MariEsposeets

A painting of a wicked-looking, mushroom-shaped hag. Watercolor on toned paper.

The Toadstool Hag.

When *it* happens, the good people shall rejoice, the drink shall flow like April snowmelt, and the sky shall fill with a heavenly choir of sexy Wattos.

Love your finished art of course, and seeing the process steps itches some primordial part of my brain. I don't know why.

Sketch Inks Alcohol colors Gel pen cleanup

Please full view, thumbnails destroy quality here.

Ink + gel pen on paper.

Chromatic aberration added in post.

Awebo bird not awebo at the moment.

Yup. At "Timmy Ho's."

The wolverine (Fresco), merganser (Dollie), skunk, shrew, ptarmigan, marten (Martenelli) and stoat (LeStoat) are seated on a log in the snowy wilderness. Wolverine: Before we all part ways, we should have a nice big breakfast together! Aaaand... OOO! Look what I picked up at the Timmy Ho's around the corner... FRUIT EXPLOSION MUFFINS!

All: YAY! YAY! HUZZAH! Stoat (angrily): STOP! (looking very confrontational) I refuse to eat fruit explosion muffins.

(Stoat now smiling and stepping aside to reveal spread of coffee, orange juice, and Moomin coffee mugs featuring Moomintroll and Snufkin) Stoat: ...Without locally-roasted coffee and fresh, sustainably-farmed organic OJ to wash it down!

All are cheering except the ptarmigan, who is walking away. Ptarmigan: You are all really weird and annoyingly random. I'm leaving. Bye.

Stoat Quest episode 14 (ish)

Sorry Jim but I want the one to your upper right that looks kinda like my sister in law's dog.

Many types of kobolds

Kobolds come in many shapes

Oh wow another bsky dev crashing out? Ahhh it's honestly funny when they do it cause they nobodies and everyone just laughs.

Yeahhh punk birds! I kinda want sour gum now.

"We're still somebody! Quinta Brunson used to work for us! Remember? Oh wait, we still have Chikn Nuggit, let's ruin that. Maybe people will remember us or something."

Whoa whoa, before anyone else has a problem, no this is not a "hate post." Hate post is when you go out of your way to threaten/harass a specific person. This is just my own art on my own account, no affiliation with anyone, speaking out against a corporation that is mistreating a creator.

Ikr! BF is pathetic, only thing I know them for now is that they own Chikn and that Quinta Brunson created content for them in her early career. I guess they want to speed up their demise by destroying the one thing they still had going for it.

BuzzFeed stealing a talented creator's work and using it for some Ai project. When Kyra objected and walked away (sadly BuzzFeed owns Chikn rights), BF took over the Chikn social media accounts and tried to silence any backlash. I'm hoping bigger artists than me get involved & mass backlash.

pen and watercolor sketch of stoat and wizard frog with signs: "F*CK BuzzFeed! Stand with Kyra and other creators!" And my own version of Chikn Nuggit with "No AI" flag.

Already was a big fan, but now so much respect for @kyrakupetsky.bsky.social for standing up for what is right, even if it means losing this wonderful thing she built. I hope other (bigger) creators support Kyra and speak up/fight back.

Oh wow YES! I vaguely remember this and it probably influenced the design on some level!
Of course, mergansers really are pretty punk with their spiky crests.

yeah that's the problem I was having, but seems to be normal now.

Yeah, everything's back for me now (at least on phone). Was weirded out at first because I could still get on bsky, just all my media disappeared, and I thought... Whaaaat? Did they suspend my account because too many provocative wolverine pics? But, naaa, then I saw I couldn't see anyone's media.

Yeah, I can still see text posts and quotes, but no media. All my art is gone (or just not showing up) at the moment, but it appears to the same for everyone I follow.

What's going on with Bluesky? All my media, including the cartoon I just posted, has vanished. Looks like I can't see others' media/pics too?

Hee hee!

The wolverine (Fresco), merganser (Dollie), skunk, shrew, ptarmigan, marten (Martenelli) and stoat (LeStoat) are seated on a log in the snowy wilderness. Wolverine: Before we all part ways, we should have a nice big breakfast together! Aaaand... OOO! Look what I picked up at the Timmy Ho's around the corner... FRUIT EXPLOSION MUFFINS!

All: YAY! YAY! HUZZAH! Stoat (angrily): STOP! (looking very confrontational) I refuse to eat fruit explosion muffins.

(Stoat now smiling and stepping aside to reveal spread of coffee, orange juice, and Moomin coffee mugs featuring Moomintroll and Snufkin) Stoat: ...Without locally-roasted coffee and fresh, sustainably-farmed organic OJ to wash it down!

All are cheering except the ptarmigan, who is walking away. Ptarmigan: You are all really weird and annoyingly random. I'm leaving. Bye.

Stoat Quest episode 14 (ish)

this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop

Aw love this! Strange to see Sunny without beak but it fits.

More Squarrel and Cortadito, always brighten my day. Watching this, they are just alive. They're real. I love them. And I feel better watching this, knowing only true work, learned skill, and raw human talent could create anything so wonderful. Thank you.

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Tennessee GOP Intro Bill To Kill Women Who Get An Abortion Here's an update on the bill, on the men responsible, and how you can contact them to stop this bill

Hey, so, reminder that Tennessee Republicans are introducing a bill that would kill women who get an abortion.

I dug up the MAGAs names, numbers, emails, & a script to use when calling them. Men—we need to step up. Act. Inundate them. Shut this trash down ASAP.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/tennessee-...

MacCrivens the otter is standing with paws folded. Piper the pipe otter is leaning in to say something. Piper: Criv... Criv... Listen...

"Pipe is Life."

MacCrivens: What in heron's teeth does that mean? Piper: I'unno. People kept saying it in the comments.

Of course I had to draw pipe otter again. Her name should be Piper. She's MacCrivens's cousin.

An encounter at the well

Yea about the well…… something may be coming soon if you wish hard enough