iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

been drawing on and off in a sketchbook this year, trying to find my spark again. here's a page from today as i waited for an important phone call and was very cool and relaxed about it

A vibrant sketch page in coloured pencil: seventeen hastily scrawled drawings of an anthropomorphic beetle-like insect expressing the various stages of panic, stress, and resignation. The drawings overlap each other messily, making the page very busy. One of the drawings shows the character scrawling in a sketchbook to de-stress.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

for the low low price of 1 arcane egg #hollowknight

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

okay fine the compression can have its way with her. here's some detail shots!!!

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

not very thematic for spring, but here's an old autumn doodle from back in 2020 while i work on my website. CSS is a hoot!!! especially when you go back and realise all the stuff you wrote earlier is spaghetti #furry

An anthropomorphic blue insect gazes wistfully into an orange sky as brown, gold, and red autumn leaves fall around them. Their arms are tucked into their blue hoodie; an awkward lump under the fabric suggests a second pair of arms folded in front of their body. The art style is sketchy and loose, but brightly coloured.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

commission of a very cool wasp belonging to @vespulix.bsky.social !!! can you tell i got excited about drawing something food based #furry #bugsona

A drawing of an anthropomorphic blue cuckoo wasp with soft reddish on their under-body, black eyes and mandibles, and dark-to-black tips on their digitigrade legs. They are standing up with their wings neatly folded behind them. Their upper pair of arms are occupied shaking a frying pan to fry some chopped vegetables and shaking a spice shaker into the pan. Their second, lower pair of arms cradle a mixing bowl to their front while stirring with a wooden spoon. Their expression seems pleased and happy. The background is a soft spring green with a faint yellow cooking flame behind the character; there is a scattering of various cooking ingredients following the contours of the flame.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

"I can see the dreams of this old Kingdom are starting to cling to you." do you ever think about how weird it must be that only the Knight and the Seer can see the "blade" of this thing. to everyone else you're waving around a bubble wand with no juice in it #hollowknight

A chalky drawing of the old Moth Seer from Hollow Knight. She is sitting in her usual pillow-pile hideaway, lit by lumafly lanterns. Two frail arms peek out from between her cloak-like wings; one hand holds the ornate hilt of the Dream Nail while the other is held beneath the white glowing blade, showing she's one of the few who can see it. Dream Motes clutter around the light of the blade.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

a silly Springhole prompt mashup challenge i did with a friend at a café last month Random Teen: rambunctious teen boy, wants to be a mechanic Horror Creep: ghost cowboy, distorted arms. witnesses die of "mysterious symptoms" he will fix your carburetor. and if you don't have one, Now You Do :)

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

painting/rendering practice i've been working on on-and-off between commissions. @thethrillof 's Monzun - tried to work in rain/cloud motifs but also new growth ⛈️🌱

A youngish-looking god of storms stands in a vague field, slightly hunched, with their hands curled into a fidgety shape by rheir chest and bent into literal claws; their arms are unnaturally coloured and patterned up to their short sleeves with pastel rainbow leopard patches. They have dark skin and wavy, flowing shoulder-length cherry-red hair. Their outfit is a contrasting cloudy white, including several layers of floaty white translucent cloaks with edges adorned with blue gems shaped like raindrops. A lapis lazuli brooch sits on their shirt by their neck, shaped like an open eye, matching the glowing god-symbol floating behind their head a little like a halo. By their sandalled feet, new saplings sprout from the ground. Strange clouds fill the air and twist around them, one black with lightning flashes and one white with tiny drops of water suspended in the air. They are peering out from behind a long lock of their red hair, smiling faintly, and their visible eye is bright red with a golden pupil.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

additionally: oooo who's this ooooo [wip] - should i post more progress shots i wonder......

A partial screenshot of an ongoing work in progress drawing. It's the Broken Vessel from Hollow Knight, partially inked, peering at the camera.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

blorbing the game since 2006. gengar is my silly rabbit

Doodles of characters from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue/Red Rescue Team. Text limit means I'm unable to describe all drawings but descriptions of the most interesting ones are as follows, images addressed left-to-right... ish.
1. Text reads "me and the boys / when we lie for no reason" in meme format, with Team Meanies crouching in cool selfie poses together.
2. Torchic protagonist wearing some Goggle Specs, modified to be on an actual goggle strap since it doesn't have ears to hold up a glasses frame. It is merrily walking along. In the next drawing, Torchic has slammed comedically into a wall with its face scrunched up like a Tom & Jerry style car crash. Pikachu sidekick is watching disappointedly in the distance.
3. Medicham and Ekans playing cards. Medicham says "got any Cinderaces?" and Ekans says "go fish".
4. Gengar & Medicham are walking home from a fight looking bruised and battered, clearly having lost. Medicham holds onto Gengar's ear for support. Left behind them is Ekans lying totally dead on the floor with X eyes, a snake angel (snangel) floating up from its body.
5. Medicham wearing Ekans as a fashionable neck-scarf. Text by Medicham reads "free scarf" and text by a very smug Ekans reads "free ride".
6. Medicham and Ekans back-to-back in cool poses.
7. Gengar is wearing a Mobile Scarf on its arm, which it is holding up to show off, and says "like training wheels".
8. Gengar in a wide battle stance, claws curled into a fist with ghostly energy rising threateningly from it. Gengar's face is serious. Behind it, a clueless Torchic and Pikachu watch.
9. Tiny Torchic with an onion for a head, looking remarkably similar to how its head always looks. text reads "in my humble onion".
10. Pikachu hugging and lifting and snuggling Torchic in a joyful reunion.
11. A series of doodles showing Gengar sleeping curled up around Torchic, waking up and realising this, and lying back down totally still looking embarrassed.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

ref commission for beegirlbooty @ tumblr! adore how much fluff i got to draw for this one 🐝

A fursona reference of a bumblebee character. She has one pair of arms on hips, one pair making a victory flex, and shiny purple wings flared out behind. Her body is fuzzy and dark-brown with yellow bee stripes, and a large fluffy yellow ruff around the neck adorned with a blue ribbon with a purple carnation in the middle, and three small purple flowers. She wears two belts - one around her waist, one around her upper leg - to hold small pouches marked with flowers and a corked bottle of something that looks like honey. Her round abdomen is visibly fluffy and in the middle of its wide yellow stripe is a flower mark with six petals.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Persim the Floran for @tabificrevendicate.bsky.social back when i was deep diving into Starbound like nobody's business [2022]

A happy-looking Starbound Floran is floating in midair, in a dynamic pose holding a staff tipped with a glowing white orb that crackles with electricity. Their head is adorned with large leaves and an orange flower, and they have two pairs of red, blood-like eyes, one set smaller than the other. They wear a sleeveless, turtlenecked, white shirt with a trailing cape down to their knees, a cream coloured belt, and brown trousers and dress shoes. In their other hand is a Monster Ball, and beside them floats a Poison Sporgus - a round green fungus creature with red dot eyes and two large red mushrooms growing out of its round body. The background of the image is cheerful pink, and directly behind the characters is a perfect white square tilted 45 degrees that has criss-cross lines through it like a cage; this square is also crackling with energy similar to the Floran's staff, and is implied to be the gravity-defying trick that suspends the two in the space.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

strange folks in Peanut Swamp [2022]

A coloured drawing of a Gengar lying flat on its back on a huge lilypad, taking a nap. A Mudkip sleeps on its belly, and the Gengar's hand rests lightly over the Mudkip's back to keep it from slipping off. In the crook of the Gengar's other arm, an unusually-coloured black and pink Hisuian Zorua is snuggled in to sleep. Neatly tucked in beside the Zorua is a Ledyba. The Gengar appears to be drooling slightly in its sleep.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

old furry ref for Marvinn, a science guy i never did anything with. i've apparently always had a deep affinity for slapping eyewear on all my characters [2019]

A very simple safe-for-work reference sheet of an anthropomorphic cat. He has orange fur and sparse white tiger-stripe markings. His tail has a red strip of fabric tied neatly around it and a soft-looking white tassel of fur sticks out of the end, much like the poofy cloud of hair between his ears. His eyes are green. The first drawing shows him without clothes to show his fur patterning, and the second drawing shows him wearing a leather eyepatch with a round red lens fitted into it, a pair of loose white trousers, and foot-paw bindings and a black dress-like garment that look like they're made out of a similar heavy material to a welder's apron.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

an old ink baron from 2017

A head-and-shoulders shot of Baron Humbert von Gikkingen from The Cat Returns, drawn in black ink, on a black background against a white moon.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

taz graduation fitzroy boycloaks moment

Fitzroy from The Adventure Zone: Graduation is depicted with a kind of fluffy mullet hairdo situation, pointed ears, several rings on his fingers, and large, round glasses. He's shown from the back, peeking over his shoulder with a scandalised expression to see he has grown in height and his fancy cloak no longer fits properly. A crab familiar is perched on his shoulder.

Fitzroy looks mortified as he clutches his too-short cloak to his chest. "Oh god..." he says. "My Boycloaks(TM) photoshoot..."

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

my terrible wizard warforged, Arc. his special talent is getting knocked out every single combat and occasionally being correct about which way is north

A brassy-looking robot with an endoskeleton-like steampunk design. Pieces of wood have been crafted into basic armour pieces, but barely consist of much more than kneepads, gauntlets, one pauldron, and a chest covering. There is a window-shaped hole in the chest part that shows a floating magenta crystal about the size of a fist, with threads of silver tangled around it like a messy metal knot. Its face has a large, blunt-toothed jaw and pink glassy eyes, and one eye is covered by a monocle that appears to have multiple attachments. The robot's head has a glass part on top to reveal cogs and machinery where a brain would be. It is standing neutrally and raising one arm to wave at the viewer.

The brassy, clunky-looking robot is steepling its fingers together in front of its face. Its expression is unable to change, yet somehow it seems to have a distant, pensive stare. Text above the robot's head reads in typical greentext style with an angle bracket pointing to the words "when your only function is knowing shit and your party doesn't listen"

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

MLP FIM stuff - this was back when i was trying to think with light/dark values for the first time. i still like em! stygburst late-night scholars, young six campfire stories, neighsay doing paperwork, and a flutterbat for good measure [2019-2020]

Chancellor Neighsay sitting at a desk studying some papers, looking irked, with his face resting on one hoof. A candle burns beside him, implying this is late at night. The E.E.A. medallion sash has been taken off and lies on the desk between his papers. The image is in greyscale.

The Young Six sit around a bright campfire in the dark woods, their tents off to one side. Silverstream is telling a story, her front claws outstretched enthusiastically and her beak wide open. Ocellus is hiding under her tail, looking amused but nervous. Smoulder lies on her back on the ground. Yona and Sandbar have settled beside each other, and Sandbar is chatting back to Silverstream. Behind them, Gallus is perched on a rock, head resting on his claw. Everyone's attention is on the story Silverstream is telling. The image is in greyscale.

The vampire-fruit-bat version of Fluttershy is napping in the crook of a leafless tree, surrounded by fruit bats. She has one of the bats nested in between her front hooves. One of the bats looks suspiciously like Discord in disguise. A full moon glows over distant hills in the background. The image is in greyscale.

Sunburst and Stygian have fallen asleep at a table piled high with books. Sunburst's glasses have been lifted up to rest on his forehead over his horn, and Stygian is wearing a small pair of pince-nez. Sunburst also sports a slightly longer/fuller beard than usual, implying this scene takes place somewhere in the timeskip before his appearance in the finale. A candle glows beside them, melted-looking and almost burned down to the brass holder. The image is in greyscale.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

hollow knight animation. flop.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

what you got there, wooloo [2019]

A Wooloo. Everything is normal and it's just standing there smiling vacantly, except its cute little hair plait thing is being used as a hand and is holding a semirealistic handgun.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

mega mewtwo Y in the ace palette, for @thethrillof.bsky.social ⬛⬜🟪 [2019]

Mega Mewtwo Y floating in a neat rounded curled shape, head tilted back a little and smiling calmly at the viewer with visible eye glowing. The colours used are equivalent to those on the asexuality flag, a scribbly version of which is also used as the background.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

infinity volts ⚡ [2020]

Raichu floating in an abstract pink void with faint lightning patterning. It appears to be mid-leap and in an action pose, smirking confidently at the camera, and its tail whips around to form an infinity symbol with the lightning-bolt tailtip sparking with electricity near its face.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

some impmon doodles. i like him shape [2020]

Impmon standing in a neutral pose, tugging his neckerchief up to hide the lower half of his face. His eyes are sharp and distrusting, and are coloured an unusual icy blue. His shadow appears to have a pointy hat.

A cute scribbly doodle of a somewhat chibified Impmon, running merrily along with his arms out.

Two scribbly near-silhouette doodles of a human and an Impmon. In the first, the human is striding cheerfully along and Impmon is trying to drag them back by hanging onto the hem of their coat and digging his heels in, to no avail. In the second, the human is standing braced to pull Impmon back, his tail caught in their fist, and he appears to be trying to walk towards something or someone with a fist raised in a "let me at 'em" gesture.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

some Sunburst art. i have a permanent case of MLP brain goblins but he is my favourite forever [2020, 2023, 2024]

Sunburst is trotting along a cheerful abstract field of green lines, his head held high and a smile on his face. Baby Flurry Heart is settled on his back, eagerly looking ahead. Sunburst's cape is flapping up a bit to reveal his cutie mark.

A bust shot of Sunburst as he appears in the final episode, with an unevenly-trimmed full beard. He is smiling down at something with a warm, fond expression. The background is an abstract sun positioned behind his head with rays coming down past him.

Sunburst and Stygian are trotting along together. Sunburst appears as he did in the final episode, with a full gingery beard. Both of their unicorn horns are alight with their respective magic - Sunburst's gold magic is leafing through a stack of papers and passing them through the air behind him to be received by Stygian's blue magic and re-stacked. Sunburst appears to be cheerfully explaining something, and Stygian is happily chatting back.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

mods are asleep post kvn donkey kong buttspank meme

A 2-part doodle of KVN the crappy robot. The first part is him seen from behind with a fake pair of butt cheeks duct taped to his back where a butt would be. The second part is him turning to look over his shoulder at the viewer, holding up one finger. The text reads, "YOU MAY SPANK IT... ONCE"

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

old Final Space doodles, a thread [2020]

Lord Commander stares disinterestedly into the middle distance. "OK, say 'Avocato'" says a disembodied voice, and he responds: "Avocato"

Lord Commander eyerolls sarcastically, gesturing with one hand. "Now say 'John'", the voice says. He replies: "John. This isn't hard, why are you even-?"

"OK. Say 'Gary'" says the voice. Lord Commander immediately pitches forwards into a looming, grim-shadowed evil pose with his eyes glowing. "THE GARY" he responds in full dramatics, even his speech bubble dripping with malice. He even included a little Trademark symbol. The voice says: "No"

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

zote nonsense. i have a huge hollow knight backlog as well. stay tuned for niche silly

a redraw of the "You Could Stop At 5 Or 6 Stores" video, featuring Zote from Hollow Knight. Part 1: he is standing in place staring at the viewer boredly, declaring: "I don't need friends. They disappoint me."

Part 2 of the meme redraw: Zote twists around to stomp awkwardly on the floor with one arm waggled up in the air. It is unclear what this is meant to communicate.

Zote lies on the ground face-down and motionless. The Knight is squatting a bit to look at him, and pokes his head curiously with a sword. Text underneath the drawing reads "ZOTE HAS DIED." Both characters are from Hollow Knight.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

some sci-fi bugsona stuff. my advice is to put your fursona in situations [2020, 2024, 2022]

three uncoloured doodles of an anthropomorphic insect with four arms. in 1, they are floating in space wearing a jumpsuit and a circular fish-bowl helmet, looking stressed with all their arms out for balance. in 2, they are mopping a floor and talking on a small wrist comms device that displays a faint hologram of a hyena's face, and they're holding a feather duster in their last free hand. in 3, they are wearing a high-collared jacket over the top of the jumpsuit, and their wings are outstretched from inside their wingcases. one arm is held out as if to motion to someone behind them, and they are facing the viewer with an intimidating glare.

an anthropomorphic insect floats in space, their four arms and two legs flailing wildly as they struggle to orient themselves. they are wearing a green jumpsuit with a fish-bowl helmet, and their expression is panicked. the image has a transparent background except for some blurry shadows following the shape of the character.

an anthropomorphic insect kneels on the floor in front of a tower of alien-looking machinery covered in glowing red lights. the bug's upper arms are holding two connectable ends of some rubber tubing that glows green inside the connecting parts, and their lower set of hands holds what looks to be a small toothbrush-like tool and a tube of green paste. they are looking at the viewer with a bored expression, and the image is grainy, suggesting they were caught on a security camera while doing some janitorial work in a green-panelled corridor.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

some bugsona draws from past years. hold onto your trousers you will be seeing a lot of them [2019, 2020, 2022]

waist-up view of a blue anthropomorphic bug standing confidently against a yellow and white scribble background. they are holding up one finger with an upper arm, and their other upper arm is held palm-out. one lower arm is raised in a fist and the other is by their side. their big, shiny, yellow-orange eyes are aimed at the viewer. there is a cheerful vibe to their pose, like a friendly lecturer

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

dragons for @bluegekk0.bsky.social as an artfight attack last year! rawr indeed [2024]

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

eyestrain gengar for a terrible terrible palette challenge (see replies for link) [2023]

Gengar floating in a dynamic leaping pose. it is grinning mischievously, and its arm is outstretched and flaming with ghostly energy. the image is comprised of 4 colours, including neon hot pink and dull teal, all of which clash drastically

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

some genshin impact doodles - a fish, a disaster magnet, and a therapy chibi [2021]

an ink drawing of Fischl. she has one hand on her hip, and the other is in the middle of a sweeping action to flick one of her ponytails

a bust of Bennett. he has his shoulders held tightly up, and looks wide-eyed and embarrassed, though he is smiling a tiny bit and his face has gone pink

Paimon floating and making a 'V' peace sign with two fingers. She is coloured in partly a pastel blue up to her shoulders, marked by a diagram labelling this as "60% EVIL SNACK THIEF", and above that line is coloured pink with the label "40% GOOD VIBE MEDIATOR". She is mischievously sticking her tongue out and winking at the viewer.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

~you’ll get worse than a thousand-year curse if you hurt these little ones.~ commission for @thethrillof.bsky.social <3 i feel nostalgic knowing this was before i played/understood Hollow Knight... [2020]

a shiny Ninetales lies in a glade of overgrown ruins, surrounded by various Shades from Hollow Knight. there is a protective steadiness to their stare, which is aimed directly at the viewer. Hornet is perched between their ears. some Lifeblood growths peek out from the cracks in the ruined stonework here and there. the scene is relaxed, but the Ninetales is calmly on guard.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

shoutout to the Mewtwo in my pokemon mystery dungeon game who is taking a repeated battering from Purity Forest [2022]

a Mewtwo pushes itself up off the ground with one hand, covered in bruises and scratches and gritting its teeth. its other hand adjusts an Insomniscope, perhaps about to pull the lenses down over its eyes

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

🌌✨stella flora✨🌌 commission for Sylenvie on Furcadia

a purplish starry-bodied entity floats among dawny, nebulous clouds. she is humanoid, with long and flowing pale blue-green hair, and has a galaxy in her chest. she cradles a golden star-shaped flower in her hands, gazing down on it with gentle fondness

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

wanna see my fruit bat imitation

Grimm from Hollow Knight bows elegantly to the viewer, his head turned away to the side with a curious expression. He is watching the Knight mimic his bow. They are even holding the edge of their cloak up dramatically in one hand, like him. Due to their lack of expression, it's hard to tell if this imitation is earnest or a pisstake.

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bug @goodmode.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

starting off my art backlog catchup with this fiery braixen

a Braixen does a dance with fire in the dark. the fire trails from the stick they wave above their face, flames snaking over their head and around and over their shoulder like a feather boa

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