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If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

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What if we were childhood best friends and we couldn’t figure out the nature of our feelings towards each other? And then we got into a volatile and dangerous form of witchcraft that made us slowly go insane?

Ft. My ocs from the fake rpg in my mind… maybe someday I’ll get to make them real

Oh also follow me on bluesky @/moonssnail

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Self portrait for my website…. Also everyone come follow me on bluesky @/moonssnail so I can talk to more of the gay people in my phone

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Casey (she/they) and Aspen (they/them) in my best attempt at the arcane art style…. they’d fit right in with all the other dramatic magic people

Ignore Casey’s unfinished shirt ;} I got tired

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I want to inject the way you draw locked tomb characters into my brain, I love your style so much!!!

(Your other art rules as well, but as a certified Locked Tomb girlie I’m biased. May your day be rad and beautiful!!!)

Thank you so much! I really want reread them so I can do more accurate comics and bg art - stay tuned for my gf to finish the book :^}

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do u have twitter? or any other social media?

I fled twitter long ago but my old work is still up there!

But if you want social media I actually use, my Instagram is @_tqpspence and my YouTube is @_moonsnail !!

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finally posting the protocol fanart i started back in FEBRUARY

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In another life

(Closeups under the cut)

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The grim reaper is always nearby but always out of sight. Can you feel it?

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This was a comic done for a Halloween monster zine, where everyone was given a random Halloween monster prompt and told to make a comic page. Turns out the grim reaper comes with a lot of cliches in its depiction, so I tried to stay out of depicting it at all and instead focused on the more metaphorical aspects of death- lights going out and leaves falling and all that. Can’t even tell it’s about the grim reaper anymore but reaper shmeaper it’s all about the pretty leaves amirite

I had a lot of fun making this though. I don’t use alcohol markers nearly enough so it was cool to relearn them for this piece!

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Commission for @ellekandera wherein I got to draw the moon, which, somehow, I don’t think I’ve drawn properly before?

Regardless, love a piece that forces me to draw a setting. Very fun very good.

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So lovely working on her design! May her gum never lose its flavour 🙏

to shake up the ✨Etherelle✨ art here’s another commission I got by the lovely and incredibly talented @moonssnail (my ttrpg group jokes she’s basically our unofficial resident artist) of my side character in our changeling the lost campaign. The kiss of death herself, my ogre frankenstitch (homebrew kith)

🧟‍♀️Desdemona☠️ or simply, Mona.

she equal parts disgusting and sexy. Chews 5 day old gum, adding a new piece each day and restarting every monday (she just swallows the old built up piece before starting a new one) and is a vigilante of the night who seeks out bad men at bars to, well “promising young women” them except she doesn’t die at the end. I hope.

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Anguish

reread furuba ERM sue me #straightlove

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Have you ever thought about trading places?

Shout out to my amazing friend who wrote this script for me to adapt into comic form. What a legend. Please beg them to write more stuff for me to draw.

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"As the last of a once-rich dynasty of cloistered mystics, embittered Osric inherits stewardship of the Illecebra Fane — an enchanted temple that had served as the realm’s greatest weapon against monsters. Living evil has surely long since left the world… But he is unexpectedly under siege in what has been a lengthy age of peace. Reunited with a mysterious childhood friend, Daegal, the two must prepare to face the arrival of a new wickedness spoken of in prophecy: an evil above all evils, titled Dragon." --- Blade of the Fane, my 200+ page (medieval) fantasy (m/m) romance comic, is debuting tomorrow, October 1st at the ShortBox Comics Fair...

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A couple of commissions of late! I love love love drawing creatures and strange character designs please send in your creatures !!

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If you hear the beating of large wings in the dark, ignore it. It might just be an owl.