A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of three orange spotted squids wearing trans flag clothing and holding a candlelight vigil. The squid in front is my OC, Bela Lugosquid, mourning their lost trans friends, a tear in their eye. Bela is wearing their signature costume based on the 1931 movie Dracula, but wearing their purple-lined (instead of red) black opera cloak, a purple bow tie, and a white waistcoat. Bela is wearing a medal ribbon in the trans flag colours (light blue, light pink, white, light pink, light blue in horizontal stripes), but instead of a medal, a spiny Black Sea urchin is holding onto a gold ring. The sea urchin is also sad. Bela has their tentacles crossed over their heart. The two squids behind Bela, one on each side, are holding magic candles that glow underwater. The left squid is wearing a trans flag scarf, and has their tentacles over their mouth, eyes closed, weeping, holding their purple candle in one arm. The squid on the right has a large ribbon sash in the trans flag colours tied in a bow around their neck. Their eyes are closed, they are holding their purple candle in a tentacle and weeping. The sea around them is a deep lavender blue with silver dots and gold hearts floating in the water. Top right, a white square sign edged with gold says “Transgender Day of Remembrance 2025”, with cursive lettering underneath that says “for all trans ppl silenced by hate.”. This is a day both Bela and I take seriously. We remember the trans people lost this year, and every year.

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Today we mourn the trans ppl we have lost. The way trans ppl are being treated rn is unacceptable. If you think trans ppl are the problem, you’re being lied to. 🏳️‍⚧️💜🏳️‍⚧️

“Whoah”: A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of an aquarium (there is a sign drawn at the top that says “AQUARIUM” and I am not good at lettering), with a tank on the right side, and the outside of the tank (non-tank? Aquarinot?) on the left. The (pale peach with brown and grey spots) squid named Bela Lugosquid is in the tank, staring with awe, and reaching out one tentacle to touch the glass. Bela is wearing their Dracula* costume, black cloak with red lining flowing out behind them. On the other side of the glass stands Nosferawwwwtu, a green vampire-like creature/character with long scary fingers, sunken eyes, and pointed ears, dressed in their classic dark grey robe with ragged wide sleeves. The floor is green, the wall is teal blue, and an inked, but not coloured poster on the far left wall says “Innsmouth-born SQUIDS!”, and has a squid-like drawing with spiral curls for tentacles. Over the poster is a label that says “New! NIGHT HOURS!!”. In the right top background of the tank is a smiling great white shark, and just below them, squid tentacles and arms are disappearing off the page, like another squid has run off. *Based on Bela Lugosi’s costume in Dracula (1931), except instead of a medal, Bela Lugosquid is wearing a spiny Black Sea urchin.

Okay. Meltdown in the morning, hurting leg bad enough to keep me home from a party in the afternoon. I started this drawing promptly, but it took a while. #sketchaday #artsky #artbluesky #blueskyart #art #belalugosquid #nosferawwwwtu

They meet!
“…whoah.”

An ink and pencil drawing of two squids. The squid in front (left bottom) is looking at their phone, with a bored expression on their face. They are holding the phone in one tentacle, and poking at it with an arm. Behind them, the other squid (top right) is wearing a cloak they have spread wide with two of their arms, like the famous* pose of Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931), their mouth (with fangs) is wide open, their eyes are open as wide as possible, and they are tapping the front squid on the shoulder with one of their tentacles, as if to scare them. The front squid is saying “yeah, it wasn’t funny the last ten times, and it’s not funny now, “Bela”.” (Imagine them using two arm tips to make air quotes when they say Bela). A small square top left has the text “SQUID GAMES”. *Okay, I remembered the footnote this time. “The famous pose” is a joke; no one except old people remember Bela Lugosi. Aurora did a model kit in the 1950s (Bob, who is a Boomer, had Frankenstein, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Phantom of the Opera), and Stephen King has a character who builds the kits in “Salem’s Lot”, but I’m guessing not that many people have read it. You should; it’s actually pretty good, as is the David Soul movie. Y’know, for an old 1979 movie. I liked it.

Waugh! I whacked my left knee last night, slid in the mud and landed on my left hip and arm, and I’ve been dropping stuff all day. I fear working on anything more complicated.

Squid Games (not the show). #sketchaday #artsky #artbluesky #bluskyart #art #belalugosquid