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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Having a stomach flare on the day you have to go somewhere without a toilet is a special kind of torture.

Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Spooky old art for the spooky month. You'll probably need to have your brightness all the way up to see the really subtle details. #art #deer #digitalart #animals #drawing

The black frame of a deer-like entity stares with glowing white orbs at the viewer. Its body is made up of dripping, amorphous hands. It stands in a dark background made up of a creepy dead tree on a blank hill.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Raindrops on the leaves of a Black Cherry Tree (Prunus serotina). #plants #nature #photography

Droplets of water decorate the shiny, slightly-serrated leaves of an overhanging tree branch. The greens are somewhat muted to match the gloomy weather.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More bugs! I mounted the giant longhorn with goldenrod which I may end up keeping. And I have a cicada and more beetles pinned and drying. Can't seem to get the rhino beetle fully rehydrated though, so it may have to be pinned as is. Again, all bugs were found already deceased.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Aw, thanks! Yes, part of my disappointment may have been due to how frustrated I already was. I may revisit this piece in the future and try some things people suggested. For now, I have put it aside. Thank you for the kind words though. I hope things get easier for you too! Your art is lovely, BTW!

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a picture of the lines before coloring that i may convert to digital and color it in SAI someday, but I don't know. I'm so fed up with how things have gone this month. Now I can't even do any decent art. I just want to throw everything away and disappear.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is never getting finished. I returned to it after a long break and after laying down some color, my fear of losing detail came true. I tested the colors first and thought the black for the crows and gray trees wouldn't be too dark but i was wrong. I was so excited for this piece and I ruined it

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When you're in the middle of drawing and have another breakdown, but gotta force the tears back because you can't get the art wet.

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Dumpster Fire: I'm Fine, Everything Is Fine!

ALT: Dumpster Fire: I'm Fine, Everything Is Fine!

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For all I do despite my health, it seems it's still too much to ask to be appreciated by my family just one day of the year. And where are all the friends I've helped out with money and stuff in the past? Don't know why I expect anything different, though. It's the same every year.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And of course all the links to everywhere else I'm at - socials, portfolio, etc. - can be found here: dragaflammis.carrd.co Thanks for looking! Feel free to drop in and say hello! Even if I miss thanking you personally, each sale, like, comment, and follow means a lot.

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A hub for all of DF's links.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Etsy (jewelry, original art, apparel, and more): drcsarts.etsy.com Ebay (used goods, taxidermy, and crafting materials): www.ebay.com/usr/*drcsarts Ko-fi (digital files, donations, and commissions): ko-fi.com/dixieconley

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you're gonna be arrogant and rudely shut me down when I tell you where a thing is, then waste my energy "helping" you look for it, I will have the satisfaction of wasting yours too. It's hilarious watching a grown man have a total meltdown for a whole hour while giving him the silence he wants.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I regrettably have no pictures because I was busy. But today I saw a melanistic mourning dove! It was a solid chocolate color. Adding it to my list of shinies seen in the wild! So far, I have also seen a black bobcat and coyote, and a melanistic whitetail that was also a dark brown like the dove.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

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Men In Black3 Boris The Animal

ALT: Men In Black3 Boris The Animal

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There once was a time when I was creating a series of sea dragons with their own ecology. I only did this one, the yellow-spotted canyon diver, a bioluminescent species capable of diving to the extreme depths of the ocean's trenches and canyons. #art #dragons #fantasy #digitalart #drawing

A long, thin, dark blue sea dragon with reddish frills along its entire spine and with wings too tiny for flight but which help with swimming. Its frills are lined with glowing yellow markings, and a line of the same glowing yellow spots travel the length of its body.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I wasn't sure if I wanted to move any more old stuff over. But since I'm still struggling to get back to editing newer photos, I'll share just a few more from years past. This is lupine I saw in the alpine region of Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador. #flower #naturephotography #plants

Clusters of purple and white flowers springing up between mixed green foliage. Lupines shine in the cold, windy conditions of such a high altitude where few other flowers grow.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Glue didn't work but my jewelry cutters thankfully did. Had 3 screws like that. It was a pain, but at last I am done. It's so nice having a working keyboard again! I put a new charging jack in too. Old one was loose and began getting super hot. I was worried about a fire or something overheating.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Replacing my keyboard, as it's slowly been failing and using the on-screen keyboard gets old fast. But the very first thing to remove besides the battery is the hard drive, and the screwhead stripped with my tiniest screw driver. Hope the super glue trick works, or I'm SoL. I hate repairing laptops.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

After looking through BugGuide.net, I have found that the beetle is some kind of borer from the longhorn subfamily Prioninae. I will try to further narrow down the ID later.

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Welcome to BugGuide.Net!

An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New month, new hobby. Trying flower pressing to decorate pinned bugs, using mostly flowers I grew myself. I found some shadow boxes for displaying them, too. This whole project has been an experiment that needs loads of improvement, but I'm eager to keep working at it!

A Banded Sphinx Moth (Eumorpha fasciatus) with Four-o-clock flowers, which this moth species visits nightly during the summers here. This is my first pinned specimen. Although its wing was already slightly smudged when found, I sadly damaged it more in handling. Despite the flaws, however, I like it. It shall live in my room.

Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica) and an absolute giant of a ground beetle (I think; can't find an ID) are currently drying to be displayed later. Like with the moth, these were found already deceased.

An assortment of flowers grown by me, plus fox grape vines.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

save their world from a greater evil! At some point, I'll add her human form too. Not sure how to go about that yet since my people-drawing skills are non-existent. But at least I can start the line art for this part of the ref when next able.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

which may get tweaked. Not shown here is the accompanying corruption sickness. An event in the story causes it to suddenly activate. The abrupt changes take a dangerous toll on her. What fun to be self-destructing while on the run from an organization that is hunting you even as you’re at war to...

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A crazy few weeks these have been. Hoping to catch a break, especially after today's developments. But in between, I did a little designing and now have Onika's corrupt form (on right). I drew a horse from my own photo and used s3venday's brush on DA for the person so you get an idea of the scale...

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

For 3 decades, I have been drawing. And still I sometimes make my dragons' heads too big.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Oy. What a time to be an artist...or any authentic content creator, really. Just...oy.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

E-commerce sites: Make your listings stand out with creative photos! Me:

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm dogsitting for my neighbor next door. Lilli came up to the fence all puffed up, then sat back and stared like "what is this bullcrap?"

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Great close-ups! And what a cute and fluffy bear! Bears are among my favorites, but deer are still top for me, I think.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Still waiting to get more of our stuff back. Got tips about another guy who reportedly has a bunch that he's still trying to sell. Think we need to pay him a visit too...later. At the worst possible time, our fridge and freezer quit so we're scrambling to save our food now. I'm about to go hulk mode

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yep. I can't say the rest of that quote here. But some people shouldn't be allowed to stay and contribute to the gene pool, if you know what I mean.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

breaker panel. Even though him cutting the power made no difference (he really thought security systems don't have a back-up source 😂). Never imagined someone would be stupid enough to try. But then, the rejects out here surprise me every day. 'Tis locked now.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Like I said, we have a reputation for finding people and handling things on our own. This wasn't our first rodeo. Been busy increasing our security even more and cleaning up the mess those punks left, though. One thing we ourselves had a bit of a dumb moment about was not having a lock on the...

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

that it was us hit this time. Through ours and neighbors' combined efforts, a lot of our stuff has already been returned to us, with more on the way. The funny part is, not a single bit of it was valuable. Oh, and the law is already looking for him. We ended up not needing them ourselves though....

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

with a little...convincing,...forced him into fleeing the neighborhood. We have a name for one of the others seen with him. If she has a single brain cell left, she'll leave too. They have apparently been stealing from a bunch of people, some of whom want their own revenge. Word traveled fast...

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Follow-up on the theft. Meet "Weasel" Franklin, one of a few people who planned to break into our cabin after they had already stolen from our shed. It was clear from the evidence that they intended to return that night. Too bad for them we already found this dumb f*©k and...

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

concerned about ethics need not worry, though. I don't like how some people kill bugs or buy exotics to do this. With the exception of some serious pests and invasive species maybe (which will be humanely dispatched), my specimens will be those I find myself and which are already deceased or dying.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I know I keep jumping around. But I have always been fascinated with bug pinning. Until finding a video just recently, however, I never knew preserving bugs was so easy and straightforward. I found this freshly-dead Banded Sphinx Moth today and thought it would make a cool first specimen! Anyone...

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yeah, and even that is hoping for a lot. >_> But I'm glad you got that at least. Treat yourself to something nice!

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

How was your birthday? Get to do anything special for it yet?

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Story and pics tomorrow when I've given more info to police. But here's a PSA for you: if you think you can break into my place, you are an absolute joke. My family and I have a really good track record for finding people. As one terrified sneak discovered tonight, you will be found. You will pay.

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Liam Neeson: I Will Find You

ALT: Liam Neeson: I Will Find You

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I guess the 150x150 pixel size is too small to avoid Bluesky's upscaling. Original looks better but this will have to do.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Old animated pixel icon for @hannahelizabethart.bsky.social of her cool skull beast, Deirdre. This was my first time animating pixel art and I found it to be more difficult than other animations I've done. Still like the result, even if the jaw is a little wonky. #art #fantasy #digitalart #pixelart

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Just realized I tagged this as digital art. Was meant to be traditional, as the only part done digitally was the vignette. The rest was done in Indian ink and colored pencils.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"Smells Like Cotton Candy" Kind of funny to think this was an exercise so long ago to get out of my comfort zone of more natural colors. Back then, I hated how bright and "girly" these were. Now this is one of my favorite color schemes. #art #fantasy #dragons #digitalart #artist #drawing

Colored pencil art of an eastern dragon. Its head is adorned with large pale antlers, and it has a pink and purple mane running down the entire length of its body and coiling tail. Blue scales line its face, legs, and underside. Floating in the air, the dragon is clutching a pearl in its front paws. A gray vignette has been applied digitally, framing the white background.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Well, now I've been too focused on other things and missed posting. It's a curse having so many different hobbies sometimes. Ah, but here is a waterfall taken at the Memorial Gardens in Ormond Beach, part of the museum there honoring locals who served in World Wars I & II. #landscapes #waterscapes

A small waterfall with branching white streams flowing down moss-covered rocks. It is framed by green ferns and palmettos.

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Draga🥄Flammis @dragaflammis.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

One thing I have to thank generative AI for is increasing my appreciation for my own work. I don't often feel proud of my art and photos, but even the worst sketches or snapshots are still so much better than artificial slop. I don't let the fake junk rob my joy of creating, sharing, and improving.

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