some ideas for how to dress up for the Head Like A Nest tour! I’m dressing up as sparkbird

My entry for @sparkbird.bsky.social #aftertheball art competition! It's my lovely girlfriends clownsonas doing their circus act! Oh and I'm in there somewhere lol

to my listeners who are minors: this is for your powerpoint presentations

I had to do some sleuthing! Violet-backed starling??

steven universe oc art for the after the ball art contest?! 😍😍

My entry for Sparkbird’s #aftertheball art contest! [ #sparkbird #artcontest #myart ]

BEHOLD! sparkbird’s first proper headliner tour!! I am ecstatic to be RELEASING AN ALBUM (Head Like A Nest) and to be joined by special guest Sushi Soucy for six east coast shows! followed by me opening for Shayfer James in Brooklyn, and a solo show in my hometown of Eugene, Oregon!

Birdathon is october 17-20 and I started a team anyone can join, no matter where you are! we're raising funds for Birders of Palestine. you can join or contribute here: charity.pledgeit.org/t/lp82qPqBuu...

Happy @sparkbird.bsky.social Music Release Day to all who celebrate it! (But also you should all celebrate it because After The Ball is yet another incredible track. Go listen to it. It’s whimsy and storytelling set to music and I love it.)

AFTER THE BALL IS OUT AAHHHH thank you for supporting my wacky clownbird song!!!

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Animation for a contest. #art #oc #Ocsky #Sparkbird #Aftertheball

I don’t go on side quests, I go on trans missions

1. sometimes at the merch table your parents misgender me and I see the horror/dismay/panic on your face because you don't feel safe correcting them and I just want you to know that it's okay, it doesn't reflect on you

lady at beach, to me: hey kid! could bury that dead bird? just so someone doesn’t step on it me: of course! [obediently digs a shallow grave with my bare hands]

did anyone in minneapolis get video of dusty singing “what I felt surely was a sparkbird” at the end of waterfall? I will give my nonexistent firstborn for this video

My next single, After the Ball, will make its spectacular debut on October 3! pre-save here: sparkbird.ffm.to/aftertheball artwork by Rebecca DeMoss, graphic design by Chad Lowe

the energy i brought to the function as a kid is the same energy i bring to the function as an adult (this was my brother’s graduation)

if you invite me to your wedding i WILL spend every possible moment birding or reading and i hope you’ll know that this is making it an excellent wedding experience for me

well everyone, I did it 🥲

when are the fungus nerds going to find my song sun goes dark, it mentions dyeballs, do you know how rare that is in a song

you have permission to start birding without knowing anything about identifying birds

I sneezed while using merlin and it said "hearing a bird" but it couldn't identify me

You return to your original hue My entry for Sparkbird’s The Light That Comes Through art contest! #sparkbird #thelightthatcomesthrough #digitalart #oc #originalcharacter #originalcharacterart

will wood mentioned???

georgie says “hiiii everyone!! sparkbird has just recorded vocals on two new songs and they’re recording vocals on another new song next week! one of them will come out october 3 (my new favorite day)”

I have to fly with my keyboard in 2 weeks and if I put the stand in the case it’ll cost 200 dollars instead of 100 (each way!!), but the alternative would require me to get a new (bigger) suitcase, and basically I wish I didn’t have to think about any of this

respectfully, there’s no fucking way this is how to pronounce scoliid

awwww!! this made my morning

when a bird wipes its beak on a surface, that’s called feaking. I just think that’s useful info and everyone should know it

SO EXCITED to open for Fish in a Birdcage in the midwest next month! tickets on sale now

I’m equal parts unsurprised and delighted that @sparkbird.bsky.social is on Bluesky. Go listen to their music on repeat forever. On loop. Maybe not on Spiral though or you could end up going through the wrong door and develop a laugh like a toothache.

when I was a kid I had a debilitating fear of spiders, and I’d get my dad to kill them. but eventually I realized that that wasn’t in line with my values and only made me more scared. now there’s still some fear, but my commitment to protecting life is stronger than my fear

happy nonbinary people’s day, I’m nonbinary and a person and I make whimsical, lyric-driven, bird-forward music with queer aesthetic sensibilities that you and your characters might like

the hotel wifi asked me for my last name and I wrote Hilton 😭

omg four days till I go to Mexico for whimsycore songwriting camp

hhhhhmybackhurts, curse my shrimp posture- but anyway, here's this thing i did with zajic based on rabbitology (i don't know if they're on bsky-) and @sparkbird.bsky.social (i apologize if you don't like to be tagged -w-) 'preybirds, the watched vers' #art #oc #ocart

me as a banana: yes, and?

if you’ve come to the merch table and thought “wow what’s wrong with sparkbird’s left hand,” it’s just stress hives, thank you for understanding! (the tour has been absolutely wonderful, this started the week before… I have a doctor appointment for when I get back)

when I was in Texas on tour, I went birding at a natural area that sits right at the US-Mexico border. my understanding is that this border wall has been there since the Bush era, though it may have been upgraded. seeing birds fly back and forth over it underscored how artificial the line is.

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thank you soundcloud! this is very surprising! I have to admit I’m skeptical that I’m going viral or defining what’s next in music BUT I’ll take it

parrots are so fucking weird sometimes. georgie just tried to murder me for putting postage stamps on envelopes

okay, don't get TOO excited, but I have a booking agent now and it's the same booking agent as Will Wood and Shayfer James and Fish in a Birdcage

I know I need to save bts videos for when the collab actually comes out but there are so many funny ones I’m dying to shaaare 😭 (to be clear, the collab is with fish in a birdcage and shayfer james, not bts)

WOODEN is out today 💚 I ran away in high school & ended up living with my grandparents till I graduated. One day my grandpa gave me a small rock engraved with the word “Always”. I asked him, “Why ‘Always’?” And he said, “Well, you’ll always be Stephan. And I think that that’s a good person to be.”

SEE YOU IN MILWAUKEE!! opening for rabbitology!! august 2 at the cactus club

I took this values assessment and it determined that the things I value most are my creative work and being known for who I truly am

CERTAIN BIRDS, the long-awaited collab song from Fish in a Birdcage, Shayfer James, and me comes out June 27. Pre-save for chances at prizes each week until release! Week 1: 2 tickets to the show of your choosing. We can’t wait to share this song with you all 💚 fishinabirdcage.ffm.to/certainbirds

I don’t know who needs to hear this but: never ever ever ever ever EVER put your hand in a metal can to clean it out or for any reason at all