Olliflower

a close-up of some moss in dark and lighter greens, some light-coloured grey stones, and some orange lichen (flat) growing on a piece of darker grey masonry.

ALSO would you like to look at some moss & lichen I saw when I was going between two buildings before lunchtime. This place is SO GREAT for things growing on stone I cannot even TELL you.

Thinking about Thylacine today 😞

Happy Vulture Awareness Day!

Vultures have complex social networks! They will follow the cues of other scavengers to find carrion e.g. if an eagle dives, a vulture will follow, and another will follow that one.
Black vultures will also follow Turkey Vultures, who have a superior sense of smell!

Starting my integrated masters later this month! Since I'm studying the blue monkeys of akrotiri, I've decided to nickname it my "Boots" project

Thinking about all the poor dogs that have been 'trained' with harmful, incredibly stressful methods based on "pack theory" and "bE tHe AlPhA!"

Nobody talk to me I'm thinking about the damage that the pack theory ("alpha wolf") has done to the understanding of animal sociality 😔🖐️

(despite one of the main researchers who popularised it retracting the theory and publishing plenty of good research on natural wolf social behaviours)

A photon in a slam poetry competition:

I'm too wavey 〰️ for the particles, too much of a particle ⚛️ for the waves 😔🫰
ROY G BIV - and yet I GIVE too much of myself.
Duel slit, need to get lit 💡 but there's no place that I fit ☀️

🫰💥🫰💥🫰💥🫰 💥

Does anyone remember the anglerfish that came to the surface? Because I think about her daily.

Rising Up from my Webtoon - 'I Wonder'

I ran a #SpeculativeEvolution creative activity while interning and would like to present the Rategarbiotest by one of our students:
A foot tall, very muscular future evolution of Brown Rat (rattus norvegicus). This rat can produce an electrical field and has toxic breath from eating rubbish.

Anyone else ever get hit with the random sadness that they'll never know where evolution goes in the future.

I just wanna know how many pseudo crabs there will be in a million years :(

#speculativeevolution #specevo

Such a gorgeous shade of purple!!!! 💜

I wanted Flower to reflect me! They're soft and round, but with enough edge to make them interesting. Like a rabbit they're born underestimated and soft: cute, pastel colours, round face, big eyes, but they've built their personality with piercings and bold, bright outfits!!

The rabbit influence comes from the stockier, chubbier build: lots of rounded shapes and thick lines (with some contrast in the eyelashes).
Anyone who's looked at a hare will understand the spirals in the eyes - their stare can be super intense and magical.

My design choices that No One asked about:

I chose a vague lagomorph sona because they're some of my favourite animals! Rabbits are naturalised to the UK, brought over by the Normans whereas (mountain) hares are native, and spoken about in Irish mythology. Plus, I have a hare tattoo!!

My profile picture and 'sona - Flower!!

I once accidentally deleted about half my illustrations for a picture book draft so I feel your pain 😔🖐️

Wow!!! What a gorgeous blue!!!!

"Devotion to Mother Nature" from my Webtoon - 'I Wonder'

Hey! That's me! :)