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Brothers

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I've created a side blog for my fanfics! Feel free to take a look! 🪄 So far, I've written fics for The Bad Batch, The Witcher (book fandom), and The Clone Wars. More will definitely follow. I'm also currently participating in the Summer of Bad Batch 2025 event, the prompt fills are directly posted to this blog! 🔮

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A pair of miniature origami crows in a bottle as earrings 🔮✨

Made from 2x2 cm origami paper.

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🐚🌲⚜️Elves Forest Ship⚜️🌲🐚

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“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)

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Angry grogu is the best 🥰

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The Witcher IV Cinematic Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2024

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There are no gods here... only monsters.

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An assortment of Bad Batch (well, mostly Crosshair) themed bracelets I made last summer.

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Unfinished watercolour & pencil on paper painting of Aloth Corfiser's character portrait from Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, one of my favourite games ever

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Avisaurus darwini here lived at the very end of the Cretaceous, about 66 million years ago, in what is now the Hell Creek fossil beds in Montana, USA.

It was a member of a diverse group of Mesozoic birds known as enantiornitheans, which retained claws on their wings and often still had toothed snouts instead of beaks – and being part of the avisaurid family it was also one of the larger known examples of these birds, similar in size to a modern hawk at around 60cm long (~2').

Although this species is only known from isolated foot bones, the remains have distinct enough anatomical features to show that Avisaurus had powerful gripping talons similar to those of modern hawks and owls, suggesting it had a similar lifestyle hunting small vertebrate prey in the ancient swampy Hell Creek ecosystem.

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References:

Clark, Alexander D., et al. "New enantiornithine diversity in the Hell Creek Formation and the functional morphology of the avisaurid tarsometatarsus." PloS one 19.10 (2024): e0310686. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310686

“Predatory birds from the same fossil formation as SUE the T. rex.” Field Museum, https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/predatory-birds-from-the-same-fossil-formation-as-sue-the-t-rex 

Wikipedia contributors. “Avisauridae” Wikipedia, 21 Oct. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avisauridae

Wikipedia contributors. “Avisaurus” Wikipedia, 09 Nov. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avisaurus

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Bob!!

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The Heroes of Baldur’s Gate ⚔️

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Getting better with watercolor

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-) Season 2 Appreciation Week ↳Day 1 — Dragons "The Dance of the Dragons is the flowery name bestowed upon the savage internecine struggle for the Iron Throne of Westeros fought between two rival branches of House Targaryen during the years 129 to 131 AC. To characterize the dark, turbulent, bloody doings of this period as a “dance” strikes us as grotesquely inappropriate. No doubt the phrase originated with some singer. “The Dying of the Dragons” would be altogether more fitting, but tradition, time, and Grand Maester Munkun have burned the more poetic usage into the pages of history, so we must dance along with the rest." -Fire & Blood, George R. R. Martin

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Astarion you are such a fuckin dork