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@dirtsecret.bsky.social

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several creatures | tired artist & musician | friend to animals and the moon 🌘 30s she•her https://linktr.ee/dirtsecret

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hi folksss... Stuff with my tax situation from my old game job got way worse so Im going ahead and making a gofundme to try and get help from my community. Im super grateful to any help I can get with this in these tough times <3
www.gofundme.com/f/support-wr...

Donate to Support Wren: Overcoming Tax Debt Crisis, organized by Wren Farren

Hello! My name is Wren, I'm a poor, queer, transfem artist and game developer fro… Wren Farren needs your support for Support Wren: Overcoming Tax Debt Crisis

www.gofundme.com

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 15h

The IRS has been breathing down my back super heavily with this whole thing, so if i can even get it to $25k soon that will get them to ease up on me a bit and be able to do lower monthly payments ;;

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 15h

sghjdfghjsdfhjg asking for help is so hard!!!!!!!!!!!

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 15h

Hey folks! Ive gotten an astonishing amount of support on this and I've been able to pay off 46% of this debt so far! Sadly im still way in the red with the huge monthly payments rn and struggling to get by. I could still really use some help with this awful tax situation <3

gofund.me/a4053bb4b

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Polito @polito-hhh.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Polito @polito-hhh.bsky.social · Aug 31

run, run!

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Polito @polito-hhh.bsky.social · 25d

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Shimi ·⃝⃤ @shimi.bsky.social · 5d

Dear #Therians finding it hard to reach or reclaim your creaturely selves… this one is for you. Put it aside for when you struggle.

That Light Inside You…
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THAT LIGHT INSIDE YOU

That “hole” we sometimes feel in the center of us? It isn’t emptiness. It’s a light. A core. It’s what remains when every human costume forced upon us has been smashed off the floor — the pulse that refuses to die even when we forget how to listen for it. It’s a tiny space… that’s why it often feels: quiet, unreachable, hidden beneath trauma, scar tissue or silence. But it’s never truly gone.

We may meet creatures who tell us they’ve felt distant from their creaturely and animal selves; that their connection used to burn brighter, but now it flickers. I want to remind you — as the elder wolf at the table, (tending her own light) — in the midst of everything terrible and wonderful — flickering is still fire.

The disconnection isn’t a failure; it’s a season. The creature self can go underground like hibernation. The light doesn’t vanish; it waits. You can’t force it open with willpower or rationalise it into the open. You reach it by remembering softness — the warmth of breath, the weight of fur — imagined or real — the rhythm that existed before words before human thought before guilt and shame.

There were times I thought I’d lost my light too — when the world grew so impossibly loud in my head and the human masks became too heavy to lift. But every time I’ve fallen quiet enough, the light has stirred, and I’ve known she was still there: the creaturely ember that endures even when the rest of me forgets how to howl.

If you feel nothing right now, that’s OK! The light doesn’t demand anything; it simply is. Touch the earth. Breathe. Feel the wind move across your skin. Cry, bark, purr, shout, weep. Creature will feel it. It always does.

That light was never a hole to fill — it is the part of us that remembers what we truly are: whole, creatures of light and love, wild, beautiful and free — waiting to be met again.

And if it flickers and splutters? Fear not. That light inside you will come back. It never went away.

— Shimi & Critter

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Erin Roseberry @ SBCF & SLICE 65B @roseberrycomix.bsky.social · 8d

Fallen into the Garden 🐶🐺
out now on @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social

Promotional graphic for Fallen into the Garden showing two canid like aliens in a field of flowers. Text reads: hey what if i was a wolf and you were a dog but aliens and you crash landed on my planet and your scent smelled like the flowers i was in a species wide symbiotic reproductive relationship with and we were both girls? Fallen into the garden Oct 1-31 shortbox comics fair.

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Athanors (Lin) @buttoven.bsky.social · 14d

Meet me on the dance floor! Shortbox comics fair is live. www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 5d

What're we even supposed to do with all this

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 6d

playing a dark ambient synth show for halloween on the 25th!

Impact! Foundation @impactraves.org · 9d

🎃👻 The dream turns to nightmare as noise, digital hardcore, piercing screams, and fuzzed-out drums break your eardrums at Impact!’s October closer. 👻🎃

Tickets below 👇🎟️

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 6d

SO EXCITED FOR THIS! i think about ur shortbox comic from last year a LOT

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Impact! Foundation @impactraves.org · 9d

🎃👻 The dream turns to nightmare as noise, digital hardcore, piercing screams, and fuzzed-out drums break your eardrums at Impact!’s October closer. 👻🎃

Tickets below 👇🎟️

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe when my debt is cleared up I can figure out organizing small creative retreats in nature...

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 7d

Need to find ways to share and spread this kind of energy and connection with others in my community....

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 7d

Just continuing to confirm that I'm a weird wild animal that belongs out in nature with other creatures. Being out there barefoot, swimming naked in lakes, foraging, learning to mimic birds, and drawing plants is the only thing that makes me feel anything anymore

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 7d

I've been spending so much consistent time in the pnw wilderness this year and Everytime it gets harder to come back to stuff. Being out there just puts so much into perspective and makes everything back here feel fake, chaotic and meaningless

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 7d

was out on quadra island for a week communing with nature and reconnecting with my art and spirituality with some other creatives and it was... so hard to leave

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 7d

ough im back in civilization... overwhelmed... lots of art and thoughts to share...

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 17d

I had a dream like this....

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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 17d

Day 27 of #septempera - the connoisseur.

Painting of a boar in a sweater with a mushroom basket, holding and smelling a mushroom.

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 18d

i wish the bike lanes on my way to work had speed boost bars like in mario kart... these hills are insane

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 19d

yeah! ill post about it on my patreon! link is on my profile

wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 19d

going on a womens artist retreat on Quadra Island for like a week this week... super excited... need to unpack and figure out all my baggage with making art

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 19d

yeah..... good dynamic