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Some more bust commissions (here if anyone is interested in a drawing like this!)

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🌸💖 let yourself bloom 💖🌸

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6/7/2025

The National guard is being deployed to Los Angeles to support ICE.

Mask up. Black bloc. White citizens to the front.

ICE and the LAPD have been firing rubber bullets directly at protesters and utilizing weapons like tear gas.

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Gouache on wood

Process ⬇️

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“The Unicorn” by Christine Price, 1965

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DANDELION | overcoming hardship, healing, resilience, hope

I had the pleasure of painting the illustrious Dorian for @daflowerzine 🌼 leftover sales are still happening!

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Mermay Day 9: Alligator Gar

The alligator gar is a massive, ancient fish with a toothy snout and armor-like scales, earning it the nickname “living fossil.” Found in southern U.S. rivers and swamps, it breathes both air and water and hunts as an underwater ambush predator. Despite its fearsome looks, it poses no threat to humans-unless you eat its toxic eggs.

(She just wants a little kiss! Promises not to bite 🥺)

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balloonfish travelogues

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You’d think that having wings means griffons could get themselves down when they climb trees, but believe you me, you’ll be getting the ladder out later today.

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paleozoic menagerie

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Amphibian migration season is coming this spring. Remember to drive slow!

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Return to Lavellan

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Hello fish nation, please enjoy some silly gouache fish paintings

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Sea beasts of the known world and its freezing oceans. 1: Ornate beholders, multi-legged, multi-eyed abominations, these creatures get inside our crab pots everynow and then as part of a bycatch; they have crushing, muscular claws and sharp spikes all over their bodies. Their blood is blue, and they have a weird,metallic after taste. Preferably, frying the whole aberration in tallow can make such horrible beast taste so good. 2: Flying dragonets, small, smelly fish that use their fins as wings to glide across the vast seas they call home. They're prone to jumping onto vessels, and whilst they reek for no known reasons, they're cheap and tolerable enough as a meal. 3: Flashlight breachers, monsters from the depths... Nothing much is known about these monstrous fish, as they are rare, mostly found on trawls. 4: Common blumplets, aggressive fishes found in all sorts of places. They have a gelatinous bulb growing on their heads which is full of fat, we use them as fertilizer whilst their meat is used for fish pastes and other kinds of meals. Tasty, but could be better. 5: Oceanic blumplets, a more monstrous version of the Blumplet. These fish are seen in open ocean sometimes lopsided close to the water's surface, basking. They arent slow moving at all despite their clumsy looks, often giving a good chase... specially if you're a small fish. 6: Brute whale, terrifying and smart sea beasts that travel in pods hunting all sorts of things in the great blue. Their blubber and teeth can be used for things such as explosives and candles, their meat is inedible, tastes straight up like some kind of corrosive substance. 7: Rock crawmad, our most common source of food. A simple creature, that depends only on its shell and fierce claws. Other than that, a delicacy if prepared right. 8: Toothchurning tideriders, terrifying creatures that only think of eating and consuming. Once they deplete whatever they were eating, they move onto something else. Its better to let these sharks ferment overtime before consumption, since they taste like straight up urine. 9: Gazing anchovy, small, worthless fish. found almost everywhere theres ocean water in massive schools. Their prosperity also becomes their own hubris. 10: Humpback salmon, oceanic fish that return to spawn in the nearest rivers and lakebeds. Not as abundant as they were before... 11: Peeping fluke, spiky flatfishes that lie facing the sky, having a big eye and a smaller one right next to it... always looking up. One must wonder what's behind those eyes... constantly dreaming about the outer world outside. 12: Spine eel, long and slimy. Dragons detest these beasts, and so do we.

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let's fly through the stars together