#the art of inversion

[neutron-stars-collision]

i keep rereading the art of inversionnn. it’s just that goood. Love your writing 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

Oh my, thank you!!!! 🥺🥺💕 It really means a lot to me to know that people still read it. It’s not perfect but I’ve put so much time and effort ans emotional engagement into that story that I’m really glad you liked it.

[corrodedparadox]

All better!

[balimaria]

I just realized I can cross over my favorite characters and literally no one can stop me. This is way too much power.

(these captures are from gll99's GX fansub! you can find it free on their blog @/kaiowut99)

Part 2

[shattered-daydream]

Some cards to give to your loved or hated ones this Valentines Day!

Bonus Billford:

[gierosajie-art]

"What does the star beating in your chest hunger for?"

"I wished it could be over."

Reference under the cut

[389]

Inverse Shades Alena Zabolotina

[dulceratoncita]

Im sure this sorceress would be willing to help you! (for the right price~)

[beetle-bun]

god I love slayers. (fave childhood anime)

[doesephs]

i don’t know why odysseus was so scared of a bunch of women, what an incel (circes island)

[featheredcrowbones]

a world in which you looked at levi and said, "happy birthday to my wife" (you had to say it to him twice) 🎈

[tofuubearart]

If you like my art please consider supporting me

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[cloudy-rina]

Just a sappy, simple drawing today on my long commute. Oubing is single-handedly keeping me alive omggg I rotate this ship in my mind like a centrifuge

[alphynix]

The distinctive pinhole eyes, leathery hood, and numerous tentacles of modern nautiluses were traditionally thought to represent the "primitive" ancestral state of early shelled cephalopods – but genetic studies have found that that nautiluses actually secondarily lost the genes for building lensed eyes, and their embryological development shows the initial formation of ten arm buds (similar to those of coeloids) with their hood appearing to be created via fusing some of the many tentacles that form later.

There's a Cretaceous nautilidan fossil that preserves soft tissue impressions of what appear to be pinhole eyes and possibly a remnant of a hood, so we know these modern-style nautilus features were well-established by the late Mesozoic. But for much more ancient Paleozoic members of the lineage… we can potentially get more speculative.

So, here's an example reconstructed with un-nautilus-like soft parts.

Solenochilus springeri was a nautilidan that lived during the Late Carboniferous, around 320 million years ago, in shallow tropical marine waters covering what is now Arkansas, USA.

Up to about 20cm in diameter, (~8"), its shell featured long sideways spines which may have served as a defense against predators – or possibly as a display feature since they only developed upon reaching maturity.

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References:

Anthony, Franz. "500 million years of cephalopod fossils" Earth Archives, 19 Feb. 2018, https://eartharchives.org/articles/500-million-years-of-cephalopod-fossils/index.html

Klug, Christian, et al. "Preservation of nautilid soft parts inside and outside the conch interpreted as central nervous system, eyes, and renal concrements from the Lebanese Cenomanian." Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140 (2021): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-021-00229-9

Korn, Dieter, and Christian Klug. "Early Carboniferous coiled nautiloids from the Anti-Atlas (Morocco)." European Journal of Taxonomy 885 (2023): 156-194. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.885.2199

Kröger, Björn, Jakob Vinther, and Dirk Fuchs. "Cephalopod origin and evolution: a congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules: extant cephalopods are younger than previously realised and were under major selection to become agile, shell‐less predators." BioEssays 33.8 (2011): 602-613. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.201100001

Mikesh, David L., and Brian F. Glenister. "Solenochilus Springeri (White & St. John, 1868) from the Pennsylvanian of Southern Iowa." Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science. Vol. 73. No. 1. 1966. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol73/iss1/39/

Shchedukhin, A. Yu. "New Species of the Genus Acanthonautilus (Solenochilidae, Nautilida) from the Early Permian Shakhtau Reef (Cis-Urals)." Paleontological Journal 58.5 (2024): 506-515. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384922837_New_Species_of_the_Genus_Acanthonautilus_Solenochilidae_Nautilida_from_the_Early_Permian_Shakhtau_Reef_Cis-Urals

Wikipedia contributors. “Nautilida” Wikipedia, 26 Nov. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilida

Wikipedia contributors. “Solenochilus” Wikipedia, 28 Apr. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenochilus

[gumsbiter]

The magicians

[crimson-nail]

funny convo about planet names in the cowboy road-trip server

[zheida]

WEW havent posted in a while, but heres some things ive been working on! im making some acrylic charms to sell at a con with a friend of mine, and any leftover will be sold on my online shop!! the last one i will do is one of my ocs but heres some girls!!