Zachary Braun

A polyptych representing four animals. The text above it reads "And God gave the beast-kings gifts that they might share with their people." The first panel is a panting wolf and reads "To the Wolf, God gave ripping teeth and the Law of the Pack." The second is a roaring bear with the text "To the Bear, God gave crushing jaws and terrible strength." The third is a falcon looking over a pastoral scene, the fields stretching all the way to the horizon. "To the Falcon, God gave slicing talons and great sight." The last is a simple snapping shrimp just sitting by some rocks. "And to the Shrimp, God gave the concussive plasma cannon."

redrew a sketch from 3 years ago of one of my favourite tumblr posts #art

So stupid that you have to live through this BS. Happy for your studio's successes so far in spite of it all.

The next NofNA page was too complicated to finish in a single session, so the next update will have to be next week.

Thanks for the lesson! I hadn't even considered it were an acquired toxin in the first place.

Were there normal-colored poison dart frogs? I had a suspicion that the way that warning colors evolve in poisonous animals is that, the warning color starts as an adjacent mutation, and then, all of the normal ones are just eaten, both killing off the original color and everything that sought it.

The Dark Souls 1 sewer rat, but, I'm not sure if that counts as a fight since I just picked him off with a bow from an elevated platform as he stood there, oblivious...

YouTube video by Anatoly Fit 🎶First song of Mrs. Alpha🎤 #wolf #howl #pup

Please look at this... www.youtube.com/shorts/yPFUk...

YouTube video by Liana African wild dogs in Madikwe

Digging in the red dirt, lying down! Uploaded 3 days ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRDH...

I added way too much orzo to my pot of soup. Ruined. It's almost solid orzo. Now I have to eat it all, and it wasn't very good to begin with.

Oops, I just realized that I didn't read the day of my doctor's appointment correctly. NofNA will update both days that week after all.

My phone's speaker stopped working. Which means call alert sounds don't work and I can't know when I'm receiving a call. Apparently, there're two speakers in phones, though... one for your ear, and the main one that plays sound you can hear far away. I ordered a replacement main speaker.

NofNA will not update on September 2nd, as I have a doctor's appointment that day.

YouTube video by Joe's Wildlife Adventures African Wild Dogs Up Close in Mana Pools

Amazing close-up encounter with painted wolves I found, uploaded to YouTube only 2 days ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=es5k...

Finished revising Autography. All that remains to be done is to draw graphics for the final (first) book, then the .pdfs will be complete. After that, they'll need to be broken up into their web versions' pages.

The next step is editing the third book. After that, I have to compile book 1 in the self-publisher,then compile book 2 again (because the original is in Adobe's InDesign format, which I no longer have since that computer's power supply is now defunct).Book 3 is already compiled; just needs editing.

Finished editing Glyptography (book 2) for compliance with the first book. It required reading it again and making notes of what needed to be changed, then sitting down and reading it yet again as I went through it and changed certain sentences or passages.

In addition to finishing the first novel of the "-graphy" series, it seems like I'll need to edit the second one as well, maybe even the third one. This is what happens when you leave the first in a series for last.

The next NofNA novel and final part of "-graphy" is essentially finished. Now comes all of the editing and re-reading. The re-reading is annoying because it can't be done properly for as long as the writing is in memory, which means, waiting to forget what happens in the book!

I did not receive a prescription for antibiotics from this dentist, which is understandable given the situation around antibiotics, but my recovery is slower this time because of it. I received an antiseptic mouthwash instead. Still sore about not being able to keep my extracted teeth!!

Day 3 after my tooth extractions, I can chew without pain in my jaw now. My gums are still swollen and bloody at times, giving a sensation like teething, when baby teeth fall out and adult teeth come in, something that I have not felt in, like, 35 years.

It's a shame that I wasn't able to keep the whole one, at least, because it had some odd, spiky bone growth on one of the root tines. Other than that, it's been painful—eating even yogurt with fruit hurt a lot, despite using the opposite side of my mouth—but otherwise, I'm recovering.

My surgery ended up OK, but the result wasn't as good as last time. One of my teeth broke while it was being removed, and the extraction necessitated a stitch. The other tooth came out whole, but the dentist wouldn't let me keep either one for some reason.

In addition, I've lately been preparing to refresh my hard drive. My current NofNA computer's hard drive is about 12 years old now, and I like to replace them before they fail. I always get nervous something will go wrong, though... It's tricky to install Windows 98 in 2025.

Tomorrow, I go in for oral surgery, to extract the wisdom teeth on the left side of my mouth. Because of this, NofNA won't update on Thursday.

Tunes Tomb The whole purpose of this channel is to help memorialize some of the best electronic music of the past 30 years. Much of what you'll find here is out of print and hard to find. I feel like this music ...

I found a total goldmine of old breakbeat recently: www.youtube.com/@TunesTomb/v... Specifically, scroll down to CDs named "Y4K", but there's a bonanza of other rare old CDs under that account.

Papayas are so frustrating. If you smell a ripe one, it seems like there might be flavor, but it's barely there. Especially when cold out of the fridge (because you can't eat an entire one at once). Mangos beat them so badly. But. They shouldn't!! Has anyone ever had a fresh, tasty papaya?

Hey Hawkpelt,

Those are some far-out designs. This idea is not bad. Using abilities from fantasy/hypothesized animals...

I arranged a surgery appointment for May 19th (a Monday). Due to this, NofNA may not update on that day, depending on whether or not my insurance agrees to cover the procedure. The dentist I went to this time didn't say anything about any special procedures.

Thanks... It's possible that the offending account was banned, and that gets rid of all of its reposts. I'll change my password if it works like that, as some shady database out there probably still has it.

Unless... ...Is the repost still there on your timeline? I was wondering if a hacker could go into an account, repost, and then hide the repost from that account's own feed, or delete it from its own profile, and in both cases, it remains reposted to other peoples' timelines, leaving no trace...