#MarTen

[nicopossum]

New convention badge, just in time for Nordic Fuzzcon!!✨

[reloha]

I don’t know who Bamon are (Vampire Diaries? Bonnie/Damon? House of the Dragon? Somebody and Daemon?), but this is some of what I feel about MarTen (TenMartha).

OK I am so interested in why TenMartha is your Bamon (passively of course!)

Oh! Mostly because with different writing I would ship them (that’s what I mean by Bamon ship, not that they’re similar, but how shippers feel about Bamon is how I feel - though not as intensely - about TenMartha). They actually have a lot of scenes I liked. The way people were talking about how terribly Ten treated her, I expected something very different from what I saw and for sure, the dialogue definitely states that Ten is effectively supposed to look through Martha, he's supposed to be yearning for Rose, grieving for Rose, which is why we get scenes like this

and of course, I get that this is supposed to be at the back of his mind/heart all the time even when it's not directly addressed, but when watching, I actually found that the Rose stuff was pretty minimal in comparison to the action indicating a fierce protection, fierce affection from Ten to Martha and all the angst that comes with that, like in Gridlock (which I actually quite liked as an episode), when she's abducted, his response

could simply be attributed to guilt that he put her in that position, I mean, he says as much

but then we get 42

which demonstrates how much she means to him. For all the dialogue around how he doesn't see her, doesn't look at her, and kind of just likes her "fine", I, personally, think we see the opposite.

Plus, like I said, I think Freema and Tennant have a charming chemistry together

they can be flirty

and I think that the show portrays why Martha would be enamoured with the Doctor the best out of all of the companion/Doctor duos I've seen so far, because Ten actively tries to impress her, he wants to earn her respect and earn her admiration

and he actively "courts" her, he's the mysterious guy who shows up outside of the bar she's at with a time travelling ship, basically being Aladdin saying, "I could show you the [universe]"

and despite what he says, he doesn't leave her alone

and they actually work really well together on their adventures, their skillset and their curiosity etc. are actually quite complementary and he's consistently taken with how good she is

so, like, I could write a whole thing about how I don't think Ten didn't let Martha in and how I don't think he didn't see her and all he saw was Rose but rather the loss of Rose made him put on a performance of flippancy but I don't think that really matters, the bottom line is that basically, they're my passive Bamon ship because if the context was different re: the Rose of it all, I would ship them.

[mammalianmammals]

Yellow-throated Marten (Martes flavigula), family Mustelidae, India

photographs by (@prakash.wildlife.photography)

[lazer-t]

Yellow-Throated Marten

This illustration is February's ko-fi Sticker Club design!

[ljesak]

finally done!! i have more characters planned this was insanely fun

[sablecitrus]

A warmup I made this morning of my fursona. If anyone remembers the last drawing I made of them with the white fur, they have brown fur in this one because this is their summer coat! I know sables don’t have different colored coats for winter and summer like ermines do, but I just took some creative liberty and gave them a winter and summer coat anyway lol.

[nasiloo]

Hiking Attire

[ovopack]

きのみ狩り

[vuelode-irbis]

[ID: the first three images are zoom ins from the last image, described next: a digital drawing with various sketches of mustelid species. They were drawn with marker textures over a math grid. They're all next to their respective reference image, which is a little transparent. From lefto to right and top-down, a pine marten that looks like it's smiling with its mouth open; a stoat that is closing its eyes and looks disappointed, below, there's a note in Spanish that says "no puede ser" (translation: it cannot be); a sea otter in the water, lifting its front paws and looking up, looks like its cheering something or someone; a stoat in its winter coat, looking to the left with its eyes halfway closed; a giant river otter in the muddy water, giving a side eye; three river otters curled up together in the shape of a heart, and lastly, a tayra pup in a front view, the text besides it says "Tayra chiquito <3" (translation: little tayra"). End ID.]

More practice, this time some mustelids

[nepeteaa]

American Marten

gouache, ink, colored pencil, and marker

[nicopossum]

me, snoozepilled, comfymaxxing, in my sleep era 💤

[rabosa-al-forn]

[mammalianmammals]

American Marten (Martes americana), blepping in the snow, family Mustelidae, Alaska

The American and Pine Martens were once thought to be one species, but have been split apart, because of genetic and anatomical differences.

Some people still refer to the North American population as "Pine Martens", however.

photograph by Courtney Celley / USFWS

[lazer-t]

Thumbnail for February's Sticker Club design, a Yellow-Throated Pine Marten!

I'll reveal the finished illustration and update ko-fi tomorrow. I'll be opening more slots for February too!

[amerricanartwork]

A non-serious, but fun little elaboration on my previous headcanon about slugcats being primarily mustelids: slugcats with real mustelid patterns! Apparently people were doing the same thing a while ago using real cat patterns, so I wanted to try my own spin on it and see how it would look! Plus it was nice to practice more dynamic poses with these guys, especially quadruped ones.

Sorry I haven't posted as much as I meant to; this took a LOT longer than I expected. But I think the result is pretty cute, and I honestly enjoyed realizing the similar color patterns in all these animals!

Which one is your favorite? I think I like the black-footed ferret best!

Also, non-patterned alt below:

[marsuro]

Wordtober day 2: Martes Foina (Latin)

Latin for beech marten!