check it out! Jewel spider, Australocantha minax, in the front yard. The camera only just picks it up, but they put little "flags" on their webs to alert big dumb creatures to their presence so they don't blunder through them. Great idea imo.

More art for the scifi card game. This one is triggered by every player having a Pretty Bad Time, and sets up a smuggling network represented by a second face-up draw deck. (You'll get VP when other players use it; smugglers aren't in it for charity...)

Another bit of card art for the scifi game. This guy gives you a whole lot of draw/discard and a free turn IF you've lost a bunch of Planets. (You know things have gone poorly when your recon efforts are led by a fish in a fishbowl spacesuit riding a space moped.)

Working on art for my scifi card game project. This guy grants you a lot of draw/discard- provided the other players are having a bad time...

An orchid from last week's forest walk, with a VERY SMALL GUY on the lower petal

An exercise in ornithological silliness: Australian birds named in the style of other Australian birds. Stout-breasted gum-finch sounds extremely plausible, I think #birds #etymology #taxonomy

People complain about "LOOKS LIKE MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU" but in the actual book, same scene, Ugluk says "What do you think? Sit on the grass and wait for the Whiteskins to join the picnic?" I want to see an orc picnic

For Your Garden #birdbath #platypus

From this morning's walk: the rather poorly-named white-winged chough #birds

Hey guys just doing my bit to poison the AI scrapers. #sexy #lingerie #hot #CurvyBlonde

Yeah nah me and the boys'r'gonna withdrew for a time inda NAYCHA to reflect upon th' clarity at the heart of being

A grey fantail looking absurdly heroic on this morning's walk. #birds

Carnivorous plants & lichen from this morning's walk around the old quarry. It's weird how much it looks like the drawings of alien planets I drew as a kid. (Drosera glanduligera, scarlet sundew, probably) #carnivorousplants

#cask #dinosaurs #howdoyouspellamontildadao

I'm going to start calling ai "corporate ushabti" so I can pretend I live in a rad cyberpunk dystopia instead of the shoddy cyberpunk dystopia we actually got.

The Hume Highway isn't really a road, it's more of a very long thin showroom for high-beam headlights

The world needs more Commonweal fanart! Here's an ophidiform Graul, feeling ever so awkward. #commonweal #fanart #socialanxiety

From yesterday's walk. A female spotted pardalote checking out potential burrow sites

#wizards #doomscroll #vlhurg

Elven Queen Adventures #elves #siege #NowWithAddedCobalt

Further Elven Queen Adventures [budget edition] #adventures #elves #LegitimateDiscount

More Elven Queen Adventures! #adventures #elves #bannedfromthisstore

More elven queen adventures: budget edition #elves #portals #iou

Wow! Here's my photo of a male spotted pardalote taken in July last year, and another photo taken ~20m down the same track this afternoon. Comparing the pattern of white spots on the head (esp. the small dot at the end of the brow stripe) I'm pretty sure this is the same bird in both pics! #birds

Spotted a pair of very lost-looking shelducks in the middle of the ironbark forest. I yelled "you're not supposed to be here, the lake is THAT way" at them. They went "HORNK HORNK" at me and flew off in the direction I'd pointed. #birds #forest #airtrafficcontrol

I think it all comes down to #wizards, #snails, #orbs, #fungi and #trumpets

A tree-creeper checking out a puddle in our local ironbark forest. This place doesn't have great soil, as you can see, and there's no permanent water. Puddles are a welcome luxury! (She's a bit smaller than your hand, if you're wondering about size.) #birds #photography #rain

An ongoing (and kind of stalled) project. I'm trying to draw all 66 bird species I've spotted in our local ironbark forest, at life size. 15 down..... #birds #art

A golden whistler from this afternoon's walk.

Elven Queen Adventures: Budget Edition Now with a terrible pun and no colouring

elven queen adventures, budget edition 4 #elves #moving #vengeance

Elven Queen Adventures, Budget Edition

Elven queen adventures: budget edition 2 #elves #apps

ELVEN QUEEN ADVENTURES budget edition #elves #caffeine

sometimes I think I should've picked an easier hobby than bird photography. I've got a grand total of 2 1/2 good photos of purple-backed fairy-wrens after five years of effort. (They are the size of your thumb, fast, panicky, and the colour of leaf litter. I love them so much #birds

A photo from this morning's walk. This is a weebill, Australia's smallest bird. They're surprisingly loud? #birds

Don't forget the rhyme "If the writer's Naomi Then she does home- opathy. The other one is a scholar, son." Hope this helps

I'm reading the dev diary for Slay the Spire 2 and struggling to process the knowledge that Blade Dance will exhaust.

applying for jobs again

Bird species #97 for my town. Usually I have to spend hours wandering around the forest to see new species, but this pair of Singing Honeyeaters arrived on the power line outside my house.

I shall become a Carrot Druid, and live here.

Lesser Ghosts #ghosts #comic #moth #lan #hermitcrab

More cloud drawings! Our first bit of rain in about a month. #clouds #art

Rad! My Neow-in-a-box fanart got used for this month's Slay the Spire 2 dev diary. This makes me unreasonably happy #slaythespire #fanart #catsjustlikeboxesiguess

When I was starting school, all the female characters seemed to be called Pam for some terrible reason. There was a real shortage of Roman legions, however. #kidsbooks #illustration #beach #romans #legioXIIfulminata #whocallstheirkidpamanyway

Benn Jordan is out here doing the lord's work www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm...

This one started as a short story. I had to trim things down a bit to make it a comic, and lose a few of my favorite lines, but I learnt a lot about the value of having a protagonist that is essentially two eyes in a brown square. #comics #octopus #hr #management #space #tungsten #enormouspaperclip

This one started with the name "Emrin-Ath-Arta" and sort of worked backwards from there #mars #tea #comics