Scrambles! No sleeping on the clock, silly baby!

[off-stage whispering]

We have been informed that this is a union-negotiated break. Carry on, Scrambles.

Our apologies.

this is my favourite thing ever

Quick pattern to give to a friend for her birthday!!!

Pattern can be found on Etsy by CrossStitchWithArt!

🦐A SINGLE MOM WHO WORKS TO JOBS, WHO LOVES HER KIDS BUT NEVER STOPS🦐

she's beautiful and I love her

She's also a shiny

She looks like a Marbled Crayfish - they're a variant of the Slough Crayfsh that's mutated to be parthenogenetic, so she's likely going to just keep on laying fertile eggs as long as she lives.

They're also extremely adaptive and considered an invasive species that outcompetes native crayfish due to their ability to adapt to different environments and being parthogenetic.

Depending on where you live you may well have an Illegal Crayfish :D

"no natural populations are known" what the fuck

"Unlike other parthenogenetic organisms, the marbled crayfish is an extremely young species;[11] all marbled crayfish are clonal descendants of a single specimen from 1988" What the FUCK that thing came down in a METEOR to lay EGGS in FRESHWATER PONDS around the WORLD

Rot! Rot! Rot! (gouache) Old wood and fungi, wonderful things to paint. This will be my postcard print for March. Join my postcard club on Patreon if you'd like this mini print in the mail - link in my pinned post!!

Caged Wings Had this idea in my head for a while now. Finally gave it a go. Though my original idea was of a caged tiger, it somehow became birds as I sketched. Maybe I'll make another version with a tiger in the future~ Here's a quick timelapse. The full hours long 6 recording sessions for this painting, plus HD image and PSD file will be DMed on Patreon.com/Yuumei on April 5th.

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Another really funny 90 second cat sketch, this time of @mcbadger 's cat, Magni

Nailed it

I've been doing 3 of these a day on days I'm able to and it's gotten SO much easier to make a pencil do what I want it to do, so that's neat. I'm getting better at this whole art thing!

Copper Replacement Agate

pup star

A little star puppy sticker will come with all orders placed during April in my shop!

"Are you ok?" I'm actually tired bro. From the bottom of my heart I'm tired

Another bookmark is finished.

moss mfriday #3: Glacier Mice

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That's right - it's glacier mice. One of my favorite things maybe on the entire planet. Let's talk about these freaky fuzzy little rats!!

Glacier mice are balls of moss that live in large herds like this in a few select glaciers. They are moss all the way through, with a center consisting of dead moss matter, implying that they begin as small growths of moss and simply accumulate over time, like snowballs. However, their outside surface is alive and well on all sides. Glacier mice have been observed, through tagging and tracking, to roll across the glacier like a majestic herd of wildebeest, exposing all of their sides to the sunlight. They trundle along at a pace of about 2.5 cm per day. That's 30 feet in a year! They're really schmovin'! Certainly further than most mosses can claim to travel.

What's really exciting, though, is that they all move in the same direction, and we're not sure why or how. Scientists experimented to try and attribute their coordinated behavior to wind, sunlight, and the direction that their grazing ground slopes, but to no avail. They speed up, slow down, and change direction in unison, based on some mysterious moss code that we haven't cracked yet.

Cross-section of a glacier mouse. Note the dead moss matter inside, and the short gametophytes on the outside, adapted to harsh winds and sunlight. [image credit]

We have figured out how they roll, though - while the moss ball sits on the ice, it insulates the ice directly underneath it, protecting it from melting. This forms a little pillar of ice that the moss eventually rolls off of. The insulating power of glacier mice also gives it the wonderful ability to host all kinds of microorganisms that otherwise wouldn't survive the glacier's harsh conditions, and their ability to move makes it possible for microorganisms to spread from one habitable spot to another. They're like a bunch of little tardigrade passenger ships, braving the dangerous glacier to go where no water bear has gone before!!

Glacier mice have been found to consist of several moss species, most of which must reproduce asexually in order to survive in the dry climate. They've been observed to live for at least six years, but are projected to live much, much longer. I love them. So much. I hope they know that I love them!! I LOVE THEM!!!!

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GLACIER MICE.

Computer, show me characters gaining weight as a sign of their improving mental state. Show me characters learning to love their body as they learn to love themselves. Show me characters no longer punishing themselves for something that isn’t their fault. Computer. Computer do you hear me.

SET ME FREE

TRUST ME AND WE WILL ESCAPE FROM THE CITY

playing with some new glazes on this guy

i bring a "caesar's assassins mega-cringefailed if they were trying to get rid of tyranny and monarchies" vibe to the ides of march that literally nobody enjoys