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cosmicapybara.bsky.social
Normal Capybara
@cosmicapybara.bsky.social
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Furry cosmic horror enthusiast. I'm something of a horror myself.

He/Him

Posts: 20 percent philosophy and politics, 30 percent cute, 50 percent horror (actual percentage may vary from day to day)

May be 18+ for art and politics.
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Got me a Quilt Moth from @passionpeachy.bsky.social and it is wonderful!
A pin featuring a cute moth critter with fluffy antennas wrapped in a quilt blanket.
October 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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If you see this, post a tower or structure.
A small tower I built in No Man's Sky to see the limits of building a complex structure in the game and test out some fun patterns!
August 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Recently found @starsalts.bsky.social on here and remembered I got a Nope pin from her! Amazing movie, and an amazing little piece of art to celebrate it!
A large metal pin, gold in color. Enamel on top of it creates an image of the creature from Nope unfolding into its majestic abgel shape. Below, a silver outline of a horse rises into a blue sky, pulled into the monster. Blood rain forms curtains around the horse, suggesting the classic alien abduction beam. Below, a shoe is perfectly balanced atop a banner that reads ‘a bad miracle’. The banner is tied to lines of colorful flags.
July 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Got my pins from @phasemoth.bsky.social ! Incredible things!
Pins shaped like strange, angelic insects. Some shine in a dark rainbow of colors. Others are gold. Pins shaped like strange, angelic insects. Some shine in a dark rainbow of colors. Others are gold. These two are celestial moths, their death’s heads crowned with stars and their wings numerous. Pins shaped like strange, angelic insects. Some shine in a dark rainbow of colors. Others are gold. These are a pair of scorpions with too many stingers and a pair of mantises with beautifully floral wings covered in eyes. Pins shaped like strange, angelic insects. Some shine in a dark rainbow of colors. Others are gold. This one is a beautiful beetle with huge jaws, crowned with the phases of the moon.
July 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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And finally a few fossils I think folks should see! Some corals, chunk of crinoids pressed together, and a couple of beautifully preserved shells.

Fo folks wanna see more of my rocks?
A small pile of fossil corals like many-cratered moons in a cartoon, some crinoids petrified together and frozen, and a couple of shells.
July 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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My agate slices. I believe these were originally coral?
A variety of agatized coral slices. Smooth, they shine with caramel and milk swirls.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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My ‘common’ rocks. Stuff I picked up across the middle of the US. Mostly petrified wood, with a few mysterious things I never bothered to identify.
An assortment of rocks lying on a scrap of dusty red fabric. Most are a dark brown with wood grain. A few are black and volcanic in origin, but I cannot say what they are.
July 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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I'd really like these two!
An upclose photograph of a rock with coral orange bands over its white surface. A brownish rock that reminds me of a steak.
July 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Who even remembers the Beatles? What did they ever do at all? It's all about the Beetles these days. Just look at the @wizentrop.bsky.social posts!

Obscure British bands < Cute Bugs

Or is it 'Obscure British bands <3 Cute Bugs' ? Either way, beetles better.
A tiny brownish pill scarab rolled up into a cute little ball, legs all tucked in. It's lying on some leaf litter. I stress that Gil Wizen is the BEST photographer, and if you like beetles, follow Gil Wizen!
March 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I think I might be doomed.
Frog and Toad from the cartoon Frog and Toad, sitting at a table. There is a bowl of cookies between them. Frog admires a freshly baked cookie while Toad looks on happily.
January 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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The Tariy evolved from tunneling herbivores who ventured to the surface, and they're horrible. A couple of centuries back, Amphisbenes taught them to be better neighbors, but they're still xenophobic weirdos with brain parasites and too much advanced tech.
Drawn by @cadmiumtea.bsky.social
An eight-limbed, vaguely weasel-like creature called the Tariy in various poses: one curled up, one reaching up, two moving/falling, and one sitting upright, balancing its full length. They have dark green eye-spots, and a circle of actual eyes around the tip of their whiskered snout. Instead of nostrils, they have slits at the very front of their snouths. They posses jaws meant for cutting, and several tongue-like appendages inside their orange-colored mouths--these appendages are for gripping, scraping, and pulping their food, sort of like teeth or a snail's radula. There is also a depiction of their claws, evolved for digging through soil and manipulating roots.
November 1, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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One of my Amphisbene aliens. They just discovered gardening and hats, thanks to their friends from Earth.

Some of the plants are ordinary earthly flora, like cacti and lithops. Others are predatory xenoflora from the Amphisbene home world.

Drawn by @cadmiumtea.bsky.social for me.
A six-limbed creature reminiscent of a striped tarantula with six eyes. The front-most limbs serve as mouths and ten-fingered hands. This is an amphisbene, an alien I designed. This one is wearing a large floppy hat and watering some plants they grew in bowls, pans, buckets, and a boot.
October 29, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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I was #1,116,333! Very cool!
A celebration of my being #1,116,333 on here!
September 16, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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@cadmiumtea.bsky.social made me another Amphisbene drawing! Some worldbuilding info in the ALT text!
A member of my original species, the amphisbenes, dancing while twirling a ceremonial camouflage cloak. Typically a dull green, mottled with the colors of native xeno-flora, the ceremonial version is a bright, fiery red. The amphisbene themself is daubed with red over their underside, and their clothing is made from layers of spiky furred hide and leather armor plating to show off their fat tail and powerful limbs. Jewelry, in the form of beaded chains woven over their six legs and two trunk-arms, symbolizes the paths spaceships take on their routes. Posed to strike at prey, their hand-beak open as if about to snatch something from the air, the amphisbene shows off their skill as a hunter and their power as a duelist. Fake (one hopes) hand-beaks hang just under their six eyes add to the effect. To a human, this sight would be utterly terrifying, since the typical amphisbene appears to be a six-legged spider the size of a grizzly bear.
September 4, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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I think they might be big fans, though. Nothing says you're a fan of Star Trek like having a uniform ready for an obscure character cosplay.
A couple of evil aliens, the Hirogen, dressed as Nazis.
August 4, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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What is your professional opinion of these two cats?
Photograph of a black cat with yellow eyes lying on his side atop a folding table, looking up at the camera. Next to him, in the same position, lies a white ferret with gray and black streaks down his back.
April 11, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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If you see this, post a monster? Okay, but Amphisbenes are technically not monsters. They're aliens the excellent artist @cadmiumtea.bsky.social helped illustrate for me in this reference sheet!
A large, roughly arachnid creature, the amphisbene has two large, flexible trunks that serve as arms, and their two mouths double as their hands. They possess six eyes, three to each sunken socket facing roughly forward. Their coloration is a mottled, swampy gray and black, somewhat resembling that of a newt or a giant gecko. Their feet, of which there are six, have fingers for climbing and specialized digging spurs, though because Amphisbenes are a tool-using people, those have atrophied considerably.
March 22, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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The pins from @bemusedbehemoth.bsky.social have arrived safely. Incredibly, shiny, glittering pins!
There are even stickers and postcards! And, the way these have been packed is gorgeous. I almost didn't wanna open those envelopes.
An image of several kobold-themed pins upon a table, complete with cute stickers and postcards.
February 13, 2024 at 5:37 AM
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That's just a normal Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
A still frame from the movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire, featuring Mole, the eccentric excavations expert looking very excited.
December 20, 2023 at 11:48 PM
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Last one from New York. I love walking around in the forest, even though my sense of direction is nonexistent on a good day.
A tiny, yellow-capped mushroom grows out among pine needles. An equally tiny green plant clings to the fungus.
October 15, 2023 at 8:08 PM
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Another New York hikes mushroom. Just one little guy hanging out on a tree trunk.
A close-up of a tree trunk, showing an expanse of bark with occasional bursts of moss and lichen. A solitary mushroom with a gray cap grows out of the tree on the upper right.
October 15, 2023 at 8:01 PM
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Back when I went hiking in Northern New York, I saw very fine fungi, and decided to take some pictures. Now, I bring them to you.
Side of a tree trunk covered in ancient mushrooms. They are surrounded by mosses and their pale forms are turning green.
October 15, 2023 at 7:55 PM
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@cadmiumtea.bsky.social created a wonderful representation of me! As you can see, I am a normal capybara, and definitely not any sort of monster.
A charming bipedal capybara clasping his little paws. He wears a cane toad leather bow tie, and possesses some very un-capybara characteristics. Today, it's sharp teeth, glowing amber eyes, and a reptilian tail.
October 5, 2023 at 6:18 PM