#flying pies

[punkedsolar]

The Lacewings, all coloured and complete now. I could still do a little more, but to be honest I don't think I have any energy left.

The insects shown are:

Mantis Lacewing - Ditaxis meridiei

Blue-Eyes Lacewing - Nymphes myrmeleonoides

Angular-wing Lacewing - Periclystus circuiter

Pied Lacewing - Porismus strigatus

Yellow Owl-Fly - Suhpalacsa flavipes

The plant they are on is a blanket leaf - Bedfordia arborescens, which is native to the location that these lacewings are from. Lacewings are beneficial insects in the garden, predating on many insects we have issues with. They lay eggs on teeny tiny little long-lines, giving an impression of tiny rows of balloons.

If you like this sort of thing, follow me here at @punkedsolar!

[xensilverquill]

spider girlfriends! they met on the web 🕸️💙

adorable pattern by WinterBerriesBC!

(available now in my shop!)

[d8tl55c]

oh boy !! ! ! ! !!! ! thANK y0u all for the kind words on my last art posts. you all get it and i was/still am so happy about it

as promised, here's some close-ups of the comic for image quality's sake, and other screenshots i rescued from the community whiteboard (and something else)

first up another sketch of mystery gender-ambiguous being. (please send me more name ideas for them if you got one- i like to hear em! (reminder it's the side character that appeared for <10 seconds in AvM Ep. 30))

a few fav scenes

emotional support cwab

they weren't meant for this purpose exactly, but i do have countless "fluffy sticks" loose in my notes and homework sheets from the school years.

papery critter.

even when i wasn't confident in fur or feathers, they helped me practice posing and create some satisfying gradients/flowing poses. (im a sucker for good tail poses) (oh yay! i found a good pic...)

and finally, little sneak peak for you for reading so far ;3

i realized that whiteboardfox is pretty great for my working needs. simple and to the point and all. feels nice with the mouse and the tablet.

so i started hashing out a big project idea just to see if it holds up and

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several hours later ...

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oh

oh man

it's a little bigger than i expected

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[neviagreatestart2003]

The Masked Singer Season 8 Characters!

List of Contestants/Celebrity.

1st: Harp - Amber Riley

2nd: Lambs - Wilson Phillips

3rd: Snowstorm - Nikki Glaser

4th: Sir Bug a Boo - Ray Parker Jr.

5th: Scarecrow - Linda Blair

6th: Avocado - Adam Carolla

7th: Bride - Chris Jericho

8th: Gopher - George Clinton

9th: Venus Fly Trap - George Foreman

10th: Milkshake - Le'Veon Bell

11th: Walrus - Joey Lawrence

12th: Robo-Girl - Kat Graham

13th: Beetle - Jerry Springer

14th: Mermaid - Gloria Gaynor

15th: Maize - Mario Cantone

16th: Fortune Teller - Daymond John

17th: Mummies - Mike Lookinland, Barry Williams, & Christopher Knight

18th: Panther - Montell Jordan

19th: Pi-Rat - Jeff Dunham

20th: Hummingbird - Chris Kirkpatrick

21st: Hedgehog - Eric Idle

22nd: Knight - William Shatner

[bumblingbabooshka]

T'Pel gets a pet while Tuvok's in the delta quadrant to help deal with his loss and after he gets back there's a mutual big show of not liking one another but after like a month she's his little buddy.

[brittie-frog]

UPDATED Run through of all the demon lore on Tina's 14 hour stream (and some funny moments and only half timstamped because im lazy and doing this for the second time):

- Tina flew for the first time confused, questioned if she was a god and pretended to be an angel to Etoiles

8:10:40 - started flying again and put on an echo-y voice and then a deep voice as she threatened Etoiles for diamonds but still confused why she could fly

- recklessly flying around and most times the echo voice was put on (demon voice??)

(8:35:00 Troubleshooting her demon voice and also states that apparently the flying wasn't planned and she has no clue whats happening)

8:39:40 - let the flying get to her head in that she'll be stronger and better than everyone else because she "forgot how good it feels" to be herself

(angel wings are faster than demon wings apparently)

- flew back to her house - insulting Cellbit's house and threatening him and being possessive of Bagi before realising how possessive she was being and decided not to be demon mode anymore

(Asked the updates admin not to tell others so she could keep the flying because she's a good guy)

(8:54-10:04 break of making a gift box for Empanada and just hanging around)

10:04:50 - she lost empanada and began to fly around and use the demon voice to find her and when Em questioned her flying Tina tried to move the situation on

10:18:35 - suddenly went into cinematic mode where it darkens on top and bottom with a bright spot in the middle in the shape of an eye then it kept flicking on and off and she promised not to do "it" again

- "No watchers necessary" the fuck does that mean

- a ring of fire started to form around her and Em and she begins to threaten the air and say she's has no intention of going home

- shouting that she shouldn't have spread her wings but she's not going home - is being threatened for flying and they've come to drag her back to hell as punishment

- got given a key called "you" and belives that the threat was also extended to the people she loves (Em and Bagi) so wants them to be fully protected

- mentions she has wings and is given a teared feather

- em is excited and wants to go flying but apparently its a "great sin" that comes with trauma and baggage

- "they don't like my type of flying, birds only I guess" hell linked to the federation?? Evil cuca??

- mouse can be told and Tina wants her there but BBH is a bottom of the barrel/last option because she gets annoyed by him (doesn't know if mouse fell or was born demon)

- it's a last ditch option to turn Em into a demon to survive but Tina doesn't know how to do that (if she fails to save Em "God so help [her]")

- giant fire appears on top of the hill and she comments how unforgiving and cruel they are because she's been the best (out of the demons??) And she's promised not to do it again but they're still taunting her

- chat and Tina get jump scared by an enderman

- doesn't want Em to tell Bagi but she will tell her she's a demon in either a month, year or century because she's surely awake or alive at somepoint

10:52:50 - Tina calls for a pause/cut so she can eat

10:56:56- got the shit scared out of her by the sudden appearance of a vat of acid in the lake (Em couldn't see but heard the burning)

(Em got Bad Omen for an hour and 30 and Tina fished up neptunium)

11:08:20 - a tree is lit on fire across the water and Em tells tina after it finishes but it starts again so she can see

- cinematic mode comes back and she begins to complain in demon voice to the "big guy downstairs" and doesn't know what the eye shape means questioning whether they're looking through her eyes

("Spending my Saturday night with my child" it's Thursday morning???)

- fire appears on the land across from the dock with a floating crown that then disappears before the fire

- quickly flies up a bit before settling and saying "interesting" - testing if there is immediate punishment??

11:17:42 - got the achievement "Who's da New King of Hell?" With an image of the crown from before and the step backwards and be lit on fire and tells the "dumb bitches" that she's not coming back

(Ben_Fox_ that was not the time but it was funny as fuck and you had an excuse)

- doesn't want Em to hang out with Mouse too much now - maybe doesn't know if mouse would also be contacted and how she would react?? Saving Em from more danger??

(Tina's scared that her lore could hurt Em and it can't happen because she only has one life)

11:41:15 - Em's favourite creature is a moloch and since she likes fire Tina wonders if she can live with her (in hell??? She'll have to eventually go back??)

11:50:11 - Tina mentions that Em "could be happy there" while she's staring at her Moloch pet/child - maybe if she took Em to hell she'd be safe than in the overworld

11:56:39 - tina tells Em to kill the bees' bloodline and praises her for her bloodlust and then uses her calm demonic voice to call her over to start fishing (the demon power is going to her head and its scaring her child...)

- Tina is now incredibly paranoid about everything

12:24:03 - Em disappeared and Tina immediately panicked and used her demon voice (but she just went to name her moloch Aelia) and then flew up a little - possibly to see if they would come back/she would be punished??

- started accidentally flying again while cutting trees but because nothing happened she continued to because it was easier

12:38:16 - Em tells Tina about her accidental trip to the Nether and Tina tells her not to go again because she doesn't want her to get hurt and she get get stronger if she hangs out with Uncle Bad a bit

(When Empanada goes off to put torches around Tina begins playing No More Birthdays by Sophie May and has canonically said this is how q!Tina feels about Em)

- was using her demon voice to compliment Em but then was messing around with the settings to make it high pitched

(Tina wants a lasso - take her daughter flying??? Please!!)

13:17:11 - realised that she had Speed for like 10 seconds and she doesn't know whether it's her "demon-like reflexes" or the pie but she didn't get it before so definitely demon shit

13:18:01 - accidentally flies again and then in demon voices says she's "changing" - return of her demon powers she can no longer suppress!!

(13:21:37 Met the English Bunny (his language was set to Portuguese, Xaninho/Agent 18??) That Em couldn't see and later named him Donny/Don-Don/Ronny)

13:27:55/13:30:47 - told Donny that the soul lanterns in her house weren't oil but lost souls she had collected but their not the ones of the people she's killed and used her demon voice scaring them

(Em nodding along to Tina talking about Ronny's appearance while not being able to see them and then proceed to fake sleep)

13:43:44 - Ronny finds the comments about fire and souls concerning so he questions the soul lanterns more and Tina explains they're not necessarily dead people but wandering souls kind of like catching fireflies

(Ronny tries to start shit between Tina and Bagi over the Giraffe and Tina threatens with her demon voice and is told to calm down)

14:10:48 - despite saying multiple times that she needs to only use her flying when needed she starts flying around Em again and then when Em gets her horse put Tina starts flying a few times to catch up/accidentally (really only stopping because Foolish was in chat)

[garfieldstim]

twice around the sun stimboard 🎶

x x x / x x x / x x x

[shionshot]

Roddacember Day3:Animal

After reading Colin's story about the sulphur-crested cockatoo in His Name was Walter, I became quite fond of this unique parrot. I found a SNS account for zoos that have sulphur-crested cockatoo and have been liking it for over a year now whenever a sulphur-crested cockatoo is posted.

However, for Rodacember, when I reread her second book as an author, Pig's Might Fly, last month, I was surprised to notice that the book also features a sulphur-crested cockatoo. Sandy's delightful parrot, Pol, was also a sulphur-crested cockatoo. I hadn't paid any attention to them when I read the book before.

So I looked back at the cover of Teen Power volume 12 to see if it was possible, and here it was again, a bird with a yellow crest and a white body. I was surprised to see that Rodda has been talking about the sulphur-crested cockatoo for over 30 years.

This unique talking parrot only appears in her low fantasy or real-world stories.

But if I think about it, it is highly improbable that a bird could talk. That would be like a pig flying in the sky, wouldn't it?

So if this parrot has a role to play in her stories, isn't it an animal that links the real and imaginary worlds? I thought.

From here on out it's just a blurb from me...

Parrots can have simple conversations with people because they are intelligent. I have had cats and dogs, who, unlike parrots, could not talk, but were clearly happy, angry or sad. I could at least understand if they wanted to eat or go outside by listening to their cries.

So if birds can talk to humans, doesn't they also be able to talk to dogs and cats?

For example, if my cat's intelligence is as high as a parrot's and she can say words other than meow, could we have a conversation?

That's what I think Jasmine means when she says that being able to talk to animals isn't magic.

[yeowninefive]

Unwanted Dessert

"SAY AAAAHHHH!" (I feel like I have fallen short of properly depicting Wiola's mischievous prankster nature.)

[dansnaturepictures]

When summer meets autumn

When summer shakes autumn’s hand,

Baton exchanging from a season to the next,

Bringing rich natural sights and light across the land,

At the speed of time passing I’m perplexed,

Radiant Red Squirrels busy caching food in the wood,

Magnificent Red and Fallow Deers on edge,

Ready to rut and jostle for position in a wild neighbourhood,

Hawthorn, sloes and guelder rose berries lighting up the hedge,

Ospreys depart on their journey south,

Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint and Pied Flycatcher passing through,

Gaggles of honking Brent Geese return to maintain the avian wealth,

Pintail, Spoonbill and promise of Redwing and Fieldfare to come too,

Speckled Wood, Red Admiral and Small White flutter through the sunny days,

Delightful dragonflies come into their own,

Common, Ruddy and Black Darter amaze,

Migrant and Southern Hawker ensuring you’re never alone,

Insects you make the most of as well as flowers,

Michaelmas daisies and devil’s-bit scabious with their classy hues,

Starting to enter are fungi fruiting with enchanting powers,

Wholesome colours like the fly agarics and amethyst deceivers that as times darken I can use,

Part summer, part autumn, hard to define,

Light lessens and softens, a shift tinged with reflection and glory,

A sky dominated by birds like many an exiting hirundine,

The trees begin to let go of green and make way for other colours, the next chapter of the story,

A poem I wrote last night about this current period of the year when summer gradually makes way for autumn. It's mostly based on recent sightings particularly from my week off the week before last, but does also make reference to some species to see later on. Some species included may be based more on the context of what to see at this time of year around my home area of southern England. In this photoset are some photos I've taken of the species and sights; Red Squirrel on Brownsea Island, sunset at home, Osprey and Spoonbills in Poole Harbour and Red Deer at Bushy Park taken during the week off, fly agaric near Bolton's Bench in the New Forest last autumn and recent photos of devil's-bit scabious at Andrew's Mare in the New Forest, Speckled Wood and hawthorn berries with a ladybird on at Lakeside Country Park and Black Darter at Thursley Common.

[frostise]

𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐈𝐒𝐄'𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐒

notes: louise knows the rogues extremely well in central city because they all worked together a few times in their careers. her interactions will vary and she's closer to some members to even look out for them if they're in deep shit. at least in my interpretation. i purposely left out golden glider, pied piper and the top because she had zero interactions with them and mostly because i don't know them very well to come up with a headcanon.

captain cold (leonard snart): there's some form of rivalry based on 'who's actually the best ice user in the world?'. louise views herself as above him which highlights how arrogant she can be as a metahuman and he does the exact same thing because he's just a human and has impressive feats. both of them talked shit behind each others back and to each others faces at some point. i think with time my louise would eventually come around to respect him if they worked through their tough exteriors and strong opinions outside of work. their pride would slowly die down if they shared a beer at the villain's bar? mutual respect. maybe a friendly rivalry in the most twisted way possible? however, that doesn't mean they're best buds. more like great business partners.

captain boomerang (digger harkness): her relationship with boomerang is very obvious. she hates that smug bastard in the movie AND comics! but she knows the rogues golden rule they abide by: kill a member of the rogues and you're hunted for the rest of your life. louise is forced to tolerate his presence whenever he's around. she does think he's a loser because he acts like one. his gimmick is laughable at best! how's he even in the rouges? they'll backstab each other when the opportunity arrives at their doorstep! louise will never be interested in befriending this man. their dynamic forever remains circumstantial and unfriendly. maybe there's even a brief moment where they do get along but it's not very notable. however her respect for him will be brought out in the open since he deals with the flash. she's too prideful to admit this though.

weather wizard (mark mardon): she's actually friendly with mark. they played metropoly once and are shown to be playful with their witty banters. they're 100% party buddies and old friends! loves to work with this guy the most which is saying a lot but since he's her close friend, louise takes care of him in everyway she can. he's got financial problems? frost can cover him. he's got a problem with someone? she can kill/bully them. in return, wizard can easily protect frost by defending her actions if she ends up pissing off a member on his team. however that doesn't mean he'll condone her attitude. he will call her out on her bullshit which she respects after she's done being hateful.

trickster (axel walker): their dynamic in canon looks semi-friendly since they played 8 ball pool together. louise would agree with the rest of the rogues that he's a irritating piece of shit (to be fair though, he's a teenager trying to be a rogue in-training). i think they're friendly around each other because they know weather wizard personally. it's actually canon axel views the rogues as his father figures and may look up to louise because he lacks a female role model in his life (besides golden glider. she's like a mother figure to him). frost is deemed as a 'fancy champagne aunt' and always seeks to crash at her place when he's kicked out of the rogues.

mirror master (evan mcculloch): hates this bastard too. same treatment from boomerang except i see her actually respecting his powers because he's pretty scary when facing other heroes. but!! i don't ever see her respecting his overbearing pride and ego. i mean, he has the right to brag but holy shit does he never let down his barricade like she does. louise probably complimented him once and he didn't take it because he knows he's all that. but then again she's also arrogant because she thinks her compliments are a privilege to uphold like a golden metal. overall, they work together well. just not outside of work.

[flyingsliceofpie]

Weather and scheduling finally allowed me to get out flying! Did an intro flight with a local school, same one I first flew with 15 years ago

Absolutely thrilled! A bit timid on controls, but was able to pull off some basic maneuvers while maintaining altitude- not bad for nearly a decade hiatus

[ohnoitsjetster]

I pretended to be a cat. Im not a girl anymore though

“You never pretended to be a bride when you were a little girl?” No???? Like literally never?

[fazcinatingblog]

sophia if i ever tell her i want to leave

[tuttle-did-it]

‘Murder on Madison Avenue’ Murder, She Wrote guest stars:

John Hillerman bafflingly returns as a different character after previously doing a Magnum PI crossover with Murder She Wrote. (Magnum. PI, The Love Boat, Simon & Simon, One Day at a Time, Lou Grant, Hart to Hart, Soap, Flying High, Little House on the Prairie, The Betty White Show, Hawaii Five-O, Wonder Woman, Ellery Queen, etc). Hillerman’s final TV appearance.

David Lansbury returns (nephew of Angela Lansbury, Law & Order, Sex & The City)

Barbara Babcock returns (Space Cowboys, Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, Hill Street Blues, The Law and Harry McGraw, Dallas, etc)

17 may 1992 S8e22