Mariana not mary-anna

I'm working on @artescampcreations.bsky.social stuff on the living room floor, and in the dining room, my @abbythecleric.bsky.social is in a marketing board meeting for a local community theater company, and I'm just so full of love for our little life.

@ologies.bsky.social anteater episode?
Or alternatively, @nome.bsky.social thread?

Lickety split - Nature How do you stick your tongue into an ant's nest? The giant anteater does it by opening its mouth using the muscles that other mammals employ for the reverse operation.

www.nature.com/articles/44498

Sources:
www.instagram.com/p/CzJYPIbLe5...

Three things I just learned in rapid succession
1) giant anteater skulls are like long tubes, not cartilage
2) their tongues are mostly attached to their sternum, not their hyroid like most animals
3) their lower jaws split with a ligament that allows them to rotate outwards, not down

Tonight my MIL and I are at the town meeting in Medford, because my wife is the deputy clerk and my best friend is the town clerk, and we wanted to see how it works.

There are 200 people in this town. There's around ten people at the meeting. Everyone knows each other, I love small towns

Tonight's high and doodling strange creatures thought: ARE THERE ANY NOT-DOMESTICATED ANIMALS WITH FLOPPY EARS? ?

**Asked specifically because I remembered floppy ears was a trademark of domestication gene expression in research done on foxes several decades ago or something

Some turtles I helped cross roads, and a moose I got to watch for a while.
Just a normal day driving in Maine

YouTube video by SLICE Who? Fabergé Masterpieces : The Exquisite Art of Imperial Eggs | SLICE WHO | FULL DOCUMENTARY

Is this a reputable source? I dunno. Is the information accurate? No idea.
But it's PRETTY and tickles my brain
youtu.be/rW9H1BhBBTw?...

Important news, there's a lengthy and high resolution documentary about the Fabregé eggs on YouTube now so we can finally close the loop that started with this book:

We can upload 3 minute videos now.

YOU KNOW THE RULE

YouTube video by Charlie Nebe My Brain is a Symphony

Anyways if someone wants the best explanation of having a hyperactive/ADHD/neurodivergent brain I've ever seen (for myself) watch Charlie Nebe's video My Brain Is A Symphony
youtu.be/oWIH4j1l9zQ?...

It's not just the worry and stress about the world - that's just Life right now. It's specifically the internal hyperactivity and overwhelm from having a discordant orchestra of thoughts, and loops of sound and potential conversations playing over and over like a dvd menu waiting for me to act

My brain is scrambling for purchase on a mountain of ideas and directions and projects and half-formed thoughts about how to cultivate community locally via art - and when it reaches a desperate peak of needing to do *something*, it falls apart and my body feels it and I suddenly can't stop crying.

And currently, a lot of my thoughts revolve around community building, wanting to get involved, wanting to build resilience in my circles so I can feel safe, wanting to be an artist whose art is activism, fiber arts and how they tie communities together, etc etc.

I've been struggling a lot with panic attacks, and a lot of it is from workplace trauma and general shit I'm dealing with but lately I've noticed one of my triggers is overwhelm from constantly looking for a way to Help. Having ADHD means I live with a constant multi-layered stream of thoughts -

I hate that. I've found it actually but to be kind of fun to try and describe my art in alt text, and I can't imagine purposely just....not? After I've opened the field to do it.

This palette! The character design! The sense of cohesion and the way you can feel how *deliberate and lively* the style is. I absolutely love this.

Nuuu
It's frigid, even spending just 15 min cleaning off my car was painful

Posted with alt text bc I fricking love this. No I couldn't find a pronunciation

I genuinely just ask with care and hope and the eternal justice-oriented optimism of a libra.
#bookselling

Like. I have a lot of hurt and bitterness still, but that's between me and my therapist. Generally - I'm more concerned and curious about who is doing the emotional labor now - is it back on just booksellers? Membership? Advocacy? Have they created a better structure for the work?

Real talk, there's so much happening at this month's WI in Denver that I wish I had been a part of planning. It looks promising.
Also real talk - I'm so curious as to whether there's a new person doing the work I had been, or if they've split the work off or just made it everyone's problem or what.

The vibes this year low key

Please

In general I find this painting and composition fascinating now. Must have been popular.
#fashionhistory

Lucas Cranach the Elder | Judith with the Head of Holofernes | The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Book of Judith, part of the Old Testament Apocrypha, relates how the beautiful Jewish widow killed Holofernes, the Assyrian general directing the siege of her city, Bethulia. After seducing Holofe...

Okay I answered one of my own questions - the met literally says they made several renditions of this
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
But - what about the gloves!? Textil history/historical clothing nerds tell me more I'm fascinated

An array of multicolored crochet granny squares on a couch

Squares

#crochet🧶

ICYMI! Huge thanks to @speed317.bsky.social, Lydia, @itsdanicarr.bsky.social, @matthewmercer.bsky.social, and @criticalrole.bsky.social for trusting me with the beloved icon of Tal’Dorei. Whitestone endures!! #criticalrole

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