The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

obsessed with Kurosawa's storyboard paintings for RAN

夜は色がかわる☾◦°

Do you want to see fantastic coral reef structures from 450 to 300 million years ago? Contemplate the ebb and flow of life forms over time? @kiabugboy.bsky.social has got you covered 🦑🪸🧪⚒️

how the hell do lonely invertebrate nerds meet up in boston??? i'm an adult in my 30s and just want to meet other invertebrate nerds and make friends :(

for day 5 of #InverteFest I'm channeling my inner @beetlemoses.bsky.social and attempting an animal comic. poorly. (I was gonna do a horsefly joke instead, but that one might be too niche and only for my Dipteran people)

Blind Alley: Guest Strip No. 2 (@bitingteeth.bsky.social)

amen

wizard

A compilation of animals I’ve drawn since 2023! Which is your favorite? #pakeoart

damn, i love art 🥹

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

bugs is SHRIMPS?! incredible

This is the only Odyssey adaptation that understands that the hero is an impulsive himbo who deserves his many ass whoopings. It is entirely believable that this Odysseus would get a bunch of his guys turned into pigs by a sexy witch.

IT'S HAPPENING

A year of childhood

the joie de vivre from this cactus...that's how i'm trying to be.

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

Still one of my favorite shots ever, these two sleepy leafcutter bees from my back yard a few years back 🥹 🌿 🐝

sniffin'

Tiny bees of early spring! I'm slowly getting better at Tiny Bee ID & did a little rundown of the genera of bees you're likely to see. Dime, bumble, & honeybee for scale. granted, this species range is for March/April & it is now May so I'm running behind, but bit by bit, I'm building up resources!

like ships in the night

every day i find an incredible guy (from a painting scroll attributed to qiu ying called "raising the alms bowl: the conversion of hariti, mother of demons) asia.si.edu/explore-art-...

Cuddlebug (this month's patreon sticker 💌)

🔻Little Big Isopod 🔻 ✨ Porcellio Expansus ✨

this is rad!

oh my gosh 😭

spring frogs! 🐸🌼

The Connoisseur. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Dreaming of autumn... Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...

Happy to be reminded of these remarkable creatures, of whom I was unaware until I read Thor Hanson's book "Buzz" a few years ago. They're basically the cryptids of the bee world, so I was giddy to learn that there's some recent video footage of them: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Really lovely mid-2000s Chinese palaeoart pieces

This is how Yoshitaka Amano draws Final Fantasy characters

i really don't recommend getting the seasonal cold that's going around. it's been a bad time and i've only had it for a day. 💀

OwO you got games on your phone?

Behenia Capella, Goat Shoulder of Auriga 🌟: Faun 🐐: Aries ♈ Finally releasing the collection of work that I began last year(!). Each one will be posted at the start of the month, for sixteen months. Additional info in alt-text and links to cleaner/uncompressed images in the thread. 👁️

The Adventures of Prince Achmed just turned one hundred years old. It's still among the best movies ever made. For the film's birthday, we're sharing Lotte Reiniger's wonderful firsthand account of its creation: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-film-tha...

let’s be primitive horses with mama (pt.2)

:)

Date: I thought you said you worked in Finance? What's up with your 15 year old beater car?! Entomologist: Finance? Date: Entomologist: Oh, I see what's happened here.

shared with my herbalism class just a couple of weeks ago. i love this image so much!!

Me: But Doctor, that guy over there is Pagliacci. Doctor: Sumer is icumen in! Me: OH GOD! OH JESUS CHRIST!

what crazy thing will birds do next

This Moche gilded copper fox head comes from a grave in the immediate vicinity of the "Huaca de la Luna," in Trujillo (Peru.) It has a movable tongue, and it was probably either part of a headdress or part of a back ornament, worn by a Moche elite.

Today I learned that there is an elephant who has been in charge of a buffalo herd for 40+ years and whenever one of the young males challenge her she destroys them, 14 so far conservationtravelafrica.org/blog/elephan...

Lot of RETVRN responses whenever the topic of blogs come up and it's like, not hard to start a blog and post once every other month. "We had blogs" we still have blogs, social media didn't kill blogs and now social media is dead. If you want to read a blog go find a blog to read.

🦇 Solo RPG 🦇 Journaling game 🦇 Gothic literary tropes 🦇 100% human made 🦇 Created as a gift for a friend 🦇 Vampires, curses & ghosts The game: HELP! I’m Trapped in a Gothic Novel Find it on @itch.io now: xoshdarkheart.itch.io/gothic-novel...

I did some FanArt of Terra Bradford! She's gotta be like my favorite FF character to paint lol!

Me trying to blow a medieval peasant’s mind: and the downloadable content for the game was actually already on the disc you were just paying to unlock it Peasant(chewing the gas station beef jerky I gave him): I saw the cobbler’s wife kissing Satan’s asshole in the forest Me (mind blown): waaaaaa