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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 15h

Some more old digital art from the archives! A gentle soul, only hardened by the unspeakable things they had to do. ❄️ #Illustration #SaplingArt #DigitalArt #OC

A digital illustration of an androgynous pale person woth thick black eyelashes, curly short black hair, and a thick blue scarf over a light tan sweater and flat chest, tucked into black jeans. A grey tree landscape with snow is roughly painted behind them.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Drawtober Day 3: My first every attempt at an outfit of the day doodle! (And a rare peak into what I look like hehe) Apologies for the night time photo haha #Sketch #Doodle #OOTD

A blue pencil sketch of Sapling, a cane user with a wrapped headscarf in a semi-UAE style, a button down t-shirt, and shorts, standing. It has big round glasses, a soft smile, and prominent nose, and generally white European features. It’s on a photo of a sketchbook with torn edges.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Instead of a formal #Drawtober I think I’m just going to aim to do some drawing each day! This one did have themes though: Someone with curly hair, Royal Ball, and Dancing. Featuring Mona (my lesbian Muslim daughter!!) #OC #OCSky #Sketchbook

A photo of a sketchbook showing a young miced North African woman (Egyptian, Algerian, and Malian) dancing in an Algerian style with one arm extended down and one lifted up with a flat palm. She’s wearing a Karakou with loose flowing sleeves, and has very curly hair down to her shoulders. The sketch is made in dark orange colored pencil.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally, the blue flower is a rare Jade Vine (tayabak) from The Philippines (a gem of the rainforest!). It provides sustenance to the Indigenous Luzon people, reminding us the world will always provide and connecting to Gabriel's own Filipine Indigeneity. It symbolizes uniqueness and pride!

The same image of the blue flowers as in the first post

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The speckled pink flowers are Spotted Bellflowers, which can be found across East Asia. Most importantly, it is a dualsex flower, representing the other character (Gabriel's) multigender experience, along with Nico's body (being a man with top surgery, while retaining the ability to give birth).

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The white flower is the Korean Stewartia (노각나무), found across China, Japan, and Korea. I wanted to use flowers endemic to the regions of the world these characters are from (Nico, the trans man in this illustration, is mixed Korean, Chinese, and Filipino).

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trans people are a part of nature's beauty. 💐 You all know I LOVE my floral symbolism, so here's a bit about the flowers I included in my latest this trans joy illustration! There's so much thought I put into this. 🧵 #QueerArt #FloralArt #Flowers #Trans #TransArt

A close up of a painted white flower with five large petals, surrounding a yellow stemmy center. A slightly hairy leg intersects the background.

A close up of the turquoise jade vine flower, a multipronged flower with many turquoise offshoots. A detailed watercolor painted magenta lace decorates the background.

A close up of a watercolor painted set of speckled pink flowers, with a long bell shape to them and small green tips. A hint of another white flower is in the corner, along with a blue flower in the background, and Nico's straight black hair.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Omg wait thanks to @tapiocawizard.bsky.social I finally tried sketching in colored pencil and I LOVE IT Mona already looks so cute!! 🥰 #ArtWIP #Sketch

A photo of a dot grid sketchbook with a loose drawing of a North African woman dancing with a flowing dress and curly shoulder length hair

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have two (desafortunadamente) 🫠 Mila loves acting like a classic pretty girl influencer and following literally every trend. Top hobby for that girl. Gabriel does it as intentional cringe. But also gets a bit gender euphoric (would never admit it though).

A sketch of Mila, a white trans woman with shoulder lenght wavy hair and bangs. This is from earlier in her transition before facial feminization surgeries!

A digital doodle of Gabriel, a lanky multigender Filipino with freckles and short curly dark brown hair, posing in a yellow crop top and pink pleated skirt.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you see this, post cats! 🐈‍⬛ 🐈

A watercolor painting of a fluffy tabby cat sitting proud and looking up with hig green eyes, with a pumpkin styled crown on his head. He also sits atop a pumpkin, with other large ones behind him, including pumpkin leaves and flowers.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm Sapling! 🌱 I love queer traditional art (digital hurts my eyes). I mainly paint in watercolor, but have been recently dabbling with acrylic markers too! First three are for projects with @taplingzines.bsky.social Go check out their trans joy Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

A traditional watercolor painting of a T4T couple leaning close for a kiss. The trans man, a mixed East Asian with a k-pop styled cut with bangs, leans against a plush bed backboard with an open shirt, showing top surgery scars. His partner, a curly brown haired Filipine baklâ with freckled skin and lace near their hips, leans close, back to the viewer. Intricately painted maroon lace decorates the back, along with an arrangement of freckled pink flowers, long turquoise flowers, and a soft white flower behind their heads.

A softly lit watercolor painting of three panels, bordered by intricately painted branches of pomegranate and orange trees. The first panel, in the top left corner, shows both men kissing with one pressed against an intricately tiled wall in the Alhambra palace. One man has rich, warm brown skin and a turquoise headwrap that falls down over his shoulders and coat, which is decorated in intricate golden swirl patterns. The man kissing him has richer cooler-toned dark brown skin, with a white headwrap clipped together with a golden pin, wearing a white robe with intricate gold and red-gem inset details. Both have facial hair. The central painting, the largest panel, shows both men sitting in a public bath, although they are alone, gazing closely at each other, looking like they're about to kiss, arms resting on their legs as they gaze softly. They both have small, damp fabric around their waists, the colors matching their respective outfits. The man in the white cloth has braided cornrows, in a traditional Amazigh style. The man in the blue cloth gazes slightly down into his eyes, with his leg extended over the ledge of the bath, showing intricately painted and extensive burn scars including contractions. A cane rests on the shadowed wall beside him. The bath room itself is a pale yellow stone, shadowed in purple washes, with a central inset section bordered by a pattern of turquoise, dark blue, green, and red diamond tiles, interspersed with white tiles. The central inset part has the same pattern, but far smaller and more detailed. The final panel, in the bottom left, shows the turquoise and indigo robe of one of the men as he walks, using his cane, with his lover's hand holding his back for support. The blue robe has even more intricate swirling gold patterns, with a red sash and gold metal piece tying it together at the waist. A washy watercolor part hints at a garden in the background.

A traditional watercolor illustration of two Congolese men kissing while floating in a river boat. One man holds the other in an embrace, an arm wrapped around his shirtless torso. He has slightly warmer toned skin, a muscular build, and short shaved hair with a traditional Indigenous front area with longer, natural hair in a tuft. The other man is tucked in close for a kiss, his own thin outstretched arm slightly concealing their lips. His curled hand rests outside the boat, shadowing the turquoise water beneath it. Both men are wrapped in traditional burlap-like fabrics, showing just enough to imply bare legs underneath. The hand-carved wooden canoe they rest in barely fits their embrace, and casts a shadow onto the slowly rippling water around them. Some yellow-green river weeds poke up in the bottom left corner, and a few palm branches hang over them at the top right. Thin lines provide clarity to the whole painting, with vibrant yet soft watercolors creating a natural and romantic aura.

My first test with acrylic markers! A traditional sketchbook with torn paper edges, showing a gold skinned wingless angel with shadows made in deep pinks and purples. His hair is wavy, fairly short, and white, toned with many light colors of markers. He also has a long red scarf flowing away from him, and long gold earrings. The swatches of markers used decorate the back.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

To celebrate human creativity...let's do a traditional #ArtShare! Anything from sketches to paintings to crafts are welcome, and any skill level too! 💕 To join: 🎨 Share your traditional art below. 🎨 Comment on and repost 3+ others! 🎨 Share this post so others can join. 🎨 Alt text if you can!

