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Atlas | Illustrator & Concept Artist. | Full-time space moth 🦋🌌 | 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ NB (she/they) | 🇧🇷 | Art Lead @mothfriedgames.bsky.social
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one of the best parts of making art is *making* art. the refining, the fiddling, watching something bad turn into something good. it's the greatest type of exhilaration a person working alone can have

I keep thinking about this Vonnegut letter from 2006. these people are starving their own souls
Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don't make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you're Count Dracula. Here's an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don't do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don't tell anybody what you're doing. Don't show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK? Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals [sic]. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what's inside you, and you have made your soul grow. God bless you all! Kurt Vonnegut
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Icons are an option on my commission website x3
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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DIVO 🥺
Campamha ta super bacana but as usual acompanho a passos de tartaruga x3
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Would love to see your take on my bug :3 Also congrats on the follows!
A reference sheet of a purple anthro moth. Text reads (top to bottom/left to right): "MUSEUM DATABASE"; "ACCESSING FILE 1/5 "; "ATLAS_THE_EXPLORER"; "LOADING BIOGRAPHIC DATA >"; "ENTITY NAME... ATLAS; DESIGNATION... EXPLORER; SPECIES... MOTH (ATTACUS_REDACTED); GENDER... NON BINARY (SHE/THEY); OCCUPATION... ARCHAEOLOGIST"; "LOADING BIOMETRIC DATA"; "AGE... UNKNOWN; HEIGHT 1.98MT (CURRENT); WEIGHT... 120KG (CURRENT)"; "LOADING VISUAL DATA"; "INNER"; "OUTER"; "WINGSPAN... 4MT (CURRENT)"; "GALACTIC MUSEUM DATABASE ACCESS > PUBLIC". An illustrated reference sheet featuring detail shots and information about the character, who is an anthro moth. Text reads: "MUSEUM DATABASE"; "ACCESSING FILE 2/5 "; "ATLAS_THE_EXPLORER"; "LOADING RESEARCH DATA >"; "STARBOUND ENTITY: AN ENTITY WHICH HAS ITS EXISTENCE TIED TO THE NATURAL LIFECYCLE OF ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS, SUCH AS STARS, PLANETS, AND OTHERS."; "OLYMPIAN: DESIGNATION GIVEN TO A STARBOUND ENTITY'S FIRST LIFECYCLE STAGE. ABLE TO HARNESS 'COSMIC ENERGIES' TO A LIMITED DEGREE AND RECALL INFORMATION FROM PREVIOUS ITERATIONS."; "LOADING VISUAL DATA"; "ENERGY_FOCUSING: WINGS AND FLESH WILL GLOW WHEN THE ENTITY IS FOCUSING 'COSMIC ENERGY' OR UNDER INTENSE EMOTIONS. THE FOCUSED ENERGY WILL MANIFEST ABOVE THE ENTITY'S HEAD. ANTENNAE MIGHT HELP CONTAIN IT."; "LYMPH_CONTROL: WINGS CAN BE DEFLATED AT WILL BY PUSHING LYMPH BACK INTO THE BODY. USEFUL FOR WEARING CLOTHING."; ENTITY_COMMUNICATION: THE ENTITY MOSTLY USES THEIR ANTENNAE AND EYES TO COMMUNICATE. WHEN IDLE/CONTENT, THE ANTENNAE RESEMBLE A PAIR OF CURVED HORNS."; "GALACTIC MUSEUM DATABASE ACCESS > PUBLIC". An illustrated reference sheet featuring outfits for an anthro moth. Text reads: "MUSEUM DATABASE"; "ACCESSING FILE 3/5 "; "ATLAS_THE_EXPLORER"; "LOADING LEGAL DATA >"; "RESEARCH CONTRACT EXERPT"; "THE ENTITY AGREES TO A SHARED-INFORMATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GALACTIC MUSEUM. THE MUSEUM SHALL FUND THE ENTITYS EXPEDITIONS INTO THE FRINGE SYSTEMS. UPON STARTING THEIR METAMORPHOSIS THE ENTITY WILL BE MONITORED BY THE MUSEUM AT THEIR FACILITIES AT [REDACTED]. THE ENTITY IS FREE TO EXPLORE"; "LOADING VISUAL DATA >"; "MUSEUM UDA"; "STANDARD ISSUE UNIVERSAL DATA ANALYZER. USED FOR COLLECTING, ANALYZING AND BROADCASTING MULTIPLE FORMS OF DATA."; "CIVILIAN ATTIRE"; "SPACESUIT"; "GALACTIC MUSEUM DATABASE ACCESS > PUBLIC".
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Absolutely in love with your cityscapes! 💜
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Thank you!! :3
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM