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Echo Mary

@echomary.bsky.social

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Linktr.ee/EchoMary Artist, agrarian, jack of all trades. 33 year old PNW enby. Expect art, ecological restoration, gardening and critters. Partner is Marandart.bsky.social 💝 Bigots and fascists fuck off.

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Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · Dec 22

The way people react to seeing my workspace inspired me to make a video about it!
So here it is, my welding nook.

youtube.com/shorts/5fKN8...

My Welding Nook

YouTube video by Echo Mary

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 13m

"Wild Raven" 2025, MIG Welding Wire on Reclaimed Steel, Collaboration between M. Cromwell and @echomary.bsky.social

A portrait of a raven cut out of metal with a very wild and textural mane

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Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 8m

I've kinda just accepted that my debt will haunt me for the rest of my life unless our government is reformed.
Rich people can default on million dollar loans for shitty business ideas and then file for bankruptcy, but WE can't file for bankruptcy???? Fuck that shit straight to hell.

Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 8m

I know what you mean. It feels like a losing battle no matter what. Ive been poor enough for long enough that my income-driven repayment plan was at a monthly payment of $0 for a long time but Joe Biden made it so that plan is cancelled so now its only a mater of time before it goes to collections.

Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 1h

Student loan debt must be eliminated. I hate that for you.

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mimill💖🛸 @mimillmon.bsky.social · 25d

HEALTHY AND FRESH!

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mimill💖🛸 @mimillmon.bsky.social · Aug 10

will anyone believe u?

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🌾 bull 🌾 @xylographica.bsky.social · 2d

the sky looked white, the water like wine

A photo of a black and white woodcut print of a human figure sitting on the ground, a flame burning in their cupped hands. A large black bull lays behind them, his head overlapping theirs so they share it. His eyes sparkle in the light of the flame. In between his horns is a crescent moon and 6 stars.

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Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 1d

Thaaaaaaaaanks 🥰

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Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 1d

Maranda and I went on a walk and found chanterelles and a lobster which is really cool because it's also our 8th anniversary 💝💕

A photo of a hand holding a big lobster mushroom.

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Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 1d

Maranda, after I explained the left side of the meme: These people just want to get dommed, they should just get into weird sex and then they wouldn't think like this.

Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 2d

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Karlos the Frociaggine @karlosthefog.bsky.social · 2d

I still stand ten toes down on this statement even after I got death threats on Twitter about it. Writing off the south continues to birth resentment and a further divide that shouldn’t even be there. They want a division to make it easier to continue regressive bullshit. Stop. Falling. For. It.

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 1d

"Neko Venus" 2025, MIG Welding Wire on Scrap Steel, collab between M. Cromwell & @echomary.bsky.social
Celebrating our favorite paleolithic lady.

A metal sculpture made to resemble the Venus of Willendorf in all her gigantic round glory

A close up of the textured head, cat ears, and anodized color shifting

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 1d

YEAH! My partner Echo and I have been collaborating to make these metal critters! I sketch them, and they cut them out and weld them. Check out the new stock available, listed to help us make up for the loss of income from needing to skip BLFC.
www.marandart.com/s/shop

An announcement graphic with the website www.marandartcom, Metal Art & More! featuring images of metal animals made by the artists

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Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 3d

His condition seems to be stabilizing fow now, thank goodness. Hopefully that trend continues.
But yeah, omg, everything just keeps on happening for the last several days, a lot of death, and I didn't get to bed last night until 9am this morning and then I was up again at noon. Shit's very whack.

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Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 3d

BLFC is usually a large chunk of our annual income so this is a pretty dire situation, and any help or support would be GREATLY appreciated.
We're going to update shop listings and get our recent collabs on there, and then work our asses off to recover from this while we keep taking care of Nebby ❤️‍🩹

M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 3d

Important update: Echo and I will not be at #BLFC as planned. Alt txt/ img for details.

Hi everyone, life update from Laughing Coyote Homestead.
Not only are we grieving the loss of several members of our chicken flock, including beautiful Brave, a rooster I raised from hatching 5 years ago, but life has thrown us an even harder curve ball.
Last night, moments after we pulled our 8-year anniversary pie out of the oven, Echo and I noticed our cat, Nebby, in distress. Turns out that the coolest, sweetest cat in the world had his very first bout of urinary crystals. The night before we were to leave on a 2 day road trip to BLFC. We must attend conventions to pay our bills-- and they're our only chance to see many of our found family and closest friends-- but now, we have to stay home. We must watch over Nebby, administer meds, and find ways to increase his fluid intake to prevent this from happening in the future. I knew male cats struggled with this problem, but even my best at prevention wasn't enough. It is what it is.
We must allow ourselves to love, even if it hurts sometimes.

So. What this means for us is we'll be working harder to make cool art from home, running sales and maybe streams and opening commissions, so we can make it through to January for Further Confusion. (We may not even get selling tables there, either, but will shoot for what we can.) Our life is a financial hopscotch from convention to art fair to convention, and missing a step is going to be quite a leap indeed.

If you appreciate what Echo and I do, whether it be the experimental art, farming, local political activism, or what have you, now would be a fantastic time to help. There’s also lots of inexpensive digital downloads on my PayHip, where you can get crafts to make, sketchbook compilations, and ebooks. Anything helps to recoup the cost of needing to miss a huge chunk of our yearly income. Thank you for your support: the only reason our studio runs at all is because of you. And now it's time to get to work! Stay tuned for announcements for shop sales and commission openings.

www.marandart.com/s/shop
https://payhip.com/MCromwell
https://ko-fi.com/marandart

A tuxedo cat half in a carrier, two hands (ours) holding his head and paw

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DF! (WOLF MONTH!) @dragonfireny.bsky.social · 3d

Hey

So this is capitalism trying to take a foothold in our community.

They see a market, and they want a piece.

If they get one, they'll want more, they'll start trying to show up at cons to sell us garbage

They'll insert plants into our community (which I bet are already here now) --->

Spazzy 📎 @spazzy.bsky.social · 5d

Between this and the Spirit Halloween masks, it's amusing but also the nightmare of furry going mainstream. 💀

Gross furry shirts at Spencer's. s: @R0rek (X)

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Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks sooo muuuuch!

Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 4d

Goat!
Another collab with @marandart.bsky.social =3

A small welded metal sculpture of a buck goat.

The underlying sketch of the goat on a piece of sheet metal.

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Nikki 'Samyazan Scion' Ophan @nikkiophan.bsky.social · 6d

as the world gets worse you need to look at more bugs. it will help, in a cosmic sort of way. there's little animals around you that you can look at as they do little animal things. look a bug as soon as possible. connect with other animal in this way and know

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Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 6d

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 7d

“Can you tell me what's in the middle there?”
“It's a bullet, right?”
“Yep, that's the bullet that killed the goat!”

Art and quote from interview with @echomary.bsky.social

Graphic Media Label for artistic bloody imagery

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Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 6d

Now for wall hanging!

A photo of the back of the sculpture, showing a wall hanging apparatus.

Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 6d

Yessss I'm so excited to finish her!

Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 6d

Whaaaaaaa!!!! Thank u fren 😭

Echo Mary @echomary.bsky.social · 6d

Up next.... =3

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