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thornwolf.com
4 broken needles, 3 pricked fingers, 2 Michael’s runs, and a felt auk for my Christmas tree
A homemade felt ornament of a great auk with beaded accents Another shot of the auk ornament worth my hand holding it to get a better view of the beads
December 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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vanessagillings.bsky.social
Still wintery ❄️

#kidlitart
stylized gouache painting of a brown-skinned fairy-sized woman tracking footprints in the snow while her trusty pine marten steed stands behind her looking on
February 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Hello #PortfolioDay! I am a self-taught, disabled digital artist who loves folklore and all green and growing things.

Find me here:
🪷 danielletaphanel.com
🌴 linktr.ee/treelet
📥 [email protected]
a simple line drawing of a cityscape, punctuated by the violent impact of a human figure with a large abstract wing emerging from it. A digital color illustration of tall, thin, old growth trees in a forest which appear to lit up from within. At the center bottom of the image, a female figure drinks from a sake cup as a bloom of smoke emerges from her head. Around her are robed figures seated as if they were rock formations. Large fruit hang as abstract motifs within the trees. A panel of transparent hands, palms raised together, nests in the center of the image. A digital ink drawing of a human figure viewed from behind as they stand next to a pine tree while looking at the silhouette of a city in the distance. Their clothing drapes on the ground similarly to a pool and then forms a rivulet of water that "leaks" out of the panel into the frame. A digital watercolor painting of an altar for Guanyin with lit incense and a small basket of citrus fruit laid before her. The altar is in a lush courtyard garden, guarded by a solitary black cat. Succulents, bonsai, ferns, vines, flowering and fruiting trees, and plants of all kinds surround the altar, as incense smoke wafts into a pale blue sky.
January 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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annalandin.bsky.social
#TeaWitches 2025 edition. #art

Day 22: Lapsang Souchong

my favourite tea I only drink a few cups a year of, because it tastes like a liquid forest fire (positive).
A cartoon witch surrounded by a swirl of purple smoke. She smokes a long pipe, and magical smoke swirls from her fingertip. She wears a crimson dress with golden beading, a black hat, and a long black robe in partially transparent fabric. Her hair is black and grey and curly, like a cloud of smoke.
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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anineillustration.com
Happy solstice! It hasn't snowed yet where I am, but it's looking promising later in the week
Hunters in the snow, after the eponymous painting. A drawing of three men walking down a snowy hillside with a pack of dogs. They are looking at some tracks in the snow.
December 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
Cerbaarus
Three sheep standing so close that they look disturbingly like a three headed sheep
December 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
galdrasdottir.bsky.social
Tried to harvest chard I've neglected for months. Severely underestimated the chard
Shot of a plant bed straight down. Among the plants in the earth sits a plastic bag, comically small for the size of the chard stalks in it - they're maybe half a metre long
December 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social
thinking about better days
gouache and watercolor landscape with fluffy clouds; in the foreground are some trees and a dilapidated fence
December 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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hanaayoob.co.uk
UK folks - don’t forget to check you have the meds you need for the Chrimbo period

And remember there are processes (incl. NHS 111) to get emergency supplies of repeat prescriptions

Inspired by a post from @scaryboots.bsky.social on IG
‘Check your meds’ in bubble capitals in pink and purple surrounded by pills and inhalers, a prescription request and an email. It’s all in bright candy like colours on on orange corrugated background
December 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
galdrasdottir.bsky.social
Went to three shops today to find ground nuts. Now having to figure out how to balance egg whites and yolks across 5 different recipes in 3 languages, and figuring out what I can make glutenfree

I've wanted to start Christmas baking for a week and finally have the juice let's goooo
December 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
galdrasdottir.bsky.social
Magical ephemeral moment today as I'm wandering through the park and suddenly find myself in a gentle... snow shower? Under blue skies?
Looking up there's a small flock of birds industriously taking apart the seedpods of a birch, and individual seeds are placidly floating down onto my delighted head
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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edinmaskbloc.bsky.social
Our mask box at @lighthousebks.bsky.social is freshly restocked with different kinds of masks so you can find the one that works best for you! Make sure to check their opening times to browse both masks and books at leisure
Photo of the second room of Lighthouse Bookshop. text at the top reads: "Looking for FREE masks at Lighthouse, Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop?" Among the shelves a freestanding shelving unit on the right is circled in white, with an arrow pointing towards it. The arrow is labeled "Find our box at the back of this shelf" The bookshop from the other sided, showing the box of masks among tarot decks. Arrows from the box point to clip art of three different kinds shapes and brands of mask, with text above reading: "Experiment with different shapes: find the mask that's right for you!"
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
galdrasdottir.bsky.social
Listening to Tilda Swinton read Nan Shepherd's A Living Mountain and it's fine except you can hear the italics on every Gaelic and Scots word (even if they're pronounced right) and generally it feels odd to hear a voice so anchored in Scotland read in a smooth RP accent
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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queermedieval.bsky.social
[rote spoilers]

