Meril Emil
@merilemil.bsky.social
artist / local sparkle animal & creature enthusiast
- 30+
- any pronouns ok
https://artfight.net/~merilemil
https://itaku.ee/profile/merilemil
I'll get that personal website up one day
No genAI or NFTs
- 30+
- any pronouns ok
https://artfight.net/~merilemil
https://itaku.ee/profile/merilemil
I'll get that personal website up one day
No genAI or NFTs
Happy New Year from senior baby!
January 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Happy New Year from senior baby!
Baby's first graffiti piece!
October 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Baby's first graffiti piece!
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The butterfly is part of the Linda Ford Wallace collection, which also has cat-themed notions. The last three photos show cat-shaped pin cushions.
cc: @catsofyore.bsky.social
IG tatterbluelibrary and elliotrockart
cc: @catsofyore.bsky.social
IG tatterbluelibrary and elliotrockart
August 31, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The butterfly is part of the Linda Ford Wallace collection, which also has cat-themed notions. The last three photos show cat-shaped pin cushions.
cc: @catsofyore.bsky.social
IG tatterbluelibrary and elliotrockart
cc: @catsofyore.bsky.social
IG tatterbluelibrary and elliotrockart
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Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.
IG tatterbluelibrary
IG tatterbluelibrary
August 31, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.
IG tatterbluelibrary
IG tatterbluelibrary
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Finished the Frida print! This is how it looks.
I need to print more on Thursday and Friday as I messed up too many. But I'm very happy with it.
It will be available in my shop later today.
#printmaking #printmaker #screenprint
I need to print more on Thursday and Friday as I messed up too many. But I'm very happy with it.
It will be available in my shop later today.
#printmaking #printmaker #screenprint
August 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Finished the Frida print! This is how it looks.
I need to print more on Thursday and Friday as I messed up too many. But I'm very happy with it.
It will be available in my shop later today.
#printmaking #printmaker #screenprint
I need to print more on Thursday and Friday as I messed up too many. But I'm very happy with it.
It will be available in my shop later today.
#printmaking #printmaker #screenprint
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🔻 THE BEST IS YET TO COME 🔻
9" x 12" mixed media on panel
Despite all the reasons to despair, to fear, despite knowing there is surely anguish yet to come: I also know this to be true. I have not lived to see my best moments yet. There is triumph and beauty and love still hidden over the horizon.
9" x 12" mixed media on panel
Despite all the reasons to despair, to fear, despite knowing there is surely anguish yet to come: I also know this to be true. I have not lived to see my best moments yet. There is triumph and beauty and love still hidden over the horizon.
April 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
🔻 THE BEST IS YET TO COME 🔻
9" x 12" mixed media on panel
Despite all the reasons to despair, to fear, despite knowing there is surely anguish yet to come: I also know this to be true. I have not lived to see my best moments yet. There is triumph and beauty and love still hidden over the horizon.
9" x 12" mixed media on panel
Despite all the reasons to despair, to fear, despite knowing there is surely anguish yet to come: I also know this to be true. I have not lived to see my best moments yet. There is triumph and beauty and love still hidden over the horizon.
Yup. My Journey fanart got flagged, and I actually got it appealed... but then it got flagged again! It was a miserable time and I'd hate to see it repeated.
August 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Yup. My Journey fanart got flagged, and I actually got it appealed... but then it got flagged again! It was a miserable time and I'd hate to see it repeated.
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Alexander Petrov explains his paint-on-glass animation for Winter Days (2003), dir. Kihachiro Kawamoto
August 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Alexander Petrov explains his paint-on-glass animation for Winter Days (2003), dir. Kihachiro Kawamoto
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🎉LUDOCENE LAUNCHED 🎉
So excited (and nervous) to send our game-finder into the world.
Ludocene.com
If you want a better way to find amazing games that rewards experts and is in the hands of players, this is our shot.
Thank you to the 1000's backers and supporters.This is just the beginning.
So excited (and nervous) to send our game-finder into the world.
Ludocene.com
If you want a better way to find amazing games that rewards experts and is in the hands of players, this is our shot.
Thank you to the 1000's backers and supporters.This is just the beginning.
August 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🎉LUDOCENE LAUNCHED 🎉
So excited (and nervous) to send our game-finder into the world.
Ludocene.com
If you want a better way to find amazing games that rewards experts and is in the hands of players, this is our shot.
Thank you to the 1000's backers and supporters.This is just the beginning.
So excited (and nervous) to send our game-finder into the world.
Ludocene.com
If you want a better way to find amazing games that rewards experts and is in the hands of players, this is our shot.
Thank you to the 1000's backers and supporters.This is just the beginning.
Reposted by Meril Emil
When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails.
This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.
This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.
August 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails.
This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.
This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.
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I just learned about Dear Fauna, a STOP MOTION, FELT animation about pleistocene.
It releases in just a couple days. Let's show it some love!
It releases in just a couple days. Let's show it some love!
August 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I just learned about Dear Fauna, a STOP MOTION, FELT animation about pleistocene.
It releases in just a couple days. Let's show it some love!
It releases in just a couple days. Let's show it some love!
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One thing that doing creative work teaches you is that ideas are worth nothing. Anybody can have an idea. In a writers room you have to come up with a hundred ideas a day, and most of those don’t make the page. It’s the work of making something that gives it value. The patina of humanity.
"AI only offers suggestions based on your prompts. It's still your imagination."
No. Your imagination provides the germ of a story, expands it into sentences, phrases, paragraphs, chapters, culminating in a complete story. Using AI is "I have an idea," then someone else writes a story based on it.
No. Your imagination provides the germ of a story, expands it into sentences, phrases, paragraphs, chapters, culminating in a complete story. Using AI is "I have an idea," then someone else writes a story based on it.
August 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
One thing that doing creative work teaches you is that ideas are worth nothing. Anybody can have an idea. In a writers room you have to come up with a hundred ideas a day, and most of those don’t make the page. It’s the work of making something that gives it value. The patina of humanity.
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recognizing a lot of social expectations are actually labor issues can be pretty grounding/freeing
Models? it's their job to be professionally pretty.
Actors/performers? it's their job to be professionally entertaining.
Artists/creatives? It's their job to be professionally imaginative.
Models? it's their job to be professionally pretty.
Actors/performers? it's their job to be professionally entertaining.
Artists/creatives? It's their job to be professionally imaginative.
August 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
recognizing a lot of social expectations are actually labor issues can be pretty grounding/freeing
Models? it's their job to be professionally pretty.
Actors/performers? it's their job to be professionally entertaining.
Artists/creatives? It's their job to be professionally imaginative.
Models? it's their job to be professionally pretty.
Actors/performers? it's their job to be professionally entertaining.
Artists/creatives? It's their job to be professionally imaginative.
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伸ばす。がんぼるぞい。
translation:
stretch
translation:
stretch
August 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
伸ばす。がんぼるぞい。
translation:
stretch
translation:
stretch
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How Hayao Miyazaki storyboarded the car chase in The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Tokyo Movie Shinsha
August 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
How Hayao Miyazaki storyboarded the car chase in The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Tokyo Movie Shinsha
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I also made this little carving of a Finnish Spitz! I donated it to an art event were multiple small carvings were made into magnets and put out around the city, so I don't know where it ended up.
July 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I also made this little carving of a Finnish Spitz! I donated it to an art event were multiple small carvings were made into magnets and put out around the city, so I don't know where it ended up.
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The eternal inner struggle of trying to find the "perfect" medium. The only thing that isn't in question is what to draw - it's always going to be my greyhound. Testing charcoal, refining, learning, exploring and wondering why sighthounds have so many legs yet none of them fit right.
#greyhound
#greyhound
August 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The eternal inner struggle of trying to find the "perfect" medium. The only thing that isn't in question is what to draw - it's always going to be my greyhound. Testing charcoal, refining, learning, exploring and wondering why sighthounds have so many legs yet none of them fit right.
#greyhound
#greyhound
Couldn't be as active with art fight this year as I'd hoped, but I got some absolutely lovely attacks and my heart is so full ;;w;;
August 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Couldn't be as active with art fight this year as I'd hoped, but I got some absolutely lovely attacks and my heart is so full ;;w;;
Art fight attack for Waittiz!
July 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Art fight attack for Waittiz!
Art fight revenge for EnraptureEnchanted!
July 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Art fight revenge for EnraptureEnchanted!
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Hello mom, I'm on 404 Media!
I talked to Emanuel about my "AI engorgement" experiment for this article! Give it a read, it does a great job highlighting just how bad Google's AI is!
I talked to Emanuel about my "AI engorgement" experiment for this article! Give it a read, it does a great job highlighting just how bad Google's AI is!
July 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Hello mom, I'm on 404 Media!
I talked to Emanuel about my "AI engorgement" experiment for this article! Give it a read, it does a great job highlighting just how bad Google's AI is!
I talked to Emanuel about my "AI engorgement" experiment for this article! Give it a read, it does a great job highlighting just how bad Google's AI is!
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After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause
After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.
This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...
wck.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
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Windansea beach, San Diego
July 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Windansea beach, San Diego
art is language in many ways, and one of those ways is that if you won't upkeep the skills, you're gonna forget how to do it
July 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
art is language in many ways, and one of those ways is that if you won't upkeep the skills, you're gonna forget how to do it