Per Aspera Ad Astra

🌸Kieran | 31 | Personal Blog | Artist | AS biotech ✔️ BS bio ✔️ MS biotech ✔️ MD in progress

[kristina100000]

[kords-kock-kloset]

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[thenaervassa]

Yall I start medical school tomorrow holy shit

[kyleesarthell]

Siren!

[lalalloronaa-deactivated2024041]

i sometimes forget that this is everyone’s first time on earth too. like. this is my first time seeing a butterfly this color. but its that little girl’s first time seeing any butterfly, ever. and i accidentally left a bag of groceries at the store after paying and now i’m cursing under my breath and it’s like. there a thousand other people out there who did that today too. and a thousand more from yesterday. and. like. we’re not actually alone. and we’re not actually failing. at least not in a way that a few billion people haven’t before you

[thenaervassa]

Drew a Cas portrait to match Grey’s picking up where we meet the two of them

[thenaervassa]

Two of the books I’ve done art for come out soon 😌 so much fun working on these projects

[rhinco]

i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence

[crabussy]

at some point in a digital artist's life, it will be gripped with an urge to start drawing backgrounds. this is awesome but also the biggest scariest moment of an artist's life and is equivalent to a fledgling launching itself out of the nest for the first time

[jingle-knight]

I’m soooooo embarrassed. My lord told me “good night,” but I thought he was calling me a good knight, and, well, you could hear it clink against my codpiece.

[imsoofuckingsad]

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[eyes-of-laura-mars]

[roadstostray]

legit the best advice I have for anyone drawing is to stick with it. With just time alone you will improve.

redraw of art from 12 years ago give or take

[geeses]

reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

[caspercryptid]

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[caspercryptid]

If someone is doing things that don't make Sense, try to understand that it is entirely possible that their brain is probably under an enormous weight and fracturing under the pressure. People who have been stabbed will sometimes talk a circle around the fact that they've been stabbed because stress and shock prevent you from recognizing the distress you are in and what you need to do to seek help for it. PTSD will do this also. You will find yourself repeatedly jamming a bag of frozen fruit into the same spot in the freezer where it doesn't fit and keeps falling, over and over and over, focused on nothing but that bag. You will decide that a beanbag chair is 10000% necessary to your life. You will lose your entire shit because you stubbed your toe on a table and that means the whole setup of your furniture is wrong. These are largely harmless examples. People under strain will also hurt themselves and others. Cornered animals bite. And it doesn't heal the bite to go "Hey, are you okay?" But it might get you to an animal that stops biting, so you can start to heal. And before you had an animal that bit, you probably had an animal that kept doing shit you didn't understand as stress signals

[katestewartt]

"This is Dr. Captain Ryland Grace reporting from the Hail Mary."

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[aralintheobsessive]

getting a lot of responses to this going 'ok but it would be good as a metaphor though' so I will accept a metaphorical interpretation as long as you ALSO (!) promise to be considerate towards larval forms of insects specifically and biodiversity in general, deal?