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Natalie Metzger
@thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
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💀 She/her
🎨 Illustrator and designer
🏔️ Pacific Northwest
🔗 https://thefuzzyslug.neocities.org/links
🪲🦀 Here Be Bugs 🕷️🦐
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pailbn.bsky.social
SHOP SMALL this holiday season and support local artisans!

All art on my Ko-Fi shop is currently 20% off with code “SHOPSMALL” ! Just add this code in checkout to receive a discount. Sale runs until midnight CST on December 2, 2025.

ko-fi.com/pailbn

#art #merch #bsnm #shopsmall #blackfriday
Unicorn Freed metallic sticker Huzzah!, Minnesota Renaissance Faire zine Duck duck gay duck loon sticker with pride Dinosaurs and not dinosaurs zine
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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scalzi.com
REMINDER: If you're in the US and want to get signed/personalized books from me for the holidays, I'm partnering with my local bookstore to do that. The details are below. Hurry, this offer is good only for another week!

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/11/h...
How to Get Signed & Personalized Books From Me For the Holidays, 2025 Edition
We’ve come to that time of the year again, where folks begin to think about their holiday gift giving, and at least some of you think about books as the perfect gift. Well, they are! But would…
whatever.scalzi.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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scalzi.com
Outside of the US? @subpress.bsky.social has some signed books from me still in stock, and will ship internationally:

subterraneanpress.com
Subterranean Press
Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
subterraneanpress.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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thornwolf.com
Get your bandanas 20% off with the code HOLIDAY20 starting today! Sale ends Tuesday Thornwolf.com/shop #BSNM
thornwolf.com Nicole Dornsife | Thornwolf @thornwolf.com · 4d
My desert animal bandanas are one of my most popular items and come in a variety of colors. Get them at a discount starting this Thursday/Thanksgiving by entering the code HOLIDAY20 at checkout in my largest sale of the year! #BSNM #BlackFriday
www.thornwolf.com/shop/p/deser...
An ad for bandanas showing 4 color varieties lined up on each other with a button that says 15 Colors. A handsome man (my husband, naturally) out in the desert birding holding binoculars, wearing sunglasses and a wide brimmed hat. He is wearing a desert animals. bandana around his neck in gold/yellow with brown ink showing a bighorn sheep and a joshua tree in this quadrant. An image of the full desert animals bandana design showing each quadrant with a different animal: Roadrunner, coyote, bighorn sheep ram, jackrabbit. The corners have a combination of a joshua tree and beavertail cactus, the sides have century plants and jimson weed. The center has barrel and ocotillo cactus.
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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hawaiianimages.bsky.social
(If it turns out the cat is correct and this is some alien-gourd-invasion-of-the-bodysnatchers scenario, let it be said WE WERE WARNED)
November 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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hawaiianimages.bsky.social
Eventually we settled on "Kitty will NOT pounce on hot squash but will maintain vigilance on the floor nearby"
November 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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hawaiianimages.bsky.social
Ok, this is new. We just roasted a kabocha in the oven to prep for a pie later. We took it out and put it atop the stove to cool, and Kittywampus is OBSESSED with it. Not in a "feed me" way, in a "I MUST PROTEC FROM SQUASH!" way. I eventually picked him up and pet him while assuring him no threat.
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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hawaiianimages.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #Headshots ...this is probably the most unconventional I'iwi shot I've ever gotten, and one of my faves for that reason. 📷🌿🦉
An I'iwi, a vermillion bird with black wings and a long, curved orange beak, peering through the branches of an 'iliahi tree (endemic Hawaiian sandalwood)
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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keymonster.bsky.social
✨Shop small today! My shop has been updated for the holidays. Come on over and pick up some adorable critters!✨

keymonstershop.etsy.com

[ #shopsmall #art #supportartists #blueskynightmarket #shop ]
A photo of a bunch of colorful stickers, plushies cards and other goodies look as if they have all been dropped on the floor.
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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rhicks.bsky.social
Stocking stuffer sticker sale! Stick real-human-made-art to your favorite surfaces. Or least favorite, I don't judge. lunaseastudios.storenvy.com
A colorful retro diner inspired ad for my original sticker designs. Love ya'll, but there are too many stickers to describe. A colorful retro diner inspired ad for more of my original sticker designs. Love ya'll, but there are too many stickers to describe.
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
another shop for the shoppers #ShopSmall #BlueskyNightMarket #SmallBusinessSaturday www.thefuzzyslug.com/shop
Shop — Fuzzy Slug Studios
www.thefuzzyslug.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
Free digital version of The Art of KPop Demon Hunters!! theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Spotted eagle ray
Blue dragon nudibranch
Kereru
Rough-skinned newt
White stork

(yeah, that was super hard)
secondnaturemb.bsky.social Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Polar bear
Beluga whale
Moose
Wolf
Lynx

(it was hard to pick 5)
napaaqtuk.bsky.social Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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mcapriglioneart.bsky.social
This year's Capitalism Sale is upon us this weekend.

Don't support mega corporations and the shitty cheap stickers they offer that are A. stolen from actual artists and B. AI generated slop. My stickers are amazing quality, cute, and unique!

shop ➡️ mcapriglione.art
screenshot of 2 amazon products of crappy sticker packs with big red "x"es drawn on them screenshot of stickers from an artist's shop
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
THREAD.

3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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powys42.bsky.social
Hilarious! and also super fascinating!
www.science.org/content/arti...
Fossil vomit contains new species of pterosaur from Brazil
Filter-feeding flying reptile was likely devoured by a dinosaur during the early Cretaceous
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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cartoonist.coop
The 2024 numbers are crunched, data visualised, and insights SHARED!

Here's the findings of the 2024 Comics Worker Survey!

Anyone can read these findings on income, rates, royalties and more--online or as a PDF.
The Cartoonist Cooperative
Making comics better for everyone!
cartoonist.coop
October 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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vireosy.bsky.social
yeti crab

#art #sciart 🎨🦑🦀
Drawing of a yeti crab on a dark slate gray background. It is a white crustacean with long forearms covered in fine hairlike filaments, tinted somewhat teal as if seen from underwater.
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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douglasmack.bsky.social
* Haribo used to sell a gummi candy in Germany called "Asses With Ears."

I promise this image is 100% real and not AI.
little bucket of gummi candy with the label "Haribo A...Mit Ohren"
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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quietnovastudios.bsky.social
This is what I've been up to lately, she's approximately 14 feet long and took me a week to make

🧶 #amigurumi #crochet #jellyfish #invertebrate #ocean #Medusa #SciArt #art #craft
A simply enormous crocheted jellyfish in greens and blues and purples, coiled upon a bed
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Hats! Collector Urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)

#TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...
Panel 1: A brightly colored green, orange, white, and dark purple sea urchin, they have a kelp frond draped across the top of their orbness like a hat, a few orange spines poking through the seaweed, urchin is saying, "Hmm...", Panel 2: same urchin now has a pebble that is the anchor for a small anemone as a hat, urchin is saying, \"Maybe...?\", Panel 3: same urchin now with the shell of a dead urchin of the same species as a hat, "Nah.", Panel 4: close up of urchin reaching off screen with black and white tube feet to some obscured object, "Ohhhh!", Panel 5: a larger panel that contains several urchins wearing various sea debris as hats such as a chunk of a candy wrapper, some pebbles, a limpet shell, and some sea grass. The urchin from the previous four panels now has a large crusty looking dive knife as a hat and is saying "It's PERFECT" while the other urchins say, "nice!" and "so stylish!"
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Amy's work is a pure delight! #SciArt
surlyamy.bsky.social Surly Amy @surlyamy.bsky.social · 5d
Hi. I’d love just one new patron. You have no idea how hard it is to get supporters when you aren’t a podcast. I use the money to pay for food and supplies for my feral cat colony and to buy art supplies. Latest post: www.patreon.com/posts/144301... I post every Monday with updates on my art.
Many mugs | Amy Davis Roth
Get more from Amy Davis Roth on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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nimasprout.bsky.social
Still time to get your pre-orders in (and comes with free random bonus sticker!)
nimasprout.bsky.social Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 11d
2026 Mushroom House Wall Calendar is now available for preorder now thru Nov 24th.

They will ship first week of December so they still can be given as gifts!

nimasprout.shop/products/202...
View of calendar cover, back with each moth Illo and full page spread of January.
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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brackenlab.bsky.social
Today, I learned a cool, new word that is fun to say.
brucedstaylor.bsky.social Bruce Taylor @brucedstaylor.bsky.social · 8d
Weird word of the day: "kleptosquamy." The testate amoeba Awerintzewia cyclostoma steals scales from other amoeboid organisms to build its own shell. This one has robbed Quadrulella, Netzelia, various euglyphids, and even an Acanthocystis. Kleptosquamy! #amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #biology #nature
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM