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nightmaremantis.bsky.social
35/He/It 🏳️‍⚧️/♠️ Mi'kmaw/Acadian Non-theistic Satanist Canadian bug artist who occasionally posts art. Working on an original comic. Sometimes post about my cats. Occasionally nsfw so no minors. Hyperfixated on my OC Peal, the silver eyed mantis.
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Oh yeah, this is the actual rosary I'm holding in that second drawing I posted. I won't get into the significance of it in that context but I've had this since I was 4 years old. I used to include it in my art a lot as a symbol of carrying the weight of one's past in the present.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I've been... hesitant to talk about this. But I can't seem to stop thinking about it all of a sudden, after over a decade of basically willing myself to forget. A decade of nothing happening; not even dreams. You see I'm an experiencer, or what people rather mockingly call an alien abductee. 1/9

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Got lots of progress done today. I'll be trying to get at least the clean sketches done tomorrow.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Found this old sketch while rearranging some things. I think it's at least 10 years old but it's kind of funny how the way I drew these guys has bled into how I draw my bug characters. Perhaps I should revisit them after I'm done with the mini comic.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I had a dream so cosmically inspired it completely rewired my brain and purged the despair in my soul. I'm not sure why it had this effect on me but I want to draw it. Even though I feel like my skills will never truly capture the awe and beauty of what I saw I will try. Probably as a mini comic.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This is the last video I got to take of Ishna. She liked to sit directly on my chest in the morning to say hi. She was deaf so nothing ever really bothered her and she made the most dramatic noises possible any time you picked her up. I'll miss the little lady.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, I think I can officially say that I'm cursed. I lost Zero (one of my snakes) last month and now I've just come home to find my eldest cat dead. She was 16 years old so it's not a complete surprise but man, I can't seem to catch a break. I'm so emotionally exhausted I can't even cry about it.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Something small but it is a start. I plan on slowly adding more shit as the season progresses, lol.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

I usually don't actually celebrate pride month in any kind of way. No wearing flag colors in public or anything, not even in subtle ways. I've always preferred to play it stealth and am not out to anyone who didn't know me pre-hormones. But after this year. THIS YEAR. /

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Having a rough go of it today. I think it being pride month really amplifies the feeling. Feels like I'll never find a partner that actually accepts me as I am and isn't just in love with the idea of me and/or thinking they can mold me into a sex receptacle despite me being asexual.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Coloured sketch of @vivithemoth.bsky.social 's boy Darian!

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Some more recent-ish art of Vim/Lady Angelique. I originally drew this for hexennacht this year. The solar eclipse is also plot relevant to the story she comes from.

submitted 213 days ago • 2 comments

Older piece of Peal and his doppelganger. Still like this one and might revisit the idea with a better background.

submitted 218 days ago • 2 comments

Little orchid mantis painting I did a few months ago. It's acrylic on a 10x10cm canvas panel. Very tiny.

submitted 221 days ago • 0 comments

Me: "Huh, I used to really like Within Temptation when I was a teen. I wonder what they're up to now. I'll bet I missed a lot of good songs!" *looks them up and finds that all their music has a bland pop-y vibe now and they did an AI music video last year* Me: "Oh... Oh no."

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

While I did start working on those sketches I ultimately didn't get very far, which is about what I expected given how long I've been struggling with my health. Going to take a while to rebuild that stamina again but I'll keep trying and get those sketches finished when I can.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I plan on testing my brain's stamina this weekend. So I'm offering to do some warm up sketches of other people's bug characters. No humans with bug features or anything else. Refs should be clear and I will only be choosing a couple characters. I would upload an image but it keeps going black wtf.

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

If there's one thing I appreciate about the Alex Graham drama is that it's finally some art drama that isn't just "really popular male artist who draws nothing but pretty girls has used AI and everyone is somehow surprised". Fitting that her art is as ugly as her heart though, lol.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

It makes me so sad how kids will never know how GOOD Google search used to be. You could research any obscure thing and find hundreds of pages worth of unique websites. Same things with the image search. It could load in so many images your computer would cry. Good luck getting past 10 pages now.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Woke up wheezing for breath so I went to the doctor and apparently I have asthma now. 🙃🎉

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

I am playing Dwarf Fortress and I am both laughing and crying so hard rn. I tried embarking on a "terrifying" biome and it was so cursed I lost everyone literally the second I unpaused the game because they were all instantly turned into zombies. 💀

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I think something that sticks out to me in the whole artists vs techbros thing, is that techbros have shown their entire ass on how utterly empty they are. These people are not jealous of our skills or anything like that. I don't think they would hate us so intensely if it were so.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment