iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I passed a church today and the sign out front said “If you want God to guide your steps, surrender your feet.” And no hate but like PHRASING???

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Did I ever tell you guys about the time I got kissed by a Yellowjacket?

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

My cousin got me this little sign thing that says “my cat’s not spoiled, I’m just well trained” and it’s accurate because it’s 5am and Shay won’t eat her breakfast because I started to go back upstairs and now I’m standing in my kitchen so she eats

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

*points* das my friend!!!! I’m so happy for her!!!

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I had to stop taking a medication recently (thanks insurance) and I’ve been thinking about Little Guy more. People sometimes ask me if Steve is my fursona and no, he isn’t. He’s more of a mascot! I feel like a little amorphous guy whose body just does shit sometimes. Thus: Little Guy.

Concept sketches of a potential sona-type character. They’re a robot axolotl with a ghost living inside. The robot axolotl seems to have a mind of its own and the ghost is its companion. Sorta representing how I often refer to my body as though it’s a separate entity.

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Sidewinder30k @sidewinder30k.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The current prices for RAM forced Fazz to take some jobs for a shady company. It was a routine maintenance job on a space freighter and now he's been chased by some xenomorphs. A little Aliens crossover commission done by @mazzia4rt.bsky.social #Protogen #Furryart

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Steve is of course a smiley icon but honestly Blue is probably my favorite. I don’t see too many crab characters, let alone hermit crabs! I love all my Pals tho 🥰

Steve the axolotl and Blue the hermit crab stand in a snowy field and look up at a pink and green aurora borealis

The Pals take a train ride home after a fun day at the beach! Left to right: Shay scrolls on her phone, Steve and Blue take a nap, Crouton is stuck to the window, and Pretzel kneels on the seat beside them as they watch Cape Lotl come into view.

Character sheet for Blue the Hermit Crab! She uses she/her pronouns and her birthday is May 25th. The text reads “Blue is a curious little crab from a big family. She can be a bit shy but loves to explore the world around her, and values quiet chats.” Her stats are Detective 3, Boldness 1, Acrobat 4, and Books 5. She likes Walnuts, her brothers (sometimes), and PARKOUR. She is based on a purple pincher hermit crab.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Lil Christmas gift thingy @cocotime.bsky.social commissioned for @liviajanime.bsky.social!! Lots of fun and happy I got to contribute 💕 and no you didn’t see me typo don’t worry about it

Springbuck and Jaywalker playing basketball. Springbuck has bionic legs and has used his jet propulsion to leap very high. Jaywalker is using her stretch abilities to wrap around him in an attempt to take the ball. They are popping out of a comic book style cutout

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Hey, hi, I'm catching up on my sticker club! Did you know I have a club? It's almost like I forget to post about it. You get introduced to a new animal and members get a sticker and trading card! For Jan/Feb, it’s a double feature: The Watchman Goby & Pistol Shrimp! ko-fi.com/post/A-Speci...

A mockup image of the stickers and trading card for the Pal of the Month club. On the left is a yellow Watchman Goby and to its right is a Tiger Pistol Shrimp. Behind them are their respective trading cards. They are on a sandy background. Members of the club will get real physical versions of these!

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This year was… a lot. I’m kinda just burnt out on existing. It’s cold, GenAI is everywhere, and the world is on fire. But… I’m finding ways to survive. That’s all I can do. Be kind to yourself. Be patient with yourself. You deserve it, even if you don’t think you do. Survive with me 💜🫂

Steve the axolotl and Blue the hermit crab do crafts together.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Fall, Y’all! 🍁🍂🎃

An illustration of Shay the brown tabby cat wearing a purple hoodie and Pretzel the brown axolotl on a bridge in an autumn forest. Pretzel is leaning over the bridge railing to say hello to a fish in the river below

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Man it’s been fall weather for approximately 2 days here and I’m already over it. I know yall love your crisp air, hoodies, pumpkin spice, and spooky season but I miss my long daylight hours and not having cold bones :(

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

He made it!!! This is the last surviving hermit crab from the first spawn at the beginning of August! He’s 43 days old today and just went from the Zoeae stage to the megalopa stage! Now he has to learn how to use his legs and pick a shell!

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Shout out to car behind me at the red light who excitedly pointed at the back of my car. Not sure if it was my bumper stickers or the axolotl plushie in my window but your pink hair is cool and the thumbs up from your passenger made me smile 💕

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Have you ever seen baby hermit crabs? 💕

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Most girl’s bathrooms have lots of hair and skin products and makeup. But I am the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emoticon so my bathroom has mostly water test kit chemicals

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I found this disabled bee with malformed wings at a client’s house and now she lives in my carpenter bee house :)

A photo of a carpenter bee inside a structure that is the typical “house” shape, or a box with a slanted roof. The bee is hanging on to a wooden area with holes drilled into it to facilitate nest making. She is black with a golden thorax. Her wings are very small and shriveled, possibly an injury from when she turned from a larva into a bee

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Hi yes hello can you hear me in there? You are very cool and awesome!!!!

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

YALLLL we got caterpillars in our garden!!!!! There’s at least 3 of them hanging out on our parsley. I’m so happy the bugs love what we made for them 💕 I hope these little guys will be safe!!

Closeup of a black swallowtail caterpillar, a yellow caterpillar with bright yellow bumps and black stripes

A corner of our porch, with a bird feeder, a strawberry tower, a tiered box with zinnias, dianthus, and other assorted flowers, black eyed Susan’s, and a rail box with wildflowers and butterfly weed.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Oh hey it’s #PortfolioDay I’m Axie, I like drawing cute critters and spreading smiles! Sometimes I even post! My main thing is Steve and Pals, an axolotl named Steve and his friends living in Cape Lotl, getting up to shenanigans and uplifting others! ♡ theartsyaxolotl.com ♡ www.steveandpals.com

Steve relaxes on a calm grassy hill while his sister, Pretzel, stands in the background and flies a kite

Blue the hermit crab drinks a bottle of water with a wave behind her. Yellow text underneath reads “Remember to Hydrate”

Crouton the lettuce slug is wearing a pinkish bandana and a little sailor hat. They are in a tiny, simplified sail boat.

The Pals are all gathered at Meemo’s burger shack after a long morning of playing at the beach! Morgan, a fluffy white collie-mix dog and also the owner, hands out hotdogs, chicken tenders, hamburgers, and fries to everyone. Steve is excitedly reaching for his food, Shay is helping Blue get up onto the bench, and Pretzel and Crouton are doing the soda wrapper worm experiment.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

..::Mental Health Checkpoint::.. Idk my feed is just really depressing right now so please take a short break to ride the Cape Lotl train with the Pals. Take care 💕

Steve and Pals taking the train home after a long day of fun at the beach. Shay reads on her phone while Steve and Blue snooze. Pretzel and Crouton are looking out the window, watching the town arrive into view. It’s a cozy moment as they wind down from their day.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Oh right. I should probably post art sometimes. If you didn’t know, I have a club on KoFi called “Pal of the Month”, where I feature an animal and members of the club can get a sticker and trading card of that animal! This month is the Manchurian Black Bear!

An image mockup of a sticker and a trading card featuring the Manchurian Black Bear. The bear is mostly dark brown with a tan muzzle and a tan crescent shape on its neck.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Hey by the way, thanks yall for being so chill about the sticker club stuff. My job has been nuts and my car (which I need for said job) had a couple thousand dollars in repairs so I’ve been… having A Time ™️ Hopefully I can find some time to rest and actually pack up those stickers soon 😵‍💫

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Seren🌷 @ieafy.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Water types, my fav ☺️

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

“Katie why are you in this chair without me?”

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

You know, after I posted this, I was a little worried about how I specified he was Hispanic. It’s so common for white people to mention ethnicity for anyone other than white, even if it doesn’t matter for the story. But seeing all the comments… yeah you know what? It does matter. Fuck ICE.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Shoutout to the kind Hispanic man that jumpstarted my car in the auto store parking lot after I just had it jumpstarted at a client’s house by USAA to bring it to said auto store. He didn’t speak any English but he saw me crying and knocked on my window with a jump kit to help me

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Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I don’t want to be a content creator. I don’t want to be thinking about when is the best time to post or what is the best type of content to post for maximum engagement. I just want to be an artist and I just want to make art.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Ok slightly more fun story cuz I want to actually be positive on main sometimes: The other night I had a migraine and couldn’t get comfy. So after an hour of tossing and turning in bed, Shay came and curled up in the crook of my arm and started purring. She only ever does that when I’m sick 😭💕

Shay when I had to move her out of my lap because I had to go to work.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

If Things™️ could stop happening to me, that would be great

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This pet sitting job has got to be one of the wildest experiences I’ve ever had emotionally. Like what do you mean when things go wrong it’s not always my fault??

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I have the coolest cat in the universe 💕

My cat Shay on a nice walk at the local park. Shes looking up at a tree.

My cat Shay on a nice walk at the local park. She has her front paws on a log and is standing to look around

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

When you start viewing every insect you see as “a new little friend”, the world gets a lot nicer

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I kinda feel like I got brake checked by the universe.

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I found a four leaf clover in a client’s yard today while playing with the dogs and was pretty stoked and then like 6 hours later the engine bracket in my car snapped as I was pulling into a driveway 🫠

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I'm very good at remembering to upload stuff I make /s Commission for @sidewinder30k.bsky.social of their synth, Lun4R on a very important exploration mission!

A silver Synth with black rubber accents. She has bright green eyes on her face screen and has terrariums on her throat and stomach for storing plant samples. She is holding a glowing orange plant she found and collected, and is pointing at it excitedly while shouting to someone behind her and wagging her tail. A small slug creature sits on a leaf of the plant. The background is a spacey sky at sunset in a field of grass

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Pretzel is Steve's little sibling and a whirlwind of energy and creativity. She has a passion for taking things apart to see how they work... even if she can't always put them back together again!

An illustration of a polaroid. A tan axolotl with pink gills and lots of brown speckles is pictured on the polaroid. Above the polaroid, it says "Pretzel the axolotl", the fourth introduction to the characters of Steve and Pals!

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Heyyy lets continue the Pal introductions! Next up... 🥨💕

a simplistic, cartoony illustration of a bulletin board with polaroids stuck to it. The top left polaroid is developed and shows an orange hermit crab named Blue. The bottom right polaroid is also developed and shows a brown tabby cat named Shay. The top right polaroid is developed and shows a green lettuce sea slug named Crouton. The other two polaroids are starting to develop and have character silhouettes. The top reads "Meet the Pals!"

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I have often said that my luck isn’t bad, it’s stupid. Like today, when my step mom and I did 6 Absol raids in Pokemon Go and I got 3 shinies in a row

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neb @nebquerna.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

it's snek time again 🐍

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

As some of you've noticed, art's been rough financially.. I love making art, paid or not, but I'm tired of always talking about income So, I'm taking a job as a local pet sitter. Hoping it eases pressure so I can create without money worries. I hope you'll be patient with me as I figure this out 💕

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Katie/Axie @artsyaxolotl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Crouton loves nothing more than a tasty snack! Their small size makes them able to take naps almost anywhere, drifting off to dream of the treats they'll eat after! Crouton represents self care in the form of nutrition, and is here to remind you to not only eat well, but to also treat yourself! 🧁🥕

An illustration of a polaroid. A green sea slug with dark green ruffles on their back is pictured on the polaroid. Above the polaroid, it says "Crouton the Lettuce Slug", the third introduction to the characters of Steve and Pals!

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