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@aliensunset.bsky.social
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40s, Queer, Vegetarian, Spouse, Parent, Knitter, Nature Lover, Runner, Avid Reader, TTRP Gamer, Pen and Ink Illustrator, Minecrafter, Botmaker, Snail Mail Enthusiast, Tarot Reader, Future Crazy Cat Person || they/them

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Beep Boop: Alien hates doing #selfPromo so made a bot to do it instead!

I have tons of stuff available in my Ko-fi shop, including #knitting patterns, #crossStitch patterns and more!
https://ko-fi.com/alien_sunset/shop

check out https://alien-sunset.neocities.org for all the cool things I do!
a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a creature with two heads, wings and two legs with paws, one head is situated at the end of a long tail that is forming a spiraling circle up and over the main body, the ’main’ Head is biting the tail as it circles near it and the second head is looking at it in shock/outrage/despair a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a creature with a bunny's head, upraised birds wings and forked lizards tail
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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One page down, 4(ish) to go!

#crossStitch #cats
A partially completed cross stitch project on cream aida gridded with orange marker. It is several small cats in various poses and coat colors interspersed with small flowers and greenery
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Shroom!

#mushroom #art #mastoArt #penAndInk
A pen and ink stippled illustration of an amanita mushroom
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Boop Beep: the bot says it's #selfPromo time!

Fancy a cuppa?
I got bunches of cool mugs with art on em over on Zazzle, check em out!
https://www.zazzle.com/collections/fancy_a_cuppa-119371660190181052

check out https://alien-sunset.neocities.org for all the cool things I do!
product image of a deck of playing cards the backs of the cards are of a pile of multi colored, multi sided dice. product image of a mug with a photograph of a bright blue sky scattered with fluffy white clouds, The inside and rim of the mug have been glazed in light blue to match the sky.
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Boop Beep: the bot says it's #selfPromo time!

Did you know that I have a Zazzle Storefront where you can buy my art on cards, stickers, mugs, & more?
https://www.zazzle.com/store/alien_sunset_art

you can find more ways to support me at https://alien-sunset.neocities.org
product image of a custom cut sticker on the empty space in the corner under a laptop keyboard, the sticker is of a pen and ink drawing of a very disapproving chicken wearing a bonnet. product image of a mug covered with a geometric design made up of horizontal and vertical dashed lines when the various shapes have been colored in with red and green.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Starting a new big #crossStitch project!

Cat Garden by UnaBuenaPieza

www.etsy.com/listing/1717...
Photo of a just begun cross stitch project on cream aida. The fabric marked in a grid with orange and red marker. There are four small cross stitch carts and a few scattered floral details stitched in,
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Beep Boop: Alien hates doing #selfPromo so made a bot to do it instead!

I have tons of stuff available in my Ko-fi shop, including #knitting patterns, #crossStitch patterns and more!
https://ko-fi.com/alien_sunset/shop

check out https://alien-sunset.neocities.org for all the cool things I do!
a black and white line drawing of a screaming Opossum holding a progress pride flag with its tail. a cross stitched bookmark laid out on top of an open book. the pattern is of a small bat, cat, spider and spider webs above and below the back stitched script words "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Beep Boop: Alien hates doing #selfPromo so made a bot to do it instead!

Like looking at my art but want it on something physical too?
Good news! I have a Zazzle storefront!
https://www.zazzle.com/store/alien_sunset_art

check out https://alien-sunset.neocities.org for all the cool things I do!
product image of a custom cut sticker on the empty space in the corner under a laptop keyboard, the sticker is of a pen and ink drawing of a King Charles spaniel weaning a large hat with a very large and fluffy feather. product image of a round pinback button with a pink-yellow-blue flower like mandala.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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market research:

block printed bookmarks, some with watercolor backgrounds., others on card stock.

tassel? (likely brown hemp/jute twine) yes/no?

laminated? (using 3M sticky laminating sheets, I do not own a laminator) yes/no?

#blockPrint #linoCut #alienBlockPrints #marketResearch #bookmarks
several block printed bookmarks laid out on a blue cutting mat. five on watercolor backgrounds, four on parchment patterned card stock. the block print is of a long wyvern like creature with feathery wings a corkscrew tail, and a beak like mouth with curls hanging out of it like it's eating something.
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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new medieval marginalia creature block print cards up on Ko-fi!

Book Bunny: ko-fi.com/s/cf7da99902

Bird Critter: ko-fi.com/s/1996abf9bb

Stork Creature: ko-fi.com/s/3e649cd81d

Devil Creature: ko-fi.com/s/946d7936e4

#alienBlockPrints #linoCut #BlockPrint #linoPrint
a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a small lizard creature with leathery wings and a devils face a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a tall stork like creature with a lizards tail with one leg lifted as if to grab something a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a long legged bird like creature with a curling tail and very long beak a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a bunny reading a book
November 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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In honor of the upcoming #minecraft update, I was inspired to draw a nautilus!
😄🦑(there’s no nautilus emoji! 🙁)

#drawing #art #penAndInk #nautilus
Photo of a white price of paper with a black and white pen and ink stippled illustration of a nautilus with a stripey shell. The paper is laying on a blue cutting mat with a sharpie pen laying across an upper corner of the paper
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Hello and welcome to November!

time for the October StoryGraph wrap up!

got sucked into some great series's (serieses?) this month so not quite as much variety as usual.

#books #reading #audioBooks #storygraph
a storyGraph book cover collage for @alien_sunset for the month of october 2025 there are a lot of books - 32 to be exact. sadly, too many to fit all the titles/authors into the alt text. (if you can't read the graphic and really want to know, send me a message and I'll type it up for you, but it WILL take multiple messages.) StoryGraph October 2025 wrap up graphic read 32 books 10,806 pages average rating of 5.0 average book length of 336 pages average time to finish: one day then a line graph marking number of pages read for each day of the month. it's very wiggly up and down. StoryGraph July october wrap up graphic 3 pie charts: chart one: all one color: fiction chart two: three colors, pages read: <300 = 44%, 300-499 = 53%, 500+ = 3% chart three: all one color, format: audio a bar chart of genres: Fantasy: 27 books Mystery: 15 books Historical: 6 books LGBTQA+: 6 books Crime: 3 books
November 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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New #crossStitch FO!
This was a lot of fun, just waiting for the proper sized hoop to arrive so i can hang it up.

Pattern was an insta buy from CozyDH as soon as i saw it:
ko-fi.com/s/6676734a0f
A finished cross stitch piece on cream colored aida: its a circular grouping of yellow, orange and red leaves, acorns, and red mushrooms with white spots
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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new medieval marginalia creature cards up on my ko-fi shop!!

Double Creature: ko-fi.com/s/e5af3420f6
Dragon: ko-fi.com/s/f68d2fc33a
Bunny Critter: ko-fi.com/s/49579eb3fb
Flying Critter: ko-fi.com/s/444bdf707c

#alienBlockPrints #medieval #marginalia #linoCut #linoPrint #blockPrint #art
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a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a creature with two heads, wings and two legs with paws, one head is situated at the end of a long tail that is forming a spiraling circle up and over the main body, the ’main’ Head is biting the tail as it circles near it and the second head is looking at it in shock/outrage/despair a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a a dragon standing it’s own tail like a platform spouting fire straight up with unfurled feathery wings a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a creature with a bunny's head, upraised birds wings and forked lizards tail a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a flying snake like creature with feathery wings, a large leaf like structure at the end of their tail and a round furry head and sharp teeth.
October 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Some more weird little guys i finally got around to printing up last night.

I now have a huge backlog of cards to package up and list in my shop 😅

#blockPrint #linoCut #linoPrint #alienBlockPrints #medieval #marginalia
Eight sheets of white paper with black block prints on them, they are: a bunny reading, a filigree wyvern, a grumpy looking wyvern lik creture forming a circle with its head/neck and tail, a horned, fancy and stuck up looking wyvern with a long curled tail, a happy smiling wyvern like creature looking over its shoulder, an offended looking wyvern with wings extended and and flames coming from its mouth with a a second smaller and astonished head on its tail, an oroboros made of two wyverns biting each others tails, one black and one white, and a small, dainty, and concerned looking wyvern with feathery wings and a curled tail flying with one paw extended as if to pat someone on the shoulder
October 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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a while back i said that medieval monks/artists were WEIRD and i'm not sure you really understood what i'm saying....

I mean.. just...
what!?!

Ormsby Psalter, Bodleian Library MS. Douce 366, f72r

a crop of some marginalia from a medieval manuscrip: at the bottom a person in pink robes and green leggings with curly hair is holding a long horn upwards while blowing into it. the horn's bell is pointed at the but of a creature with naked human legs and butt, transitioning directly into a long neck with a dog like head which is turned around to look at the horn, while apparently laughing. the creature also has a long thin green tail that ends in a hand which is curled around to point at it's butt/the horn.
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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haven’t been able to pull out the printing supplies, but can’t stop carving & have ended up with a bit of a backlog…

(Let’s not mention the drawings I still have to transfer, or the manuscripts bookmarked at the digital collections from the Bodlian, Morgan & British libraries)

#alienBlockPrints
A blue cutting mat with nine small/medium sized Lino cuts laid out on it, they all appear to be medieval dragons (actually wyverns) or similar creatures inspired by manuscript maginalia
October 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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medieval marginalia creatures hand block printed greeting cards!

available at my Ko-fi!

LeafPup Creature: ko-fi.com/s/964051cc10
UniCreature: ko-fi.com/s/5be4250ff2
Flower Creature: ko-fi.com/s/cb2325c4ee
MerBunny: ko-fi.com/s/eaef023737

#alienBlockPrints #linoCut #BlockPrint #linoPrint
a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchent pattered card. each card has a yellow parchemnt strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a small lizard like creature with two furry legs, a long split tail with leaved at the end, and a dog's head carrying a ball in it's mouth a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchent pattered card. each card has a yellow parchemnt strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a tall two legged creature with a long tail, furry legs and a horses head and unicorn horn a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchent pattered card. each card has a yellow parchemnt strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a small creature with two paws, a rooster's tail, small wings and a face like a smug bulldog with a flower growing out of it's head a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchent pattered card. each card has a yellow parchemnt strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a swimming merbunny, - a bunny with a fish tail
October 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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moar medieval creature prints!!

i just finished carving another big batch of medieval creatures and wyverns, so i guess i should finally get around to posting the last batch.
some of these cards will be appearing in my ko-fi shop soon

#alienBlockPrints #linoCut #linpPrint #blockPrint #medieval
seven block printed cards on white card stock, and one 3/75x4 label laid out on a blue cutting mat. the card prints are of a merbunny, a small lizard creature with feathery wings and a devils face, a tall two legged creature with a long tail, furry legs and a horses head and unicorn horn, a small lizard like creature with two furry legs, a long split tail with leaved at the end, and a dog's head carrying a ball in it's mouth, a small creature with two pawa, a rooster's tail, small wings and a face like a smug bulldog with a flower growing out of it's head, a tall stork like creature with a lizards tail with one leg lifted as if to grab something, a small wyvern like creature with an arrow tongue, feathery wings standing on it's very long, split and curling tail tipped in filigree leaves, and the bookplate is of a small bunny reading an open manuscript with the words Ex Libris underneath.
October 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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When I’m stressed, I tend to hyper focus on something else to keep from freaking out.
Last night i made a shit ton of prints from some new blocks i cut over the last week.

Here’s a sneak peek until i can get the spoons to take good photos

#blockPrint #linoCut #linoPrint #alienBlockPrints #exLibris
An extreme angle photo of a label sheet of 3 1/4 x 4 labels showing a block print of a medieval marginalia bunny sitting and reading a book over the words “Ex Libris” on the labels
October 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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another new print I did the other day.

idea stolen from about 500 memes seen here and there

def think I'll be selling prints and/or cards with this on it at some point.

#blockPrint #linoCut #linoPrint #alienBlockPrints #cat #disobey
four block prints on white paper laid out messily on a blue cutting mat. the prints are of the top half of a black cat's head looking very grumpy and the word "DISOBEY" is block caps underneath.
October 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Yeaaaah
These are pretty awesome, i think the bunny creature is my favorite

#blockPrint #linoCut #linoPrint #alienBlockPrints #medieval #creatures
Six block print cards, three parchment patterned and three kraft, with three different prints on them, they are strange little critters inspired by medieval marginalia: a long legged bird like creature with a curling tail and very long beak. a creature with a bunny's head, upraised birds wings and forked lizards tail, and a flying snake like creature with feathery wings, a large leaf like structure at the end of their tail and a round furry head and sharp teeth.
October 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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far too excited about printing these tonight.
they were a ton of fun to sketch and carve, and I can't wait to see them all printed up!

#blockPrint #linoCut #linoPrint #alienBlockPrints #medieval #critters
three grey carved linoblocks laid out on a blue cutting mat. they are strange little critters inspired by medieval marginalia: a long legged bird like creature with a curling tail and very long beak. a creature with a bunny's head, upraised birds wings and forked lizards tail, and a flying snake like creature with feathery wings, a large leaf like structure at the end of their tail and a round furry head and sharp teeth.
October 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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New prints inspired by medieval marginalia,
The gold ink on black came out better than expected.
REALLY like how all of them turned out, they were super fun!

#blockPrints #linoCut #alienBlockPrints #dragon #marginalia
Six block print cards laid out under their carved blocks, two each of parchment pattern, kraft brown and black. there are two prints: one of a dragon standing it’s own tail like a platform spouting fire straight up with unfurled feathery wings and the other of a creature with two heads, wings and two legs with paws, one head is situated at the end of a long tail that is forming a spiralling circle up and over the main body, the ’main’ Head is biting the tail as it circles near it and the second head is looking at it in shock/outrage/dispair
October 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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new prints!

I have green ink now, so decided to make some leaves!

trying out a new carving medium, it's still rubber, but supposed to be closer to actual linoleum. was def. harder to carve than the speedy carve analogue I've been using, but it doesn't degrade at every wash like the pink stuff does
four cards laid out on a blue cutting mat with the corresponding grey carved blocks next to them. there are two of each print, one on brown kraft paper card stock and one on parchment patterned card stock. the images are of Monstera leaves, one in solid green, the other just the outline of the leaf.
October 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM