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Had a great time at anthrocon this past weekend! I had to use my old business cards cus I forgot my new ones, so if you're finding me from there, I'm currently more active on Instagram (@tallymark2) and bluesky tallymark.bsky.social)

#anthrocon #handmade #resin cast

plaguedocboi

Nature really went off with sperm whales. A 70-ton predator with teeth the size of a banana but it only eats squishy prey that it doesn’t even chew, it just schlorps them down whole like a vacuum cleaner. Big giant fat head full of goop. Tiniest fins in the world. Strong enough to smash a ship to pieces and smart enough to figure out how to do so but its first line of defense is just to shit everywhere. Possibly the most complex language in the animal kingdom and it creates sounds by blowing air through its internal right nostril (it uses the left one to breathe) into its giant fat head. It’s the loudest animal on the planet and might have the capability to create a beam of sound so loud it can shake your organs apart but they don’t seem to use that to hunt or fight. They’re highly flammable. We used them to make candles.

47witchyneurons

Learning that sperm whales have defensive diarrhea is absolutely incredible. On par with turkey vultures projectile vomiting decayed flesh and bone-melting acid as a defense. I want to be able to do this to catcallers. Why can't I melt the faces of predators with stomach acid. Why can't i force predators to breathe my feces. I want to be on this level.

geeoharee

You're an ape, you evolved to pick up and throw small objects. I'm sure you can extrapolate.

47witchyneurons

You are so right and empowering

strawberryamanita

Observation #1: The prefix "a-" means "none", such as in "asexual", "apolitical" and "Atheism".

Observation: The word "unicorn" is a combination of "uni", meaning "one", and "cornus", meaning "horn".

Conclusion:

This is an acorn.

prokopetz

I've seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they're being groomed, and it's bugging me because, like, there's no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says "groom that thing".

typhlonectes

Nothing is too small not to be wondered about

By Mary Oliver

The cricket doesn’t wonder

if there’s a heaven

or, if there is, if there’s room for him.

It’s fall. Romance is over. Still, he sings.

If he can, he enters a house

through the tiniest crack under the door.

Then the house grows colder.

He sings slower and slower.

Then, nothing.

This must mean something, I don’t know what.

But certainly it doesn’t mean

he hasn’t been an excellent cricket

all his life.

earth-tooth

dont support industries that are driving animals to extinction thank you!

tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240

Already reblogged one of these but another reminder: don’t by nautilus shells!

starlightomatic

do fish ever get to repent? or are they doomed to swim around forever bearing the sins we have tossed to them to consume over the many years?

this drawing i did years ago makes sense now

ampervadasz

Unmute !

Terrible photo but here is a sneak peek at the very first casts of a new-old sculpt...wolpertinger bunnies. (They will have little antlers when finished)

Some salamander dragons from my recent cons. Need to make a new batch of these guys.

lopoddityart

Well, then. Days after assuring us the schools wouldn’t shut down, my entire school district has closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

That part is good news. People should be kept indoors, especially young students. This virus can have an incubation period as long as two weeks, during which you can infect others. My job put me face to face with hundreds of students and faculty daily. I’m glad we’ve been shut down.

What I’m not happy about is the fact that I’m an hourly employee with no sick leave or benefits. It’s uncertain whether I’ll be paid or not for this forced leave. This is a frightening time, because I still have to pay bills, you know? I can’t imagine what it must be like for other service workers like me, who may have young children or elders to care for.

Astounding how quickly we went from Trump downplaying the virus as “hoax” constructed by the the Democrats…..to entire cities shutting down. All this happened in days.

I know it seems scary, but please remember to remain calm. Wash your hands. Soap and warm water works just fine, you don’t need to fight Walmart shoppers over the last case of hand sanitizer. Cough and sneeze into your elbows, not into your hands. Disinfect all high-contact surfaces in your home (doorknobs, phones, handles, keys, toilet flush handles, keyboards, faucets, sink taps). Be careful and courteous not to spread germs. Yes, it’s true that the virus isn’t likely to be fatal to the young and healthy, but it can be deadly to the elderly, disabled, and immunocompromised. Nobody’s grandmother deserves to die because someone couldn’t be bothered to cover their sneeze.

And to my fellow Americans? I want you to remember this. Remember the president who downplayed the severity of the pandemic, and dragged his feet declaring a national state of emergency. Remember the presidential administration that blocked states from expanding Medicaid to combat the outbreak. Remember how the GOP pushed to slash funding for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Remember how furiously the GOP resisted efforts for accessible heathcare. Remember how Trump focused not on containing the outbreak and assuring the people, but on dumping 1.5 trillion dollars into Wall Street so the rich wouldn’t become a little less rich. 1,500,000,000,000 dollars. That was enough to erase almost all student loan debt overnight. It was far more than enough to cover the cost difference between Medicare for All and our current privatized health insurance system. It was enough to build all the renewable wind and solar capacity we need to replace all fossil fuel energy generation in the country over 10 years through a Green New Deal to take on the climate crisis.

The money has always been there. Our government has always had the funding to take care of its citizens. Yet they’d rather use that money to continue to bail out the rich. These parasites are lining their pockets while people fight over toilet paper. People have died, and yet more will die.

My dear fellow Americans, remember how your government has failed you. And when the pandemic calms down, when the powers that be hope you return to complacency, hope you ignore the blood on their hands, hope you’ll keep your back turned while they destroy your safety nets- turn around and Vote. The. Bastards. Out.

Remember this, America.

Vote.

tallymark2

Well said.

ink7blot

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but don’t be racist during the COVID-19 scare.

My mom’s friend was out shopping when a (very not asian) woman came up and started berating her for not wearing a mask. Asian businesses in my area are suffering. Some people are refusing to interact with anyone who looks Asian.

Asian-Americans have been through racism already. We’re fucking sick of it. We’re not flea-infested rats; we are actual people who most likely have never been to China.

And if you’re not Asian and see someone being racist and giving a poor schmuck a hard time for having squinty eyes and dark hair, tell them to knock it off and they’re being a butt.

NON ASIANS PLEASE REBLOG

I'm finally happy with how I paint my newest sculpts, my Kitsune Wives. I year ago I wasn't good enough at painting to get it right.

Well oops

Apparently my blog was accidentally flagged as explicit and had been invisible to everyone but me for...I have no idea how long. Thank you to the kind person who alerted me to this! I am bad at social media but now that my tumblr exists again I should celebrate with art!

Example of one of my table setups; this one was more anime-con focused, so more fanart and less original.

gotinstarblog-deactivated201512

half-black-phillip

I’m so mad because this worked

britney2007spears

help me roger

telanu

Reblogging myself because

Originally posted by gifs-for-the-masses

luthienebonyx

Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?

O_O

riskpig

………my friend has made me curious

maryburgers

help me roger

maryburgers

Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director