Erin Darling
@erindarling.bsky.social
Darling Illustrations shares queer stories of love, hope and community through paintings, cards, stickers, art prints & zines. 🌈🐭🏴☠️ I play d&d and videogames for fun.
www.darlingillustrations.com
💌 hello@darlingillustrations.com
📍 Tacoma, WA
she/them
www.darlingillustrations.com
💌 hello@darlingillustrations.com
📍 Tacoma, WA
she/them
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Erin Darling
@erindarling.bsky.social
· Jul 1
Survival Series: 2026 Calendar ✊ 1 Year of Joyful Resistance
A 12-month wall calendar to help you keep hope alive in the face of despair, featuring original paintings of endangered animals.
www.kickstarter.com
My new Survival Series is about keeping Joy alive as an act of resistance, and I am launching a Kickstarter to help turn this series into a 2026 Wall Calendar!
You'll find the campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar...
With all my heart, thank you for being a part of my community! ♡ Erin
You'll find the campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar...
With all my heart, thank you for being a part of my community! ♡ Erin
Being Bad At Algorithms--I believe my queer art will foster so much hope, if only I can get it in front of the right people. If my soul shines bright enough it can break through any algorithmic barrier.
NEWSLETTER LINK: mailchi.mp/ec7c84d87e2e...
KICKSTARTER: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar...
NEWSLETTER LINK: mailchi.mp/ec7c84d87e2e...
KICKSTARTER: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar...
Being Bad At Algorithms
mailchi.mp
July 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Being Bad At Algorithms--I believe my queer art will foster so much hope, if only I can get it in front of the right people. If my soul shines bright enough it can break through any algorithmic barrier.
NEWSLETTER LINK: mailchi.mp/ec7c84d87e2e...
KICKSTARTER: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar...
NEWSLETTER LINK: mailchi.mp/ec7c84d87e2e...
KICKSTARTER: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar...
Yesterday I launched my new Survival Series: 2026 Calendar ✊ 1 Year of Joyful Resistance.
Not only did y’all fund the campaign within 8hrs, we broke $1K by the end of the day.
To make things even better—Kickstarter selected my campaign to be featured in their “Projects We Love”!!! #projectswelove
Not only did y’all fund the campaign within 8hrs, we broke $1K by the end of the day.
To make things even better—Kickstarter selected my campaign to be featured in their “Projects We Love”!!! #projectswelove
July 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Yesterday I launched my new Survival Series: 2026 Calendar ✊ 1 Year of Joyful Resistance.
Not only did y’all fund the campaign within 8hrs, we broke $1K by the end of the day.
To make things even better—Kickstarter selected my campaign to be featured in their “Projects We Love”!!! #projectswelove
Not only did y’all fund the campaign within 8hrs, we broke $1K by the end of the day.
To make things even better—Kickstarter selected my campaign to be featured in their “Projects We Love”!!! #projectswelove
My new Survival Series is about keeping Joy alive as an act of resistance, and I am launching a Kickstarter to help turn this series into a 2026 Wall Calendar!
You'll find the campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar...
With all my heart, thank you for being a part of my community! ♡ Erin
You'll find the campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar...
With all my heart, thank you for being a part of my community! ♡ Erin
Survival Series: 2026 Calendar ✊ 1 Year of Joyful Resistance
A 12-month wall calendar to help you keep hope alive in the face of despair, featuring original paintings of endangered animals.
www.kickstarter.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My new Survival Series is about keeping Joy alive as an act of resistance, and I am launching a Kickstarter to help turn this series into a 2026 Wall Calendar!
You'll find the campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar...
With all my heart, thank you for being a part of my community! ♡ Erin
You'll find the campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar...
With all my heart, thank you for being a part of my community! ♡ Erin
Jinx is the kid who is sneakily watching the vampire squid TV show from the stairwell three hours after they tucked her in bed. (Vi is probably snoring).
Vander is the kind of guy who asks you to watch TV with him after dinner, purely so that he has company while he falls asleep on the sofa immediately and then lies about having fallen asleep afterwards
April 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Jinx is the kid who is sneakily watching the vampire squid TV show from the stairwell three hours after they tucked her in bed. (Vi is probably snoring).
Courage is Contagious
April 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Courage is Contagious
Squirrel Me Away 🌰 This is one of SIX new paintings in my Affectionate Animal series. Art prints & note cards available on my site. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #queerart #queerartist #squirrels
February 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Squirrel Me Away 🌰 This is one of SIX new paintings in my Affectionate Animal series. Art prints & note cards available on my site. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #queerart #queerartist #squirrels
Hog My Heart 🐷 This is one of the newest additions to my Affectionate Animal series! Art prints & note cards are now available in my online shop ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
February 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hog My Heart 🐷 This is one of the newest additions to my Affectionate Animal series! Art prints & note cards are now available in my online shop ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
SIX NEW additions to my Affectionate Animal series are now live! Pick up yours in my online shop: darlingillustrations.com/store/ #queerart #queerartist
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
SIX NEW additions to my Affectionate Animal series are now live! Pick up yours in my online shop: darlingillustrations.com/store/ #queerart #queerartist
I might not be a person of color, but I’m a child of the rainbow, and I stand with my brothers and sisters.
I will never forget that Target & other businesses rolled back their DEI initiatives & I will boycott accordingly. For life.
I will never forget that Target & other businesses rolled back their DEI initiatives & I will boycott accordingly. For life.
February 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I might not be a person of color, but I’m a child of the rainbow, and I stand with my brothers and sisters.
I will never forget that Target & other businesses rolled back their DEI initiatives & I will boycott accordingly. For life.
I will never forget that Target & other businesses rolled back their DEI initiatives & I will boycott accordingly. For life.
Absolutely stunning work!
First time posting here! How does this even work? Anyway, here's a piece of Dragon Age art I made a while ago!
#dragonage #dragonagefanart #antivancrows #treviso
#dragonage #dragonagefanart #antivancrows #treviso
February 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Absolutely stunning work!
I don’t create art or write stories to be entertained. I do it bc To Create is To Be Human.
February 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I don’t create art or write stories to be entertained. I do it bc To Create is To Be Human.
I am amazed, in the worst way, that we live in a world where it’s seemingly odd behavior to choose to create things myself instead of getting a machine to do it for me.
February 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I am amazed, in the worst way, that we live in a world where it’s seemingly odd behavior to choose to create things myself instead of getting a machine to do it for me.
To be clear: I don’t use ChatGPT to help with my writing or world-building. I don’t want to use it. I don’t want you to tell me why I should consider using it.
Why?
Writing is fun for me & I WANT to do it MYSELF!
Why?
Writing is fun for me & I WANT to do it MYSELF!
February 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
To be clear: I don’t use ChatGPT to help with my writing or world-building. I don’t want to use it. I don’t want you to tell me why I should consider using it.
Why?
Writing is fun for me & I WANT to do it MYSELF!
Why?
Writing is fun for me & I WANT to do it MYSELF!
In my free time I've been building a fantasy world with nations and religions and economics and all that jazz.
I can't tell you how many times people have suggested I use AI to "help" me with the worldbuliding, and I have the same reaction every time--*why would I???*
I can't tell you how many times people have suggested I use AI to "help" me with the worldbuliding, and I have the same reaction every time--*why would I???*
February 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
In my free time I've been building a fantasy world with nations and religions and economics and all that jazz.
I can't tell you how many times people have suggested I use AI to "help" me with the worldbuliding, and I have the same reaction every time--*why would I???*
I can't tell you how many times people have suggested I use AI to "help" me with the worldbuliding, and I have the same reaction every time--*why would I???*
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idk if anyone need to hear this, but shout out to all the immigrants actually making this country a vibrant and interesting place to live!! thank you for sharing your culture (and food!!!) 😩🩷
January 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
idk if anyone need to hear this, but shout out to all the immigrants actually making this country a vibrant and interesting place to live!! thank you for sharing your culture (and food!!!) 😩🩷
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Good guy larian dropping their perspective of this whole thing
"On a pirate ship, they’d toss the captain overboard."
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
"On a pirate ship, they’d toss the captain overboard."
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
'On a pirate ship, they'd toss the captain overboard': Larian head of publishing tears into EA after BioWare layoffs waste 'institutional knowledge'
A profit drop doesn't have to mean a closed shop.
www.pcgamer.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Good guy larian dropping their perspective of this whole thing
"On a pirate ship, they’d toss the captain overboard."
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
"On a pirate ship, they’d toss the captain overboard."
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
NEW PAINTINGS ALERT! Tiny Treasures—measuring 3.5 x 2.5 inches—coming to my shop on Monday. Sign up for my newsletter to get first dibs! #watercolor #queerartist
February 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
NEW PAINTINGS ALERT! Tiny Treasures—measuring 3.5 x 2.5 inches—coming to my shop on Monday. Sign up for my newsletter to get first dibs! #watercolor #queerartist
All week the kids have been preparing for today, the day when my 9yo got her Very Own Bedroom.
I took eveything out of my work room & we disassembled the kids’ bunk bed to make 2 beds.
💪 This single mom feels strong, yall! Sore. But STRONG.
I took eveything out of my work room & we disassembled the kids’ bunk bed to make 2 beds.
💪 This single mom feels strong, yall! Sore. But STRONG.
January 31, 2025 at 8:15 AM
All week the kids have been preparing for today, the day when my 9yo got her Very Own Bedroom.
I took eveything out of my work room & we disassembled the kids’ bunk bed to make 2 beds.
💪 This single mom feels strong, yall! Sore. But STRONG.
I took eveything out of my work room & we disassembled the kids’ bunk bed to make 2 beds.
💪 This single mom feels strong, yall! Sore. But STRONG.
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Game studio announcements be like, “We laid off all your favourite devs! But don’t worry, all the people actually responsible for the horrible decision-making that led to this massive failure are staying on :) and they will still be driving their new Porsches :) all is well!!!!!”
January 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Game studio announcements be like, “We laid off all your favourite devs! But don’t worry, all the people actually responsible for the horrible decision-making that led to this massive failure are staying on :) and they will still be driving their new Porsches :) all is well!!!!!”
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I'm now looking for a new writing/narrative position. It's been a privilege to work with so many amazing devs over my 20 years at BioWare, and I will cherish the memories of the wonderful folks in the community I've met along the way. Thank you all.
January 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I'm now looking for a new writing/narrative position. It's been a privilege to work with so many amazing devs over my 20 years at BioWare, and I will cherish the memories of the wonderful folks in the community I've met along the way. Thank you all.
Do you have an image of parenting or family that you would like me to paint? I want to consider it for my next series of paintings!
HOW TO SUBMIT:
All you have to do is comment below! I'll reach out to you in DMs to let you know what email address to send your photos to.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy!
HOW TO SUBMIT:
All you have to do is comment below! I'll reach out to you in DMs to let you know what email address to send your photos to.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy!
January 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Do you have an image of parenting or family that you would like me to paint? I want to consider it for my next series of paintings!
HOW TO SUBMIT:
All you have to do is comment below! I'll reach out to you in DMs to let you know what email address to send your photos to.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy!
HOW TO SUBMIT:
All you have to do is comment below! I'll reach out to you in DMs to let you know what email address to send your photos to.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy!
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Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!
January 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!
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"However twisted the branches may get in your way, do not thread on them, find a way around, a way to compromise, for they might bite you back otherwise."
Happy Year of a Wooden Snake 🐍🎆
#darkart
Happy Year of a Wooden Snake 🐍🎆
#darkart
January 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"However twisted the branches may get in your way, do not thread on them, find a way around, a way to compromise, for they might bite you back otherwise."
Happy Year of a Wooden Snake 🐍🎆
#darkart
Happy Year of a Wooden Snake 🐍🎆
#darkart
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If you make art (any art! Not just visual), no matter how big your audience or if you think you're "successful" or "enough", you are giving people the energy to get through another day.
You're part of the reason folks have an easier time holding on.
Keep creating!! Your art matters!!!
You're part of the reason folks have an easier time holding on.
Keep creating!! Your art matters!!!
January 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you make art (any art! Not just visual), no matter how big your audience or if you think you're "successful" or "enough", you are giving people the energy to get through another day.
You're part of the reason folks have an easier time holding on.
Keep creating!! Your art matters!!!
You're part of the reason folks have an easier time holding on.
Keep creating!! Your art matters!!!
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We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
January 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.