ArachneOenomel

♡ (𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗸-𝗻𝗲𝗲-𝗻𝘂𝗵-𝗺𝗲𝗹) ♡

Information about this artist so that you know, at least to a reasonable degree, what sort of goober you agreed to follow.I like to draw cute animal people but I do not consider myself a furry personally. Though my characters and commissions do run adjacent at times. Full support to good, ethical, non-problematic furries who acknowledge how deeply fucked up the furry community can be. Those who strive to be better and give it a good name are cool with me. ♡You can call me Bugsy or Kai. I answer to both.You are not allowed to steal my artwork or use it for NFTs / cryptocurrency / AI. My artwork is my own and I support art and the actual artists that make them.

Kai
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⚠️ DO NOT INTERACT WITH ME IF YOU ARE:⟡ A proshipper or an "it's just fiction" reality denier.⟡ A zoophile, pedophile / sexual predator, or apologist / kink-positive for these literal crimes.⟡ Racist / transphobic / homophobic / xenophobic⟡ In the incel / misogyny rabbit hole. Maidenless behavior is simply not tolerated, ever.⟡ Right-wing, libertarian, or any right-leaning ideology that supports fascism, an Evangelical socio-political ethnostate, anti-science rhetoric, or general CHUD behavior. Y'all been fuckin' up everything for everybody. Get gone.⟡ An unloveable unwashed pube of a human being. The world is too shitty as it is. We should all attempt to be kind whenever possible and when appropriate. I don't have time for mean or nasty.

✧ Basic Personal Information:

• I live with my husband and our roomie, our four dogs, our two tortoises, all in my favorite city in the whole world. ♡• Please no inappropriate comments about my roommate especially regarding my marriage. We're elder millennials, rent is ridiculous and living is expensive. Plus he's my best friend and honestly we're platonic soulmates, but he's like a brother to me. People can be platonically intertwined without it being romantic or sexual.• Despite being incredibly neptunic, I have a masc presenting husband. This is one of those weird experiences being queer that doesn't fit in a neat little box. My husband is non-binary so regardless of anything else he isn't a cis man. I also didn't know how gay I was until after we were together, but we're compatible on so many things that matter. It seemed stupid to end our relationship just because I'm only attracted to women and non-binary people. My friends often joke, "You're a lesbian with a husband", and that joke is like 95% accurate. So yeah, my marriage is slightly outside the definition of the label I embrace. But that's okay. Some sapphics have masc-presenting spouses. That's okay too. ♡

⟡ Ethics, Political Stances, and General Viewpoints:My entire socio-political stances can best be described as 'Sensical Progressive with an Emphasis on People'. Or at least I hope it is. I feel like my thoughts are blatantly agreeable and yet we live in a world where they, apparently, are not.Free Palestine. Eat the Rich. Give Land Back to the Native Americans who never agreed to give it away in the first place. Support vaccines that are backed by rigorous and unbiased scientific testing, and legally prevent the spread of dangerous misinformation. Allocate financial and social resources to the homeless, the disabled, the mentally ill, the marginalized, the poverty-stricken, the children, the systems set in place to respond to the needs of the people. I want a world where women, afabs, and anyone with a uterus has the reproductive rights they need but also the social resources they might need otherwise. Stop bad-faith participants from lobbying and securing harmful policies that give power to corporations over the people that make them lucrative in the first place. Student loan debt should have been ended 80 pages ago. We should all be working on a four day work week, getting paid a hell of a lot more, and I'm not even fucking joking. Prioritize education but also forbid white supremist revisions of history, science, and social studies. Emphasize consent and kindness, raise children to not be constrained by gender in ways that keep us from empathizing with each other and expressing ourselves in harmless ways, ridicule and debunk ideologies that radicalize young (white) men, end rape culture, stamp out old or outdated social procedures that have been proven to be ineffective or hurt those it claims to protect. We should legally support Sex Work. We should shed light on the fact that technology and porn addictions are so real and are causing a lot more damage to American families than the idea that we're not all going to church enough.Religious people should be allowed to dictate how they run their lives, within reason of course, but their religious doctrines are not allowed to rob other people of their basic human rights. We should fucking chill out on all the War on Weed nonsense. We should be affording so much more support to prevent the constant death tolls from fentanyl and the opioid crisis. Black Lives Matter and always have, we just need to get with the fucking program. White people need to both acknowledge the structures of white supremacy but also like just chill and let other people thrive and succeed without being made into a monolith or a talking point if they just wanna fuckin' live and go about their business. Foreign real estate companies shouldn't be allowed to buy land then sell it at an exponential markup. Gentrification sucks. Buy local. Recycle. Forbid corporations from hiding vital scientific intel or causing horrendous damage to the environment knowing they can easily make back the profits after the laughable fines we give them.Ad nauseum. You get the point. My stances and viewpoints are considered radical left but like, are they radical, and are they really so far to the left?

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aka a list of things that make me happy after a kind-of depressing seque.

⬩ Dogs (but especially pugs)
⬩ Tortoises - especially Russian tortoises. They make such good pets I love caring for them.
⬩ Teaching and helping children. As much as they drive me crazy. I live for the kiddos I teach and care for.
⬩ Drawing hair, fluff, and designing new characters.
⬩ Bugs -- especially beetles, spiders, and moths.
⬩ Cryptid Culture - I was definitely obsessed with Mothman and Nessie since I was a wee little weirdo. But I love going to the Mothman festival and all the funny memes and tik toks, it's such a harmless little dopamine mine.
⬩ orange lillies , orange roses, and orange tulips.
⬩ Dumplings - soup dumplins, veggie steamed bao, or good ol' southern chicken dumpling soup. If it's a dumpling, I'll probably love it.
⬩ Mango flavored things. You best believe I chow down on all the candies, mochis, and sweet teas.
⬩ Fireflies, porch lights, canopy lights. My inner moth ain't picky.
⬩ True crime - not in a creepy, exploitative way. I feel the way we glorify serial killers is misanthropy fuel for my brain. The way we sensationalize crimes against people but don't have respect for their families is something I talk about at great lengths and often. Hell, the most famous serial killers in history only have their high body counts and low catch rates because of things like corrupt or incompetent police, sexism, shit journalism, etc. Depicting serial killers as alien masterminds is part of the problem, and it's not even accurate. They're losers. Pathetic, cruel, predatory, and life's losers. I like listening to true crime media for a multitude of reasons. Being aware, being safe, researching abnormal events and psychologies that help me better understand the people behind the headlines, or even because there are often so many sociological factors at play for certain cases that they serve important educational purposes. I feel for people who can, it's important to be socially aware and to honor the victims as much as possible. True crime isn't a passion because of the blood and crime. It's a passion because of the humanity, the ultimate goal of protection and prevention.
⬩ Horror movies - not related to my passion for true crime at all, seriously. I like the macabre and the eerie and everyone likes to be scared in a way that's safe now and then. That's my media avenue for letting myself think about things in a silly crazy way.
⬩ Sonic the Hedgehog - Amy Rose fan for life over here. She was one of my first fixations. I'm always obsessed.
⬩ Red Dead Redemption 2
⬩ Rap music, but I am basic and I have a strong lifelong Eminem hyper-fixation that will never go away.
⬩ Crystals and gemstones - I'm a scientist at heart, so I don't believe in supposed mystic properties. But pretty rock make brain go burrrrrrr.
⬩ Animal Crossing - I have so many villagers I love that when someone asks me who my fav is I panic.
⬩ Spicy food and hot sauces and Cajun food.
⬩ Cool monsters. Godzilla is king of course I'm not a simpleton. But Destroyah and Biollante have my whole heart.
⬩ Rune Factory 4
⬩ Some sweets - I don't like sweets all that much but I'll never turn down a well made tres leches cake slice. Or a peanut butter cookie. Or a Bananas Foster milkshake. Or a brownie with a cold glass of milk.
⬩ Antiquing and Gardening - because I am in my genderless 30s physically but mentally I am an old southern bitch with a bestie named Clarice ya feel me.
⬩ Succulents
⬩ Reading
⬩ Marine life - it's my spouse's fixation and he loves it so much now I get happy when I think about or see them too.
⬩ Dinosaurs - They make me so happy. That's definitely a nostalgic love for me.
⬩ Harley Quinn - another fixation. Like many, I have my favorite iterations and personal opinions, but I have such a soft spot for Harleen Quinzel. I have so many Funko Pops and comics and prints and signed issues and figurines. I never know where to put them all. Needless to say, I don't idolize her as the Joker's girlfriend / definite victim.
⬩ Healthy depictions of : romance, complicated dynamics or issues, LGBTQ+ representation, dark or gritty concepts, mental illness struggles but also successes, women's rights and women's wrongs, sex and sexuality (the only reason I don't like porn much is because most of it is made by men or for men and it doesn't have an ounce of respect or humanity interwoven into any part of it. Which is bananas cream puddin' insane. But a good depiction of sex or sexuality is so treasured and such a rare find.)

🍑 Favorite Colors: soft orange, pumpkin orange, coral orange, black + white, all pastels, nautical blues, french gray, soft muted greens, muted nature colors. My least favorite color is a very specific sickly pale yellow that looks like cloudy old piss.🍑 Favorite Drinks: Cinnamon White Chocolate Chai Lattes, Mango Sweet Tea, Peach Soda, Lavender Lemonade, and Hot Chocolate. ♡🍑 Favorite Foods: Red Curry | Black Garlic Chicken | Tacos | Crepes | Dumplings | Curried Vegetables | Tamales | Pupusas | Arepas | Manicotti | Crawfish Étouffée | Texas Roadhouse Rolls (I will bankrupt them one of these days) | BBQ | S'mores ♡🍑 Favorite Alcoholic Drink: I drink very rarely, and when I do drink I prefer the sugary and fruity, least alcohol-tasting ones as possible. I've never been drunk and I can't hang around drunk people. Alcoholism sprints in my family so I'm always checking myself and making sure I don't do anything but have the occassional night where I get a little silly and nothing more.🍑 Do you smoke/do drugs?: Nah, my brain is too broken and my personality is big enough as it is. I also vehemently hate cigarettes and vaping with all my heart and soul. I'm also allergic to cigarette smoke even slight secondhand.🍑 Favorite Movie: Kingsman: The Secret Service or Scooby Doo on Zombie Island (but I love so many movies picking a fav is near impossible, these are just the ones I could watch a million times and not get sick of)🍑 Favorite Video Games: Rune Factory 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, Life is Strange, the Dark Pictures Anthology, Sonic Unleashed, Kirby: Planet Robobot, The Last of Us, South Park: The Fractured But Whole.🍑 Favorite Animes/Manga: Parasyte: The Maxim | Princess Jellyfish | Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun | School Live! | Zom 100 | Yuri on Ice! | Yu Yu Hakusho | Toradora | Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions! | My Love Story! | Soul Eater | Another | Himouto! Umaru-Chan |🍑 3 Weird Factoids:
1) I have an obsession with the Jack Daniel's logo. For some reason it's pure peak design to me. Seeing it makes me feel comforted and inspires me to make art. No idea why, truly. Just something about the logo speaks to me. I wish it wasn't weird to buy tshirts or room decor with the logo, cause it'll look like I have a drinking problem or that I'm an insufferable douchebag but really it's just a thing I love to look at.2) I'm obsessed with where I live right now. I truly don't get why it's cringey to romanticize your home if it's a nice place to live. Growing up I was constantly moving and I never felt connected to a place until my mid-20s. Now in my 30s, living in my favorite city, I love talking about it. I was the same way where I lived before, trust me. Not to say I won't admit when there's an issue with where I live. But I feel so grateful to get to live here that I try to embrace and sustain myself on what I love about it. If we become friends you'll no doubt you'll have to deal with my excited ramblings.3) This is definitely a thing about me that was like, clearly autism, but of course didn't correlate as I should have until I got a diagnosis. But I'm fairly food sensitive. When I find something I like, I tend to spam it. There are days, weeks, even months at a time where I become obsessed with a food and it just becomes my most easily accessible dopamine button. All other foods just supply me till I get to my next fix. And obviously like many people, but especially people with autism, textures and moods can entirely determine my ability to eat something. So I occassionally go through what my friends and I call "meat heebie jeebies". There's often something about the consistency or feel or even taste of meat that my body just decides 'hey nah we're not eating that no matter how hungry we are'. So even though I love chicken and eat meat quite often, I'll go through intense periods of only being able to eat vegetarian dishes. This is all just a part of living and isn't even all that weird for neurodivergent people. But if you ever hear me talk about the meat heebie jeebies, that's what that is lol.🍑 Tattoos?: None yet. I love tattoos and have always dreamed about getting one. But my interests are so impactful yet temporary and so all over the map I can never decide what I want or how I want it done. I just can't pick. I would eventually love to get a moth or beetle tattoo, but even that sends me into a mini spiral of decision paralysis. Also I'm so very poor all the time, so that's part of it.🍑 Favorite Animals: pugs, dogs in general, jumping spiders, cecropia & lunar moth, tortoises and turtles, sharks, dinosaurs, hercules & stag beetle, otters, big cats, jellyfish, octopus, bats.🍑 Favorite Character(s):
I go through periods where I love a character extra hard or particularly love drawing them. So my 'active favorite' is always changing. But the ones that hold a special place in my heart overall regardless of time are:- Quinn, Jax, Anhri, Hendrix, Gretchen, Gregory, August, Hyun-Jin, Cherry, Turing, Kashii, and Nabii (aka the Spider Fam)
- Knockums, Eleanora, Shakezadizz (My DnD characters)
- Deianara, Buzzy, Noelle, Popcorn, Ruffles, and Brew (the ocs I find easiest to draw)🍑 Best Friend Offline: My husband + my roommate. I have to cheat and pick two people. Bestie rocks. Love of my life is the best.🍑 Best friend online: @MangoFreckles or FizzyEmbers on FurAffinity. She's one of the best people I know by a wide mile.🍑 Favorite Movie Genre: Horror🍑 Favorite Cuisine: Thai food, I could have it every single day and not get tired of it.🍑 Favorite Book: My favorite book is Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. But if we're talking stories or fictional books I have a couple! Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell OR Desperation by Stephen King (I know Stephen King is not the most eloquent or favorable pick, trust me I know. But Desperation was such an insane book I read at a time that I needed a good story the most, so it impacted me down to my bones in a good way).🍑 Art Dream / Goal: to get to 1,000 followers and have like 4-7 people who I can talk to about ocs and art and get the inspiration or motivation or validation I need to draw and combat my creative depression spells.

I'm a pug, bug, and spider enthusiast. Any merch / oc / chachkies that are spider, beetle, bee, or pug themed instantly has my heart. My most favs are jumping spiders and Hercules + stag beetles and cecropia + lunar moths. I don't handle wild bugs or pet tarantulas though. I love and respect bugs but don't really approve of handling them nor do I see them as potential things to hold/pet. Let wildlife be wildlife.

📯 Frequently Asked Questions:

‣ How often are you online? How often art you able to do art?
Not often, I'm afraid. Not only am I chronically ill, with pretty severe ADHD, but my job is physically and mentally taxing, so I'm often a husk at the end of every shift. Then I tend to pack in so much stuff on my free time that it stops being free time. Between a house to run, four dogs, two tortoises, a spouse, and a live-in bestie I'm co-dependent with, I'm lucky to get anything more than an hour on any given day. Every now and then I give myself an afternoon. I fight for those when I can get 'em.That's why my art can seem so plain, vapid, and incomplete. I mean, I think they're charming and fun and a great escape, but this is also to say I understand why my art seems so haphazard or with immense 'pretty but not much else going on' vibes. I'd rather just post a doodle that I did quickly and very uncontrolled, then only post when I have a completed project. I feel like if I did that, I would never post. I don't like shading, and I don't have time for it, so I never do it. My little scribbles are posted as is, and if they look amazing that's fantastic. But if they also look like something I did quickly and without much focus, that's because they were.‣ Why don't you just call yourself a furry? Are you ashamed of calling yourself that / identifying as such?
Because I'm not. Honestly it would be much easier if I was a furry. If all I had to say was 'I draw this and this is my interest and it's in my community and I vibe well with it', that would be so so so much easier. Instead I usually have to go on this whole schpeel about how I do draw furry art, technically, because I started doing it for funds and fun and it just became so fun and familiar, but I have almost nothing in common with any random furry except that I know how to draw these type of things. Much love to those who are out there living their best so long as they're doing so and being good people, but I don't even really like looking at fursuits, I don't really get the whole thing. I don't really appreciate the attitude of the community nor am I okay with what I've seen at the cons I've been to. To me, when it comes to my art, it's as simple as a series of reasons like:→ I grew up on anthro cartoons and it wasn't a whole thing
→ My fav shows can have animal people in them but the people part never occludes or comes second to the animal part
→ Drew it, got good at it, now it's what I know how to do
→ It's honestly easier for me to hide flaws in art with it, absolutely an art crutch for me personally lol
→ When people make it sexual there's such a fine line between straight up fetishizing animals sexually and I will never be okay with that and way too many people just flippantly cross that line and the community high-key loves them for it, which I'm not down with.
→ My thing is I treat my characters and my art in the way of, say, Tuca and Bertie / Alvin and the Chipmunks / Looney Tunes / Sing / Kung Fu Panda. Where the animal aspect is just a fun design choice, the occasional avenue for a gag, but the fact that they're animals/animal people is just a very small part of the overall concept.
→ If it's cute or funny or if the vibes of the picture is good, I love that, but the animal part isn't a draw to me.And that's just kind of that. Though in the end all of this trying to explain it isn't necessary, I just like to gab and explain myself cause I think there are a lot of people like me and I would love to connect with more people like me that are just kinda AROUND the furry community but aren't in it nor do they identify with it in any way whatsoever. In the end if someone doesn't want to go by that label that's that, we give this respect to a lot of people in a lot of fields of interest but for some reason people harp on this one thing specifically and I do not care for it.‣ Do you allow for gift art? What are the rules/conditions of making gift art for you?
Gift art is amazing and absolutely approved! My heart sings with joy when someone takes the time and energy and kindness to make something for me, or with my characters, I just go over the moon, the feeling is beyond tops, other exuberant expressions of gratitude and excitement abounds!I would prefer if it's SFW. But if you want to make mild/suggestive NSFW gift art, I just ask that you tag it to my 18+ art twitter. I'm okay with explicit / pornographic gifts. Just nothing gross with problematic content and nothing too out of character. If you're ever unsure, just ask, I don't mind clarifying anything!‣ Why did you block me?
I block for serious and non-serious reasons to help culminate a sane and sustainable online experience.I will sometimes block people because they have opinions that trigger or annoy me but Twitter won't stop showing them. Sometimes it's because I knew them from years ago. Sometimes it's because they're actively supporting terrible people. Sometimes it's because the algorithm keeps bringing them to my attention but their content is triggering.It's not neccessarily always a matter of 'cause I hate you and you're bad'. It's because Twitter is a hellscape and sometimes you gotta be liberal with the only option the algorithm takes seriously.

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