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Sapling 🌱 Print shop open!
@sacredsapling.bsky.social
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Disabled genderfluid Muslim #watercolor artist obsessed with queer #OCs ✨ #SaplingArt (some 🔞)

30, 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇸 EN/ES

🩷 Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SacredSaplingArt
🎨 Comm waitlist: https://tally.so/r/3NNaJ0
🌈 Queer zines: @taplingzines.bsky.social
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Sapling 🌱 Print shop open! @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 27d
Hi #PortfolioDay! I’m Sapling 🌱 a disabled genderfluid #watercolor illustrator~

🏳️‍🌈 I co-publish queer multicultural art zines at @taplingzines.bsky.social (Kickstarter soon!)

🩷 Comms waitlist: tally.so/r/3NNaJ0

I’ve been very sick & have to leave my ‘day job’ so boosting this would be amazing ✨
A detailed watercolor full body painting of the angel Kokabiel. He has white pants and Indigenous jewelry, with shoulder-length blue and turquoise hair, multicolored head wings, and two back wings with blue, green, and pink feathers. The background is a painted nebula with some glowing and shooting stars. A detailed watercolor painting of a dark-winged angel with brown skin and hair holding his injured lover on his lap. The injured angel has brown skin and hair, with damaged lavender wings and chest bandages. They rest together in the clouds, stained purple and yellow from a sunlight glow behind them. An intricate watercolor painting of a reclining masculine figure with dark wings in barely any clothing, except stockings, underwear, and a translucently painted silky pink shawl. He has medium brown skin, curly brown hair, and is crushing a rose onto his chest with a lifted and gloved hand. Giant pink orchids, painted with lovely realism, surround him. Some pink fabric falls to the right side, and detailed hand painted blue lace fills the background. A half body portrait painting in watercolor of Nzuzi and Nsimba, two male Congolese twins, posed together at a club. The soft purple lighting highlights their dark skin and timid smiles. Nzuzi is in the front making a peace sign, in a semi-see-through white shirt and pearl necklace, with bright blue lipstick, gold eyeshadow, and gold hair jewelry in his long dreadlocks. Nismba is behind him with a hand on Nzuzi’s shoulder, bare chested with purple and blue paint on him. He has short-ish twists with an ombre dye of turquoise, a glow stick around his neck, and some burn scars around his upper face, including his eyes, which are a pale blue and have a unique shape from the scarring.
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ways i experience my gender :)
#personalart #artsky
a one page comic strip with a person in the middle a black star coming out of their chest as many other panels surround them full of nature scenes text says: isn’t it wonderful that these fragments of the universe can be brought together to make up the creature that is me!
February 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social
ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴏʟʟᴀʀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ɢᴜɴ ɪs ʜᴏᴡ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴇsᴛ ᴡᴀs ᴡᴏɴ
not won, but stolen...
April 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
Nooo no imposter syndrome allowed! You absolutely deserve to be there!!
February 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
New goal y’all! Get this queer zine to Antarctica!!
sacredsapling.bsky.social Sapling 🌱 Print shop open! @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 20h
Except Antarctica. Unless there is one super dedicated gay person inhabiting Antarctica. 🇦🇶 🌈
February 9, 2026 at 9:18 AM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
Sometimes after a particularly stressful time I wake up a little goofy
February 9, 2026 at 9:17 AM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
LET’S DO IT. QUEER UP THE PLANET!! 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 AM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
Except Antarctica. Unless there is one super dedicated gay person inhabiting Antarctica. 🇦🇶 🌈
February 9, 2026 at 9:08 AM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
Omg already over 80 people following the project! 🎉

Ngl, since this project is meant to inspire joy and resilience in our global queer community during a time of severe oppression, my dream is to hit 500 before launch. That way, we can likely get this art book onto every continent! 🩷
taplingzines.bsky.social Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 2d
Our Kickstarter pre-launch page is officially up!!

Want a gorgeous collaborative artbook celebrating queer joy throughout history? Click "notify me" ⬇️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

Early bird discounts are limited, and this is the best way to get them first! 🎉

#QueerArt #Zine #ZineSky
A banner of two masculine characters leaning up against a birch tree. The one on the left is an Indigenous man wearing a vest covered in beadwork, and the one on the right has paler skin and orange hair, wearing a blue shirt with tassels on the chest. Both have soft expressions as they hold hands. Gold decorations frame the corners of the image, and the text "We've Always Been Here" takes over the right side in flowy, mock-gold text. A small note in the corner also reads, "Work in Progress Image."
February 9, 2026 at 9:07 AM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
THANKS IDA!! ✨🩷✨
February 9, 2026 at 9:04 AM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
It does go so hard! Perfect for someone as details obsessed as me hahaha
February 9, 2026 at 9:04 AM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
Ooo thank you! It’s been mesmerizing to work on and watch this two-tone paint dry too!
February 9, 2026 at 9:03 AM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
Ahh thank you~ I love such tiny details honestly! And thanks for the support too. It’s been a time haha
February 8, 2026 at 9:04 PM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
It’s been a really rough week handling the file release (and the world realizing the horrors that consumed my childhood), so I made a little time to decompress by painting some Islamic geometry and alhamdulillah I really needed it 🥲💜

#ArtWIP #watercolor
A vibrant multi-toned pigment of blues and purples painting a star pattern of an Islamic geometry square. A pale hand holds a super thin paint brush in the top corner, as there’s still a lot left to paint!
February 8, 2026 at 8:54 PM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
We still hope you share the piece, as what we saw was coming along beautifully! We’re just sorry that our maximum extensions and the timeline of surgery weren’t compatible. Hope you rest well, I’ve been there with top surgery recovery! ❤️‍🩹
February 8, 2026 at 8:16 PM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
Omg what’d she do (and what is she going through)
February 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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legendarium.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 1:57 PM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
Ooo so excited to see it!!
February 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
This was simple issue of incompatible timelines, and we’re hurt that you feel the need to take this public and twist it into transphobia when we offered as long as possible of an extension and attempted to frequently communicate with you on progress check ins, with no response.
February 8, 2026 at 8:04 PM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
We did confirm you knew your date at the start of this project, and that the timeline would work for you. There was no communication about a monochrome piece then or within six weeks after the missed first check in.
February 8, 2026 at 8:04 PM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
We also provided you with a generous six week extension, and reached out multiple times to work around your surgery schedule (which was confirmed before signing on with us), with no response from you.

We’re sorry this didn’t work out, but we were as flexible as we possibly could be.
February 8, 2026 at 7:48 PM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
Replying from here since we’re blocked on the zine account. As a reminder a term of the contract was to create a colored illustration similar to your portfolio. When we addressed this, you refused.
February 8, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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sacredsapling.bsky.social
I’m a beyond-exhausted trafficking survivor reliving extensive trauma rn because the Epstein files (+more) are the experiences I had too.

If you all can support by sharing the (joyous! queer!) zine I’m working on would mean a lot right now. It’s a project of joy and will help keep me centered rn 💜
sacredsapling.bsky.social Sapling 🌱 Print shop open! @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 27d
Hi #PortfolioDay! I’m Sapling 🌱 a disabled genderfluid #watercolor illustrator~

🏳️‍🌈 I co-publish queer multicultural art zines at @taplingzines.bsky.social (Kickstarter soon!)

🩷 Comms waitlist: tally.so/r/3NNaJ0

I’ve been very sick & have to leave my ‘day job’ so boosting this would be amazing ✨
A detailed watercolor full body painting of the angel Kokabiel. He has white pants and Indigenous jewelry, with shoulder-length blue and turquoise hair, multicolored head wings, and two back wings with blue, green, and pink feathers. The background is a painted nebula with some glowing and shooting stars. A detailed watercolor painting of a dark-winged angel with brown skin and hair holding his injured lover on his lap. The injured angel has brown skin and hair, with damaged lavender wings and chest bandages. They rest together in the clouds, stained purple and yellow from a sunlight glow behind them. An intricate watercolor painting of a reclining masculine figure with dark wings in barely any clothing, except stockings, underwear, and a translucently painted silky pink shawl. He has medium brown skin, curly brown hair, and is crushing a rose onto his chest with a lifted and gloved hand. Giant pink orchids, painted with lovely realism, surround him. Some pink fabric falls to the right side, and detailed hand painted blue lace fills the background. A half body portrait painting in watercolor of Nzuzi and Nsimba, two male Congolese twins, posed together at a club. The soft purple lighting highlights their dark skin and timid smiles. Nzuzi is in the front making a peace sign, in a semi-see-through white shirt and pearl necklace, with bright blue lipstick, gold eyeshadow, and gold hair jewelry in his long dreadlocks. Nismba is behind him with a hand on Nzuzi’s shoulder, bare chested with purple and blue paint on him. He has short-ish twists with an ombre dye of turquoise, a glow stick around his neck, and some burn scars around his upper face, including his eyes, which are a pale blue and have a unique shape from the scarring.
February 2, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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sacredsapling.bsky.social
I’m so excited for this upcoming series I’m painting bc it’s such a celebration of sexuality and the human body. Something I really need to paint rn as a trans person and a survivor 🩷
sacredsapling.bsky.social Sapling 🌱 Print shop open! @sacredsapling.bsky.social · Apr 26
Hi all~! I’m Sapling and although these aren’t NSFW (just sensual), I’m working on a similar styled watercolor series that’s more risqué soon~

It’ll have trans euphoria, kink with flowers, disabled joy…and I’ll be selling prints too!
A watercolor painting of a white transmasculine person lying on detailed purple and blue tiles, with a blue skirt on. Roses fall over the top surgery scars on his chest, and big pink roses filled each corner. An intricate watercolor painting of a reclining masculine figure with dark wings in barely any clothing, except stockings, underwear, and a translucently painted silky pink shawl. He has medium brown skin, curly brown hair, and is crushing a rose onto his chest with a lifted and gloved hand. Giant pink orchids, painted with lovely realism, surround him. Some pink fabric falls to the right side, and detailed hand painted blue lace fills the background.
April 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
Aw omg, we’re so happy to hear this too!! It’s been a joy working with you!
February 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
sacredsapling.bsky.social
I can’t WAIT for this sticker in particular!!!
February 8, 2026 at 5:30 PM