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Annie

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Build your own snow bear! Community art project in Central Park. #NYC #NewYorkCity

Four snow bears in front of a fence with the Manhattan skyline in the background.

February 16, 2026 at 8:46 PM

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The Linnean Society of London

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Hay there, hold your horses and try not to stirrup trouble: it's the lunar new year! This illustration in Hawkins's 'A comparative view of the human and animal frame' (1860) shows two chaps foaling around together. What better way to kick off the #YearOfTheHorse?

A greyscale illustration of a horse and human skeleton in natural stances, as though the human is leading the horse by reins.

February 17, 2026 at 2:56 PM

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️

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Two cats sleeping behind the till of a coffee shop.

February 17, 2026 at 11:30 PM

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Cambridge University Library

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Uji shūi monogatari emaki, images from Japanese tales written in the 13th century, reproduced in our modern collections. (FD.960.95, f.)

February 17, 2026 at 5:17 PM

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Cambridge University Library

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ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt, 16th century Persian manuscript (MS Nn.3.74)
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Islamic Manuscripts : ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt

A richly illuminated 16th Century [CE] copy of the Persian version of Qazwini's ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt,

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February 17, 2026 at 5:17 PM

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Sarah McKenzie

@sarahdraws8.bsky.social

Thanks a lot for hosting! 💚

I make fantasy & sci-fi illustration, all digital. Lots of it involves dragons, and most of it is creature concept art. 🐉

Creature Concept: Northern Dragon

A white dragon sits up on a snowy tundra plain. Black rocks litter the ground, and grey clouds cover the skies, which are grey with blizzard clouds. Beneath the dragon's front claw is a human skull.

The dragon has folded pterodactyl-like wings with hairy claws for fingers. Its back legs are also fluffy, and look much like the talons of a snowy owl. 3 horns grow from the dragon's head; 2 short ones from the back, and 1 longer, forked one from the center. The tail ends in a triangular barb made from the same material as the horns, and sensory bristles stick out from the length of the tail like whiskers. Similar whiskers, only shorter, are found on the cheeks and the tips of the ears.

Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.

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Creature Concept: Southern Quilled Seraph (fictional avianoid)

Digitally drawn concept art of a bird-like monster design. The creature faces right on a dark plane. It is sitting with its wings partially folded, but still somewhat slack. Its long tail twists upwards behind it.

Its beak and two-toed feet are yellow in color, and its eyes are bright green. Most of the feathers on its body are a warm grey shade, with a broad red stripe down its back and tail. Additionally, there is a large patch of red in the center of itis chest. Its wing feathers, as well as some scattered feathers across its body, are a shiny iridescent black. It has a bright red wattle on the underside of its head, which is patterned with black markings.

Porcupine-like quills sprout from beneath the feathers on the monster's back, as well as the backs of its wings. Along its twisted tail there are 3 more (shorter) wing-like appendages. The head has two pairs of eyes; one is large, and located on the side of the head, and the other is small, and faces forwards from a hole on the from side of the beak.

The beak is toothed, like a goose's beak, as is the animal's tongue. The beak also has a large Smilodon-like fang growth on each side. On the bottom half of the beak, a patterned crest sprouts and curves backwards between the fangs. Above the front pair of eyes on the beak, there are hornbill-like growths that shade the eyes.

Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.

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Creature Concept: Starlight Dragon (gold version)

Concept art of a gold-scaled dragon in flight, facing left relative to the POV. Its horns are curved and black, but short in length, and its eyes are deep purple.

Viking-style rune scars are engraved on its knuckles, wings, and tail. Similar runes also make up the fading edges of its magical glowing wings and fins, which are pale cyan in color.

Thin tendrils, the same color as the dragon's scales, sprout from multiple regions of its body, including the top of the head, chin, neck, elbows, tail, shoulders, and wing tips. Each tendril is tipped with a small jewel-like orb that matches the cyan wings in color. These also glow with a slight bioluminescence.

Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.

Illustration: Stormfront

Illustration of a pale orange stone desert, with mountains in the background. Behind the mountains looms a churning, deep blue stormfront, which is split by a single bolt of lightning that reaches to a nearby floating island, and from there to the nearest peak. Dust blows violently across the landscape in front of the storm, and in the foreground, two dragonfly-like mechs perch on some eroded rock formations. They have scrap solar panels for wings, and twin cockpits for eyes.

Two characters stand on top of the nearest mech; one sitting upon the wing rotator joint, and the other looking towards the storm through a pair of binoculars. In the further mech, the pilots remain in the eyeball cockpits. One appears to be viewing a holographic display within the glass, and the other is looking over his shoulder, eyes shaded, at the storm.

Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.

February 17, 2026 at 9:46 PM

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@gardenhos.bsky.social

Horses have always been hard to draw!!!!

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新年快乐，马年吉祥 - Happy Lunar New Year, wishing you an auspicious Year of the Horse! 🐴

2026 is the year of the horse, an important motif in Chinese mythology. Our featured image is from a 16th-century album of paintings by Qian Gu (Shelfmark: MS.Chin.c.16).

Two people in traditional attire stand beside a horse under a tree. The scene is depicted in an East Asian style painting. One person holds a stick while the other is near the horse, which has a blue harness.

February 17, 2026 at 11:41 PM

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Bodleian Libraries

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新年快乐，马年吉祥 - Happy Lunar New Year, wishing you an auspicious Year of the Horse! 🐴

2026 is the year of the horse, an important motif in Chinese mythology. Our featured image is from a 16th-century album of paintings by Qian Gu (Shelfmark: MS.Chin.c.16).

February 17, 2026 at 4:48 PM

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Reality Snapped 📸 | Print Shop Open!

@realitysnapped.bsky.social

Thank you for the artshare and tag! ✨

Here’s some more of my little guys.

✨ Website: realitysnapped.myshopify.com

February 17, 2026 at 9:50 PM

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Tami Wicinas

@tamiwicinas.bsky.social

Happy Year of the Horse! 🎉

February 17, 2026 at 5:44 PM

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Moth Mouth

@placecalledbliss.bsky.social

I'm so fucking tired, if anyone wants to help out a trans guy today just share my stuff- I make jewelry and paint and stuff, take a look at my shop or commission a pet portrait or smth
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December 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM

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@yocholol.bsky.social

got 2 new sherpa blanket designs otw! one is just a thicker version of my classic tiger design (which sold rlly well at cons but never made it to my online shop) and my beloved seals!!

February 14, 2026 at 7:57 PM

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Sierra 🌷

@sierrasketches.com

Valentione's with the Chais ❤️

Digital artwork featuring a stylized portrait of Chai-Nuzz Mewlah from Final Fantasy XIV looking fondly off to the right against a pink background.

Digital artwork featuring a stylized portrait of Dulia-Chai Mewlah from Final Fantasy XIV clasping her hands and looking blissful against a pink background.

February 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM

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Rebecca Gelernter

@nearbirdstudios.bsky.social

Who wants to see something completely horrifying

Label on a carton of kiwis, featuring a semi-anthropomorphic fruit. It has tiny arms and legs and is holding a spoon. It also has large eyes, but the really terrible thing is its grinning mouth, which covers over half its body. Instead of teeth, the smile exposes a slice of kiwi. The monster is standing on another, much larger sliced kiwi, presumably a vanquished foe.

February 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM

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Kasey Gifford

@kaseygifford.bsky.social

Zooper Doopers are basically Australian otter pops/freezie pops. They printed these beautiful mask designs on boxes for kids to cut out sometime in the 1970s.