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Mara

@thecatfreaky.bsky.social

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Queer disabled artist | chronic pain connoisseur | AuDHD | likes colors and kindness they/she Also me: @maracunt.bsky.social https://ko-fi.com/thecatfreaky Long press for #art <- 🚫NO AI🚫 I'm blocking genAI users See pinned thread for more about me

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Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · Jun 22

This is an introduction thread for my account:

I'm Mara, a queer and disabled artist interested in a lot of things.

Currently I'm focusing on lino prints and rubber stamps.

If you can, I would love some support via ko-fi.com/thecatfreaky.
(I sell art there too)

Long press for my #art

Support TheCatfreaky

Support TheCatfreaky

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 6h

Liebe deine Farben heute 😁💕

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Stempel Su @stempelsu.bsky.social · 7h

Noch ein blind gezeichnetes Portrait.
Ich kann nur sagen: probiert es aus!
Augen zu und Stift in die Hand. Ihr werdet überrascht sein, was da entsteht.
Ich fand dieses Portrait zuerst zu düster. Mittlerweile finde ich‘s gut
#blindportrait #kleinekunstklasse
#mixedmediacollage #artwork

Portrait(blind gezeichnet)
Deswegen asymmetrisch
In Blau-Gelb- Grüntönen. Rötliche Erdfarbe verlaufen

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Oni @onidraws.bsky.social · 19h

Why genAI exists when you see all the talented artists in portfolio day? I truly cannot understand (except I can, and it's because it's cheaper or people are lazy).

But yeah, please know that all of you artists, creators, even if you didn't post today, rule 💖✨

AI sucks ass.

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 8h

🙃❤️‍🩹

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 8h

😮‍💨❤️‍🩹

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 8h

(As you might be able to guess, this is more of a real life physicist explanation of her, since I never really watched her videos or heard a lot about her online, just offline during university. Until she posted terf stuff.)

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 8h

She started(?) expressing some weird opinions in other stuff. Like being transphobic or pro capitalism.

And as often with these kind of scientists, she presents her own opinion as facts. (She already did that before, but most people didn't realize, because it was about physics.)

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 8h

Not an expert, but:

She's a physicist who does science videos and is good at explaining. But physicists (at least the ones I know) don't really respect her, because she also does a lot of pseudoscience and such and has science opinions that are just very controversial if not wrong.

At some point

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 22h

It’s #PortfolioDay! I’m a multidisciplinary artist whose visual work is #SciArt #symptomatology and #anatomy #embroidery. I’m also a writer and composer.

If you’d like to support what I do, you can tip me on ko-fi ko-fi.com/lia_pas

Stars within, stars without (2017). Face detial . An embroidery on ochre linen. There is the outline of a head and neck. There are blue filigree lines coming from the sides of the head outline towards the centre of the face. A fine off white line outlines the head and moves down the neck and out along the arms. On the centre chest is a cluster of off-white crosses and a few sparse crosses are around the head and shoulders as well.

woman in skull (2016)

An embroidery on bone coloured linen of the inside of a human skull looking down from a cut open top done in thin black thread. The textures make it look like the Vesalius woodcut it is based on. In the bottom left corner of the skull there is the tiny silhouette of a woman done in bronze thread.

Autumnal Mitosis Sampler (2024)

Two cells dividing embroidered on off white linen. A circle of brown stem stitch is the cell membrane, the corona radiata is in bright orangey yellow zig zag chain stitch. The edges of the dividing cells are in bright orange split stitch. The nucleolus of each cell is in bright yellow bullion stitch. The cytoplasm is stitched in variegated orange/brown thread in a mix of seed stitch and French knots. Lia’s initials are stitched in off white whipped back stitch.

thrum (2016)

An embroidery on off-white linen. A thyroid cartilage is stitched in thick black thread like a woodcut. Below it the word “thrum” is stitched in ochre thread in a type-like font. To the bottom right the initials L.P. are stitched in thin thread the same colour as the linen.

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 19h

😭😭
Pass auf dich auf ❤️

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 19h

Es klingt wirklich nicht so, als würde dir das gut tun... 😬❤️‍🩹

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 19h

❤️‍🩹

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 20h

Nötig wäre um jemanden nicht zu misgendern.

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 20h

Das tut mir echt leid.

Ich sag das nicht als Rechtfertigung oder Entschuldigung, nur als Zusatz zu deinem, dass du extra den Profilnamen dazu machst: ich persönlich gehe nie vorher auf das Profil. Schon gar nicht, wenn ich es noch extra suchen müsste.
Wäre natürlich gut, wenn das auch gar nicht

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Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 23h

It's #portfolioday!!

I'm Julian, a queer 🏳️‍⚧️ illustrator from the foggy Finger Lakes of Upstate NY. I work in traditional gouache & promise I know colors that aren't green. I'm rep'd by Naomi Davis @ BookEnds Literary!

🌿 julianplum.com
🐌 [email protected]

#kidlitart #picturebooks #illustration

A lush, intricate gouache painting featuring many leaves in different colors and textures, plus native birds, insects, flowers, and seeds.

A gouache painting featuring a grasshopper sparrow sitting among a riot of pastel wildflowers. Behind it a gray birch reaches into a blue sky.

A crop from a painting featuring a windswept brown-haired girl gently holding an egg, looking up in the direction of the wind at the legs of a crane taking off above her.

Gouache painting featuring a cross-section of a garden: above the earth, radish leaves are covered in ladybugs; below the earth, radishes, roots, and earthworms are visible in the dirt.

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Anton ☾ @antonarcana.gay · 1d

As I’m sure is obvious from today’s rambles, shit’s rough today after what happened to me a few days ago. Eating feels impossible, but I know I need to. If you’ve enjoyed my doodles, helping me eat something would be very appreciated today. No pressure as always though ❤️

ko-fi.com/antonarcana

Support Anton 🌙🌿🍄

Support Anton 🌙🌿🍄

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 22h

Tbh weiß ich gar nicht, ob man das Profil angucken kann, bevor man das Dankeschön schreibt. Nur als Zusatzinfo. Also selbst wenn es möglich ist, ist es eig nicht unbedingt vorgesehen oder zumindest nicht offensichtlich.

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 22h

Glaube es geht um die Dankesnachricht für eine erhaltene Postkarte. Und die schreibt man leider meistens bevor man das Profil anguckt.
Natürlich trotzdem kacke. Vor allem müsste man eig die Pronomen sehen können, wenn ich mich richtig erinnere. Glaube das meiste ist Unwissen und Cisnormativität.

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Denis Angelov @denisillustrates.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #portfolioday 👋

My name is Denis, and I'm a children's book illustrator who likes stories full of heart, bold lineart, limited palettes, and painterly textures. #kidlitart

🌐 www.denisillustrates.com
📚 Represented by Emily Talbot, United Agents (UK) and Susan Hawk, Upstart Crow Literary (US)

Illustration of a child kneeling on top of his desk wearing pajamas and showing a teddy bear the Ursa Major constellation through the window

llustration of a giant squid, a duckling and a kid in a bathtub. The squid is looking curious trying to get the attention of the kid with its tentacles. The child is looking right at us in fear. The duckling is standing between the two, wings spread out, trying to defend the kid

Illustration of a two anthromorphic zebras in a sculpture studio. One of them has no stripes and is sculpting a bust of the other zebra who is sitting in a stool with her eyes closed

Illustration of a little girl and her dad in the kitchen. The dad is stirring a meal in a pot on the stove. There are aroma lines coming out of the pot and the girl has closed her eyes and is taking in the smell. There is a black cat peeking above the counter top and looking at the pot.

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Teeg @teeketch.art · 1d

If you're a solo dev/small indie team looking for art or logos please don't turn to genAI. I would honestly rather folks reach out to a designer and offer like rev share alongside a smaller up front cost to get something made by a person.

Hell email me and we'll chat. Don't turn to the slop machine

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Glamorous garden visitor, the Black-Billed Magpie. This is one of a local family that nested nearby #birds

Mara @thecatfreaky.bsky.social · 1d

Vielleicht hast du es einfach gebraucht ❤️‍🩹

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Kiwi @kiwi-ghost.bsky.social · 1d

#32

An angry blue elephant with a pink backpack

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🍁 Juniper/Blomblida | #Weretober 🍁 @yeeniebeans.fiskiper.art · 19d

it’s finally autism 🥹🍂

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Sophia 🐌 @sophmobile.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #portfolioday!

I'm Sophia, I like drawing various little critters like birds, snails and bugs. I occasionally make linoprints as well.

#art #digitalart #animalart #linoprint 🐦🐌🌞

digital painting of a tiger's head swimming in green water

digital drawing of a pigeon

digital drawing of a mouse riding a snail

photo of a linoprint of a fox playing an accordion