A photo of a page of multiple character focused watercolor paintings, often with colorful crystal details. Two white male characters are shown, one with red hair and alt wear, one with a casual t-shirt and burn scars near his blonde hair. The other pieces are part of a rainbow crystal outfit, a fashionable Black woman with yellow pants and pink ombre natural hair, and an Arab man with a detailed patterned shirt. A watercolor palette is on one side, and text reads "Traditional Art Art Share"

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s very me to get acrylic markers and instantly start using them like watercolor 😅 (These colors are going to take my art to such cool new places)

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Choosing Ephiel to be my experiment for sketching more loosely~ 💋 #Bondage #Sketch

An energetic yet still detailed sketch of Ephiel, a wingless angel with markings on his back, fluffy short hair, and a slender form. His arms are tied behind his back in intricate shibari.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

First coloring attempt ever with acrylic markers! I had a ton of fun playing around with these and can’t wait to keep exploring them~ (and mixing them and watercolor!) #Sketchbook #AcrylicMarkers #OC #Ephiel

An angled photo of a portrait of Ephiel, a wingless angel with gold skin and a red scarf. The acrylic markers create multitoned skin and hair, with pinks, oranges, and purples shading his gold skin, and blues, yellows, purples, and pinks mixing to make his white hair. Swatches of all colors used border the edge.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We are SO close!! Remember, no import tax for EU folks (we ship from Spain), no tariffs on books for the US, and we also have unrestricted wholesale tiers for artists who frequent cons or for indie book stores! 💖 🏳️‍⚧️ Please share! 🏳️‍⚧️

A screenshot of the funding bar on Kickstarter with 7134€ raised out of the goal of 7500€! It also has a project we love.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A crop of my watercolor painting for @taplingzines.bsky.social trans joy zine! I wanted to play around with unique gender experiences, like closeness after the trans guy’s c-section~ 🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍⚧️ Please share & support the project! It’s almost fully funded! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

A detailed watercolor painting of two figures leaning close, heads nearly touching, as one reaches to tenderly touch the other’s c-section scar. The trans man has short black hair and mixed Easy Asian features, and the other, although you can’t see their face, is a freckled Filipino with fairly curly hair and some lace on them. The trans man is reclining back, relaxed against a bed frame, and a little transmasc styled body hair is visible. detailed magenta lace decorates the background. Flowers, ranging from long speckled pink ones to white round ones to slender blue ones decorate the composition too.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hmmm found this old sketch of Ephiel buried in my photos. Might transfer it (fix it up a bit?) and test out acrylic markers? 🧐

A simple sketch of Ephiel, a soft androgynous wingless angel with wavy short hair, sad eyes, and a scarf around his neck.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm going to post a large preview of my zine piece in a bit but first...here's lace details from my painting that I'm SO proud of! (I had to use such tiny brushes) Let's get this gorgeous trans zine funded!! 🏳️‍⚧️

A close up of a freckled side of a mid-toned brown person with white lace, including detailed floral patterns, painted.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

No AI in sight!! These were done with heavy metal laced paints and aching fingers 👍

A watercolor portrait painting of two masculine figures gently kissing. One with brown skin, Chamuel, has his hand tangled in Kokabiel’s long turquoise hair, which frames his paler face and purple headwings. A golden sun glow is behind them. Chamuel has some gold arm bands and a subtle gold ring with an inset turquoise gem.

Nzuzi, tbe most adorable Congolese boy in sight, smiling down with close eyes, long half tied back locs, and an open green and yellow patterned shirt.

A watercolor of two Congolese men kissing on a hand carved river boat, seen from above as they lie down half covered under a thick blanket. Turquoise ripples surround them.

A watercolor study of a turquoise river rushing over rocks.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As promised, I made an art challenge all about diversity for #Inktober (and beyond)! I hope this inspires you to challenge yourself, break out of your comfort zone, and diversify your art! Maybe some new fun characters will come from it too. ✨ #Inktober2026 #DiversifyArt #OCSky #Drawtober

A cyan and white graphic with text written on notebook paper, with a pink and turquoise header reading 'Diversity your art challenge.' It instructs to draw or reshare existing art of someone...
1. with very curly hair.
2. transgender.
3. fat/plus-size.
4. Indigenous.
5. with scars.
6. with body hair.
7. using a mobility aid.
8. wearing cultural attire.
9. elderly.
10. with unique skin pigmentation.
11. with dwarfism.
12. with a cultural headdress.
13. with a hearing aid.
14. Blind with a dog or cane.
15. Black with a natural or protective hair style.
16. with facial difference.
17. mixed race.
18. using sign language.
19. eating their culture's food.
20. third gender.
21. with Down Syndrome.
22. with an ostomy bag.
23. in hijab.
24. balding or losing hair.
25. with a limb difference.
26. in cultural festival clothing.
27. from a country you aren't familiar with.
28. with a medical implant.
29. with cultural tattoos.
30. doing a cultural dance.
31. Combine 3+ prompts.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Quote this with your Medieval themed art~ 🏰 I’ll start us off with an illustration of Al-Andalus (in Granada) around 1100. The Islamic Golden Age is one of the coolest Medieval periods in my opinion! #Illustration #MedievalArt #ArtShare #IslamicArt

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Woke up to this news and I’m beyond disgusted. It’s a US *constitutional right* now to create and own ‘CSAM,’ as long as it was made with AI?? AI gen images are built from real images, of real children. This directly re-exploits every single CSAM survivor. (More in 🧵) #abolition #trafficking

A federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess child sexual abuse content created using Al if it does not depict a real person and remains in the home.
On Tuesday, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th District ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home. In his ruling, Judge Lee urged the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue of virtual abuse material of children in the age of Al, suggesting that technological advances complicate existing legal precedent.
The case Lee ruled on came about in 2024 when the Department of Justice brought charges against Steven Anderegg, alleging that he used Al to create thousands of explicit images of children. He was accused of breaking federal obscenity laws by producing, distributing and possessing obscene visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Anderegg sought to have the possession and production charges dismissed under the First Amendment. Last year, a judge in the Western District of Wisconsin agreed to dismiss the possession charge, prompting the federal prosecutors to appeal.
Lee, in his ruling upholding the lower court's decision, cited the precedent set by Supreme Court rulings from 1969 and 2002. One held that individuals have a right to possess obscenity in the privacy of their home. The other found that "virtual" child sexual abuse material, not depicting a real person is not child pornography.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’m having fun painting these tiny flowers in blinding cyans~ 🩵 #ArtWIP

A photo of a watercolor WIP of a branch of ling cyan and deep blue flowers, each coming to a single conical point, on a vibrant magenta background.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Artist! Quote with your most detailed art! It’s probably this Eid watercolor, with all the tile details plus fine henna painted on many of the hands~

A very intricate watercolor of Islamic tile work, painted in turquoise, pinks, white, and yellows, surrounded by nine pairs of hands all cupped in du’a posture, ranging in skin tones, cirlcing the central tile bloom. In the center, Eid Mubarak is written inArabic cursive with romanization below it.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Okay I broke my promise about no longer posting about PPWR/EPR...but good news! The official FAQ was updated with a flowchart that confirms us small EU-based artists are NOT liable as producers. FAQ here: environment.ec.europa.eu/publications...

A flow chart showing information on transport packaging. The first step is Company A manufactures unbranded cardboard boxes for transport (mailing). Then arrows go to four options, which all means Company A remains the responsible producer. The options are: Sells to end user (customer) in another member state, sells to end user in the same member state, sells to Company B (i.e. a self-employed artist or small business) in the same member state, or the cardboard boxes carry the name or trademark of Company B located in the same member, but company B is a micro-enterprise. Company B is shown to only be the producer if they have trademarked packages and they are not a micro-enterprise (i.e. Amazon).

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ah so that’s the tricky thing with the language here, from what I understand! It does say that anyone putting packaging on a new market for distribution is the producer (nonhighlighted part of this image), but then says ‘however’ (which is a modifying clause) that amends the prior statement.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I made some good progress on my watercolor painting tonight for this zine! If you want joyous trans art in your life, make sure to check it out~!!

A traditional watercolor painting photographed on a black desk. It shows two Filipino trans people leaning in for a kiss, one with an open shirt showing top surgery scars and one with a plain back, thin and bony, with lace at their hips. Pink, blue, and white flowers decorate the back as they lean against a plush white bedboard, surrounded by deep magenta walls.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I can’t recopy the alt text but it’s this part of the guidelines: It requires: packaging only being filled (i.e. boxed for mail) at point of sale (personal home/office where you fulfill orders), and this only exempts small businesses (the ‘however’ after the paragraph that clarifies your 2nd point)

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If you see this, post your blue art! 💙 (Yessss I love my blue watercolor pigments!)

A watercolor portrait of a sunkissed white man with tied back brown hair standinf before the open ocean.

A watercolor study of an underwater trench.

A watercolor painting of two Congolese men on a hand carved boat, lying down and kissing under a burlap blanket, with reeds and palms bordering the picture.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Basically, if you are a small business, and you only *fill* packaging (ex. a box, mailer, merch sleeve, etc.) at the ‘point of sale’ (your home or office), the producer MUST be the same as who was previously defined as the manufacturer (which is the company in your country you bought mailers from).

(Same alt text as first image in this thread)

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A manufacturer is, indeed, the person who finalizes packaging an item (ex. puts a print in a bubble mailer). But…as long as you don’t modify them to destroy their safety/recycling potential, and buy them from *your same company* (with or without your brand on them) you are NOT the manufacturer.

However, if the company that has the packaging or packaged product designed or manufactured under its own name or trademark is a micro-enterprise, and the company supplying the packaging is located in the same Member State, then this supplier of the packaging is the manufacturer (Article 3(1), point (13)(b)). This is regardless of whether the latter company is also a micro-enterprise

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Alright I THINK I found the loophole all of us shop owners in the EU are looking for with the PPWR*. It just requires us to buy shipping supplies in the same company we sell from. *I’m not a legal professional but this is from the officially published EU guidelines (Explained below)

A screenshot of the guidance with a part highlighted reading: “However, to minimise any unnecessary administrative burden for small businesses that fill transport packaging, primary production packaging or service packaging, whether as a single-use packaging or as reusable packaging, at the point of sale, the producer should be the manufacturer, distributor or importer of such packaging that makes the packaging available for the first time from within the territory of the Member State, since that economic operator is best placed to comply with the extended producer responsibility obligations.’”

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Had a chance to break out my new acrylic markers and do some landscape studies last night! I used black and white pictures, to really push my color decision making skills (something I’m really trying to improve this year). Highly recommend this practice! 💖

Two small landscape doodles, one of an ocean with rocky shorelines, painted in orangws, with a deep blue sea and blue sky, with similar orange tinted clouds. The bottom is a forest hill, with light radiating down in warm yellows, with pink and purple shadowing.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#Gabriel is my beloved immunocompromised OC so it gets…frequently and very sick haha. It’s a dual thing: genetic immunodeficiency and HIV (which is fine once he’s on meds tho! But before that he got brain tuberculosis and almost died 😅) She also just gets sick a lot with 4 kids in the house too 🤧

A washy watercolor of Gabriel, a skinny Filipino with short curly hair and full lips, thick eyebrows, and freckles all pver their face and body. Lines flowers decoate the background as they lift their shirt up playfully.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yeah, here you go! This is the part in the full text that specifies people using packaging are not producers, only those that put packaging on the market for the first time (as in, the companies making boxes and mailers that we then buy to ship with). Full law: eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025...

The definition of primary production packaging should not entail an expansion of products being considered to be packaging under this Regulation. The introduction of that definition and its use in the definition of ‘producer’ should ensure that the natural or legal person making that kind of packaging available for the first time is considered to be the producer under this Regulation and not the primary sector businesses, such as farmers, using that kind of packaging.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Am I totally missing something on the PPWR EU packaging requirements…? I read the EU commission’s fact sheet and it looks like only packaging producers (not users, like those of us who buy mailers and ship with them) are liable for waste management.

A screenshot of the EU PPWR commission page reading ‘Obligations: Producers are responsible for the entire lifecycle of their packaging, including waste management. With additional bullet points that clarify this includes sorting and recycling, eco-friendly design, and financial transparency.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Oo I’m really proud of how I fused all these colors together for the white flowers and fabric~ #ArtWIP #Watercolor

A photo of a watercolor WIP showing a fabric backboard for a bed painted with soft greens, blues, and purples, next to vibrant pink flowers.

A fluffy white flower painted in subtle yellows, greens, blues, and purples, next to a vibrant pink and purple flower.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Laying down the first gradients on my watercolor an upcoming trans joy zine with @taplingzines.bsky.social 💖 There’s SO much good art in this zine, I can’t wait for it to launch in the fall!! :D #ArtWIP #Watercolor #QueerArt

A close up of a watercolor paper showing a couple (both Asian, one a trans man with short hair and one androgynous with medium curls), leaning close for a kiss. Vibrantly colored pinkish-purple and turquoise flowers are starting to fill the back, as the only parts painted so far.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If you see this, post a smiling OC ✨🩵🩷

A watercolor of Nzuzi, a lanky Congolese man, smiling and looking down with closed eyes, wearing an open gold and green patterned shirt with two golden lockets resting against his chest to match his golden hair jewelry.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I always get a little sad when it’s time to toss out a test paper bc they’re always kind of pretty, and they hold such a history of my paintings. (I know there’s some room left but not enough for a whole painting worth of color tests)

A photo of a pale hand with unpainted nails holding a thick bur small sheet of Arches cold press paper, with a bunch of mini swatches on it, mainly fairly natural browns, blues, and greens. On one side is a small patterned tile test.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It’s me!! I’m SO excited for this idea and my sketch is already looking soooo pretty imo~ (I’m going to paint so much lace for this btw)

A close up of a clean pencil sketch on watercolor paper, showing a Korean trans man with a c-section scar leaning close ans about to kiss his transfeminine and baklâ partner, wearing lace on their hips. Some large flowers decorate the background.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I tend to prefer intimate but not explicit! Like this WIP, where they still have clothes but it’s clearly leading to something. Part of me wants to explore more direct stuff, but it doesn’t tend to inspire me as much. If anything, I want to do close crops or things like that.

A pencil sketch of a T4T couple leaning close, in only underwear and one with an open shirt showing top surgery scars. Detailed large flowers are in the background.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If you see this post your oc masturbating 🤭 Okay this is kinda fun~ Have an #OC I rarely post (and quite an old drawing haha)! #NSFW #Sketch

A pencil sketch, digitally colored in orange tones, of a thin man with a sharp jawline, undercut hair tied back in a top knot, kneeling and supporting himself while he strokes his cock with one hand.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Example of a spreadsheet from our zine Kickstarter I've imported (excluding customer info shown ofc), so this is all that's needed to manually set up (and most things like BackerKit and Kickstarter likely have spreadsheets to export to simplify). Then it creates a label with the info automatically!

A screenshot of the end part of a spreadsheet showing columns for Destination Country, Item Name, Item SKU, Item Customs Value, Item Customs Value Currency, and Item Quantity (all automatically created from a Kickstarter export spreadsheet, the type formatted for EasyShip labels).

A photo of a SendCloud shipping label being made by automatic import, that already includes all the details for a bookmark with the SKU WABHBookmarks, including origin country, quantity, unit value, currency, HS (tariff) code, and Intended use (base) code.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The base code here is a general consumer product for ages 13+, which is what everything from art prints to books (except kids books) to enamel pins would have. The base code is 130.006 If you apply this, it tells customs your product, regardless of tariff code, is for adult general use!

A screenshot of the official global product base codes, which matches those used by the US (this is from a US government document) showing the general consumer base codes under the 130 header, ranging from 130.001 for infants to 130.006 to 13+.

A screenshot from https://business.cpsc.gov/ that shows the same description that matches the base code on the prior slide, but under the description for Children's and Adult Jewelry which is what applies to enamel pins.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Base codes are a code on a product's 'intended use' to see if it needs regulatory documents, recommended for customs but not required (but without, customs will just assume). It's different than a tariff code. Ex. below for our Tapling Zine's books!

A screenshot of a shipping CRM screen showing various product information for a book (although it's the same base code category as pins). A tariff code is on one line, with a separate base code on another titled as 'intended use code' and reading 'The code that indicates how the item is intended to be used. You can find more information on this document about intended use codes for ACE.' beneath it.

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Hey. Nzuzi wants you to donate to this:

A watercolor doodle of Nzuzi, a skinny Congolese man in a patterned yellow and green shirt and long locs tied back in a ponytail, smiling lovingly with close eyes and open pink-stained lips. Little hearts swirl among a washy muted blue and pink background.

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