Cat Ataraxis

Hi my name is cataraxis (u don't need to remember) Age 24

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Just a gal helping a fellow gal - armor can be a cumbersome thing

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Something I made a while ago, but didn't post on account of being cringe

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"I vow to shine for thee"

I love her design so much. So gorgeous <3

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"What do you think of my collection, son?"

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Melinoe hitting that Moon Water

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Get sheep'd idiot

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(TW: abstracted gore, ritualistic blood drinking) Yaldabaoth, from SCP, done in Ukiyo-e inspired style

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Just love his design <3

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A merm I maid

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I just followed along a Marco Bucci video where he suggests painting in color while turning your view grayscale. Absolutely wild, but I think I get his point about getting your values right let's you get away with color choices (For my second attempt at least)

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Btw how do I separate my art posts from my shitposts on my account. Blog? Do I need a separate account for that?

[cataraxis]

I just followed along a Marco Bucci video where he suggests painting in color while turning your view grayscale. Absolutely wild, but I think I get his point about getting your values right let's you get away with color choices (For my second attempt at least)

[stinkypete74]

[smbc-comics]

Bias

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Narrative

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Narrative

[shotgunbisexual]

Saving this panel

[cataraxis]

"One side says that fire is hot, the other side says fire is cold, so currently I believe that fire is lukewarm but if I'm being honest the way the hot side are calling me stupid makes me slightly shift towards cold."

[kalifissure]

The world's most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit

The world's most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit

Keeping the spark alive is hard in any relationship. It's especially hard for fruit trees trying to attract pollinators.

[gardeningwithpina]

Kleiman compared mango trees at a local farm in Homestead, Florida. One plot of trees had weeds growing around them. The other plot was maintained and weed-free.

The pollinators preferred the trees with the weeds. In turn, the trees benefitted and produced more mangos. In fact, there were between 100 to 236 mangos on the trees with weeds, compared to between 38 to 48 on the trees without weeds.

Kleiman points out findings apply to mango trees, but also to all of the roughly 80 percent of flowering plants of Earth, including fruit trees and all flowering vegetable plants like tomatoes, beans, eggplants and squash. She also hopes this information can help farmers save time and money, as well as reduce the use of chemical pesticides.

[ricwulf-again]

I guess it improves the draw for bees and pollinators because there's more there? I wonder if this would have a similar effect if instead of simply weeds, it was other plants in general, especially those that flowered? Regardless, this is pretty damn interesting.

[overfedvenison]

Oh yeah. For example in Japan it is traditional to keep a little patch of forest in lands that were cleared of it. They are called Guardian Forests and serve a bit of a spiritualist purpose, said to be where the local god manifests:

Studies on them have shown that maintaining this patch of local nature increases crop yields in nearby fields. They increase biodiversity, which help pollinators, but also do things you don’t expect immediately - For example, the birds that roost in them help eat rats and mice that may eat crops. By maintaining this natural space, we get helped in many ways, not all obvious Simply put, biodiversity attracts more biodiversity, and helps nature overall - Including the nature we like to eat. That could be local weeds, or old forests, or whatever else, but it seems as though the central point is that you want some parts of the environment to remain a little natural and wild so they may support that which naturally occurs in the region

[atleast8courics]

How do you say it?

one nine six

one ninety-six

a secret third option (explain)

Voting ended onJun 20, 2023

[palettevibrante]

[atleast8courics]

Hello, this was the final post to go up before I took r/196 private.