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NeonSlushie 🌴
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Furry Artist (always) • Character Designer (often) • Fursuit Maker (sometimes) • Creator & Lead Scientist @ProjectXero.bsky.social

https://NeonSlushie.carrd.co

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New year, new me? :3
A digital character reference sheet for Enoki, who is a mustelid: an anthro American pine marten furry. Enoki is mostly a light, off-white color with brown hair, a cream throat and chest, light belly, face, and ears, and a dark tail tip. A close up headshot to the side shows whiskers, leaves in the hair, and an elegant rope necklace with a stylized sun and moon charm. The ref sheet has a painted Ghibli forest background. 🎨 #FurryArt #MyCharacters
January 14, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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This is important, so I figured it was worth posting here too for those not in the @projectxero.bsky.social Discord 💙
For 2026, I will be taking a break from work on Project Xero. This has been a long time coming, but I've hit a point where I just can't realistically lead and manage Project Xero right now. I am recognizing the amount of burnout I am facing is unsustainable and unhealthy and I need a break to decompress, heal, & relearn how to create artwork. I started Project Xero in 2021 during pandemic lockdown. I was stuck in my apartment all the time. I couldn't see friends & family, I was very isolated, lonely, & had more free time. This is no longer the case, as I've become very busy with external jobs, vending at conventions, family stuff, more bills & expenses, and just generally navigating the world as a mid-30s adult. These past 2 years, its become very hard for me to dedicate enough time to Xeros, and I know the community has struggled & waned because of it. The truth is that I have been struggling since I started Project Xero; sacrificing my time, social life, & financial opportunities to start it and keep it going. While some of my problems can be blamed on the current State of the World™, much of it is because of the amount of time I spend working on or stressing out about Xeros at my own detriment. I started Project Xero to have a fun thing to do during a time of isolation & to support an unemployed partner, but my life has changed significantly since. I've also become very very burnt out on drawing, to the point where it has become difficult for me to draw anything at all, even things I really like drawing or am excited about. I now struggle to draw & design new Xeros, when it used to be so easy for me. I feel very rusty & uncertain with something that is my full-time employment, which is very scary for me. I depend on my abilities for all of my income. I need to find a way to create, improve, & enjoy drawing again, and I don't think I will be able to get the break to rest & heal if I continue working on Project Xero the way I have been for these past 5 years. After discussing my feelings with the staff team and going over options, we have decided that my co-owner and lead admin, Frouzon, will be taking over as director. The rest of the team is also stepping up to fill needed roles and rejuvenate the website, something that was sorely needed, but I was unable to make happen before. The team has really exciting things planned for this year, and we trialed by having them take over all of December's events such as the Secret Santa, DTE, & Xingo. They did a wonderful job planning all of that without my intervention. They also have some exciting website updates that they have done all on their own! Em is not overhauling Project Xero with his own interpretation, he is very much still very much playing to the 'guide book' I have set & is keeping it in line with my vision. Most of the planned future events and updates are something I very much had a hand in making. Please stick around and keep supporting and enjoying Xeros, I think 2026 is going to be a really good year for it. Please understand that I am not abandoning Xeros. It makes me really, really sad to have to leave. I worked so hard to bring it to life and keep it going, but I've reached the end of my ability to direct it. I hope to eventually come back in a position where I can enjoy this wonderful thing I've made, make a few new Xero designs, & maybe I can even do some prompts for the first time! I will be leaving the server, at least for a while. I need to take a serious break and I know I won't let myself unless I truly remove myself from the situation. I hope you'll all wish me luck for my healing journey ahead and maybe keep up with me on social media. Thank you all so, so incredibly much for everything over the past 5 years. I sometimes can't even believe I've made something like this. I'm glad my team is so amazing, I know they'll do great things with my passion project, my baby, Project Xero. I hope to be back soon. -- Nico
January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Really happy with my new shop order cards! 🌴
December 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Thinking about these designs I did for my pin/sticker club in 2021, I think I want to revamp some of them and bring them back!
A collage of sticker designs by neonslushie, featuring colorful cartoon animals. The top row is a shiba inu, an African grey parrot, a capybara in a hot spring bath. The middle row is a toad on a stump, a king cheetah with a crown, and a pine marten on a log. The bottom row is a day gecko with an orange slice and a tanuki with a bottle of sake. 🎨 #FurryArt
December 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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In need of a last-minute gift idea? I have this base available for 💲🔟 - you can color in a friend's character as an adorable plushie present! 🎁

Includes 11 different species & additional features, all separated out by layer. You can take commissions on it, too!

🛒 www.neonslushie.com/shop
A collage image advertisement of plush furry characters in gift boxes. The characters are mostly hidden inside the box, with their heads and front paws poking out over the top. Next to the box is a lid with a decorative bow on top. The image features a red panda, sea otter, kangaroo, puppy, wolf, and a lion characters. Text on the image reads 'Plushie Present'. #furryart #fursale 🎨
December 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Also important to note that I am almost completely sold out of Pridelacine Plushies! 🌈

There are only 10 LEFT and they will never be restocked, so if you wanted one, don't delay! ✨
December 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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⭐️ NEW MERCH & RESTOCK! ⭐️

All of my new stuff has been added to my online shop! Lots of goodies, more than pictured here!

Order soon and it should arrive in time for Christmas! 👀🎄🎁

🛍 neonslushie.com/shop
A collage of a few different furry merch items I offer in my shop. All of the items feature different cartoon anthro animal characters, with species like dogs and puppies, foxes and wolves, cats, otters, red pandas, and fictional species like alien xeros and protogens. There are keychains, T-shirts, stickers, and more. Some keychains are virtual pet tamagotchis, there are animals in kigurumis or pajamas like labubus, and there's even a warrior cat! 🎨 #FurryArt #FurSale
December 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Final day of MFF! I still have plenty of goodies, so consider shopping small for the holiday season! 🥺💙
A photo of my Midwest Furfest 2024 dealer’s den table! It has a banner at the top with my business name NeonSlushie and a table runner with my logo. Tropical monstera leaf lights decorate the table along with glow in the dark stars. On one side of the table are 3 t-shirt designs: Good Dog, Circle of Life, and Bite Risk, along with my mystery bags. In the middle are my Pridelacine (pride thylacine) plushies and all of my 24 sticker designs. On the other side are my new keychains, bug pins & stickers, and forager print. #FurryArt #MFF2025 #MidwestFurFest #FurSale A digital map of the MFF dealers den with my table location circled and a collage of some of my merchandise offerings!
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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All set up at table D-13 at the #MFF 2025 Dealer’s Den! I hope you’ll come find me this weekend!
A photo of my Midwest Furfest 2024 dealer’s den table! It has a banner at the top with my business name NeonSlushie and a table runner with my logo. Tropical monstera leaf lights decorate the table along with glow in the dark stars. On one side of the table are 3 t-shirt designs: Good Dog, Circle of Life, and Bite Risk, along with my mystery bags. In the middle are my Pridelacine (pride thylacine) plushies and all of my 24 sticker designs. On the other side are my new keychains, bug pins & stickers, and forager print. 🎨 #FurryArt #MFF2025 #MidwestFurFest #FurSale A closeup photo of part of my MFF booth in the dealer’s den. A closeup photo of part of my MFF booth in the dealer’s den. A closeup photo of part of my MFF booth in the dealer’s den.
December 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I am pretending the little bugs are marching through the den on their way to see me at table D-13 @ MFF!!! 🐛
A digital advertisement for my dealer’s den table at Midwest Furfest 2025! The advertisement features my character / mascot, Kalahari the king cheetah in front of a map of the den with my location circled. A selection of some of my furry merchandise is framing the map, such as a Good Dog & Bite Risk t-shirt, a selection of animals wearing kigurumis, cat & dog tamagotchis, sparkledog and warrior cat stickers, and a weasel/Mustelid foraging for mushrooms. 🎨 #FurryArt #FurSale #MFF2025 #MFF
December 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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A picture of my acrylic keychain display for MFF / Midwest Fur Fest. The display itself is a blue square with a neon green background and stars decorating it. Text at the top reads “Acrylic Keychains” and “$12 each or 2 for $20”. The top row features all tamagotchi or virtual pet keychains. There’s a collie dog, a Siamese cat, a Xero alien, and a protogen robot. The bottom row is all different animals wearing kigurumis or onesies. First is a fox wearing a yellow rabbit hoodie, then a red panda wearing a light blue snow leopard hoodie, a gray wolf wearing a white lamb hoodie, and an otter wearing a blue shark hoodie. 🎨 #FurryArt
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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WOOOO shirts for #MFF are here!!! 🦊
A photo of a tshirt design featuring a cartoon furry fox with a sly, toothy grin. It is posed in a pouncing position with cute hind paws showing. Text under the fox reads: Warning: Wild Animal, BITE RISK 🎨 #FurryArt #FurSale A photo of a light blue T-shirt design featuring a cartoon furry dog's head with hypno eyes. The tongue is poking out and drooling and text reads Good Dog. 🎨 #FurryArt #FurSale A photo of a T-shirt design featuring a circle of different Michigan animals all fitting together like puzzle pieces. Animals included are a red fox, land snail, red eared slider (turtle), eastern cottontail (rabbit), tree swallow (bird), Canada lynx, caterpillar, bumblebee, raccoon, little brown bat, American toad, white-tailed deer, house mouse, black rat snake, isopod, North American river otter, rainbow trout, blue-spotted salamander, stoat, red squirrel, and eastern tiger swallowtail. 🎨 #FurryArt #FurSale #Nature
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Go, my bug army!

