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Vanamation🪻Bleating Heart
@vanamation.bsky.social
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Allie/Van (she/her) Librarian by day and indie animator by night. Creating a webseries called #BleatingHeart and writing a western called #TheTasteofGold 🐺🤠
🕸️ https://linktr.ee/vanamation
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I never introduced my new cat here. His name is Pogo and he’s one of the most social, goofy, and curious cats I’ve ever met!
A square spread of 3 black and white digital sketches of a cat. Two on the left are of just his head; one shows his face scrunched up and tongue out, licking his lips. The other is open-mouthed with his head tilted back as if yawning or yowling happily. The last sketch is a full-body drawing of him on his back, hind legs spread out and front legs grabbing at a feather toy on his stomach, his pupils dilated and mouth in an open smile. A photo of my cat, Pogo, sitting primly on an orange dining chair. He has medium-length fur and is all white save for a mask of tabby coloring (brown with black stripes) over the top half of his face.
October 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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One of the first Scooter sketches, and one of the last. My sweet old lady crossed over the rainbow bridge a week ago today. The 19 years we spent together were a tremendous blessing, and I’ll miss her forever. ❤️
A colored digital painting of a gray and white tuxedo cat asleep and curled up in a ball while a beam of sunlight shines on her face. Below the cat, white handwritten text reads, “April 16th, 2006 to July 14th, 2025.” A photo of an old piece of paper taped into a sketchbook. The paper has a rough sketch of a (slightly anatomically incorrect) sleeping cat curled into a ball with her paws sticking out. The year “2013” was added digitally in the margin.
July 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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“You yell barracuda, everybody says, ‘Huh? What?’ You yell shark, we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.”
Digitally drawn cartoon of a man in a suit (bearing resemblance to Mayor Vaughn from the film JAWS) sitting in a boat, with an American flag waving beside him. To the boat’s right, a gigantic, angry-looking shark rears out of the water with its mouth gaping open, about to swallow the boat. A word bubble from the man reads, “It’s a beautiful day, the beaches are open— and people are having a wonderful time!”
July 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Tomorrow!! Don’t miss the new #IndieAnimationDay episode of @postmodartpod.bsky.social, featuring cowboys, detectives, and werewolf sheep (oh my!) 🤠 Here’s the YouTube thumbnail art I got to contribute for it!
Digital art showing two people conversing at a table with a microphone between them. On the left is a woman with short blonde hair and glasses, wearing a cowboy hat and holding a cardboard box labeled “OC’s.” Inside the box, a cartoon anthropomorphic sheep leans out and waves, while a wolf head floats above her. Two timid cowboys peek out of the other side of the box. On the right side of the table is a brunet bearded man with glasses, also wearing a large cowboy hat. The woman has a speech bubble with an open book in it, while the man has a speech bubble with music notes in it.
May 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Months-old drawing but the emotion persists
Digital drawing (a white sketch on a black background with red accents) of my OC, an anthropomorphic sheep mid-transformation into a werewolf. She glares at the viewer with a bright red eye and bared teeth dripping blood as a red streak of lightning cuts the background behind her.
April 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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NO AI NO BILLIONAIRES NO FASCISM
digital drawing of a black werewolf ripping a nazi flag in its teeth against a black background
March 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Can I please go about my life without having anything regarding AI forced in front of my eyes

FOR FIVE MINUTES????
Screencap from Shrek 2 showing Shrek turning around to shout angrily at Donkey, who sits behind him in the onion carriage.
March 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Seeing so many artists I enjoy getting into Malevolent and I realized I never posted my one and only fanart here 🤭 #malevolentpodcast
Digital monochromatic (gray toned) drawing of the characters from the horror podcast Malevolent. Arthur is a disheveled looking man in suspenders and a tie. A demonic looking humanoid with tentacles for hair looms angrily over his shoulder. In speech bubbles, Arthur is saying, “we are NOT going to the movies—“ and the entity interrupts him, shouting, “WHY NOT?!”
March 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park

#NationalParkService America's best idea

Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 2023
Photo of a path through a dense pine forest, dappled dreamily with sunlight.
February 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Scooter is all ready for Take Your Cat to Work Day (I don’t have the heart to tell her that’s not a real day)
Photo depicts a gray and white cat sitting upright inside a large canvas tote bag.
February 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Happy Valentine’s Day to my only romantic OC couple 🤠💛🧡
A digital drawing of two cowboys, shown from the waist up, embracing emotionally in a windy field A digital drawing of two cowboys spinning around as they embrace
February 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Haven’t done a casual doodle in a while and felt like doing something simple n’ sweet :) #thetasteofgold #prosperandvale
a digital colored sketch of two cowboy OCs embracing peacefully, one with his head resting on the other’s shoulder and the second with his arms around the first.
January 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The two genders (pulled out all my heavy reference books to flatten a new rug)
Photo shows two stacks of large coffee table books sitting on a couch; the left stack is all books about the Old West, and the right stack is all books about flowers and floral arranging.
January 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Could not have been timed better lol
A screenshot of TikTok’s message announcing the end of service for US users, and thanking Trump for his promise to work on a solution to reinstate it. Behind the message window is a frozen video of Donald Trump with the caption “Let’s not celebrate the possibility of Trump ‘saving’ tiktok just yet.”
January 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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starting a new full time job today, wish me luck!! (doodled a Prosper to settle my nerves)
a digital sketch of a nervous looking cowboy
January 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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IT’S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE ☃️🎅🎄
Photo of a hand holding a transparent plastic pack of large stickers. The stickers depict a cartoon sheep placing a top hat on a snowman’s head, which is an unhappy looking wolf demon.
December 21, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Winter stickers have been “out for delivery” for four business days 🫠
December 20, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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December
Screenshot from Kung Fu Panda (holiday special) showing Po looking overwhelmed and yelling in terror while Shifu floats in the air amid a swirl of commotion around him. Added text says “Christmas” on Shifu and “Major life events happening simultaneously” in chaotic the background.
December 19, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Today was Reindeer Day in town! Got to draw brothers Buddy and Bo from Spring Mist Farms in Brunswick Hills, OH
A photograph of an open sketchbook in in the foreground and two reindeer behind a metal fence in the background. The sketchbook pages show loose ink sketches of the reindeer. Photo of a sketchbook page showing two loose ink drawings of a reindeer. Photo of a reindeer wearing a blue bridle, sticking his nose through the beams of a metal enclosure.
December 7, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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Bleating Heart has a Bluesky account now! Be sure to follow it for show updates (I’ll be populating it with stuff very soon!)
@littlegoodsheep.bsky.social
#indieanimation #webseries #indieshow
A screenshot of the profile bio and header for the Bleating Heart Bluesky account (@littlegoodsheep). The profile pic is an image from the teaser showing Marsha the sheep looking at the viewer with her face half wolf. The banner shows Marsha and Tenebrous—a large wolf—facing away from each other, both with a lily tucked behind an ear.
November 15, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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“The dogs will protect the sheep whether the sheep like it or not”
An anthro sheep stands ready and determined with a large black wolf at her back, as a swarm of snarling dogs with glowing eyes bear down on them from a dark cloud above. (Some of the dogs have red accents, such as a red trucker hat, neck tie, and clerical collar)
November 7, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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I voted!! (Inspired by the Michigan voter sticker designed by Jane Hynous :)) #bleatingheart
Parody illustration of the Michigan “I Voted” sticker, which depicts a color pencil drawing of a werewolf ripping its shirt off in front of an American flag with the words “I voted!” above it. My version features my werewolf OC ripping her shirt off in front of a dark blue backdrop with crudely drawn white stars.
November 5, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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Happy Howl-oween! Watch the latest teaser trailer for Bleating Heart episode 1: Cry Wolf NOW! 🐺🪻🐑

#bleatingheart #indieanimation #webseries #trailer
October 31, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Premiering in less than an hour!! Get notified on YouTube when it goes live!
youtu.be/BwfG4YafRNA?...
#bleatingheart #indieanimation #teasertrailer
A screenshot of the Bleating Heart teaser video thumbnail, showing Marsha the sheep looking into the camera—the right half of her face is that of a grinning wolf.
October 31, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Watch out for werewolves— a new teaser trailer premiers TOMORROW!
#bleatingheart #indieanimation
October 30, 2024 at 5:13 PM