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SynapsidGirl

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Paleoartist focusing on synapsids, including mammals. I make both 2D and 3D art. Sometimes sweary, always actively hostile towards plagiarism algorithms. She/her https://cara.app/synapsidgirl

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SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · Nov 12

I guess it's time for reintroduction with all the new followers.
Hi, I'm a paleoartist who also occasionally dabbles in general creature #art, mostly focused on synapsids of all sorts (mammals and our evolutionary line).
I mostly do #3d and #digitalart.

3d render of a dragon, shown mostly from the side, facing right. Only the head and neck are shown, and it's looking down at something out of the frame. It's a mammalian looking dragon, covered with pangolin-like scutes, with short off-white fur on the underside of the neck and lower jaw. It has long pointed ears, and antlers resembling those of the extinct Pleistocene giant deer megaloceros giganteus (somewhat moose-like). It also had saberteeth and porcupine like quills on its cheeks and around the eyes. There's a puff of smoke coming out of its nostrils. The scene is dark, and lit up by an orange glow ( like from a torch or a campfire) coming from the direction the dragon is looking towards.

3d render of the Jurassic synapsid Castorocauda lutrasimilis swimming with a fish in its mouth. It's shown mostly from the side facing left, and angled down diagonally with the tip of the tail much higher than the head. It looks like a long snouted otter with a beaver tail. Its feet are webbed. It's covered with fur, apart from the tail, but has no visible ears. There are some bubbles above and rising alongside the animal. The background is covered by water plants, with some algae covered rocks and logs on the bottom of the lake/river it's the animal is swimming in. The water is a bit murky and very green.

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SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 4h

What I'm saying is I won't get anything productive done in the foreseeable future, and that's without even taking the Witcher into account.

SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 4h

Unfortunately, I decided that, since I had my birthday earlier this month, I should get myself a present. Unfortunately gog had a game I poured inhuman amounts of time into as a teen dirt cheap on sale. Unfortunately, I got the new account discount and also got Witcher 3 for equally dirt cheap.

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SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks!

SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you ☺️

SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks 😊

SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 4h

They're so squishy, they're just perfectly suited for maximum joy delivery, aren't they?

SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks!

SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you😊

SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 1d

The world sucks, so here's a colour study of an elusive water potato I did on Monday, for your viewing pleasure
Proportions are a bit wonky, but it's been a long while since I was grinning this much while painting something
#Sciart

Digital painting of a baby pygmy hippo standing in a pool I water with an out of focus rock face in the background. The hippo is facing the viewer.
It is Very squishy looking, because it's a baby pygmy hippo and they're squishy, wet potatoes with legs.

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SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 20d

Though I just remembered that there are some "ice age never happened" people out in the wild, so could also be an offshoot of that. Or any other nonsense, the amount of people who give into conspiratorial thinking is really scary lately.

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SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 20d

I wonder if they're also the "dinosaurs aren't real" people or if a new conspiracy theory just dropped

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 20d

New @gutsickgibbon.bsky.social video with thumbnail art by yours truly ^^

youtu.be/CQvCzoOcQw8?...

New Australopith Just Dropped...What Does it Mean?

YouTube video by Gutsick Gibbon

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SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 21d

LOL, not far off, as long as it's a really good, high-end laptop. Maybe a gaming pc, depending on a gurdy.
Sadly, I'm yet to meet a gurdy peddling wizard :(

SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 21d

Also, why are hurdy-gurdies so horrifically expensive? I mean, I know why, but still. Why.

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 21d

My window prisms throwing little rainbows at some prehistoric beasts on the drying shelf 💕

A herd of assorted dry but unfired clay animals (horses, aurochs) on a shelf. Some window prisms are throwing subtle rainbows on them.

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SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 21d

In today's episode of misheard lyrics, I refuse to believe that this song does not, in fact, go:
"Magick is a laughing fool, a dance into the dark
A glimpse of hope within a circle... Le chonk"
Who am I to tell musicians they can't sing about les chonks, after all.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 21d

"For centuries, scientists and sailors have know that sperm whales hunted the 'giant squid', Architeuthis dux. Whale bodies are scarred with huge sucked marks and gashes from Archituthus. But the battles take place in deep water, far beyond where humans can easily travel…"

- Awesome stuff.

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 21d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 22d

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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you so much Totemic_tattoo (on IG) for making time for us to give me my very first tattoo. He was so knowledgable and kind, giving the best experience I could have hoped for! Both my partner and I are absolutely thrilled 🖤🥹

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SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 23d

It's such a good bust, I loved seeing the step by step. Great job!

SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 23d

Luna lately when I take her for a walk(unless she gets taken to the beach or a forest, that is): " no thank you, I'd rather go home and nap"
Luna the moment we get back:
" I have ball. Please throw ball, don't touch ball, the ball, throw it, throw the ball"
Make up your mind, you furry menace.

SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 23d

And also, even if it wasn't, why exactly should I be comforted by the idea that the increasingly racist, xenophobic, bigoted society gleefully embracing fascism isn't currently targeting me? I have the ability to care about people other than me, you know.

SynapsidGirl @synapsidgirl.bsky.social · 23d

Yeah, I can't wait to hear the good old "but it's not about immigrants like you" once again.
Yes it is, it's about all of us.

Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 23d

Farage has been targeting my immigration group since the early 2010s. I'm confident, that, just like during the run up to the Brexit vote, my English colleagues will completely downplay my stress and fear, xenophobic threats made at my family, proceed to ghost me and provide no help and support.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24d

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 24d

Research team Naiomi & Arjan approved coloration direction & gave some suggestions as I refined the paint job. Last steps after this: to add protowhiskers and some fuzz, next!

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 25d

#SciArtSeptember Day 20: Glacial
The Southern Ocean is home to several unique orca subspecies, including these C type orcas.
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#orca #orcawhale #whales #sketch

An illustration of two orca whales spy hopping - looking above the waterline with their heads in the air. The whales are dark blue and appear on a simplified background.

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