Valla-Ragna

And I'm looking forward to some time off to not do anything in a few weeks. Been dealing with some lows emotionally, but trying to keep going. Really hoping this new place frees up my finances some.

I've had a crazy month, went on a trip, moved,(still am moving, but hopefully that'll be done tomorrow), and I spent a lot of free time knitting a sweater i finished tonight just in time for it to be nearly 70 degrees tomorrow. I'm exhausted from the last several months.

Cambrian Foundation: Fortunian
Cambrian Nemesis: Stage 2
Cambrian Wrath: Stage 3
Cambrian Starfall: Stage 4
Cambrian Revival: Wuliuan
Cambrian Imperium: Drumian
Cambrian Hegemony: Guzhangian
Cambrian Restoration: Paibian
Cambrian Rebellion: Jiangshanian
Cambrian Frontier: Stage 10

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

Crinoids are the state fossil of Missouri and most of them look like someone dropped a roll of Smarties, but this one is the most kickass crinoid ever.

Throw back Thursday, two pieces made 10 years apart that in still extremely proud of. The Thorin's map was made in 2013 and Saint 14 and the wish dragon (based on @sketchmatters.bsky.social ) was made in 2023. Both hand embroidery.

I feel like people think "birds are dinosaurs" is a weird fun fact that is "technically true" but I don't know how to emphasize that there are tens of thousands of species of theropod dinosaur on the planet with us right now. People keep them AS PETS.

WE EAT THEM.

I'm so glad you like it and are excited to put it up.

Just got it hung up on the wall tonight

Have you finished the campaign (or watching or however you're interacting with it)?

He has a point, but then he decides to go do horrible things instead of actually fixing the problem.

Image shows Destiny 2 fanart with the character Felwinter wearing a fan-made custom design of Warlock robes and armor, complete with his canon accurate helmet, and Iron Truage gloves as he is part of an iconic Valentine's Day card framing. He stands with his arms folded looking forward at you with a rose carefully tucked under one hand. The background has various Destiny Crimson Days themed like candy hearts, red flower petals, & Crimson Days logo imagery. Where the basic card has a single large image in the back of several red bars that criss-cross at the top in a flat-topped peak, Felwinter's card background has one slimmer tall peak and a shorter peak next to it to resemble the known reference of his mountain behind him. Red roses arc around him from behind. There are three large blank rectangles next to Felwinter. Two of them are designated "to" and "from" slots for people's names while the third one reads: "Mountains have always divided people from eachother, but we make the rules in our own homes & you always have a place in mine." The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is seen off to the side of the image with the extra statements of "Queer Art By Queer People" & "Human Artist; no A.I."

Continuing a years old tradition of mine by adding to the Valentines card list the man who technically started the list, I just couldn't draw him sooner 🫶💝

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #Felwinter #DestinyArt #CrimsonDays #d2valentines2026

Image shows Destiny 2 crossover Destiny Rising fanart with the character Helhest posing with a mass of red roses circling around her while she is part of an iconic Valentine's Day card framing. She's standing partly from the side with her robotic arm facing front & extended back a bit while emitting waves of light blue electricity across the bottom of the image & around her body to create heart shapes out of the electricity. The biggest electric heart forms in her opposite hand as its held up halfway into the electric waves. She looks at you with bright eyes & a smile on her face. There are three large blank rectangles next to Helhest. Two of them are designated "to" and "from" slots for people's names while the third one reads: "Communication lines are secure. We have all the privacy we need." The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is seen off to the side of the image with the extra statements of "Queer Art By Queer People" & "Human Artist; no A.I."

Helhest swinging in from Rising with her own Valentine's card for #d2valentines2026 🫶💙💚

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #Helhest #DestinyArt #CrimsonDays

A four part comic. The first panel says "it's ok to ask for help" and features Osiris and Saint 14. The second panel says "you're not a burden" and features Shaxx being presented with many gifts. The third panel says "murder is ok" and features Failsafe sending hearts to Rasputin. The fourth panel says "your feelings matter" and Saladin climbs over the panel boundary with a gun while glaring at Rasputin. Shiro 4 is staying well out of his way.

Have a happy and peaceful Crimson Days! Very peaceful. No ancient centuries-old motive for violence at all.

For the Crimson Days event with @d2artevents.bsky.social

*dead-eyed stare at the Destiny community*

Excellent article! Touches on a lot of points I've been mulling over but more eloquently. Things like 'content creators who play a game as their full-time job are inherently coming from a different place than the vast majority of player, but get taken as

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Multiples copies of REEFS OF TIME: WHAT FOSSILS REVEAL ABOUT CORAL SURVIVAL in a box that arrived at the author's front stoop and made her smile.

If you'd like a brief escape from the global chaos, I recommend reading REEFS OF TIME, my latest book. It will take you to tropical islands to hunt for fossils and underwater to living reefs, which are somehow both fragile and resilient (as are we). #scicomm #nonfiction #coral #fossilfriday

Horner isn’t an isolated case. Some of the bullies and harassers in dinosaur paleo have been found out and kept their jobs, because academia leans on their side. Many other bullies and abusive men continue to do damage because they haven’t been named. This isn’t one man. This is systemic in paleo.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

Image shows Destiny 2 fanart with several Ghost characters, including one O.C. Ghost. Felspring wears a fan-designed shell, Sundance, Glint, Grom, & the O.C. Ghost Gustav are hovering in the open top of a tan cardboard box with a warm purple cloth corner decorated in glittery zigzag patterns along one side of the cloth hanging out of the front of the box. Under the box flap reads in curly letters "to a good home". There are thin pale blue glowing beams loosely connected to both ends of the sentence's first and last letters. The beams curl & loop off the side of the image. The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is in the corner of the image with the extra statements of "Queer Art By Queer People" & "Human Artist; no A.I."

Ghosts looking for their person like cats in a box set out by the Traveler ♡

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #DestinyGhosts #Grom #Felspring #Glint #Sundance #OCGustav #DestinyOCs

Ammonites assorted

Pastel coloured Triassic marine reptiles

Jawlesh fish

Showing cool women in palaeoart

子著 based in China, does adorable science communication books

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

black cat lying flat and sideways on a kitchen countertop, staring into the middle distance. there is a white hand in the bottom left gesturing at the cat like “WHAT IS THIS”

creature who has never been given attention in her life (has been given slightly less attention for Less Than One Day bc of Events)

A screenshot of the Overdrive search interface, showing a search on the key word "tuomala" and the book The Map and the Territory by A.M. Tuomala available to request as a library hold.

Exciting news! I've been working with @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social to get their catalogue of ebooks available on Overdrive/Libby--and I just got confirmation that it's gone through!

If your library uses Overdrive/Libby, you can now request that they acquire The Map and the Territory as an ebook!

River's Bend Auction item 'River's Bend' hosted online at 32auctions.

For folks in the contiguous US: my dad has donated two 6x6” oil paintings for auction to benefit his local art museum and maybe I’m biased but they’re GORGEOUS. Please look, bid, or share for a good cause and some damn good art

www.32auctions.com/organization...

(2nd link in comments)

A friendly quetzalcoatlus 🩵🩷

Plush pattern for patrons till Feb 5

#plushie #plush #plushart #dinosaur #quetzalcoatlus

#destiny2

This. I’m *not* going to get into it here, but there have been & ARE STILL many problematic & predatory people. We try to keep people safe & keep an eye out for people. When you are young it’s easier to not always understand what situations you might be walking into. Not apologizing for anyone

Image shows a black and white Destiny 2 fanart with the characters Felwinter Helhest, Crow & Cayde-6 wearing suits & ties on while in a warehouse full of crates. The crates chiefly have Spider's business logo on them but then have an intrusive Vanguard lable slapped over his logo. Felwinter and Helhest stand in the foreground, where Felwinter has a notepad in his hand as he looks over at the globe being hologram projected out of Helhest's prosthetic robot arm, which she smiles down at. In the background Cayde sits atop stacked crates as he leans back with his arms folded behind his head, his eyes closed, & his ankles propped up on Crow's shoulders as Crow sits on a lower crate stack. Crow looks over his shoulders with a wide pressed mouth in annoyance. The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is at the bottom of the image with the extra statements of "Queer Art By Queer People" & "Human Artist; no A.I."

Just Queer team things 💫
On to the next site! 👏

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #Felwinter #Helhest #Crow #Cayde6 #DestinyArt #BnW #SuitnTie #Spider