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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

so when Jo sees Oran he doesn't immediately go on the attack and instead slowly creeps up and *then* instigates a fight if Oran breathes wrong so I've been having sessions I call "pissing off Jo" where I sit with Oran and scoot around to block Jo from getting to him until Jo gets bored and leaves

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

actually my second covid booster when it was brand new gave me the worst chills of my life at 3am the following night and vive ????? showed up and laid on my chest and purred until I stopped shaking and then left and she'd never done that before and she's never done that since

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"surely getting my flu shot and covid booster at the same time will go well since I was recently sick" <- this guy for some godforsaken reason

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hoping I never have to show people the .clip files of any of my drawings to prove I did them because last night I made some edits to an illustration I made earlier this year and gotta say. I don't think I could explain the thought process behind however the hell these layers are arranged

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

checking out the back door to see if any of the lunchbox orange peppers are ripe yet because there's like fifteen out there and the last ones we had were incredible. I get it now

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

man xochilt and I were reeeeeally sick over the entire last week and one of our friends picked up groceries for us and two other friends picked up groceries and meds and cat litter and chicken nuggets and my parents sent takeout money and multiple other friends checked in on us and waow. community

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

oh nice there's valheim achievements now

the valheim achievement which reads "the lumberjack / cut down 500 trees" unlocked september 9th at 9:53

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

good evening. his name is Oran now

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

tuckered after a long 45 minutes of being flea combed

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

gonna try to be overly cautious about introducing sands to the rest of the cats but so far he's only gently hissing and growling and hasn't tried to swipe at anyone through the baby gate and even let vive lean in for a biiiiiiig sniff before I shut the door again so that seems promising

a gray cat and an apricot cat sniffing each other through a baby gate

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

my phone camera keeps correcting the color but he's like???? very slightly pink????? fascinating color on this guy

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

we had to give our cats flea meds and as I was checking that the kind we were getting was the kind we usually get I saw a review that was like "MY vet says this one fundamentally doesn't work because cat skin is too dry" next to a thousand "worked. thanks" ones and I'm still thinking about it

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

good morning we're gonna be hanging onto my parents' remaining cat for an unknown amount of time and he's a huge pushover with other cats so there's a decent chance we won't have to keep him separated for very long but also well. so this is a lot of cats,

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

my special skill is that whenever there's a tumblr post featuring a wheel picker I'm allowed to spin it twice and choose the result I like more. which is fine I guess

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

we're coming to the deeply unfortunate conclusion that Toni isn't a good fit here because she's a cat with a reasonable expectation of personal space and the other three are from the same litter and have never been apart in their lives and regularly hang out like this and she haaaates them

two gray cats huddled together on a tray table

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I took so many photos of the butterfly yesterday while it was prepping its wings for flight that when I went back outside an hour later hoping to get some photos of it closer to being ready it went "aw hell this guy again" and immediately booked it. lol my bad

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

actually really proud of the proposal I submitted today. feels good to be getting back into regular art after having messed up hands and arms for six months

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

anyway when I was a teenager I joined a digital art forum website where I got told that my color choices were too cartoonish but the publisher called my work vibrant and beautiful and I've been riding that high ever since. live your dreams

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

during my rabbit hole binge of art youtube videos I saw one from athalie draws that detailed her commission pricing formula and I could not have found that video at a better time because I've got a potential book cover job in the works and need to tell them my rates and it removed all the guesswork

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

incredible caterpillar update. I now no longer have cinnamon basil either because I can't find the other two and until/unless I locate them I'm terrified of accidentally snipping one

a black swallowtail butterfly caterpillar beginning to pupate

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

guy about to say an incredibly uncool sentence -> sometimes my friends are impressed with how I remember offhand what conditions all my garden plants want but to be honest it's not all that different from memorizing pokemon and their types

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

good morning two of the three caterpillars have moved to the fennel and the third is on a branch of dill that still has leaves so provided nothing comes by and eats them odds seem pretty alright for them

A black swallowtail caterpillar on a branch of fennel

a different black swallowtail butterfly caterpillar on another branch of fennel

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

update on the caterpillars. I've only been able to find three of the four so I can only assume the fourth is flourishing on a caterpillar farm upstate

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

this seems better. I don't use this header on this particular website rn but I promise it looks better than it used to

the tiny gremlins that pilot my brain, one red and one black and white, making comics together in front of the username harboretum in blue orange and yellow

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I'm back I actually started redoing my banner logo and then went down an art video rabbit hole about getting back into art after a hiatus and then made a vgen account because I gotta get back into putting myself out there

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

my ass like "this migraine has me feeling so unwell I actually took my specific migraine medication about it. this is a perfect time to draw"

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

anyway exciting news. I no longer have dill and parsley because it belongs to these caterpillars now

a black swallowtail butterfly caterpillar on a dill plant

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

down a wikipedia rabbithole about butterflies and damn what did the eastern giant swallowtail do

a cropped screenshot of a wikipedia article, showing two sections labeled "Life history" and "Enemies"

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

hey you know how I had a whole bunch of sungold cherry tomato sprouts in all my planters because the seeds from last year's composted fruits survived the winter. well I think some seeds from last year's better boy also did that because this is definitely not a cherry tomato lmao

what I believe to be a better boy tomato growing on a vine next to a container of sweet million cherry tomatoes

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My sister's stomach is too sensitive for spicy things and my kitchen counter is in shambles. I guess she gets more cherry tomatoes and cucumbers then

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

update on the feral we can't get attached to

a rotund calico cat sleeping on a deck with her belly exposed

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

lmfao that comic's the first time a cleric post has gotten over 1k notes on tumblr. slowly wearing everyone down about my elf. hashtag myelf

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I missed make a terrible comic day this year so here's something my spouse said unprompted while gaming the other day #harbart

A rough lined comic. Cleric, who experts would call a tiddy elf, is dressed as a farmer and holds up a carton of milk and package of cheese, saying "I am the very best farmer on the island. Look at all my fine milks and cheeses." In the second panel, someone off-screen says "But gee Cleric, I can't help but notice, you have no cows". The third panel is a close-up of Cleric smirking. The comic is titled "Oh it's a goat farm".

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I missed make a terrible comic day this year so here's something my spouse said unprompted while gaming the other day #harbart

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

also oversharing life update. odds are still not 100% that we will be taking over and moving into my parents' old house but it's at like. 98% at this point

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

good morning will today be the day I draw something???? who can say,

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

it was actually pretty neat taking care of a bunch of sungolds and giving them away to people. Next year if it happens again it's going to be a tossup whether the sprouts are sungolds or sweet millions and I think that's fun. Cherry tomato gacha

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

anyway hello here's a video of when I cut back the catnip that got overgrown and then left the clippings unattended on the deck

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the dm this week saying that the party's paladin is the only healer in the party while I'm right there

the brother winston tumblr post by tumblr user gayreinhardt edited to say "cleric I am so fucking sorry I genuinely forgot ur an actual cleric for a moment you feel like a sister to me"

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

anyway the heatwave is wrecking my large tomatoes and I have been set back at least a month on those but the sweet million seems to be doing fine

one of the tomatoes on this sweet million vine is orange now :)

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

also re: the condition of my hands wrists and arms warranting a second month of OT, I am completely aware of the irony of worrying that it wasn't bad enough to warrant seeing a doctor in the first place lol

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

man I'm not gonna miss having to go to a medical appointment every single week but I'm gonna miss the appointments themselves. I sit in a chair and learn new facts about muscles & joints and get zapped with what I have since learned is a milder version of the machine that breaks up kidney stones

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I feel like at this point I'm not gonna meet the artistic goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year but considering the carousel of bullshit Xochilt and I have been dealing with since January the last thing I need is to be hard on myself about it. Maybe next year

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

good morning check out this cluster of cherry tomatoes

a sweet million cherry tomato plant with green cherry tomatoes

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

anyway absolutely riveting life update. my ongoing physical therapy for my hands and wrists has led to the discovery that I'm hypermobile which is. okay. guess that's Another Thing I should look into

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