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It would be super helpful if a few people could send me a little grocery/supply money to tide me over until my next sale (or be my next sale.)

Venmo- Kate-Havekost

Paypal- havekatart@gmail.com

I was able to take care of my housing situation, for now, but it left me without extra money for groceries. I also have some paper but I need to mend it and to buy some pigments (yellow lilacs and gold poppies) to get things finished. If you can I'd be extremely grateful. If not, I understand. Thanks you all for your kindness, support (financial and emotional,) and forbearance.

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It's Time For A Garage Sale

9"x 12" Original Watercolors for $100 Each, Including Same Day US Shipping

Sales Payable via

Venmo Kate-Havekost and

Paypal- havekatart@gmail.com

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I've been wanting to make the weirdest perfume possible, and this information can help me do it! Hooray!! :D

About to make some normal scented soaps

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if you like lego + jumping spiders, you should vote on this user created lego product idea! if it gets 10k votes it has the chance to become a real set 🕷️🕷️🕷️

VOTE NOW!!!

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I found all 27!! There should be a book that's just a bunch of stuff like this, I would certainly buy it! <:

How many insects can you spot?

Insects are the masters of camouflage and mimicry! Insects that are are camouflaged blend in with their environments through colors, patterns, and shapes. Mimicry is an evolutionary adaptation where insects resemble another species or a natural object.

There are 27 insects in this illustration showcasing the wonders of camouflage and mimicry. The answers will be posted later!

SciArt by H. Morin for The Royal Natural History, Vol. 6 (1896), edited by Richard Lydekker.

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Another bird thing for my speculative biology project! This one spits fire!! <:

I also made a small diagram of the organ, and explained how it does this :3

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Another bird alien thing for my spec bio project (:

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Pretty fly on a white guy (:

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That is a beautiful garden, like wow!! :D

And look at those adorable doggos! <:

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Genuinely lovely little creatures that can do no wrong <:

Who doesn't enjoy a living lightshow of little goofy bugs!?

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

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Epidendrum secundum is a (preferably) terrestrial growing orchid with a wide distribution throughout the Neotropics, Cusco, Southeastern Peru, and Brazil

It is generally found in more montane environments where it can get a bit cooler, but has also been found growing near sea-level and by disturbed roadsides!

E. Secundum is an extremely variable species of orchid and is generally referred to as a complex, being that certain individuals vary at a rank more deserving of a separate species entirely!!

Chromosome numbers may vary dramatically for each individual in the complex, and a lilac-flowered individual from Bolivia could be found to have 2n = 28; while a lilac-flowered individual from San Antônio do Itambé in Brazil, could be found to have 2n = 52 (:

It's flowers range from shades of lilac, orange, red, white, and yellow

EXTRA FUN FACT:

Its Linnaean binomial "Epidendrum secundum", is entirely inappropriate and wrong in describing the species

The flowers are not secund, meaning not all on one side of the inflorescence. Nor is it lop-sided, or something that grows "upon a tree"

Along with that, every common name deriving from this binomial is also wrong

Hope you think this is interesting and enjoyable!! :D

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Hi There! I am a fully cis man. However I am disgusted by the treatment of transfem users on this website. So, I emailed some press about just my recent issues I’ve personally noticed and support emails documented, and Guess what, you can too!

Yeah, you can do that! If you are a trans person you can say “Hey, this shit is going on.” And if you have enough documentation, they will notice and say Hey, that’s weird? Here’s some now

Media Matters: A left leaning publication

email action@mediamatters.org or call 202.756.4100.

Glaad: A LGBT advocacy organization that you can contact using this page for more suggestions

Vox, a general left leaning site they ain��t perfect but hey:

Fuck it, CNN!

If you are a trans user on this website with documented support emails with Tumblr’s behavior or can personally attest to how staff treated you? send out information let them know what is going on, and please find other websites that you get your news from to let them know! If i’m nuked? Lmao.

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happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

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I finally feel like starting on my personal speculative biology project again!! Been putting it off for wayyyyyyyyyyyy too long :/

Had some inspiration and hopefully I can keep it, so I can continue 🤞

This was the one I had designed for me a year or so back by the incredibly talented @yellosnacc :D

Wanted to try my hand at drawing it out, and to practice with it as well since I'm hoping to make many more creatures! C:

P.S. go look at yellosnacc's artwork and world building right now!! It's literally so awesome!!! c:

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A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.

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Neofinetia falcata or Vanda falcata is a very cool orchid found naturally in parts of Asia.

The flowers are fragrant and smell similar to jasmine in my opinion (:

This species is extremely genetically varied, and there is an abundance of varieties and hybrids on the market with varying coloured flowers, roots, and leaves; all in different shapes and sizes!! :D

It was once kept by samurai and lords in Japan, and was prized for it's leaves. They would prune and maintain it consistently, making sure to cut off the flower spikes.

Cages would be placed over the orchids, and guests would have to wear face masks as they walked by it!

They were basically treated like royalty

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This is one of my rarest orchids, known as Eulophia quartiniana! (:

It's a terrestrial, deciduous orchid that's native to Ghana. In the wild it normally would grow in grassy plains.

This species almost disappeared from the wild many years back, but was reintroduced again more recently!!

121 small plants were grown by seed, and 100 of them went back to Ghana. My neighbour was the one in charge of growing the orchids for their reintroduction, and was allowed to keep a few of the smallest plants for his collection.

My orchid is one of those few he kept from the 121 seedlings he grew, and I believe it is somewhere around 20 years old now and flowering for the first time! :D