That One Blue Dog

COMMISSIONS OPEN!! Call me Calen :) Silly Goose (also I'm an artist) they/them

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That One Blue Dog Blog Intro (Updated 20/06/2025)

Hello! My name is That One Blue Dog, but if that's too much of a mouthful (type-full?) you can call me Calen. I wasn't gonna make an intro post but since I want to branch out with my blog into areas other than digital art, I figured it's probably warranted.

A little bit about me:

My pronouns are they/them (see more: @ThatOneBlueDog • Pronouns.page)

Time zone is Australian eastern standard time (UTC+10)

I like digital art, narrative writing, and thinking way too much about things that don't affect the real world in any way whatsoever

I love fictional media - books, TV shows, movies and musicals are my jam

My fandoms at the moment include Percy Jackson, Spider-Man (specifically irondad and spiderson), Little Shop of Horrors, Groundhog Day/Groundhog Day the Musical, Life SMP and Hermitcraft, Moulin Rouge, and pretty much any musical I mention or make art for

Musical theatre is my special interest

At the time of writing this I am a minor, so while I don't mind adults interacting with me please don't send me anything NSFW or that you wouldn't usually send a person under 18

Usually my art will revolve around whatever my current hyperfixation is - so at the moment, my Hermitcraft/Life Series superhero au. I also make talking posts sometimes. I'm a pretty reserved person, but I'm trying to find ways to overcome that and be more social, so I'm fine with people sending me asks and dms so long as it's appropriate. I can't promise I'll respond immediately, as I don't tend to come here much unless I have something to post, but I'll do my best.

I hope you enjoy my stuff!

Tags:

Hermitcraft/Life Series superhero au: superboatem au

Fantasy OC story: iotc

Talking: calen speaks

Art: calen draws

Links:

Commissions: https://artistree.io/thatonebluedog

Side blog: @that-one-blue-dog-reblogs on Tumblr

Cara: Calen G (@thatonebluedog) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform

AO3: That_One_Blue_Dog - Works | Archive of Our Own

Instagram: Calen G (@that_one_blue_dog) • Instagram photos and videos

Bluesky: That One Blue Dog (aka Calen) - Bluesky

YouTube: That One Blue Dog - YouTube

Art Fight: Art Fight - thatonebluedog's Profile

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Okay, gonna screech about something real quick *clears throat*

BIWEEKLY. MEANS. TWICE. A. WEEK.

IF. IT MEANT. EVERY TWO WEEKS.

WE WOULDN'T. HAVE. FUCKING. FORTNIGHTLY.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

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Happy pride month everyone! Hopefully I'll make something proper before June is over, but we'll have to see since I've been pretty tired lately

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EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS: OPEN!!

Recently I had some unexpected dental expenses, just the same month that I have to pay for my master's degree (3D videogame enviroments!!!!!!) scholarship........ I'm almost a couple hundreds away from being able to play evertything. It would mean the world to me if yall could help me reach that goal vía commissions 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

✔ OCs, ships, DnD references, chibis, emotes, icons, furry...

❌ very detailed mecha, NSFW, heavy gore...

If interested pls pls pls DM me

Shares will always be appreciated 🙏💗

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One of my mutuals on Unvale made a really cool species called the Saber Grimm, and I wanted to try drawing two of my OCs as them! I might try drawing them again at some point, since I found a reference picture of some tigers which I'd quite like to use, but my motivation towards art has been rather mercurial as of late, so I'm not sure if/when I'll get around to it

Here's the species on Unvale if you're interested:

The Saber Grimm - ORIGINAL SPECIES on Unvale

So I created a Original species! If u are interested u can crea

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Also, as a bit of an update: I've effectively switched to Unvale as my main platform for sharing my art. My current hyperfixation is my OCs, and I find that the community there is much more receptive to them than the community on Tumblr or the other platforms I use (I mean... for obvious reasons, as it's mostly an OC site), and I've even managed to connect with some people who have similar interests as me and improve my social confidence as a result. So I probably won't be posting on Tumblr as much anymore for the time being (or maybe I will, since I think I have been posting more frequently on Unvale than I ever did on here), but if you have an Unvale account, you should totally follow me! And if you're interested in my OCs, you can join my community Arklands-World, where I'll be posting a whole lot more about them in the near future!

ThatOneBlueDog on Unvale

Hello! My name is Calen, and I'm a self-taught artist and aspirin

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One of my mutuals on Unvale made a really cool species called the Saber Grimm, and I wanted to try drawing two of my OCs as them! I might try drawing them again at some point, since I found a reference picture of some tigers which I'd quite like to use, but my motivation towards art has been rather mercurial as of late, so I'm not sure if/when I'll get around to it

Here's the species on Unvale if you're interested:

The Saber Grimm - ORIGINAL SPECIES on Unvale

So I created a Original species! If u are interested u can crea

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Neither 'let kids read whatever they want' nor 'restrict what kids are allowed to read' but a secret third thing (kids should be allowed to read what they want, but they deserve to be informed about what they want to read so they at least have the option to avoid content which may be upsetting for them)

(Slight vent incoming) I think the problem with 'let kids read whatever they want' is that it creates a fine line between just letting them read whatever they want, and expecting or even forcing kids to read things they don't feel comfortable with. That might sound crazy, but last year I had to read a book for my English class that contained content I was seriously uncomfortable with (which I'm not sure would have even been allowed as a class topic going back twenty odd years), and we weren't even told about said content beforehand because I guess our teacher just expected us to be fine with it. And sure, maybe the majority of kids my age would have been, but it felt extremely violating and unfair that I wasn't given the space to decide for myself what I was ready for, especially when I've always been told that it's fine to leave certain topics on the shelf until I feel prepared to tackle them (I'm also autistic and could probably write a lot more about how my behaviour is misconstrued by adults as higher maturity when this isn't the case at all, but that's a tangent for another day). It definitely changed the amount of trust and respect I had for my English teacher, as well as how safe I felt attending school and being in the classroom environment, and it frustrates me that there's so much emphasis now on 'let kids read what they want to read' that 'let kids not read what they don't want to read' has been de-emphasised for the sake of promoting it

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Drawing I did of my dog Seuss (as an example for a new commission type I'm setting up)

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My side of a collab I did with my friend! I had a lot of fun drawing Bitzer, Shaun the Sheep is one of my comfort shows

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Happy ASAW everyone!! (Pretend like I'm not late)

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HA! Fuck you Disney, now I can watch my favourite film without using your streaming service

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Today I stayed back after my German class to ask my teacher how to pronounce the ‘äu’ sound (like in träumen and Häuser) and not only did she tell me how to pronounce it, she also explained to me the concept of the vowel triangle and why umlauts exist from a linguistic standpoint. I know there are people saying that AI will replace teachers one day, but I don’t think a robot that spits out facts and only provides answers to the exact questions it’s asked will ever surpass a human who not only answers questions, but encourages you to think more deeply by helping you understand WHY the answer they give you is the case, even if you didn’t ask them to do so.

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I have once again passed my entire summer holidays and hardly posted, but I do actually have a reason this time! I was animating part 7 of an anything MAP hosted by @cleodragon on YouTube!

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Hi! Not the type of thing I usually post, but I'm looking for some feedback on the premise of my fantasy story!

In a world where curses are sentient creatures capable of inhabiting humans, Tirese must prevent a mysterious organisation from hunting them down and disrupting the magic that binds reality together.

I'm mostly after whether it intrigues you enough to want to read, but if you have more specific critique you're welcome to share it!

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Very questionable sketchbook doodle of Freddy Mercury and Brian May (based on a photo print in our lounge room)

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I wrote a short story about my OCs and made an illustration to go with it! Unfortunately the drawing didn't end up as accurate to what I wrote as I had wanted, since I've been a bit artblocked and had to copy straight from a reference, but if you'd like to read the story you can find it here:

Wisteria on Unvale

Wisteria is the stoic, somewhat stand-offish captain of a group o

(For some reason the thumbnail for the link comes up as Wisteria's character page, but it does actually take you to the story)

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Has Calen finally developed enough self-discipline to improve as an artist in 2026? Eh, probably not. Anyway, here's a pose study (reference by @adorkastock)