I make stuff, or whatever

comics, fanart, costumes, and general geekery Stuff I draw (mostly fanart) Deviant Art

[ashme5280]

[lillianite]

Tremolite – Pakistan

[pmamtraveller]

sleeve tattoo

[ironychan]

This is what happens when we try to order Ray-Ban parts through the website.

[onenicebugperday]

Blue and green land snail, Antidrymaeus stramineus, Bulimulidae

Found only in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean

Photo 1 by josh_2396, 2 by floydh, 3 by peterzik, and 4 by islander784

[herpsandbirds]

happy submission saturday! i saw my first hawk moth a couple of weeks ago! <3

Thank you!

[herpsandbirds]

A little brown-belted bumblebee (Bombus griseocollis), so big and heavy they were pulling down the stems of the monarda 🥹 When they took flight near my hand their wings beat with so much strength it created a cool breeze I could feel.

[animalphotorefs]

Photo of the Day: even New Guinea Singing Dogs know ball

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[animalphotorefs]

Photos of the Day: an encounter with an oscellated eagle ray

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[animalphotorefs]

Species spotlight: African Painted Dogs!

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[ms-demeanor]

Hmm. Mad at some paint. Time for an experiment.

[ms-demeanor]

Okay so in fall 2024 i took an acrylic painting class that was a bit frustrating.

I've painted with acrylics before, and am familiar with liquitex and dahler-rawley student-grade paints.

But I knew that for this class I'd go through a lot of paint, so I bought a bunch of paint at walmart that i used alongside a tube of burnt umber from Michael's, a tube of cyan from a pop shop in texas, and like three partial tubes of titanium white liquitex from a local art store that closed about fifteen years ago and that I miss terribly.

This was a beginning painting class, and like a lot of beginner classes it had a bunch of basic exercises. One of the assignments was to translate an image to a grid and transfer it to a small canvas as a color study. Here's what I did:

It was a fun assignment and I liked how it looked so I pinned it to a cork board.

A couple months ago I glanced at it and noticed that maybe the cheap paints I'd gotten were somewhat less lightfast than I'd expected:

This does not match my prior experience with acrylic paint.

[rubyredro5e]

Yes! Different pigments have different lightfastness ratings. My general rule of thumb is to assume any paint that does not list this information should only by be used where they will not be exposed to sunlight, and not for sale. I'm guessing your cyan paint used PB17.

[animalphotorefs]

Species Update: Koala

I just added a bunch of new koala photos, check them out!

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[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[sweetwithheatwriting]

@hellenhighwater @copperbadge

[copperbadge]

These popcorns are very spicy.

[ms-demeanor]

I found a tiny dead spider in the sink.

I think she is a bitty baby brown widow.

She is really cute though, and in good shape in spite of getting stuck in a bowl. So i decided to make a necklace with her.

I got 50 of these little pendant trays and I'm thinking I might make rat bone pendants from my collection of owl pellets and put them up on etsy.

[ms-demeanor]

Daytime photos

[ms-demeanor]

Dime for scale.

[ahedderick]

This is the most beautiful scientific diagram I've ever seen.

Also a great example of why pink is a tint of red, but also a completely different color. Erbium? Neodymium? So beautiful.

[ms-demeanor]

FYI Neodymium glass (aka Alexandrite glass to collectors) appears different colors under different lights:

This image is from a great writeup of why that happens on the Jennii Neutron blog.

[ms-demeanor]

Oh and of course Uranium, Selenium, Manganese, and Cadmium all fluoresce under black light.

[ms-demeanor]

None of these are poisonous to drink from or meaningfully radioactive, btw, but they will leech heavy metals into things stored in them the way that leaded crystal will.

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[historical-nonfiction]

Bugs Bunny accidentally transformed the word nimrod into a synonym for idiot because nobody got a joke where he sarcastically compared Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod, a mighty hunter.

[omegajako]

Etymology is ridiculous and terrifying sometimes

[garbage-empress]

Bugs Bunny is more powerful than God

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

He also solidified the idea of rabbits loving carrots when carrots actually carry very little nutritional value for rabbits. The funniest part of that is that the original joke was a reference to a Clark Gable film where Gable munches on a carrot, it was never meant to imply that rabbits love carrots. The Clark Gable reference would’ve been obvious to audiences in the 40s but it has been pretty much lost to time.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Bugs Bunny has too much power and should be feared.

[pixeljade]

more than anything i want a world where a trans girl realizing she is a trans girl faces zero fear from that realization and subsequent coming out. Where she can say "Oh sweet, I can just be a girl? Sign me up!", no worrying if shes girl enough, no worrying if society will accept her, no worrying if she'll be an attractive girl as she transitions, no worrying at all in any way shape or form.

[impossiblepackage]

imagine a world where there’s a day in 5th grade where every kid is told “alright, if you don’t want puberty blockers, that’s okay, but we recommend taking them for a few years just in case. “

[lifeblender]

Regardless of race (because so often that gets involved)

Regardless of sex (including intersex)

Make your own choices