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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb

Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you see a Gryfon I drew facing right, rest assured I drew it facing left and then used Flip Horizontal. I cannot draw creatures facing right

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Bombird @bombird.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"Draw birds" they said. "It's going to be fun" they said.

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Melody Simpson @melodysimpson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Apologies if you're seeing this for the millionth time but please help support the work of this very necessary database in a time when Black literature is starting to become overlooked in the way that it was pre2020. We can't let that happen. Please support. Thanks! www.gofundme.com/f/support-me...

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Donate to Support Melanin in YA's Expansion, organized by Melody Simpson

Melanin in YA , your source for all things Black in traditional young adult publishin… Melody Simpson needs your support for Support Melanin in YA's Expansion

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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🌟 Hey, YA readers! You won't want to miss these 78 exciting new young adult books being published in October 2026! 🌟 popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit

A collage of ten young adult books being published in October 2026. Books featured include Devil's Advocate by Amanda DeWitt, From Square One by A.M. Woody, Falling Like Snow by Misty Wilson, Just The Good Parts by Robbie Couch, Snowflakes or Surf Breaks? by Lila Hazell, Revenge of the Final Girl by Andrea Mosqueda, Kill Your Darlings by Yuvashri Harish, Ellen Poe For Evermore by Diana Peterfreund, It's Only Dancing by Jasmine Guillory and Everything New Again by Renée Watson.

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Furry Writer starter pack has made me realize how many writer friends are on here and I didn’t know, and ALSO a few who were following me and somehow I didn’t follow back yet 🥲💀

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riley ✨🏳️‍⚧️ @ritwells.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

✨ 50 EDITION ART BOOK PREORDER ✨ I am releasing my first art book! It features work from 2017-2026 with unseen pieces included ❤️ $28/book + $5 shipping - first 10 editions sold will get a complimentary thank you sketch! ❤️ for more details and to order: ko-fi.com/s/8de78b2b58

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Pazur ✷ @pazurmazur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Heraldic Griffin ⚔️✺ #tattoo

Photo showing a tattoo of griffing in a heraldic pose, placed on an arm. It has collar, stylized feathers, long fluffy tail, bigger belly, shiny claws and tongue out.

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Emberwick (Play Tales from Myriad!) @emberwickart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi! My name is Carson/Emberwick and I’m an artist+game designer! It’s my 🎂birthday!🎂, and it would mean a lot if you shared my work and checked out my ttrpg Tales from Myriad (which is on sale!) metalweavegames.com/collections/...

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sparks and I would like to wish a very happy Halfnight to the Gryfon Pride!

An adorable, derpy, mixed-breed shepherd looking white dog, in front of a background of aspen trees

A beautiful reddish orange maple leaf with some drops of water. Happy Fall!

A paved path through lovely aspen trees lit by the Equinox sunrise.

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dagnabbit I did NOT paint a mergryf last year

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Saw this meme and immediately needed a paint over and the fantastic @veppart.bsky.social was ON IT. Ren & Tyrilar from The Dragon Star Saga. Happy Collect A Rock Day!

A meme of two otters looking into the distance. The caption reads: 16 September is National Collect A Rock Day.
“Do you like rocks?”
“Yeah I love rocks.”
“Cool. We can be friends.”

A meme of two gryphon looking into the distance. The caption reads: 16 September is National Collect A Rock Day.
“Do you like rocks?”
“Yeah I love rocks.”
“Cool. We can be friends.”

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Saw this meme and immediately needed a paint over and the fantastic @veppart.bsky.social was ON IT. Ren & Tyrilar from The Dragon Star Saga. Happy Collect A Rock Day!

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Nicole Dornsife | Thornwolf @thornwolf.com · 16/09/2026

Hey all, because of my hand injury and needing to rest, and therefore inability to work at full capacity (I really shouldn't be working at all..but) ALL of my original artwork is an automatic 20% off until Sep 30. Please take a look and share! #BSNM #ArtSale #SciArt www.thornwolf.com/shop/origina...

A screenshot of my shop showing 6 of 7 original artworks that have price reduced by 20%. The most expensive piece is $160 (mountain quail), the least expensive piece is $52 (pelican)

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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"In the Ancient Hallowed Places" Ovenbird with Six-spotted Tiger Beetle 10"x24" oil painting on panel The beautiful conglomerate rocks of an ancient sea floor; buried and lifted and revealed and eroded, the life that once was and is again, complex and beautiful and interconnected across time. 🪶🐡

A long format oil painting showing a cropped rock formation of ancient conglomerate, cracked and looming in its current form by water, ice, and time. A wash of moss and lichens crawls across the surfaces that allowed it to grow, with stunted mountain laurel taking root in the mossy nursery, and large brownish rock tripe lichens clinging here and there. A few aged white oak leaves sit in the moss, bug eaten and worn, and near the center sits an Ovenbird, the tiny stripy warbler pausing in its day. On the rock closest to us on the right is a metallic green colored Six-spotted tiger beetle. The artist watermark reads: copyright 2026 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com

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Dahlia the griffin 🔜 Pawcon @fromageophage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The video is finished! Please check it out and tell me what you think! youtu.be/P5VrT3izgAY #FurryArtistRates

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I really need to get to a furcon in 2027 I miss you all 😭

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.” Alice Walker, The Color Purple …and yet here we are.

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Could be you this year 👀👀👀 lil gifty gift for yourself or someone else who needs an uplifting adventure and wants to be a Gryfon instead of a human for awhile.

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hear me out— the Summer King Chronicles won’t solve your problems but it will give you a wild, wonderful place to go for a little while and come back feeling hopeful and stronger and also more like a gryphon which may, in and of itself, be helpful.

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Convincing you to check out my Song of the Summer King GRAPHIC NOVEL, in-progress only on Patreon, with art by the illustrious @veppart.bsky.social Reeeskeets appreciated!💫🪶🦅 Start reading here: www.patreon.com/posts/822076...

A three-panel comic page, against a background that is the same page but faded out in a sepia tone. The panels depict a gryphon diving through a dawn sky over the ocean, and shrieking. The gryphon thinks, "I cannot be late! I will be cast from the pride!" and the final panel is him pulling up close to the waves to skim the surface.

A comic page panel set against the background of a different page in faded sepia tones. The main image of the panel is a coppery brown gryphon, head bowed, whispering, "What..." while in two smaller inset panels, two other gryphons look on in dismay.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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R. A. Meenan (Sammie)(She/They) @zyearth.com · 12/09/2026

👀 Come find us at #AnthroSoCal next weekend! @anthrosocal.org We'll be at booth A5! This is Zyearth's last convention for this year, so we've got all kinds of fantastic deals for you. <3 And the holiday season is right around the corner! Books make fantastic gifts! :D #Books #Zyearth

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change.

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this INCREDIBLY USEFUL page on drawing different SNOUT TYPES, by the talented @goldmousestudios.bsky.social! Seeing all these variants side by side is a fantastic way to learn the DIFFERENCES IN SPECIES! #gamdev #animatindev #anine #furry #furries #anthro

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"The Carolina Wren Diamond" 4"x4" oil painting on panel I adore our local Carolina Wrens. Their personalities and behaviors are amazing. Each time I see one I must announce its presence to the household by yelling "THE WREN" 🪶

An oil painting of a Carolina Wren. The bird is sitting on a flat surface, its face turned toward the viewer as it is lit by golden hour light from the left side. The background is a dark greyish blue with warm hints. The watermark reads: Copyright 2026 Jennifer Miller Nambroth featherdust dot com

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sale ends tonight!!! Support your indie authors and pick up a few books for a great price (FREE - 2.99)!!! indiebook.sale

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Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text. Ebook covers surround the banner.

Text: Indie Book Sale

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Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

29 - 31 August

Banner designed by Arden Powell

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Ren had expected a gryfess more like Rashard, quiet and calm. Hovering there above the cliff, the princess reminded Ren more of a brand of fire.” From Rise of the Dragon Star… by me! First in the sequel series to the Summer King Chronicles. www.amazon.com/Rise-Dragon-...

Digital painting of a gray female gryphon with russet coloring on her wing, amber eyes, two golden feathers tied behind her ear, and a wolf claw necklace. She is Princess Embra, daughter-of-Rashard, from Rise of the Dragon Star, by Jess E. Owen

Near solid gray in color like her father, Princess Embra boasted bright splashes of russet on top of her wings. Two large, impossibly bright feathers flicked behind one ear, not her own, but worn the way lions wore feathers knotted into their manes and fur. They shimmered and gleamed unlike gryfon feathers, even dragon-blessed gryfon feathers, and Ren thought immediately of Suijen.

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. Author: She raised the cup to her lips, and the bergamot-infused steam swirled her back to memories of her grandmother’s cabin, twenty years ago, and that exhausted but beloved joke every morning: “Earl Grey, hot.”

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Like I said the other day, generative AI is a toy, not a tool. At most it’s fun for the person making the things. No one else is interested. If they wanted THAT they’d just make their own. “Art” that literally anyone could have made, bc NO ONE actually did, is impossible to actually engage with.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"We can't use your product if anyone knows it's your product because everyone hates your product" is maybe a sign that your company stinks

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Bison Boi @roaminbison.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Gryphon pin design for upcoming campaign (which u should follow)🦅

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

That’s Beach Clan don’t worry about it

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riley ✨🏳️‍⚧️ @ritwells.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

trying to raise at least $450 to cover rent and overdue bills so i’m offering a spot for one of my reference sheets again 🙏 ko-fi.com/c/00420d6676 i also have a few YCH’s and adoptables available still as well ❤️ thank you for your consideration and support!

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

August 3rd will be my 44th trip around the sun! I believe my purpose here is to share my stories, so the greatest gift anyone can give me is to read the work and tell other folks about it! If you’ve been thinking about it, it’s a great time to pick up any of my books, or bug your friends to 😇🤗💛

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Kate Shaw / Tigerbat Tails @tigerbattails.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you want a podcast that's carefully researched WITHOUT USE OF AI EVER about animals, especially mystery animals (scientific mysteries! scientific explanations!), I've released an episode of Strange Animals Podcast every single week since February 2017. strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net

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Strange Animals Podcast | A podcast about living, extinct, and imaginary animals!

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Nicole Dornsife | Thornwolf @thornwolf.com · 28/07/2026

Heads up for folks wanting to know how I approach watercolor and colored pencil, I do have a tutorial already, just $3!

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