“Wait for you? Not likely! I’ve always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.”
A medieval manuscript style illustration, made to look as if you’re looking at two facing folios, one with an illustration and the other with text. On the verso, there’s an illustration of a wolf looking back playfully, poised to run down a hill. Trees and cliffs stand in the background, leading to a river upon whose banks a castle sits. On the recto, there’s a large historiated initial W containing a wolf and some vines, followed by rubricated text reading “ Wait for you? Not likely! I’ve always had to run ahead of you and show you the way. Swift as thought, he slipped away from me, running down the hillside like a cloud’s shadow when the wind blows. My connection to him frayed away as he went, scattering and floating like dandelion fluff in the wind. Instead of small and secret, I felt our bond go wide and open, as if he had invited all the Witted creatures in the world in to share our joining. All the web of life on the whole hillside suddenly swelled within my heart, linked and meshed and woven through with one another. It was too glorious to contain.” Both folios have gold borders filled with flowers and blue and red scrolling vines. There are also three wolves in the borders: a cub snarling in a cage, a playful wolf with an iced cake in his mouth, and an old wolf with a greying face hunting through the marginalia.
December 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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ascalaphid.com
Season's Greasons
a couple schnabelperchten havin' a gossip and a cig
December 2, 2024 at 6:27 AM
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alexvont.bsky.social
If you’re in the UK and were born between 1970-1990 you can just go to your GP and get revaccinated for MMR because you may have had single vaccines, which are no longer considered valid. I went & did it this summer. Easy way to help protect yourself & your community.
mostlybree.kitrocha.com Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11d
If you are worried this is too big an executive function barrier you can go to a pharmacy and they will probably just jab you. That is what I did.

I'm not saying it's necessarily the right way to do this, that is just how much I am not fucking around with the measles
erinbiba.bsky.social Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 11d
Go to your doctor and get your measles titers checked to make sure you are still immune and if not get re-vaccinated. It’s more and more likely all of us are going to eventually come in contact with it.
December 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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cmddog.com
i love "Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE" so much he's so perfect
Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE
March 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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thirdvaultyarns.com
Day 13 of TVY Advent
Embroidery sets!
www.thirdvaultyarns.com/ourshop/prod...
If you've seen TVY at shows often we'll have a box, or a teacup of embroidery skeins for you to choose from, but they've not existed on the website until now, so if embroidery is your thing, this is for you 🥰.
a graphic with a purple background featuring the TVY logo of an open vault door and a sheep running away with yarn. Within the vault can be seen part of a teacup containing colourful thread and colourful thread around it. text reads "third vault advent". a close up image of a patterned teacup holding a wealth of embroidery threads in different colours with the same arrayed around it. there are two needleminders in the bottom right one featuring a cherry blossom biome and the other books with the text "reading didn't cut it today so i'm stabbing things instead".
December 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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palaeosinensis.com
This is probably the largest art I've made in a long time; it's 16x48 inches at 300dpi. All of the animals are inspired by petroglyphs and cave art from around the world on top of the shapes found within the animals themselves. #art #caveart #petroglyph #deer #wolves #ravens #raven #wolf #elk
The artwork is made up of many different petroglyph-inspired animal figures. The animals are all moving to the left. In the foreground you see three wolves and four ravens chasing after two bull elk and one doe in fairly dark lines. In the background are similar style elk that use smaller artwork and lighter lines to represent being further away. All the foreground animals have gold foil circles into their design around their heart's location and airway location. The entire piece has been given a distressed treatment.
October 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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root2702.bsky.social
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
The man who is unwilling to wear a flu mask usually is of the kind who expects everybody to listen to him when he speaks
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
galdrasdottir.bsky.social
Can't wait for what I bet will be a fascinating discussion
stoutstoat.co.uk Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 16d
This Thursday at 6pm GMT I'm giving a lecture with the wonderful @archaeoplays.bsky.social about how to conceive and build living images of the past. All the in-person tickets have been snapped up, but you can still watch online for free (I think via Zoom)

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carved-in-...
Carved in Stone: Bringing the Picts to Life
This hybrid discussion panel will feature Stout Stoat’s Brian Tyrell and ArchaeoPlays’ Dr Heather Christie FSAScot.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
galdrasdottir.bsky.social
Feeling super nauseous today but when I dragged myself out I randomly saw a treecreeper, which has been on my list for ages! Really cheered me and I got a bunch more work done
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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tomsbrown.bsky.social
Well, perhaps then, it is a hedgehogwitch you are needing today. (with added snail at no additional cost)
Pencil drawing of a hedgehog witch holding a staff under a full moon. May be a snail on the hat, maybe.
December 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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beyondwhatisseen.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar day 8
A piece I made last November inspired by this post: www.erininthemorning.com/p/this-was-always-going-to-be-a-generational

It's drawn/ painted with walnut ink.
An art piece made with walnut ink that is brown. It is surrounded by a border that contains Pine needles, a pine cone, an acorn surrounded by dots, and an acorn sprouting with two leaves surrounded by swirls. The text in the middle reads: "The greatest thing you can do is live; continue to exist and continue tending the seeds we’re planting today. They will grow into trees that will shade those who come after us—and with luck, we may get to enjoy some of that shade ourselves." -Erin Reed
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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tiffbaxter.bsky.social
Quote reblog with your starry art ✨
A pair of lesbians personifying shooting stars fly through a nebula in a loving embrace surrounded by lots of smaller stars. The one on the left has a pale gold and white colour scheme and long hair and wears a dress with large slashed & puffed sleeves. The one on the right has a blue and gold colour scheme and wears a tunic with puffed over the knee breeches and cross gartered stockings. The border decoration is deep blue illustrated with clouds, the phases of the moon and stars.
December 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM