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Lauren the Flute
@laurentheflute.bsky.social
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NO FOLLOWBACKS, I AM HERE TO HANG OUT WITH FRIENDS AND MAKE NEW ONES

Writes too many words & talk too much. Storyteller, writer, VGM flutist & singer, Twitch affiliate, Texan-Canadian. Leader of the Returners. Marketer by trade 🏳️‍🌈
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I need you all to appreciate how perfectly my earrings (that I made) match this sweater (which I did NOT make), and also how the necklace ties it all together (I made that too)

I am proud of this and I think I did a good job
Lauren is wearing a "unicorn purple" sweater and beaded earrings with butterfly focal beads of the exact shade of purple, and also a necklace with purple, green, and blue beads. Same outfit, same earrings, but you can see more of Lauren's face and she's smiling at the camera although she looks tired.
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Back to working on this, making very slow progress but we'll get there eventually

(Lines need to be fixed up in addition to coloring, sorry it's a hot mess so far)
An in-progress unfinished digital drawing of Lauren surrounded by characters from video games she's played on stream.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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My roommate used the cllippers to do the side of my hair for the first time tonight. What do we think? I literally don't ever feel like I'm inhabiting my body and I don't ever really recognize myself so I don't really have an opinion myself, so...
Lauren looking thoughtful and maybe a bit confused. New haircut is clipped short on the sides, and long and swoopy on the top.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I know it's in bad taste to speculate on this, but when two women are the best of friends for decades, never marry again (divorced from brief marriages that led to children), and then build a shared lavish mausoleum to be buried in together with their families, one can't help but wonder
From Ruth Fertel's Wikipedia page. "She was buried in Metairie Cemetery, in a lavish mausoleum she and her friend and business partner Lana Duke had commissioned in 1995 and which cost over $500,000. ... The Fertel-Duke mausoleum can hold six, and is intended to have Fertel family on one side and Duke family on the other."
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Earrings! I think they're finished. They wound up being a lot more extra than I expected or intended, and a lot darker/more blue instead of just sparkly, but I think I like them.

I need to stop using small beads and small details, things get way too busy, but I get carried away!
A pair of beaded earrings held in a hand. They have butterfly shaped focal beads and a bunch of small round beads, and multiple tiers and dangles. They're mostly in shades of purple, blue, and sparkly clear. The same earrings, work by a person in a pink sweater, with artificial ivy on the wall behind them and an olive green curtain.
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Two earrings mostly matched together, except for the bead in the middle of the little teardrop - one is blue and one is brown-gold, and I don't know which to go with or whether the earrings themselves work at all

I feel like something's wrong but I laackk the skill to know what
One earring with butterfly shaped beads and blue, clear, and gold beads dangling long The other earring, which is almost the same but one bead in the middle is different
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Trying to figure out which version of this to go with. There are a number of differences and I'm not sure which one I like better
Two variations on one similar design of beaded earrings with butterfly beads One earring that is slightly shorter and has more brown and less blue on it One earring that is somewhat longer and has more blue and less brown
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Slightly better picture so you can see the shine and iridescence on some of these beads. I'm not 100% sure on the design but this is what I've got so far...

I might swap the outside set with the second set and see how that looks? I've been doing a lot of swapping things around to experiment...
A dangly earrings with butterfly beads and smaller iridescent beads, in shades of blue, purple, and clear.
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Been working on and off the past few days trying to figure out how to remake the first earrings I ever made and this is the new design as it stands right now

It will probably look totally different in natural light tomorrow but we'll see
A photo of a long dangly beaded earring held in a hand, in low lighting. The earring has one big blue-purple butterfly bead at the bottom, a bronze-grey butterfly at the top, and then a bunch of beads of clear, blue, purple, and brown shades.
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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I am wearing a dress for like the first time in three or four years and it's an interesting experience

(Balanced out with high boots and an iridescent silver leather motorcycle jacket, I guess)
Lauren smiling at the camera and looking a little uncertain. She is dressed in the aforementioned outfit plus a big scarf, a rainbow beaded necklace, and butterfly earrings
November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Catted
Lauren is laying down and smiling because her cat Sophie is curled up on top of her and snuggling on her hand. There is a moogle pillow behind her.
November 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Darth does this count as a dog
Two people in a two-person Scooby Doo costume made of cardboard Two people in a two-person Scooby Doo costume made of cardboard
November 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Look at this good dog I saw on the street! So cute! So well-mannered!

Also I promise the glowing puffball is a dog too, I am just not good at night photos and my phone camera is even worse than I am
Golden retriever in a hot dog costume, sitting adorably with its tongue lolling out of its mouth adorably. A bright glow that is some kind of tiny white fluffy dog wearing a round pumpkin costume, but it's hard to tell because someone else's flash is going off
November 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Would you like to see some Halloween dogs (warning, my phone and I do terribly at taking nighttime photos)
A very good dog wearing a hot dog costume that is SO cute. Is this a golden retriever? I think it's a golden retriever. It's sitting down and looking at its person and its cute puppy tongue is lolling out of its mouth. I promise there is a dog in that glow, someone else's flash apparently went off at the wrong moment for me The dog is a tiny floofy white puffball wearing a pumpkin costume but it's kind of hard to tell from the photo
November 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Some Adventure Time lesbians for my friend @pengarr.postes.club who is also an Adventure Time lesbian
Marceline the vampire and Princess Bubblegum from the cartoon Adventure Time, except they are actually real human people dressed up for Halloween.
November 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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I feel that @gailsimone.bsky.social needs to see this photo of three Jeff the Land Sharks and one landshark sweatshirt wearer at Halloween in Toronto!!
A nighttime street view with three people in very different costumes as Jeff the Land Shark posing for the photo next to someone who is wearing a hoodie that says "landshark" on it. There are Halloween costumers milling around in the background.
November 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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When you don't have a costume and your hair is being terrible, throw something together around a hat
Lauren wearing a bucket hat with cat ears and a cat face on it. She's also drawn whiskers on her cheeks and a red cat nose on her nose. She is wearing rainbow star earrings.
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Which coloring technique should I go with - the colored pencil approach (Lauren on the left) or the more cel-like approach (Yuna on the right)?

I can't move forward with the rest of it until I have decided on this!
A cropped section of a larger image showing a self-portrait of Lauren surrounded by video game characters.
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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My friend has been playing UFO 50 and telling me about Grimstone, the wild west themed JRPG in it

He looked up the world map and then of course had to send it to me because look at it

Internet, help me: which deranged Texan or former Texan worked on this game? I need to know
A Super Nintendo looking JRPG world map except it's shaped like the American state of Texas.
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Update of this picture, it's coming right along, I'm going to keep tightening the previous lineart as I go (this method works nicely for my ADHD, I swear)

10+ games for 10 years of streaming!
A digital drawing showing Lauren surrounded by characters from various games she has streamed over the years. It is not complete yet.
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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She does not fits, and yet she sits
A brown tabby cat attempting to curl up in a too-small cardboard box The same cat looking very silly in the same box
October 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Tidal put this together for my "Daily Discovery" playlist of "new and familiar" artists and just, like

Way to come for me as a nerdy child of the 90s

There's like one or two songs here I don't already know extremely well
Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen, Your Song from Moulin Rouge, Hurt by Johnny Cash, the Firefly main title, My Immortal by Evanescence, What's Up by 4 Non Blondes, Radioactive covered by Pentatonix and Lindsey Sterling, the Humbling River by Puscifer which I actually don't know, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith, and Desert Rose by Sting
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Also I bought some clothes from a plus-size fashion market today (I'm right on the cusp between plus and straight sizes atm) and I gave myself permission to buy some femme clothes I loved

I haven't been wearing femme clothes in several years because I was feeling kind of dysphoric in them
A photo of a blue princess dress, a burgundy sweater dress tunic, and a light purple cropped sweater.
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I streamed for the first time since February and I'm really glad I did; it was nice to be back

I managed to get both YouTube and Twitch working through a restream setup!
Screenshot showing some art in progress being streamed by Lauren, who is visible in a webcam picture in the corner. There's also a chat box showing both Twitch and YouTube participation. Text on the screen says "welcome to Lauren's belated tenth streamiversary"
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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This is a better photo that I probably should have gone with, although it's still pretty goofy

Someday I will remember how to pose and also how to make my hair not a disaster
Lauren standing with her sword wearing the layered shirts, suede pants, and knee-high fantasy boots. Her hair is very messy and she has a kind of goofy but happy pose.
October 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM