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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Fall, Y’all! 🍁🍂🎃

An illustration of Shay the brown tabby cat wearing a purple hoodie and Pretzel the brown axolotl on a bridge in an autumn forest. Pretzel is leaning over the bridge railing to say hello to a fish in the river below

Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Oct 2

People who prefer cold weather are 100% valid and the logic of “you can put layers on but can only take off so much” is very understandable but also once I am cold, no amount of layers will make me un-cold.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Oct 2

Man it’s been fall weather for approximately 2 days here and I’m already over it. I know yall love your crisp air, hoodies, pumpkin spice, and spooky season but I miss my long daylight hours and not having cold bones :(

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Sep 23

Fingers crossed he’ll be able to survive. I think I’m more prepared this time.

We had another two spawns last weekend so I’ve got more babies coming up! Hopefully I can get this guy a friend :)

Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Sep 23

He made it!!! This is the last surviving hermit crab from the first spawn at the beginning of August! He’s 43 days old today and just went from the Zoeae stage to the megalopa stage! Now he has to learn how to use his legs and pick a shell!

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Aug 23

Shout out to car behind me at the red light who excitedly pointed at the back of my car. Not sure if it was my bumper stickers or the axolotl plushie in my window but your pink hair is cool and the thumbs up from your passenger made me smile 💕

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Aug 21

Have you ever seen baby hermit crabs? 💕

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Aug 5

Elgyem my beloved 💕

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Aug 4

Most girl’s bathrooms have lots of hair and skin products and makeup. But I am the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emoticon so my bathroom has mostly water test kit chemicals

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jul 27

I found this disabled bee with malformed wings at a client’s house and now she lives in my carpenter bee house :)

A photo of a carpenter bee inside a structure that is the typical “house” shape, or a box with a slanted roof. The bee is hanging on to a wooden area with holes drilled into it to facilitate nest making. She is black with a golden thorax. Her wings are very small and shriveled, possibly an injury from when she turned from a larva into a bee

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jul 23

Hi yes hello can you hear me in there? You are very cool and awesome!!!!

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jul 13

The Rosa and Arlo meme but it’s the caterpillar

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jul 13

They’re so stinkin cute. I’m so scared something is going to happen to them for no reason lol

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jul 13

YALLLL we got caterpillars in our garden!!!!! There’s at least 3 of them hanging out on our parsley. I’m so happy the bugs love what we made for them 💕 I hope these little guys will be safe!!

Closeup of a black swallowtail caterpillar, a yellow caterpillar with bright yellow bumps and black stripes

A corner of our porch, with a bird feeder, a strawberry tower, a tiered box with zinnias, dianthus, and other assorted flowers, black eyed Susan’s, and a rail box with wildflowers and butterfly weed.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jul 8

Oh hey it’s #PortfolioDay

I’m Axie, I like drawing cute critters and spreading smiles! Sometimes I even post!

My main thing is Steve and Pals, an axolotl named Steve and his friends living in Cape Lotl, getting up to shenanigans and uplifting others!

♡ theartsyaxolotl.com

♡ www.steveandpals.com

Steve relaxes on a calm grassy hill while his sister, Pretzel, stands in the background and flies a kite

Blue the hermit crab drinks a bottle of water with a wave behind her. Yellow text underneath reads “Remember to Hydrate”

Crouton the lettuce slug is wearing a pinkish bandana and a little sailor hat. They are in a tiny, simplified sail boat.

The Pals are all gathered at Meemo’s burger shack after a long morning of playing at the beach! Morgan, a fluffy white collie-mix dog and also the owner, hands out hotdogs, chicken tenders, hamburgers, and fries to everyone. Steve is excitedly reaching for his food, Shay is helping Blue get up onto the bench, and Pretzel and Crouton are doing the soda wrapper worm experiment.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jul 4

..::Mental Health Checkpoint::..

Idk my feed is just really depressing right now so please take a short break to ride the Cape Lotl train with the Pals. Take care 💕

Steve and Pals taking the train home after a long day of fun at the beach. Shay reads on her phone while Steve and Blue snooze. Pretzel and Crouton are looking out the window, watching the town arrive into view. It’s a cozy moment as they wind down from their day.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jul 2

Oh right. I should probably post art sometimes.

If you didn’t know, I have a club on KoFi called “Pal of the Month”, where I feature an animal and members of the club can get a sticker and trading card of that animal! This month is the Manchurian Black Bear!

An image mockup of a sticker and a trading card featuring the Manchurian Black Bear. The bear is mostly dark brown with a tan muzzle and a tan crescent shape on its neck.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jun 30

It feels like how a person feeling sick is bad but a person wearing a sick outfit is cool

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jun 30

Hey by the way, thanks yall for being so chill about the sticker club stuff. My job has been nuts and my car (which I need for said job) had a couple thousand dollars in repairs so I’ve been… having A Time ™️

Hopefully I can find some time to rest and actually pack up those stickers soon 😵‍💫

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jun 21

Damn, y’all are really considering including this slop huh? I’m going to reconsider a donation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Screenshot of iNaturalist’s donation page, where I was about to make a donation until I realized they were still going forward with GenAI. So, I filled in the honoree section to say “In memory of iNaturalist’s Integrity”, took a screenshot, and then didn’t donate.

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Seren🌷 @ieafy.bsky.social · Jun 19

Water types, my fav ☺️

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jun 16

“Katie why are you in this chair without me?”

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jun 15

You know, after I posted this, I was a little worried about how I specified he was Hispanic. It’s so common for white people to mention ethnicity for anyone other than white, even if it doesn’t matter for the story.

But seeing all the comments… yeah you know what? It does matter. Fuck ICE.

Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jun 15

Shoutout to the kind Hispanic man that jumpstarted my car in the auto store parking lot after I just had it jumpstarted at a client’s house by USAA to bring it to said auto store. He didn’t speak any English but he saw me crying and knocked on my window with a jump kit to help me

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jun 15

Yeah I have one now, but thanks!

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · Jun 15

Ah man, I was gonna leave my typical 🙃 type comment but then I got really sweet replies that reminded me to not lose sight of the good things.

Today sucked, I’m hemorrhaging money, and I feel like I’m trying to hold a Jenga tower together with tape but at least there are kind folks in the world 💕

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