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

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timidcryptid.bsky.social
Requested by crlegge.bsky.social and to be placed in an unusual location. Behold, a mood.

Pattern by @badstitch.bsky.social.
Cross stitch of the horse head emoji combined with the eyes emoji. It's in a simple black frame with a white mat on a wood-grain tabletop. The horse is stitched in shades of brown with a charcoal mane and cartoonishly large eyes on fabric dyed in shades of pink, purple, and blue. The horse is facing to the left and its eyes are looking down and to the left. It looks as though it's seen something it can't unsee.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
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
timidcryptid.bsky.social
Happy New Year.

We go again.
January 1, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not the same at all!" YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—" MY POINT EXACTLY.
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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pandakong.bsky.social
Hello! ‘Tis the Season! It’s not optional.
Designed after the meme and Dougal Dixon’s Tundra-Dweller.
#artOnBluesky
linocut print of a version of the “Season’s Greason’s,” meme. In blue is the abominable snowman-like gorilla creature, and trees. In red is the monkey-like creature, and the text, “Season’s Greason’s,” in an arch above. Subtl watermarks read, “PandaKong.”
December 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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splendorr.bsky.social
reminder:
yellow poster with drawings of the sailor moons. text says: TRANS PEOPLE EXISTING DOES LITERALLY NOTHING NEGATIVE TO YOUR LIVES, YOU CRYBABY WIMPS YOUR LIFE IS GETTING HARDER AND COSTLIER BECAUSE OF THE OLIGARGS, NOT TRANS PEOPLE
December 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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tommchenry.bsky.social
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.
austinwalker.bsky.social austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 19d
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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austinwalker.bsky.social
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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austinwalker.bsky.social
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
tonycomputerentertainment.com TONY GRAYSON 🗻 @tonycomputerentertainment.com · 19d
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
timidcryptid.bsky.social
Requested by crlegge.bsky.social and to be placed in an unusual location. Behold, a mood.

Pattern by @badstitch.bsky.social.
Cross stitch of the horse head emoji combined with the eyes emoji. It's in a simple black frame with a white mat on a wood-grain tabletop. The horse is stitched in shades of brown with a charcoal mane and cartoonishly large eyes on fabric dyed in shades of pink, purple, and blue. The horse is facing to the left and its eyes are looking down and to the left. It looks as though it's seen something it can't unsee.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social
Green River Levee Breach
Public Safety Alert 8m ago The following IPAWS message is being sent on behalf of King County. Due to a levee breach east of the Green River in Orillia area of Tukwila, Renton, and Kent please evacuate and GO NOW. Go north or south of evacuated area away from flooding waters. If you need emergency evacuation assistance, call 911. Updates are available at www.kcemergency.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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raypride.bsky.social
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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mossworm.bsky.social
worm
worm or snake like fantasy creature with multicolored quilt-like pattern on its body and a speech bubble that says "genAI sucks"
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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timidcryptid.bsky.social
A tiny painting to mark the day. 🍓✨ The years feel like forever and no time at all.⁣
A painting of a single strawberry candy on a 2"x2" canvas resting on a burgundy sweater. The candy is rendered simply in bright colors with minimal shading, metallic gold "seeds", and a thick white outline on a light purple background. (The image is faintly watermarked with the username @timidcryptid.)
November 30, 2025 at 6:17 AM
timidcryptid.bsky.social
A tiny painting to mark the day. 🍓✨ The years feel like forever and no time at all.⁣
A painting of a single strawberry candy on a 2"x2" canvas resting on a burgundy sweater. The candy is rendered simply in bright colors with minimal shading, metallic gold "seeds", and a thick white outline on a light purple background. (The image is faintly watermarked with the username @timidcryptid.)
November 30, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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queermedieval.bsky.social
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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theoperageek.com
*taps the sign*
theoperageek.com Kelli the Opera Geek @theoperageek.com · Nov 10
"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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verdantsculpts.bsky.social
Donate to your local food bank instead.
raynegrimm.bsky.social Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · Oct 20
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
A I age showing a typical collection bucket for the salvation army which is read with a lid holding mechanism on a tripod holder. There is a big stop/do not symbol over the hand depositing money with the words "we don't donate to the Bigot bucket" over the bottom bucket section
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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hauntedframes.bsky.social
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
timidcryptid.bsky.social
One of a few current WIPs. Just some leafy bits left to stitch, now! 🍂 Pattern by @badstitch.bsky.social
A cross stitch of a Steller's jay in various shades of blue perched on an oak branch that bears a few golden leaves and a pair of acorns. The Aida is ice dyed a neutral grey that looks sort of like an overcast sky.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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timidcryptid.bsky.social
Graffiti spotted last November in Port Townsend, WA.
Graffiti on the side of a dark green counter. In black marker, somebody has written "we will all make it!! i promise!!"
February 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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littleevil0ne.bsky.social
DO NOT PRESUME VICTORY
🗳🗳VOTE FOR IT!🗳🗳
November 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
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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crlegge.bsky.social
Folklore - The Norns

#photography #art #abstractart #Folklore #mythology #crleggeart #FolkoreFebruary
A pair of worn but nimble hands hold a single sparkling blue thread.
October 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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alaskanime.bsky.social
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