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Ellen Bryn
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Former classics major (greekgeek), art dabbler, fandom old (whovian, lotr, et alia), lifelong learner, chronic illness haver, and cat servant. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈
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Ellen Bryn @sepdet.bsky.social · Jan 3
Bio Update: Childless cat lady, currently looking after Mama Mimi (left) and hija Luna (right). Journeyman oil painter, chronic illness haver, Doctor Who fan, lifelong learner, and Californian.
photo of two cats resting back to back on a cat bed in a window, one cat brown with white markings underneath as if dipped in icing, the other a little larger with similar markings except black and white.
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Katherine Hepburn giving an eerily familiar rundown of "Americanism" to Spencer Tracy in Keeper of the Flame, 1942.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=K2gK...
Keeper of the Flame - Americanism
YouTube video by Fed-Up America
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January 9, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Folks, I know y'all are tired. So am I—born with arthritis, this admin is the biggest threat to my health. But we can't let them wear us down. Congress & the @housedemocrats.bsky.social show a hint of spine when we push hard, but ONLY when we clog their phones. CALL. This makes it easy: 5calls.org
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Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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January 9, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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Anna's #hummingbird
Found this little guy banging weakly on upstairs window. He must've flown in when the garage was open, with patio glass door visible through the kitchen. I was worried, but once he tanked up at the honeysuckle outside my patio, he rocketed up and zipped away.
photo of a green hummingbird from above, indoors. It's resting on its tummy on the palm of a gently upturned hand with fingers forming a cage loosely steadying the bird. Both wings are spread at about a 50° angle from the body. The beak is resting across the pad of the first finger, and the spread tail feathers, a bit bedraggled, or across the pad of the pinky finger, which is threaded behind the left wing. hummingbird outside sitting on a green succulent kalanchoe plant close to the ground sipping from a cluster of its pinkish-orange blossoms. hummingbird perched on a tan fake wood concrete wall with a tree behind it, 2-story condos or apartments in the background with backyard patio umbrella, green bushes, eucalyptus trees in sunshine.
January 6, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Oh, you want little guys? I'VE GOT LITTLE GUYS.
Picture of a toy of Weird Al Yankovic riding a toy of Swift Wind, from She-Ra Picture of toy versions of the extended Bat-family along with toys of various paraphernalia from the Bat-Cave, including a Bat-Computer, a Batsuit display, and an appropriately scaled T-Rex. Toy versions of characters from various video games, including multiple versions of Link, a Zelda, Samus, a Metroid, Star Fox, and the protagonist of Portal. Toy versions of a BUNCH of characters from the Mario games.
January 5, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Trying to decide which of my No Blood For Oil signs to bring out. The one from Bush 41? Bush 43? The other one from Bush 43?

These chucklefucks are all the same: they can't govern, and when the stupid people who voted for them start to notice their failure, here comes the lawless invasion.
January 4, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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Feeling really depressed yesterday and couldn't squeeze a sketch out until after midnight, when I was curled up in bed with my cats.
Sometimes I do better just fingerpainting on my phone. #myart #procreate
loose, scratchy digital painting of gangly black and white cat asleep with head pillowed on stretched-out legs, while dark brown fuzzy lump of a cat is curled into a perfectly round almost oval shape with just one dark ear visible above silhouette.
January 4, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Bio Update: Childless cat lady, currently looking after Mama Mimi (left) and hija Luna (right). Journeyman oil painter, chronic illness haver, Doctor Who fan, lifelong learner, and Californian.
photo of two cats resting back to back on a cat bed in a window, one cat brown with white markings underneath as if dipped in icing, the other a little larger with similar markings except black and white.
January 3, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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Merry Christmas for those who celebrate. May the best parts of the holidays outshine the hassle, and may you find time to rest and enjoy comfort with those you love.
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day21 The world of fanfic is strange and wonderful, and someday you may be inspired to draw Peter Davison as a werewolf. (No, it's not THAT kind of fic. In the #AlbertCampion novels, an alleged witch curses him. A friend of mine wrote a fun "what if the curse worked?" AU.)
Stark, almost savage digital portrait of a man's head tilted and turned towards the viewer. His mouth is open in a snarl or scowl, lips pulled back to show his teeth, although they are in deep shadow — but not enough to conceal pointed canines. He has a long face, hawkish nose, and high smooth forehead with receding hairline, and might be good-looking if not for the haggard expression. Horn-rimmed spectacles cover deep-set eyes hidden in dark hollows, and there's a hint of a coat's high collar. The image is drawn in thick, rough lines like charcoal or chalk, reduced to shades of blood red, black, grey, and off-white. The head is backlit with a white area like the mouth of a cave behind it, while the face itself is rendered in shades of very dark red, black, grey for the teeth, and white reflections like moonlight on one side of the upper forehead and nose. The background of the picture around the white is mostly filled with blood red strokes on a dark grey ground
December 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it

A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230.

No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech.

We can't let this happen. Share & take action

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Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day20 - Pen & ink portrait of the late, great Jean Marsh in her role as Morgan Le Fay in 80s #DoctorWho. Wish I'd gotten this one autographed before she passed last spring.
Ink drawing of a gaunt, scowling woman in pseudo-medieval garb with hands raised menacingly, fingers spread wide and flexed as if casting a spell. Her nails are long and pointed. On her long pale hair sits a simple crown, a circlet of flat metal with four tall spikes, or rather, tongues that end in jeweled fleur de lis. A chainmail collar falls to mid-chest, her left sleeve is chainmail (her right may be too, but the shadows on it make it unclear), and the top of a cloak is visible over her left shoulder, which is turned slightly towards the viewer although she's mostly facing forward.
December 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar. 💖
Pink abstract art with marks and lines in blues
December 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 20
‘Winter Sunrise’
Artist: SR Badmin
A very delicate, finely-detailed mixed-media illustration looking down through winter trees passed a herd of deer towards a wooded valley and golden winter sunrise
December 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day19 - #ChronicPain Parasite - brush markers on paper for #inktober 2019, showing how it felt when arthritis/fibromyalgia began digging into my hands such that I could no longer dissociate discomfort using Spock's "There is no pain" trick I learned watching #StarTrek as a kid.
line drawing with thick, rough strokes showing a large, alien black insect covering the entire back of a right hand like a horrible glove, its many-jointed legs wrapping around and in some places piercing through the fingers with beetle-like claws. The creature looks like a cross between a spider, an ant, and an earwig, with large lobed head and rear segment, a cluster of dozens of eyes on top, earwig pincers on the back resting against the skin above the back of the wrist, and about four segments in the middle of the body. It's hard to tell how many legs there are, as they are slightly asymmetrical with some curling under its body digging in like talons and others forking and digging in like treeroots, but it's probably 10 or 12.
December 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#ArtadventCalendar Day 18 - two hour sketch of Gila woodpecker on Saguaro cactiI I drew two days ago on #Procreate and a photo I took outside Scottsdale ten years ago
digital drawing of five pillarlike cacti looming upwards against intense sky blue background with black silhouette of woodpecker on shadowed side of tallest. Vanishing point above top of image causes lines of cactus ribs to converge, and dark shadows on left sides, light yellowish-white lines of spines or highlights on top and right of each cactus add drama. Photo with similar image, except no vanishing point so cacti are straight up and down and farther away, colors a little less intense with sky lightening to paler blue towards bottom of frame, and woodpecker is smaller so it's easy to miss at first glance.
December 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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#artAdventCalendar Day17 - Is this your cat? A couple years ago I saw a photo of this cat sitting in the corner of an empty room and felt compelled to draw a caricature on #procreate.
Imagine my surprise a few days ago when my parents' cat nearly copied it, except his markings are different.
Wispy digital drawing of a gumdrop-shaped white cat sitting up. Its form is indicated with minimalist strokes of pale gray or wisps of dark brown or orange over one ear. Its eyes are yellow-briwn, contemplative, head slightly tilted. Photo of a cat of the same shape like a furry pyramid, except the straight legs in front are stouter, the paws larger, the body entirely white, and the patches over the ears/eyes are black not dark gray and orange. Also it has black spots over its nostrils. Indoor background, carpet outside open doorway into a room.
December 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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#ArtArtventCalendar day16 - my study of part of a #Cezanne #oilpainting, "Pommes et biscuits," for my "Learning from the Great Masters" art class, and my original still life trying to use his technique (plus process photo)
oil painting on canvas, collection of yellow and reddish-orange, rather wide and squat apples on a green-painted shelf tipped towards viewer, pale blue wallpaper with some sort of leaf pattern behind. Lots of visible parallel brushstrokes of similar variant colors close together add texture and liveliness to every surface. framed canvas oil painting of apples, wide yellow ceramic bowl, and folded white cloth napkin spilling off left edge of frame against brick red background. Three apples, 2 green and one red, are inside bowl, one outside resting on napkin. Some surfaces pick up reflected tint of objects facing them, especially bowl which reflects lighter napkin. Again, lots of variant-color brushstrokes side by side on each object make surfaces complex rather than flat areas of color. Photo of last canvas on easel, looking nearly finished with a few areas less worked; to right of canvas and behind it about 5-8 feet away is a stand like a shelf with a back wall draped in brick-red cloth with the real life apples, bowl, napkin sitting on it; a light from out of frame to right and in front of the stand illuminates the setup and casts shadows.
December 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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For Day 16 #artAdventCalendar evening, another public art thing done in January 2017 for the Deep Freeze Festival.

Temporary chalk mural done in 6 hours on literally the worst surface I've ever dealt with
chalk mural of Mars rover Opportunity on the side of a building at dusk
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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#artAdventCalendar day 17 - A tree in our municipal forest, Eilenriede (Hanover) #kleineKunstklasse #artshare #penandink #art #ink #drawing #inkdrawing #inking #artchallenge #sketch #zeichnen
Tuschezeichnung eines alten abgestorbenen Baumes (ein oben abgebrochener Stamm einer Eiche)
December 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day15 Bright colors are never enough. Doodling with radial symmetry in Procreate.
Abstract pinwheel design in brilliant colors, a crimson and orange spiral with 8 arms dominating the pattern, with neon white, burgundy, textured purple, indigo, and other cool colors dominating the swirling background like a galaxy mixed with an eddy of black leaves.
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.

Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…

All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.

We CAN change things.
strange.blacksky.app StrangeKeith @strange.blacksky.app · Dec 15
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day14 My parents' cat Ganache, 30 minute sketch just now on @procreate.com
Head of very fluffy cat facing viewer, white with black over upper half of head with white blaze, as if wearing long black bangs parted in the middle that land just above the eyes. Pink nose but nostrils marked out with black spots, and a black patch on nape of next just visible. Otherwise creamy white fur is shaggy like ruff or mane.
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day13 Lizard study. My cats' second least favorite patio visitor (the first being another cat) #Procreate app, 1.5 hour from own photo ref
Digital drawing of a speckled light brown lizard seen from above, limbs spread and spine curved in a slight S against a plain pale blue background. Full color, fairly detailed and realistic, with blobs and flecks of light and dark tan, cream, gray and black suggesting the contours, scale pattern, and sunlit or shadowed areas of body to make it look somewhat 3D.
December 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Get a heated toilet seat they said.
It's the best thing ever they said.

#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day12 #procreate New #digitalart technique adapting some of what I've learned from #oilPainting: #fingerpaint shapes of tone as much as possible before switching to stylus for details on overlayers. Ref an old #photo I'd taken in #JoshuaTree, curves adjusted to brighten feathers.
Digital painting of raven's head and shoulders against mottled pinkish-gray background. Raven is almost realistic, except colors are hyper-saturated, with blacks changed to deep indigos, ultramarine blues, violets, and grayish-purples to bring out shapes and sheen of ruffled feathers under neck and base of beak, and the shoulder feathers bunched like shoulderpads. The effect gives them an iridescence like dark butterfly wings, but blurred edges keeping feathers looking soft instead of oily. photo of raven some yards away, perched on slight swelling of pink granite wall. Stickly dry bush in foreground obscures tail. Bird is facing left, almost silhouetted due to whole scene being in shadow with poor contrast.
December 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM