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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i try not to talk or post too much publicly about Being Disabled because it isn't fun or what anyone follows me for, but sometimes it's also hard NOT to talk about it. i don't have a better answer to "when will you open your shop" or "why haven't you been sharing art"

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

did you know? even when you find a PCP who's caring, listens to you, trusts your experience & uses her position of authority to help you access treatments you will STILL have to do 95% of the research, advocacy, lab results assessment & follow-up because she is so overworked? 🙃

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

i hope everyone following me for the cute rat is uh. at least aware of what i normally do. come for the customized plush, stay for the...teeth & esoterica...

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

sometimes. you just gotta stop everything. & do miniature leather-working for a thrifted plush rat who was missing an ear (her name is Bugbane)

front view of a white plush rat with a leather ear prosthetic & leather belt with sword, keys & pouch, sitting on a stump outside

side view of a white plush rat with a leather ear prosthetic. a strap with a brass o-ring over the remaining ear holds the false ear in place. there's a plastic sword in a leather scabbard hanging on the rat's belt

back view of a white plush rat with a leather ear prosthetic and a plastic sword in a leather scabbard on a belt.

a white plush rat holding a plastic sword. the rat is wearing a leather ear prosthetic and a belt with scabbard, keys, and pouch

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

NOT HIM! wrong one again!!! goddamn 😭

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G.C. Houle @gchoule.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why couldn't it be HIM

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

if i could figure out a photography set-up that fit in my house & didn’t break my back trying to use, i would be making the most insane bespoke miniature curio/oddity/antique collection I-Spy zines

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

on the business side of my art, very few things have gone the way i hoped/planned this year. on the personal creative side, i feel like i’ve made several breakthroughs & identified directions i want to pursue (even if i haven’t gone very far yet). trying to figure out how to balance 🫠

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

if you can’t get your ass to a tattoo parlor, weeding nettles in short sleeves is fine. i was really missing the buzzing 😂

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

made my day to see this again! i forgot how beautiful your handwriting was 🖤

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

as a tax for sadposting i will say that lately i've been spending hours & hours digitally inking a piece that is 100% pure, unadulterated weird self-indulgence & more ambitious than anything personal i've drawn in an age. i don't know when i'll be able to show it. but it exists!

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

my willingness & ability to "keep up" with social media as an artist has taken a HUGE hit this year & it's amazing how instantly & directly that translates into fewer sales & fewer jobs. i really don't know how to deal with the fact that it feels like poison

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Laurel @radishforest.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For a little while I was making these dudes (I called them sneefters), but they kept breaking or falling over in the kiln. Maybe sometime I'll try some more that are sitting like the strawberry & crying ones

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Laurel @radishforest.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Velvet worm mug from last year!

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

birthday art for @radishforest.bsky.social - Laszlo from our ongoing collaborative story project of almost 13 years. the character himself is now 23 in actual years?? (in-story he is 35, but my first drawing of him was in 2003 🤯) time is crazy & we're getting old 🖤

a color illustration of a ghostly man smoking a "ghost pipe" flower against a starry night sky

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

at this point the "if you just had a huge emotional response to some new information online, stop & investigate the facts before you spread it" rule is something we all need to actively be supporting each other in following. shit is dire

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

i actually watched this video after seeing hundreds of death threats against this woman inspired by this post. THIS IS NOT WHAT SHE SAID, AT ALL. she is speaking business language directly to business people, who she knows only care about money. she is arguing - in that language! - for reduction

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

question for other freelance illustrators - would publishing work you’ve done for past clients in, say, an illustrator anthology book or a magazine feature on you, count as “promotional use” i.e. not an infringement on client publishing rights? is the etiquette just to ask permission first?

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

okay it's important to recognize when you're full of shit. i've been daydreaming about making sculptures that look like esoteric devices with unknown supernatural functions. they'd just be art but OF COURSE PEOPLE THINK I'M A WITCH

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

unfortunately i am also starting to feel like i need to wear a disclaimer or something when i table with my art so that i won't have to keep having awkward conversations with folks who assume i'm a neopagan or a ceremonial occultist (?!) does this happen to other people? is it just me?

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

one of my goals this year was to table at 2+ markets, since for the past few years i've only ever been making it to the one i co-organize. so far i've done 3 (with a 4th later this month)! it's a real boost being able to SEE the response to my work & talk with folks directly

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

my favorite project by one of my favorite artists has a NEW WEBSITE 👀

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

my next scheduled art/craft market is literally called the Fat Dyke Market & i am unbelievably hype about it. gotta see how much fat queer art i can make in the next ~2 weeks though

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

i am (partially) descended from some of these actual historical women & so i am obviously already seated for this

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

choose your fighter (tooth realism vs. crystal optimism) hand-sculpted frames with hand-drawn text, for a local market this weekend. i'll have the crystal hopefuls in multiple sizes but there's only the one tooth frame so far!

a photo of two small oval copper frames with hand-written text inside. on the left, (fake) human molars surround the phrase "memento mori", while on the right, quartz crystals emerge from an earthy texture around the phrase "all is not lost"

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

30+ year old refrigerator that came with the house finally got diagnosed as terminal & now we are contending with the fact that a) the kitchen was built around this thing & nothing comes in these dimensions anymore & b) they really "don't make 'em like they used to" in terms of quality 😕

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Talking Heads -This Must Be The Place TR/ST - Sulk Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al iamamiwhoami - Chasing Kites Santigold - This Isn’t Our Parade Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere Agnes Obel - Familiar Portishead - Wandering Stars VNV Nation - Carry You Neko Case - Deep Red Bells

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

a little roundup of my growing collection of non-Judaica stickers (well, knife granny can go either way) - featuring the new key sheet & holo DIY/anti-AI text collage! very excited about stickers at the moment

a collection of stickers by Ezra Rose, including a weird key sticker sheet, "DIY and fuck AI" lettering, two-faced bird-legged knife granny, and an angelic winged cockroach with human eye

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

finally managed to finish an illustration for a concept i've been iterating on for actual years (there are physical versions of some of these! you'll get to see them later) - this will be a 5x7 print 🗝️

an illustration of 6 antique-looking keys with strange objects where the teeth should be (a bird claw, human teeth, iron spikes, coral, roots & crystals). text below reads "claves somniorum"

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

hmmmm okay maybe i'll just try to do something more fun/unusual with my buttons! i know i get pretty excited about OOAK collaged buttons or ones with dried pressed plants inside...

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

friends who sell at zinefests, cons, etc. - is it your experience that folks just don't buy pin-back buttons anymore? i.e. the kind you make with a button machine at home? these used to be a solid seller for me & in recent years they barely move. did enamel pins kill them?

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

feeling very emotional about the almost-70-year-old woman who RAN up to me in the grocery store today because of my shirt (a pink triangle ACT UP repro from Adam's Nest). turns out she was a social worker in Brooklyn in the 80s, went to the marches, owns an original 😭

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

phoning my representatives today mostly for the catharsis of calling them spineless, complicit cowards who should, along with the rest of the Democratic party, put their actual bodies on the line in order to shut this shit down

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

another #transdayofvisibility bump. this is the absolute bottom line. you don't have to like me, you don't even have to understand me, but you do have to recognize that you have no right to control what i do with my body & you have no ability to control how i define or relate to it 🔥

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

i'm never sure how i feel about "visibility" for myself as an agender trans person who's most often read as "fat dyke" (in my experience this is a real separate category from "woman" w/r/t how you're treated) & who is not on HRT or planning any surgery. people DO clock me as "some kind of trans"

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Diskette Press @ A2CAF @diskettepress.com · 31/03/2026

tdov is fine and all, but i prefer buying trans women pizza. celebrate today by being a weird freak. push the bounds of what is possible and build the world you want in the present. make that zine, go have that messy hookup. being visible is boring, be more

image with pictures from the “fucking trans women” zine. captions surround the image:

Did you know??
"buy a trans woman a pizza day" is in honor of zine author mira bellwether
otherwise known as
"trans day of visibility"
(sure, i guess)

celebrate by being the freak (complimentary)
you are:
go make a zine of your own
read something that makes you feel weird
get a bunch of people and have an orgy

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Sara Shearwater Wolfthing @never.horse · 31/03/2026

I wouldn't turn down a pizza

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

first foray back into making things post-surgery & i'm going slow (just digital collage) but...it's holo sticker time again letters lovingly sourced & edited from my beloved digital collection of 19th century type specimen catalogues, plus one public domain font for the swear word 🖤

a mock-up of a holographic sticker with black ornate text that reads "DIY and Fuck AI!"

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

this is completely unimportant in the grand scheme of things but i am currently fixated on it, so: i would love some help finding a particular game from my 90s childhood that i've never been able to ID (i think it's the only one left, i've found the rest!) relevant details below:

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

turns out recovery from abdominal surgery is extremely up & down 🫠 i am officially asking for distracting media recommendations, photos of cute animals, etc. for the periods of time that i am awake & not in agony. thank you in advance

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

really unexpectedly celebrating the Ides of March yesterday by being repeatedly stabbed (on purpose, in the ER) 🥲 RIP, my gallbladder, 1987-2026

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

there are a couple of these, but most recently it was Soft & Quiet (2022). vindicating to see a movie centering the INCREDIBLE violence white cis women are capable of & the specific ways gender & race inform how they wield power in white supremacy, but it's a 92 minute panic attack to watch

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

managed to figure out & deal with a lot of the pain i was having in December-January (magnesium supplements make a huge difference?) but for some reason drawing is still much harder to do than anything else. frustrated & kind of disheartened about it

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

i know a lot of artists don't love "this reminds me of" comments, but i'm enjoying watching folks spot influences in my puppet design. the only thing i had actively in mind was Zeiram (as always, tbh), but there's definitely some xenomorph & even a bit of the creature from The Village in there

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Hit Point Press @hitpointpress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Have you seen the game pieces for If I Were a Lich, Man? The dreidels are iconic of the game, but we also love the custom X-Cards! Which is your favorite? Art by EZRA 🗝 ROSE

Am image showcasing the game pieces for If I Were a Lich, Man. Pieces include four custom dreidels, lich cards illustrated with each character, custom X-Cards with crossed bones, character cards for Lee and Ruthie, bat cards, and scene cards.

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cranky ol’ Auncle Allie @turtlesoup.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Ugh, I used the wrong version of the link. I'm so fried right now, sorry. 😓 www.gofundme.com/f/gen-sad-ki...

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