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The Cambrian Mammal

@naraoia.bsky.social

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Use #AltText. Spoilery! ( #TheWheelOfTime, #StarWars, Cosmere etc) Nerd by nature, biologist by training, corporate cog by necessity. Martial art student, weekend Viking, tinkerer with worlds. #WotSkies founding member Pfp @bymemo.bsky.social

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · Feb 21

New pinned with alt text for my pfp and banner

A cute but kind of fierce chibi version of me (pale brunette with greenish grey eyes) as a badass Brown Aes Sedai. I've got my hair in a long braid far more magnificent than my real hair could manage, and I'm wearing a blue dress with divided skirts because I like to dress practically! I have a book under one arm (of course), and I'm throwing fire with my other hand. Someone must have tried to hurt one of my friends. Or insulted Kaladin Stormblessed in my hearing.

Twitter banner with a loose, flowy knotwork design in dark green, gold and a warm reddish brown on a yellow and white background, with motifs from my various fandoms woven into it.

At the centre is the glyph for the order of Truthwatchers from the Stormlight Archive, a loose, symmetrical bundle of brush strokes diverging towards the top. Strands of the knotwork flow from the ends of its lines.

On either side, twisting around those strands, is a serpent arranged in a figure of eight, biting its own tail, for the Wheel of Time.

In the corners, some of the strands end in the "wings" of two symbols from the Star Wars universe: the winged starburst of the Jedi order at the bottom, and the starbird of the Rebel Alliance at the top.

Above the Truthwatcher glyph, a line of Elvish script from The Lord of the Rings (the first line of Galadriel's lament to be precise) is partially obscured by the knotwork.

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 16m

I hate getting the writing itch when there's no story going in my head.

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 10h

Back on my bullshit with a simple, blessedly black background-free one for #WoTtober 14: symbol. Tai'shar Malkier!

#WoTSkies #TheWheelOfTime #art

Black ink drawing showing part of a stylised human face: eyebrows, closed eyes, a forehead and some hair represented by parallel wavy lines. In the middle of the forehead is a large red dot.

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 11h

Can you, like, inject this sentiment into my brain? 😅

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 12h

🤣

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 12h

Cheap careless fuckers!

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 12h

Just... normal envelopes? I hope they're at least padded!

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 12h

Grab the walker and go for the zoomies like a cat at 3 am 🤣

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 21h

Sad face

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 22h

10/10, no notes

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 22h

Ew. I think the whole circumcising babies thing is iffy! Let adults do what they want to their genitals and donate/sell their cells as they see fit, but it's not like this is a necessary procedure for most kids!

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Elder Spudmonkey @screaminspudmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

WoTtober - Day 13 - Legend
#WoTtober #WoTSkies #TheWheelOfTime

A pencil drawing in Bristol board of Robert Jordan inking a book laid out in front of him on a black table. While smudgy dark images in memory bubbles float around him. The dark, loose defined images are of Rand reaching for a sword floating in front of him, Mat with his wide brimmed hat and ashandarei amount others, Egwene wearing a striped stole while her bottom half turns to crystal, her right hand extended weaving and Perrin holding a hammer surrounded by flame and smoke.

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 22h

Haha, if I'm putting a foot back on Mastodon, I'm definitely going where I have friends!

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 22h

One would *hope* that they ask the owner of the foreskin before doing shit like that, but also... what in fuck's tenth name do people who aren't stem cell researchers buy foreskin fibroblast soup for? ("Lysate" means the cells were broken down)

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 22h

Trigger *or* spoiler! That was one of the features I wished other social media sites had when I experimented with Mastodon.

(Hmm. If the instance I was on closed, does my account still exist? 🤔 @hybridhavoc.com?)

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 22h

Bookshop is as bad as Amazon for excessive packaging. That box could've fit three of the book that came in it.

(I *really* need to stop buying more books, I have multiple overflow piles, and I genuinely have no idea where to put another bookcase 😭)

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 23h

🫂

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 1d

You probably got what you deserved there 🤣

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 1d

(What even *is* an androgynous outfit these days? Jeans and t-shirt? That's just my normal clothes 😆)

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 1d

AH! That makes a lot more sense than what I thought you were saying!

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 1d

I thought Greek didn't *have* any other kind of g? *is confused*

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 1d

Hah! Happy holiday pile-up to you two as well!

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. Lucky me!

At least I don't have to work on it. (I was looking forward to having the whole week off until my boss realised she'd double-booked this week and I hadn't been the first to ask 😐)

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, yeah, there's WoTtober today!

I think I'm gonna let myself skip one for my birthday 😅

(I kinda knew what I wanted to draw but I also just wanna lounge, drink lots of tea, and do fuck all useful 🤷‍♀️)

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Uno 🔥🐐💋 (they/them) @unonomesta.bsky.social · 1d

#WoTtober day 13. Uno is a bloody 🐐💋 Legend.

A rough pencil sketch portrait of Uno wearing his eyepatch with a painted red eye. The rest of the drawing in black and grey. A small pencil lies on top of the drawing paper to the right of the drawing.

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 1d

I made all the right choices, as it turns out 😋

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