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lycomorpha.bsky.social
Moths in a human suit (they/them)
@lycomorpha.bsky.social
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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
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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.
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
Hi #PortfolioDay

I'm Jeremy, your friendly neighborhood horror writer and fabric artist. I design and hand-sew weird little guys and weird little bags. For most of my life I thought a pony was a baby horse.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background. Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art Krampus and Santa with two fabric art, hand-embroidered trees in the background. The trees are embroidered with red flowers, yellow stars, and white snowflake arms. Krampus has a handmade bundle of sticks and a chain. There's a galaxy print fabric in the background. Here's a lovely photo of Jasper. He's a black fabric art moth with a gray face and seven red eyes. He has a small open mouth with two sharp teeth on the top and three slightly larger sharp teeth on the bottom. He's covered with red embroidered flowers with gray lines around them. Short red lines and gray points and other folk art looking markings cover his body. He his twirly black antennae covered with short red lines all in a row. There's green fur in the background of the pic. Here's a lovely photo of my green baseball cap. I've embroidered a bunch of red flowers with yellow centers, and another plant with green stems and a heck load of tiny pink blossoms. We can also see Pinkeye. She's a furry green puppet with a pointy pink tongue and pink bulbous eyes. She has two clusters of thin brown feathers popping up behind her eyes.
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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samanthamash.bsky.social
It is #portfolioday again! I'm Samantha and I specialize in editorials, publishing (mostly book covers), and branding! I also sell my work at the links below

✉️[email protected]
🧡samanthamash.com
🧡samanthamash.etsy.com
🧡inprnt.com/gallery/samanthamash
🧡patreon.com/samanthamash
A pale woman with light gray hair leaning back in a endless space of green, orange, yellow and pink foliage as a white bird hovers by her shoulder Illustration of teal seagull flying amongst others of its own kind in peach clouds. On the back of the main seagull grow out pieces of Pacific Northwest like the space needle, a salmon, Mount Hood, a bike, and a fishing boat amongst other things Illustration of a dark haired woman laying in a Arizona landscape. She is as large as the mountains behind her and lays facing the sky. Above her is a peachy cloudy sky with a large pink sun. Under her is a scrub desert landscape with brush and cacti in bloom Illustration of a peach toned and red crab with the Cancer constellation around it as stars. The crab is on a light peach background
January 13, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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telekitnetic.bsky.social
(ringing the dinnerbell) #PortfolioDay is here once again!!

I'm Jay, and I'm a Wet'suwet'en freelance artist who makes formline art. I'm currently without a day job, so if anyone's interested in personal/commercial use formline commissions.. check me out :>

🌐 jazzjosart.com
📥 [email protected]
A formline design of a crocodilian monster. Their body loops around the drawing area. Their scale colouring ranges from dark brick red, light brick red, to pale pink. They have a fluffy, orange mane on their neck. A semi-rendered illustration of formline wolves running across a foggy, snowy lake, with hills and mountains in the distance. An above view illustration of a formline river otter swimming in a river, with leaves drifting around it. A picture of an assortment of animal stickers spread out and laying on top of each other. All of them are formline designs, and show the following: a blue and cream-coloured chickadee, a yellow and blue-teal harbour seal, a maroon and orange capybara, a light green and dark blue otter head, and a bright red and dark red hyena.
January 13, 2026 at 3:58 PM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
Good morning and welcome to 'how many pans can I fit on one tray.'

Today featuring the colours darkwoods, pale bark, forest floor, Italian light gold ochre (PY43), & hedgerow jam.

Most of these are for new sets. Not quite ready for their final layer except for the ochre. Gotta be patient.
Watercolour paint pans being made.Rows and rows of watercolour paints are being filled into half, quarter, and eighth pans. They're all in autumnal colours. They're held to a metal tray by small magnets on the bottom of the pans, and there are syringes of paint lying next to the tray.
January 13, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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rosemarymosco.com
Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.
A six-panel comic titled "Wildlife Tracking Tips". In panel 1, the text says "A white-tailed deer traveled through here," and there are white-tailed deer prints in fresh snow. In panel 2, the text says "An American Red Squirrel came by," and the leap marks of a red squirrel are in the snow. In panel 3, the text says "A Snowshoe Hare passed through," and there are the distinctive fluffy-footed marks from a snowshoe hare jumping across the snow. n panel 4, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare found a sword," and one of the front paw marks in the track has been replaced with a long thin line running alongside the track. In panel 5, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare is dual wielding," and both front paw marks have been replaced with long thin lines. In panel 6, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare tamed a mount, vastly increasing its jumping distance. You should run," and the Snowshoe Hare trail runs into a deer track and disappears.
January 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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warrenterra.bsky.social
With Alt Text, and a link to the fundraiser so people can report it to GoFundMe as violating their terms of service:
www.gofundme.com/f/ice-offuve...
The first image in the thread, a screenshot showing an image of Jonathan Ross from one of the videos of him next to Renee Gold's car, when he killed her. He's wearing an olive-colored winter jacket and an olive-colored snood drawn up to cover his jaw and the tip of his nose. The rest of his head is visible. The photo is captioned "ICE OFFICER Jonathan Ross" and below that it says "$94,598 raised of 160K" and 60%. The second image posted in the thread, a screenshot from GoFundMe's rules, saying: You agree that you will not use the Services or Platform to raise funds, establish any Fundraiser, or post any User Content for the purposes of promoting or involving: The third image in the thread, another screenshot from GoFundMe's rules, saying the text below. The word "murder" is highlighted: 8.10. the legal defense of financial and violent crimes, including those related to money laundering, murder, robbery, assault, battery, sex crimes or crimes against minors;
January 11, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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meganpiont.bsky.social
70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish!

