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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Post something random, or you'll have an awful October! From a local mineral show! Prehistoric Jenny Haniver!

A fossil imprint of a large fish. Most likely a type of ray

Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

An excellent test. I feel that the virtues I score lowest on show what I care about as much as the ones I score highest on.

The result of an Undertale personality quiz for soul virtues. Perseverance ranks highest at 90 percent. Kindness is next, at 82. Justice is at 82 as well. Bravery is at 88. Integrity is 66 percent. Determination is at 58, being just eight percent above the neutral score. Patience is way at the bottom, ranking at 28 percent.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Call me stubborn, but I would‘ve preferred humor to the serious-faced farce I saw when people thought my kidneys would kill me. And speaking of acknowledging but resisting death with art, there is a fine example, though not from a hospital. This is, I am told, from a public health building.

A sculpture of the Grim Reaper being pushed back by a guy wielding a winged, snake-twined staff.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"I'll love you 'til I don't Exist here anymore" --Oliver Tree, One and Only That tiny little pause is genius.

Plain black text on white background:
Greatest one line in a song ever. Not verse, chorus, bridge. Just one line...

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Some amazing stuff from @abistevensart.bsky.social and @phasemoth.bsky.social this evening! So glad to receive some cool cryptid critters in the mail!

A bloody, golden pin depicting the mythical Cerberus!

A red-eyed, antlered hare on a golden pin! A jackalope!

A multicolored seahorse sticker! Or, is it a serpent horse with a splashing rainbow mane?

A deep, dark, metallic pair of pins depicting the mighty kraken!

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This proud homeowner was headed back into the tall grass after a rain earlier in the day, no doubt to continue its scheduled activities, which I imagine consist of eating and appreciating its palatial green surroundings, when I stopped and took a picture.

A large, friendly snail with a brown and yellow shell crawling along a concrete slab. Its skin is golden and brown, turning pale closer to its foot.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Entering Summer with a good shape! Normal capybaras, as everyone knows, occasionally turn green and photosynthesize. Drawn for me by the awesome @cadmiumtea.bsky.social

A large, round capybara-shaped plant. Mostly green with a little light brown. There are hints of fangs, and the tail is longer and more succulent than it should be. The capybara thing wears a bow tie made out of a cane toad. The toad looks mildly evil.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. Captain Capricorn being his usual self.

A large black cat with a panther face and lantern yellow eyes looks directly at the camera. He appears annoyed that the petting stopped, but hopeful more petting will happen. The tools of Vtubing are scattered on the table around him. He is more important than any Vtubing.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A fundamental misunderstanding of how social media works is that accounts grow by following people. I will absolutely block anyone who follows above ten thousand people. Get the heck out of here! You can’t possibly keep up with that much stuff! You gonna drink the oceans next?

Pumpkin Planet Youtube Original Blue Sky Account, which chose to follow me and 67.4k other people. The account appears to be trying to sell a comic/show. Two thousand people follow this account.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The Spiral Tile. Every little bit is a large, square spiral, and they engulf and interconnect with each other to form four square shapes, like stylized eyes. Purples, reds, and pinks for this one. Felt inspired by those cool outfits you see in Star Trek: DS 9 and Roman tiles.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

If you're posting a bunch of AI trash, you're not welcome to follow me. I will ridicule you and block you. I don't discuss anything with someone who values human labor and creativity so little.

Law of Fairness Account on Blue Sky. Every aspect of the front page looks like AI-generated garbage. The idea this account seeks to promote is that life could be fair for everyone. They follow over thirteen thousand people, and have over nineteen thousand followers. They have 413 posts, the vast majority of which consist of AI-illustrated stuff.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Ring Galaxy. Another little thing from yours truly. I love drawing and writing, but there is something very calming about placing pixels and balancing symmetry and chaos. Made for @sugarstarvt.bsky.social !

A vast field of stars: reds, yellows, purples, whites, and blues. Great stylized clouds assembled into a symmetrical palace resembling the inner stars and clouds of gas within a ring galaxy.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Golden Cage, a pixel tile artwork where I experimented with shading exclusively. Thanks to that, the gold has a toxic glow, and the delicate lines are unbreakable bars to hell-mouths. Really happy with how creepy it turned out.

A complex pattern of cage-like mouths with eyes and nostrils, gold bricks, and swirls of cooling metal. The whole thing is assembled into a 'cage' spread out on the tile.

A closer look at the gold brick tile. The central 'brick' is reminiscent of two prison doors, just open enough to suggest a dark cell beyond.

A hell-mouth-only tile. Here, the hell-mouths form a cross leading away from the central square of sickly, swirling gold. The shine within the hell-mouths is easier to see. There are depths in the triangular maws, filled with teeth or stalactites.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My first experiment with creating tiles using pixels. All of this is just copy-paste and careful, pixel-by-pixel manipulation. Circuitry seems cold and distant at first glance, but the longer and closer you look, the more alive it becomes.

A tile of different blues, forming a light-blue net of interlocking squares. Four crosses mark the intersections of these squares around the middle of the tile.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Quote with your green art 💚 I don't usually do these, but since I did make something recently, why not?

$A green tile with an abstract pattern of purple squares and golden circuitry filled with red gems, repeated so it forms a gold and green field with red gem flowers amid the circuitry. I was inspired to make tiles like this through my experiments with fractals and looking through the Book of Kells a few years back.$

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

That was a cool lil’ game! And now I get to brag a little!

Score for the color difference perception test. My JND is 0.007, which is apparently pretty good!

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

If you’re gonna be over here telling us what counts, is this art?

Duchamp’s Fountain, an upside down urinal with a crappy R Mutt signature and a date: 1917.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A painting @cadmiumtea.bsky.social made for me a while back. I dug it up from storage, and soon it will hang next to my other treasures! I love the Moomins. One of my favorite children’s lit/cosmic horror book series.

A painting of Snufkin from the Moomins sitting beside a campfire, in front of his humble tent. The nighttime forest closes in around him, dark leaves and tree trunks barely illuminated by the firelight. There are creatures around him, their glowing eyes looking out of the painting. And above, in the unfathomable night, a pair of lanterns look down, eyes so much bigger they appear to belong to the sky above the forest canopy.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A wonderful thing arrived in the mail, and I forgot to share! @moodyferret.bsky.social sent me some beautiful rocks! Look upon them and share my joy!

A box with a ferret scribbled on it with black ink.

Four glittery gift bags. They are see-through, and contain large quantities of packing material. Two have an astronomical motif, being black with golden stars. One is light blue, and the last is white.

A small collection of rocks. Unusual shapes, with streaking of white through their layers, is common. A couple are mottled, dark green, and one is a yellowish shade with small greenish and orange dots upon its surface.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

If you see this, post a tower or structure.

A small tower I built in No Man's Sky to see the limits of building a complex structure in the game and test out some fun patterns!

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Recently found @starsalts.bsky.social on here and remembered I got a Nope pin from her! Amazing movie, and an amazing little piece of art to celebrate it!

A large metal pin, gold in color. Enamel on top of it creates an image of the creature from Nope unfolding into its majestic abgel shape. Below, a silver outline of a horse rises into a blue sky, pulled into the monster. Blood rain forms curtains around the horse, suggesting the classic alien abduction beam. Below, a shoe is perfectly balanced atop a banner that reads ‘a bad miracle’. The banner is tied to lines of colorful flags.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

And finally a few fossils I think folks should see! Some corals, chunk of crinoids pressed together, and a couple of beautifully preserved shells. Fo folks wanna see more of my rocks?

A small pile of fossil corals like many-cratered moons in a cartoon, some crinoids petrified together and frozen, and a couple of shells.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

My agate slices. I believe these were originally coral?

A variety of agatized coral slices. Smooth, they shine with caramel and milk swirls.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

My ‘common’ rocks. Stuff I picked up across the middle of the US. Mostly petrified wood, with a few mysterious things I never bothered to identify.

An assortment of rocks lying on a scrap of dusty red fabric. Most are a dark brown with wood grain. A few are black and volcanic in origin, but I cannot say what they are.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Who even remembers the Beatles? What did they ever do at all? It's all about the Beetles these days. Just look at the @wizentrop.bsky.social posts! Obscure British bands < Cute Bugs Or is it 'Obscure British bands <3 Cute Bugs' ? Either way, beetles better.

A tiny brownish pill scarab rolled up into a cute little ball, legs all tucked in. It's lying on some leaf litter. I stress that Gil Wizen is the BEST photographer, and if you like beetles, follow Gil Wizen!

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

The Tariy evolved from tunneling herbivores who ventured to the surface, and they're horrible. A couple of centuries back, Amphisbenes taught them to be better neighbors, but they're still xenophobic weirdos with brain parasites and too much advanced tech. Drawn by @cadmiumtea.bsky.social

An eight-limbed, vaguely weasel-like creature called the Tariy in various poses: one curled up, one reaching up, two moving/falling, and one sitting upright, balancing its full length. They have dark green eye-spots, and a circle of actual eyes around the tip of their whiskered snout. Instead of nostrils, they have slits at the very front of their snouths. They posses jaws meant for cutting, and several tongue-like appendages inside their orange-colored mouths--these appendages are for gripping, scraping, and pulping their food, sort of like teeth or a snail's radula.
There is also a depiction of their claws, evolved for digging through soil and manipulating roots.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

One of my Amphisbene aliens. They just discovered gardening and hats, thanks to their friends from Earth. Some of the plants are ordinary earthly flora, like cacti and lithops. Others are predatory xenoflora from the Amphisbene home world. Drawn by @cadmiumtea.bsky.social for me.

A six-limbed creature reminiscent of a striped tarantula with six eyes. The front-most limbs serve as mouths and ten-fingered hands. This is an amphisbene, an alien I designed. This one is wearing a large floppy hat and watering some plants they grew in bowls, pans, buckets, and a boot.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

@cadmiumtea.bsky.social made me another Amphisbene drawing! Some worldbuilding info in the ALT text!

A member of my original species, the amphisbenes, dancing while twirling a ceremonial camouflage cloak. Typically a dull green, mottled with the colors of native xeno-flora, the ceremonial version is a bright, fiery red. The amphisbene themself is daubed with red over their underside, and their clothing is made from layers of spiky furred hide and leather armor plating to show off their fat tail and powerful limbs. Jewelry, in the form of beaded chains woven over their six legs and two trunk-arms, symbolizes the paths spaceships take on their routes. Posed to strike at prey, their hand-beak open as if about to snatch something from the air, the amphisbene shows off their skill as a hunter and their power as a duelist. Fake (one hopes) hand-beaks hang just under their six eyes add to the effect. To a human, this sight would be utterly terrifying, since the typical amphisbene appears to be a six-legged spider the size of a grizzly bear.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 04/08/2024

I think they might be big fans, though. Nothing says you're a fan of Star Trek like having a uniform ready for an obscure character cosplay.

A couple of evil aliens, the Hirogen, dressed as Nazis.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

What is your professional opinion of these two cats?

Photograph of a black cat with yellow eyes lying on his side atop a folding table, looking up at the camera. Next to him, in the same position, lies a white ferret with gray and black streaks down his back.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

If you see this, post a monster? Okay, but Amphisbenes are technically not monsters. They're aliens the excellent artist @cadmiumtea.bsky.social helped illustrate for me in this reference sheet!

A large, roughly arachnid creature, the amphisbene has two large, flexible trunks that serve as arms, and their two mouths double as their hands. They possess six eyes, three to each sunken socket facing roughly forward. Their coloration is a mottled, swampy gray and black, somewhat resembling that of a newt or a giant gecko. Their feet, of which there are six, have fingers for climbing and specialized digging spurs, though because Amphisbenes are a tool-using people, those have atrophied considerably.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

The pins from @bemusedbehemoth.bsky.social have arrived safely. Incredibly, shiny, glittering pins! There are even stickers and postcards! And, the way these have been packed is gorgeous. I almost didn't wanna open those envelopes.

An image of several kobold-themed pins upon a table, complete with cute stickers and postcards.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

That's just a normal Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

A still frame from the movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire, featuring Mole, the eccentric excavations expert looking very excited.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Last one from New York. I love walking around in the forest, even though my sense of direction is nonexistent on a good day.

A tiny, yellow-capped mushroom grows out among pine needles. An equally tiny green plant clings to the fungus.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Another New York hikes mushroom. Just one little guy hanging out on a tree trunk.

A close-up of a tree trunk, showing an expanse of bark with occasional bursts of moss and lichen. A solitary mushroom with a gray cap grows out of the tree on the upper right.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Back when I went hiking in Northern New York, I saw very fine fungi, and decided to take some pictures. Now, I bring them to you.

Side of a tree trunk covered in ancient mushrooms. They are surrounded by mosses and their pale forms are turning green.

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

@cadmiumtea.bsky.social created a wonderful representation of me! As you can see, I am a normal capybara, and definitely not any sort of monster.

A charming bipedal capybara clasping his little paws. He wears a cane toad leather bow tie, and possesses some very un-capybara characteristics. Today, it's sharp teeth, glowing amber eyes, and a reptilian tail.

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