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Laya 🌿🍄
@layahimalaya.bsky.social
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Hugo award winning illustrator/designer (and sometimes cosplayer) in Aotearoa 🌼 I love fantasy, fungi & books!

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · Apr 12
I’m Laya, an artist who loves fantasy, nature, & books!
I design/illustrate covers/picture books, make bookmarks/stickers & other merch, and do lots of book fanart!

🌿 layaroseart.com/links
✉ layaroseart.kit.com
Photo of a bunch of paperback books, spines visible, with some picture books (cover forward) on the right, with some aesthetic vines and mushrooms around. The books include: Xenocultivars, No Man's Land, Errant, There's Magic Between Us, Common Bonds, Once Stolen, Ngake Me Whataitai, and The Eight Gifts of Te Wheke. illustration of two girls in a spooky forest, surrounded by glowing mushrooms and moss and animal bones. The girl on the left is taller, with brown skin and braids, and is holding up a bone knife and protecting the other girl, in a thin dress with blank eyes and a white streak in her hair. Behind the tree trunks behind them is the silhouette of a large raven with its wings outstretched, blending into the sky, with glowing eyes. Illustration of red and blue from this is how you lose the time war. They are floating on a white background, hands clasped, with the other hands on a knee and in the hair. Red is robotic, with a full face visor and black short hair with red tips, chest armour and armoured arms with cybernetic patters, a red hood, and a long split skirt over legs that go to points. Blue is planty and animalistic, with a mask-like face with 6 yellow eyes and fangs, long curly dark hair, insect wings, four arms with vines going up them and bent back feet. She is wearing a short sleeved top and long skirt. flatlay of various prints stickers and bookmarks, all green/cream with bug and moss themes. There's a moth book spine bookmark, two moth stickers, a snail sticker, a sticker and print of bug themed book spines, and a sticker sheet of mossy skulls with a couple bugs, and some cicada wing earrings. Also a bookmark of a snake around a gold dagger (snakes can be bugs).
layahimalaya.bsky.social
extremely tragic that on a beautiful sunny day in wellington when i want to go swim in the ocean I canNOT tell from where i live if it's super windy and unpleasant at the beach or perfect and smooth
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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You have about 24 more hours to bid on a set of signed books and stickers from me, or any of the other 280+ items in this year's Peacetober Art Auction! This fundraiser will help support 25 Palestinian family campaigns in Gaza:

www.32auctions.com/organization...
Signed copies of 'Gender Queer' and 'Breathe'
Auction item 'Signed copies of 'Gender Queer' and 'Breathe'' hosted online at 32auctions.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
I've done a buuuunch of sketches of characters from The Isle In The Silver Sea by @tashasuri.bsky.social recently. I love this book a lot!!

#TheIsleInTheSilverSea #art
sketchy coloured drawing of Vina and Simran facing each other, Vina's hands on Simran's neck, in the frame of a mirror with plants around. 6 sketches of Vina, a butch woman with brown skin and curly brown hair. In some she has short curls over the forehead and is wearing armour and a doublet, in others she has longer hair in a ponytail and simple white/brown clothes.
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Shop small for the holidays, support independent publishing, and do some good!

From now until Dec. 31, we will donate 10% of every single direct sale from our site to local food banks.