There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.

drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Aloe plant "reading" black and white illustrated zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe."
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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lycomorpha.bsky.social
Frankly some of this already kicked off here. We've been illegally deporting ppl since TM was home sec.

& we had a head start on transphobic bullshit.

(We already got section 28 #2. & I'm old enuf to remember the original, so don't gimme any crap about administrative diffs. The effect is the same)
December 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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lycomorpha.bsky.social
Fascism comes for everyone who doesn't capitulate, & plenty of them that do.

Reform is just as likely to deport our neighbours, set up illegal detention camps, destroy our healthcare system, devastate public services, etc etc.

They're not just gonna trample people u don't like. Not how this works.
December 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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lycomorpha.bsky.social
People in the UK would do well to pay attention to both this & the racist/xenophobic/transphobic actions happening at home.

All of this could happen here. All of this could happen to us.

& If you think you're safe because of how you look, who you love, where you're born, etc etc?

You're not.
older.bsky.social Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 24d
No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
americasvoice.bsky.social America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 25d
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was born in Maryland. She has a valid U.S. birth certificate, medical and immunization records, and sworn affidavits.

Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
December 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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oldenoughtosay.com
There’s a whole different conversation there about how surrogacy is handled in the U.K. but the important point here is that it’s incredibly rare to do paternity test before filling out a birth certificate so this judge is just being transphobic
January 10, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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oldenoughtosay.com
So, one of my friends carried a surrogate pregnancy- egg donor and the dads’ sperm- and when the baby was born, despite having no biological relation to my friend, let alone her husband, her husband was put as the father on birth certificate. So uh. This doesn’t track
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3d
A transgender man cannot be registered as “father” on the birth certificates of children delivered by his female partner, a senior judge has ruled. He could not be registered as such because he was neither the biological nor gestational parent of either child. [Times]
Trans man ‘not a father’ A transgender man cannot be registered as “father” on the birth certificates of children delivered by his female partner, a senior judge has ruled. Mrs Justice Lieven acknowledged that the lived role of the parent was that of the children’s father. He could not be registered as such because he was neither the biological nor gestational parent of either child.
January 10, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
Hominin artists, use one piece to convince people to follow you 🦧

pls follow for more karb and other #SciArt
a grid of 3x2 square drawings of crabs (and one shrimp) on a black background, red crab, leopard crab, fluffy crab, orange and purple halloween crab, pipe cleaner red and white shrimp, yellow grey crab with googly eyes
January 10, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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purplemage.blackskycomra.de
En ce moment au Petit Palais à Paris (musée gratuit !) il y a une exposition consacrée à Bilal Hamdad, qui peint le quotidien de Paris à l'huile.

Ca serait une photo intéressante, mais c'est le fait d'avoir pris le temps de peindre à l'huile tous les détails qui rend cette oeuvre magnifique
Peinture au style photoréaliste. On y voit une rue de Paris, dans les tons froids, avec quelques papiers au sol, des grafitits sur un mur, un plan du métro, un vendeur de maïs chaud, un couple se tenant la main, un chien tirant sur sa laisse, des passants. A l'arrière plan, deux agents de nettoyage en gilet jaune descendent les escaliers.
January 10, 2026 at 10:04 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
Gah. 2 pages of tryna get the colour I want, & I think this is a sign my brain is done for the week. 🙃

Still, søke of those pinks and oranges are pretty nice tho. 🤔
Nine swatches of watercolour paint mixes across two sketchbook pages. They're all in shades of pinks, oranges, and yellowsd. One page is labelled PY154 + PR259K, the other is labelled as PY154 + PR259K + PR254.
January 9, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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lycomorpha.bsky.social
All these illustrations are from my 'Moths in a Human Suit' zines btw, which you can get here:
www.etsy.com/shop/lycomor...

They open out with species info on the inside 🦋 🐛
Promotional image for a zine called Moths in a Human Suit'. It shows issue 6, with the cover that has the title of the zine written in lichen coated text, and an open zine showing the Kentish glory moth illustration from the previous post.
December 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
Spider or puppy? We report, you decide.
Macro photograph of a furry, 8 legged animal with large saucer eyes, looking up at us, begging with its foremost appendages held expectantly in front, perhaps for a morsel, just one little piece of whatever you're eating.
January 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
My moth paint set has so far raised >£250 for MAP & still going!

Over the holidays I also had this set on sale for akt www.akt.org.uk a charity supporting LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness. That's sold out, so today I was able to donate £187.94.

Thanks so much to everyone who shared or bought! 💖
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. A thank you email message from the charity AKT. it has a banner with hands waving rainbow flags agains a sunny sky, and the words Thank you for supporting LGBTQ+ youth. Beneath it text reads: akt <fundraising@akt.org.uk> 18:33 (6 hours ago) to me Dear Lycomorpha Moths. Thank you so much for your donation of £187.94 to akt! In a time when more and more young LGBTQ+ people are feeling unwelcome and unsafe. Your support provides hope. Together our community shows that love is stronger than hate. This winter, you are helping find safe homes for LGBTQ+ young people who would otherwise be left to sleep rough – facing rejection, danger, and the harsh reality of life on the streets. Your support helps continue this lifesaving work, helping young people not just today, but as they rebuild their lives in the months and years ahead. Thank you for standing with us in the belief that no one should have to choose between a safe home and being who they are. To keep up to date with how your donation is making a difference and other news, please follow us on social media here. Once again, thank you for making a difference through your donation! We are truly grateful for your solidarity and support. All the very best, The akt team
January 9, 2026 at 1:07 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
Aaaaaaaaaarrggh!

No I do not want to improve my mailings with AI integrations.

Just.
Fuck.
Offffffff. Aaaaaarrg.

This shite can get back in its douche-canoe and paddle on home down Dickweasel River til it reaches the Bay of Wankpuffins where it belongs.

Gah! Goway for fuckssaaykes!! Bleh.
January 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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jrdawson.bsky.social
If I for some reason ever pass
And they try to make my wife a roommate
Or a shadow in my life
Let it be known she was my heart.
She was my everything.
Not a shadow
But the whole sun.
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
It's that time of year, zine-loving friends!

The time when I pack all of last year's art fair samples, misprinted/folded/cut, or other minor flaw-having zines into discount packs. All perfectly readable, just a bit frayed.

Want to know when my shop update is live? Join mailchi.mp/20162032d876...
A pile of different sized colourful art zines spread out on a plain background. There's a doodle zone called cloudbook, a journal of video game botany, a mini stack called bonfire season, two A6 one-page books called Earth Pigments and Life and lichen, a double layer folded zine called keep going, keep growing, and a tiny little concertina zine about biscuits.
January 8, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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cageyratfish.bsky.social
This exists as one of my all time favourite memes 😹
And a toasty variation

i keep these saved in a folder for immediate deployment as needed. Happy belated New Year to you! 💕
Meme of a claymation Colonel Sanders sitting at a desk, with text in various sizes and styles overlaid on the image to read: What in the Hot Crispy Kentucky-Fried Fuck A frowning slice of cinnamon toast says "What the cinnamon toast fuck is this"
January 8, 2026 at 9:18 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
Breakfast dice doodle. Simple 1, because my brain hurts this morning.

- Roll a D6, draw that many loops filling the page

- Roll again, draw that many smaller loops inside those loops

- Roll again, draw that many loops in side each loop inside the loops inside the loops

Repeat till out of space.
A simple ink doodle filling an out of date diary page. It's made as described in the post, using a six sided die to choose the numbers of loops drawn. The patterns seem a bit cellular, maybe like single celled algae floating somewhere. The die rolls are noted at the top of the page - 6, 3, 2, 2, 5.
January 8, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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hauntedtoasters.bsky.social
Hello here is a kitten
Tomoe, a dilute calico kitten, laying on a blanket looking sleepy. That's because I took this photo about five seconds after waking her up like the monster I am.
January 8, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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lycomorpha.bsky.social
2. Shitpickles

As in "shitpickle techbros are behaving like shitpickles again, generally bringing about pestilent shitpicklery?

I'm sure it'll be just friggin fine to hand them a fuck-tonne of our healthcare data then... 😒"
January 2, 2026 at 9:02 PM