Finally restocking my isopod pins, they’ve been sold out for almost a year! Will have these at MFF soon!
A photo I took while in process of putting tiny rubber ducky isopod pins on backing cards. There is a pile of cubaris roly poly enamel pins and a pile of green backer cards. The backer cards has a drawing of a critter keeper cage with a stick and leaves inside. The pin goes on top and looks like the little bug is in the critter keeper! It’s one of my favorite merch items I’ve designed.
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Since Enoki didn't have a badge yet, and the last badge I made for Midway was in 2012 😳💦 - I really wanted to make us some nice new ones before MFF! It's been a really really long time since I made a badge for myself 🥺
Two traditional character portrait badges next to each other on pieces of paper. These badges were made by hand with prismacolor & copic markers, colored pencils, and ink pens. The portraits are of two mustelids: Midway, a North American river otter and Enoki, a white stoat or ermine weasel. Both characters have smiling expressions and tongues poking out. Midway has his paws up grasping a golden trout with his name across it, and Enoki's paws are up on a mossy log spelling their name, admiring some velvet shank mushrooms as a slug crawls along the log. 🎨 #FurryArt A laminated character portrait of a river otter named Midway. He has a happy, playful expression and tongue poking out. His name is written below his head and shoulders in bright orange letters.
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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New badges for @ottrocity.bsky.social & myself! 🐟🍄
Two traditional character portrait badges next to each other on a faded tree-patterned background. These badges were made by hand with prismacolor & copic markers, colored pencils, and ink pens. The portraits are of two mustelids: Midway, a North American river otter and Enoki, a white stoat or ermine weasel. Both characters have smiling expressions and tongues poking out. Midway has his paws up grasping a golden trout with his name across it, and Enoki's paws are up on a mossy log spelling their name, admiring some velvet shank mushrooms as a slug crawls along the log. 🎨 #FurryArt
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Today is my birthday! My only wish is to have my art shared 💙🥳🧁
A character reference sheet of a furry anthro king cheetah named Kalahari, showing the character from the front, side, and back. He has neon blue fur along his sides and back, with white on his belly and limbs. Long black spots frame his side, and his tail is striped with black bands with a white tip. He has large, round ears with mint colored insides, and mint paw pads. His eyes are bright green.🎨 #furryart A traditional art portrait made with markers and pens featuring a white fox named Kita with a blueberry basket and juice box in front of a pretty lake. Character belongs to KitaKettu! 🎨 #furryart A digital illustration of two cartoon anthropomorphic mustelid characters; one a stoat and the other an otter. They are standing upright, embracing one another and staring into each other's eyes with their noses pressed together. The background is a clear starry night with a few clouds in the sky. Bright fireflies glow around them. 🎨 #FurryArt A collage of digital drawings of a tamagotchi like virtual pet game systems, with a cartoon furry dog, cat, alien (Xero), and protogen robot characters popping out of it. 🎨 #FurryArt
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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One of my favorite designs I've made in recent memory! Absolutely love working off a theme and so satisfying to see my designs come to life! 🥺🧋
A digital reference sheet for a lynx hybrid character named Taro. He is tan and cream with darker orange stripes on his limbs and black spots representing boba tea on his thighs and legs. 🎨 #FurryArt
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I can confirm, they are all very tasty!!! Oyster is pretty easy to find in grocery stores, especially Asian marts or “fancy” stores like Whole Foods. Chanterelles and morels aren’t really cultivated so could only find those seasonally at a farmers market (or maybe in the woods!) 🍄
Foraged chanterelle mushrooms next to a mushroom knife on a picnic table. A morel mushroom sprouting out of the grass next to a pride flag. A giant pile of beautiful golden oyster mushrooms growing on a fallen log.
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Which virtual pet version will you choose: Dog or Cat? 👾⭐
A digital drawing of a tamagotchi like virtual pet game system, with a cartoon furry dog character popping out of it. The dog is very puppy like, a blonde border collie with a happy expression and tongue poking out. The tamagotchi is atomic purple color: clear with the internal parts showing. 🎨 #FurryArt A digital drawing of a tamagotchi like virtual pet game system, with a cartoon furry cat character popping out of it. The cat is a Siamese cat with wide eyes and mouth open yelling for food. The tamagotchi is a neon green color: clear with the internal parts showing. 🎨 #FurryArt
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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jellybeans in progress 🐾
Digital furry art, a closeup of some very cute wolf paws with the squishiest paw pad beans. They are being poked by a poking finger emoji. 🎨 #FurryArt
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Never posted my most recent traditional badge since it was very heavily referenced from a screenshot but I’m so happy with how totally smooth this one was!
A traditional furry con badge made with prism color markers. It’s the lesbian lioness Vitani from The Lion King 2!
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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One of my favorite features is that you can get the sticker backing printed with your QR code or username, so people know where they bought the sticker! 👀

They also offer wonderful art prints, very impressed with the quality!

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A photo of 3 mustelid art prints and 3 packs of stickers all arranged nicely! #FurryArt A photo of 3 different sticker designs (A stoat holding an isopod terrarium, a stoat and an otter embracing, and a Neon Slushie logo sticker) next to each other, with the same designs flipped over to show the printing on the back. #FurryArt
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I want to give a shout-out to @bearandbeagle.store for having great stickers & amazing customer service!!! 🥰

I've been researching other in-fandom sticker makers since my go-to isn't taking orders for a little bit, and I am very, very impressed by Bear and Beagle! Please check them out!
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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OPEN FOR PRE-ORDERS!

Pre-orders help fund the production of these designs. Any orders or spreading the word help a lot! 🦊

Sizes XS and 3XL-6XL are ONLY available via pre-order! Regular stock only includes S-2XL.

Pre-orders will ship after MFF, in time for Christmas!

🛍 www.neonslushie.com/shop
A digital mockup of a T-shirt design featuring a cartoon furry fox with a sly, toothy grin. It is posed in a pouncing position with cute hind paws showing. Text under the fox reads: Warning: Wild Animal, BITE RISK 🎨 #FurryArt #FurSale
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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⚠️ Warning: Wild Animal, BITE RISK
A digital artwork design featuring a cartoon furry fox with a sly, toothy grin. It is posed in a pouncing position with cute hind paws showing. Text under the fox reads: Warning: Wild Animal, BITE RISK 🎨 #FurryArt #FurSale
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM