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Emroar
@emroar.bsky.social
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🐿️ Em Amara 🌿
Queer Chicago based illustrator of the colorful and fantastical.
Linktree for Shop, Portfolio, and more: https://linktr.ee/emroar
Art tag: #artpost
Contact for commission requests!
Please no AI NFT. Thank you!
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Emroar @emroar.bsky.social · Apr 9
Hello #portfolioday , I’m Em (Emroar on all platforms) Illustrator of nature and whimsy with a love of surface design and fantasy illustration. I love drawing birds, botanicals, and fantasy characters.
🌸 Linktree: linktr.ee/emroar 🌕 nice to meet you!
Illustration of colorful flowers on a black background. The flowers are as follows: white daffodils, forget me nots, grape hyacinth, crocuses, snowdrops, agapanthus, orange tulip, raphiolepis Drawing of a Cat in colorful clothing smiling while riding a large brown and black sparrow soaring through a blue sky with white clouds. Painting of a screaming red winged blackbird in front of a brick building perched on a branch Painting of an Io, Luna, rosy maple, and dysphania palmyra moth with crescent moons on a dark blue background
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azalben.bsky.social
If you're not in Minnesota and curious how to help, this is a week old but is well organized, includes multiple easy-to-understand bullet points, and seems like a good place to start: www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...
From the minnesota community on Reddit: How You Can Help: MASTER LIST
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
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January 25, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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trungles.com
Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that. I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport. I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house. I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
emroar.bsky.social
I walked into my local hardware store accidentally wearing their merch and they recognized our dogs…
January 24, 2026 at 8:33 PM
emroar.bsky.social
Today’s bake is a focaccia that I almost could not pry from the pan 😂
Focaccia bread on top of a grey chicken tea towel.
January 12, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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sophmobile.bsky.social
day 4 of #birbfest2026 with a very unimpressed golden headed manakin. #birbfest #digitalart #bird
digital painting of a golden headed manakin
January 4, 2026 at 9:17 AM
emroar.bsky.social
Bake of the day: orange cardamom rolls. Holy cow is this recipe so good. I used the freezing method on these and it works really well.
Recipe: sallysbakingaddiction.com/orange-sweet-rolls/
Small black and white dog looks up at a counter of proofing sweet rolls. Glass baking tray of fluffy sweet orange rolls baked in brown parchment cooling on top of a gas cooktop range.
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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chicagocta.bsky.social
The State/Lake Loop Elevated station will temporarily close starting Monday, January 5, 2026.

Crews will work to replace one of the oldest stations on the CTA rail system with a modern facility designed to improve safety, accessibility, and comfort for all riders.
Map of Loop showing State/Lake station closed for construction until 2029.
December 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
emroar.bsky.social
Hot library tip! The Chicago public library has music books with collections of sheet music that you can check out of the library! In case you like me are pulling out your childhood flute for the first time in forever.
December 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
emroar.bsky.social
Happy holidays from me and the queen! Hope your holiday is full of happiness and warmth. 💖🎄

#happyholidays #christmascard #christmas #yule
Person with short brown hair wearing a red blazer, Santa tie, and white button up shirt smiles open mouthed while holding a black and white small dog wearing a red plaid bow tie. The dog is looking off dramatically. Black and white photo of a Person with short brown hair wearing a blazer, Santa tie, and button up shirt smiling open mouthed while holding a black and white small dog wearing a plaid bow tie. The dog is looking off dramatically.
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
emroar.bsky.social
My wife gasped across the living room. She was reading a menu. The Brussels sprouts are $20.
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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kodyisover.com
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
"In a related move, the Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to a dozen companies that market chest-binding vests and other equipment used by people with gender dysphoria. Manufacturers include GenderBender LLC of Carson, California and TomboyX of Seattle. The FDA letters state that chest binders can only be legally marketed for FDA-approved medical uses, such as recovery after mastectomy surgery." Screenshot from The AP posted on The Seattle Times.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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enbyexmachina.bsky.social
Call your senators when you can, folks. It's late for a lot of the US, but the fight's not over.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · Dec 18
BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care.

This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
emroar.bsky.social
My whole day keeps being thwarted by ai and I just want to become a hermit away from society.
December 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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rincewind.run
epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this

there are other, better franchises - let this one go
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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annieshaoart.bsky.social
Shop small businesses for Black Friday! Bird stickers and prints are available on my webstore. Score 15% off if you buy 5 or more items!

annieshaoart.myshopify.com

#BirdArt #SciArt #birdstickers #birdprints #BSNM #smallbusiness
Photo of all 23 of my Birdtober 2024 stickers
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
It’s time! Blackout Friday!

Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chains this weekend! Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message:

the People Will Not Tolerate Corporate Complicity With Authoritarianism & Worker Oppression!
adapalmer.bsky.social Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · Nov 27
Black Friday sales are tempting, but remember unions are calling for a mass shopping strike for national chains, esp. Amazon, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Starbucks, & Apple. If you shop between now & Dec 2, please support small & local businesses & avoid crossing the picket line 💪
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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gremren.bsky.social
a cat amongst the stars 💙✨
Photo of a felt needled cat on a light blue backdrop. He's a gradiented dark blue for his body, with a big yellow star collar, and smaller circular stars on the rest of his body.
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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doodlemancy.com
reposting this bc it's still one of my favs #doodlemancyart #art #artistsonbluesky
a cyclops girl sitting on a stack of TVs all displaying different scenes (house under a starry sky, rainbow, game that looks like kirby kinda) looking at her smartphone, her speech bubble has a love letter in it, implying she's texting someone special
December 8, 2024 at 5:12 PM
emroar.bsky.social
Today’s bake is a batch of everything bagels with za’atar mixed in. Not pictured 3 double crust pie crusts I prepped for the freezer.
8 everything bagels on a silicone mat.
November 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
emroar.bsky.social
After being sluggish since yesterday I finally remembered my human grow light (the s.a.d. lamp) exists 🤦🏻
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social
You give good love
Illustration of a white seagull wearing a striped red and white shirt and jean pants on the beach hugs another seagull that is distantly far away.
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
emroar.bsky.social
Now that my spouse has finally seen the second half of wicked we are now agreed on which one of our dogs is Glinda and which is Elphaba. It was never in question we can just discuss how the dogs are giving gelphie.
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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pikezzzzzzz.bsky.social
"Hortensias" (Hydrangeas)
Gouache
A3 (42x29.7)
Character standing on the middle of Hydrangea bushes
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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beverlyannemichel.bsky.social
It’s getting closer to holiday sales and shopping. Instead of spending money at a big box store or putting money in a billionaires pocket… shop small!!

If you have a small business or are a small time creator (that means artists and indie authors too!) share your links/work below.
This holiday season SHOP SMALL artists, indie authors, creator, and more
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM