Candido Diaz
spiderdoctorart.bsky.social
Candido Diaz
@spiderdoctorart.bsky.social
I'm an artist, fiction writer, and spider scientist.

https://linktr.ee/candido.diaz.jr
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Hi #booksky #writerscommunity, Is anyone interested in reviewing an audiobook? I have FREE promo codes for Audible users in the US and the UK. If you are into short stories about sleep paralysis demons and a drug that keeps everyone alive forever send me a chat. Ligare and the Muse a.co/d/7z1OnKl.
Ligare and the Muse (Dreams From Tomorrow): Diaz Jr., Dr. Candido: 9798989166909: Amazon.com: Books
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Bolas spider hiding between two egg sacs. Found in the tall grass in Cumberland Nature Preserve, South Africa.

#biology #science #southafrica #arachnology
June 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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LIGARE AND THE MUSE: NOW $17.75
Buster sits outside of the cult compound he grew up in. He wonders if he has the strength to return and undergoing the trail he's been avoiding for 50 years.
June 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Amazon has dropped its royalties and printing price :D My books are now $17.75 for the color versions/audiobooks. Check my linktree in bio.

I love to build worlds through telling short stories about people's lives. Ligare and the Muse documents the victims of a sleep paralysis demon.

Love you all!
June 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Rays of light shot out from these newly formed galaxies. It was then that the Being could finally see it was not alone. Like the groups of light rays coming from the stars, it found other rays of light that flew steadily beside it, in front of it, and even behind it.

#booksky #ligareandthemuse
May 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
As it stared into the vastness, it noticed trends. The realization of order helped to calm itself, thought it knew not why. In all directions, worlds were being born, clouds of gas collapsed into themselves. They all began their own small sparks...

#booksky #ligareandthemuse
May 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is a hedgehog spider found in South Africa. They secret pheromones and attract male moths before grabbing them out of the air and eating them. During the day they sleep on leaves motionless like this.

#arachnology #science #ecology
May 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
What it did notice at first was the obvious, that it was hurting through space. Without any memory of how or why, it found itself jettisoned into the newly born cosmos. Much like an infant, it found itself overwhelmed with all the new forms of stimuli it was taking in.

#booksky
May 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The light between them glowed a faint and unnatural blue. This new creature looked at thr world it found itself in and tried to make sense of the seemingly infinite space that stretched before it in all directions. In the Beginning, it knew not what it was or where it had come from.

#booksky
May 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The heat was comforting and addicting. As they spiraled faster and faster , they could suddenly all feel the same things. They could feel the Beginning of each other's thoughts, and that is when it's life began: The Being was born. As those thoughts began to sync up, they became a mind.

#booksky
May 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Out of this darkness and with the faintest hint of a spark, a being was born among this light. Out of shear chance, three rays of light found themselves playing, dancing, and swirling around one another, sharing their heat greedily with each other instead of the universe around them.

#booksky
May 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
They created lonely streams of light born to perform a job and only that, providing brightness and heat throughout the universe. The problem with our universe, the gods would soon find out, is that even the strongest bonds cannot chain life...

#booksky
May 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
...that would inevitably occur in some of the billions of worlds that would be created. They constrained light with space and time-- holding it in place, constructing it's speed. The gods sought to isolated light. To always keep light streams from one another...

#booksky
May 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
As space and time began to form and as the fabric of our universe began to meld and take shape, light was born. Though light is vibrant and powerful, it is not often willful. Even still, the gods sought to tie down their power, worried about the possibilities...

#booksky
May 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm back in South Africa. It's reeeeeaaallll dark on this nature reserve.
March 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
When did we decide that fancy hotels would have showers that don't completely close and easily get water on the floor?

Cause...why...

#travel
March 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
On my way to South Africa for some some field research! It'll be my last opportunity for a long while. Gonna soak up as much as I can.

#biology #arachnology
March 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
My book of short stories about the sleep paralysis demon blends art and writing. Check out 'Liagre and the Muse' on Amazon, Audible, and B&N. Linktree in bio.

#booksky #art #fyp
February 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Creation process for my second book cover. Man and other Monsters.
Here are The Historian and EnnSammid.

#booksky #art
February 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Old acrylic pour I did of DragonBall Z. Goku powering up with an abstract aura.

#art #spraypaint #acrylicpour #abstract #dragonballz
February 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Spiders do crazy things! Here is a bolas spider, Cladomelea akermani, from South Africa. It's web is just 2 droplets on the end of a string. It spins it to snag moths out of the air.

#arachnology #science #southafrica
February 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Good Sunday everyone. My cat Ryuk would like to remind you that 'Ligare and the Muse' is still available in paperback and audiobook through Amazon, B&H, and Audible. These stories about the sleep paralysis demon have left him staring into the void.

#booksky #art
February 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Happy Valentines day!! Here is a painting I made for an Office gift exchange. No idea who has it today.

#valentinesday #theoffice #art #acrylicpour
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Cordelia is sick and aging. Her condition makes her prone to weakness. Liagre haunts her dreams, uring her to rest and leave the world behind. Will she awake before she's too drained to survive?

#booksky #art #acrylic
February 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I tried pouring acrylic paint over a spinning vinyl then drawing over it with chalk. This is kind of a fish monster but ultimately abstract. What do you see?

#art #abstract #acrlyicpour #vinyl
February 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Camilla is a transwoman being tormented by Eensaamid, a demon that drains one's social connections. He hopes to breed depression and isolation. Will she be able to stop him? Here is her and her found family at brunch.

#art #writerscommunity #booksky #acrylic
February 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM