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Birdie 🔜 Nashum

@catlidoscope.bsky.social

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🪲🔮🌜BIRDIE ✽ she/her ✽ meow cat ✽ 28 ✽ fantasy art creature from tennessee ✽ fursquared art staff

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Birdie 🔜 Nashum @catlidoscope.bsky.social · 1d

Heyoo! I’m Birdie!
I like art/fandom history, movies, & drawin’ furries. Thanks for stopping by!

🍂Fursuit by @pjcatstudio.com
🪲TG art channel: t.me/birdieland
🔮Tumblr: @/catlidoscope
🌜Artfight: artfight.net/~Catlidoscope
#furryart

Cast of characters designed for Fursquared 2026, Renfur!

Reference sheet of my cat character, Birdie!

Me (tan cat), Nioa (fisher), and Rouge (ocelot w purple hat) taking a selfie in front of a banner I made the art for at Fursquared 2026.

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Beren's Reverie

@berensreverie.bsky.social

Ever-changing Sky 🌙🌕✨

#berensart2026

my fursona, helgi, running on a field at twilight. he's a brown wolf with black head and neck. moon phrases and stars aligne in a half circle above him.

February 7, 2026 at 11:29 AM

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Sennamatic

@sennamatic.bsky.social

Oscar's interview 🎙️🖼️

A comic of an anthropomorphic lion talking about visual arts

A comic of an anthropomorphic lion talking about visual art

January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM

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Rhubarb

@rhubarb.gay

POV: You stumble upon animals playing a jaunty reel.

🎵The Place I'll Return To Someday
📯 @otterchaos.band
📸 @ionroux.bsky.social
#FurSquared2026

February 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM

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Stray

@creatureindex.bsky.social

A digital illustration of a large black wolf with a lighter streak down its back and lighter fur around its yellow eyes, and a small orangey tan coyote wearing a red tracking collar with a whip antenna. Coyote is standing under the chest of the sitting black wolf with its head low, looking to the right up at the wolf, whose muzzle lays atop coyote's head and lowered ear. The wolf is sitting, its large head craning down to hold the coyote close in its fur. It's making eye contact with the coyote. There are words in the top and bottom of the piece that read "Little Coyote, Little Coyote, What do you see?" "I see a big wolf looking at me." The artwork is loose and painterly and though it doesn't fit the collage style of Eric Carle to a T, it is vaguely inspired by his work, hence the captions in line with the Iconic book he illustrated.

February 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM

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Zeph 🔜 F2

@zoobis.bsky.social

Fun Fact: I was staff at @fursquared.com this year doing art for Social Media! I had the honor of doing these busts for our Guests of Honor @littlealphapup.bsky.social and Tikku <3

It was lovely to get chat with both of you, and I am so glad you two like the art 💕💕

[ #fursquared2026 #furryart ]

February 12, 2026 at 2:12 AM

Birdie 🔜 Nashum

@catlidoscope.bsky.social

February 11, 2026 at 4:03 PM

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RenFur² at FurSquared

@fursquared.com

The Royal Tournament has come to a close, so let's see the numbers!

At the RenFur, you all out did yourselves:
🦖 29 cases of dino nuggies consumed
💙 $31,536 raised for HAWS
🐾 2,795 attendees

Here's to another great con next year!

February 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM

Birdie 🔜 Nashum

@catlidoscope.bsky.social

Snail Jouster! Character asset for #fursquared 2026 🏰
#furryart

February 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM

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Nioa 🔜 Nashum

@nioa.bsky.social

badge test with balto 🫶
#furryart #art

February 10, 2026 at 10:30 PM

Birdie 🔜 Nashum

@catlidoscope.bsky.social

A cast of characters designed for #Fursquared 2026! It was so cool to see them printed as standees!
#furryart

A party of adventurers! A charismatic eagle, adventurous panther, roguish fox, barbarian bull, and wizard bear.

Two of the previous figures printed as cardboard standees!

February 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM

Birdie 🔜 Nashum

@catlidoscope.bsky.social

Banners I made for #fursquared 2026! Secondary Events, Con Ops, and the Headless Lounge! These were such an honor to work on and see printed in-person!! #furryart

A cat jester holds back a red curtain, beckoning you forward. Secondary Events banner.

An able-looking snow leopard mercenary stands, sword half-drawn. Con Ops banner.

Queen Gazzy cries “OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!” from atop her throne. The cat and jackal jesters awkwardly step in to add, “And don’t forget to hydrate!” Headless Lounge banner.

Me, Nioa, and Rouge posing in front of one of my printed banners. AAAAA!!

February 10, 2026 at 3:07 PM

Birdie 🔜 Nashum

@catlidoscope.bsky.social

Same vibe, different year

Birdie 🔜 Nashum @catlidoscope.bsky.social · Feb 24

Home from @fursquared.com and I’m manifesting: 🕯️ No post-con depression 🕯️No post-con crashout 🕯️Only post-con motivation to do art 🕯️🤞

February 10, 2026 at 3:48 AM

Birdie 🔜 Nashum

@catlidoscope.bsky.social

Unpacking after the con and it devolved into trying on all my new goodies. I LOVE my new salmon bag from @lakemutt.bsky.social! 🥺

Fursuit selfie showing off a new bandana and salmon backpack!

February 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM

Birdie 🔜 Nashum

@catlidoscope.bsky.social

I’m so sad that #fursquared 2026 is over! This was my first year staffing a con and I could not have asked for a better experience! 🎉🫶
Going to be uploading all of the art I worked on for Renfur over the next few days, starting with this bard for the general admissions badge! Huzzah!!
#furryart

A white ferret bard wearing blue clothes with a bright gold feather in his cap.

February 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM

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June White 🫀

@cuntmoney.bsky.social

the idea that making art is embarrassing if you don't do it well enough to make a career out of it is an objectively harmful and toxic brainworm.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

February 8, 2026 at 10:26 AM

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BERNERI ✧ 🔜 NFC

@berneri.horse

cat on a rug!
#art ✧ #painting ✧ #cat

Small acrylic marker painting with ornamental rug design and in the middle of it there is a black cat painted from above so it is laying down on it. The rug has lots of small details, mostly pointy and square shapes. The colors are dark blue, red, orange, green and yellow. The cat has a smile on its face, enjoying the rug.

February 9, 2026 at 12:19 AM

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saucypaws

@saucypawpads.bsky.social

insecurities
1/6

This is the first page of a multi-panel 12 page comic strip by saucypaws, featuring two anthropomorphic female characters: Pepper, a shorter, curvy calico cat with short hair, and Whitney, a taller, athletic horse girl with longer hair. Both characters are getting ready to go out somewhere and are wearing just their underwear. The comic aims to depict a tender moment relating to body image and insecurity.

Pepper is standing in front of a full-length mirror, looking at herself while holding up a green velvet strapless dress as if she is unsure whether or not she wants to put it on or not. We see a close up of her face and she is clearly very unhappy. Suddenly, a very alarmed Whitney comes rushing in: "Shoot!" she exclaims. "What time is it?" - the two of them must be late for something...

February 9, 2026 at 3:06 AM

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a fox named coyote 🔜 VGMCon

@afoxnamedcoyote.com

LMAO IT'S ME @myronthefluffy.bsky.social AND @beark.ink

We all ended up focusing a specific combat style on our Group Ironman accounts--Myron on ranged, Kril on melee, me on mage