A
breezy few hours spent on the Yorkshire Jurassic Coast this morning
with my boys. It ended up being a pretty productive 3hrs at Port
Mulgrave popping open 180 million year old nodules. Inside this one was a
nice little Dactylioceras tenuicostatum which is distinguishable from
the other common Dactylioceras species by the tight and densely packed
ribs.
I got started on Discworld at a very young age, and in retrospect it sparked my love for certain tropes, including:
Worldbuilding that sounds like shitposts but eventually evolves into something beautiful
Characters being dragged kicking and screaming into character development and growth (looking at YOU, Sam Vimes)
Characters whose “selfishness” or “greediness” manifests as a need to protect the places and people they love cause they’re THEIRS
Witches
Specifically witches as magical but mostly just very helpful and smart
Good not always meaning nice
But also, genuinely good and nice characters that are still interesting (ex. Carrot, Brutha)
The lowest possible fantasy meets the lowest possible sci fi
Excessive footnotes
Stories that make you roll on the floor laughing and then kick you with feelings when you’re still down
A combination of agnosticism, profound distrust of organized religion, and genuine respect for those who truly believe and use that belief to help others
This is a series of posters I made to show how our perception of Dinosaurs and other animals of the mesozoic changed over the years. These and few more are featured in a Youtube video you can watchHERE
this art is available for prints, t-shirts and other goodsHERE
Artist Loren Stump specializes in a form of glasswork called murrine, where rods of glass are melted together and then sliced to reveal elaborate patterns and forms. While the murrina process appeared in the Mideast some 4,000 years ago, Stump has perfected his own technique over the past 35 years to the point where he can now layer entire portraits and paintings in glass before slicing them to see the final results.
