behold

max. 26. transmasc he/they. plotting the end of the world

[eldritchdaddies]

I know everyone's in a bit of a rough spot rn, but any support for me or my art is appreciated! i'm always willing to talk about commissions in DMs :)

venmo: @whistlebiower

cashapp: $goldenlancemn

more recent art below the cut! :

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

always some new bullshit in the ocean

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

More of Matheo and Lily :) life is hard for a goth

[mars-matrix-deactivated20150713]

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

whats a stereotype for your country that you absolutely do. mine is that i unironically go "eh" and apologize a lot and i often drink maple syrup straight

[asteroidtroglodyte]

The grip that Burger & Big Drink has on the American People cannot be overstated

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[yourawizardkatniss]

paul matthews, you are so special to me

[lotostar]

THIS surgeon will NOT waste any time running around the operation table

[shnikkles]

I feel like I should be alright to post these now. I had the privilege of making some merch for Team Starkid's reprised run of The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals! These were all made into stickers that you could grab if you happened to catch the show at the El Portal Theatre. It was SO much fun getting to make these for the fine folks over at Starkid. I love the Hatchetfield universe so much and being trusted to design these in an official capacity was truly such a joy!

[patronsaint-ofthedenial]

He looks like he's about to ask if you have a crush on anyone

[patronsaint-ofthedenial]

He's just straight up floating at a 90° angle here he can actually do that in real life

[were--ralph]

I CCAN'T BREATHE

[not-adequately-small]

remount paul was dissociating through this whole number

[velnna]

and remember

[eldritchdaddies]

I know everyone's in a bit of a rough spot rn, but any support for me or my art is appreciated! i'm always willing to talk about commissions in DMs :)

venmo: @whistlebiower

cashapp: $goldenlancemn

more recent art below the cut! :

[memorycycle]

dino saurs were not scary monsters they were mamas with eggs and when they drank water they were like fuckk yessss waterrrr

[power-chords]

This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

[tnc-n3cl]

@zeawesomebirdie