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satyrmagos.bsky.social
JS Groves
@satyrmagos.bsky.social
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author * artist * sorcerer * madman
pronouns = xie/xir
Magical jeweler and occult blogger. Novelist and photographer.
Some of my art is naked, all of it is queer.

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · Mar 1
Hello, bsky!
I'm Jeffrey, a queer and genderqueer multidisciplinary artist operating out of Kansas City, MO, USA.

I'm a jeweler, a novelist, an illustrator, a photographer, an occult blogger, and a public ritualist.

You can find my links in my profile (above) and in the thread below.

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self portrait of the artist, a bald and bearded enby, wearing a blue linen shirt and a rainbow scarf, standing in a brightly lit empty ballroom
satyrmagos.bsky.social
Lost in the Spiderwood Chapter Eighteen
wordcount = 40k/50k

just need another 5k words today and tomorrow to pull a #NaNoWriMo victory out of my ass this year

#NaNoWriMo2025 #FirstDraftFall #AmWriting

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NaNoWriMo Draft: Lost in the Spiderwood: Chapter Eighteen | JS Groves
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November 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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pansexualsasquatch.bsky.social
Model: Blair (they/he)

Fellow enbys both AFAB AND AMAB are my comrades and muses.
#QueerArt #Portrait #ENBY #Photography #Nonbinarymodel
Blair is a Bi-Racial, gender fluid enby with long brown curly hair and a goatee. Eyes closed and painted with glittery silver eyeshadow. Image is from the chest up. They are shirtless and leaning against a tree near a lake, their arms above their head grasping the tree behind them.
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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sygnin.com
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Art of a woman looking straight at viewer. She has a veil over her head and wears a Victorian looking dress Art of my OC Fen with a sword over his shoulder
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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nheiraashford.com
!!

nheiraashford.com
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A digitally painted portrait of an Egyptian man staring head on at the viewer. He has dull gold eyes and and olive toned skin paired with a head of dark brown hair. His hair is long and falls in loose curls around his shoulders, streaked with chunks of dark gray throughout. This matches the patterning in his beard where there are a fair few streaks of gray. He has several scars; three of which are either completely or partially visible. What accessories he wears comes in the form of jewelry; two silvery discs hang from his ears, around his neck is a solid band of silver and beneath that are two chunky silver pendants. The only other visible piece is the crescent moon hanging over his temple. Much of this is hidden beneath two dark swaths of fabric. One, a dark brown, nearly black scarf draped over his head and another slightly darker piece wrapped around his temple. A digital portrait painting of a woman; her hair is a soft pastel pink with her natural dark brown roots showing through at the top of her head. Her eyes are mix of very soft faded green and vibrant pink, matching her hair. She wears a pair of simple black pearl earrings, accompanied by a smaller set. The only visible part of her outfit is the semi-transparent top portion of her shirt. A digital painting of a female character with mint green hair. Her hair is tied up partly in buns on either side of her head with locks hanging loose from them. Her eyes are the same mint green color and appear very vibrant. The outfit she wears is black and white; black base with white bows ( matching the ones pinned to her hair buns ). A digitally painted portrait of a long haired character with shimmering gold scales all over his face, neck and shoulders. He has illuminated horns and eyes, piercingly bright. His hair starts as a very dark brown, almost black and fades out to a lighter brown towards the ends.
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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nheiraashford.com
!! SILENT WEEKEND ART SHARE !!

Its been a while since I hosted one, so I think now is a good time. 👌

- Keep it SFW!
- Alt text preferred!
- Tag friends! ( not required )
- Interact! ( if you have the spoons )
- No NFT/AI/Crypto shit. Or else.

#artshare #artistsupport #art
A headshot of a black character with his locs tied up in a bun style atop his head. He's wearing wide necked shirt that dips down in the centre ( black dashiki with simple gold embroidery ). His eyes are a bright, shimmering gold with a black pupil which matches the jewelry on his ears and in his hair. The pair of collar style necklaces he wears are a highly polished gld, matching the rest of his jewelry. The text on the image reads " WEEKEND ART SHARE!! © 2025 NHEIRA ASHFORD https://nheiraashford.com "
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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vladhat.bsky.social
I believe I currently have one of these linocuts left and it's 20% off with the code TEPES for the next few days.

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#bsnm #blackfrday #art #artsky #printsky #printmaking #crafts #traditionalart #blockprint #witchsky #occult #ink
Linoprint of two robed figures in a temple with a black goat. They are carrying a cup and censors. There are lanterns hanging above them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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nightwandererart.bsky.social
'Le Pendu'

From June 2025.

I'm a chronic project starter and I never finish anything because it takes a century to do it because I have to sell the majority of my life to do office bitch work. All that to say I abandoned the tarot deck idea.

#art #darkfantasy #illustration #folklore #tarot
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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solexposure.bsky.social
Last call! This lovely, whimsical framed print set from Kansas is already on sale, but I’ll take an additional $25 off if you grab it this week! Last set available. www.sol-exposure.com/product/kans...
Kansas Polaroid Print Set – Framed
Two 8×10 prints, on true photographic paper, developed with chemistry (not an inkjet print). Part of my Kansas series. Matted in white 11″x14″ mats & framed in 11″x14&#82…
www.sol-exposure.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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deetheredwitch.bsky.social
Fuck that noise, do it even if you're old. I learned tattooing at 43. I learned editing and publishing at 46.

There is always still time to do or learn new stuff.
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 2d
I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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warmleatherette.com
also if you used to love doing something you can always pick it back up!!! i stopped doing leatherwork for 10 years before i got back into it and look at me now

you can always brush off the rust and start again, it’s never too late to be creative and make things
sordideuphemism.bsky.social And I, Andi 🏳️‍⚧️ @sordideuphemism.bsky.social · 1d
All of this. Write. Make. Create. Try. KEEP TRYING. Do new things. BE new things. Reinvent yourself every second Tuesday. Reinvent Tuesdays. Change your *name* to Tuesday. There is no age limit on becoming more than you once were, loving more than you once could, or being happier and more fulfilled!
deetheredwitch.bsky.social Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 1d
Fuck that noise, do it even if you're old. I learned tattooing at 43. I learned editing and publishing at 46.

There is always still time to do or learn new stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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micahseacole.bsky.social
#Sketch - Kyriakos

Inconsolable.

#MicahsOCs #ArtSky #OCSky #DigitalArt
digital sketch, Kyriakos, a scrawny mythological sphinx, sitting on the ground crying, utterly distraught.
November 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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clpolk.com
If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder

And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
satyrmagos.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.

Uncle Dirtytoes
Metallica
Evanescence
Nightwish
Tom Petty
gardenofgrigoryeva.bsky.social Fae Grigoryeva @gardenofgrigoryeva.bsky.social · 2d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.

L7
Beastie Boys
Faun
Gwar
Okilly Dokilly
tellingetienne.bsky.social Etienne Telling, Erotica Hooligan @tellingetienne.bsky.social · 2d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

Vienna Teng
Hoizer
The Mountain Goats
The Decemberists
Great Big Sea
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
satyrmagos.bsky.social
Short of an isolated wilderness, there's nowhere I'd rather be on Thanksgiving than in my own art studio
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
satyrmagos.bsky.social
a couple years into her graduate work, a friend from college reached out to me to thank me for being a chill, safe presence who could be counted on to take care of people at parties, and to tell me that she'd realized what I'd been doing when she took on that role for her new younger friends.
ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🍂 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · Oct 24
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
satyrmagos.bsky.social
Lost in the Spiderwood Chapter Sixteen
wordcount = 35,795

my chances of victory are slim, but i'm still having a lot of fun

#AmWriting #NaNoWriMo #FirstDraftFall #NaNoWriMo2025

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NaNoWriMo Draft: Lost in the Spiderwood: Chapter Sixteen | JS Groves
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November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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sundaycreature.bsky.social
A friendly reminder that I have some fantastic jewelry for sale, if you're looking for a lovely gift for someone this holiday season! Thread starts here with pictures of everything - there might be one or two things already sold so please email at [email protected] if anything interests you!
sundaycreature.bsky.social Eldritch Millennial @sundaycreature.bsky.social · Jul 22
First, a few pendants (plus one set), all in copper! I love working in copper because I think it oxidizes quite appealingly. It also has some antimicrobial properties! The leaf is $35, the spider set is $50, and that beautiful rattlesnake is $75
A copper pendant in the shape of a diamondback rattlesnake. It is curled up so that its head rests on its tail. It has etched details that have been patinaed and polished to show off the design. A copper pendant in the shape of a drip-tip leaf, with a blue teardrop bead hanging from the tip like a drop of water. A necklace and earring set in copper with red crystal beads. The necklace is a spider holding a large bead between its front legs. The earrings are long and dangly with a smaller bead in the middle and another, larger one at the end
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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shawnlenore.bsky.social
If you actually want to read my comic, visit howtobeawerewolf.com! and if you want to read this particular part of the comic, www.howtobeawerewolf.com/comic/we-did...
How to Be a Werewolf
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
howtobeawerewolf.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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shawnlenore.bsky.social
Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you

(Okay, it's a comic page, but I make comics, so...)
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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agirlcalledlina.bsky.social
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there is NO reason any of us should have to "thrive in a fast paced environment" or "work well under pressure." most of our daily work is not an emergency and our culture of fake urgency and immediacy just to make more profit for people in the c-suite is burning people out. stop sending people into fight or flight and expecting them to bend over backward because you dont know how plan or manage resources properly
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
satyrmagos.bsky.social
My latest astrological image is now up on Patreon!

www.patreon.com/posts/144477...
Image of Mercury According to Mercurius | JS Groves
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November 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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diannalgunn.bsky.social
You talking about my books, or the books of any author you love, goes exponentially further than that author talking about their own books, especially on social media where your posts can go viral

I mean. Remember Bigolas Dickolas?
cardamomaddict.bsky.social Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 3d
FWIW: Mention books you like or you think others might like. You never know what'll happen:

I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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daughterofmercury.bsky.social
Gonna have to start forging my plowshares back into swords soon I think.

Also cat
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
satyrmagos.bsky.social
Lost in the Spiderwood Chapter Fifteen
wordcount = 33,348 / 50,000
#NaNoWriMo #NaNoWriMo2025 #FirstDraftFall #AmWriting
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NaNoWriMo Draft: Lost in the Spiderwood: Chapter Fifteen | JS Groves
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November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM