evocation of potato

It's a ridiculous thing - I absolutely do NOT hold others to these sorts of standards that prevent me from acting, from creating, from sharing my thoughts.

I am holding myself to standards that I don't understand

Q: when will I be "good enough", ready to write, to speak?
A: uhhh never, sorry lol

I want to have the confidence to write things that other people can see. I hesitate to even write/post my thoughts on the books I read because I have zero confidence in my opinions, fear that I'm reading and reacting in a shallow way, don't have the background to situate the text in context, etc.

Fuck Harry Potter.

Go play Xenogears.

just realized that my first brush with gacha mechanics was Hasbro's 1992 Kitty (and Puppy) Surprise stuffed toys, where each mother animal came with 3-5 kitten/puppy toys stuffed inside an abdominal cavity

I had 2 cuz I needed EVERYTHING FELINE at that age & also maybe 5 kittens?? (haha no)

Tomatoes are a kind of fruit, platypus are mammals that lay eggs, what exactly is a fish anyway?

These categorisations *are useful* and definitely have their place, but nature doesn't give a shit about any of them. Nature just trucks on and does its own thing.

Meme. Photograph of the sculpture "Eel Walker" by Mark Newman, showing naked woman walking an large eel on a leash. The eel -- a massive moray-looking thing -- is floating along off the ground, so we can assume that they are walking through a stream, or on the bottom of the ocean, or through space. OR that it's a magical eel, and it just flies. The eel is fierce and terrible, and probably is expensive to feed. The woman is done in a golden bronze color. Her hair is floating backwards, suggesting that there is a breeze or an ocean current catching it. I've cleverly (or obnoxiously) written the meme text over her breasts. Sorry, folks; she saving those for the eel. She is muscled and powerful, and the way her left foot is places in front of makes her seem more like a dancer than a walker. She looks like the goddess of eels, taking one of her minions out to gnaw into the dreams of unbelievers and scientists. Meme text reads: "Let's talk eel sex, baby"

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, so let's talk about sex.

Eel sex!

Well...we can't, really.

We don't know exactly where, or how, eels get busy. It's a 2000+ year old puzzle. It's not like we haven't tried. But the sex life of eels is a mystery smothered in secret sauce. 1/5
🗃️🧪

Keep it Shrimple

I need to try to be braver and fight my anxiety. I have had a few bad experiences, but really, the positive ones greatly outweigh the negative. And I have a very supportive friend group in-game, who are excited to help me get through EW when the time is right.

Thank you for your encouragement :D!

Oooh, that is good to know! wrt the Alpaca, I have DT, I just uh, haven't finished EW MSQ in this year 2026 because I'm a crafty/gathering type who is afraid of the final fight and group combat in general lol

But once I have courage, I figure that's how I'll tend to my Alpaca needs!

My Top Five Most-Coveted #FFXIV Mounts

1. Disembodied Head
2. Silkie
3. Pteranodon
4. Alpaca
5. Alte Roite

A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

A painting; Anamalocaris, with a moody expression, clutches a stein in a dark, underwater bar. Opabinia is sitting with her, talking animatedly. Other creatures in the background drink and talk as trilobites scurry around delivering steins.

I encourage you to stop on in to the 'Shale and Well Met' for a pint of.. well, I'm not sure what. But boy is the company great!

wearing her PANTS!!!

A welded cuttlefish with rainbow tentacles sits on a platform. It's gotta be 10 feet high and 15 feet long.

The day was too pretty, so I put Spatula in her Cadillac car and took her all the way along the Waterfront to the Burnside Bridge.

Also paused to see the cutest eldrich beastie ever!

Disability/dementia/incontinence etc are not karmic punishments for cruel people. They are all facts of life for many, and will likely happen to most who live long enough. If you’re going to criticize or make fun of Trump, you’ve gotta raise the bar higher than “haha this guy shits himself.”

Bless the concept & practice of interlibrary loan via local, statewide, national, & international consortia/networks

They got me a VHS cassette about library cats in the year of our Luigi 2021 and thanks to the library(ies in general) for having a VCR that I could use to watch said video cassette

a sweating cuttlefish holds up the phone and above in big yellow block letters it says "Call your reps". Underneath the cuttlefish it says "squid can't use phones"

Call your reps to demand they:
1) Abolish ice (every day!)
2) Vote no whenever the "Make Elections Great Again" Act comes up. It's an atrocious set of restrictions on elections made to make voting harder. Fuck that! Don't let them hear the end of it.

Remember. Squid can't use phones, so we have to.

A glass terrarium featuring a Super Metroid–inspired scene. Samus stands on a moss-covered ledge aiming her arm cannon, while below her a silver Chozo statue holds a golden Morph Ball. The environment includes layered cork rock, live moss, small tropical plants, and gravel, creating the look of an overgrown alien ruin inside a rounded glass container.

A custom Super Metroid–inspired terrarium 🌿

Samus explores an overgrown Chozo ruin built with live moss, miniature plants, and layered terrain to echo the vertical gameplay of the original game.

#Metroid #SuperMetroid #Terrarium #LivingArt #GamingArt #CustomBuild

Developing a theory of animal intelligence thats purely based on grades of how much the animal is a dick to other animals

This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end!

It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍

Disabled people are not expendable.

The elderly are not expendable.

Children are not expendable.

Worth should never be tied to economic productivity.

If we protected the most vulnerable in society, everyone would be better off.

Kim: "Congratulations Elly. Another year has come and past."

Elly: "Yes, Happy New Year, Kim!"

Happy New Years!!🎊🎉👏👏👏
Wouldn't be much of a #Xenogears fan if I didn't post this every year 😄

Another year, another update to the mod portraits, another set of screenshots.
(I remember doing this last year and thinking I was finally done with theirs Lol)
(...I think I'm finally done with theirs)
🔄

#xenogears

A heraldic-style portrait of the Year of the Curious Squid. The squid looks somewhat startled, and has a green body with blue tentacles and a blue stripe along its mantle

I choose to take this as a positive omen.

(As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

4 valentines in a grid, a pelican eel with the words "You make my jaw drop", an anglerfish that says "You're my light in the darkness", a grimalditeuthis that says "I find you a LURE ing" and two octopuses and a snailfish on the skeleton of a whale that says "I've Whale Fallen for you" lmao. The octopuses are making a heart with their arms together.

You ready for our 2026 Valentines??

The art is ready for ya 😍

As with everything on our shop, sales of these valentines support @skypeascientist.bsky.social!

This year's cards were designed by Philly artist @aprilfinfrock.bsky.social! Obsessed with how these turned out.

order at SquidFacts.net

Watercolor illustration of different types of cephalopods in varying colors.

Cephalopods 🦑🩵🐙

#watercolor #traditionalart #artsky #illustration

Helicoplacoid in a Santa hat and fossil friends wish you a very merry Christmas from the Cambrian mat grounds!

bless a small press

EUSECT is one of Dennis Cooper's top book picks for 2025 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (third down!!)
denniscooperblog.com/mine-for-you...