#Nature game

[tinylongwing]

Here's my art for the Camouflage card in the Flight module of Nature, an upcoming board game by NorthStar Games! This card features a well-hidden Great Eared Nightjar (Lyncornis macrotis) among the leaf litter, while a wild jungle cat (Felis chaus) stalks behind, trying to find it.

[flowerbarrel-art]

This is also a really cute and fun game (it’s part of a bundle with Cat’s Cosmic Atlas).

You explore around and can see bugs and other animals underground.

That normally would creep me out since some bugs still look creepy or gross to me, but it was fun.

I found the bugs weirdly cute. I think a cute name for mole cricket eggs would be baby potatoes.

And here’s some more of my favorite animals/plants/fungi featured in the game (mostly because I’d never heard about most of them before).

[charles-breaks-beakers]

HETEROSEXUAL CIS-PEOPLE LOOK HERE

Snaps my fingers at you as you scroll past this post

Look at me. Listen.

I'm not the best at serious posts, but that article up there reminded me of how important it is that people like you stand up for us. So hold on while I try to get this out of my mushy end-of-work-day brain.

We could fight this fight ourselves for decades trying to reach the equal laws, gender affirming trans healthcare that doesn't have a 2-5+ soul-eating years of waiting time, medical care with equal knowledge of lgbtqia+ bodies, and, what is often forgotten, inclusion in the little everyday areas of life like our way of speaking or things being set up or designed with the existence of queer people in mind.

But you joining in could get us there so much faster.

The power you have as a hetero cis person is that you set the standard for what is seen as the average way of treating us among other hetero cis people. You have been given the power of deciding what's "normal" and I'm begging you to use it.

Richard Green is a great example of to what extent your actions can help our situation, and smaller ways of support still add up to a great impact on society, and could make the days of the queer people you interact with.

Educate yourself before you speak up, but don't be silent.

[ai-dream]

[la-nymphe-des-bois]

Justine et l'étoile verte (PC)

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[daily-spooky]

credit

[scourgiez]

Finally got around to drawing my farmer :P

[kristo-flowers]

Forest trails, Latemse Meersen, Flanders, Belgium

[famousfishathletecookie]

Брачные игры…

[tinylongwing]

Here's another piece of artwork I did for the upcoming game Nature by NorthStar Games. These Bar-headed Geese are some of the world's highest fliers, able to cruise over the tops of the Himalayas!

[neo--queen--serenity]

Lena losing her patience and furiously berating Gwen for potentially endangering the staff members of the OAIR is quite literally the opposite of how Elias ran the Archives.

Elias used the Archival staff—as well as his Archivist—as pawns that can be readily replaced as needed. His patron offered them minimal protections at best (the Archivist’s privileges notwithstanding), and even then, he would never actually intervene to save any of them if they were in danger, much less take precautions to protect them at their headquarters. They are used as bait, as sacrifices, as currency, as objects. The listener knows, eventually, how easily he could discard them if his plans called for it.

But Lena. This episode showed us that Lena keeps her entire organization running through keeping her subordinates hidden, safe, and unnoticed by the Externals. It’s quite clear through her conversation with Gwen that such a safety risk has never happened before.

As far as we know, Lena has successfully kept all of her employees alive, watched them come and go, bemoaned the turnover rate, and then got them to look the other way while they documented and dutifully filed the horrors.

But most impressive of all, she’s kept her real work hidden from her subordinates, and her subordinates hidden from her real work—a feat Elias had no interest or desire to accomplish.

[retrogamingblog2]

Pokemon and the real creatures that inspired their design

Poliwag – Translucent Tadpole

Shellos – Chromodoris Lochi

Caterpie – Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillar

Ursaring – Sun Bear

Parasect – Cordyceps  Fungus

Sandslash – Pangolin

Goomy – Ceratosoma Amoenum

Victreebel – Pitcher Plant

Drowzee –  Tapir

Mudkip – Axolotl

[ai-dream]

[weatherbane]

i've been pacing around the house like a caged animal thinking about halsin with a little grey hair so here we go

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus: