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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Nov 28

I'm rebranding after more than a decade under my previous pseudonym. Find me @mossquail on Insta and Facebook, as well as my new website!

www.mossquail.com

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the worm zone @h0neymush.bsky.social · Sep 23

woahhh we are doing another edition of big little world, this time all about bog creatures + wetland ecosystems!!

A photo of a frog surrounded by cranberries, with a slightly edited caption to read “Frog and cranberries it must be time for big little world: bog babes”
submit at bit.ly/bogbabes
Call for submissions!
Big Little World is accepting submissions for our fall edition, Bog Babes! Submit your art, writing, photography- anything* about bog creatures & wetland ecosystems by OCTOBER 20th
*we do not accept Al generated submissions

Text boxes over a photo of moss and plants: FAQ!
What is Big Little World?
Big Little World, previously Bugs That Craw, is a collaborative art zine about appreciating all of Earth's organisms, big and small, and the diversity of different ecosystems.
What can I submit?
Any piece of art or writing that pertains to bogs and wetland ecosystems! Previous editions have featured primarily visual art, but all forms of human-made art can be submitted! We would love to have more written pieces, including short essays, poetry, and more! We do not accept Al generated work. Unsure if your piece can be submitted? Email Eliot at wormzoneprojects@gmail.com
Where can I view previous editions?
Digital copies of previous editions are available for free or pay-what-you-can at honeymush.itch.io/

the same photo of moss and plants behind a text box
FAQ! pt 2
Will l get my own physical copy?
While we'd love to get a physical copy out to all participants for free, this isn't always feasible; some of the previous editions have been entirely funded and produced by Elliot (@honeymush) and it ends up costing quite a bit to print and mail copies to each participant. Whether or not we can send out free copies this time will be announced at a later date. Regardless, all participants WILL receive free access to both the digital zine AND a printable version that artists are free to print and distribute themselves!
will I retain the rights to my work?
You are free to publish and reproduce your own work outside of the zine- We ask that you wait to publish your submission piece until closer to the zine's release in order to help promote the project's release!

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Aug 21

a group of soldiers are standing in a row wearing helmets and armor .

ALT: a group of soldiers are standing in a row wearing helmets and armor .

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Aug 21

I need to replay hollow knight so goddamn quick aaaaa

mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Aug 13

this is the wildest feeling in the world like what do you MEAN people live like this ?? all the time??

mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Aug 13

Hey #milwaukee art appreciators - there are some great markets coming up that I'll be vending at! Come say hi!

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BeeSky @lollibeepop.bsky.social · Aug 13

Another shirt design for the company I work for, Planter!

You all already know how passionate I am about leaving the leaves, so when one of my coworkers recommended I make a shirt highlighting some creatures that rely on leaves, I jumped on it.

An illustration that says "leaf some litter in your yard" that shows and bunch of leaves and creatures that use those leaves for their habitat. Creatures featured: Luna moth, wood frog, firefly (with larvae), Eastern box turtle, American bumblebee, isopod, red salamander, ring necked snake

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Aug 12

We got hit by the flooding in MKE and the sewer backed up into our basement :') thankfully it was only an inch of water and we didn't lose anything important, but cleanup is such a huge effort. Decompressing by working on salvaging an old friend who got a bit damp and needs a bath

Photo of a deflated cheetah plushie on the ground next to a bag full of stuffing, a seam ripper, and old medicine bottles filled with the plastic nurdles that were in her feet

The plushie skin turned inside out, looking rather unfortunate

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Jul 26

Undertale memories submission with a pixel depiction of the mossquail icon that reads: "More than anything, the characters of UNDERTALE really meant a lot to me. They're so silly and vibrant, and feel like good friends. -Chelsea"

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Jul 21

Sorry I've been so quiet, it's been busy! Here's something I made for my May bullet journal cover!

Marker drawing of a Snowberry Clearwing moth flying to feed from some Virginia Bluebells. Nearby, some Large Bellwort and Shooting Star flowers add an extra pop of yellow and pink to the scene, which fades off to a very light, desaturated backdrop in the distance

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Jul 23

That's awesome, they're all such lovely plants and it's so cool that your aunt had so many of them on hand!! "My" swamp milkweed (peeking out through my neighbor's fence line but I keep re-seeding it there) had a visitor earlier this season c:

Swamp milkweed with flower buds starting to form. A monarch caterpillar is tucked in between a few leaves

mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Jul 23

That's so cool !!

mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Jul 22

I've never seen one of these bugs before, what a cool find! Thanks for sharing c:

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alicia 🍳 lightbox expo 727 @acorviart.bsky.social · Jul 21

another owl

#ceramics drop on july 26, 2pm cdt

Ceramic wall hanging with a line illustration of an owl and rat, bordered by plants.

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Jul 21

seconding this big time!!!

mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Jul 21

(tbh Googy lens does half the work for me, it's definitely not infallible because it's just pulling up visual matches and I need to check that against actual verified IDs on bugguide or iNat but it usually points me in the right direction!)

mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Jul 21

Hell yeah glad the bug people liked the weird girlie!!

mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Jul 21

Sorry I've been so quiet, it's been busy! Here's something I made for my May bullet journal cover!

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Jul 21

This was such a cool read and I loved getting to see the evolution of the design and the final lockups, especially the patch. Thanks for sharing!

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Kelly Bastow @moosekleenex.bsky.social · Jun 23

add yours!

a watercolor comic of 'stuff in nature I always stop to look at' mossy rocks, a little stream, a tree that fell over, dappled lighting

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · Mar 23

One of my friends called them ham chunks 😔

Hand holding a bunch of tiny pink unmounted stamps. They sure do look like little ham chunks

Orange cat sniffing a container full of the not ham chunks

Photo of the previously unmounted stamps now attached to tiny wooden cubes and arranged stamp side up on a table. Carving tools are visible in the background

Stamps arranged by design with the handle/design side up. Designs include two different sizes of paw prints, some mushrooms, acorns, leaves, and feathers, as well as some critters like frogs, snails, snakes, mice, and shrimp.

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · May 29

I'm. I brought this to work on while waiting for a friend's meeting to be done but forgot the markers. very smart

Sketchbook page depicting a half- finished illustration of a snowberry clearwing moth surrounded by shooting star, bellwort, and Virginia bluebell flowers

mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · May 15

RAUCOUS APPLAUSE !!!!!

mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · May 14

frog :)

mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · May 14

The wood poppy (above) Virginia bluebells and Golden Alexander are all in my yard and I'm so thrilled to finally see the native plants getting established and being happy in the space I choose for them :')))

Virginia bluebells - delicate indigo colored bell shaped flowers in large clusters. A few closed buds are tinged with pink

Prairie trillium - small burgundy flower with three upwards-pointing petals that come together at the tips. At the base of the flower are three large leaves with a variety of shades of green in a somewhat camo pattern look.

Cutleaf toothwort - spike of small white bell-shaped flowers coming up from a base of leaves with many sharp, deep lobes, almost as though the leaf has been deeply cut

Heart-leaved Golden Alexander - many stems, each tipped with a cluster of tiny yellow flowers, emerging from a base of many glossy heart-shaped leaves

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · May 14

I've been a bit too busy to make much lately which is bumming me out but here are some native plants I've seen in the past couple of weeks

Bloodroot - White flower with yellow center framed by a large many-lobed leaf

Sharp-lobed hepatica - violet colored flower with white center held on a thin fuzzy stem, blurry somewhat pointed leaves in the background

Wood poppy - golden colored flower with four wide, ruffled petals. More flower buds in the background, many green leaves with shallow lobes at the base of the plant

Jack-in-the-pulpit - very unusual vase-shaped light green flower made from a single bract (leaf) that wraps around itself to form a tall cylinder coming off of the stem that then opens and flares at the top, the tip of the bract gently folding over the opening of the 'vase.' Peeking over the inner edge of the vase is a single thick green structure called a spadix, which stands against rich burgundy stripes on the inner side of the bract.

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