Hey want a pile of misprint stickers every month for a few bucks? ko-fi.com/ascalaphid/t...

hey if you're in portland, i'll be at the reed zine fest this saturday library.reed.edu/zines/rzf.html

a picked up a real scanner at an estate sale this weekend and the difference between it and my old all-in-one scanner/printer is insane. i finally don't have to spend hours tweaking and editing my scans to even approach what they look like on paper. this changes everything

nobody remembers exactly how it began but the competition to see if Sister Dot would run out of dirty limericks before her wife, Sister Helga, ran out of yarn was remembered with awe and fondness for many years to come

Live a life that lets you laugh at your own stupid jokes ❤️ The inimitable Dot, for @ascalaphid.com

🌰 weevil

trouble brewing in the scriptorium (commission)

ratmonk

lizard

Not the most exciting crabronid I've ever seen but I like its alliterative name: 'Psenulus pallipes parenosas (Pate)'

submitting my proposal to rename Miner's Lettuce to Shrew Umbrellas

I refuse to be bound by logic or consistency in worldbuilding. anything can be any size if it's fun to draw and I don't need to explain it

winter greens

Borscht season in the abbey is great for the stomach but terrible for anything susceptible to staining

I finished five more of these yesterday, I'm just being coy about posting them all at once, so there's definitely enough for a calendar. now I just need to figure out a layout and buy the right size paper

prize radish

alliums of unusual size

a skrunkled possum with a scarf - one of tumblr requests Doodled with my left hand during classes #art #traditionalart #lefthand

Some days you’re just a blue shrew

Some shrews crawling around. Work in progress. I love shrews! #sciart #wip #art #mammals

sir, your antennae... Dichicera sp. (Tachinidae)

たんぽぽ(2022.5)

My phone has an uncanny ability to take the worst imaginable pictures of my cat

Result of an art game I hosted late last year, "draw character/s like they're in a video call." Artists: iguanodont.tumblr.com, @psshaw.bsky.social , @tytonidaeus.bsky.social, @ascalaphid.com, @dosprompts.bsky.social, @skelizard.neocities.org, @ashenelixer.bsky.social, & @skelebee.bsky.social

AUGH

nobody remembers exactly how it began but the competition to see if Sister Dot would run out of dirty limericks before her wife, Sister Helga, ran out of yarn was remembered with awe and fondness for many years to come

absentmindedly rolling another cig despite the two already behind her hear

a balanced diet

🥕💪

50 awful drawings of my wretched cat

the Ravenous soundtrack is so fucking good. I had it on loop all day today at work archive.org/details/Rave...

Bottle opener thighs Sepedon sp. (Sciomyzidae)

Still an all-timer

potoo

bittern activities

some little guys

Brother Ignatz you wretched beast, you rascal, you miserable scoundrel

I wish I was a mole in the ground Yes, I wish I was a mole in the ground If I's a mole in the ground I'd root that mountain down And I wish I was a mole in the ground

BEEP HONK SQUAWK FWEEEE

Wascally Wabbit Wabbit. Happy March! #madmarchhare #art #springiscoming #watercolor #whatsupdoc

@ascalaphid.com consider: tiny medic mosquito monk she only ever prescribes bloodletting to heal anything 🩸 scabies? bloodletting tb? bloodletting papercut while manuscripting? more bloodletting

Helga & Dot

may i offer you some shrews in these trying times

SHREW TUSSLE

norbert, the aggrieved ever-jovial barnaby the great archibald timid constantine shrewd percival

Oops All Fives

shrew tusslin'

BANNED from the abbey garden for unsanctioned nibbling

I swear doodling during departmental meetings helps me concentrate