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Janet Chui 🎨🧶🖋🪐📚
@janetchui.bsky.social
Artist, writer, mom, full-time therapist (MCOUNS, CCTP), creator of the Self-Love Oracle and A Field Guide to Surreal Botany. I am vast, I contain ADHD, probably.

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https://campsite.bio/janetchui
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First #portfolioday for me. Traditional artist working on my own fantasy/spiritual pieces nowadays. Thanks for coming by! #art #artsky #watercolors #mixedmedia #traditionalart
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I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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📢⚠️EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS

One month ago I suffered a dislocated/sprained shoulder, I will need PT to keep going but I can't pay it all right now :c

- B/W $30 USD
- Colored $50 USD
- Rendered $70 USD
- NSFW $100 USD

All via KoFi! Please RP and Like for visibility, thank you 💖 #commissions #fanart
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Today's progress. Interesting to see the smoothness when the piece is zoomed out. Up close there are more hard edges than my usual style because this is the driest I've ever applied watercolors. Working carefully because it's on paper for pastels #wip #noAI #art #traditionalart #painting
September 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I'm on medical leave right now, finding some time to paint with new brushes and in a way that adds more texture with dryer pigments. Old watercolor habits are still creeping in though. #wip #watercolor #painting #art
September 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I'm not dead, just recovering from a procedure and getting some off time. Yesterday had me trying to switch the theme mode on my WordPress site from Classical to Modern. Did not work bc everything showed down and "Font Awesome" navigation symbols broke. Rant🧵
September 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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"but art should be accessible" it is, you can learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, make pixels. right now, starting today. art has never been more accessible monetarily nor physically than it is now in this age. access to artist labor and machine production is not an accessibility issue.
September 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Aurgh. Clients deserve better.
September 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Just unfollowed a BlueSky account that was using AI generated art. I doubt they'll notice but if anyone reading this is thinking about using the same even if you're not an art account, don't. Just don't.
September 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Been preoccupied but coming into a little free time soon. Until then, I published on Medium today #writing #noAI #mentalhealth medium.com/artful-couns...
No, AI Can Not and Will Not Replace Therapy
Effective counsellors and therapists know AI isn’t enough.
medium.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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“Dragon Aurora”
#ArcticHenge, Raufarhöfn, #Iceland
(Credit: Carina)

#Aurora resembling a big #dragon over the rock pyramids, was the result of a geomagnetic storm (level G2) generated by a coronal mass ejection earlier that day.

#Astrophotography #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #NightSky
August 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Yeah, I may be on a fox kick. My most recent 3 designs at my (fantasy) RedBubble page are all foxes. I'm not even done yet www.redbubble.com/people/janet... #art
August 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Met a kapok tree on the bike ride this morning and picked up a couple of pods (didn't pick up fluff; most of it was wet). While waiting for breakfast, had an impromptu table-top #photo shoot with a hitchhiker I found on my arm.
August 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Too real
Oh nOoOoOoOoOo not another new book idea
August 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Video of yet another fox in progress. Will post both finished designs soon #wip #painting #art #watercolor #traditionalart
August 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Moving toward the other watercolor style again with this little sketch. Probably also to become a sticker. #wip #art #watercolor #painting #traditionalart
August 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Sometimes my watercolor doodles get very, very silly. This magnet/sticker set is now at RedBubble: www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Pi...
August 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Work swallowed me up in recent weeks, and my weekends were almost nonexistent. That said, I finished a light piece at Medium on attachment style: medium.com/know-thyself... #writing #relationships
Attachment Style According to Roommate History
A long line of less-than-ideal living arrangements taught me about compatibility and how we handle relationships.
medium.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month.

-Credits: NASA
July 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Too soon
𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙺𝙰 𝚃𝙾 𝙶𝚁𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙳 𝙲𝙾𝙽𝚃𝚁𝙾𝙻 — I miss you , Have I told you that yet?
July 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/
When I see people complain about male loneliness, it is so painfully OBVIOUS to me that most of these lonely men are men who feel entitled to a woman who does that labor for them, who acts as their agent enmeshing them into community through unpaid pro-social labor on their behalf.
July 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed.

The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.
Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop.

"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Fun with ruminants.
🔉
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Can't watch it rn (no space for heartbreak while commuting) but I simply loved his work.
Today would have been the birthday of Mervyn Peake, one of my heroes. Here's an interesting (but rather heartbreaking) documentary about Peake and Gormenghast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HztT... #kidlituk #UKKidlit #booksky #childrensbooks #mervynpeake #fantasybooks
Bookmark - Mervyn Peake (BBC 1998)
YouTube video by batrachious
www.youtube.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
First #portfolioday for me. Traditional artist working on my own fantasy/spiritual pieces nowadays. Thanks for coming by! #art #artsky #watercolors #mixedmedia #traditionalart
July 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Done. May do more foxes in future, hopefully cuter and less detail. #art #artsky #painting #video #traditionalart
July 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM