Also going to finally make a pinned post for all my stuff:

BOGLEECH - my tumblr blog is named after this website I created around 2002 and still update. Thousands of pages worth of content focusing on creature design as well as real biology. My review of the original Legend of Zelda monsters might be the most straightforward example of my articles.

Links to some of the most popular content:

POKEMON REVIEW ARCHIVE: - I rate and review each and every single Pokemon, in Pokedex order, on its merits as a creature design. I also do so as someone whose favorite animals are all parasites.

DIGIMON REVIEW ARCHIVE - same, but more chaotic.

CREEPYPASTA COOKOFF ARCHIVE - for several years I hosted a yearly writing contest before it grew too big for me to keep up with. There are over a thousand user submitted horror, fantasy, sci fi and surrealist stories here emphasizing unconventional, original ideas you seldom see from the “creepypasta” community!

The original “MORTASHEEN” Monster Archive - since the early 2000’s I’ve created and illustrated more than 800 creatures and counting for my own monster-catching world, now set for release as a tabletop RPG setting.

AWFUL HOSPITAL: SERIOUSLY THE WORST EVER (page one): an interactive comedy-horror-sci-fi webcomic I started in 2014 about a medical facility that could maybe be better.

Some of my other internet stuff:

PATREON - constant work makes my patreon updates inconsistent, but the content backlog goes back years with a huge amount of exclusive art and writing. I try to put up new exclusive stuff whenever I can.

ETSY - I design all sorts of original enamel pins like these, plus I sell zero-maintenance terrarium plants (just leave them in a jar!), original books and other things!

COLOR THE ABYSS (available on the above etsy!) - a 30 page educational deep sea coloring book! Includes a few famous favorites like giant isopods and hagfish, but mostly focuses on less popular, often much weirder animals.

UNBELIEVABLE BUGS - also regularly restocked in the etsy store, 30 of the strangest and most surprising arthropods most people have likely never heard of, illustrated by myself and @revretch, written for even the youngest kids to understand (but will likely teach you something new at any age)

My Itch.io and Ko-fi - both sell digital versions of my books, including some creepypasta collections and my first novel, “Return of the Living,” about a world of entirely ghosts suddenly dealing with the appearance of ghost-hunting monsters.

TWITCH CHANNEL - I now try to stream something at least monthly, sometimes weekly when possible, from horror games to books and art.

YOUTUBE CHANNEL - archives my twitch streams and other little things.

INSTAGRAM - look at pictures of my huge weird collection of toys and Halloween collectibles

BLUESKY - I’m going to put mainly just updates to my stuff on here.

SEE ALSO:

HUMANS-B-GONE - a science fiction animated series by my partner @revretch, about a world of kaiju-size, technologically advanced insects and arachnids to whom vertebrates like us are just pesky little “gubs.” Also has a tumblr account @humansbgone


FINALLY, HERE’S MY GUIDE AND RESOURCE TO MAKING YOUR OWN INTERNET WEBSITE IN A FEW MINUTES WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF CODING

Hey, hey what if Sebastian isn’t a cartoon crab stylized with a fleshy humanoid face but just a different kind of merfolk

intactics:

caroexanima:

solifugae shark

hazerl:

Lucilia sericata, the common European greenbottle fly, has landed! They’re a little…. bearded. I dunno, I’m not a dipterist.

Banana for scale.

bynineb:

i did it. i reviewed every Pal in Palworld.

Every Pal in Palworld, Reviewed

docs.google.com

Is anyone else getting these ads where the tiny woman keeps exploding herself into blood trying to shoot the tiny man

lighthouseweeper:

museeeuuuum:

Trump administration seeks to starve libraries and museums of funding by shuttering this little-known agency

The consequences of shutting down the Institute of Museum and Library Services would be particularly dire for smaller museums and rural muse

The Conversation

Yellow, non jumping springtails are sold online for a fair bit but just outside there were hundreds on one soggy rotten log. Not sure the exact species or how easy they are to culture indoors yet.

headfulofempty:

For the record, reblogging roadkills one and only deepfake of me was the only way to keep proof of it for staff before she deleted herself, and they’ve only acknowledged reports if I’m the subject of the reported material. If you try to report something you’re not an explicit target of, they might send you the generic “here’s how to block” reply (at least that’s what I got?? You can try it anyway)

Also, no users in her callouts have done anything to cause or spread her behavior, new targets are random and it won’t do anything to block them. If she finds you reblogged from someone who ever reblogged from any of her other targets, or even several further degrees of removal, she’s still just as likely to materialize in your inbox, ask you to attack these other users for her, and then possibly send you gore or porn or detailed threats because she got no response from you. It doesn’t matter if you respond, block, or silently ignore it. You might just be away from tumblr that day and she’ll give you the whole weird treatment

It’s better to keep what she sends you so you can send it in a report to tumblr.com/abuse. Say it makes the website unsafe and that many users are affected. Be sure you only send a report if there’s content to show, not just testimony and usernames.

You MAY especially get targeted by this for responding to, reblogging or liking this or any other posts about her, but if you don’t care or already got on her list it probably pays to boost the warnings. Hundreds of users get this weirdo now, yes really from one actual person.

She doesn’t have usernames to block, she makes up to five new accounts per day.

a-shade-of-blue:

mahagaza:

Please don’t ignore my story💔🇵🇸

To our brothers, sisters, and loved ones, condolences, I write these words to you, and I am full of hope in your humanity and assistance. Because I am Mahmoud Ashour from Rafah, I spent my whole life working to build a decent life for me and my family, but after the occupation issued the eviction of the entire city of Rafah, we had no shelter and our lives were destroyed. Our home and store were destroyed, and our hopes and dreams were destroyed

We now live in a small tent that is not suitable for living in a tent. We need a new tent that costs 1,500 euros.

https://gofund.me/bca456db

@ibtisam @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @vakarians-babe @7amaspayrollmanager @fairuzfakhira @fallahsart @sayruq @humanvoreture @kaapstadgirly @sar-soor @dimonds456-art @plomegranate @commissions4aid-international @nabulsi @stil-macher @soon-palestine @communitythings @palestinegenocide @vakarians-babe @ghost-and-a-half @7amaspayrollmanager @kaapstadgirly @annoyingloudmicrowavecultist @feluka @marnota @toughknit @flower-tea-fairies @the-stray-liger @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @vivisection-gf @communistchameleon @troythecatfish @the-bastard-king @4ft10tvlandfangirl

My day begins with me and my children filling up water and standing in line to get bread

I need your help and your donation will save my children and my life and build our lives again🇵🇸🤲

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #366 )✅️

Vetted! #366 on on @/gazavetters vetted list

Currently €9,011 raised of €50K goal

You can enter my freshwater pearl necklace raffle if you donate to this fundraiser! (Deadline 31 March 2025!)

Deadline is up for that raffle but donations still open (and there’s others on gazavetters list if you can)

wachinyeya:

In East Africa, Rats Have Prevented 400,000 New Cases of Deadliest Infection Using Their Super Sense of Smell

TB is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past, but it remains the number-one cause of death globally from a single infectious pathogen.

Good News Network

400,000 new cases of tuberculosis (TB) were estimated to have been prevented by these rats, whose sense of smell would make a bloodhound take notice. As the number-one killer among infectious diseases worldwide, many of those 400,000 can be translated into lives saved.

“Not only are we saving people’s lives, but we’re also changing these perspectives and raising awareness and appreciation for something as lowly as a rat,” said Cindy Fast, a behavioral neuroscientist who coaches the rodents for the nonprofit APOPO.

“Because our rats are our colleagues, and we really do see them as heroes.”

APOPO uses giant pouched rates to sniff out traces of TB in the saliva of patients. In parts of Tanzania, a saliva smear test under a microscope by a human may only be 20-40% effective at detecting TB.

By contrast, a giant pouched rat like Ms. Carolina, a now-retired service rat who worked for APOPO for 7 years, raised the rates of detection on TB samples by 40% in the clinic where she worked.

It would take 4 days for scientists to analyze the number of samples that Carolina could screen in 20 minutes. For that reason, when Carolina retired last November, a party was thrown at the clinic in her honor, and she was given a cake.

TB is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past—a disease for which doctors used to prescribe “dry air,” leading modern humors to muse at the antiquated, pre-antibiotic medical advice.

But it remains the number-one cause of death globally from a single infectious pathogen, and Tefera Agizew, a physician and APOPO’s head of tuberculosis, told National Geographic that once people see what the nonprofit’s rodents can do to slow the spread, they “fall in love with them.”

3,000 times in her career did Carolina detect one of the six volatile compounds that can be used to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and she got a hero’s send off to a special compound to live out the rest of her days with her closet friend and sniffer colleague Gilbert, in a shaded enclosure dubbed “Rat Florida.”

“We’ve made special little rat-friendly carrot cakes with little peanuts and things on it that the rat would enjoy,” Fast said. “Then we all stand around and we clap, and we give three cheers, hip hip hooray for the hero, and celebrate together. It’s really a touching moment.”

depsidase:

Her main targets say they’ve dealt with her for five years, she says ten, so she’s either bad at math or she’s been the roadkill fairy to an unknown number of additional users since she was a little fucked up roadkill baby I guess

theconcealedweapon: