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a lone crow and a crow's ghost facing one another on the roof of an ivy-covered mausoleum in a graveyard devoured by foliage

Day 19, Nature reclaiming architecture

The ghost was an accident while erasing. I think i'll come back to this one later and fix the perspective and fill in the foliage properly.

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inktober drawing of melinoë from Hades 2 and cerberus

[inktober day 19] Pet Cerberus?

Dear other artists who wake up to 72 likes on their art, squee comments, and me following them on every platform including some they didn't remember they were on

I'm told that is not normal.

However, my online love cannot be contained, i will click the heart button with my last dying twitches

I am more afraid of it than i should be for it not, like, existing. I love how its spooky skullface serves an evolutionary purpose

(Also its prey is so cute 😭)

swamp creatures
(for "The Crooked Moon")

fallen deer (for "The Crooked Moon")

A delighted black bird swooping through the rain; he's exploring a spooky canyon with a mysterious green floor studded with black stones

Day 21, Petrichor

#birbs like #blackbird #crow #corvid #cowbird #grackle look i referenced photos of all of those in this series, the only certainty is that they're for #OctoberArtPrompts #OctoberArt #OctoberArt2025 or whatever the right hashtag is

A joyful cartoon crow wearing headphones and rocking out on top of a mossy, defunct boombox. The moss looks soft and pettable; the bird looks like it doesn't give a rat's ass that you're watching.

Day 8, Organically Based Technology. I was too busy and exhausted to be clever, so instead we got Technology as a Base for Organic Stuff.

Close enough ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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a cluster of nervous black birds with googly eyes stare at the single colorless, translucent bird screaming silently in their midst

Day 6, Ghosts.

I like this one enough i might come back and paint it better.

#birbs #crows #corvids #ghosts #SpookyArt #SpookySeason #OctoberArtPrompts

A drawing of a black bird with a comical googly eye looking up at a more seriously painted rock formation in the shape of a bird

Day 4, Rock Formations

(yes there are missing days, i'm only posting the ones i dislike on Patreon right now, in order to partially contain my shame)

I posted it. (It deviated from your beautiful words because they were too sad for me to draw, haha, but it got me moving!)

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a solemn, peaceful skeleton resting in a marsh, with two silly, google-eyed black birds standing on it

This was Day 1, Crows

Yours made me run off and start scribbling skeletons and birds 🖤Without this comment i wouldn't be doing an October art thing again, so thank you

We actually have a WIP of that, i will try to dig it up later!

I have a parasocial relationship with this cat, i look at her more often than i look at celebrities who *don't* poop in a box

Let's help her owners keep their savings and still save their fluffy daughter🧡

drawing of a joyfully dancing skeleton in exuberant sunset colors, surrounded by sloppy drinks spilling into one another

I tried to mess with the lineart and i should have just left it as the template, this is now a very anatomically incorrect little buddy lol

I am SO delighted they had me make these dancing anniversary skeletons ❥ I colored one in, i'll post it

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

I don't make blanket recommendations because everyone is different and i prefer to be correct when i say "you'll like this."

So if you enjoy prose that can make you taste and smell a place you've never been, and you are comforted rather than creeped by the supernatural? This book's for you

Contains a fascinating interview with @joshrountree.bsky.social and there's a bonus spooky anecdote about the references i used for the cover art

hindsight forethought #comics #comic

Maybe the coolest pfp that has ever posted about me, i want to feed it some popcorn!

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Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

I'd like to remind you that the machine you blithely used to "save" volunteer hours is not only a theft machine that vomits lies, but it couldn't have been built without this nightmare:

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I look forward to your apology and complete do-over, thaaanks!

Sorry, i can't just forget that birdsite was a revolting white supremacist troll festival that encouraged vitriolic exchanges to get more ad hits LONG before the muskrat gobbled it up.

My participation will be what you'd call "minimal."