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Xian

@thehoundkeeper.bsky.social

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Queer, 40s, trained in psych & some of the arts. All art is Art. 18+ Eclectic interests such as anime, manga, traditional & digital art, dance, stories, sewing, historical dress, queer rights, neurodivergency, animals.

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🌟 cait/ash 🌟 @caitlinincolour.bsky.social · 10d

Day 02: Kite

Oh how I love japanese fish kites! They make me so happy :)
for #peachtober #peachtober25

Digital illustration of a cat holding a banner of four japanese fish kites. The cat is standing on a hilltop with mountains and clouds in the background. The border is full of similar fish kites with streaming tails and stars.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 22h

This black gown with a swoop of gold lace at the hem is actually a nightgown, but honestly it seems to me a perfect night on the town kind of dress and far too glamorous to be kept indoors. Late #1930s @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A mannequin posed in a long sleeveless silk robe with a high neck and ties fall centre back. The hem is trimmed with gold lace

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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 23h

Iridescent black🖤

#bird #raven #birdart #animalart #digitalart #illustration #birdwatching #crow #original #colorful #avian
#feather

A raven with colorful reflections on its feathers

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🌟 cait/ash 🌟 @caitlinincolour.bsky.social · Sep 4

autumn miffy 💛

i got to visit the miffy museum in the netherlands last week and it was so inspiring!

Digital illustration of the white rabbit miffy walking in an autumn forest. She is wearing her classic red dress with a yellow striped scarf that is blowing in the wind. There are trees behind her and she is surrounded by green and gold foliage. The illustrated border depicts greenery, more miffy, flowers, acorns, and mushrooms in a symmetrical pattern.

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Drew Shields (commissions open) @gnarlyghost.bsky.social · 1d

TTRPG Cover

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Dale Ray Deforest @daleraydeforest.bsky.social · 1d

Best thing to come out of Oklahoma.

#ReservationDogs #RezDogs #Bear #EloraDanan #WillieJack #Cheese #Gorillaz #ClintEastwood #GotTheCool #GotTheCoolShoeShine

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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 1d

Parasol
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/100756

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Arthur Erber, 1956

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo was born #OnThisDay in 1942. She designed this black silk taffeta evening dress, hand-painted with a flying-cranes motif on the crinoline-like skirt, for Comme des Garçons' A/W 1991 collection. Kyoto Costume Institute. #fashionhistory

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Xian @thehoundkeeper.bsky.social · 1d

oooooh, you’re almost home! i hope it happens sunday!!

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Saki 🦄🪶✦Fae NTVtuber✦【NTVN】【V-Chunky】 @nightmaresakito.bsky.social · 2d

A beautiful native woman flipping the bird in response to Monday, Oct. 13th, Columbus Day. “Fuck Christopher Columbus.” Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a nice a mushroom

A vase shaped golden chanterelle grows from the mossy forest soil like an ocean wave breaking against a rock. Rain wet ferns grow all around under the green forest background. All photos by me

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Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 1d

Getting into the Halloween spirit with medieval books at the Morgan Library.

Image of skeletons attacking men in a medieval book

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 1d

From my hemiplegic migraine group

“You don’t look sick” Thanks that’s the goal. But here is what you don’t see. I cancel plans, I rest for hours after a shower, I forget basic words mid sentence, I grieve a version of myself barely remember, fight everyday against a body that doesn’t cooperate. It is not just tired. It is chronic illness.

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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 2d

Evening dress
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101137

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Karl C Krumpholz @karlckrumpholz.bsky.social · 2d

OOLA GETS FAN ART!! While exhibiting at @comicartfestival.bsky.social , a young artist picked up the first OOLA comic. The next day they gave me some Oola fan art they illustrated. They certainly captured how long, slinky, & expressive she is. Love it. Oola is incredibly appreciative.

Oola, the black cat, with some of her fan art.

Four pieces of Oola fan art, illustrating the black cat in various positions done in black, purple, and green.

A close up of two pieces of Oola fan art, illustrating the black cat in various positions done in black, purple, and green.

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 15d

Shoes - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/105138

Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1992

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Drew Shields (commissions open) @gnarlyghost.bsky.social · 2d

Cyberbunny

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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 2d

The next exhibit I went to was Paul Poiret: Fashion is a Feast. This was a major exhibit, a rare accumulation of Poiret's works, which made this an exhibition of a lifetime- one of the main reasons I went to Paris this summer. One of the first gowns I saw that stunned me to

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 3d

Final kaleidocycle update: She's done.

People always ask so, it's 6,126 beads.
🪡 🧵 🧶

#beading #beadweaving #crafting #craftiverse

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spiky 💤 @spikyycentral.bsky.social · Oct 18

#krbk life as pros

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 2d

Such languor infuses this late #1930s court presentation gown. It was designed by Madeleine Vionnet & worn by Ms Potter Palmer. I imagine her gliding towards the monarch for her presentation dropping a slow curtsey & drifting off in search of a martini @chicagomuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Side view of a silver grey chiffon sleeveless evening dress with silver embellishment at the wait and shoulders and a long train

Detail of the back of the silver grey chiffon dress showing the silver embellishment along the shoulder straps

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Catherine Curzon @madamegilflurt.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoy some #frockingfabulous luscious blue silk courtesy of #Nardos, 2025.

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Xian @thehoundkeeper.bsky.social · 3d

trying to click on a link that i hope will rickroll me but it won’t load. what a let down.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 3d

Today I return to work after my surgical interlude so what better than a trig & trim #1890s tailormade for professional inspiration. This is an eye catching skirt suit combining sharply constructed blue with some soutache trim & a playful touch of velvet. Wish me luck! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A close up view of the bodies of a mid 1890s blue wool tailormade skirt suit. It has green braid trim and velvet collar

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Drew Shields (commissions open) @gnarlyghost.bsky.social · 4d

Sniper

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