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Madalyn McLeod
@madalynmcleod.bsky.social
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She/her. Queer & disabled artist & illustrator. No AI. Probably a changeling idk.

Asheville ➡️ Minneapolis

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 4d
Hi, I'm Madalyn. I make fantasy art in dreamy watercolor. I'm adjusting to changing disabilities right now, but I don't intend to stop making art. #art #fantasyart

www.madalynmcleod.com
'Unseelie Mushroom Fae' illustration for Olde Fae Card Game, made with ink and watercolor. A fae that looks like a fly agaric mushroom is rising from the ground, casting a spell. There are tall grasses and mushrooms and swirling magical energy all around. Her face looks stern and pitiless as she curses you for disturbing her mushroom patch. 'Sylph', made with watercolor, colored pencil, and white ink. A wise, airy fae flying through a purple moonlit sky with a spirit owl and a lot of green moths. They look ephemeral, and appear to be unraveling as they move through the sky, in a surreal way. There is a spiral pattern in the sky, and in her hair. Ink and watercolor art of a mermaid underwater with dark hair, green scales, ear fins, and bright green eyes. Art of Naiad & Dryad lovers standing waist deep in a lily pond, holding hands. Watercolor & colored pencil.
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If you see this, post a unicorn you've painted/drawn 🦄
Baby unicorn looking up into the rain. Traditional mixed media.
December 12, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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Hi, I'm Madalyn. I make fantasy art in dreamy watercolor. I'm adjusting to changing disabilities right now, but I don't intend to stop making art. #art #fantasyart

www.madalynmcleod.com
'Unseelie Mushroom Fae' illustration for Olde Fae Card Game, made with ink and watercolor. A fae that looks like a fly agaric mushroom is rising from the ground, casting a spell. There are tall grasses and mushrooms and swirling magical energy all around. Her face looks stern and pitiless as she curses you for disturbing her mushroom patch. 'Sylph', made with watercolor, colored pencil, and white ink. A wise, airy fae flying through a purple moonlit sky with a spirit owl and a lot of green moths. They look ephemeral, and appear to be unraveling as they move through the sky, in a surreal way. There is a spiral pattern in the sky, and in her hair. Ink and watercolor art of a mermaid underwater with dark hair, green scales, ear fins, and bright green eyes. Art of Naiad & Dryad lovers standing waist deep in a lily pond, holding hands. Watercolor & colored pencil.
February 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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a kid style crayon drawing of cyclops from x-men and his eye blast beam, looking upset, with a poem scrawled around it: roses are red violets are red everything is RED
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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It's Sapphic Saturday. Share something sapphic! 🖤
Nyad & Dryad holding hands & gazing into each others eyes, both waist deep in a lily pond. Made with colored pencil, watercolor, and a little white gouache, as the illustration for 'Love' for Nature Spirit Oracle.
March 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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One pretty kitty 🖤
Black cat in a chair
March 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
madalynmcleod.bsky.social
Hi, I'm Madalyn. I make fantasy art in dreamy watercolor. I'm adjusting to changing disabilities right now, but I don't intend to stop making art. #art #fantasyart

www.madalynmcleod.com
'Unseelie Mushroom Fae' illustration for Olde Fae Card Game, made with ink and watercolor. A fae that looks like a fly agaric mushroom is rising from the ground, casting a spell. There are tall grasses and mushrooms and swirling magical energy all around. Her face looks stern and pitiless as she curses you for disturbing her mushroom patch. 'Sylph', made with watercolor, colored pencil, and white ink. A wise, airy fae flying through a purple moonlit sky with a spirit owl and a lot of green moths. They look ephemeral, and appear to be unraveling as they move through the sky, in a surreal way. There is a spiral pattern in the sky, and in her hair. Ink and watercolor art of a mermaid underwater with dark hair, green scales, ear fins, and bright green eyes. Art of Naiad & Dryad lovers standing waist deep in a lily pond, holding hands. Watercolor & colored pencil.
February 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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All of my group chats are responding to Homan’s announcement by asking everyone to double down because:

1. ICE is still out there and abducting people today. We can’t trust the occupation is over until we actually see it.

2. People are going to be in an economic crisis for a very long time.
February 12, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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I made a chart to better understand my colors & look how pretty they are! 🌈
Watercolor swatch & mix sheet
February 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.
Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."
February 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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I made a chart to better understand my colors & look how pretty they are! 🌈
Watercolor swatch & mix sheet
February 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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The Sea Witch.
Sea Witch Inktober
January 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”

Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
“Good afternoon. My name is [redacted] and my wife and I have been at OMDC since April 15 2025,” reads a handwritten note, wrapped around a lotion bottle that was thrown by a man held captive inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) on Sunday. “It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor,” the missive continues. “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”
February 8, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Owl School. This is a T-shirt design I made for Downtown Books & News in Asheville, NC.
Ink illustration of an owl classroom. The teacher is a large horned owl, and the students are small barn owls. They sit on books instead of chairs, and the classroom is in a patch of mushrooms. There is a framing element made of vines & leaves. It looks like you just walked into the classroom, and the teacher and some of the students are turning to look at you. Made with black and white ink.
February 8, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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The Price of Obedience
Ink and watercolor on paper (with digital touch ups), 2026
Approx. 6.5" × 9.5"

Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo...
Original for sale: ko-fi.com/s/9afaede93c
Ink, pencil, and watercolor painting on paper. A muzzled dog in a field of poppies, the muzzle the same color as the dog. A snake skeleton writhes around the dog and buries itself in the dog's chest. The artwork is bordered in black and gold with a dog's skull hanging on the top and the jaw at the bottom.
February 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.
Unseelie Mushroom Fae. Ink and watercolor painting. A dangerous fae who looks like a fly agaric mushroom is casting a spell on you. She has white hair that blends into the gills of the mushroom cap on her head.
May 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I just finished Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social & as someone who was raised in the Christian right, I'd recommend it to anyone who wasn't raised that way, as a way to understand how we got here in the US.
Book Cover for "Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America by Talia Lavin, Author of 'Culture Warlords'" The cover is black with white text. A red serpent comes from above, slithering through the letters in the title. It's red tongue resembles a cross. Under the serpent, the letters are stained red.
August 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.

📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
January 31, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Owl School. This is a T-shirt design I made for Downtown Books & News in Asheville, NC.
Ink illustration of an owl classroom. The teacher is a large horned owl, and the students are small barn owls. They sit on books instead of chairs, and the classroom is in a patch of mushrooms. There is a framing element made of vines & leaves. It looks like you just walked into the classroom, and the teacher and some of the students are turning to look at you. Made with black and white ink.
January 31, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Twilight sky watercolor study
August 24, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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The 2026 Winter Preorder to support MN is now live.

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January 26 - Feb 9
January 26, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Eternal
#art #dragon #angel #celestial
Digital art of two very long serpentine dragons curled and weaving in mirrored positions, their foreheads touching. They each have many sets of wings. One dragon is black with green and purple accents, and the other is a light cream color also with green and purple accents. The background is blue with simple blue clouds, glowing stars, and a glowing celestial circle pattern with outstretched lines.
September 7, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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Two people murdered in the streets by masked federal agents, and all the Dems wanna do is look meaningfully at ICE while sternly tapping the Constitution
January 30, 2026 at 6:30 AM