Rocket Witch

My white whale is finding and picking up a camel spider though. I need to find one of those fuzzy goobers and they're hard to track down unless I get up super early and trek around at night with a flashlight and go tapetum shinies hunting.

And some tidepool things and birdwatching in a snowy plover area

Caught an adorable crab mate-guarding when I was on a restricted-access beach. I was unsuccessful in finding any ligia sp. though

Also millipedes! Like jumping spiders, they always make my day }:3

I also had a bunch of other firsts. Picked up a tarantula spiderling and a local cricket species. Picked up a lil scorpion and caught an awesome photo of a black widow who caught herself a scorpion meal (NOT the scorpion I found!)

Last month on my work trip, I managed to pick up some really cool critters as a side quest to my actual job. This was the highlight and a first for me...a Jerusalem cricket! Chonky little tank was plowing through spider webs and literally marched right past me in the hanger so I put him outside.

There are torpedo and missile hatches forward, starboard/port, and dorsal. Those little deets were really fun to design in in. Same for utilizing axle bricks and translucent yellow bricks (I wish I could easily incorporate internal lighting). Just lots of fun details to work on!

Ministorum retrofit of a rouge trader Q-ship that will transport my mini order of sororitas and refine blessed promethium.

Flight deck and overhead rigging to deploy a pair of drop cathedrals

No one expects a gun church to drop out of the clouds

Slapping as many gothic church bits as I can fit

2026 will bring a 40k angry nuns transport/logistics ship and a grackle barge. I've already designed the sororitas ship and need to order the bricks to get it started. The fortress prow opens up to a flight deck for drop-cathedrals :) Sneaki peeki

Not sure if I will release or sell plans on rebrickable because these builds aren't particularly strong and fragile to put together.

Lunar-class cruiser in the same build scale for comparison

Ventral planetary bombard cannons

Plenty of barrage macrocannons, a southpaw nova cannon on a recoil sled, and a spinal lance battery

Lol I basically spent a chunk of this year designing CAD and doing test renderings before picking up ~7000 bricks to build a 30k Salamanders battle barge, which will close out my 2025 rando project. Just a few more revisions and tweaks to the support stand and slab armor.

Look at this really pretty wild sailfin molly from a local creek!

An anomalocaris, a shrimp-like prehistoric creature with prominent claws and stalk eyes, depicted here with cartoonishly sad watery eyes, next to text "I'm a creep." Directly below it is the same anomalocaris singing its heart out. Text, "I'm a weirdo!"

Radiodont head

You keep Falcodaddy away from the L-train!

I mean... you would throw in deep cuts on macro art and other fandom references in your vids for years. Furtrash recognizes furtrash.

P. hoffmannseggii getting her exercise. They get substantially larger than this and always have resting angry face. I need to do a vid of the males with their long uropods :)

(My hands always look like they belong to a lich in handling vids as I don't want lotions or oils to hurt the critters)

A hardshell taco turns into a soft bean burrito.

G. portentosa, Madagascar hissing roach.

"Uppies--give to me pls"

Also I wish you the best of luck on this endeavor! I'd love to see wonderful anatomical models of critters like hallucigenia and anomalocaris proliferate populate desks all over the world. The Cambrian needs way more love.

Do you have a storefront somewhere? I'd be absolutely interested in boomarking and checking periodically. Yeah the general use gray resin is pretty brittle, I've had some unrelated resin model kits break in the past during builds and cyanoacrylate glue doesn't work too well.

A grey resin model of a trilobite on a white background. Its antennae curve from underneath its head armor (cephalon), and walking legs peek out under its spiny thoracic segments. A large compound eye regards the camera coolly. 🐡

Trilobite reconstruction work in progress: Bellacartwrightia whiteleyi, with legs, gills, and antennae.

Or if you're open to printing another and shipping it due to concerns about STL proliferation, I'd be happy to purchase a print? It's just reaaaally cool to see a reconstructed trilobite and I'm excite. I never really seen the underside of a trilobite outside of some 3D renders from scans

Do you have an STL for this? This might be enough to push me over the edge to buy a small resin printer. I have a hollardops specimen preserved in matrix but having a physical model that isn't a delicate fossil with full on leggies would be awesome.

Obligatory trilobite tax:

Essentially this four-panel after Twitter turned to Xhitter, except we have moderation tools and won't be forced to engage by Xenon Husk changing rules to embolden trolls.

Art belongs to @alexnorris.bsky.social

May you be blessed by gender affirmation every time your chest accidentally brushes past a door frame, wall, person, or furniture too closely and soreness radiates through your being.

That will be a thing for a while and it is like "oww, but also yay!"

As long as you don't spook them and set off their skittish nature, they'll happily run laps around your fingers all day and actively explore, unlike hissers (which will sploot on your palm and take a lazy bean nap)

These sweethearts are Simandoa conserfariam and discovered only 20 years ago in a single cave system in Guinea.

Their habitat was destroyed by a mining company shortly thereafter and rendered extinct in the wild, save for some specimens saved by biologists. They can get the zoomies and squeak!

YouTube bro has textbook backpfeifengesicht and he loses no matter what happens

Also I want to go binge Mike Tyson Mysteries all over again

They're definitely a more difficult pillbug species to keep healthy and they're mega shy, but omg they're just too darn precious!
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I love creeping on timelines when I'm able to muster the energy to check up on people. I need to work on being able to say hi after a passage of time without feeling like I'm being a nuisance.

Hi! :3

Omg I'm glad you still have The Tea Pile and caffeine isn't being a butthole anymore ♥️

I got diagnosed with inattentive ADHD this year which explains soooooo much in hindsight and I'm trying to course-correct and reconnect with friends again, especially now.