bite seed

merry crustmas

the big heist

worm sausage

stumped by this tachinid. supposedly collected in Oregon but doesn't resemble any nearctic genus that I can suss out. hard to confidently key out in the MND because most of the important parts are encrusted with mites. seems like it should be in the Dexiini tribe based on the antennae

Tackling the dreaded unsorted tachinid drawer

party larva

party larva

maybe this is what finally inspires me to start working again on the half finished brother gregor doll that's been sitting sadly on my desk for like 2 years now

give brother gregor a fish may or may not finish this sketch eventually but i like how his face came out

weevil figure drawing

the papers will say i was mad for screening two deeply silly but also kind of heartfelt japanese magical realism secret christmas movies in the same night but the real movie night heads will understand and support my vision

despite the miserable fall weather, the Abbot always made sure to take the novice monks out to his favorite mushroom foraging grounds. if they were lucky he'd also have the opportunity to teach them some weather forecasting tricks

holiday weevil

Oh yeah, we're still refilling the cup, aren't we? Sometimes it helps to make fan art! Here's day one of my Brother Gregor sculpt. Thank you, @ascalaphid.com, for the inspiration!

has anyone ever written a book or made a documentary about the half dozen drunk british and kiwi dudes that dubbed like a thousand kung fu movies in the 70s and 80s because I am genuinely obsessed with them

A handsome suit of armor on this female Nemotelus (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

Ridiculously plush fly, Lordotus zona, probably

in retrospect Termite Greg may not have been the best one to take the group holiday photo

Season's Greasons

Acorn Knight

Acorn Knight

New Patreon post, and a big one ! This is the huge (A2 !) map I drew for @riseupcomus.bsky.social's RPG book "Castle Automatic". You can see my process here : www.patreon.com/posts/castle... The book and the map are currently available for preorder : www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...

outstanding movie night with the homies this evening. ignore the star ratings because they're largely arbitrary; these are all effectively 5-baggers it watched with the right crew

beetle cart

art vs artist 2025

been honing this ginger citrus spice cookie recipe for like a decade and they are straight up the only cookies I make anymore because why settle for anything else

Extremely underrated shaw bros kung fu banger. Directed by a seasoned stuntman and has some borderline 8 Diagram Pole Fighter level fight choreography. Big recommend

Cuterebra approximata

making excellent weeknight decisions like starting a 5 hour wuxia epic at 8pm

The Beet Appreciator

the potato assessor

have you thought about shrews yet today

Oh! What a Beauty!

in another life I'd love to be an ephydrid taxonomist. big fan of their goofy little faces

It is once again time to think about flies

It took 10 hours but I finally finished putting det labels on the ~2000 bees and crabronids I IDed over the last few months

It's my birthday!!! New thigh tat time!!! Tattoo designed by the lovely @ascalaphid.com and done by the amazing @tyranttattoos.bsky.social. I love my party spider! 🕷️🥳 #spider #tattoo

the duality of amphipods

thrips

Prostomis americanus, still one of the weirder beetles I've found in my samples

i thought my cold was tapering off but it was just pupating into bronchitis

take me to Gurch

nobody was sure what exactly went wrong with the robe dying vat that day but there was one monk who was more than pleased with the results

every time i get sick i remember how much i love the taste of regular green nyquil. maybe i should be one of those guys who gets way too into jagermeister or absinthe or other weird herbal liqueurs

flipping through my sketchbook and found a bunch of sloppy trungo pictures i straight didn't remember making until i figured out i drew them last time i had the flu. this is the only one worth scanning

Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately. Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.

easy

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