangs.bsky.social · 7d
It's time to waddle!🦎
It's time to whoop!🎵
It's time to Wishlist! 🎮
It's time to boop!🦎

Happy #WishlistWednesday!
Shimmer's Quest, the adorably silly point & click game by
@shimmer-spawn.bsky.social is in Early Access! Link below!

Sharing is 💞
Wishlisting is 🌟🦎🌟
#furrygame #adventuregame #scalie
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM