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Natalie Metzger
@thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
💀 She/her
🎨 Illustrator and designer
🏔️ Pacific Northwest
🔗 https://thefuzzyslug.neocities.org/links
🪲🦀 Here Be Bugs 🕷️🦐
🚫 No genAI
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A little Valentine's Day treat for you, a throwback to when I made LeVar Burton get teary-eyed over a queer love story with aliens and fractals. 🌈❤️

www.pandora.com/podcast/leva...
LeVar Burton Reads
Listen to LeVar Burton Reads: "Immersive Remix: "The Simplest Equation" by Nicky Drayden" on Pandora - A struggling college student gains new perspective on her studies from her classmate, who's come ...
www.pandora.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Hi & tysm friends~

Ladies lunch club loved the bugs yesterday.

I had ≈30 min but used your suggestions:
Biodiversity +undescribed species
gifs of bumblebees playing with balls like puppies & spiders dancing for their life
bugs as pest control & leave the leaves

BIG WIN on the bottom pie chart ☺️💛
Hello Insectphile Friends!

I’m giving a casual presentation to a “ladies lunch” group next week about insects. I can talk for days about insects, both scientifically & emotionally, but that’s just me.

Tell me & help me, what should I include about why YOU love insects?

Hugs & Bugs!
💚🪲

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February 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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I also have a webshop again!

You'll find both my books, all my zines either in print or ebook format, and art prints.

saimihanma.com/shop/
February 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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OK, HEAR ME OUT
July 19, 2023 at 10:59 AM
Artists, quote with something silly!
February 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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LOOK AT THIS 'PILLAR

Short story, I tried to draw as many species from my backyard as possible and got burnt out real quick, so I started paying other artists to do it.

I tried to rear this baby, nicknamed Charizard, in 2020. I failed, but it's now immortalized as a @mothmonarch.bsky.social piece.
🌘 "Starchild" 🌟
Commission for @franzanth.bsky.social & at last another of my Golden Orbits.
February 11, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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Another little heart astronaut just floated into view at xxyxxy.com! Hello there!

#ceramic #astronaut #necklace
February 11, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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There's less than 2 days left to back for some awesome eye-full sea creature enamel pins from Warped Ocean! 👁👁👁
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

#artistSupport #DarkArt #SciArt #Pintopiac#Backerkit
Warped Ocean
Dive into the darkest depths with me and discover warped denizens of the deep! The watery sequel to Celestial Beasts will emerge from the depths in January 2026.
www.backerkit.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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My wife read GRIZZLED to the kids tonight for bedtime. There were oo’s and aww’s and I-didn’t-know-that’s!

My oldest is 11 now. He was 2 when I sent my first email about this idea. 🥹

GRIZZLED comes out in 21 days!!!!!!!

(Oh, and it’s technically for adults, but tweens/teens are welcome, too. 🧪)
🐻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
February 11, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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February 10, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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Uhoh those the were load-bearing witches.
February 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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#telekitneticart #formline #indigenousart

🚮⚙️ You cannot automate the human experience

(Sticker up now) 👉 ko-fi.com/s/3ecf690ed7
February 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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EVERY HOUSE SHOULD HAVE A DEMON SUCKING BOWL
This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
February 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Salamander Reading ✨
Available!
Size: 2x3.5"
Acryla gouache and ink
$55 (US shipping included)

DM to claim
February 8, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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If you’d like to commission me for an 11x17 ink and acrylic watercolor page, now’s the time! mistercrook.com/store

I don’t plan to open commissions again this year and there’s only a handful of slots left!

#ArtPost #OriginalArt #ArtCommissions
The Watcher Commission
YouTube video by Mr. Tyler Crook
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
February 7, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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anyway, it’s true and bears repeating. leave substack.
February 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
🥰💖🥰💖🥰💖!!!! #SciArt
Dinosaurs Survived!

All 15 designs so far.

www.emmalerae.com/store.html
February 6, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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Test prints have been made. I need to tweak a few things here and there before they’re finished and then I’ll order stickers and throw them up on my website.

#sciart
#paleoart
February 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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Furries have already achieved the dream of every shit silicon valley technology and in a more ethical and less cringe way

The metaverse: VRChat
NFTs: adoptable fursonas
Typing words into a text box and having art appear: commissions
February 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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I can't quarantine Mr. Sharpie in another room any more because he's figured out he can move the vent covers.

This guy is walking around in the ducts like John fucking McClane.
February 1, 2026 at 2:43 PM
anyway...
February 3, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Godzilla doodle 😈✏️
February 2, 2026 at 8:03 PM