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Swandog / Xenia Eliassen
@swandog.bsky.social
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Old (53) cryptid-thing ΘΔ, furry/fantasy artist & crafter, birbmom, nonbinary ⚧️ (she/they), demi/ace, disabled/chronically ill ♿️ (MS, PsA, etc.), neurodivergent ♾️ (AuDHD) & US import in Norway. Socialist/antifascist! ✊️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🍉
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Swandog / Xenia Eliassen @swandog.bsky.social · Oct 22
Welcome, new followers! 👋❤️ I guess I should do a new intro! 😅 I'm Xenia, a nonbinary, ND, disabled, chronically ill artist in Norway (originally from US). I love to draw all fantasy and furry critters, but especially winged ones! 🪽 I'm also an old-school traditional artist learning digital media. 😊
Colored pencil drawing of a mandarin duck and a wood duck posing together in a Japanese garden with a bamboo grove and an oriental wooden bridge. Ink drawing on parchment of a lioness taur asleep on a gnarled tree bough. Ink drawing, digitally colored, of a sleeping fantasy doe with a feathered tail, surrounded by an ivy border that spells out the name "Lockett", and a parchment ribbon banner wrapped around her forelegs. Ink drawing, pencil shaded, of a badger cradling and bottle-feeding an arctic fox cub. The badger is sitting in the grass with his back against a gnarled willow tree, next to a pond filled with water lilies.
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davidcsimon.bsky.social
I took my very first photographs of a Fan-tailed Cuckoo today! They've been a Nemesis Bird of mine for many years now so this is a big deal for me :)
#birds
Photograph of a small cuckoo perched on a black identifying sign. The bird is grey, bugg, and white, with a dark beak, black and white tail feathers, and yellow rings around its eyes. It is round and fluffy, looking cute and innocent despite being a parasitic cuckoo. The sign identifies a species of plant (not pictured), reading "Edgeworthia chrysantha, 'Grandiflora', Thymelaeaceae"
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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qoxra.bsky.social
🐟
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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kaltag.bsky.social
Travis enjoys volunteering his time at the town fair's, though thankfully most of his job involves keep himself and others properly hydrated in the hot Texas summer.
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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dimsie.bsky.social
Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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xylographica.bsky.social
Reductive figure drawing comm I forgot to post !
A black and white reductive style drawing of a female anthro foxish creature with bird like arms half sitting on a pillar, holding her ankle with her other hand raised loosely.
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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lilyhops.bsky.social
this is why representation in games matters
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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premeemohamed.com
Oh also here is the other pen I got in France, it is a mournful sardine
a pen shaped like a sardine, with a transparent plastic tail-shaped cap
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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babeandoak.bsky.social
ALT Text benefits everyone

Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
Writing alt text infographic “WRITING ALT TEXT - IDENTIFY WHO - EXPRESSION - DESCRIPTION - COLOUR INTERESTING FEATURES “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head”
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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brettbullionart.bsky.social
Here’s all the little cicadas together. Put a little varnish on them. Now I just need to cut them out, scan them, and get them in some frames.
4 small circular paintings of cicadas on a single sheet of paper.
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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meganroseruiz.bsky.social
Apparently they emailed a *lot* of artists this morning. It was $900 for two weeks worth of work. It was Crayola lol
meganroseruiz.bsky.social Meg @meganroseruiz.bsky.social · 18h
I am SO TIRED of getting emails from giant companies asking me to do two weeks worth of work for them for like $800. Has this shit gotten worse over the years? Why are these massive corps asking me to work for less than minimum wage? I swear it didn't use to be this bad.
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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aubryjoi.bsky.social
Cozy prints 🧡🤎

[ #cuteart #traditionalart #artshop ]
A photo of three art prints by Aubry Joi. One is of a white tiger crouching playfully in autumn leaves, one paw raised to bat at the ones tumbling around them. Another shows three gingerbread cookie chickens, painted in watercolor. The last shows three tomato kittens with brushy scribbles around them.
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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hagofbolding.bsky.social
My dog has been helping me with my perfectionism lately
A quickly drawn comic - an artist draws frantically on a tablet. The screen reads "worst comic layouts you've ever seen_v053.psd" The artist throws their hands over their face and yells in frustration: "holy shit just finish SOMETHING!" As they recover, a little tap tap tap sound offscreen draws their attention. A little dog taps his way up to the desk. He gazes upwards at his person from the floor and says, "Mother. Do not despair. If perfection exists let it be found in my love for you." The artist hugs the dog, who wags his tail.
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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catmintstudios.bsky.social
Holiday vibes incoming… 🎄🌈

[ #cuteart #artshop ]
2 wooden ornament designs hang from a Christmas tree. The designs are chubby white cats tangled in Christmas lights. The colors of the lights are the colors of pride flags - the kitty on the left has bi pride colored lights, and the kitty on the right has trans pride flag colored lights.
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social
Why?! Just because. 🤣🤘

I asked myself "What's have you always wanted to draw, but haven't?"

Donkey came to mind. I just find them so personable and adorable!! 💙🫏

#donkey #donkeys #animal #animalart #ArtYear #bskyart #nature #farm #farmlife #nature #illustration #fun #donkeylife #adorable
Illustration of two donkeys very close up. Marker, Prismacolor and fel pen on Strathmore tan paper.
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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nicholaskole.bsky.social
🌃
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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siggimagenta.bsky.social
Green car💚
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
cailin.dev Cailín Walsh 🍀 @cailin.dev · 14h
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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yellowfr3ak.bsky.social
White wolfie is all done and off to their new home soon 🥳
freakhoundstudios.com/wolf47
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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tokyozilla.bsky.social
For Poyus!
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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toonhive.bsky.social
‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:

“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
crazy

IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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lynayru.bsky.social
My parents captured some really cool photos of the northern lights last night. Wish we could have seen them here!
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
the way basic human decency hits these days is crazy
katelynburns.com Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 8h
So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig
A screenshot of a tweet from Ludwig saying: a couple weeks ago I found out one of my oldest viewers passed away she started following when i had 100 viewers she was super active in chat, funny, and helped turn my goofy dream of being a streamer into a full fledged career she was also trans, and my community was one of the few places she felt comfortable expressing that in so today in her memory im doing a charity stream for the Trevor project ty to anyone who tunes in or donates rip kanabana
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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houndsaint.bsky.social
There he goes
A carved linoleum block of a fish with legs. pencil beneath for scale
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Q: Why are Bugs so silly?

A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body

*loud booing*

Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper
Pinkish red planthopper with large wings like a maple seed, and a pointy triangular snoot topped with wavy white lines
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM