this is my secret mountain top

• full time wizard, part time cowboy • Valery | he/she | 30 y.o. | lesbian+ace | nd • hobbyist artist who loves nature, animals, fantasy and magic • art tag -> #wiz_art

[that-wizard]

attacking @botaurus-exilis 's Nick! I like the little guy a lot, always good to see updates on him and his friends

[princecroutons]

👽 visitor from another planet

[thats-a-cat]

that's a cat ✅️

[princecroutons]

[poorly-identifying-cats-in-posts]

I'm not sure anymore ... this is really scary ...

[that-wizard]

drawing's been very slow for me lately but I do have a few things in progress (including artfight), hopefully I'll finish something nice soon. life has been tough but there are beautiful places outside as always

[that-wizard]

took a good walk yesterday, saw lots of grass

[cock-holliday]

wish literally any gay papers would talk about lil nas x cause every article is either written with contempt OR makes sweeping assumptions by only quoting the cops and blatantly lies about things they contradict in their own article. like how is there no coverage of support or efforts to keep an eye on his location?

shortest possible story is that he he got arrested and hospitalized after walking around outside at night, MAYBE having 'an episode', MAYBE he was drunk, maybe he was high, maybe he was just being loud, who knows. Dude was outside at night in boxers and cowboy boots and that's all he did to "invite" police interaction.

But cops claimed he assaulted them so he gets arrested. Then goes to the hospital. Then goes back into custody.

And then he's not heard of for a while, then days later says he's out and okay. But facing FELONY charges!

WHERE IS EVERYONE? Pinknews cunts? Them? OutMag? Hello??

[cock-holliday]

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Almost a year later, Lil Nas X is out of a mental health rehab program, looking good, saying he feels really good, and seems to be on the way up after all of this. I'm really happy for him. I hope he has good genuine support in his life through family, friends, and folks rooting on him that he can count on.

I am really disappointed but not surprised how quickly a lot of media support for him disappeared, especially queer papers. An interview from before the police incident really highlighted how many people wanted him to fail and wanted to see him fall, including certain pockets within communities that should have has his back.

Happy Happy Pride to Lil Nas X. I hope nothing but good things come his way.

[that-wizard]

would you take a look at him

[that-wizard]

lost girl

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Big post in the making!

As the last post Involving ALL the formation stream pieces got too long to be comfortable for scrolling I have decided to start a new one this year! For new people a little recap:

The Formation streams are an ongoing series of live streams on my Twitch/YouTube channels where I draw every week one of these menageries portraying the flora and fauna of locality of geologic formation. The Discord community helps along and before you ask: no there are no prints of this and yes I would like to tun this into a book one day but no idea when and how.

Here a link post I kept expanding unto end of 2025 HERE

First piece of the year was the Elliot Formation from early Jurassic South Africa!

Adding the Agate Fossil Beds from the Miocene of Nebraska. A paradise for many bizarre ungulates.

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Adding the Djadochta Formation from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Home of many iconic dinosaurs and even more small fantastic critters.

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Adding the Joggins Formation from the Carboniferous of Canada. A place where nature dumped random lizard corpses in hollow logs.

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Adding the MOTH locality from the early Devonian of Canada, a place filled with bizarre early fish, with jaws and without.

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Adding the Naracoorte Caves from the Pleistocene of South Australia. A wonderland for large and small marsupials before the dawn of man.

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Adding the Ein Yabrud quarry from Cretaceous of Palestine, an assemblage of often time beautifully preserved fish, marine reptiles and invertebrates.

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Adding Koobi Fora from the early Pleistocene of Kenya. Come for the hominis, stay for the overwhelming diversity of megafauna!

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Adding the Wadi al Hitan, the valley of the whales. A classic Eocene locality of Walking With Beasts fame. The hunting grounds of Basilosaurus.

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Adding the Sulphur Mountain Formation, a Triassic refuge for the last Eugeneodonts, which overlapped here with thalattosaurs, very early ichthyosaurs and tons of fish!

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Adding the Wellington Formation from the Permian of Kansas, home of the largest insect of all time!

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Adding the middle Pleistocene of Sicily, a bizarre world of tiny elephants, large rodents and tortoises and so many birds!

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Adding the Escuminac Formation from the Devonian of Canada. A fish nursery frozen in time.

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Adding the Zechstein sea, a warm Permian sea from Central Europe, filled with tons of classic critters from the early days of paleontology

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Adding the Pisco Formation from Miocene Peru! An absolute baller to paint once you simply ignore the Megalodon in the room.

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Adding the Walcott quarry of the Burgess Shale deposit. The origin of the theory of the Cambrian Explosion!

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Adding the locality of Milia 5, a lost paradise of mammalian megafauna from the Pliocene of Greece. Home of some of the biggest tuskers of all time.

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Adding the lagerstätte of Cabrières from the Ordovician of southern France. A shallow marine world of little guys, thriving under polar lights.

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Adding the Florissant Formation from the late Eocene of Colorado. Cool plants and mammals? Yes, but you stay for the bugs.

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Adding the Fiddlers Green Formation from the Silurian of New York and southern Canada, the mother load of eurypterids!

[mariacfrantz]

I was scanning some art today, and I realized that I never shared this piece! This one wasn't for a project, it was just for fun - and so of course I had to fill it with lots of stars and clouds

[holly-warbs]

Frog studies from life, sitting by my grandma’s pond.

[trans-reznor]

I started rebinding my paperbacks and finished The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness today.

The cover for tlhod was inspired by the beautiful watercolours of @ashadowonsnow (i saw the drawings a long time ago and the image got stuck in my head, I'm glad I was able to find them again). The Dispossessed cover idea comes from the folio society's edition illustrated by David Lupton.

I really got into the idea of matching covers and i'm quite happy with how they turned out. (although I still need more practice on making the inside look clean)

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Earthsea Cover Art by Mikuláš Podprocký

[niqvassieart]

Pencil studies of an Amphileptus ciliate, who I watched ambush and swallow up a little Synchaeta rotifer into its cell and felt humbly reminded that multicellular animals are not necessarily above single-celled organisms in the food chain.

[loish]

How to draw underwater settings: make everything floaty and weightless. Done! ✅ Unless you're a geek like me and want to learn all about how to paint the lighting: the highlights of the ripples, the bluish glow, the reflections.. there's a lot to think about but it's so satisfying once you get it right!

I painted these for last month's Patreon challenge on underwater lighting! If you like drawing challenges, join us: we’re studying wrinkles and folds this month. It's time to walk away from those face-smoothing filters and draw some textured skin!

[strangledplanet]

[taylornprice]

rocks n leaves next to a creek

[holespoles]

Botanical Applique Quilt by Chinami Terai (Japan)

寺井ちなみ「緑のヴァリエ」