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Natalie Metzger
@thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
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💀 She/her
🎨 Illustrator and designer
🏔️ Pacific Northwest
🔗 https://thefuzzyslug.neocities.org/links
🪲🦀 Here Be Bugs 🕷️🦐
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cartoonist.coop
The 2024 numbers are crunched, data visualised, and insights SHARED!

Here's the findings of the 2024 Comics Worker Survey!

Anyone can read these findings on income, rates, royalties and more--online or as a PDF.
The Cartoonist Cooperative
Making comics better for everyone!
cartoonist.coop
October 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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vireosy.bsky.social
yeti crab

#art #sciart 🎨🦑🦀
Drawing of a yeti crab on a dark slate gray background. It is a white crustacean with long forearms covered in fine hairlike filaments, tinted somewhat teal as if seen from underwater.
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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douglasmack.bsky.social
* Haribo used to sell a gummi candy in Germany called "Asses With Ears."

I promise this image is 100% real and not AI.
little bucket of gummi candy with the label "Haribo A...Mit Ohren"
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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quietnovastudios.bsky.social
This is what I've been up to lately, she's approximately 14 feet long and took me a week to make

🧶 #amigurumi #crochet #jellyfish #invertebrate #ocean #Medusa #SciArt #art #craft
A simply enormous crocheted jellyfish in greens and blues and purples, coiled upon a bed
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Hats! Collector Urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)

#TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...
Panel 1: A brightly colored green, orange, white, and dark purple sea urchin, they have a kelp frond draped across the top of their orbness like a hat, a few orange spines poking through the seaweed, urchin is saying, "Hmm...", Panel 2: same urchin now has a pebble that is the anchor for a small anemone as a hat, urchin is saying, \"Maybe...?\", Panel 3: same urchin now with the shell of a dead urchin of the same species as a hat, "Nah.", Panel 4: close up of urchin reaching off screen with black and white tube feet to some obscured object, "Ohhhh!", Panel 5: a larger panel that contains several urchins wearing various sea debris as hats such as a chunk of a candy wrapper, some pebbles, a limpet shell, and some sea grass. The urchin from the previous four panels now has a large crusty looking dive knife as a hat and is saying "It's PERFECT" while the other urchins say, "nice!" and "so stylish!"
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Amy's work is a pure delight! #SciArt
surlyamy.bsky.social Surly Amy @surlyamy.bsky.social · 1d
Hi. I’d love just one new patron. You have no idea how hard it is to get supporters when you aren’t a podcast. I use the money to pay for food and supplies for my feral cat colony and to buy art supplies. Latest post: www.patreon.com/posts/144301... I post every Monday with updates on my art.
Many mugs | Amy Davis Roth
Get more from Amy Davis Roth on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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nimasprout.bsky.social
Still time to get your pre-orders in (and comes with free random bonus sticker!)
nimasprout.bsky.social Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 8d
2026 Mushroom House Wall Calendar is now available for preorder now thru Nov 24th.

They will ship first week of December so they still can be given as gifts!

nimasprout.shop/products/202...
View of calendar cover, back with each moth Illo and full page spread of January.
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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brackenlab.bsky.social
Today, I learned a cool, new word that is fun to say.
brucedstaylor.bsky.social Bruce Taylor @brucedstaylor.bsky.social · 5d
Weird word of the day: "kleptosquamy." The testate amoeba Awerintzewia cyclostoma steals scales from other amoeboid organisms to build its own shell. This one has robbed Quadrulella, Netzelia, various euglyphids, and even an Acanthocystis. Kleptosquamy! #amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #biology #nature
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social
A Capella Party
Illustration of a falcon, duck, heron, kiwi bird, crow, and other birds dancing to jazz music.
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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sparklemarkers.bsky.social
this is how you lose the dish war
A set of dish scrubbers shaped like a cardinal and a bluebird
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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superactionfunboy.bsky.social
Day 21 of #xenovember and leaning hard into Fifield. This is him getting consumed by freaky Giger meat nom nom nom #darkart #timelapse in the replies
A colorful, bluish illustration of a human torso getting rapidly deformed by alien tentacles beneath his skin
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken five years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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banditelli.org
No new bird photography today, guess you'll just have to accept this typical humpback whale doing what we expect them to do in every encounter. 🦑
A humpback whale jumping out of the water doing sort of a back ward leap with about 70% of its body out of the water
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
🦑 🧪 #SciArt
vireosy.bsky.social Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 8d
❄️ POLAR LIGHTS 4: APPS OPEN! ❄️

A digital charity zine for polar life, we welcome nature ARTISTS and WRITERS at any level with an appreciation for these extreme environments.

• More info: polarlightszine.tumblr.com
• Apply here: forms.gle/s515VFAhKG9h...
#polar_zine
A blurred photo of a green Aurora Borealis overlaid with text. "Polar Lights 4: Eventide, A charity zine for Arctic and Antarctic life". Centered in all caps is "Applications Open" while underneath in italics is "November 17 – December 15". In the bottom left are the Tumblr and Itch.io logos next to the username “PolarLightsZine", and to the right is a credit line "Photo by Federico Di Dio on Unsplash".
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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greyauk.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 🪶 #birds
watercolour of a "Bienenfresser" (a turquoise coloured bird) with a girl on its back in flight. gold background watercolour of a brown bird sitting in an abstract mossy nest a photo of a watercolour sketchbook showing a sketch of a robin watercolour paining of an albatross in flight
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Support BwP! They are the best ever! Amazing folks! Amazing shop! Please help them out if you can!
davidharper.bsky.social David Harper @davidharper.bsky.social · 7d
Books with Pictures (@bkswpicspdx.bsky.social) in Portland, Oregon is a GREAT comic shop, and its owner in @omgkatiep.bsky.social is one of the best. The shop is going through a hard time right now, and if you want to help BwP out, they opened a GoFundMe to help do just that.
Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde
Dear friends: I need your help. I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now
www.gofundme.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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toripng.com
🌐

#art
clippy drawing that reads "have you considered using your brain instead of asking chatgpt?"
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 🪶 #birds
A borb of a humming bird illustration with large grumpy eyes, tiny flappy flap wings, a shiny throat, so small, much anger
November 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Hello! today is 🎂🎉MY BIRTHDAY! 🎉🎂

For my birthday, plz read what is up of my webcomic/signal-boost this skeet? It would mean a lot to me!

Only 50 pages so far. It hasn't updated in ages, but I'm still working on it. Updates will resume when the backlog reaches 50 pages.

blikada.com?pg=1#showComic
Blikada
blikada.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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flyingtrilobite.com
If any big-name 🧪science or 🎨artist accounts would like to share the SciArt Feed with their followers, I’d be grateful. 👉👈
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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hawaiianimages.bsky.social
I understand today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StareDown ? Don't mess with the Nene. :) 🦉📷🌿
A nene (Hawaiian goose), a large brownish bird with white highlights, a black striped neck (actually skin folds!) and a black head. Staring at the camera daring you to find the lil' noises it makes funny.
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM