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Harb Sephant

@harboretum.bsky.social
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hi I'm harb and I make comics and illustrations and also look at my plants and cats a lot art tag #harbart husband to @xavilawrites.bsky.social patreon.com/harboretum harboretum.carrd.co

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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the neat things about oran is that he's incredibly chatty but most of the time that translates to him making grumbly noises including when he's just sitting by himself so our new phrase we keep saying to each other is "his grumbles #hisgrumbles"
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jo also I think at some point last night was trying to goad oran into running so he could chase him but otherwise has been very tolerant so I think we're close to not having to shut oran in his temporary bedroom at night
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
oran update. vive has joined archimedes in being obnoxiously friendly to oran who keeps hissing at them and then giving up on having personal space. he WILL be their friend
two gray cats sleeping with their butts pressed against either side of an orange cat
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a funny result though is that Jo has discovered the nearby cat cube that has literally never been used by any of the cats since we got it and he only seems to sit in it when I block him from getting too close to Oran. his tantrum hole
A cat in a box with an opening shaped like a cat head, looking pissedA closer angle of the same pissed off cat. He's also got a catnip banana
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the first two times it took about half an hour but lately it's been taking less than five minutes so it actually does seem to be working in getting Jo to chill out about Oran
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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 · 29/09/2026
vive seems neutral to oran's presence and largely ignores him other than an occasional curious sniff which is fine and imo the more normal "friendly" response for a cat to have towards an unfamiliar cat and jo? :) we're working on it (progress has at least been made)
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
archimedes seems thrilled that he's made a new friend after trying and failing three separate times in the last year (our housemate's cat and toni and the feral that hangs out on our deck that he wouldn't be allowed to interact with anyway)
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
good morning
three cats, two gray and one apricot, sleeping on a futon against each other
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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
I've certainly had worse reactions but 🫠 cmonnnnnn
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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
actually that's also good reminder that I gotta go through my youtube history and remove the drama videos I looked at out of curiosity recently because it starts to be a huge bummer when all that gets recommended to me are videos complaining about shitty trends or people
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
that's also a really good point since like, not that everyone has to be happy all the time but it's kind of hard not to be more negative when the people around you are frequently negative
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I guess on the upside I don't think anyone would willingly fake this kind of incomprehensible layer organization if they're trying to pass themselves off as a hip cool competent artist
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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 · 27/09/2026
huh yeah actually now that I think about it I also complain about petty things way less without a private account and I feel like I'm probably mentally better for it
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also once I'm confident I can manage it I'm gonna see if I can't transplant some of the romaine I planted into more pots because I got reeeeeeal sick so everything's been neglected outside of their basic watering for the past few weeks
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think next year I want to grow more varieties in the bell pepper family in place of as many tomatoes because the tomatoes have been Fine but it turns out I like snacking peppers more than I thought I did and I'm finding peppers far easier to manage
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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
plus our housemate took over 100% of the dishwashing. anyway it took the whole week and I'm not out of the woods yet but I feel like a person again
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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
it's hard to get a screenshot that really gives you the scope of the difficult terrain I create for myself and others on a regular basis
this forest in valheim is just a massive pile of logs now
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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
essentially last night Xochilt mentioned how he hasn't been responding to Sandy which made me suddenly remember that that's only *technically* his name and mom almost exclusively called him owange (orange in baby talk) and it was like great, he's responding now. I don't wanna call him that
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
good evening. his name is Oran now
an apricot cat loafing on a papasan
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
tuckered after a long 45 minutes of being flea combed
an apricot cat laying on a towelan apricot cat sleeping on a towel
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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
you can kinda see it better in this one
I think the term for this cat color is apricot
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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
a dilute orange cata dilute orange cat
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
did they misunderstand their vet talking about treatments vs preventatives. was the vet only talking about their cat in particular. do they think everyone's getting paid off by big frontline to lie in their reviews
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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
it's been a short enough amount of time that toni might remember who he is so I'm almost wondering if he gets along with our cats and then gets along with toni if he could be the mediator that makes jo and toni chill out about each other because I've seen that happen before
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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
he said she reminds him of his late cat who he adored and he also insisted on feeding the cats breakfast when he was here and that included giving toni her meds no problem so I feel confident he'll take good care of her
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
BUT ☝️ my FIL who's planning on moving to the area stayed with us for a week earlier this month and he stayed in the guest room where Toni hides out and they really bonded so we asked if he wanted to adopt her when he moves here and he was *thrilled* about the prospect so it's gonna work out I think
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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 · 20/08/2026
I guess to be fair he did get diagnosed as ugly by a vet once
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
screaming crying cat meme
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
are yuo mussing up our cats before photographing them
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
how djd you do this. did you drag him through a lightly muddy field before taking this photo
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh dang I super forgot. The other one emerged days ago and dude immediately nosedived into an abandoned spiderweb so here's Xochilt gently untangling the webbing from its feet (it flew off just fine after that)
a black swallowtail butterfly being gently held
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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 · 18/08/2026
Last update on this one 🎉 watched it successfully fly off yesterday
A black swallowtail butterfly with its chrysalis Ooo its wings are open now
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I'm so sorry :( it sucks so bad when it's sudden like that. Keeping you in my thoughts 🫂
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Harb Sephant @harboretum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
turns out that at the very least I had gotten a photo of a freshly pupated caterpillar because it looks significantly different today
a black swallowtail chrysalis
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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
there was other advice that seemed pretty solid too but I actively had a migraine when I found it so I should probably go find it again and rewatch it lol
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