Squishclops

Your squishy cyclops pals!

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Squishclops: Your Squishy Cyclops Pals!

This is the official blog for Squishclops! Here you'll find digital art, sculpting, and more. Online shop coming soon!

Other places to find Squishclops:

🔥Wildfire Relief ACEO Fundraiser🔥

Instagram

Tiktok

Con/Event Schedule:

Albuquerque Railyards Market - 9/6/26 and 10/25/26

Albuquerque Comic Con 2027

Sabaku 2027

Toonfusion ABQ 2027

(Looking for more art? Check out my personal art blog @dyscrasia-eucrasia)

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🔥Aspen Acres wildfire relief ACEOs 2/28🔥

During the month of August, I'm going to be auctioning off 28 Squishclops ACEOs to raise funds for United Way of Southern Colorado. Link in bio!

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One day left on this auction! Current bid is $15

Listing is HERE

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Been forgetting to put these here!

This month, I'm making ACEOs (Artist Cards, Editions, and Originals) that I'm auctioning off to raise money for the United Way of Southern Colorado to help with wildfire relief aid in Pueblo County!

You can find my Ebay listings HERE

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🔥Aspen Acres wildfire relief ACEOs 5/28🔥

During the month of August, I'm going to be auctioning off 28 Squishclops ACEOs to raise funds for United Way of Southern Colorado. Link in pinned!

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🔥Aspen Acres wildfire relief ACEOs 4/28🔥

During the month of August, I'm going to be auctioning off 28 Squishclops ACEOs to raise funds for United Way of Southern Colorado. Link in pinned!

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🔥Aspen Acres wildfire relief ACEOs 3/28🔥

During the month of August, I'm going to be auctioning off 28 Squishclops ACEOs to raise funds for United Way of Southern Colorado. Link in bio!

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🔥Aspen Acres wildfire relief ACEOs 2/28🔥

During the month of August, I'm going to be auctioning off 28 Squishclops ACEOs to raise funds for United Way of Southern Colorado. Link in bio!

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Progress video for my first ACEO! All proceeds go towards wildfire relief in Southern Colorado! Link in pinned!

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🔥Aspen Acres wildfire relief ACEOs 1/28🔥

During the month of August, I'm going to be auctioning off 28 Squishclops ACEOs to raise funds for United Way of Southern Colorado. Link in pinned post!

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Testing my booth set up for an event and bro I can't believe how good this looks. Look at all that merchandise.

Compare to my first booth 3 years ago:

And I make everything myself, too. No factory manufacturers here.

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owo what's this?

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Restocking stickers for a market

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[pensivegladiola]

Don’t make me point to the Omar Sakar poem

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I think about stuff like this a lot wrt my own art. For reference, I draw cute cartoon cyclops cats (and other animals.) I think many viewers would see my art as "apolitical", and I don't usually have a message in mind when I sit down to draw. But I still like to try to view my art from an outside perspective and think about what messages can be gleaned from my work.

I just finished a 3 day convention, and one of my most popular stickers was this:

People laughed at it, then commented that times are indeed trying right now. I replied that this is kind of my ethos; offering people a silly little creature to offset the crushing weight of... *gestures at everything*

But it also goes deeper than that. My creatures, Squishclopses, have a bit of lore - they're shapeshifting aliens, who can take any form but can't change their one eye. Their home planet has been threatened, and they've come to Earth and are trying to blend in. But - as I always like to emphasize - they aren't dangerous, they aren't out for world domination. They take the forms of things humans like, from pets to food to cryptids and more, because they just want to be safe and taken care of.

I didn't explicitly intend anything with this lore, but I am neurodivergent and chronically ill, and I think it's easy to read commentary about disability into that lore.

I'm also staunchly pro-immigration, and I think you can also really easily read commentary about *that* into the lore as well.

And if you do read that lore as disability or immigration commentary, I think it's also very easy to view the commentary as paternalistic! Largely because I was not explicitly thinking about the commentary when I made the lore, I was working backwards from aesthetic choices I have already made!

And even setting aside all of that - I have LGBT Pride Squishclops designs prominently displayed at my vending booth. Which is itself a political statement.

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In cyclops world the teens have a trend where they play "we are young" by fun and when he says "give me a second i" they put a second eye on random celebs like cyclops shane dawson

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Slice of Life's 3rd anniversary is on April 19th, and they're having a whole minifest! Stop by my booth to receive a FREE anime-inspired Squishclops sticker!

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It wimdy

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Well, this update sure is bad! Here's where else to find me:

Threads: Squishclops

Tiktok: Squishclops

Instagram: Squishclops

Bluesky: squishclops.bsky.social

Discord: DM me; preference will go to mutuals and long-time followers