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Olivia When
@oliviawhen.com
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Children's book illustrator, 2D animator, dog observer ✏️🐕
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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · Oct 20
Hello! I'm Olivia, most people know me for drawing dogs at this point. I'm a 2D animator/illustrator. 📣🐶
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A watercolor painting of a happy white samoyed (Sprout) in front of a giant monstera plant. The first panel of the Cup Pup comic. A yellow puppy walks down a sidewalk lined with daisies. They are carrying a reusable cup in their mouth and wearing a backpack. Text: "I love my cup. I bring it everywhere." A tableau of 4 golden retrievers. 1 sleeping, 1 rolling on it's back chewing a teddy bear, 1 looking at the previous, 1 jumping happily at food on a counter. 3 white ducks swimming through lily pads. The 1st is carrying fairy bread and leaving sprinkles in its wake. The 2nd looks at a fish. The 3rd is wearing a flower on its head like a hat.
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Rainy flower piano weekend at the sf botanical garden! Feat @fivepaninis.bsky.social! 🌸
Marker sketch in blue, green, and peach with some pencil on top. A big conifer sitting behind a grand piano with an outdoor umbrella protecting it from the rain. A person with round glasses in a hooded jacket is playing Ready to love by Seventeen!!
September 21, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil **Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** "Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
September 20, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Great news on my walk.
Chalk writing on a city sidewalk that says "AI IS NOT COOL ANYMORE"
September 19, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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September 15, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Got my covid and flu shot and there were so many other ppl getting them too! Good work everyone. Stay safe!!
September 11, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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In this period of time filled with AI stupidity, let's celebrate those we are not celebrating enough:

Art supporters, Art commissioners

THANK YOU!

Thanks to YOU, many artists can do what they do the best and keep being productive but most importantly

Artists can LIVE!
September 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Some Doggust leftovers. ✍️🐶
#doggust2026
Two bottles on ink, blue and yellow, square and rounded respectively. Under that a watercolor brush. Under that a little dachshund reading at a desk next to a white mug. The chair they're sitting in is in the style of a bentwood chair, with a swirly heart-shape in the middle.
September 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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🧀 cheese heist

commission! snippet of a digital wallpaper downloadable that you can snag as a part of @heyyojojo.com's pokeparty rewards 🫶

#b3d #art #pokemon
3d render of charcuterie board. one tandemausling is coming down on a miniature rope attached to it, staring at a huge block of cheese. the other tandemausling is staring up, peeking from behind the cheese. lots of other delicious foods are on the board, such as olives, mozzarella cubes, strawberries, and bread in the background.
May 7, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Doggust 2026 part3
Last day of the Doggust! But I might still have one more post after this!

@dogsinaugust Day 25 Azawakh, Day 28 Basset Fauve de Bretagne, Day 18 American Staffordshire Terrier.
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#doggust #doggust2026 #papercraft #picturebook
August 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Doggust day 31: Carin Terrier 💐
Came back around to the prompts for the last day! A tiny terrier.
A vase of blue-purple hydrangeas. The water is blurry from wet on wet painting, and a tiny carin terrier (a pointy-eared scruffy orange dog) is peeking out from the right side of it.
September 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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My final drawing for #AugustAdventures2026!! Prompts are "trees" and "treasure", so a squirrel and acorns felt fitting :)))
A digital drawing with a painted paper collage look, featuring a squirrel sat on a branch picking acorns. The colours are vibrant and warm, and the squirrel looks happy.
August 31, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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Doggust day 30: Canis Major 🔭🐕
This year is 10 years since what I consider to be my first Doggust, so I decided to revisit one of the pieces that was star themed since it kind of fit with this year.
A little floppy-eared dog looking through a telescope at many shooting stars from under a bridge. The bridge is covered in ivy, and the yellow and white stars are huge and flying down in front of the bridge. The main colors are teal, blue, and yellow from two inks.
August 31, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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Magnemite, Magneton, Magnezone
June 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Doggust day 29: Pâtisserie 🥐
I was on the fence about dachsbun until I saw one in pokopia and now I've seen the light.
A dachsbun is sleeping curled up on an orange cafe chair next to an orange cafe table. There's a white cup on a saucer on the table, and a tall rectangular planter with some monkey grass in it behind.
August 29, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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my yellow labrador asleep on a kids car rug in my kitchen
August 28, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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A place to donate directly for much needed medical relief efforts.
www.directrelief.org/2026/08/nepa...
Nepal Flash Floods: Direct Relief Mobilizing Aid Around Medical Needs
At least 160 people were killed, and hundreds remain missing after a catastrophic flash flood swept through border areas of Nepal and the Chinese territory of Tibet on Wednesday. Infrastructure in …
www.directrelief.org
August 28, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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Doggust day 28: Take the bus! 🚌🐕
Some dog pokemon to celebrate Pokemon Worlds being in town! Kinda biased, but all the dog pokemon are very very good and almost never miss.
A yamper is hopping off a muni bus. A little rockruff and riolu are looking out the window with their paws pressed against it.
August 29, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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Doggust day 26: 5pm. 💼☀️
#doggust2026
A two panel comic. Panel 1: The artist, hair in a bun with a backpack looking down at the ground. A beam of bright yellow light splits the panel in half. Panel 2: a white dog looks up from the beam of light, the source.
August 27, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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Gamescom AI Slop Thread.

Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.
August 25, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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August 23, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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For my buddy’s birthday I made a lino print of her dog (and my close personal friend)
✨🐩✨
August 23, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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There are constant debates about bluesky vs twitter vs threads, meanwhile on tumblr 36,000 people are pretending to be ants in a colony.
Screenshot of a tumblr community's stats: Avatar: Two black ants on a white bg. Group name: Pretend to be ants in a colony @@pretend-to-be-ants-in-a-colony Posts: 30k Members: 36k Info icon: About this community (link)
August 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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UPDATE: Yes, their owner passed away Thursday. We're taking them in today, but as I said, that CAN'T be permanent; they NEED a HOME NOW. We're willing to drive pretty much anywhere in the Northeast for the right adopter.

We're begging.
shecky.bsky.social Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · Aug 22
Morning people: yep, looks like the ONE nibble is now ghosting. Going to Kevin's apartment today to start cleanout & get the cats, then we're bringing them here. They HAVE to stay closed in our bedroom, so they're safe for now, but one room is NO way to live the rest of their life.

Please. SOMEONE.
shecky.bsky.social Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · Aug 13
FRIENDS IN THE NYC AREA: Okay, this is a tough one, but please bear with me.

My wife's lifelong friend has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is desperately seeking a home for his two cats when that time comes. The elder, Wally, is something like 13 years old and DELIGHTFULLY dim. The younger, Doris,
August 22, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Doggust day 20: Some things lost to AI. 📝
#doggust2026
A yellow dog is amazed looking at a poster on a pillar that says "graphic design". Below is a close up of the poster. There's a yellow dog on it at an old computer an the text above says either "graphic design is my passion" or "graphic design my is passion." It's unclear, due to the graphic design. There are several pull tabs below that just say "help." Text reads: "I like every weird handmade poster."
August 21, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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Doggust day 18: Zzz 3. 🌙🌞
These dogs belong to @jordansbrock.bsky.social and @xiaocockatiel.bsky.social!
#doggust2026
A long limbed blue, black, and cream dog is sleeping in a U shape with one front paw stretched out and one folded. Their long fur is painted with lots of hatching in various directions. A bright yellow poof of a dog is sleeping with their little head flopped over their paw. There's lots of orange hatching radiating out from the middle making them look a bit like a sun or a dandelion.
August 18, 2026 at 8:21 PM