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Title: Happy Feet. I have so many tiny sketches of unicorns in various poses to slowly work my way thru.

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Title: None Shall. Was first guarding a forest, had problems, deleted that layer, kept the unicorn and title. Just had to finish the piece somehow.

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Title: Gremleena.

This was supposed to be a cat with wings but in the middle of that this little gremlin appeared.

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Okay, now I’m REALLY pissed

https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/z9apih/sudowrites_scraping_and_mining_ao3_for_its/

The Elongated Muskrat is scraping works on AO3 for profit.

Hate to do it, but my works are now locked to registered AO3 users only, and will remain that way until and unless we get word that the site administrators (who I’m told ARE already aware of this, please don’t flood them with reports) have figured out a way to prevent it.

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Title: Catbird - European Robin

Yet another sketch from 2021 that I resketched, reinked, coloured in ProCreate. A little catbird based on the European Robin. I tried for a chibi style, not sure if I managed it, but like how it turned out.

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Title: Supervision

Another sketch from 2021 that's been hiding on my PC. Resketched, reinked, coloured in ProCreate.

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My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

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Slight diversion from the original idea. :D But what would be the fun in art if I was in complete control of how it was going~? 

Acrylics on purple cardboard.  That’s going to be my Christmas card! <3 

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Title: Horsefly Another 2 yr old sketch on my iPad brought over into ProCreate.

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americans imagining Land Back as a reverse colonization where your family is violently displaced from their home—just no, and there’s so much projection and anti-indigenous sentiment in that reaction that we need to unpack. in the same way abolishing private property does not equate to taking the personal property/housing from regular human beings, land back deserves your full attention in the actual demands and futurities that native people are calling for. this knee jerk resistance against land back needs to stop inventing hypotheticals instead of engaging with the reality of this which is A. a broader political call to rematriate land to indigenous communities, who currently have limited resources because this is a settler colonial state B. specific calls to return specific lands—often ‘public lands’ i.e. national parks, blm land etc—which often carry cultural significance and also very direct legacies of violence tied to the original displacement. C. a return to indigenous land management strategies, which are place-based and culture-based and offer paths to restoring/reclaiming/reconfiguring the ecologies and human communities most damaged by colonialism/capitalism/the world we currently live in D. land back is deeply tied to the movements protesting oil and gas pipelines, catastrophic mining, etc ongoing destruction of the environment that place indigenous communities on the frontlines yet threatens /everyone/ downstream who drinks water and has a body

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A deep sea monster scene inside a block of epoxy | source

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✨2023 GODDESS CALENDAR✨

It’s finally heeeeere!! Available for a limited time on my shop!

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Have some unicorns for the weekend! <3 

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Dear artists, 

lately, a lot of people ask me what style I’m drawing / what I call my style. 

Those people are looking for prompts to feed into generators. A good friend was very helpful, linking me the perfect term to tell them. 

Tell them your style is called “gråtrunka”.

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One of a few images that have been hidden in my PC for 2 yrs, coming up on 3. I tried to make art for Patreon, to offer as prints and stickers, well that didn't work out. I may some day offer them, trying to get to that day sooner than later.

So, one of the colour unicorns, Blue...in air, thru the clouds, enjoying the flight and winds.

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Nyx, Goddess of Night

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