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Live Long And Prosper

@opens-up-4-nobody / opens-up-4-nobody.tumblr.com

Aspiring Astrobiologist & Algae Enthusiast, mid 20s, she/they, requests are welcome Sideblog: a-handful-of-fish-bones
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If you’d like to commission me, just send me a message and we’ll sort it out :-] Payment up-front via paypal. No commercial use.

Pricing:

  • Shoulders up: sketch/lines only $10, normal color $14, shading/crazy colors $20, add characters +$5
  • Waist up: sketch/lines only $25, normal color $40, shading/crazy colors $70, add characters +$7
  • Full body: sketch/lines only $40, normal colors $70, shading/crazy colors $100, add characters +$10

Price may change to fit the complexity of the background. And non-human creatures or landscapes would be priced according to size of the drawing. If you want the physical copy, there is an additional cost for postage.

#yay an updated commission sheet!#i never know how to price things. i just knew the crazy colors had to b a lot bc of how much of a pain it is#but it looks so cool once done 😭#commission sheet
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I should draw some x files stuff

#ur right me from 2023. i should draw some x files stuff#by the end of the week i better have something planned out#im just hype on the x files bc im going to a conference in washington next weekend and ive never been to Washington#but the thing abt Washington is that its in the pacific northwest and close to Vancouver where the x files was filmed#and my x files nostalgia is huge bc its so good and i used to watch with my dad all the time#i wish we could hang around form more than the weekend and maybe go to some parks but probably not#unrelated#its funny when u life in a different state than u grew up in bc i meet all these ppl out here from California Washington and Oregon#and stuff and im like wow how exotic! i never met ppl from there when i lived in ohio!
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I leave a trail of dead markers and pens in my wake...

#thats the horrible thing abt traditional art. all my favorite pens die. all my most viberent yellows all my light blues. all my crispy#greens. all dead. and bc i buy knock off cheap alcohol pens its either buy another massive box of pens or buy actual individual copics#which i dont wanna fucking buy bc i like some of my knockoffs better and i feel bad using thr expensive pens#and then i have so so so many colors i never use. i need to buy more light blues and greens tho. i use those a lot and most of them r fully#dead. it sucks. the other bad thing is that i have sooooooo much paper to store :-/ ill probably let it pile up until i have to move again#and then ill try to sell everything i dont want for cheap. that's what i did last time i moved. bleh#unrelated
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Bleh. I love star trek so much. I just want to be a science officer. Science for the sake of science. Exploration for the sake of knowing. Is that so much to ask?

#according to the government: yes#but for reals star trek probably impacted me more profoundly than any other media. i lov star trek#but its been like 7yrs since i rewatched. i should rewatched tng and ds9 and tos. but for christ sake i dont wanna use paramount plus#and i have so many other things i should be doing. ugh. but i dont wanna work on manuscripts 😭#tho i do have some cool data as of this week#unrelated
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I'm sorryyyyy for spamming likes and reblogs on all your terror art (I know some people don't like that) but your art is so incredible!!!!!!! It's so expressive and nice looking and the way u draw jfj is just sooooooo <33333

Also the way u use colours is incredible!! It looks amazing!!!!

Alsooo your Goodsir art makes me cry 😔🙏🙏 u capture him so well

Anyway I just wanted to say that ur art and everything is amazing!!

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I'm glad you like much stuff, have some scribbles!

#also if someone gets mad at u for spam liking their stuff. they r being the problem not u#i especially like it when ppl go thru all my narut0 stuff bc then im like holy fuck i draw a lot of narut0 stuff in 2022 lol#anyway. dont apologize for liking something i made lol#i have such a hard time drawing goodsir tho bleh#the terror#james fitzjames#harry goodsir
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Me sitting in on a talk given by my advisor: Hm, this guy is doing some pretty cool research

#very much: wow this is exactly the sort of research of interest to me. who knew#also me sitting in on a talk given by a fellow grad student: 😭 bro u r so right! evolution is so fucking amazing. we r living thru the#genetics revolution 😭#how tf did i get here? everyone is doing such amazing work. i say abt extremely academic ecology evolution work that no one#cares abt lol. but i care. bc im very star tr3k: lets see whats out there. when it comes to science#unrelated
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#it's strange to have a self contained perfectionism. i know other people who wish they could control other people out of being chaotic.#people who try to make everything black or white. people who want to always be in control of their situation and the big dangerous vehicles#they travel within. but that's not how my control issues manifest. i think people are allowed to be messy and irratic. i like when#situations and ideas are nuanced. i would rather not be in complete control of my surroundings. the only thing i need complete and utter#control of is myself. i am not allowed to be messy. i want everything about myself to be black or white. i want to have complete control of#this human vessel. my perfectionism is self contained. and its deeply irrational. and deeply frustrating because my perfectionism is#imperfect and lazy. because im getting better and its difficult but easier than i would have expected. and rationally i know thats a good#thing but then all i see is my lack of conviction. if i was more perfect i would be worse. if i was more perfect someone would have noticed#how sick i was or would have actually said or done something. someone would have stopped me. so i wasnt really that sick and im not really#that sick now. and its not a big deal. because it all seems so easy now. so it seems like i was just a slightly odd very quiet kid with#control issues who stopped eating and never learned how to take up any space. and i get so fucking frustrated at every doctor i talk to#because they all treat me so gently and talk to me so cautiously and i know thats their job and i know they're saying the right things. but#its not like i stumbled blindly into this. i did it intentionally and maliciously. i know its a road paved in suffering and ending in death.#that was the point. this wasnt born of vanity it was born of malice. and youre only worried now because im telling you to worry so shut the#fuck up and let me fix my own problem. its just that i never intended to make is this far and that me of the past was trying to poison my#future. so i have 15yrs curroded and spongy from wishing death upon myself. and now that the idea of my box of ashes sitting on my dad's#mantle next to my mom's rips me apart i have to find a new path forward. even when all i can think is that i still wish i was worse#resenting that i have to get better when it feels easier to be distructive. if you hand me a knife my instict is to twist it in my gut. so#what now? its just irritating. because i always was and remain a picky eater so i have to choose to choke down whats on my plate.#anyway. just another adventure in the eternal paradox of internal perfectionism while being a compulsively analytical ecologist.#unrelated
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Ugh. I should get another tattoo.

#i just hesitate bc i want it over my hip and upper thigh so ill b really vulnerable while getting it done lol#and i never kno how to pick artists bc im gonna draw this one on so all i really need is a person who can make neat single lines and cab try#not to let the dark blue bleed out all over the place#i think its inevitable that i get a lil blowout bc my skin is so untarnished by the sun that its soft and last time the artist had trouble#getting sharpie off me lol and i chose dark blue and she told me that and dark green tend to bleed the most#so i have a bit of that on my arm but i dont really care bc its abstract anyway#also its a lot of money to get tattoos and im a hunble grad student and im spending so much money rn trying to fix my stupid fucking brain#bleh. ill probably ask one of our undergrads where he gets his tattoos next time i see him#also last time i has a bad alergic reaction bc i was titrating up on lam0trigine lol i dont think it will happen again bc im on a full#dosage now but i do NOT want to have to halt taking it again :-/#unrelated
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Ok. I work on a floor with 2 bunsen burners and a flamible/combustible liquids cabnet. Last week, I realized I didn't know where the fire extinguisher was (despite frequently using an open flame). Turns out it is out the door and down the hall. About as far from the fire hazards as possible. And I can't stop thinking abt it. Like. That feels fucking crazy right? I ask bc I seem to be the only person who cares. I told my advisor that I think we should have more fire extinguishers and he looked at me blank faced (despite the fact that he had to actively wander around the whole floor bc he also didn't kno where it was). And like yeah, in 20 years they haven't had a fire and maybe they never will but this feels like a fucking common sense preventative measure? It's just tempting fate. The hubris of not putting a fire extinguisher next to a bunsen burner is driving me crazy?? It's not even in the same god damn room! You would have to run out the room, sprint down the hall, open the case, and sprint back to use it! Why am I the only one who cares???

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Turns out the fire extinguisher placements were based on the floor plan before the building was in use and I guess they haven't had a safety person seriously look at the set up in like 15yrs? But my advisor had someone walk around and we did get a recommendation for more fire extinguishers in a couple places. So, the lab is now a little safer

#i would b a good safety officer bc im a compulsively anxious rule follower#and everyone would hate and fear me#but im like god dammit u gotta prepare for the worst#ppl who dont take precautions for the greater good make me frustrated#unrelated#needless to say thr current dismantling of the us government is driving me nuts in that respect
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Sometimes I start writing fics I'll never finish because what I really want is to wax poetic about death and dying

#i start writing fics and then suddenly were talking about parasites and thr evolution of fish subpopulations#so i dont really want to write the fic. i just want to talk abt ecology topics :-/#so everything is out of character bc i dont care enough to write well and so i resolve to never finish the project#even tho i think the ideas r neat and i think with 100% certainty that no one else is gonna write the fic bc im#the only one who wants it#writing takes too much time and id rather b drawing#i say as i spent another day of my spring break rotting in frustration and not accomplishing anything#fun or productive. ugh. i just want to write terrible poetry. how embarrassing.#unrelated
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