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Transit themed Valentine cards

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how it feels to have no social media presence as an artist

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Just found out there's a group on inaturalist dedicated to showcasing the silliest observations

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My world building brain managed to compel me into writing cat man smut. Yay?

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Zeit, god of legacy; lore ramble below cut.

Zeit is the human deity on Edalc, representing mainly representing time and knowledge. They are a pain to actually summon, as they're one of the deities who just hang around the world. Instead, they need to be summoned with a ritual that is specific to the day and time, which thankfully is recorded. As these components can vary wildly in terms of cost, worshipers have learned to sift through the many volumes detailing what the summoning methods are and bookmark the easiest ones for people to ask their questions. Zeit is very no nonsense; they get summoned, answer one question, and leave. Their answers reflect any knowledge that was known at some point, even if it is lost now.

Zeit's church is currently focused on trying to assemble a massive machine that can perform the ritual automatically, a literal search engine powered by god. Of course, this is considered impossible in practice, and currently sits in a state where it has moving arms and the rough beginnings of a physical memory system.

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“Most Awful Sleeping Face in Japan” (photos by @mino_ris/via neebus)

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New Zealand giraffe weevil, Lasiorhynchus barbicornis, Brentidae

The New Zealand giraffe weevil is a species of straight-snouted weevil endemic to New Zealand. This species shows extreme sexual dimorphism: females can measure as long as 50mm while males can be as large as 90mm, with a snout as long as their body. Weevil larvae tunnel in wood for as long as two years before emerging as adults, but adults live only a few weeks.

Photos 1-4 by wild_wind, 5 by cheryldawson19, 6 by christopherstephens, 7 by schneehagen, 8 by craigwilson10, 9 by kiwifergus, and 10 by lisa_bennett

Bonus photo because it brought me soul-deep joy - an adult male emerging from a tree:

SNOOT. Photo by Christina Painting

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Probably the funniest application of him being a deity of safe passage is that he makes pretty much any random burrowing rodent into a gps and will help you break into buildings.

Arktomis, god of passage and safety for my setting. I've painted him before but his design is now updated. He's heavily tied to mining and ground rodents, providing guidance for those who need it.

His lanterns are based on safety lanterns for mining, which I thought had a cool shape and were something I generally hadn't seen portrayed very often. He has a couple ember mice in them, benign spirits that help show what kinds of gases exist within a cavern based on how they behave.

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Hello Realm! A brief showcase of different oc regions

Song: 안녕 아희 (feat.UNI)

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The music within a fantasy setting really should not be restricted by real world instruments of the vague real world time period. Like, the ability to recreate any sound you've heard immediately leads to sampling, and from there I feel like you very quickly get to breakcore.

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please enjoy this "vintage movie poster" I saw in a dream which was so funny to my subconscious that I immediately woke myself up to write it down for later

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You have no idea how many times I had to remind my brain that feathers on arms would flow towards the hand.

Made a proper reference/redesign for Mislav, leaning hard into bleeding heart dove inspiration. Thought it'd also be cool to try coming up with a fun way she folds into herself to just be a bird.

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I am still over the moon about this attack, holy cow.

My next batch of artfight attacks! Some of these were more experimental than others but I had a lot of fun with all of them! Characters in order are: Mila by Mythic Cornelyia by Liftfox Ningal by Memento_Moray And the final one is a character design attack for a friend of mine! (Pop_Cat_Calamari)

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The entomological theory of Santa.

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Image description: A 6-panel comic. In panel 1, two people talk against a snowy backdrop. In panel 1, the first person says “Did you know that if you rearrange the letters in SANTA, you get something sinister?” and the other says, “Yes: A ANTS.” In panel 2, the first person says “Wait, no, that’s-” The second says, “How do you think Santa finds his way to all those homes at night? Pheromone trails!” In panel 3, we’re down in an ant nest. “Once the night is over, Santa returns to the North Pole, mates with the Queen Claus, and dies.” There’s a festive ant nest with an ant-bodied Mr and Ms Claus looking at each other lovingly. Panel 4, “The Queen begins laying eggs that will hatch into next year’s workers.” The Queen lays eggs, and the workers are ant larvae with elf heads. Panel 5, “Next December, she will produce fertile Queens and Santas and the cycle will begin anew.” The Queen lays eggs with both Santa and Ms Claus heads. In panel 6, we return to the two people talking, and the second person says “Of course, one queen must best the rest in combat, and the workers can’t interfe-” “Stop.” “But I haven’t told you about the Santa-mimic spiders!”

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Got the winter mascot illustration done right at the last minute. The fun part is not having a ref sheet so when I look at all of the Rain Child illustrations next to each other, none of the faces match! Woo! (Though granted the point is that it's low stakes so...)

Merry Christmas y'all!