Mavis the Mae

Came here for the artworks, stayed for the stories. And the invertebrates.

[lostinhistory]

Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped

He's such a little guy!

[mavisthemae]

"New octopus just dropped" best trend ever

[arielluva]

"OR WOMEN IN GENERAL"???? HELLO

[sailatina3]

Reblog to bully people who don't like female characters or women in general off the internet.

[mavisthemae]

By all means don't like women in general, if you must, but if you won't shut up about it ...

[yearofdoodles]

Pov you're Three and multiple fuck off massive ships saw you from across the bar and liked your vibe ✨

Very vaguely inspired by this from Platform Decay (mild spoiler):

[mavisthemae]

I'm the isopods one. I love the idea that Three not only knows what an isopod is, but wears the t-shirt.

[mavisthemae]

Shearing the Rams by Tom Roberts, an iconic painting. Ramming the Shears by Michael Leunig, a fun pisstake (before his work and his previously adoring audience, which had included me, went in different directions).

[herpsandbirds]

Hi, hoping I haven't missed the requests window - could you please do one (some!) of the Australian fairy-wrens? They're not actually wrens but they are tiny and cute and cheeky and one of my favourite types of bird. They bounce. The Superb Fairy-Wren Malurus cyaneus is just gorgeous (SE Australia, eg Victoria.) Or there are the Emu Wrens (neither emus nor wrens) which are even tinier, eg the Southern Emu-wren Stipiturus malachurus which has a lifelong bad hair day. Southern Australia incl Victoria, but for some reason not around the Great Australian Bight, only east and west. Thankyou!

Yes... yes.

Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus), male, family Maluridae, order Passeriformes, SA, Australia

photograph by Dave Nightingale

Splendid Fairywren (Malurus splendens), family Maluridae, order Passeriformes, Australia

photograph by Jennifer Sexton

Purple-backed Fairywren (Malurus assimilis), L - female, R - male, family Maluridae, order Passeriformes, Australia

photograph by Graeme Wilkes

Purple-crowned Fairywren (Malurus coronatus), male singing, family Maluridae, order Passeriformes, WA, Australia

photograph by Howard Loosemore

Blue-breasted Fairywrens (Malurus pulcherrimus), male and female, family Maluridae, order Passeriformes, Western Australia

photograph by Shelley Pearson

White-winged Fairywren (Malurus leucopterus), male, family Maluridae, order Passerifromes, Australia

photograph by Mick Jury

Red-backed Fairywren (Malurus melanocephalus), male, family Maluridae, Australia

Photograph by Glenn Bartley

Opalton Grasswren (Amytornis rowleyi), family Maluridae, Forsyth Range, Queensland, Australia

photograph by Jan Wegener

Rufous-crowned Emu-Wren (Stipiturus ruficeps), family Maluridae, found in interior northern and central Australia

photograph by jan_wegener

Mallee Emu-Wren (Stipiturus mallee), family Maluridae, order Passeriformes, endemic to a narrow range in SE Australia

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Stephen Bailey

[mavisthemae]

Seeing a little blue-cap and his family pop-popping about in the bushes and hearing their twittering always makes me happy. I don’t know about the other species, but superb fairy-wrens are socially monogamous (pair for life) but both sexes are dirty little stop outs, one of the most promiscuous birds known to science.

[lost-where-the-forest-would-grow]

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

[daovihi]

reblog if you are an ad hating commie

[mavisthemae]

Guilty as charged

[konohahater]

car is a sentient beast that eats dollars and can tell when you have money in your bank account

[konohahater]

🎯

[mavisthemae]

All tech over a certain level has personality and motivation as well as sentience. Motivation is often malice. And the threshold is surprisingly low, I have had the mozz put on me in Form 1 sewing class by an ancient and profoundly vindictive sewing machine.

[ocean-isopod-offical]

Repost if you’d select yes

[mavisthemae]

Yes but carefully, it looks like one of the bitey sea ones

[boltlightning]

can everyone do me a favor and tell me your favorite thing to put on toast in the tags

[boltlightning]

i love this post so much. all the replies are like

"i'm so basic.....i just like a lot of butter or jam :(" (as though those are not god's best and most beloved condiments and his greatest gifts to mankind)

"FUCK health guidelines FUCK my cholesterol and most importantly FUCK diet culture i'll put a dumpster full of butter on my toast and not even GOD will stop me" (no notes. god would encourage this)

doxxing one's self by mention of polarizing regional delicacies (i am so curious about vegemite i must admit)

"does a grilled cheese count as toast?" (not for the purposes of this post)

"i don't like toast please don't kill me" (i appreciate the honesty but i fear this post is not for you)

people who put full ass meals on toast (based)

people who do not but eat toast as a full meal (based)

melty peanut butter (absolutely based)

"it's a guilty pleasure but...nutella 😳" (relieve yourself of fear and enjoy your dessert toast)

special shoutout to the pots-havers adding extra salt. also the one person who mentioned kaya. i see you and am in agreement

[mavisthemae]

An Aussie classic

[syrren]

Nothing matters. ✨ Nothing matters! ✨

[mavisthemae]

Waymond! Jobu Tupaki! Goggle eyes! Raccacoonie! The Everything Bagel! Sensei! Sentient rocks! Chekhov's Auditor of the Month Award! (But no actual Deidre, apart from the hot dog fingers.)

[mavisthemae]

This year's crop of Armadillidium vulgare "caramel" bubs. They're about three months old and starting to show their colours. It's a fantastic breeder morph, no idea what the genetics are but it throws a huge range from very pale blondes through caramels to grey wild type. These are living in/hollowing out a Bushy Yate seedpod (Eucalyptus lehmannii), at least that's what I think it is.

[losershin-blog]

My two artworks for Discworld cards. It wasn’t easy, but it was a lot of fun

[mavisthemae]

Rincewind on the precipice of doom (again) and Cut-my-own-throat Dibbler

[isopods-daily]

Laureola silvatica

Photo by Nick Lambert on iNaturalist

[mavisthemae]

I have a happy little colony of these spiky little speed demons (like most of the native species I keep, their usual response to the lid being opened or their hiding place found is to race to the nearest edge and run to the underside and/or hurl themselves off into space).

[bloodydamnreaperofmars]

The Catalan Discworld edition is the best edition ever and you won't change my mind...

LOOK HOW PRETTY THEY ARE!!!

[mavisthemae]

Death has a tube of SPF! 50+ of course. I also especially love Magrat, Rincewind and Cohen the Barbarian & Bethan's embrace - wonderful cover art all of it.

[the-night-puncher]

Give it up for cover 4!!!!!

[mavisthemae]

Pro: Murderbot has no package and as OP says, is fkn enormous. I'd be terrified of it even if it was there to keep me safe. Con: Mensah's far-future caftan has been transformed into a late 20th century bodycon skirt suit for no good reason (see: no package, so limited possibilities).

[marinella-ela]

[mavisthemae]

It's a nikinda!

[herpsandbirds]

Hi Herpsandbirds, could you please consider posting one of the Australian water-holding frogs (as a counterpoint to your freezing Wood Frog?). Cyclorana sp. I think. https://www.frogid.net.au/frogs/cyclorana-platycephala

They are not particularly handsome frogs but watching videos of them burrowing backwards into mud is quite satisfying and they inspired an excellent Dreaming story, Tiddalik.

Cyclorana

So, I recognize the genus of Cyclorana as now being part of the genus Ranoidea. So, my taxonomy is a little different.

Eastern or Common Water-holding Frog (Ranoidea or Cyclorana platycephala), family Hylidae, found throughout interior Australia, but most common in the East

These frogs are well known for aestivating (dormancy during hot dry conditions), in underground burrows, up to 1 m deep, near the roots of plants.

They are capable of storing up to half of their body weight in water in the lower bladder and in pockets beneath the skin.

They emerge from the ground after heavy rainfall in Spring or Summer.

Native people use/have used the frog as a source of water. digging up and lightly squeezing the frog, then placing it back into the ground.

photographs by Tnarg & Steven Zozaya

[mavisthemae]

I stand by my view that this is not a very handsome frog. It's cool and maybe cute (all frogs are cute though some are cuter than others), but ...

That's not a handsome frog. THIS is a handsome frog (source Wikimedia commons, photo by Bernard Dupont).