Moths in a human suit (they/them)
LightNews LightNews
banner
lycomorpha.bsky.social
Moths in a human suit (they/them)
@lycomorpha.bsky.social
7.2K followers 720 following 5K posts
A collection of moths trying to cosplay a human interdisciplinary artist. MedSci escapee, always drawing, in my chaos-bisexual-enby-hag era. Paintmaker. Moth, disability, & art-related sh*t-posting. https://linktr.ee/lycomorpha & lycomorpha.etsy.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
lycomorpha.bsky.social
Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · Jan 16
Bemused at all the people suddenly following me, so uhh.

Hi? Here's some things to know.

I swear a lot. If you're offended by words like wankspangled knobcockle, I'm not for you.

I post many moths & other bugs. I talk/yell about alt text, chronic life, pencils, & paint. I post paint-making a lot…
A colour pencil drawing of an imaginary emperor moth. It has wide, fuzzy wings that are mint green with a cream border and red wavy horizontal stripes. There are also startling eye spots, one on each wing. Its body is also green and very, very fluffy. It has thin comb-like antennas. Although it is a fictional species it's still a very good moth friend.
lycomorpha.bsky.social
How did I not know until now that orange juice with a couple of shots of espresso in is, in fact, fucken tasty?? 🙃
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
Current pretzel species tried so far:

- Salted
- Pumpkin seed
- Puddingbrezel (vanilla cream-crown but make it pretzel shaped)
lycomorpha.bsky.social Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 1d
Once I've recovered from the morning-ness and the Tuesday-ness, I predict things will improve.

Visiting a friend who's apparently gonna make me eat pretzels.

Oh no. How terrible.
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
divyampersaud.com
All eyes needed—and we're matching £887 / $1,162. Sarah's lupus is deteriorating; she really needs medical evacuation. She also needs care, which costs money—which she only gets through strangers. It's that simple.

Help her survive. Give/find the Abdelwahed's link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
Good morning & welcome to 'sweet holy fuckbeans, why am I awake?'

1. Tuesday's are objectively the worst.

2. I don't like getting up early but ♿-pick up is superfast with no queue.

3. All of the above, & I just need a coffee being enuf to swim in.

Answers on a postcard to the caffeine-free void
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
octopolis.bsky.social
The Oracle
#octopolis #tarot #octopus 🐙🐡
Digital illustration title The Oracle. An octopus sits on a throne made of an open oyster shell, holding articles of divination: coral, sea grapes, and an ancient scroll of sacred knowledge preserved in a corked bottle of glass. A pearl sits on her mantle. She is framed by two billowing columns of hydrothermal smoke. He skin reflects the world around her, balancing forces of dark and light. Around her swim moon jellyfish. At the base of her throne is a stargazer fish, like her, reading the future in the night sky.
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
Well, my brain is having a moment tonight, & it's started calling mixing trees like this one

'Paint taxonomy.'

Send halp.
A paint mixing tree showing how 4 single pigment colours are mixed to make 5 other colours. The pigments are Hansa yellow medium PY74, pyrrole red PR254, ultramarine blue green shade PB29, and chromite brown PBr33. The resulting colours are 2 shades of bright orange, a deep red with brown granulation, and granulating violet and brown. It has nothing to do with taxonomy, but my brain doesn't seem to care.
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
My kingdom for phone updates the don't absolutely trash my accessibility settings every time aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
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 · 2d
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
lycomorpha.bsky.social
This feed is handy when I'm using a screen-reader.

Sounds weird for an image-only feed! But…

I only follow people who use alt text. So using this feed effectively screens out vexing stuff with no alt.

(Also very useful when I'm just feeling tetchy & don't wanna put my good eyes on, lololol)
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
Now we're well past the event, gonna share this birthday card I made for my niece.

It's a card and a dotcard/mini-paint set! (Didn't know if it was gonna work, verr relieved that it does 😁)
A handmade birthday on watercolour paper, with a border covered in sample paint dots in a rainbow of colours. In the middle is a radiating pattern, with one ray in each of the paint dot colours, and two rays with text in reading happy birthday. The card being made on my work bench. Alternate rays have been coloured in and are drying. Around the card are rulers and set squares, pencils, an eraser and a paintbrush. Y'know the usual mayhem.
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
oldenoughtosay.com
there’s an interesting thing we’ve done in our social circle as a result of Covid which is: now we let people know before social activities if anyone has any symptoms of anything potentially contagious, so everyone can make their own risk assessment
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
I don't share as much art as I used to, & I don't make as much art as I used to cos:

1. Slop machines made it even more difficult to get paid for making art, so I do more of other things that do pay. Cos I have bills.

2. Stuff artists do share ending up in the slop machines is pretty demotivating…
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
hbtyson.bsky.social
📌 My name is H.B. and I'm a fantasy artist specializing in a nostalgic style. My work is inspired by woodcuts and vintage children's books.

🔗: hbtyson.carrd.co
🖼️: www.inprnt.com/gallery/hbty...
A digital illustration in the style of a block print. A humanoid figure wearing a red cloak stands next to a long, segmented creature that resembles a carrot. The creature’s body weaves in-and-out of dark bushes. A digital illustration in the style of old print. It displays three plants in various states of transformation. All are growing vague animal-like bodies: one birdlike, one serpentine, and the other humanoid. Digital illustration in the style of old print. A large two-headed beast with dark fur emerges from a cave. It lifts its heads to make eye contact with a redheaded child sitting above the cave’s entrance. A digital illustration in the style of a woodcut. It depicts the upper half of humanoid figure whose “head” is a flattened organic shape. A serpentine creature delicately wraps around the figure’s arm and into an opening in their face. The figure handles the creature gently.
August 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
happytoast.co.uk
While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
divyampersaud.com
Reject the evaporation of support for survival funds—for Palestinian survival. A share, a dollar, a printed flyer (check the link), a text each and all help.

The cost is Palestinian survival. These are the stakes for six families & a camp of fifteen more. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
librarian.bsky.social
Librarians or others, would you like a helpful one-pager zine that you can print to let people know how to report ICE?

Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social

drive.google.com/drive/folder...
SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
drive.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
tabathasouthey.bsky.social
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
lycomorpha.bsky.social
The drawing below is from this teeny tiny stack zine I made - www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

It's about autumn & winter, forests & rocks, time & change, queer community, & the community aunties who have passed on but left us some wisdom to hold on to.
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. My hand holding up an artwork square from the stack zine. It has the same image as the quoted post - a heart made out of lichen covered branches, the silhouette of a standing stone in non-binary pride colours, and a background sky in trans pride colours. My hand holding the cover card of the stack zine. It has the words 'Bonfire season' over a woodland scene with dark tree trunks and a lichen covered branch surrounded by falling leaves like glowing embers.
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
I painted this zine with this paint set I made. (It's also called Bonfire Season.) Along with the moth set, I think it's one of my favourite things I've made this year. 😊
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; red, peach, orange, grey, green, blue, violet and bluish black.
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
medusaswink.bsky.social
Happy Friday all! Here’s our #MutualAid💞💸 and #CrowdFunding 🧵 for the week of Friday, Nov 21

Take your meds 💊

Have some water that’s in water form 💧

Water your green pets 🪴

Check in with yourself 🫵

Check in with your people 👩🏾‍🤝‍👩🏻🧑🏽‍🦯🧎🏽‍♀️‍➡️

Good fortune to you all 💚!

#FridayFundDay
#HelpFolxLive2025
medusaswink.bsky.social Medusa’s Wink misses 🔗 @medusaswink.bsky.social · 12d
Happy (almost) Friday all! Here’s our #MutualAid💞💸 and #CrowdFunding 🧵 for the week of Friday, Nov 14

Post your mutual aid requests below.

Please donate or boost if you can!

Have a weekend full of good fortune, all 💚
medusaswink.bsky.social Medusa’s Wink misses 🔗 @medusaswink.bsky.social · 18d
Happy Friday all! Here’s our #MutualAid💕💸 and #CrowdFunding thread for the week of Friday, Nov 7 (did i miss a week?)

Lots of good folx are in need right now, and sending aid really helps with that “I can’t do anything about this” feeling that Trump so inspires in us all.

So post your requests! 🧡
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
jeremycshipp.bsky.social
Today's a great day to support some creators.

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.

Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
The drawing below is from this teeny tiny stack zine I made - www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

It's about autumn & winter, forests & rocks, time & change, queer community, & the community aunties who have passed on but left us some wisdom to hold on to.
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. My hand holding up an artwork square from the stack zine. It has the same image as the quoted post - a heart made out of lichen covered branches, the silhouette of a standing stone in non-binary pride colours, and a background sky in trans pride colours. My hand holding the cover card of the stack zine. It has the words 'Bonfire season' over a woodland scene with dark tree trunks and a lichen covered branch surrounded by falling leaves like glowing embers.
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
lycomorpha.bsky.social
5. Art is political.
[Gestures at art history.]
It has always been & will always be political.

Even the choice to make not-obviously-political art is a political choice, & one that can be made in many ways.

If someone asks you to draw a house & the house is on fire, draw flames.

#ArtNoteToSelf
A colour pencil drawing of 12 matches arranged in 4 rows of 3. They're in various states of burning, from unlit, to just struck, through burning, to burnt out
October 10, 2023 at 8:19 AM
Reposted by Moths in a human suit (they/them)
okwonga.bsky.social
What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?
okwonga.bsky.social Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 5d
"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus...the NHS is so heavily reliant on doctors from elsewhere – 42% of its entire medical workforce qualified overseas."
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 5d
All those people, including current government, who falsely claim migrants are to blame for failings with the NHS, along with infrastructure in general, are in for one hell of a shock with how much worse things will get with Labour's anti-immigration policies.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM