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@bigoldeels.bsky.social
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stupid biped | watercolor artist | transmasc | neil the frog collector | 🔞 please | he/they |
rowanfridley@gmail.com | https://linktr.ee/bigoldeels
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woaaaah you could purchase any number of little paintings from me
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November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
oooh ahhh please buy my shit cause i've been working 9-6 every day and am not getting paid till at least next week 🌞
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November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
oh wow you could purchase minicomics and zines from me
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November 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
we shouldn't have stayed at this shithole
watercolor illustration of a trashed motel room viewed at a slanted angle from between the two beds. the green carpet is strewn with clothes, shoes, pillows, broken mugs and lamps, etc. there are wood-paneled walls with a red door leading to the bathroom, where the light it on. visible through the half-open door is a mass of flesh and organs hovering above the sink. there is a painting of a red barn on the wall.
November 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
deep sea merthing
watercolor illustration. a creature with a human torso and a fish's tail swims in deep water. there is a suggestion of ruffle-like fins at its hips. it has a wide, gaping mouth and large blank eyes. the end of its tail recedes into shadows.
November 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
fisherman's curse
watercolor illustration. a central figure with a human torso grows and twists in all directions into a writhing mass of sea creature parts, including organs, fins, beaks, scales, barnacles, tentacles, and fleshy membranes. it has one remaining discernible hand and foot and its neck terminates into a lamprey-like head with small legs and tentacles coming out of the top.
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
it's all gone now.
watercolor illustration of a moldy peach half with a squashed green junebug below it and a squashed cicada above.
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
pls buy my stuff won't start getting paychecks until next week
November 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
ah ee look at all this cool stuff
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November 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
cos tomb
November 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
halloween sale
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October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
had a month with a bunch of events where I sunk a bunch of time into making things that didn't sell lol does anyone want these
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October 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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hallow
October 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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oooh wow I finally got a job but that also means I will be busy and not getting paid for a week or two! buy my art pls!
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October 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
ah man just trying to focus on this part I guess
“We need to do something to throw corals a lifeline,” Cunning told me. “We can’t just stop and say, ‘Oh, the federal government isn’t doing what we’d like to see happen on this front, so we’re just going to give up.’ We can’t stop. We have to keep trying.”
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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since it is halloween you can get this month's postcard as well as last october's without joining my postcard club! what a steal! (you can also join my postcard club tho and get one every month)
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October 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
shop update
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October 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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hey if u were at SLICE I’ll send u a free zine because my sickly ass sleeps thru the zine swap every year just message me pls
October 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
(5/5) ty for reading :)
the narrator kisses a bloody skull and embraces a ribcage, whose fleshless neck turns into Mary's face. her hair turns into the ocean's waves. "But Mary, you are with me now//all around me," Mary's apparition appears in the sea now, tenderly holding the narrator. "in the waves." the sun rises over the sea and the empty hide raft. "Yes Mary//you are in the waves." bonus image, a loose illustration of a breaking wave.
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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(4/5)
the raft tosses on a wild sea the captain stands silhouetted on the edge of the raft, blocks of screaming eyes and mouths still trailing off his face. the sky and sea are green. the narrator's handwriting in the captions is becoming sloppier. "But how the sea did spin us//How the waves did roar//the captain jumped into the storm" the trailing blocks disappear into the water. "Then we were but four." a variety of organs and pieces of meat. four matchsticks broken on the ends. "One by one//we chose our straws," the narrator kneels on the raft, licking his fingers weakly, bloody bones strewn about. he is bedraggled and sunburned. "Till only I remained."
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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(3/5)
a small antelope (looks like a dik-dik) looks curiously up at a gentle human hand. its body roasts over a fire. a pair of hands pull apart intestines. "I killed a tiny antelope//Not scared by my approach//We turned it over dying flames//As we huddled in the glow." the narrator gnaws on a piece of meat. the translucent apparition of Mary leans on his shoulder. behind him, the shadowed faces of his crewmates twist and distort in the firelight as they chew on red meat. only their white teeth are clearly visible. "Yes, Mary//We huddled in the glow." five men, including the narrator, push a ramshackle skin-and-bone raft off from the beach as stones fly at them from off-page. the craft is mostly made of stitched hide and lashed-together bones, though the mast and its supports are made of long thin branches. "We built a raft from skin and bone//Only five could safely float//The others stood upon the shore," the shadowy figures of the rest of the crew hurl stones from shore; again their teeth are the only clear feature. the narrator ducks and covers his face as stones strike him and pass through Mary's translucent apparition. "They screamed and threw sharp stones//Yes, Mary//they threw the sharpest stones."
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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(2/5)
a treeline is on fire. a group of men stand on a cliff overlooking a dark purple sea. "After the airship crashed//after we lost the compass//after the radio went dead," a horse is skinned and butchered. men walk through waist-high green water. the narrator of our story kneels in a cave, holding a skull missing its lower jaw in his hands. "We shot and ate the horses//We marched through deadly swamps//Inside a limestone cave//"I found a human skull." the narrator sits and writes a letter to a far-away woman who appears ghostlike behind him, resting her hands on his shoulders. both wear loosely 19th-century clothing. the narrator has lank, chin-length strawberry blond hair and wears a brown jacket, grey trousers, and a dirty white shirt with a loose blue tie. "Yes Mary//I found a human skull." a bearded man screams, his features largely obscured by many overlapping squares that stream away from his face, each containing an image of his screaming mouth or wild eyes. he is tied to a small tree overlooking the water. the bottom of the page is consumed by flame-orange and yellow. "The captain caught a fever//We tied him to a tree//We stared into the fire//And tried not to hear his screams.
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
After We Shot the Grizzly
I illustrated one of my favorite songs by The Handsome Family! (1/5)
title page. watercolor illustration of a zeppelin bursting into flame and crashing into a pine-forested island. reads "AFTER WE SHOT THE GRIZZLY//A SONG BY THE HANDSOME FAMILY//ILLUSTRATED BY ROWAN FRIDLEY" "after we shot the grizzly" is a song by the handsome family from their 2006 album last days of wonder. all credit for lyrics and music to rennie and brett sparks. a dead grizzly bear lies in lush greenery. captions begin on this page, written in cursive. "After we shot the grizzly"
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
bigoldeels.bsky.social
come to slice today and buy my handsome family fan comic pls
October 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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PLEASE COME SEE ME AT SLICE BOOTH 65A TOMORROW I WILL HAVE COOL COMICS AND STUFF YIPPEE
October 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM