hobbies: 2D art, crochet, vidyagames ~~~ updates: bought a sewing machine ~~~ work: museum education/biology ~~~ side gig: yt channel Two Birds With One Game (is it a side gig if it doesn't make money?)
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Latest Posts by sketchelium - Page 3
This is the only bleach content you'll ever get out of me (probably)
One of the most beautiful sights in the summer twilight is the gentle glow of fireflies lighting up the crepuscular gloom. These twinkling insects are the most abundant bioluminescent beetles, with roughly 2,500 species known around the world. Their glowing abdomens serve multiple purposes – but what we don't really have a good handle on is how this trait evolved. According to a team led by paleontologist Chenyang Cai of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a firefly magnificently preserved for eons in golden amber may have some answers. Some 99 million years ago, Flammarionella hehaikuni was already lighting up the dusk, suggesting its ancestors had well-and-truly evolved their characteristic glowing butt by the Mesozoic.
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[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]
a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”
my moth cloak is gonna be SO GOOD y'all aren't even READY
pov you're my cat admiring my almost-finished atlus moth cloak
heavily modified from this pattern:
cat tax^
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Tree Log Bag Pattern // Shroomigurumi
he's being such a trooper while I practice for my work-related talent show
[Image id: A photograph of a grackle with flaming text above and below that reads, “You just got GRACKLED | reblog to grackle your followers” end id]
thank you youtube tutorial from 14 years ago, you were the easiest to understand and also somehow the shortest video I could find
YEAST FOR THE BREAD POST
A bread is one of the most vulnerable animals on earth of all time. It can die in a number of different ways, which include being smashed, being old, being rottened, being crumpled up, getting too hot, having water put on it, and having water not on it but being in the air a lot (the water (mist)). The bread’s favorite way to die is being eaten, but the world is a complicated place, and it does not care for what the bread wants, and so it dies in a variety of ways which are not the preference of the bread.
Humans are considered the bread’s natural predator, and also, are the bread’s mommy (make/give birth to the bread). Humans are a large species of ant or plant or ele phant with two grasping appendages which they use to give birth to the bread. They also have one hole which eats the bread, and some other holes, which the bread is not allowed near, generally.
Some bread can go in the fridge. Some bread has fruit in it. Scientists don’t know why, as putting fruit in the bread is considered yucky, and scientists have difficulty imagining an organism that likes yucky things.
There is the anteater, which is an organism that likes yucky things, but scientists do not need to imagine it, because it is real.
Skip Google for Research
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
Sunspot is done he is finally done it's been like two months and he's finally done!! And he STANDS! I can't believe he stands!
This is the Large Wyvern pattern by craft intentions on etsy. Absolute beast to make (pun intended)
I'm proud to say that I'm an adult who rents a house where I put this shelf and took this picture last week
yt thumbnail for the upcoming new environments in our mh world playthrough :) I have learned how to properly use the lasso tool and I am thriving.
Insect Glaive is my favorite fucking weapon in Monster Hunter. Just beating dragons to death with a stick and this cool bug I found.
Plus I get to make cool helicopter sounds with my mouth and it isn't even weird.
I Am Going To Need A Fucking Miracle, 2024
Digital acrylic on canvas
Immortalizing a lucky hunter's fateful moment versus the G Rank Hyper Plesioth hip check.
i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)
Someone captured the solar eclipse on an airplane
LOOK at it. The object. I think I'll make a bigger version too I did buy this pattern, right here (they also do HTTYD stuff!!!):
Will be posting again soon, thinking of doing rathalos soon >:)
Until then check out this sweater I made for my cat (he is feeling much better)
This guy is perfect because he is only spines and fins. That's all you need really. Which one should I do next >>
stickers and such:
Plesioth is next up to be httyd-ified, but progress is a little slow due to this man putting stuff in his mouth that he shouldn't
standing in line at the grocery store when inspiration hit and I messaged myself "monster hunter how to train your dragon"
if u want some stickers
