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The scale of today's X1.9 CME compared to the Earth. Truly a monstorous eruption.

Moon bootprint hoodie with text overlay that says 80% funded

The #Apollo11 #bootprint hoodies are 80% funded! Almost there! 🤩

I'm so grateful to everyone who has grabbed one or reposted and liked them 💙

Please keep sharing for a final push so I can put this first run into production 🙏

Pre-order them here:
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🐡🧪🎨

The parts of Catholicism i like

The bones
the architecture
the outfits
the orders
The gold cup

Mentally, I'm here

A subway style map on a parchment background. The map's title reads: "Narnia Transit Map: Talking Beasts Ride Free." The map has seven keys, one for each of the seven books in C.S. Lewis's Narinia series. The main movements of characters and action in each book are traced by colored lines, like a subway map. Locations in each book are marked out as stops in the lines. There is a drawing of a lion above the title of the map, and in the lower right corner there is a compass rose. A subway style map on a parchment background. The map's title reads: "Narnia Transit Map: Talking Beasts Ride Free." The map has seven keys, one for each of the seven books in C.S. Lewis's Narinia series. The main movements of characters and action in each book are traced by colored lines, like a subway map. Locations in each book are marked out as stops in the lines. There is a drawing of a lion above the title of the map, and in the lower right corner there is a compass rose.

Public transport isn't just for Middle Earth. Narnia's getting in on the act!

I've drawn a subway map covering all 7 books of The Chronicles of Narnia. Follow the plots lines, but don't touch the third rail! #Narnia #Maps #Subway

You can buy prints on my Etsy store:
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Late November cosy cat 🐈
(with sharp knives hidden in fur)

"West Coast girls, we got it on lock!"

I am a different type of West Coast "girl"

California Girls is blasting in the work truck at 6:00 am

"sun kissed skin so hot it'll melt your popsicle..."

The sun is hidden behind clouds and the horizon. I will not feel it's touch until July 5th

"...bikinis on top"

I wear five layers of knits and Carhartts against the perpetual damp

In trail crew world we have a thing called a ramen bomb - where you make a packet of ramen with instant mashed potatoes after a really long day.

So now I'm just picturing a grilled cheese sandwich dipped in garlic mashed potatoes.

Probably only tastes good in the woods but... 🤷🏼

Pierre Jahan, Workers at The Louvre, Paris, 1947

Wow, they weren't kidding about the moons being shaped like potatoes

I recognized this road straight away, having only driven it once in the winter of 2022. Truly stunning in any season. When I was there it was completely covered in ice and the tree branches looked like they'd been hung with crystals.

A picture from the side of the road of the sun shining through bare limbs of trees. The trees are covered in giant globs of ice like crystals. Everything is in shades of blue except for the trees and the road.

Huh. Well now I feel like an idiot. I drove that road on an ice-covered winter day and what stood out to me was how you could see so far down on either side of the hill through the bare trees. It did not occur to me until just now that those trees would have leaves on them in season 😅

Alright, I'm declaring this the storm of the century for Bellingham. The Wi-Fi at the library went out and the Trader Joe's flooded. I don't know how much more damage we can sustain 😂

a still life painting of a large bouquet of flowers and assorted invertebrates hidden and scattered around it

an open sketchbook with white ink illustrations of a snail, wasp, bee, spider, lizard, butterfly and larvae, on black paper

a woodblock print of a room of shelves lined with curiosities

an open sketchbook with illustrations on black paper of a selection of curiosities like a weird fish, tusk, whale bone chair, squid and skeleton

Forgot to share the last couple weeks of my daily 5 minute drawings again. The first were drawings from Vase of Flowers by Jan Davidsz de Heem. The second were drawings from the Curiosity Cabinet of Ole Worm.

#TradArt

I always forget this. And it always horrifies me.

Nope.

I had an extended plan* in grad school to steal the gorgeous sailboat someone used to moor in view of the library windows. It had a pirate flag on it! That’s like an invitation!

*swim out to it with a knife in my teeth

How, how do I start an F-16?
🎶 The queeeeeestion's real, I stole an F-16🎶

Apropos of nothing, I really like this iconography, even if it's a bit novel. Usually you see a saint facing you and blessing you.

I like this "communion of saints" approach where they're facing the same way you are and doing the same thing you are... and where you don't know all of them yet

A long haired calico cat with green eyes sits on the foot of a bed. She is propped up almost like a human in a chair with her hind paws and tail stretched out in front. The effect is slightly undignified, and also has the air of a boudoir photo shoot.

A hand holds a small flower press about the size of a smartphone. The paper for the flower press is text from a book and there are bright pink flowers with rumpled petals. In the background is a variety of green foliage and a red backpacking pack.

Here is a picture of my non-native cat, and some salmon berry flowers that I pressed on a back country trip building hiking trails

If you're going to make a post praising an incredible news photo, it's a real bad look when you don't include the photographer credit in the post.

An impression of a desert landscape in paint. A red hillside ascends on the right foreground, There is a light floating over the blue ground in a blue and gold sky.

A detail highlighting the hovering light in the background.

A detail of the first image highlighting the metallic pigments of the sky which catch the light intensely.

A devil sits down beside us,
and we say, yes, take everything,
all that we have. Become our king.
There's nothing we need to discuss.
We were aware you were coming.

Original painting on offer at xxyxxy.com

#poetry #painting

My stack of little guys I can rearrange whatever way I like. Might add more to it before wading back into this project.

#NAFO #Fellas #PNW #KingTides #LostCoast

Pt. St. George
The King Tides have arrived, as a squall approaches. The seastack is about 30ft high, with dozens of cormorants hanging out on top. Nothing seems to faze them...

One of the houses built into the ruined west front of the former Benedictine abbey at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #BuryStEdmunds

Two books sit on a wooden window sill in our reading room, looking out onto the museum garden. The first book is titled "An English Almanac". Its cover features beautiful illustrations related to astrology. The second book is titled "The English Festivals", and features a blue cover adorned with musical patterns and illustrated instruments.

fun fact: Halloween in the north of England used to be known as nut-crack night.

people would mark nuts with the names of lovers and place them around a fire.

nuts that sizzled, spat or jumped indicated romantic incompatibility. nuts that burned together suggested peaceful, happy partnerships.

Love some penny news!
I feel compelled to point out that a soda for 100 pennies is not free. That is a soda for $1...

When I was at University, one of my roommates was majoring in linguistics and would often cover our whole living room with flashcards. I picked some things up through osmosis and always enjoy learning more.

Do you follow the guy who often breaks down pop culture or Internet slang on tiktok?

People often try to split up the syllables in my (non-english sounding) first name by inserting an L. It happens so consistently that there has to be a reason for it, but I haven't figured out the phonetics yet

Now comes the even harder work. But for tonight, let's celebrate.