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“Don’t Talk to Me Until I’ve Had My Souls of the Damned.”

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Three, warped, ghost-like entities rising from a mug of black coffee
July 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Don’t Talk To Me Until I’ve Had My Brimstone

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Small dragon rearing up out of a coffee mug, roaring pink and blue flames.
July 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Take a look.
It’s in a book.

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#Kitsune
Red kitsune mask floating above an open book. Seven white tails are sprouting from the spine of the open book
July 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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“Yuki saw something big and scary moving through the library shelves… “

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#JerseyDevil
A tiny girl in the foreground looks towards a horse-like monster with wings towering over shelves of books
June 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Thimblecrabs take up residence in any brikabrack they can find. When surprised, they explode into dust and reappear by next Tuesday.

They’re the primary cause for objects being moved in the night.

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#originals
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A swarm of thimbles with legs, claws, and eyes work together to carry a book across a desk
June 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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A little lady gnome on her way back from the library.

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A stout little lady gnome with a wide face and bushy hair strolls under mushrooms while carrying a book
June 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Spotted a familiar figure flipping through books in the library.

#Mothman
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Drawing of a bird-like figure hunched over a table reading a book with shelves looming around it
June 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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I love my horrible little son.

A little fungus demon running amok in the library

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June 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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I’m so please with how this aloe vera sprite turned out.

I was really channeling my love of Tony DiTerlizzi’s style here.

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A round little guy with spikes aloe vera leaves for hair stands in front of a pile of books, holding a spear of aloe vera flowers
May 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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A pinpoint clover fairy.

Pinpoint clover is an endangered species of California clover. You got this, little fairy!

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Tiny and grumpy humanoid hanging by its fingertips from the side of a vertical book on native Californian plants
May 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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A spider plant pixie for today. I guess it’s fairy week!

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A tiny humanoid figure crouched over an open book. Instead of hair, it had the arching leaves of a spider plant.
May 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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This little jerk is an Oak Pollen Fairy. And he’s the reason everyone around me—myself included—is sneezing their butts off.

Look at him.
He knows what he’s done.

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A smirking fairy decked in oak leaves sitting on a branch with an open book on one leg.
May 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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The Dover Demon is a bioluminescent cryptid sighting that might just Be the result of kids being bored.

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A spindly creature with an over large head and monstrous mouth reading a book in the woods
April 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Even forest trolls enjoy a good book.

Can you tell that Brian Froud and Tony DiTerlizzi were formative artists for me?

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A squat humanoid in a pointy hat and and oversized coat happily reads a book
April 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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This chōchin obake (lantern monster) is doing its best to carry home some books without any arms.

It’s a little spookier looking, and I blame it on reading about Junji Ito earlier today. I think some of the horror bled in.

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#Yokai
A paper lantern with monstrous features. Two eyeballs appear through rips in the paper, and a large rip forms a mouth with a big thick tongue. The tongue is wrapped around two books.
April 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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That rarest of indoorovores, the Uncommon Sock Eater.

Manifested by the belief that missing socks have to be going *somewhere,* the Eater of Socks first appears in Sir Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather.

#Discworld
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#Transrights
#GNUpterry
A small tapir-like creature with an extremely-wide snout. It sits behind a scattered pile of socks. Trans pride colors bedeck the small creature.
April 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Reading fairy tales by salamander-light is a vibe.

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Open book in front of a jar holding an ephemeral, axolotl-like creature made of flame.
April 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Due to karmic consequences for evil deeds in a past life, Preta (hungry ghosts) are afflicted with an insatiable hunger in their current incarnation.

Looks like this one got off easy with a hunger for knowledge. (Some end up hungry for poop.)

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Tiny humanoid with an open book across its lap. Its oversized head is entirely a massive, sharp-toothed maw with no other features.
April 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Decided to come up with my own yokai.

The mujiji / mujichan is a mischievous little creature who steals your pens when you’re not looking. You might be able to hear his tiny, creaking laugh as he watches in hiding as you search fruitlessly for your missing pen.

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#Yokai
Drawing of a tiny old man with insect legs and antennae, holding a pen with a mischievous expression on his face
April 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Hey, what’s that thing on the shelf?

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Strange creature with a bird skull and a long vertebrael neck atop a hairy heap of a body with ratlike claws and a hairy tale sits atop a book on a bookshelf
April 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Audiobooks count as reading!

Look at this little Honduras White Bat! Are you gonna tell them they’re not a reader, too?

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Honduras white bat snuggled up against the screen of a phone while it plays an audiobook
April 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Today is a tortoise experiencing non-Euclidean dimensions.

Same, tortoise. Same.

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A tortoise on a stack of books that don’t line up properly with other desk ephemera floating behind.
April 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Special Bee-livery!
It’s a book!

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Drawing of a cartoony bee carrying a wonderful book about hot dogs
April 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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In my quest to draw a book mimic that my friends aren’t horny for, here’s one more.

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#Mimic
Book monster with a huge tongue flopping out
April 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Because my friends are perverts (lovingly), here’s a more alluring mimic book.

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#Mimic
And open book with a single monstrous eye and lips, curling up its bookmarks in the air
April 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM