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The Mummer's Dracolich

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Denizen of #BlueSkagos. Geologist and mother of an awesome 10-yo who loves dragons, rocks, and dirt, too. Evie and the Afterlife comic thread here: https://bsky.app/profile/mummers.bsky.social/post/3lz2ji3chr22j

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The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · Jul 31

The best people are the ones adding to your TBR pile

The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · Jul 31

Also, for what it's worth, several of my recent purchases and most of my "to buy later" list comes from Bluesky

Honorable mentions:
Galahad (Grant Piercy)
Wearing the Lion (John Wiswell)
Short story in Rewired: ND Perspectives in Horror (Anna Orridge)
The Butcher of the Forest (Premee Mohammed)
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Lëspreüh @lespreuh.bsky.social · 4h

Gribouillis devant Supernatural

Dessin représentant le buste d'un oiseau étrange au dessus d'une ville et d'un arbre décharné

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 12h

Our feature tutorial/artist today is this page of notes on how FINGER SPACING, by the talented
@kato_anatomy! This observation shows the most when drawing a RELAXED hand. #gamedev #animatindev #comicart #comics #illustraion #anime #manga #anatomy

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The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · 22h

Diabolical

The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · 1d

*starts to clap, never finishes*

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

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The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · 1d

Jenny of Oldstones with dragonflies instead of dragons

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The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · 1d

Filing this away with the tumeric shortage news

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The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · 1d

Has "Bakur" been suggested yet

Star Trek Insurrections quote: "We believe that when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man."

The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · 1d

HAVE THEY DISCOVERED THE MOULETTES

(Not geography music but any band that can write a song specifically about the Mephisto nematode is special in my book)

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Hidden World (Halicephalobus Mephisto)

YouTube video by Moulettes - Topic

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Stieven @stievenvdp.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hey, it’s #PortfolioDay … again.

The less typical diorama stuff this time, annotated... and the thumbnails are going to suck.

Diorama featuring a bunch of wildlife that lived there, daytime scene

Diorama featuring a bunch of wildlife that lived there, nighttime scene.

Skorpiovenator diorama detailing nesting behaviour and some ontogony

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 1d

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no

The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · 1d

I think TBR piles are beautiful because they are evidence of an ongoing appreciation of the world

I intend to die with a huge one

I'm not done until I'm done

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The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · 1d

Capybara, meanwhile, can't be bothered

I love this one

The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · 1d

It might just depend on the roadrunner

I chased one as a kid (because it ate a lizard I liked) to a fence with two openings

It could have escaped

Instead it ran to one, changed it's mind, ran to the other, then back and forth while I watched

I decided This Bird Is Dumb and gave up the chase

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1d

and how much I fucking love that, I think that's so fucking amazing and precious.

Amy sez

Well of course. We are all the people who chose to leave the Nazi bar, which wasn't easy at that time. But we chose to leave because...NAZIS.

And yeah, that's our crucible.