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Ape

@heyvapril.bsky.social

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they • digital + traditional artist • lesbian • making weird little guys • No Ai for work/collaborations: [email protected] lək̓ʷəŋən territory 🏳️‍🌈

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Ape @heyvapril.bsky.social · Jul 6

I love this little corner of my home

Photo of an unstained wooden corner desk. From left to right is a shelf of wooden boxes stacked holding a bunch of art supplies, multiple art projects littered across the desk - none finished

#art #artspace #artdesk #artstudio #painter #traditionalartist
🎨

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Wizard Cleave @wizardcleave.bsky.social · Jul 4

I designed this sticker to help support my favorite hooman’s top surgery journey. All funds raised goes directly to support them. Sharing this with a friend means the world.✨🖤

wizardcleave.bigcartel.com
gofund.me/d09635e4

#topsurgery #LGBTQ+ #support #sticker

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Ape @heyvapril.bsky.social · Jun 25

Really beautiful and effective paint job!

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Ape @heyvapril.bsky.social · Jun 24

Aah! So cute!

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Ape @heyvapril.bsky.social · Jun 23

QRP a picture of when your pet was little

A puny itty bitty baby

Photo of a tiny little black cat named Juniper with bright green eyes sitting atop a paint splattered denim lap

#catsofbluesky #blueskycats #cat

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parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · Jun 17

The Rift, 2023

A square painting against a white background. The painting depicts a landscape with blue and green foliage over an orange underpainting. In the center a white and blue star emerges from the foliage and a glowing blue halo surrounds it illuminating the leaves.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Jun 19

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · Jun 19

@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.

kottke.org @kottke.org · Jun 19

A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]

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💕 kiki 💕 @kiki.whitecanof.monster · Jun 16

sorry I’m so quiet, I’m redecorating your house in my mind

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Pagan @paintingpagan.bsky.social · Jun 15

You know, I talk a lot about being a wizard, but I want to make one thing perfectly clear: you can not be a real wizard and a TERF.
So this year's #Pride miniature is this wizard (I know we're halfway through June don't come for me 😭)

#Miniatures #MiniPainting #Nerdlings

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Jun 13

Having a baby bird day. Just want to be scrungly, sleep a lot and eat every 5 minutes. #art

A very stylized drawing of a tired baby sparrow

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Ape @heyvapril.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is so cool

@wzrd.bike forged claw?

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JENN! ✨ @thekeythief.bsky.social · Jun 9

SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS

Here in #LosAngeles, we protect our neighbors at all costs.

A family of 3, outlined in green, hide behind a roaring bear, as large foreboding black shadows with nightsticks and helmets lurk behind it. A green star outstretched at their feet as they try to hide from view. Text at the bottom reads in call caps: "SHIELD YOUR NEIGHBORS"

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caitliwinx ⚔️🍂🪾 @caitliwinx.bsky.social · May 25

Plagued with all your memories
#artsky

Drawing of a nude elf woman holding a halberd

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Ape @heyvapril.bsky.social · Jun 5

Planted some natives in the gorge near my home this morning. A big restoration project is happening to try and bring the land back to as much pre settler state as it can be (we did some very fucked up and real strange shit to the gorge) and it felt nice to be a very very puny part of it all 🌱

Photo of me on my knees in some grass with trees behind me planting a native willow. Im wearing a camo hat that says WZRD, striped overalls, a black tshirt and gardening gloves. A trowel lays at my side

#nativeplants #nativeflowers

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · Jun 3

If👏 Creativity👏 Has👏 No👏 Value👏 In👏 Society👏 Then👏 Why👏 Are👏 So👏 Many👏 People👏 Going👏 To👏 So👏 Much👏 Trouble👏 To👏 Steal👏 It👏

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Ape @heyvapril.bsky.social · Jun 2

I think she’s hungry…

Photo of a black cat with green eyes in a gentle bite and hold position on my ankle that has a blue sock. She’s looking up at the camera as if to say “how dare you not know what I desire”
The table in the back is littered with work in progress small paintings and a paper working out further small paintings

#cat #blackcat #catsky

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Cosmic Devil @cosmicdevilart.bsky.social · Jun 2

Worm abduction

Woodburned art piece. Shows a UFO piloted by a worm. It is abducting worms.

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Skree Ghoulsen 🔜 LBX 105✨ @breebird33.bsky.social · Jun 2

reminder that my graphic novels and myself are queer if you're looking for something for the queer kids in your life (or want something cozy for yourself)🌈✨