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calmakesart.bsky.social
Cal
@calmakesart.bsky.social
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Artist who likes birds. (they/them) I stream on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/calmakesart and have an online store at calmakesart.com
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If you see this post your bird art!
Gouache painting of a Tufted Titmouse perched on a branch with colorful fall foliage. It is a small gray and white bird with a wash of warm cream-orange under its wing. It has a pointed crest and small beak. It's eyes are large and shining. Photo of a holographic sticker of digital art of an female American Goldfinch and thistles. Digital art of a female Grebe. It is painted softly with the water in light gray-green and gray-blues. The water blends with the sky. Gouache painting of a Palestine Sunbird. It is drinking from a flower and has shiny iridescent blues, greens, and purple feathers. Free Palestine!
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I haven't really been super active, but *tapes this to timeline and runs off*
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I mounted this painting and added a little encaustic to it. The glossy effect is nice but hard to capture haha
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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A little gouache painting with two of my favorite things: autumn and a tuftie. #traditionalart #painting #gouache #natureart #birdart
A gouache painting of a Tufted Titmouse perched on a branch surrounded by colorful fall foliage. The bird is small, has a pointed tuft on the top of it's head. It's feathers are tones of gray and a warm orange-brown wash under its wings. It's eyes are big and shining. The beak is tiny and cute. A large bright red leaf is behind it.
October 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Critter report! #invertefest #invertebrate #bee #caterpillar
A caterpillar with very fluffy white fur and long black strands that look like antenna along it's back. A small bee with a gem line green color. It rests on a Black-Eyed Susan flower. A dark, almost wasp looking bee, foraging on goldenrod.
August 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Hummingbird Clearwing Moth timeline cleanse
July 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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You know what’s not awful? Bugs and flowers.
Photo of a large orange butterfly with white and black markings. It sits on a purple coneflower. Photo of my backyard meadow with blooming Bergamot and Black Eyed-Susans. You can spot a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth fluttering. Close up of a pale purple Bergamot flower with a small dark brown Skipper clinging to it. Another photo of a Bergamot flower, this time with a large fuzzy bumblebee. These are popular flowers!
July 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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And some flowers!
A yellow waterlily on the surface of calm green-blue water. The flower is round and cupped. A colony of yellow irises. A creek with a single purple Iris.
June 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Some birds I saw kayaking while vacationing. It wasn't easy to kayak and take photos with camera at the same time lol - I had it covered in a plastic ziplock to protect it.
A Great Blue Heron standing with legs stick straight, head looking forward to the left. It is standing on a small mound of dirt in the water of the creek. A Belted Kingfisher at the top of a tree snag against an unclouded periwinkle sky. A grackle on a tree snag, looking upwards with one wing outstretched. Also against a cloudless periwinkle sky.
June 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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no idea lmao! remember these? 10 percent juice! wow!
ad with coupon for Squeezit drinks. Plastic bottles of highly artificially dyed juice that brags about having 10% fruit juice. The bottles have silly faces with goofy expressions.
May 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Oh - one more thing actually! Our beautiful logo was designed by @twinksatan.gay!!!
The VTuber Pride PaRaid logo designed by Mephisto. The letters are white with a rainbow echo of the letters evocative of summer fun.
April 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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This year we’ll be raising money for the Rainbow Railroad. “In countries around the world, LGBTQI+ people face violence and oppression simply because of who they love or who they are. We help them get to safety.”
April 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Each stream is restricted to 1-2 hours depending on availability, scope, and need. Each streamer is encouraged to fill their timeslot with content celebrating their identity or the larger community as a whole! This could be playing a meaningful game with queer themes, singing karaoke comprised of songs that helped you through the ordeal of coming into your own identity, informational seminars on any number of topics relating to lgbtqia+ topics, or really anything as long as it is on theme!
April 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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From Arly:
HELLO(pal) VTUBERS! It is once again that time of year again, time to plan for the 2025 edition of the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED and HIDDEN GEM: SMALL VTUBER NOMINATED event, The Vtuber Pride PaRaid! This multi-day, many streamer event is all about getting eyes on lgbtqia+ vtubers and raising money for a good cause! How does it work? The Vtuber Pride PaRaid is essentially a baton pass event where each stream raids into another on a set ‘paraid path’, as if a parade were really traveling stream to stream accumulating viewers and participants along the way!
April 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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It's time to start planning for the annual VTuber Pride PaRaid organized by the one and only
@arlydarkfire.bsky.social! Info in this thread 🧵
The VTuber Pride PaRaid logo - the letters are white with a rainbow of the same letters below them, giving them depth.
April 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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From Arly:
HELLO(pal) VTUBERS! It is once again that time of year again, time to plan for the 2025 edition of the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED and HIDDEN GEM: SMALL VTUBER NOMINATED event, The Vtuber Pride PaRaid! This multi-day, many streamer event is all about getting eyes on lgbtqia+ vtubers and raising money for a good cause! How does it work? The Vtuber Pride PaRaid is essentially a baton pass event where each stream raids into another on a set ‘paraid path’, as if a parade were really traveling stream to stream accumulating viewers and participants along the way! Each stream is restricted to 1-2 hours depending on availability, scope, and need. Each streamer is encouraged to fill their timeslot with content celebrating their identity or the larger community as a whole! This could be playing a meaningful game with queer themes, singing karaoke comprised of songs that helped you through the ordeal of coming into your own identity, informational seminars on any number of topics relating to lgbtqia+ topics, or really anything as long as it is on theme! This year we’ll be raising money for the Rainbow Railroad. “In countries around the world, LGBTQI+ people face violence and oppression simply because of who they love or who they are. We help them get to safety.”
April 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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I feel attacked rn
Screenshot from online personality quiz results showing a bunch of characters that are iconic for being very autistic coded including Coop from Twin Peaks, N from Pokemon, and Mob from Mob Psycho 100, and Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The text below reads "Your Result: undiagnosed autism - this is pretty self-explanatory. i know what you are etc etc"
March 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Thank you, and here’s the favor returned.
Photo of my tabby cat sleeping on comfy blankets.
March 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Thank you Rustam!
Photo of a Trillium flower from the U.S. Forest service website at https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/beauty/trilliums/about.shtml. It is a white flower with three large petals and three smaller green ones underneath those. It has three very large broad leaves and a tall slender stem.
March 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The supreme court right now
Screenshot from On Cinema At the Cinema of Time Heidecker drinking from a plastic gallon jug filled with suspicious brown liquid. There is a text splash on the bottom reading: Hei Ranch Update! Miracle water discovered on Hei Ranch rich in many life c hanging minerals.
March 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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How's your Monday morning? Here's two identical pictures of a cinnamon roll.
Photo of my tabby cat Lina curled up in a blanket nest. Her tail is wrapped around her, making a perfect oval shape. iStock image (has a watermark crediting Kathy Dewar) of a cinnamon roll, very much the same shape as Lina in the previous image.
March 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Here’s today’s #gentlecomicshabit.
Sketchbook page. Top reads “GCH Day 14, 2/12/15” in a banner. Comic is drawn with blue pencil then inked over with black. The first drawing is a massive round wave, with me gesturing in alarm. Text reads “It feels like so many marginalized people have seen this tidal wave coming for so long.” Middle of the page has text on the left that reads “Warning everyone who could prepare and mitigate damage. To deaf ears.” To the right of the text is a drawing of me looking angry, holding my phone that shows I’m typing “Dear Rep X…” while watching a figure on the tv say “Rep X says we have no majority to do anything…”. The bottom shows me floating in water, bubbles floating up from my mouth. The text says “Now the tidal wave is here. And we’re on our own not to drown.”
February 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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I have been doing my daily #gentlecomicshabit (besides a couple of days I forgot). Some are too personal to share but here’s a handful.
Pencil comic. Top reads “A Gentle Comic Habit, Day 5, 1/30/25”. First drawing is a portrait of myself, looking a bit uneasy, with the text “Tomorrow is my birthday. Until recently I’ve been dreading it.” Another portrait, where I look kind of defeated and thoughtful. Text reads “because it feels like any chance to do things I want is past.” A thought bubble comes from my head that reads “What do I have to show for my 39 years?” Text continues “But! My friends wanted to spend time with me and raise money for the PCRF. And now my heart is full.” The comic ends with me smiling and holding a heart close to my chest. Sketchbook page. Top reads “GCH Day 12, 2/10/25”, written in black ink. The rest is drawn in light blue pencil. Comic starts with a drawing of myself walking outside in a big coat, with scarf and mask. Text reads “I went to the corner store today.” Panel next to it is a close up up of my face. Text reads “A like always, I’m the only one wearing a mask“. The panel branch is shows me looking down and sighing. Sketchbook page. Top reads “GCH Day 12, 2/10/25”, written in black ink. The rest is drawn in light blue pencil. Comic starts with a drawing of myself crouched under the weight of boxes, struggling. The boxes are labeled work, health, creative projects, friendships, and rest. A panel on the right shows me carrying one box, saying to myself “Hey, one thing at a time, okay?”. A panel under it shows me leaning against the boxes, neatly stacked. I say, “Phew, that was easier!”
February 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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icon vs artist
Digital illustration of a smiling cartoon character with fluffy purple-gray hair and long goat-like ears. Photo of myself. I’m wearing a green shirt with a logo of a trans man with the text “Queer by design”. I have brown eyes and my hair is a short curly dark brown mop with green ends.
February 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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This moment from Pokémon Legends: Arceus was really funny
February 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM