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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer

@shingworks.com

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Award-winning science-fantasy & edu comic creator 🌱 www.shingworks.com Dorstenia enthusiast | Managing editor at Vault Comics | Dangerous Nights Crew

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · Jun 29

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 8h

Oh these were all instantly saved to my photo collection, lol

Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 8h

Also this is the most jealous I've been in my entire life lol, you are living the dream!!! and I'm SO glad for you and I am so galvanized to traipse around the jungles one day and get on your level. And, I can't believe you found these in the middle of all those other amazing plants, haha

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 8h

that's so interesting. All of these little bastards to that, I've been looking at my other new world tropical seelings in the greenhouse and they all do it. WEIRDOS!

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 8h

oughhh... im dyin this is the best thing i've ever seen. THANK YOU for habitat photos

Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 8h

Getting a little in the weeds (ha) but D. dolichocaula is a subspecies of D. ramosa. The main species can be variable as well. Here's a specimen with curled appendages.

POWOs:
- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...
- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 9h

i can't overstate this; screaming, crying, throwing up

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 16h

plant encounters. look @shingworks.com it's another one of your lil guys. did a drawing too

dorstenia inflorescence, green and purple, alien-looking

Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 9h

AAAAA my angel, my perfect beauty. The coveted and honestly my favorite Dorstenia, D. ramosa. I can't believe you go to see one in situ, you are the luckiest person alive.

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 1d

Rest in peace to Queen Silver, my favorite quail. She was 4.5 years old. I'm glad I gave her an inadvisable amount of mealworms as her last meal yesterday. She's survived by her sisters Caramel and Irish Creme.

Very on-brand of her to bounce on the first windy, rainy day of autumn. I'll miss her.

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 4d

the late spouse of our friend was a world renowned expert on these lamps/ windows; they didn’t have this one but they took pics of most of the nautilus types in existence for one of their books. I liked those sea creature types the best, they also documented octopus lamps. So gorgeous!

Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 5d

Got to see some real Tiffany lamps today from an interesting friends’ private collection… I didn’t get it before, but now I do. Goddamn they did some crazy stuff with glass and metal

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 7d

a glowing sign against the night sky that reads "bi tires"

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 8d

I PUT THE top half of the PAPASAN COUCH I STRESS-BOUGHT INTO MY ROOM to make my cat love me but it didnt WORK

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 8d

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 8d

my husband got me DRUNK

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 10d

DORS

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 10d

didn't get to the beach (too hot, turned back halfway there ha ha) but the woods here have some cool stuff in them

photo of wild orchids, in habitat. their flowers are white & very small

weird little flower of the dorstenia. like some sort of space antenna

Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 10d

Uerm… need more stick

Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 10d

Okay… WIP and looks like hot shit, but also unironically going according to keikaku.

A messy pile of shit (chicken wire and weed fabric)

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 10d

About to make the wisest possible investment of time and materials I’ve attempted yet. I’ll update with a pic if successful.

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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 10d

Comic books are (and this isn’t hyperbole) the greatest story telling medium that has ever existed. The combination of text and images rendered with a human hand is the most direct path from one mind to another. All other medium pale in comparison.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 13d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 14d

I don't talk about dayjob stuff much anymore, but I'll make an exception here cuz I'm happy with how our new campaign for Dungeon Crawler Carl came together. And proud of the creators and everyone who worked on this thing!! (except @adamccahoon.bsky.social)

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

The Dungeon Crawler Carl: CROCODILE graphic novel

Hello, Crawlers! We're so pleased to invite you to CROCODILE, Dungeon Crawler Carl's first official graphic novel expansion. Now get out there and kill, kill, ki--er, pledge!

www.backerkit.com

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 17d

SIGH

Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 17d

Tomorrow I'm going out to the passiflora fence and I'm petting all these mfs

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 17d

Between them and the danger woims I've had it about up to here with scary-looking but ultimately harmless creachers scaring me, half to death, specifically

Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 17d

I've been having a taxing year and lately have been spending most of my free time outside, plus trying to undo some of the harm in the world by being considerate and gentle with my enemies. This weekend that meant learning how to high jump around about 10000 spiders in the rocks I had to move.

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 17d

Though I just saw that wiki image says [citation needed] so maybe they're dangerous after all. At this point I kind of wish they were to justify all the protracted woim tweezering and delicate maneuvers.

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