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This story inspired me to adopt my own little girl. Her name is Jane after Jane Goodall and I love her. She's going to sniff out so many pangolins!!

for the past two years i have been sponsoring a tuberculosis detection rat in tanzania, her name is carolina. she sniffs sputum samples & alerts her handlers when she detects TB. recently she turned 8 & aged out of the program, so they held a retirement party for her & sent me photos.

while carolina moves on to live a life of rest & luxury in the retirement kennels, her role is being passed on to her successor, tamasha. she is 2 years old & was named after the grandmother of one of her handlers.

(with her handler priscus)

here is a description of tamasha:

"Tamasha is also quite playful! She enjoys jumping, climbing, and sometimes does a joyful little dance when placed in the TB evaluation enclosure – as if celebrating her enthusiasm for the work ahead. She’s also a big fan of avocado, her favorite treat for a job well done."

im not afraid to admit that this email made me cry like a stupid baby. you can sponsor your own big beautiful TB- or landmine-detecting rat through APOPO HeroRATS. they send you an update on how your rat is doing each month, including photos.

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I haven’t posted on Tumblr in YONKS! Here’s what I’ve been working on!

Check out my site at https://www.alanatedmon.net/

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The Rescuers - Milt Kahl

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Some of the sketches that went into Margaret Rogerson’s An Enchantment of Ravens cover. I loooooooovvvvvveeeeeed working on this :)

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Rebel book illustrations by Elena Bespalova

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My doggo, Ezri, who rarely barks and mostly borks.

When I got her, she’d been abused and would cower and pee at almost everything, and had been mistreated when she’d barked, so she never would. One day months after I had her she got excited on a walk and borked at a bird, and then immediately cower-peed. I had to re-teach her to bark by gathering her whole human pack and having everyone bark and howl and feed her treats and pet her till she got excited enough to join in, and then got more treats. Took a while but I was able to teach her to bork on command (and she’s gotta be excited or she just stares at me like “Sorry, the bork system needs charging”) and she’ll do it happily when she’s excited to go for a walk or upon seeing a friend, and at birds. I love her croaky borking, especially when she started off terrified of making a joyful noise.

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Happy Neil Day! Please enjoy the very rare alternate Neil images!

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For a little while last year I was trying to do more of these creepy stylized portraits. One of the ADs from Macmillan was really impressed with them. She mentioned wanting to see more covers illustrated in this cover from me.

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Neil Banging Out the Tunes (2023)

Air-dry clay over foil and wire armature, EVA foam, acrylic paint, paint marker

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Omg. He's absolutely perfect.

Mee too, hampter

This was a Patreon Request

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Thankyou for this beautiful gift. That chuckability is through the roof. You can't not want to punt her across a football field.

This was a Patreon Request!!

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Tiny clay friend. Made w a gallon of cheap crayola air-dry.

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I'm so stoked that we're going to be releasing these books again with portrait art on the covers!! It's been such an honor to work with my client JL Feuerstack on this truly epic series.

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Good references are magical. Thankou @puffershark!!

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Messing with type.