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@localcryptideli.bsky.social

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Artist | Cat Parent | Plant lover | Coffee addict | Sleepy sleepy tired tired 😿 Currently trying to get better/recover/learn to manage nerve pain on my hands, so not currently producing art.

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GlacierClear @glacierclear.bsky.social · 16h

fat boy

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chervil @doginacafe.bsky.social · 7h

some very self indulgent doodles of me and my partner!

four sets of images featuring digital sketches of an anthropomorphic black cat with large square glasses posing in various poses

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 6h

and I'm adding these two new prints!

a cat looking at the camera with big round eyes while walking on a log in a lush forest in a morning light

A fluffy tuxedo cat is sitting in a fall tree - the leaves are in vivid yellow, red and hot pink tones and frame the cat against blue sky

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Moss🔻 @necromoss.bsky.social · Apr 14

sometimes we (i) forgot

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🐝Unapologetically queer Martiwikiwi Cor Petit @martiwikiwi.bsky.social · Jun 24

They're like

Short comic made with pencil and watercolour markers of my original characters Hagan and Puresoul. In the first panel, Puresoul is posing with his sword in one hand and the head of a person in the other. There is fire in the background. He is smirking and saying "Muahahaha! Hahahaah! I kill!!". In the second panel, Hagan is throwing someone out of the balcony as he smirks. He says "Hahahahahaha! I also kill!!". In the third panel they look at each other in silence. In the last panel they kiss ans the fire propagates.

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🐝Unapologetically queer Martiwikiwi Cor Petit @martiwikiwi.bsky.social · 1d

🦇 8/14 🦇
#OC #comics

Photo of an inked comic page featuring my original characters Hagan and Puresoul fighting each other with daggers

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🐝Unapologetically queer Martiwikiwi Cor Petit @martiwikiwi.bsky.social · 2d

💜 Hi everyone! If you like reading my #webcomic DEMON HUNTER HAGAN you can now get your Allan and/or your Chorus keychain!
💜 Each keychain has an original illustration, not a print, which means they are UNIQUE and decorated with sparkling stickers and beans
☕ ko-fi.com/martiwikiwi/...

Photo of four photo holder keychains with drawings of my original character Allan posing. The holders are decorated with sparkling stickers and beans.

Photo of four photo holder keychains with drawings of my original character Chorus posing. The holders are decorated with sparkling stickers and beans.

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 4d

In addition to paypros problems, everyone also needs to be aware of the dangerous censorship bills that are on the table. Each of them threatens our freedom of speech, privacy, and business. Call your reps and tell them to OPPOSE each of these bills. R or D, get LOUD and spread the word! #SaveSpeech

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 18d

#SaveSpeech

Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc

Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 8d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372
1-800-307-7309
US option selection: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1
Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111
Aus: +61 1800 120 113
UK: 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers here (and here )

Stripe

California: 888-926-2289
US: 877-887-7815
France: +33 805-11-19-67

Paypal

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161
Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050
UK: +44 (0203)-901-7000

Visa

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911
US option selection: 1, 1, 2 or 1, 1, 3
Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200
Aus: +61 1800 125 440
Phone (outside US): click here

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Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · 3d

iPad artists, HUGE news!!

Affinity designer, publisher, and photo can be purchased FOR FREE rn

No subscription, just free

Here's how

1) Download ALL THREE apps on the app store

#DigitalArt #iPadArtist #Art #Affinity

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Screenshot of affinity photo, publisher, and designer in the apple app store.

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Milo @keybladepaladin.bsky.social · 1d

To save / to protect

Not much, just a render practice of Riku and Yozora from the chest up. Maybe they're both looking at Sora off camera. Honest, I just wanted to draw two pretty guard dogs who are a little too preoccupied with one specific guy

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Local Cryptid @localcryptideli.bsky.social · 1d

A very cute weevil

Local Cryptid @localcryptideli.bsky.social · 1d

Totally not sourced from trauma or the fact that for 99.9% of people who know me irl I could be a mildly withering plant they forgot in a corner. Anyway.

Local Cryptid @localcryptideli.bsky.social · 1d

Nooo I don’t have abandonment issues, just intense nightmares about it I swear

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 2d

Cozy and stylish ✨

#art #cuteart #gouache

Gouache illustration of a black cat wearing a scarf with various geometric patterns on it. The scarf is in warm shades with some green accents.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Local Cryptid @localcryptideli.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yeah I get that too. Personally at this point I convinced myself my brain is just bad at using dopamine. Either that or it could be stress? Idk, but I am here like 🤝

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Tuta @tuta.com · 2d

We've just fought #ChatControl - now Ireland 🇮🇪 wants its own backdoor law. 🔓

But we, together with ~40 orgs, are saying no.

#NoToBackdoors 💪

Read our open letter to Ireland: 👉 www.globalencryption.org/2025/10/open...

#backdoor #encryption #privacy #security

REMINDER
LEGISLATORS:

A backdoor for the good guys only is not possible.”

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 9d

Sharing is caring 🧡

#art #pokemon #pokemonart #watercolor

Watercolor illustration of two Pokémon, Pumpkaboo and Mimikyu, sharing a big, swirly lollipop. There’s also a jack-o-lantern shaped candy basket in front.

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makeshift 🎃👻🦇 @makeshiftwingsplush.com · 3d

my lynx beanie sewing pattern is now available in my public shop!
makeshiftwings.myshopify.com/products/sew...

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Local Cryptid @localcryptideli.bsky.social · 3d

BABY

Local Cryptid @localcryptideli.bsky.social · 3d

She is a master manipulator. It doesn't help that she is a special needs cat (arthrosis, and she was very sickly and nearly died as a kitten from chronic issues), and that she is very affectionate, and quite timid with strangers. She also likes being played on like a bongo.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Local Cryptid @localcryptideli.bsky.social · 3d

My mom's cat Mati learned how to say "mamma" when she gets ignored for too long, and she does it with a most pitiful tone, so it's impossible for you to ignore her basically. She will just go to the corridor and go "mam-ma? 🥺 mam-ma? 🥺"

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Local Cryptid @localcryptideli.bsky.social · 3d

Lilly was meowing downstairs nonstop which she does sometimes if she wants to play with other cats or be let into a closed room, and I was trying to ignore her because I am tired af.

BUT THEN she gave the most on point imitation of the wettest, most pathetic “hewwo” ever and I couldn’t ignore THAT

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