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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

tired of seeing ai slop in creative spaces

ms paint, the canvas area has magenta and cyan from the spray tool and irregular white stars as a background. black text over top reads “if the fringe poster is ai, i ain’t going”

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

it is time for more badly drawn comics this is a daily occurrence

a badly drawn comic. panel 1: val washing dishes, a radio set to an 80s/90s station plays rockstar by nickleback. panel 2: val looks up from the dishes, "why does this station play so much nickleback?" panel 3: a lightbulb clicks on, val goes back to the dishes, "cannon."

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

worms (wip) 🪱🪱🪱🪱 this piece is for a show i'm doing this summer about decay

a mixed media piece of many earthworms in a little pile in the centre of the page. most of them are unfinished, just painted hot pink. several have more colour and details done with pencil crayon. the page is sitting on a wood desk surface with a few pencil crayons and a sharpener to the left.

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i let out a bisexual gasp when i found this thrifting

image of callisto from xena on a black t-shirt - she has an evil smile and wears her sexy armor outfit and holds a sword, ready to fight. the background is flames and within them is an image of xena’s face. below reads “callisto” in metallic text (the t is a sword) and smaller underneath that in red “warrior queen”

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

i was on emily st. john mandel's wikipeda page, noticed she's married to someone new, looked it up and came across this article from a few years ago about not being able to update her own wikipedia page. hilarious way to address it, 10/10. www.businessinsider.com/emily-st-joh...

screenshot of a business insider article titled "The author of 'Station Eleven' couldn't update her Wikipedia page to reflect her divorce without citing an article where she confirmed it, so she got a magazine to interview her", with a portrait photo of emily st. john mandel looking at the camera

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

vancouver folks: i have a solo art show this summer! it’s about decay as a cycle of nature. the show opens aug 27 and runs until sept 1 at slice of life gallery (just off commercial drive) 🍄🪱🪲🐦‍⬛

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

oops i’m immediately good at this Dialed Daily — May 26 47.33/50 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 dialed.gg?d=1&s=47.33

my score for a colour guessing game showing a total of 47.33/50. individual colours scored at: 9.37, 9.46, 9.37, 9.31, 9.82. #349 of 10420 players today.

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

some more messy ink sketchbook drawings. did these at night on my couch, i just put on a lil youtube dj set and drew a few random references (important part of my creative routine now tbh) if you tend to be too precious in your sketchbook may i suggest: cheapass shitty sketckbook

photo of a sketchbook page showing an ink brush drawing of a pigeon walking done in black and grey

photo of a sketchbook page showing an ink brush drawing of a pigeon standing on one foot and puffing out its chest done in black and grey

photo of a sketchbook page showing an ink brush drawing of a pigeon looking over its shoulder done in black and grey

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

a few messy inky skull drawings from my sketchbook i love using these diy ink brushpens, they're so sloppy and imprecise that it's impossible to be a perfectionist about my marks

photo of a sketchbook page showing an ink brush drawing of a fisher skull done in black and grey

photo of a sketchbook page showing an ink brush drawing of a turkey vulture skull done in black and grey

photo of a sketchbook page showing an ink brush drawing of a beaver skull done in black and grey

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

i am flying 7hrs to my hometown on new year's day and i haven't done ontario winter in 9 years and i have to see extended family who i purposely distanced myself from AND i'll be ON MY PERIOD 💀

a screenshot from the film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) showing a closeup of a woman’s face speaking - she has blue eyeshadow, her blonde hair is done up in a braided crown. subtitles at the bottom of the image read “The tortures all start at once.”

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

this should be all of us after this budget passed tbh cuz like what other options are left at this point angry mob? 🫵🏻 you in? showing the most opposition maybe ever in history via official channels to a city budget didn’t work so maybe an angry mob could be effective?

a stock image of an angry mob of people facing the camera with angry expressions, many are wielding pitchforks, axes, baseball bats, etc

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

vancouver city council voted in an egregious budget that only benefits millionaires, billionaires, and cops. here's a very simple action we can all take:

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

this is the duty on an order from an artist in the us that i spent about $100 on. this bullshit is fucking over artists/small biz and customers on both sides of the boarder, fuck this forever

a screenshot of an email from ups letting me know the amount of duty due on my delivery: $75.04 cad

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🤩 @vancouverartbookfair.com haul! so many zines! and some prints, exhibition books, stickers, and a tarot deck. plus we got to talk to lots of rad artists and makers ♥️

top down view of a coffee table completely covered in zines of different styles and sizes (illustration, photography, poetry, etc) with some other art books, stickers, and prints in the mix

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

i love baby crow season they’re so funny and clumsy and cute 🤩 (pictured is frankie who hangs out around where i live with his parents alice and silver and i love him sm)

a meme with a drawing of a woman on the left and text that reads “thank you for changing my life” and photo of a baby crow with mouth open and wings out with text that reads “i’m literally a baby crow”

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

me someday getting hassled out of the skytrain station by transit police for installing fraudulent but official looking signage that says “please wait for passengers to exit the train before boarding” because none of y’all know how to act right

screenshot from the “succulent chinese meal” viral video of a middle aged white man being arrested by two police and being pushed into a car, his mouth is open as he shouts

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

opossum skull in my sketchbook. watercolour, neocolors

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

me: [walking in my neighborhood] film crew using the sidewalk outside the restaurant they’re filming in to stash cables and light stands and whatnot:

screenshot from step brothers: a woman looking upset/frustrated at someone off camera, text at the bottom reads “get out of my office!”

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

deer (at rest), my mixed media piece that i painted for the may flowers collective show at slice of life

a mixed media painting of dark green ferns and many different colourful wildflowers partly obscuring a deer skull, vertebrae, and ribs. the background is bright orangey-yellow

a waist-up shot of valerie (a white woman with very short purple hair wearing wire framed glasses, a black and white cat-patterned shirt, and black leather harness). she is smiling at the camera and standing in front of a white brick wall with several pieces of art hung on it. valerie’s painting deer (at rest) is by her head

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

the worst parts of painting are the first 20% and the last 5%

stick figure violent meme (image macro of six low quality stick figure cartoons that are bloody, gruesome and committing violence against each other) with text in the centre that reads “me when i have just finishing touches left to do on a painting”

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

scavengers reign is such a stunning piece of animation. gorgeous and horrifying, i'm obsessed. (of course max cancelled it, the goons 😭)

an image from the animated show scavengers reign. azi (a black woman with very close cropped hair), sits on the ground reading a book. beside and behind her there are alien plants and insects/small creatures. the ground is orangey-red, the sky is blue with a few far off clouds, in the distance there are mountains on the horizon.

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

sloppy fast lines! messy smushed colour! no overthinking!!! i’ve had pretty bad art block the last little while. i made myself go sit somewhere and draw what was in front of me without worrying about making it look good. helped a lot, honestly. (hoped to finish in one sitting but the rain returned)

a sketchbook lays open on a wooden table with a loose and messy sketch of a cafe on the left page. there are a number of other things on the table around the sketchbook: black pen, coffee cup, water glass, small pencil case, canvas pouch, and plate with a croissant.

the same sketchbook on the wooden table with loose watercolour added to the sketch. other items visible on the table: two water brushes, small watercolour pallet in a mint tin, coffee cup (with less coffee), water glass, small pencil case

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

it’s juuuust sunny enough for cyanotypes ☀️💙🙌🏻

a cyanotype print on a wooden surface - the cyanotype image shows the white silhouette of several snowdrop flowers and their leaves on a dark blue background

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

hello gouache, it's been a while (the sloppy middle stage 🥴)

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

hourly comic day 2025 ✨ i'm so slow at drawing comics, we'll see how far i get with these today #HourlyComicDay

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

black bear skull (neocolors in a toned paper sketchbook)

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

a few more sketches from life drawing last week ✨

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

cougar and white tailed deer skulls in my sketchbook from august. last year i made a point of working on messy, fast mark-making to help me be less precious about making art

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

lil ink detail sketch of a shot from the lighthouse

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

having fun messing around in @ehaidle.bsky.social’s secret sketchbook course 🤠

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valerie ✶ distant moons @distantmoons.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

did this lil sketch just to play with a new pencil but it’s one of my faves of late

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