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xiruo @xiruo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

youre listening to station d4mb4ass now playing: Dead Air www.twitch.tv/no_xiruo #VTuber #ENVTuber

Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New Spooktober out now! 📻 DEAD AIR, a game about communication, grief, & space signals. Starring @zotatopotato.bsky.social as Kadie, as well as @jacksonzappava.bsky.social , @rambunctiousva.bsky.social , @krhodesva.bsky.social , & music by @ellispiper.bsky.social ! & Stuff from others not on bsky!

A woman in a green jacket, facing away from the camera while typing

A carving of a room, cluttered with radio equipment

A carved model of a radio transmission room at sunset

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Normal Beetles: coming to stationary near you (not really, but wouldn't that be fun?)

simple cartoon designs representing real beetles.
upper left: "Xen" is a Xenomorphon. A wingless beetle who cries easily. He always wants to watch the same three movies.
upper right: "Atra" is an Atractocerus. A very long and flexible beetle who can fit in narrow areas. He gets nervous in big crowds.
lower left: "Clav" is a Claviger. A beetle who is always showing up in places without having been invited. He's a nice guy, though, so everyone is usually okay with it.
lower right: "Para" is a Paratuposa. A very small and light beetle who is blown around by strong wind. She brushes her wings for two hours every day.

simple cartoon designs representing real beetles.
upper left: "Cal" is a Calodromus. A beetle with long legs who actually hates running. When he gets angry, he kicks things.
upper right: "Platy" is a Platyrhopalopsis. A shy beetle who loves peace and quiet. She always gets nervous when it's her turn to order at restaurants.
lower left: "Kero" is a Cerocranus. A fussy beetle who cares a lot about his looks. He is often late to things, because he gets distracted by mirrors and windows.
lower right: "Ness" is a Cnestus. A small beetle who knows a lot about mushrooms. If she starts talking about something she likes, she will never stop.

simple cartoon designs representing real beetles.
upper left: "Mike" is a Micromalthus. A pleasant beetle who always tries to look at the bright side of things. People ask her when she will get married, but she says she is happy by herself.
upper right: "Koto" is a Coatonachthodes. A small beetle with a big tail that looks like a termite. Her tail isn't alive, but sometimes she talks to it when she thinks no one is listening.
lower left: "Mel" is a Meloetyphlus. A loud beetle who loves the sound of her own voice. Even though she has a huge head, she forgets things easily.
lower right: "Trak" is a Trachelismus. A beetle who can always see over the crowd at concerts. He has been getting into origami lately.

The twelve cartoon beetle designs standing together as if posing for a picture

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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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Emilius Duckberry @emiliusdraws.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#3427 You get the impression this dog thinks they're better than you

A digital drawing of a squiggly shape with 4 bird legs and a weirdly judgemental human face.

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Mcelroy brothers & Carey pietsch found chained in the beetlemoses basement, vigilante Bill watterson reported on the case

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Myst would go so so so gorgeously, but my heart craves Zoombinis tv adaptation in a way I didn't know until reading this Rip tho

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Omg, this is incredible!!! Absolutely love how you captured her smile 💖

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Georgia 💗 @sillygobbo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

revenge for @thatbfein.bsky.social featuring alina 🤘 [ #artfight #artfight2026 #teammystery ]

a color drawing of alina, a young girl with tan skin and dark hair styled in two braids. she's wearing a gray band t-shirt and pulling a sign of the horns hand gesture in a heavy metal sort of way, sticking out her tongue for good measure.

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Emilius Duckberry @emiliusdraws.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

#3371 A high quality boy

A digital drawing of a hand patting a weird but cute dog on the head, surrounded by a patterned frame.

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Dominique Vassie @niqvassie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

a little tiny microscopic dragon, rotifers passing by. I've spent a lot of time peering down a microscope in the last few years, enjoyed taking inspiration from the real tiny organisms to make one of my own.

Watercolour and pencil illustration of a microscopic dragon sitting on a plant root. It's body is transparent and it has two rounded wings covered in beating cilia hairs. It has a long neck and blunt snout with long whiskers. Inside its neck, large jaws are visible and it has tiny black eyes.

The dragon has large claws on its feet, like a water bear, and a long segmented tail hangs down and splitting into a fork at the end. From the root, golden diatoms are growing, and sun animalcules creep along it as a group of rotifers swims past.

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Frosty @frostyrabbid.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

White Cosmos

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Also one of Death's sprites from featherboy.itch.io/midnight-oil, because he's fun

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Haven't used bsky in forever! I'm not gonna fully catch it up to my insta feed, but I'll at least post one of the backgrounds I did on Midnight Oil (and maybe some other stuff in coming weeks) - especially as firefly season quickly creeps up on us

a black-and-white illustration of two boys running through the appalachian summer woods, laughing

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

TyranoBuilder is pretty cheap, pretty darn approachable, and has been stable in my experience (even just html for phones)

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

isnt salami just a sort of pasta with a meat dough, at the end of the day

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Forgot to post it on-time here, but #funguary week 4 & final - Cosmic! (which I mis-drew as "Celestial," but same diff) 🌟 Went with the violet earthstar, Geastrum violaceum. I really like how the shading turned out on this one! It's been fun getting back into digital #funguary2026 #illustration

An artistic nude of a woman with starry hair, seated on a mushroom and reaching for a star

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

#funguary Week 3 - Immortal! 🪷 For this week's theme I went with Podoserpula miranda, aka the pink pagoda mushroom. It's a critically endangered species,which alongside the angelic, fountain-like look felt like it played nicely with the prompt #funguary2026 #illustration #podoserpula

A woman with grey hair and bowed head, a fountain-like mushroom between her hands spilling tiers of softly glowing liquid

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#funguary week 2! Fairytale - with the most classic fairytale fungus of course, Amanita muscaria (aka the fly agaric) 🍄 #funguary2026 #illustration

A woman seated on a classic mushroom cap, wearing a pileus-shaped hat and with a white sprintail perched on her finger

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Doing @feefal.bsky.social 's #funguary! Week 1 was Decay... decided to go with Engyodontium aranearum for this one - a fuzzy fungus that specializes in infecting cellar spiders, transforming them into ethereal lacy shapes Trying to get a feel for screentones this year! #funguary2026 #illustration

Figure in a gray decaying dress, stepping forward with a hand on a white spider-like figure

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

It could be from candela, as in latin for white and shining? I see that pop up in epithets occasionally

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Oooo so pretty! Marrus (especially Marrus orthocanna) have been among my favorite animals for a while, and I'm always so delighted to see them!! I even used to call them sea hyacinths when I was little, to counterpart sea anenomes and sea lilies in the animal bouquet

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Pervushovisaurus and Baculites friends

fantastical drawing of Pervushovisaurus, an extinct marine reptile similar to a modern dolphin but with four flippers. it is colored in shades of blue, red, and lavender. Surrounding it are several Baculites, extinct cephalopods related to squids with long pointed shells

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

left! cuz it feels like that's where the mouth is

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KingCrowned @kingcrowned.newgrounds.com · 24/10/2025

It’s finally the 24th for me (if it’s not for you, kill yourself :3) So it’s club penguin’s 20th anniversary today, so to celebrate, I made a background inspired by the style 🐧 Club Penguin was big apart of my childhood and sad it’s been 8 years since the shutdown :( #clubpenguin

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Unironically, get some of those fancy-looking metal garden tag stakes and label everything. Makes you feel like an arboretum, and makes people think twice about removing stuff - worked for me in the past!

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mistershins @mistershins.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Tomorrow/Friday OCT 17th @7pm PDT I'll be #streaming #SpooktoberVNJam entries Houndwife & Midnight Oil! Houndwife writer/director @ocreatus.bsky.social and their team will be joining us after, and we'll talk with @thatbfein.bsky.social (and company) after Midnight Oil! I hope you will join us!

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Looking gorgeous! Can't wait to see next year's crop 🎃

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RambunctiousVA SAG-E 🇵🇸 @rambunctiousva.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

‼️Old Man Announcement‼️ More #SpooktoberVNJam! You can hear me as the voice of Liam in "Midnight Oil"! This game is hauntingly beautiful in every way, and I HIGHLY suggest checking it out at itch.io/jam/spooktob... Thanks so much to @krhodesva.bsky.social & @thatbfein.bsky.social for having me on!

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

My most perfectly rendered background art, no crashes, definitely definitely, just a normal cafe

A glitched image of corrupted data, in streaks of noisy cyan, green, and yellow

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Budweiser clydesdale umamusume should, after a long day hauling

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

This is what cemented Professor Layton as a series of all time for me, the cutscenes in the ds game were just so Charming

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 05/08/2025

Sometimes a mandragora root just has bad vibes. New public post up on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/mandra...

A black and white comic. A young witch is hard at work in her garden.
"Boss?" she intones to an older witch behind her.
"Problem?" the older witch responds.
"Yeah," the young witch replies.
The young witch pulls out a mandragora root that appears to be surly. Instead of screaming, it grunts.
"Weird, right?" says the young witch to her mentor.
"Mhmm," the older witch grunts, in agreement.

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Oh wow! I loved the demo during spooktober, so excited to see you all keeping it up!

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Older pen-an-ink illustration I did for the Mushrooms & Magic rulebook, a post-apocalyptic #mushroomfolk #monsteroftheweek system where you can get little buggy buddies..... sorting through old art and was really pleased by how these came out! 🍄 Available at featherboy.itch.io/mushrooms-an...

Illustration of multiple small thrips and other bugs, including a velvet worm, aphids, and leafhoppers

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

On that creep.... on that weirdo 🎶

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

At first I thought we were talking Tiny Planets bing & bong before the vid loaded, but this is Very Good

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Chris Kotiesen @chriskotiesen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

the last two creatures on this planet

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Ben | the art that b fein! @thatbfein.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

#portfolioday ! I'm a illustrator who works in science illustration, visual novels, ttRPG characters, and #kidslit , and am always happy to discuss projects 💖 Check out more links in the bio, or more of the VN games I've worked on at featherboy.itch.io

A visual novel screenshot, showing a crow homunculus in a cut paper style sitting at the bottom of a street lamp.

Classical-style science illustration of a hoatzin bird and its chicks, climbing in a tree

Illustration of two fairies with firefly wings, doling out soup from a witch-cauldron fungus

An artfight illustration of a DnD character, a warrior woman with wings and a sword

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