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🍄Just a Mushroom🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hello!

I'm a Canadian artist focusing in horror, monsters, weird wildlife and mushrooms!

My work is mostly SFW with the occasional mild nudity and body horror.

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/mycotae

Thank you!

A diving Livyathan melvillei with its mouth open. There are two prehistoric whales silhouetted next to it.

A prehistoric hominid holding an old skull up to the northern lights. There are fire embers floating in front.

A blue and white wolf cuddling with a brown and cream wolf. They are at the mouth of a cave. There are fall leaves and snowflakes floating around them. The background is dead trees.

An undead horse looking over a grassy field at the sunset. A ghost orchid blooms from the right hand side. The shades are red, orange, black and white

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Dr. Viktor Baranov🧪🦟🐛🪲 @swarmofthoughts.bsky.social · 3h

Valentyna Inshyna has supplied this amazing palaeoart with Rhaetosaurus brownei, Cavendrichties sp and newly described by us Telmatiomyia talbragarica fly, reconstructing late Jurasic of Australia #fossils 🦖🧪⚒️https://tinyurl.com/2v3kx4h7

Reconstruction of the lake shore of Talbragar Fossil Fish Bed, depicting several Tlmatomyia talbragarica on the foreground pupae attached to a rock underwater. Pair of Orthogonikleithridae fishes are patrolling the waters of the lake, while Rhoetosaurus brownei is approaching. Art by Valentyna Inshyna.

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🍄Just a Mushroom🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 1h

Godspeed. Montreal is horrifying with its permanent construction 😂

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 7d

picture of a female zombie strapped to a table with the subtitles “i can feel myself rot.”

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titsay 𓆏 @titsay.bsky.social · 3h

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Miranda @mirandaestby.bsky.social · 21h

Brother and sister

Two mostly white kittens lying in a patch of sunlight.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 4h

Loving the burst of pseudoscorpion posts! Gave this grabby guy some bristles and a bit more attitude 😈 (remember in reality they’re like sesame seeds with attitude) #arachtober

A gray resin sculpture of a pseudoscorpion, sitting in my open hand against a white background.

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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 3h

Work begins on hidden Neolithic stone circle dig
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Work begins on hidden Neolithic stone circle dig near Bodmin

More than £40,000 of National Lottery funding was awarded to excavate the site earlier this year.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Luisa @saturniasvart.bsky.social · 2h

Hi, I’m an artist with a love for gothic themes, melancholy, and dark storytelling

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19d

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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Basil 🌿 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 6h

Healing

Drawing of a puppy laying next to a plush bunny with the caption; "I hope you heal from the things you don't talk about"

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 4h

“Man in the Moon,” watercolor- one of my first (and still a favorite) haunted house pieces.

www.joannabarnum.com/shop/maninth...

Watercolor illustration of a dark old house and tree silhouetted against an orange sky, with a giant moon above. A ghostly screaming skull appears in the moon.

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Elli @elliminator.bsky.social · 5h

Sharktober: 07. Tropical Shark 🌴

A zebra shark. 🦓
You might think: Hey Elli, this shark doesn't look like a zebra at all! - Just look up juvenile zebra sharks.

#sharktober #sharktober2025 #digitalart

Top view on the tropical ocean with crystal clear water. There are hibiscus and white plumeria flowers floating on the surface and a palm tree leaf throwing shade. A zebra shark is swimming across. They have a slender body and are beige with lots of small dark brown or black spots.

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🎥 pum-Quinn-pie🌕 @derangedleech.bsky.social · 6d

Cucu custom designs are officially OPEN for the month of October! They are 50$ for a Fullbody sketch, +10$ for detail. I can be very creative with these, I want to spread my wings more this year, so don’t be shy to ask for specific, unique gourd related things for your Cucu!!!! cucuadoption.carrd.co

A collection of gourd/pumpkin/squash inspired fae

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 2h

Carolina mantis, found on the tire of a parked car and relocated to our backyard where I hope she finds snacks and maybe leaves us the gift of more mantises

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KENNETH SCOTT 2: KENNETH’S REVENGE @superactionfunboy.bsky.social · 3h

Day 8 of #zombieskulltober ! Went so very very traditional. Traditional has one very big drawback, my eyes have aged out of media I can’t pinch zoom on :) #darkart #sculpture #zombie

A rough, skullish plastercine zombie head sculpted onto a board. Approximately 2.5 inches tall. A quarter and a dime beside it for scale.

A rough plastercine old mans head sculpted onto a board. Approximately 2.5 inches tall. A quarter and a dime beside it for scale.

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 1d

🔬🦠🧫🧪 #MicroSky
This is the most fantatic video I've ever seen: a Tardigrade strolling on a Volvox by Penny Fenton #NikonSmallWorld #DarkField
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

A tardigrade moving around a volvox algae colony | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition

Penny Fenton - A tardigrade moving around a volvox algae colony

www.nikonsmallworld.com

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Léa Chaillaud @leachaillaud-art.bsky.social · 9h

Second prompt for #drawtober, Toad Astrologer ✨🐸✨
#art #illustration #toad #frog #scorpio #astrology

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 18h

Precocious Pumpkin-ling preview. His band mates will join in on Thursday for the first Mysterium prompt!

A pumpkin person playing piano. Watercolor on toned paper.

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Party In The Front - Comms Closed @partyinthefront.bsky.social · 8h

Look at him!

A 3d print of the bug in the quoted post

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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 16h

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 8, 2025: #CRIMSON

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Digital painting of a bright crimson pompadour cotinga bird that is red all over except for some white along the edge of the wing and a few black patches. It is perched on a narrow branch against a creamy background..

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🍄Just a Mushroom🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 4h

Why is my cough coming back please gods i'm so tired

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Moon @meltingmooon.bsky.social · 4d

#Repostober today!

"Rip out the Rot"

cn: blood
#Blood #Art #BirdArt #DNDArt #Ihk #Starling #TTRPGArt #OCSky #ArtSky #BskyArt

Digital drawing. Only part of the person is visible. They're holding a bundle of ripe wheat in their hands in front of their torso. The hands have a gentle pose, they're dark and have long claws. Between the wheat are blue forget me not flowers and white yarrow. The cut ends of the wheat appear to be bleeding. The person is wearing a beige dress with red embroidery on the sleeves. They're wearing a bunch of red coral necklaces resembling Ukrainian traditional style. The sleeves are very wide and hanging down. In the sleeves are 3 starlings. Two on the left and one on the right. There's also yarrow and forget me not flowers poking out of the sleeves. The bottom of the sleeves is bloodied and the middle of the dress is too. Presumably where the wheat bled on them. There's two more starlings on each arm. They're snuggling close to the chest of the person but they're also surrounded by the wheat that's being held.

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Nadine, Haunter of Rocks 👻 @nadwgab.bsky.social · 7h

281 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Pollucite:
- A zeolite mineral
- An ore of caesium
- Forms in lithium rich granite pegmatites
- It's named after Pollux, a Greek mythological figure who was the brother of Castor (who gives his name to castorite/petalite, a commonly associated mineral) #minerals

A white, slightly translucent chunk of pollucite with a rough powdery looking texture. From Bernic Lake, Manitoba, Canada.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

A rough, flattened spherical crystal of pollucite, beige and translucent. From San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

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TheDinosaurMann @thedinosaurmann.bsky.social · 22h

The very first Pumpkin patch🎃

Illustration for a wonderful client!

#TheDinosaurMann

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laura @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 23h

angel when sleeping

illustration of a black and white tuxedo cat laying on her back, napping. she has one paw covering an eye and is almost completely circular.

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