Treat yourself to our debut title, The Traitor & The Wretch, or gift it to a friend!
www.bonedustpress.com/shop
A trope map image for The Traitor & The Wretch (cover art by Amy Phillips) written by Jasmine Walls and illustrated by Rowan MacColl. It reads: Minor villains dungeon-crawling their way to a happy ending. On the run from an entire kingdom that wants them both dead. This guy (the wretch) helped raise a Chaos God to bring about the end times (he's not coping well) This guy (the traitor) tried to kill the Prophesized Hero (it ended badly) Enemies-to-Lovers Mutated cave creatures! Undead horrors! Endless pitch black caves! Somehow, it's a romance!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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my newsletter wrapup of the last month!
Store open! + recent events & art
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November 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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my two new convention ribbon designs! we're hoping this will become a thing in aotearoa
photo of a red con ribbon that says bookmark collector with 3 book spine shapes, over a background of many fantasy bookmarks. photo of a black con ribbon with 'crew of the perihelion' in a cybernetic border in blue, over a background of a bunch of my murderbot art.
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
my two new convention ribbon designs! we're hoping this will become a thing in aotearoa
photo of a red con ribbon that says bookmark collector with 3 book spine shapes, over a background of many fantasy bookmarks. photo of a black con ribbon with 'crew of the perihelion' in a cybernetic border in blue, over a background of a bunch of my murderbot art.
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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I don't think I ever posted this.... I designed a fantasy map notepad with die cut edges, 4 unique page designs that connect into one map, & a matching sticker sheet! #art
photo of a notepad of yellowed paper with map patterns around the edge and a brown triangular cover reading: fantasy map notepad. around the edges are the back, and a sticker sheet of medieval style wax seals/daggers/flags/nails/etc, and some of the pages. photo of 3 notepad pages, which have map designs around the edges that connect into one map. close up of the corner of the notepad, with a loose sheet with a dagger sticker on the top as if it's stabbed in it.
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
I don't think I ever posted this.... I designed a fantasy map notepad with die cut edges, 4 unique page designs that connect into one map, & a matching sticker sheet! #art
photo of a notepad of yellowed paper with map patterns around the edge and a brown triangular cover reading: fantasy map notepad. around the edges are the back, and a sticker sheet of medieval style wax seals/daggers/flags/nails/etc, and some of the pages. photo of 3 notepad pages, which have map designs around the edges that connect into one map. close up of the corner of the notepad, with a loose sheet with a dagger sticker on the top as if it's stabbed in it.
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Simran & Vina from #TheIsleInTheSilverSea by Tasha Suri.
#myart
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Last day come get stuff
layahimalaya.bsky.social Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 21d
at auckland armageddon this weekend! my feet hurt and there's 2 more days rip
Photo of my at my table. Lots of bright fantasy bookmarks and stickers. I am wearing a white mask and mushroom beret.
October 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
at auckland armageddon this weekend! my feet hurt and there's 2 more days rip
Photo of my at my table. Lots of bright fantasy bookmarks and stickers. I am wearing a white mask and mushroom beret.
October 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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You can find me & @thekingkez.bsky.social at a68!
graphic reading: auckland armageddon, laya rose art & thekingkez, table a68, auckland showgrounds, 24-27 october. there's a map in the middle showing us in the middle of the far wall of hall 1.
October 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
I'll be at auckland armageddon this weekend! Here's some new stuff I'll have with me (since I was last in auckland)
graphic reading: what's new? at laya rose art in the middle, with fantasy bookmarks at the top, and a fantasy map notepad and various leaf and star and fungi earrings at the bottom. continued graphic of various art on a book page background: con ribbons (bookmark collector & perihelion), stickers (libby, fuck ai, book fanart, a court of fey and flowers, knights of guinevere, fungi), and wood pins (fungi) continued graphic, of art prints. there is book fanart at the top (labeled: FANART OF BOOKS SUCH AS: The Isle In The Silver Sea, The Stardust Grail, The Starving Saints, Feast While You Can, A Master of Djinn, This Fatal Kiss, They Bloom at Night, The Butterfly Assassin, The Midnight Girls), as well as the same acofaf & knights of guinevere art, and two original art mini prints.
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
well im glad our printer stopped working (needs a bit replaced) just After I finished printing all my stickers & prints & display signs for auckgeddon this weekend. kez, however, was about to Start printing things...................RIP
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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i love women #KnightsOfGuinevere #art
digital illustration of andi & frankie from knights of guinevere, on a blue background with some stars. Andi has her arms crossed, and is frowning back at Frankie, who is grinning and leaning up to her with one hand on her hip.
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
i love women #KnightsOfGuinevere #art
digital illustration of andi & frankie from knights of guinevere, on a blue background with some stars. Andi has her arms crossed, and is frowning back at Frankie, who is grinning and leaning up to her with one hand on her hip.
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Catch us next weekend at Armageddon Expo at Table A6! It's a huge event this year and we're all looking forward to it!~ I'll be tabling alongside @genue.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Jagvi & Angelina from Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta!! i love lesbian horror romance and demonic things possessing people

#FeastWhileYouCan #art
digital illustration of two lesbians embracing and surrounded by scratchy black demon swirls. Angelina is femme, mixed race with light freckly brown skin and brown curly hair, in a white tank top, and is angled away but looking back towards the viewer with a shadowy demon hand around her cheek. Jagvi is an Indian butch with dark skin and a choppy mullet and black shirt, with her arms around angelina's back, and looking at her face. The demon swirl background is not touching jagvi.
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
Jagvi & Angelina from Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta!! i love lesbian horror romance and demonic things possessing people

#FeastWhileYouCan #art
digital illustration of two lesbians embracing and surrounded by scratchy black demon swirls. Angelina is femme, mixed race with light freckly brown skin and brown curly hair, in a white tank top, and is angled away but looking back towards the viewer with a shadowy demon hand around her cheek. Jagvi is an Indian butch with dark skin and a choppy mullet and black shirt, with her arms around angelina's back, and looking at her face. The demon swirl background is not touching jagvi.
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.
October 14, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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so now we apparently have to fill out customs forms to send LETTERS to the US.
October 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Swarm of butterflies drawn with a pencil texture. A small face is repeatedly peering through the wings
September 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I looove Knights of Guinevere it's so interesting

#KnightsOfGuinevere #art
digital illustration of guinevere from knights of guinevere. she is the head and torso of a doll with an empty expression and messy shaved blue hair. she is laying in a bunch of pale periwinkle irises, in a pointed frame, with bunches by either side of her head. There's bright blue viney guts coming out of the bottom of her ribcage.
October 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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October 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM