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M. Cromwell

@marandart.bsky.social

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Independent Artist & Writer. Funny Animal Person. Tending 5 acres of Squaxin land. (Sometimes NSFW, always tagged.) Kill Capitalism. 34 • 🏳️‍🌈 agender/any pronouns 🏳️‍⚧️ • WA, USA • Gallery & Shop: www.marandart.com 💖 echomary.bsky.social 💖

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · May 4

✨ We are Animals, Animals are Us. ✨

Animalfolk find their place in the world in my traditional mixed media explorations and fiction writing. Sometimes silly, sometimes serious, always real.

To support our studio (100% of our income), check out my site at www.marandart.com

A moody painting of an anthro boer goat on a vibrant red and violet abstract field

A borzoi man and sphynx man, in gold and coppery green, shift through and past one another

A coyote figure in blue, red, green, and ochre yellow flexes their large and stylized hands, rendered in gestural and painterly strokes

A white coyote person looks behind them at their shiny latex-clad buttocks, painted on a scrap of leather

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 9h

Trash Book is lookin' pretty nuts nowadays. It weighs 4 pounds, mostly from countless layers of acrylic and varnish on top... But also there's a metal guy glued into it...

A scruffy lookin well-loved handmade book

The cover of said book, red and yellow with spots of blue, collaged and stickered and with things glued to it, it reads "the trash book" in mismatched stickers and letter stamps

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 4h

🥲 I MISS U DESERT

M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 5h

Hehehehe yayyyy enjoy your coloring! ♥ Thanks Sketti, I appreciate it a bunch.

M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 5h

Life is so much better with a little guy!!!

M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 8h

Oh my goddddd they're so cute!!!

M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks :3

M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 8h

Hit me up if you ever want bookbinding tips!

M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 8h

He's so worth it 😭 I can't believe how cool he is 💖 thank you friend

Echo holding Nebby like a lil baby being sooooo cuuuute

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 9h

Sounds like the desert will help it, ha!

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Stigmata 🤟🐵🚯@BLFC DD @jonathanvair.bsky.social · 1d

"Meet Me At The Old Church" 2014-2025
Alchemy + PS

Free post about demons and post-Christian baggage:
www.patreon.com/posts/meet-m...

Digital painting, two demons embrace in a church, where a corner has collapsed and exposed the building's interior. Overcast, grassy fields. A small altar in in the shaded side of the building

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 15h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Biggest Little Fur Con @goblfc.org · 12h

Contestants

If you're driving to BLTV Studios from California, we recommend taking a moment to check up on the weather & road conditions before heading our way

Stay safe and drive safe!

#BLFC2025

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 9h

Yoooooo this slaps

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 9h

This autumn is testing many of us. Sorry to hear it's hard for you rn. Remember the people who love you and stay strong 💖

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 9h

The Nebby is feeling much better after much wet food and meds. He's peed without pain, so we're all happy about that! Big thanks to everyone supporting us. Creature together strong. 💖💪

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you!

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Trash Book is lookin' pretty nuts nowadays. It weighs 4 pounds, mostly from countless layers of acrylic and varnish on top... But also there's a metal guy glued into it...

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 9h

That's what we keep saying, if we hadn't been there, he could have gotten worse and died 😨 thankful we caught it early. I've never been happier to see a cat comfortably peeing than this morning lol 💖 thanks Domino!

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Covid Safe Furs 🔜 BLFC @covidsafefurs.org · 1d

Jonathan Vair Illustration @jonathanvair.bsky.social will also be helping with #BLFC2025 Dealers' Den distribution, so you can pick up masks and tests at table 309-310!

Don't miss our interview with him on our website: covidsafefurs.org/2025/04/06/i...

Interview with Jonathan Vair - Covid Safe Furs

We’re honored to have our first interview with Jonathan Vair Duncan, long-time professional furry artist and soon-to-be guest of honor at Furry Weekend Atlanta. Besides their art, Jonathan and his par...

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

Thankfully he's improving so far, responding well to medication and lots and lots of wet food. ♥️

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

Thank you friend! I'm so sad to not see you this time around urrrgh but yeah, Nebby is worth it, he rules. I hope BLFC treats you good!!

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

Thank you everyone that's helped us, with words or material needs, we appreciate y'all so much. 💖
It'll be a hard couple months, but we're trying to lean into it. Will do many therapeutic bonfires and bong rips.

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

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

It hurrrrrts. :( But thank you for the support, it helps. 💖

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

Thank you, I look forward to that, we'll be with y'all in spirit ✨

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

Thank you friend, I appreciate it. 💖 Thankfully he's a good lad and has taken his meds so far without incident, and we'll be practicing more ways of getting fluids in them going forward.