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delightmonster.bsky.social
kate horowitz (she/???)
@delightmonster.bsky.social
710 followers 640 following 540 posts
writer, arter, + sea hag in maine
(disabled, autistic, exhausted)
stickers: bigchallenges.shop
writing: katehorowitz.com
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delightmonster.bsky.social
we're snailposting!! post your snails!

p.s. i turned some of these little goobers into a free printable coloring page. email me ([email protected]) if you want one.
Marker and colored pencil drawings of 3 little marine freaks (sea snails with algae-green shells and bodies): Julia exquisita, Berthelinia limax, and Julia zebra Marker illustrations of 3 little sea-freaks: the marine snail Julia exquisita, all green, with the sweetest face
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
we're snailposting!?!?!!! post your snails
Cartoon illustration of two sorcerer snails on an intrepid magical voyage through a dreamy pink land
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
fyi: They are on sale right now. there's never been a better time to add an astonished little weirdo to your surroundings
Jar of paintbrushes on a windowsill. The jar is decorated with a translucent ghost sticker, who is, Themselves, decorated with stickers, because we know how to roll in this house
October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
behold
shimmering watercolor painting of the sweetest freak you've ever seen (sacabambapsis, a finless fish with vacant eyes and a triangle mouth)
October 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
candy camouflage!
Sketchbook page with pencil sketches of Greg and Wirt from Over the Garden wall. Greg is flinging sweets and dragging a satchel with some sort of creature inside. Wirt winces at his own reflection, unconvinced.
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
drinking all my milk so i can be Her when i grow up

#💀
photo of a beautiful 12-foot home depot skeleton standing proud and defiant on someone's lawn.
September 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
artists! quote with your night art! #art

"feral child fall," 2023
Digital illustration of a dark tree under a blue moonlit sky. Two bright, wide eyes are peeping out of the tree shadow. There's someone in there. Some sort of little freak (me)
September 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
your monday reminder 🩸

(postcard available in 5-packs at bigchallenges.shop)
A black postcard with bloody red text that reads YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD. The postcard is dramatically lit and looking fabulous.
September 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
can i offer you a Them in these trying times bigchallenges.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
Sticker featuring a portrait of a ghost who has plastered themselves with stickers. The ghost is translucent (the stickers are not) and the cheerful confetti background is visible through their body. The translucent ghost sticker held up in front of a wall upon which something is casting a rainbow. The rainbow passes through the ghost, into the heart of the viewer. The translucent ghost outdoors, with a treetop and clear blue sky visible through its body. The ghost looks stunned. What a view. The ghost enjoying a day at the beach. Boats, the sea, and the sky are visible through its salt-kissed body.
September 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
A treasure: the itty-bitty book of #haiku I co-published with a snail and @rebeccachaperon.bsky.social for her Magic Mail series last year #InverteFest
Selfie of Kate, a pale person with long hair wearing heavy eyeliner and a black tshirt, holding a teensy tiny book labeled SNAIL's HAIKU. Kate is making a face like she has never been more cuted out in her entire life Photograph of a tiny book. Verso page features a drawing of a distressed snail with a cracked shell. Recto has an Issa-inspired haiku: "through the crack/ in comes moonlight/ in comes the cold" The teeny tiny SNAIL's HAIKU book resting on some twigs and moss.
August 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
I'm now available for many different kinds of editorial & art work (2nd image); please send any relevant job postings & gig opportunities* my way. Absent those, I will accept memes (3rd image) & treats. 🍓

*Remote work only. My current level of disability does not permit a commute.
Selfie of Kate, wet from the rain, standing in front of a rainbow. Text reads “hire me! - writing -editing - teaching -custom sticker design” Photo of Kate’s plaid-coat-covered back as she walks toward the water. Text is a list of professional skills, including science-medical writing, copywriting, copyediting, and proofreading, teaching, illustration, and merch design Selfie of Kate wearing a pink windbreaker embroidered with an angry strawberry. Kate is making the strawberry face. Text is a list of other ways people can help, including buying stickers from her shop and sending memes and snacks.
August 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
quote with your gold #art! 💛

this is Leucocoprinus birnbaumii, also known as the Plantpot Dapperling. i love them so much #fungi #mycology #dapperaf
Cartoon illustration of an anthropomorphic yellow-orange mushroom wearing a little vaudeville tuxedo, putting on a little vaudeville show in the soil of a potted plant.
August 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
my claymation-styled take on a sulky Beatrix Potter and her pet mouse Xarifa (1885)
Lumpy, cartoony marker-and-colored-pencil illustration of a teen sitting in a chair, presenting a mouse with one hand. The teen is gazing directly into the camera with disgust, or exhaustion, or whatever it was teens felt in 1885. Black-and-white photograph of an adolescent Beatrix Potter gazing at the camera with what looks like annoyance while presenting an extremely fluffy mouse with one hand.
July 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
see a butt, post a butt (your mission: find the butt)
Collection of picture-book-style hand-drawn pink, yellow, and purple potatoes making faces. One of them has a terrific little pancake booty.
July 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
wow
crappy cartoon of a stripèd hermit crab with lil grabby chelae. crab is awed and saying "wow"
July 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
Leucocoprinus birnbaumii, also known as the Plantpot Dapperling. Now there's a fungi #SciArt #mycology #🍄‍🟫
Cartoon of an anthropomorphized yellow-orange mushroom in a wee orange suit with a tiny spotted bow tie, wee straw hat, and orange shoes with yellow spats. The mushroom is a vaudeville-style performer, the soil of a potted plant their stage. They are dapper as hell.
July 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
how's everybody doing
shitpost meme of a dissociating furby sitting on a log in a verdant forest. text reads "i just have to make it through this hunger games"
July 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
this haiku i wrote a year ago hurts even more today.

#haiku
screenshotted haiku: red! blue! pretty one!/ preschooler names the fireworks/ ducklings tremble in the weeds
July 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
this is so kind. 💖 here's my current WIP—i'm not sure what their name is yet, but i do respect their stylish strategies for dealing with the heat.
Messy pencil cartoon of a cute, plump mole (animal, not birthmark) sitting on a wicker bench, enjoying a glass of iced tea. The mole is wearing a floppy straw hat accented with hydrangeas and is holding a folding fan.
June 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
belated entries for Make a Terrible Comic Day

#makeaterriblecomicday
#makeaterriblecomicday2025
Messy marker and pen cartoon of a rotund lil ladybug shouting "I heart vaccines" A tiny black-and-white figure (the artist), menaced by a gargantuan, flaming technicolor horror (the summer sun)
June 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
H-O-T-T-O-G-O

pom pom crabbies, hot to go

#🦀 #invertebrates
Adorable cartoon of seven enthusiastic pom pom crabs waving their anemones to spell out H-O-T-T-O-G-O
June 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
it's here it's here it's here it's here it's here!!!! everything hurts but the gay bugs are here!!!!!

bigchallenges.bigcartel.com
Photo of a toddler at a protest holding up a cardboard sign with a rainbow scrawled on it. Text above and below the photo says Big Challenges | summer/pride | out now Holographic tombstone stickers, a party worm greeting card, and a mossy log sticker sheet with lots of gay (as in happy and also as in queer) bugs Closeup of the bug sticker sheet. Rainbow text at the top says "there is room for all in the big mossy log." The bugs. They are. So happy.
June 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
drop something yellow 💛

"‘Worst nightmare’ venomous sea worms washing up on Texas shores, scientists say" (marker on paper, 2024)

#invertebrates #worms #noAI #SciArt
Pointillist cartoon in the style of the Gadsden Flag depicting a plump, spiny fireworm wearing a pout. Text below the worm reads "TREAD ON ME | i hate it here"
June 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
i may never sleep again.
messy pencil sketch of a true abomination: a creature with a cat head for a body. the head has sweet little cat ears and wide cat eyes, paired with frog nostrils, shark teeth, tiger stripes, and big spots. its muscular leg terminates in a clawed foot. the cat's long tongue encircles an enormous bone of some kind, while its striped tail thrashes in the air. it is sitting in a tree. i am so sorry. i am. so. sorry.
May 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
A very tearful #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth from this sad star & @realbigchallenges.bsky.social. If you’re struggling right now, 1) we’re with you, & 2) crying really does help. Also enormous hoodies. We love our depression hoodies.
Selfie of Kate in a gargantuan yellow hoodie, peeking out from behind a sketchbook that’s open to a drawing of Kate in a gargantuan yellow hoodie, stretching out to make her body into a star shape. Text reads “i cried today.” The background is a full flash flood of tears. Sketchbook with a drawing of Kate in a gargantuan yellow hoodie, stretching out to make her body into a star shape. Text reads “i cried today.” The background is a full flash flood of tears. A sheet of tearful yellow star stickers rests on the page. Each star’s belly says “i cried today.”
May 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM