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Moss and Piglets
@mossandpiglets.bsky.social
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Art inspired by microorganisms, bugs, and creatures. Tardigrades are my favorite. 🌈🐌🦠🐛 Tacoma, WA.

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Accurate! Here’s my weird zine about microbes! #zines #microbes #inverts
August 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Eat the rich. #eachtherich #weirdart #goblinart #montsters
A close up a tshirt design. The design is a green slime monster with an open mouth and tons of teeth. Drool is coming out of the mouth and underneath the design it reads “eat the rich” A full image of a shirt. The shirt color is “toast” which is an orange-brown. There is a small monster printed over the left chest. Under the monster it says “eat the rich”
July 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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End of week. Post a WIP.

#smallrtist #inverts #worm #weirdart #art
A small sculpture of a segmented, cartoon style worm. The worm had large, glassy eyes with a yellow body. It sits on a green pad.
June 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Pretty big fan of any kind of any polychaete, but my favorite is the Nereis Sandersi. This pic is pretty famous so maybe you’ve seen it!
A picture of the microscopic worm, nereis sandersi.
June 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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If you see this, post a monster.
A green blobby monster with an open mouth. Underneath the mouth it says “eat the rich”
May 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Organize like mycelium, friends. #art #smallrtist #mushroomart #protestart
A sticker of an amanita mushroom with the words “organize like mycelium” printed on the stem of the mushroom
May 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Started this a few months ago and finally picked it up to finish it today.

They keep pushing and pushing, but we are cockroaches, bb! We are fungi. We will find a way.

#art #protestart #bugs #weirdart #illustration
An illustration with a pile of skulls on the ground. Out of the skulls, mushrooms and cockroaches are emerging. On top of the illustration it reads “life finds a way” in a hand-drawn font.
May 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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ROTIFERS (and a ciliate). It’s mostly #rotifers and I was practicing the “squash and stretch” animation principle. #art #inverts #invertebrates #weirdart #animation
May 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Cockroaches are canonically trans. 🏳️‍⚧️ Nothing is that strong and cis. #stickers #art #queerart #invertebrates #cockroaches #transpride
A pile of cockroach stickers in the colors of the trans flag, light blue, pink and white. On the back of each roach is a heart. A close up picture of two trans cockroach stickers. The roaches are in the colors of the trans flag and there is a heart on the back to indicate trans pride and strength.
May 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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These rotifers are acting as good practice for the “squash and stretch” animation principle! The ciliate is there for the chaos factor. #art #2danimation #rotifer #sciart #smallartist
May 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Have you made any weird silly little art recently? Do that, it’s important. #art #sillyart #artinspo #weirdart
May 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The squishiest lichen around.

#stuffies #weirart #oc #lichen #art #handmade
May 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I think I’m going to try Procreate Dreams and animate these buds. Will post progress! #rotifers #microworlds #littleguys #sciart #invertebrates
April 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Here’s a silly bristle worm-inspired friend for #invertefest. I’m pretty sure this guy hangs around your local coffee shop.

#art #worms #bugs #weirdart #illustration
A cartoon drawing of a purple segmented worm with a small hat of the head. The worm has giant eyes and a round mouth.
April 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Here is a cool trillium. I used to think they were fairy flowers when I was little. Still kinda do, #trillium #plants #nature
April 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Do microbes count for #invertefest? Hopefully, cuz here’s a zine I recently made with facts about some of my favorite microscopic life. #art #microscopy #zine #invertebrates
April 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Here’s some of my favorite #invertebrate art

1. Wormy ouroboros 🪱🤣
2. “Become ungovernable” snail inspired by the angustopila psammion
3. My tardigrade OC, Speck and a snail friend
4. Another tardigrade in a sample jar

Happy #InverteFest!

#bugs #insects #microworlds #art
April 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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I was super excited to participate in the @silencedscience.bsky.social project and illustrate this scientist from the USDA, Francisco Gonzalez-Tapia. Read the whole story: silencedsciencestories.com/f/francisco-...

#sciart #art
April 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Art is, and has been, an act of resistance for as long as society has been around. Now is not the time to conform. Make the weirdest art you can. Make people uncomfortable. Make a better world. #art #artasresistance #fantasyart #worldbuilding
April 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Small artists see the user names who always like or comment on our videos. We remember the names that continue to show up in orders. And you mean so much to us! Supporting small artists, especially now, really does keep us going. 💕🦠 #smallartists #sciart #supportsmallartists
April 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I’m the biggest fan of all “weird little guys” especially when they come in the form of tardigrades, insects or general microscopic life.

#smallartist #weirdart #trdigrades #invertebrates #goblincore #fantasci
April 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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This is pretty accurate 🫠
An image of a quiz results going over some personality traits. The image has cute characters on it.
April 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Drawing cute little tardigrades in the middle of the night will always be my favorite. I mean, who needs sleep? #art #tardigrades #weirdart #invertebrates #creaturedesign
April 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Did you know there is a snail so small it fits inside a grain of sand? It’s called the Angustopila Psammion and it’s very cool. This isn’t that snail, this is an acorn snail boi, but you should have that info regardless. #snailart #art #bugart #fantasyart #weirdart #insects
April 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Finding and documenting fantastical microscopic creatures is what Professor Lichen does best. And in this world, microscopic life is quite advanced. I hope you enjoy these creatures and this lore as much as I like making them. #fantasyart #art #mythicalmicrobes #creaturedesign #weirdart
April 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM