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Chilari
@chilari.bsky.social
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She/her. Autistic. British. Writer, pixel artist, crocheter, cross stitcher, none of it professionally. Wife and mother. Trans rights are human rights. Support me at https://ko-fi.com/chilari or https://www.patreon.com/Chilari
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My local park a few weeks ago. It was such a lovely early autumn day I just had to get some photos. Most of them had my baby in them but this is a photo without, as we don't post photos of her online. She loves going there, especially the swings.
A hexagonal bandstand in the middle of a park. The sky is a gorgeous blue and the leaves on the trees are mostly green but just starting to show signs of turning. There are red, white and pink flowers in the flower beds. The grass looks recently mown.
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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I am now selling cross stitch kits! Available for £6 at Shelley's Creations in The Mall, Oakengates. Gonna get the digital pattern onto my kofi page soon too.
Photo of several cross stitch kits in a pink tray on a wooden counter. The design has a jolly round Santa face. Photo of the jolly round Santa cross stitch in a display hoop leaning against a pink box with the word "Christmas" written on it The same Santa cross stitch on a wooden surface, propped up on an embroidery hoop, with a needle on a magnetic needle minder next to it.
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Amazing flower! So beautiful. I tried pixel art of them a couple years back.
Pixel art of a snake's head fritillary in pastel tones.
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.
Patrick Stewart as Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek, as Dixon Hill in a holonovel.
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Not my pet but one a met a couple years ago at a writing retreat.
A white and tabby cat looks in through a window. In another pane, a sheet of paper is stuck to the glass showing a photo of the same cat with the following message below: This is Ted. Ted is nice. We do not want Ted in the house. Ted wants to come in the house. Please do not let Ted in the house. He gets fed, we promise.
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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After a few audio issues at the start, we had a good stream today. I've caught up with #Septembit. A few bits in today's art I feel could be improved, but I'll have to revisit them another time. I did at least fix the car from a previous attempt. #PixelArt
Pixel art showing the Septembit 2025 template with the theme "mini city", with the first 16 slots filled in. Today I worked on 10 through 16 as follows 10 - path. A stone paving path. 11 - food stall - a little market stall with a striped awning 12 - construction - a digger, with a pile of dirt, two barrels and a wheelbarrow next to it 13 - fire hydrant - a traditional hydrant with a rounded top 14 - restaurant - a wood-framed building with a flat-roofed extension with giant windows. An unreadable italic-style sign is on top of the extension and an A board is outside. 15 - cash machine - a boxy machine with a screen, buttons and slots 16 - statue - a tiny recreation of one of my favourite pieces of art I've done: the Glasgow equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, complete with traffic cones on the heads of both duke and horse.
September 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I love the shell. And your shark is great, but personally I prefer mine (made for Septembit 2020)
Black and white pixel art showing a white horizontal line with a three pixel high triangle, like the fin of a shark, above it, all on a black background.
September 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Continuing to work on #Septembit. I've added car, rail track, tree and shop to catch up to today. What do you think? What's your favourite so far? It's really tough getting things looking like what they are at this scale with just 2 colours. #PixelArt #Septembit2025 #MiniCity
The Septembit 2025 template with the first 9 prompts filled in: character, traffic cone, road, factory, sign, car, rail track, tree and shop. The palette evokes a blueprint, using mid blue and off-white. The shop has a peaked tiles roof, a little striped awning, and a sign hanging front the left wall.
September 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I've caught up with #Septembit but not done individual display cards for each one. #PixelArt #Septembit2025
Pixel art showing the Septembit 2025 template for the theme "mini city". The first five slots are filled out: character, traffic cone, road, factory, sign. The original palette for the challenge, blueprint blue and blueish off-white, is used.
September 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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#Septembit2025 has begun! Here's my entry for day 1: Character. #PixelArt #Septembit
Pixel art showing four angles on a little 1bit character at 16 pixels tall. She has a little cap and a ponytail. Above her are written "Septembit 2025: Mini City" and "1. Character". Below her is my bsky username.
September 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Wanna draw Marsha P Johnson on wplace? I've made a design! It's 32x48 pixels (1536 total, 12 hours 48 minutes' worth without buying top-ups) so it's not a multi-day project. Have at it! #pixelart #wplace #lgbtqi #lgbt #trans
Pixel art of Marsha P Johnson, a black trans woman who was one of the leading figures in Stonewall and fought for LGBT+ rights in the 1960s through to her death in 1992.
August 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Finished my #SlayTheSpire Strike cards on wplace! Might change the outline of the Defect's card to a slightly darker blue, but other than that, done! What do you reckon, @megacrit.com how have I done? #PixelArt
Pixel art on wplace of the four Strike cards for the four playable characters in Slay The Spire. They are staggered as they go right to avoid someone else's artwork above, the corner and some of the outline of which are visible. The background is the light blue that online maps use for the sea. The blue of the Defect's card outline is therefore a little hard to make out well.
August 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Pixel art of a xiphos sword using the Septembit 2021 palette: white, hot pink, and muted dark purple
August 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Browsing Rightmove (as you do) I came across this amazing listing. A "character property" in a "sought-after location" for £400k www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1... I recall seeing the listing a few months ago as well, so perhaps the sellers might consider a lower asking price? I'd give them £4.
Photo of a large brick house in a field. There is no glass in the windows, a plant is growing out of one of them, the roof is missing some tiles,, and the whole thing is utterly surrounded by a bed of nettles larger than the footprint of the house. Photo of the other side of the same brick house. There is a large hole in the roof and plants sprouting from the whole right side of it. The chimney is damaged. The one window has no glass; the doorway is empty, devoid of door. Nettles stand waist-high around the house, blocking the doorway. Beyond the field it stands in are trees as far as the horizon, and the railing of a narrow bridge over a brook or dip in the land.
August 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Progress on my Slay the Spire Strike cards on wplace. Three down, one in progress! Changed the colours on the yellow motion section on the Silent's card to make the palette colder. Not 100% on the Defect card's outline, might make it a slightly darker blue.
August 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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No new pictures, where are you at mentally?
Photo of a mourning dove, hunkered down with slightly fluffy feathers, against a garden backdrop. (Actually a screenshot from CaliforniaBirbs on twitch)
August 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Progress on my #SlayTheSpire strike cards in the Salish Sea. Had to slightly offset them as someone is working on a large canvass where that black L is. What do you think @megacrit.com?
Pixel art on wplace showing the Ironclad and Silent strike cards from Slay the Spire. The Silent's card is unfinished. The corners for the Defect and Watcher cards are marked out. At the top of the image in the middle is a thick black L shape, marking the corner of another person's planned artwork. The background is the blue of the sea.
August 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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My Slay the Spire strike card fanart. Just started drawing the Ironclad one on wplace. Can you find it? Hint: it's not that far from Seattle. cc @megacrit.com #pixelart
Pixel art of the Ironclad's strike card. It has a red outline and the picture is of a sword swinging towards the viewer. Pixel art of the Silent's strike card. It has a green outline and the picture is of a wavy-edged dagger striking towards the bottom left. Pixel art of the Defect's strike card. It has a blue outline and the picture is of a golden metal elbow impacting a surface Pixel art of the Watcher's strike card. It has a purple outline and the picture is of the head of a golden staff swinging down and towards the right.
August 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Finished a couple more pieces of pixel art on wplace. Herodotus of Halicarnassus at Halcarnassus (modern day Bodrum, Turkiye), and the statue of the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow, on the M74 south of Glasgow. #pixelart
Pixel art of a bust of Herodotus on wplace. Pixel art of a statue of the Duke of Wellington on wplace.
August 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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It is done! (I am not doing the base) #wplace #pixelart
The Winged Victory of Samothrace depicted in pixel art on wplace, on the island of Samothrace A slightly more zoomed out view of the previous picture, showing more of the coastline, some of the other art in the vicinity, and the location of the town of Samothraki (Chora). The location the statue was found at is just north of the statue, above the neck and to the right of the foreshortened right wing (left from our view)
August 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Some things I've drawn on wplace (all my own designs) Celeste, a chicken, the Winged Victory of Samothrace #pixelart
Pixel art on wplace of Celeste from Animal Crossing, against a background with stars and a crescent moon. The artwork uses dark purple, red and light yellow. Other pixel artworks are around it. Pixel art on wplace of a chicken, and the words "BEHOLD! a woman" next to her. Other users have drawn various hearts in trans flag colours and other art nearby; someone else drew an egg next to the chicken. Someone wrote "she's beautiful" next to her. Pixel art of the Winged Victory of Samothrace on wplace. The lower legs remain to be completed.
August 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I've made some good progress on my Winged Victory of Samothrace on the Island of Samothrace on wplace! #pixelart
Pixel art on wplace (where users from around the world draw in pixels on a map of the world) depicting the Winged Victory of Samothrace. One and a half legs remain to be completed. The palette uses wplace colours dark indigo, blue, beige and light yellow. A winding yellow road is visible running from the top of the screen to the bottom, with sections hidden by the bust and leg of the statue. Someone has drawn a yellow cross nearby; on the coast on the top left of the picture, someone has drawn a black crenellated wall. Pixel art of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, my original art on which the previous image is based. It used my Indigo Peach palette, which is a little darker than the wplace palette: indigo, blue, peach and light yellow.
August 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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I've got 534 max charge capacity on wplace now. Hours and hours worth of pixels (for those who don't know, you get 1 pixel every 30 seconds). Once I finish drawing my late beloved cat, I'm finally going to do the Big Project: The Winged Victory of Samothrace on the island of Samothrace! #pixelart
Pixel art of an ancient Greek statue, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, in indigo, blue, peach and light yellow.
August 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Like many pixel artists, I have made my mark on wplace... only for it to go down and leave me suffering from withdrawal. I've made such plans! I'm drawing Celeste from Animal Crossing! I've drawn some Eefos! I wanted to draw recreate my Winged Victory of Samothrace on Samothrace! #pixelart #wplace
Pixel art depicting the Winged Victory of Samothrace, an ancient Greek statue of the goddess Nike, missing its head and arms. Google satellite view of the island of Samothrace / Samothraki in Greece, with a red pin icon marking the location of the sanctuary where the Winged Victory of Samothrace was erected.
August 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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@basiclychris.bsky.social spotted these in Dunelm Mill and thought of you
A photo of star wars themed lamps in a shop. From left to right: Darth Vader's helmet, C3PO's head, and an all silver R2D2. They each cost £30.
August 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM