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timidcryptid.bsky.social
M.A.D.
@timidcryptid.bsky.social
they/them ✦ hibernating artist ✦ one half of @lumberwoodstudios.bsky.social ✦ glass cannon ✧ icon by Stace LeFevre

🌙 https://www.timidcryptid.com
https://www.ko-fi.com/timidcryptid
🌿 https://timidcryptid.carrd.co
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Requested by crlegge.bsky.social and to be placed in an unusual location. Behold, a mood.

Pattern by @badstitch.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Happy New Year.

We go again.
January 1, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Hello! ‘Tis the Season! It’s not optional.
Designed after the meme and Dougal Dixon’s Tundra-Dweller.
#artOnBluesky
December 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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reminder:
December 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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There is a prison of judgment and success-chasing most artists get heaved into at an early age and can take a lifetime to get free from. You gotta understand that the process—not the product!—is the thing.

Others are entertained as a byproduct of you attending to rituals you construct for yourself.
Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.

It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.

It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.

And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane?

Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Requested by crlegge.bsky.social and to be placed in an unusual location. Behold, a mood.

Pattern by @badstitch.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Green River Levee Breach
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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worm
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A tiny painting to mark the day. 🍓✨ The years feel like forever and no time at all.⁣
November 30, 2025 at 6:17 AM
A tiny painting to mark the day. 🍓✨ The years feel like forever and no time at all.⁣
November 30, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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*taps the sign*
"History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow.
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."

-Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#Discworld
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Donate to your local food bank instead.
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The Bookmark Book Fundraiser is now live! 📚

Get 30 Bookmark cross stitch patterns with a donation to a great cause!

Full details here:

sites.google.com/view/spellbo...

#StitchSky #books #crossstitch #fiberart #Crafts
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
One of a few current WIPs. Just some leafy bits left to stitch, now! 🍂 Pattern by @badstitch.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Graffiti spotted last November in Port Townsend, WA.
February 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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DO NOT PRESUME VICTORY
🗳🗳VOTE FOR IT!🗳🗳
November 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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languid post-bop ensemble music appropriate for being lowered into a crypt (non-sexual)
October 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Please donate to World Central Kitchen to help with their good work in Western Alaska, Gaza, and beyond:

donate.wck.org/give/734040/...
October 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM