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🇧🇬🇲🇽 Kali 🐞 They/Them, 30, 🇬🇧. 🩷💛🩵 Writer, Artist, Alien. 💛🤍💜🖤. https://linktr.ee/kalina.zlatkova

[kalinazlatkova]

Hello! Hola! Здравейте! :)

I'm Kali, an artist and writer based in the UK. I mostly make folk and cozy art, both traditional and digital. I also write poems and short stories, and post about creative things, among other random bits.

If you enjoy my poems, stories, book reviews or artwork, please consider supporting me on Ko-fi🫙✨🖤Thank you! 🥰

My art is tagged with '#kz draws', and writing with '#kz writes'. There's also '#kz reviews' for book recs, and '#kz answers' for Q&As / submissions.

Happy to chat about anything, and more so if related to LOTR/Tolkien, Folklore, Mythology, Animals & Nature, Astronomy, Art, Cozy Video & Board Games, LEGO, Moomins, Pokémon Indigo League, Yu Ghi Oh, Avatar TLAB, Astérix, W.i.t.c.h, Hilda, She-Ra, Voltron, Goldorak, OG Transformers, The Witcher, Arcane, Love Death + Robots, Good Omens, and Bobs Burgers.

Asks are welcome, thanks for being here! 🖤🖤🖤

You can also find me on bluesky @kzlatkova.bsky.social 💙

[kalinazlatkova]

Mama, I think am in love. I feel alive. I found someone with smile lines, joy tattooed upon their face, Warmth stored in their hands, I am never guessing, even when I am not in their embrace.

It is more than shared cups of coffee. It's being glad I stayed through the night.

Beginning at the kitchen table, I cannot escape the calling of my soul, Now we are making spaces for books and records, as many as my own.

It isn’t just needy and impatient, it is freckles, worn out pyjamas and air dried hair.

Making puns and geeky jokes, drawing constellations on our skin, They know when I want to go out, and why I never fit in.

It is handmade presents and homecooked meals, kisses in the midnight sun.

Asking hypotheticals for pure chaos, being the support under our feet, Someone who fights with me about the things that matter, and knows which cake can make it all keep.

I found someone who loves Autumn and Winter just as I.

Seeing us in darkness and in light, they know the ugly, then the good, Someone who laughs and cries with me, without having to wish they’d understood.

Imperfect, fallible, and human, it is finding God in the mundane.

Figuring it all together, in concept and in practice, even when we are afraid, Shared chores, dreams and pains, being our own people just like I had prayed.

It is discovery of new horizons, where teases become terms of endearment.

Hand in hand, and heads in laps, not leaving each other when we are alone, Someone to behold in all the colours known to man, be weird with, to call and sing - "Come home".

Mama, I’ve met someone good.

I’ve met someone considerate and kind, And even if the world ends, I’ve got someone to love in the meantime.

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If you enjoy my work, please consider supporting me on Ko-fi 👛🫙✨🖤 Thank you! 🥰 

[kalinazlatkova]

One more of the eggs I painted for Easter this year, which of course, I forgot to post 🧚‍♀️🥚

[kalinazlatkova]

Happy Pride!!! 🌈🥳🥰 This is my non binary beetle. To my NB siblings, I see you, I appreciate you and I love you! You are important and valid and have value in whatever shape or form you chose for yourself, and no one can tell you otherwise 💛🤍💜🖤

I also have a trans 🏳️‍⚧️ butterfly in the works and please see under the cut for the acrylic and gouache version of this from last year. 🖤

⋆｡°✩*ੈ✶⋆.˚✩‧₊˚⋆˚☆˖°⋆｡° ✮˖ ࣪ ⊹⋆.˚⋆˙⟡⋆✴︎˚｡⋆⊹.˚⟡ ݁₊˚⊹⋆☆˖°

If you enjoy my work, please consider supporting me on Ko-fi 👛🫙✨🖤 Thank you! 🥰

The original was done in gouache and pencil, with acrylic detail and posca pens. Which I then scanned in and added a digital background. The other two versions are without a shadow and a different strength shadow, but both digital like the one above 🥰

[kalinazlatkova]

Happy Pride! Non-binary & very proud! 💛🤍💜🖤

[kalinazlatkova]

And one more 🌱✨🥚

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One of my Easter eggs from this year. 🐰🥚💐 (Which I forgot to post, whoopsie!)

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One of my Easter eggs from this year. 🐰🥚💐 (Which I forgot to post, whoopsie!)

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I made my partner out of Lego 💚

With all the things he loves, including his gaming, the dogs, the horses, dark chocolate, green apples, the lord of the rings, pizza, and notes from me. Suffice to say, he loved it... and he has wings, because he's My Angel. 🖤

[kalinazlatkova]

One postcard at a time, I'll send a whole garden to Germany 💐🇩🇪

I drew this recently for my partner who's favourite color is 💚, and as you know I'm partial to 🖤. Suffice to say, he loved it. And I hadn't drawn any of my flowers in a while, so it was really lovely to get back into it. 🥰

[kalinazlatkova]

恭喜发财 and Happy Lunar New Year! 🐎🏮🧧🎉🎆

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No Te Odio / I don't hate you. 🖤

[kalinazlatkova]

Favourite winter art I saw this winter in Bulgaria ❄️ Part I.

Painting details, top to bottom:

1- Alexander Poplilov, "Wind", Landscape, latter half of the 20th century. At the National Gallery.

2- Yordan Geshev, "Winter Landscape", 1938. At the National Gallery.

3- Konstantin Shtarkelov, "The Vratsa Balkan", 1919. At the National Gallery.

4- Atanas Mihov, "The ice upon the Danube near Silistra", 1908. At the National Gallery.

5- Boris Georgiev, "White Symphony", 1929. At the gallery "Boris Georgiev" in Varna.

6- Radi Nedelchev, "Winter Celebration", c. 1970s. At the National Gallery.

7- Atanas Zhekov, "Winter near Karnobat", latter half of 1960s. At the National Gallery.

8- Konstantin Tringov, "Winter in Sofia", year unknown. At the Sofia City Gallery.

9- Ivan Milev, "Winter Landscape", 1926. At the National Gallery.

10- Zlatyo Boyadjiev, "Towards the Slaughterhouse", 1960. At the National Gallery.

[kalinazlatkova]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 🎉🎆🍾 A small Bulgarian Koledarche and pals wishing you the best for 2026!!! 🍀🧧🥰

[kalinazlatkova]

You have the same name as my sister! :D

That's cool! Obviously your parents have great taste :P

In my language, we call a person who has the same name адаш (adash). Many greetings to your sister! :)

[kalinazlatkova]

Believe, Believe! Yes you can! Believe in the power of the Mothman! 🔴🖤🔴

I added a background to this one, but I think in the end it looked better without? Idk.

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Mask I made for Dia de Muertos a few years ago. 💀🌸🕯️The flowers on top are paper and hand made too, petal by petal.

Flat file, sketch and what it looks like while on - under the cut 🖤

[kalinazlatkova]

It's the season of the witch! 🧙🏽‍♀️🪄🖤🐈‍⬛