Ice Mutt

@icemutt.bsky.social

She/her, disabled, hEDS + ADHD Personal of @loopholelogs.art Also find me on Lovely Everyone! Expect bugs and dolls here! AI / NFT use prohibited.

Just some samples while I'm working out lettering. I'm struggling a bit with the whole using Affinity to do letters as I'm much more used to hand-drawing my effects and letters - so enjoy some stuff that's been hand-lettered in the meantime. Pebs is a bit mad at Wedge. #loopholelogs #comics

Pebbleshot - known better as "Pebs", an anthropomorphic wild painted dog with a hearing clip in one ear and goggles over her face, yelling, crunching something in her hand with a CRUNCH sound effect and screaming "SORRY DIDN'T PAY MY BILLS, WEDGE". 
Sample panel for upcoming Loophole Logs comic.

Got some grubbies, going to have to set up an incubator to see if we can get them to pupate in there. These guys are just an absolute highlight for me and I want to see more captive bred going on. #BDFB

Asbolus verrucosus or Blue Death Feigning Beetles, in their desert enclosure climbing around on things. Asbolus verrucosus or Blue Death Feigning Beetles, in their desert enclosure climbing around on things.  One is dozing on top of their hide which is a piece of cork bark.

One of my favorites to keep, the largest of what I currently keep is my girl Dino, a popa spurca/“african twig mantis”. Popa are just wonderful darlings, utter freaks as nymphs, good eaters, and hilariously nosey individuals.

Popa Spurca female Dino, on a stick, giving us sideeyePopa Spurca female Dino - stretching her raptorial arms out to imitate a stick. Popa Spurca female Dino from the front, chilling on my hand, a lot of the texture and color that makes them amazing at hiding in bark and twigs is visible.

Usually Wednesday nights are my creative nights, but I've not been feeling great for a few days due to the storm - big ol migraines and all - so I'm kind of just indulging my chaos.

Some of my mantis friends while I get names together for the green beans. Kadath, Ulthar, St John’s Park, and Dinosaur State Park. I’ve also got some beetles.

Kadath - a female subadult psuedocreobotra whalbergi - doing a dance pose as they are prone to doUlthar - a female subadult psuedocreobotra whalbergi - spreading her arms out wide in a big threat display despite being able to stand on my fingertip. 
I gave a beetle in the enclosure on the shelf below hers a carrot. J.P. - a Popa Spurca - holding a water droplet like an ear of corn while standing on my finger. Dino - a Popa Spurca female - completely zonked asleep on her stick with her face in her elbows and her raptorials still pointed upward.

I've been watching these dumbasses try to get themselves set up to molt for like three-four days now, so I turned their lights off early tonight and Dino immediately took the opportunity. Still a fascinating and worrying state to watch them go through. They're amazing at messing it up.

Popa Spurca female, "Dino" in the process of molting. She is hanging from her old exoskeleton on a branch while her legs are drying.

I've watched art community collapse after art community collapse and I wish I had the ability to just go to a space that wasn't a fan-space for one artist and just post my stupid OC art and see others. I'm relying on that joy to keep the spirits up.

Upcoming guidelines are an absolute Tumblr-level headache but now with muddled rules that will likely be unevenly applied. This has been an exhausting year and we're only at about the 3/4ths mark.