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[odd777boys]

[1five1two]

Macro photography of Slime Mold. Barry Webb.

[unfamiliarsculptures]

A little, red, ceramic dragon sculpture will be looking for a home in my next shop update! It will be available Friday, January 17th!

[turing-tested]

people who play modded minecraft are truly doing it like no other

[deadstockkittens]

“For Steve” (my cat :3)

Freehanded scrap quilt, 26’ x 27’

Update:

He likes it ~ (thank god)

[sosuperawesome]

Fall Leaf Pattern // Embroidered Almanac

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🐝 here are two golden illuminations from a pair of famous early 13th c. English bestiaries:

Aberdeen Bestiary, Univ. Lib. MS 24 f.63r Aberdeen University Library

Ashmole Bestiary, MS Ashmole 1511 f.75v Bodleian Libraries

[fibro-memes]

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

I have no business enjoying The Golden Enclaves with all of its flaws as much as I do

[flightflame]

It's like- no it's like, okay hang on, yeah. Yeah! So!

If Hildegard went nuts and made my sister write a story reconciling the Republic and the Interior Castle.

Why yes I Am accepting constructive criticism, why do you ask?

[illustoryart]

Letter from autumn long ago 🍂

[gailyinthedark]

I was telling my dad about how there are always hermits in Arthurian stories, just, you're out on a quest and you need directions or to recover from a wound so you look for the nearest hermit because there's usually one around. My Dad said "Like gas stations" and I have not been the same since

[hydrahowl]

This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

[biomaterial]

new kind of guy dropped

[botanyshitposts]

the lichen knowledge iceberg i have constructed on request

[fuckthisbjrdplease]

we cant make lichen happen in a lab? have we tried taking the parts that make up a lichen and throwing them together in a petri dish?

[bogleech]

The deranged fucked up dark sided thing about lichen is that the exact species comprising it don't even necessarily determine the type of lichen. You can have what seems to be the same lichen in two different locations using different symbiotes, or two different looking lichen turn out to have the very same symbiotes. So it's not even that they form when the right component species meet up, because that doesn't always have a predictable result. Something in the environment tells them to build a lichen. Something that makes sense to them but has no meaning to us yet. Whatever it is cannot be imitated by us, in fact if you move a lichen indoors - or move it at all, really - it's all but guaranteed to stop being a lichen or just due, even if you try to recreate the climate you found it in!

Only one truth is certain:

Lichens are things.

[meta-marphosis]

buggy block printed shirts now in tha shop 🐛🐞🪲⭐️🕷️

[apokrify]

Fossilized Sea Lily and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

[nateconnolly]

Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because -- and this is a direct quote -- he was concerned that otherwise he might "become lost in the world of signs and forget the things they signify". I have thought about this every single time that I've worked out since.