Flicker Fly

27 • she/her • blog so old it has ̶m̶e̶l̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶l̶o̶o̶r̶ suffered a sea-change into something rich and strange

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The Lathe of Heaven, 1980. (1/3; see 2, 3)

[amnhnyc]

You won’t find this pigeon on the streets of New York City. Meet the Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans)! This colorful bird can be found throughout Southeast Asia, where it inhabits forests. It hangs out in small flocks in the treetops, foraging mainly for fruit. Distinguishing males from females isn’t too difficult: Females lack pink necks and are mostly olive-green in color!

Photo: Yi-Kai Tea, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

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[arte-artem-artibus]

Takeuchi Seihô (1864-1942) - Green Pines Castle, before 1942, hanging scroll

[apocalypse-polakiewicz]

dicktracyroguesgallery

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[anonknitter]

On to round 2. Now to decide between actual finishing or dismantling and removing the beads.

[anonknitter]

Hey, I never showed yous what I ended up doing

It was still eighty billion ends to sew in but now I can wear them in shoes 👍

And here's the one that got me booted from the competition, didn't finish in time.

Pattern called Whiskey Ahoi (free!) I recommend checking it out if you love unusual construction. They start at the heel and go out.

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Tsuneo Iwasaki, Hydrogen Atom

[orcboxer]

I have just combined all rice in the world into a single rouse

[sneebertdeebert]

Sneebert Deebert

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[b1tchcup]

my favorite tweet ever. Every time I go to find it I’m blown away by how few retweets it has

[wild-e-eep]

Puccinia albescens, a rust fungus, growing all over these townhall clock plants.

All photos from April.

iNaturalist observation 348560264.

[sunnnmothhh]

Lightning round!

I couldn't miss an opportunity to make epic geological phenotypes for eridians:D them rocks will look fly as hell on my watch!

Nerding out under the cut:)

For those interested, the igneous phenotype is inspired by granitic pegmatites, with hexagonal beryl crystals growing from it (of the aquamarine variety)

The sedimentary fella is a BIF, or a banded iron formation - a type of chemical sedimentary rock recording the years following the Great Oxygenation Event, with alternating bands of red jasper and magnetite/iron oxides:)

And the metamorphic eridian is inspired by an amphibolite, containing garnet gem porphyroblasts:)

*also cue the geology pun on the cup;]

[havingapoemwithyou]

The lushness of it by Mary Szybist

[gebo4482]

I like whales and fish swimming in the sky #5

Sword of the Sea, Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon - Sanctuary of Sarras, The Leviathan

[adamsillard]

Georges