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I haven't painted in a long time. Birthday gift for my favorite person. WIP

Pc for scale. Pc is twice as big as you think it is.

Somedays, I wish I could just quit this day job and build creatures for a living because this rat race is soul draining....

#burnout

Moving right along

#mothfeathers #artdoll #werewolf #doll

Sewing in the fur. I love this part 😍

#mothfeathers #artdoll #werewolf #doll #shewerewolf #lycan #wolf #white wolf

Progress pics of the goodest girl

#werewolf #shewerewolf #mothfeathers #artdoll #doll #my wips #wip #wolf #lycan

Okay I'm back. Time to finish this werewolf!

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I need to take some proper photos of this little sphynx nekomancer doll I made.

#elder scrolls #handmade #art dolls #khajiit

I need to take some proper photos of this little sphynx nekomancer doll I made.

#elder scrolls #handmade #art dolls #khajiit

Remember her?

#khajiit #elder scrolls #art dolls #handmade #stop motion

A rusty skitch. I'll try and do better.

Oh yeah his spectentacles look like that because they are super stretchy and elastic and can do that snail extendo turgidity thing

#spectator #beholder #dnd #sketch #notebook

great-and-small

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

great-and-small

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

bogleech

This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

thepastisaroadmap

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

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headspace-hotel

because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

rackiera

I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

a-book-of-creatures

mossworm

I used to work for two of the authors, Mark and Nancy Deyrup. They are true naturalists, interested in everything that lives, and wonderful human beings. They still live in central Florida where the tortoise shell moth lives, and have dedicated their whole lives to documenting the Florida scrub ecosystem and educating the public. I don't know if their names reach outside of entomology, but they are beloved figures here.