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kate horowitz (she/???)
@delightmonster.bsky.social
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writer, arter, + sea hag in maine
(disabled, autistic, exhausted)
stickers: bigchallenges.shop
writing: katehorowitz.com
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kate horowitz (she/???) @delightmonster.bsky.social · Aug 4
I'm now available for many different kinds of editorial & art work (2nd image); please send any relevant job postings & gig opportunities* my way. Absent those, I will accept memes (3rd image) & treats. 🍓

*Remote work only. My current level of disability does not permit a commute.
Selfie of Kate, wet from the rain, standing in front of a rainbow. Text reads “hire me! - writing -editing - teaching -custom sticker design” Photo of Kate’s plaid-coat-covered back as she walks toward the water. Text is a list of professional skills, including science-medical writing, copywriting, copyediting, and proofreading, teaching, illustration, and merch design Selfie of Kate wearing a pink windbreaker embroidered with an angry strawberry. Kate is making the strawberry face. Text is a list of other ways people can help, including buying stickers from her shop and sending memes and snacks.
delightmonster.bsky.social
i am never going to recover from this. the gasp i just emitted
c0nc0rdance.bsky.social c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 21h
There are so many that they form the base of a lot of food webs, including filter-feeding whale sharks who swallow them by the thousands.

Those that survive a few months will return to forage in the forests until they're about 3 yrs old & reach sexual maturity, ready to join Crab Spring Break.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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alexandragallant.com
Tapping the sign again
Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU"
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
GET EEL FACTS
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22h
This is one of the last days I get to post these absolutely curséd animations I made for eel facts season. I think I'll post them in a thread here for posterity.

Get a calendar at EelFacts.net
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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tishamark.com
Something tiny for you!

Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2509, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"

Original is available (with maple frame):
tishamark.com/product/to-d...

#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
Photo of a hand holding an original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "To Dream by the Sea No. 2509" 4"x4" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). The painting is an atmospheric textured seascape with white cloud formations over a dark blue sea. A paint palette with puddles of oil paint, a paintbrush, and a palette knife are visible in the background.
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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annijyn.com
a leaf? for me? thank you 🍁
an illustration of Elizabeth and The Creature from Guillermo Del Tero’s Frankenstein - a woman with long red hair holds an orange leaf while a pale bald skeletal figure gently touches her neck. the background is swirls of teals, mustards and pale yellows
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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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
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artologica.net
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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annijyn.com
don’t be scared the forest won’t bite
a sketchy drawing of witch holding a a staff with a skull and mushrooms on it, she’s wrapped in shawls. a cabin on bird legs is in the top right corner. swirls of orange and green make up the background
October 31, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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delightmonster.bsky.social
your monday reminder 🩸

(postcard available in 5-packs at bigchallenges.shop)
A black postcard with bloody red text that reads YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD. The postcard is dramatically lit and looking fabulous.
September 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
[scary cephalopod robot voice] SUBMIT
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 2d
we're at 31 submissions out of the 100 available slots already, damn
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 15d
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
quote your art with glasses on!

a few notebook-margin self-portraits
Sketchy pen and marker cartoons of a person with a round head, round glasses, and big round eyes. The person looks completely exhausted and maybe like they're dissociating a little bit
November 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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francinefox.bsky.social
gurl

#diva #glamcephalopods #hedylamarr #allonautilus #oilpainting 🦑 🐡
An allonautilus that’s giving Hedy Lamar a run for her money. Hedy Lamarr in THAT photo.
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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francinefox.bsky.social
Have you ever heard of an allonautilus? The fuzzy sea peach at the top of my oil painting is the extremely rare allonautlius. Its only been documented in the wild a couple of times.

*more in comments*

#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining
Oil painting of two nautili and one allonautilus on a blue gradient background with patches of copper mica. Each cephalopod has an atomic diagram around it like a halo.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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vinson.infurnation.com
This. Blessed be.
delightmonster.bsky.social kate horowitz (she/???) @delightmonster.bsky.social · 3d
A Wolfenoot Blessing

May you and your pack be safe.
May you protect one another.
May your sleep be sound.
May your teeth be sharp.
May your treats be sweet.

#wolfenoot
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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delightmonster.bsky.social
happy #wolfenoot, ya filthy animals [affectionate]

katehorowitz.substack.com/p/a-wolfenoo...
a wolfenoot blessing (2025)
and this year's dog poem
katehorowitz.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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poorlycatdraw.bsky.social
accidentally smudged this drawing but i feel like it actually works better this way!! some mistakes turn out for the better
doodle of a kitty looking in the mirror
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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delightmonster.bsky.social
A Wolfenoot Blessing

May you and your pack be safe.
May you protect one another.
May your sleep be sound.
May your teeth be sharp.
May your treats be sweet.

#wolfenoot
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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delightmonster.bsky.social
::slaps soft pouch, making a gentle squishing noise with my dripping hand:: you can fit so many bandages in this bad boy
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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alexandragallant.com
I also thought I should learn every aspect of design/art process I could before ever making a comic and then of course as soon as I made a comic, realized fifteen things I’d change for the next time because you can’t know what you don’t know til you learn it.
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee 52A @ MICE @alexandragallant.com · 4d
It only took me until I was 40 to be like "ohhh my style is the process that feels like it flows the best for me and is replicable, that's it" could've saved so much time if I figured that out sooner.
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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delightmonster.bsky.social
Today is Wolfenoot (wolf-uh-noot), a holiday invented in 2018 by a 7-year-old boy in New Zealand.

On this day, "the Spirit of the Wolf brings and hides small gifts around the house for everyone. People who have, have had, or are kind to dogs get better gifts than anyone else."

#wolfenoot #🌕
November 23, 2024 at 4:05 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
A Wolfenoot Blessing

May you and your pack be safe.
May you protect one another.
May your sleep be sound.
May your teeth be sharp.
May your treats be sweet.

#wolfenoot
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
delightmonster.bsky.social
happy #wolfenoot, ya filthy animals [affectionate]

katehorowitz.substack.com/p/a-wolfenoo...
a wolfenoot blessing (2025)
and this year's dog poem
katehorowitz.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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elinor.bsky.social
It’s an exciting time for me— my old body wash has been discontinued and I am auditioning three new brands. Anyone could be the winner. I’m living on the edge of discovery
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM