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just squid, no capitalization. I like worldbuilding & character art. https://squidknees.net/

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squid @squidknees.net · 1d

I think those colour-coded character relationship charts are cute, but I can never figure out how to make one because my characters feel such weird ways about each other that it’d just be this lol

second img is a more serious attempt, transcript here squidknees.tumblr.com/post/7967910...

#art #oc

OC relationship chart, but every arrow is colour-coded purple for "it's complicated"

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squid @squidknees.net · 5d

thinking about Ichika in the morning... she's always in danger of hypothermia on account of the curse, so I imagine she wears her blanket around for a good chunk of her morning routine #art #oc

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squid @squidknees.net · 6d

I'm really curious why you decided to say this publicly under my post and what kind of reaction you expected from me

squid @squidknees.net · 7d

hmm... flapple... #art #pokemon

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squid @squidknees.net · 8d

after 1 million years, Laplace's wiki page finally has a proper profile image squidknees.net/oneiropedia/...
#art #oc

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squid @squidknees.net · 11d

played some roblox with friends today. clover is very dressuppable #art #oc

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squid @squidknees.net · 12d

PK-A started! Null has been asked to go to a garden party and is not having a great time. sites.google.com/view/pkmnast...
#art #oc

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squid @squidknees.net · 15d

gardeners are from a clade of creatures with a motile larval stage and a sessile adult stage, which I'm going to call "flowerworms".

this type of flowerworm parasitizes adult gardeners. it's one of the many infections the larvae work to keep in check.

#art

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squid @squidknees.net · 16d

more of these little meme heads :] it's getting harder to fit them all in the same template...! #art #oc

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squid @squidknees.net · 18d

play my evil game #oc

OC meme titled "their only personality trait in fandom". The categories are:
"misunderstood innocent baby / can do no wrong"
"silly and random / gremlin"
"parental / mom friend"
"angst machine"
"hypercompetent girlboss"
"irredeemable evil bitch"
"whole personality is being queer / sexy / both"
"no fandom consensus; discourse too heated"

the same template with oneirosea characters filled in

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 20d

This week on #RunawayToTheStars: A living history, written on the corpus of the people it documents, that has died along with them.

Catch up: runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: patreon.com/jayrockin

Bip: That’s an antler velvet blanket.

Talita holds up the blanket, her arms and the bottom of the artifact appearing to melt away into a series of embroidered depictions of the past crew created with the same stitches as the symbols on the real blanket.

Bip: Every year, the matriarch Ngilick would help the clan carve off their loose velvet.

An embroidered depiction shows two centaurs, one carving off the antler velvet with a knife. The "knife" is a pointed piece of bone with a hole on the wide end. It's punctured through the embroidery surface to go under Ngilick's hand, with the hole sewn down. The antler velvet appears to be an applique.

Bip: The raw skin would be washed in salt water and stretched to dry.

An embroidered depiction shows Ngilick pinning pieces of velvet to dry, depicted as applique triangles held down by knots.

Bip: The stiff dried skins were massaged with animal gland oil until they softened and cured. Ngilick would sew the panels into the blanket and embroider them with the year's events.

An embroidered depiction shows Ngilick sewing pieces of the velvet onto the blanket. They hold the sewing needle with their trunk, portrayed as a real, threaded needle puncturing the embroidery surface.

Bip: Some of those panels are from Ngilick's great-grandclan. They might be over 100 years old.

An embroidered depiction shows a group of centaurs proudly holding up the blanket, a rectangle of tessellating applique triangles.

This week on #RunawayToTheStars: Bip is very excited to have a new house guest, Talita hauls junk out of sideways rooms.

Catch up: runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: patreon.com/jayrockin

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squid @squidknees.net · 24d

#victreebel this time :}
#pokemon #art

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squid @squidknees.net · 25d

amazing! especially at his age.

squid @squidknees.net · 25d

toyhou.se/~literature/... another of these oneshots. this one is about self-preservation and the preservation of your friends #oc

squid @squidknees.net · 28d

my ocs :) they are friends #art #oc

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squid @squidknees.net · Sep 7

gijinkas are fun to design #chandelure #pokemon #art

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squid @squidknees.net · Sep 5

I think it'd be fun if Conversion 2 changed Null's appearance a bit... depending on what type they roll #art #oc #pokemon

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squid @squidknees.net · Sep 4

dusting off a super old RP group character for PK-Astronomia's reboot! I'm excited. toyhou.se/7779148.null
#art #oc #pokemon

visual app / reference for Null, a Porygon-Z gijinka character who is a wormhole maintenance technician in a jumpsuit and space helmet

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squid @squidknees.net · Sep 1

I think Hiro would be the kind of person who speech-to-texts emojis.

(transcript on tumblr: squidknees.tumblr.com/post/7934460... )

#art #oc

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squid @squidknees.net · Aug 31

miscellaneous development doodles. hats are an important part of spec bio #art

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squid @squidknees.net · Aug 27

most of what I’m doing lately is human OCs, so I’m thinking about committing to an actual spec bio side project…

(these guys are people, to be clear. they will have clothes and language and society. it is just going to take me a bit to get there)

#art

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squid @squidknees.net · Aug 25

just a normal day at the office #art #oc

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squid @squidknees.net · Aug 21

another weird demon squidknees.net/oneiropedia/...
#art #oc

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squid @squidknees.net · Aug 19

some hotel room background images for a thing a friend is making #art

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squid @squidknees.net · Aug 16

concepting some "humanoid" demons. technically the rules of ths setting allow for demons that look almost like normal people, but I like making weirdos more #art #oc

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