Magister Laccerta

Not actually a professor. Tags: #plart for lizard art, #plgames for game making, #nthspace for my main setting. Also #majestic beast for strange fauna.

[pacogabby]

long-tailed weasel at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge just changing into its brown summer coat.

[dramatic-dolphin]

in hungarian one of the words for bumblebee is dongó. anyways whenever a song has the phrase "baby don't go" in its lyrics (surprisingly often), i close my eyes to savor the beautiful picture it has painted in my mind's eye. bébidongó.... baby bumblebee 🐝

[prokopetz]

Trolling my biologist D&D player by sending the party on a quest to prevent the destruction of a mystical seal, and when they finally get there it quickly becomes clear that I'm actually describing a walrus.

[woman-becomer]

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

[ortut]

Julian Hooper 1. Introduction, 2016 2. Inevitable conclusion, 2016 (Acrylic on linen)

[certified-door-posts]

certified door post

[professorlizzard]

If you have been thinking about why I tag cats as Categorical Imperative, its not because it has the word Cat in it, but because of Kant's famous saying "Act only according to that maxim where you see a cat you post it".

[catasters]

[redblek]

csapatmunka!

[kerofroggo]

Another shrimp painting

[professorlizzard]

Dr Blenda Varend is the director of a research institute that focuses on gene therapy, terraforming impact research, and providing sanctuary for gene modified animals. Also promised to hunt down a wizard who uplifted various small animals and gave them cursed artifacts to destroy.

[nevver]

Liminal Bingo, Pat Perry

[scifiseries]

[vintagerpg]

Now, unlike Michael Newton’s book of hope, I appreciate the clarity of this book’s title: Encyclopedia of Things that Never Where (1985). Stating that definitively really gets all that belief malarkey out of the way and lets us appreciate these things on their own imaginary terms (as Georgess McHargue encouraged us to do on Monday).

This book is more like a collection of several small topical encyclopedias, each discrete from the others and in their own alphabetical order. Nor do they necessarily make a perfect or intuitive sense all the way through. Things of the Cosmos is mostly gods of major mythologies, but also King Arthur and his knights. Things of the Ground and Underground collects faeries and tree spirits, but also the manticore, Minotaur and Sphinx. Things of Wonderland seems to imply things from literature, but really it collects all manner of fantastical places, from fiction, but also from legend. Things of Magic, Science and Invention could just as well have been called Things and left it at that; it collects notable items, from Thor’s hammer to Jekyll’s potion to the many unusual uses for nails. Things of Water, Sky and Air covers all the creatures not detailed in Earth chapter — Grendel is here, griffins, too, and all the sea serpents. Finally, Things of the Night details the undead and other creatures who hide from the sun, whether they go bump or not.

Robert Ingpen’s art throughout is a pure joy. There are so many illustrations, the book is awash in them, and they’re all amazing, often subverting expectation but also remaining recognizable. There’s a warmth to it, like sitting by a fire, and he has a real talent for collaging together different elements that feels less museum-like and more evokes the crowded study of an eccentric scholar. I can’t imagine the amount of time it took to put together this portfolio, but it was well worth it. It’s a treasure.

[70sscifiart]

Robert Ingpen's illustration of that Aztec god felt very familar to me, so I looked it up - it seems likely he swiped the mask from this 1976 Dean Ellis cover for To Live Forever by Jack Vance. But perhaps they were both using the same reference material?

[every-day-creechur]

Painted Tree Rat Callistomys pictus

A rodent from the state of Bahia, Brazil. The painted tree-rat is found in the Atlantic forest. It also occurs in cocoa plantations where some native trees remain. As far as known, it is nocturnal.

Endangered

image by Oberdan Nunes

[professorlizzard]

Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

A game about sad wizards...

[professorlizzard]

*innocently thinking* Hm, vocal cover of a video game song? It already has lyrics so, it won't have the same issue as most of the other videos like this have, where the lyrics don't match the rhythm or melody of the song, or just simply are nonsensical.

So far so good, the singer is doing a good job. Wait. Wait. They added a new verse... The dice are being rolled in judgement....

[professorlizzard]

Maybe I should animate the warped ice art in blender... or maybe it would be a horrifying kaleidoscope and shouldn't...

[professorlizzard]

The planet colloquially known as Warped Ice is a great place to research distortion anomalies. Not a good place for a hike...