cicadalous 💚

@cicadalous.1558.space

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manipulative | dishonest | fillypino | heartless | changeling | ΘΔ | 26 | she/her | tr*ns pegasister 🏳️‍⚧️ https://1558.space

Low-quality photo of a train platform and red Deutsche Bahn locomotive on the rails, edited with a small MLP changeling standing by the platform.
Photo of a KLM commercial airliner (Boeing 737-8K2WL) parked at an airport terminal with a passenger boarding bridge connected to it and multiple service vehicles working around it. The plane's cabin is painted light blue, and its belly is white.
Video of me pointing at jackdaws at a train station platform and talking about them *points at a jackdow* I don't know who you are. *points at a 2nd jackdow* I don't know who you are. *points at a 3rd jackdow* ... I don't know who you are. Like, these guys have direct-- they look at you. Crows don't do that. Like, look straight towards you.
Photo of two small changeling plushies side-by-side each placed above their own 'faxe kondi' soda bottles placed sideways on a messy desk. Larger pony plushies are partially visible on the edge of the frame, as well as an asian pear and 'magnetic bookmarks'.
A picture of a street in the Netherlands, taken from a sidewalk on the left side. The sidewalk is surrounded by plants and parked bikes, separating the grade for cars along the right, and there are buildings on each side of the street.
Photo of a plushie of Trixie Lulamoon standing in the middle of a carpeted room surrounded by hundreds of 'Trixie bird' stickers. A plushie of Starlight Glimmer is on the bottom right of the image looking at Trixie.
a strange creature on 4 legs on the left, and a very strange glitchy creature on the right. They're standing and facing each other with a white rectangle in the middle. Dialog on the left reads "do you like our rectangle?" and the right responds with "this rectangle makes a quiet sound"
a social media post reading: 2019 January 11: I fed a crow some meat at the campus 2019 January 25: a crow started following me as I was headed to the on-campus tim hortons. crow was waiting for me outside the window. when I went out and sat on a bench, the crow landed very close. I then offered granola.
Digital art of a gryphon character on the left holding and trying to feed a burger to a crow on the right. The burger is a little too big for the crow's beak.
Digital sketch of an owl mecha, with aircraft wings, missile launchers, rocket engines, and lots of mechanical parts. text on the top left reads: 2021 March 3 BIRDOWL2-t2 ca
Edited photo featuring a tiny green cartoony gryphon captured with kitchen tongs.
Digital sketch of a cartoony bird sitting (loafing) on the ground and doesn't look very pleased. Text reads: 2021 January 29 MoGaBi-0 caws-a-bit
Digital art of a smiling fanged creature viewed from slightly above with a red arrow pointing at her face and captions reading "how it feels to put birds into plastic bags then stomping on them"
3d render of a glowing creature resembling a standing larvae with smooth featureless arms and legs and moth antennae, floating above a still lake in a coniferous forest.
Recording of a plush of Trixie Lulamoon standing on a carpet, getting hit by a train plush thrown off-screen, with added train, impact, and scream sounds.
Diagram titled "1558's recent artwork ranked from soulless to least soulless." There's a line along the bottom labelled with "slop" on the left and "art" on the right, with various art pieces placed above it.
Screen recording of Windows XP Mine Sweeper expert mode. transcript: > Umm, today we have mine sweeper and we're gonna.. we're gonna sweep some mines. *sped up 80x speed gameplay of multiple failed sessions* *resumes to normal speed near the end* > No.. no. no. > It can be here, or it can be here. > It can't be here.. > 1 2 3 4 5... > Oh my god... fuck. Fuck FUCKK. ohh. oh my god.
A changeling (species from My Little Pony) flying above a clear blue twilight-lit sky. She seems sad and is shedding a few tears but looks forward and is focused. The signature on the bottom right reads "cicadalous 2025年7月" (cicadalous 2025 July)
reference sheet for a pony character named Red Flag [11111]. The background is windows XP minesweeper, which the character seems to be inspired by. The pony is very red fur and a black mane and tail. her cutie mark is a minesweeper question mark tile.
Digital sketch of raven character standing on a block surrounded by polygonal animal-like robots with barcode laser scanners on their faces. A smaller raven perched on top of one with its beak opened.
digital artwork of a sad squished and crying changeling filly surrounded by lots of trixie birds
A 3d game application with virtual gryphon character's face being grabbed and shaken by a mouse cursor. Caption above reads "bird"
Screen recording with commentary of a 3D game in-development test map featuring a bird character, likely a magpie. OP flies the bird character around, rambling about birds and the game engine's technical details.
Digital greyscale sketch of two creatures standing on a path looking slightly up a grassy hill with lots of foliage, towards a large featureless rectangular prism about the size of a shipping container, labelled "TYPE-11." There are pine trees, power lines, buildings, and birds in the background. Dialog reads: > right: woah, minecraft! > left: no u *****, it's a TYPE-11 > right: fuck.
A modded Minecraft screenshot featuring a featureless white rectangular prism about the size of a shipping container, labeled "TYPE-11". It has cage lamps on the ground around it and is surrounded by grass and trees. A fence, building, mountains, and floating island can be seen in the background.
Screen recording of cicadalous sketching and talking. She talks about how her sketching guidelines are 3-dimensional spheres. She sketches a quick pony, undoes it, then starts draws a stupid gryphon, Kayleron, describing techniques and aspects of the character along the way.
A grayscale digital sketch/painting featuring a pony sitting in public transit with a young changeling sleeping on their side. Dialog reads "our stop is next, picofarad"
Digital greyscale sketch of two creatures standing on a path looking slightly up a grassy hill with lots of foliage, towards a large featureless rectangular prism about the size of a shipping container, labelled "TYPE-11." There are pine trees, power lines, buildings, and birds in the background. Dialog reads: > right: woah, what is that? > left: it's a TYPE-11 > right: woah, a type-11
Photo of a work-in-progress plush of a changeling from MLP atop an opened laptop. There's a 3d model and some design plans on the laptop screen. On the keyboard left-to-right, there's a spool of thread, the work-in-progress plush itself, and a paper test of the sewing pattern. On the plush itself, there are brass wires shaped into loops and temporary sewed in to act as a guide to help embroider the eyes. There's also a mess of paper, cardboard, embroidery floss, and a sticker on the keyboard. For some reason, there's a jar with a small egg in the background on the right.
Digital painting of a sad young changeling (bug-like pony creature) standing in a corner of a room, looking away from the viewer towards one of the room's green-painted walls. Her exoskeleton is scratched up, her left wing is bent, and she is crying.
Digital art of a young changeling viewed up close from a high angle, such that the large jagged sharp horn on her head is almost poking the viewer. She is standing and looking towards the bottom left of the image.
Slightly flat digital artwork of a 'bat pony' character. she has large coppery green eyes with semi-circle glasses. Her tongue is poking out (blep) with a single fang visible. she is wearing an earring that resembles a red floppy disk. A pixel art reference can be seen on the bottom right (from pony town) and the signature reads "caws-a-bat 2025年10月" (oct 2025)
Digital painting of a young changeling (bug and pony-like species from My Little Pony) sad about an opened stratagem ball from Helldivers 2 stuck on her nose, with a light blue laser beam aimed towards the sky. A game-like UI indicates "EXPENDABLE ANTI-TANK" "INBOUND: 00:01" The background is a empty dark blue void, but the ground is lit with light blue light.
digital painting, concept art of a 2d platformer game featuring a tiny pony who looks like bread with a fish floating in front of her. She is standing on a grassy cliff with mountains and buildings in the background. UI on the top left naming two characters: BRIGHT FROGS and FISH. red text labels "edgy UI" Additional red text notes read: * kill feed / log instead of annoying text at the top? * likely zoom out and move camera around set by level * Her name is BRIGHT FROGS. she looks like bread * we must not change the fish * monochromatic background elements * rimlight walkable surfaces * foreground clouds to indicate high altitude * put speedrun timer here
A digital painting of a changeling creature staring blankly at the camera with a photo background. A mute icon and the name '1558' is shown on the bottom left, makes the image resemble a video call. She is staring with a blank expression, big green slit eyes staring and neutral mouth with fangs poking out. She is wearing slightly misaligned round glasses, and there's a red arrow pointed at her nose.
A screenshot of two bluesky posts side-by-side. On the left, a post by Impamy (nymphamy.bsky.social) with an image depicting a little changeling sitting on a chair in front of a computer with a messy desk, looking back at the viewer. Caption reads "Copyright law? Pshh, that's for grubs!" On the right, a post by cicadalous (cicadalous.1558.space) reading "what happened to my art budget???? (thou wantest more time to focus on other things, like music, software, and writing)." The image is depicting a little changeling sitting on a chair in front of a computer with a messy desk, looking back at the viewer.
Digital painting of a strange changeling and bird-like creature sitting beside a 'bad pigeon nest' made of sticks and 3 miniature black holes, viewed slightly from above. The ground is a tiled blue plane floating in a void. The creature is staring forward blankly, towards the lower right of the image.
Digital artwork of a bird character angrily running towards and slightly right of the viewer, while holding a strange futuristic gun/sword-like weapon in her beak. Her wings are slightly spread, one leg is forward and another back (in a running pose), and she is wearing a teal shawl/cloak around her neck.
An unstable physics simulation of a cartoony anthropomorphic gryphon character. They are initially vibrating, then starts to flail violently with added Half Life 2 ragdoll sounds. There is a wireframe grid as the floor, and the window is transparent, showing code in the background.
Digital half-body portrait of a changeling with round glasses smiling, with her two front limbs resting on a table or railing. There sparkles around her head for added effects.
Digital art of a pair of two different tiny bug/mammalian-like creatures beside each other, drinking from a droplet of water on a pink surface. They're small enough such that the droplet of water is just slightly larger then their heads. Both have their tongues poking into the droplet.
Pixelated digital artwork of a small changeling sitting on a chair in front of a computer desk looking back towards the viewer with a strong lens flare on her only visible green eye. She has a pink bubble tea-like drink with hearts in it, and on the desk there's a laptop behind a larger monitor, two strawberry yanyan snacks (欣欣杯 since it's the chinese one), and plushies of Trixie Lulamoon and Starlight Glimmer.
glitchy and partially abstract digital art of a changeling magically levitating an R-36 Eruptor from Helldivers 2, saying "Let's go bugdiving!" or in simplified Chinese "我们去战斗虫虫吧！"
a strange 2d platformer game featuring a small unicorn with rocket legs, firing lasers from its mouth at drawn white squares with faces, making them scream and explode.
a video of a game physics demo featuring hundreds of spheres thrown at platforms of rectangular prisms over a large blueish-purple wireframe planet. the viewer moves the camera far away to different parts of the planet, and the platforms follow it.
a Discord message showing a transparent digital sketch of a young changeling (from my little pony) with round glasses, laying down with her head resting on her front legs and crying. A screencap of the video "sad my little pony" labels her with a red circle and arrow.
two different unicorn plushies (Starlight Glimmer and Trixie Lulamoon) viewed from the side, oriented such that they're facing each other and their snouts touch. The plushies are from Symbiote Studios.
Screenshot of Krita (digital painting software) depicting an incomplete sketch of a strange creature sleeping, with a separate sketch of a creature looking into a barrel of water with a bug floating in it.
Poorly drawn digital artwork of a green gryphon against a light green background, resembling a piece by ThatPonyJules used as the cover art for the album "I'm Creekflow."
Digital artwork of a little changeling standing on 3 legs against a light blue background. Her front right leg is lifted up. She has an evil expression and is wearing round glasses. There is a red arrow pointing at her nose for some reason.
Grass viewed from above with the 4 holey legs of a bug-like creature standing on it.
Digital artwork of a green gryphon viewed from the side, walking on 4 legs towards the left side of the image and looking back towards the right against an orange background.
Digital artwork of a bug-like creature (mlp changeling) flying upside-down towards the viewer against a white background.
stylized digital bust drawing of Trixie Lulamoon, head pointed slightly to the left and looking towards the right. An arrow pointing at her face is labeled with "tuesday."
Digital sketch of a of a changeling (species from My Little Pony) dangling from a string above tied to her single horn. Her 4 legs are clamped onto a rice cake that is as large as her, implying that she is really small. She looks upset and not amused. The signature on the top left reads "ᜃᜓᜉᜒᜍ᜔ᜆᜒᜎ᜔ 2025年5月" (Coppertiel 2025 May)
A screenshot of the site header of fimfiction.net from 2013, viewed through archive.org's wayback machine. It depicts the old site logo and banner artwork. The website's theme has changed since then. The artwork is "The Shady Trough by GoatAnimeDatingSim," featuring ponies (and an offscreen gryphon on the right) sitting around a table.