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Natalie Metzger
@thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
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💀 She/her
🎨 Illustrator and designer
🏔️ Pacific Northwest
🔗 https://thefuzzyslug.neocities.org/links
🪲🦀 Here Be Bugs 🕷️🦐
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thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
The only time I saw baby pigeons was when I was a tween doing a rock climbing course. I was making my way up and came nose to beak with a pile of secret taters. Everyone involved was very surprised. I did warn the others coming up behind me. Anyway, read Rosemary's pigeon book. It's very good! 🪶🧪🐡
rosemarymosco.com Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 3h
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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mightymur.bsky.social
The first sentence/page of Infinite Archive:
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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sarahcosico.bsky.social
I forgot to post the best part about this frog and here it is: BRO HAS CHEEEEEKS
A closeup image of the bag charm, he has a heart on his butt and he has CHEEKS!! A dumpy!!! And enormous behind!!!
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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sarahcosico.bsky.social
I designed a bag charm for my friends @oddmentandtweak.bsky.social and they’re running a Backerkit for the next 8 days! They are funded but it would be cool to get some of the other colors unlocked 😉 💖 share with your frog loving friends! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...
An image with a frog bag charm design in 3 stages of design. The first is a sketch, the second is a digital drawing, and the 3rd is a finished plush frog bag charm. The finished charm is green with a blue bow tie and looks soft and fluffy. The text says “how to design a bag charm, a very loose step by step process by Sarah Cosico” A screenshot from the step by step bag charm design guide made for Instagram. The finished charm is hanging from a stand. An image of what the final bag charm will look like. The text says “Cecil. Froggy facts: loves to read, enjoys a hot tea, prefers a quiet night in. Unlocked!”
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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cd-illustration.bsky.social
If you see this post you're bird art 🐦

#birds #avian
A pen and ink drawing of an osprey staring directly at the very with a blue gradiented ribbon waving behind it.
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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aimeecozza.com
No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.

If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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mrsbarker.bsky.social
Woot! We are back, baby! Tea Goblin Cafe Newsletter #20 is up. There are new comic anthology submissions and new comic con open applications. Free resource on Patreon.

www.patreon.com/posts/tea-go...
Tea Goblin Cafe Newsletter #20 | Tea Goblin Cafe
Get more from Tea Goblin Cafe on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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palaeoplushies.com
So I've been busy finishing a bunch of FISHMAS decorations! I've put together some sets of four and sevens.

If you'd like to hang a bunch of tetras from your fishmas tree this winter, you can find them over here: www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/fishmas
Realistic plush decoration tetras made from hand-painted printed fabric, they hang from red cord with blue, silver, gold and red beads decorating the lower end.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
late season snek, spicy
a small brightly colored garter snake with a yellow stripe down their back and black and red checkerboard markings along their side, they are flattened and curled in an infinity shape, there are two fall leaves and some needles with fall colors underlining the snake, snake is very angry human had the gall to walk on the same sidewalk they were using, very very not pleased, this snake sidewalk only
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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katemessner.com
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
EELS! Get yer eel facts!
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2d
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓

The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺

Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
Sarah holds up an eel facts advent calendar in front of blooming flowers on her sidewalk. It says eel facts an advent calendar. It has 24 boxes with orange and yellow zigzags and yellow circles in the middle with numbers one through 24 in the middle of the boxes there are six eels depicted on this calendar, one green Moray, two splendid garden eels, one blue and yellow ribbon eel, and one American eel and one European.
November 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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thebookroadie.bsky.social
Good morning, all! I will be doing my usual bookbinding livestream on YouTube this morning, 10am-11am Pacific! Here's my channel: www.youtube.com/@TheBookRoadie Come see what I'm working on and say hi!
The Book Roadie
Bookbinder in Portland, Oregon! I bind and sell blank books and do book repair. I livestream most Saturdays, at either 10am or 1pm Pacific! Follow me on one of my socials to get notified that morning ...
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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nwnoggin.bsky.social
28 hours later… 🤓
Sea lions sleeping in Astoria Oregon 💚💚
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
Trying to not be horrified and angry I left a letter out of the species name and had to squeeze it in, a word that happens to be the same word in my own book title ffs. Today's #Nudivember will haunt me forever.

#TradArt
A watercolor illustration of a blue nudibranch with yellow spots and the name obscura initially missing the c and squeezed in, making it largely illegible
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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iddstar.bsky.social
Say hi to Gelly. He wants to be friends.

New tshirt in my store - go snag one!

iddstar-shop.fourthwall.com/products/fre...
A purple tshirt on a plain background. The design on the front is a friendly-looking, green gelatinous cube with big cartoon eyes. Though you can see the bits of bones and other creatures already dissolving within his translucent form, he holds a sign up under his optimistic face that reads: "free hugs" A screenshot of the store details of the FREE HUGS GELLY CUBE TSHIRT from Iddstar's online store. The shirt is $20, and is available in a variety of colours and sizes.
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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brandtandstein.com
I make a pretty reasonable amount in a side hustle by giving subscribers erotic pictures of Middle Earth monsters. Please check out my Only Phaunts
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Oh gosh, digging around in my old art I also found this gem. I kinda want to make her into a sticker. 😂
illustration of a crow opossum... opossum crow? anyway, she has three babies on her back and has her mouth open and is probably hissing at you to back the heck up, opossum head, crow body, opossum tail, dark beady eyes
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
I'm suddenly reminded of the time a made a fictitious Gorey-esque album cover
Illustration of a fellow in a thick long fur coat, beard, pointy shoes, Panama hat with feathers, and big glasses, walking a large tall cat that has long thin stilt legs on a leash, title reads "Tall Cat" in fancy cursive lettering and swoopy embellishment underline
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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mdavidscoble.bsky.social
Zach’s good news! He ate 1/2 a can of food and took all his meds!

One win at a time! Let’s cheer him on!

頑張って！

Zach was attacked by a dog on October 1st and has huge medical bills. He would appreciate help!

#gofundme #silkenwindhound #silkens #dogs #disabledvet

www.gofundme.com/f/zach-the-s...
Donate to Zach the Silken Windhound was attacked, $20k medical bills., organized by Michael Scoble
This is Zach. He is a 10-year-old Silken Windhound and I want… Michael Scoble needs your support for Zach the Silken Windhound was attacked, $20k medical bills.
www.gofundme.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Ooooo! Yes please! 🧪🦖⛵
markwitton.bsky.social Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 4d
I'm late to my own party (again, sigh) but my new book on #spinosaurid #dinosaurs (written with @davehone.bsky.social) was officially released yesterday! Tons of info on and #paleoart of spinosaurs therein: research history, evolution, ecology, life appearance etc. Available wherever books are sold.
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
hello! freg!
8 panel comic P1: A title panel; borderless. We see a highly stylised --and decidedly grompy looking-- frog sitting atop a lily pad. The overly exuberant title above them reads "Hello! FREG!" P2: A close up on Freg, as their mouth opens slightly, a look of realisation on their face. The text reads: "Oh! Freg has something to say!" P3 & 4: Back to the POV form the first panel, as Freg gradually hinges open their jaw impossibly wide, almost 180 degrees. P4: We dolly back, as an absolute ream of text spews forth from the open mouth. "Jumping no longer elicits the feeling of sheer joy in me like it did, once upon a time. However, jump I MUST, because what else can I do? You ask my, why, then, would I continue to jump? Dear reader, you may as well ask me the same of breathing." "To not jump is to admit defeat. To give up entirely." P6: We switch to a dramatic low angle, with a fish lens effect, as Freg stares up at the sky, which is filled with cotton candy clouds. P7: Freg --saying "I must away"-- "jumps" off the pad. I say "jumps" because Freg looks like they are simply being dragged by a computer mouse into the air. P8: We end on a borderless panel, far back from the lily pad. The only sign Freg existed are a few ripples in the water around the pad.
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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mushbeast.bsky.social
i ❤️ kakapos
a sticker sheet design of 3 kakapos. top left is standing cutely with their big feet. top right is a 3/4” portrait of a kakapo in a red heart. bottom is eating berries off of a mossy log.
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Looking forward to this one! 🧪
bittelmethis.bsky.social Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 11d
🐻GRIZZLED🐻: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals

Def the biggest & most personal project of my career. Featuring artwork & foreword by Joel Sartore, as well as insights from a bajillion amazing scientists. 🧪

❤️‍🔥I HOPE YOU LOVE IT❤️‍🔥
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...
Grizzled by Jason Bittel: 9781426223358 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Funny, fascinating, and scientifically grounded, this charming book reveals unknown details about 50 well-known animals. Effortlessly readable, Grizzled reintroduces nature lovers to species they th...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM