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THEY/THEM What’s here: camping, emergency prepping, dog, cool clouds, projects, new or old art by me, small triumphs, cool rocks/roadcuts/landscapes, old things, being disabled, autisming, Minnesotan forever but stuck in ND dragonsden.biz/creature-art

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Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hello, I am not a career artist due to health barriers but I have done: traditional and digital drawing, watercolor, traditional and digital photography, and graphic design. I like nature, history, and cool imaginary creatures. #PortfolioDay

An ancestor of humans uses a stone knife to skin an animal near a campfire. Black and white digital drawing.

A hesperornis leaps into a wave while a mosasaur hunts in the distance. Watercolor and ink.

A double rainbow appears over the green wet season badlands of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

A humanoid dromeosaurid person holds out a claw for a primitive bird to perch on. Pencil drawing.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 2h

I still have the VHS set. It was bright blue for some reason.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 2h

Ow, it hit me right in the childhood.

Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 16h

Incredible stuff from "Dinosaurs: Fun, Fact, and Fantasy", 1982, with the voice of the legendary Derek Griffiths

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 2h

The Jack Hills within that region are now in a protected site, so existing samples are from before it was closed. It is protected because the rocks there are very special. They’re the oldest on earth, and their crystals contain chemical evidence of the first life on earth.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 3h

THIS IS MY FANTASTIC BIRTHDAY ROCK. It is a polished slice of 3.5-4 billion year old metaconglomerate. This means it started as mixed sediment deposits in a shallow sea. They were smashed into stone and then twisted, crushed, heated, and cooled to end up in the Narryer Gneiss terrane in Australia.

A 2 inch semi-square slice of pink-orange rock. It has the texture of a slice of homemade bread and contains visible transparent crystals.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 9h

My toxic autistic trait is that every time I see a cool historically significant vehicle of any persuasion I become convinced it is my life’s purpose to ride in it.

A silver WW2 B-25 Mitchell bomber sitting outside of a hangar in the rain.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 10h

Now that I think of it, it’s not fair of me to be mad at my body for packing away toxic levels of iron as ferritin and refusing to use any of it even when it threatens my life while I (my brain) am packing away canned/dried food, iodine pills, water, and dog food and barely affording to feed myself.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 17h

Never give up, never surrender

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 3d

None of our news was posting about it and even now there is very little. That’s also scary. I learned only from a video by a person in France that letters can’t get here. I can’t see as many videos or news from other countries either anymore.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 3d

My rock from Australia still isn’t here and I’ve never been so stressed. These are very special rocks you can’t get anymore and there’s nothing like them anywhere else on earth. I had no idea our international mail system was this broken. I don’t recommend shipping anything to USA right now.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 4d

I am desensitized to how to videos for tear gas protection, food shortage preparation, and surviving raids and I’m spiraling because I just became aware.

I miss being afraid of a damn virus.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 4d

Honorable mention for Hocus Pocus and Blackbeard’s Ghost which fall just outside the time period mentioned. Blackbeards Ghost was funny though.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know what Disney was on in the 70s and 80s but they were all about traumatizing some kids real bad with these weird horror movies. I’m here for it.

Watcher in the Woods, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Mr. Boogedy, Escape to Witch Mountain. They don’t traumatize em like they used to.

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Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 11d

Also I use that same pencil for sketching good choice

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 11d

It has scanning alien implant at the grocery store checkout energy for sure

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 11d

I grew a potato baby

My hands in dirty polkadot navy garden gloves holding a Yukon Gold potato the size of a French Bulldog’s head.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 12d

I’m kicking myself for missing the chance to end with “make it so” omg

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 12d

Yes and you should definitely do more Star Trek because I been rewatching it. X files is also acceptable. You have your orders.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 14d

“For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.” - Aldo Leopold

A paved bike path lined by fall colored trees with a log fence on the right side. Orange leaves are scattered across the path and piled up beneath the trees.

A birch tree leans over a vast golden wetland with deep blue open water. The wetland is lined along the far shore by fall colored trees.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 16d

Spiders and cranberries must be fall

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 16d

Oof also. But… we try. And I feel like that’s worth something.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 16d

The story of park rangers is one of the deepest love. It transcends tragedy to become a monument of human spirit. I am so proud of my dad.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 16d

I was in a national wildlife refuge a day before the government shutdown. One of the rangers gave me the book “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold for finishing a series of activities. The last act of that person in their potentially ended career was to keep reaching out. As I read it, I cry.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 17d

Log cabin core

Parlor of the Douglas Lodge, Itasca State Park. The room has log walls with massive log beams across the ceiling and flanking the room entry. A cobblestone fireplace is across from the entry. Wood and wicker furniture fill out the room.

Large room off the side of the Forest Inn building in Itasca State Park. The walls are natural stone blocks accented with log windows. Massive log beams support the wood ceiling above, where large wrought iron and wood chandeliers light the room.

A cobblestone stair leads down to a lake. It is lined by pines and birch.

Shade @shadefenix.bsky.social · 17d

Minnesota things, no edits.

A dock on a remote lake lined by reeds. A dead tree juts out from shore on the right. Dense mixed forest of pine and deciduous trees lines the lake in the distance beneath an orange and pale blue sunset.

Looking straight up through a canopy of pines. They are dark against a cloud dappled blue sky.

The golden light of sunrise reflects off my dusty Subaru’s door. Dense aspens line a primitive, overgrown driveway ahead of the car.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 18d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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