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recreated a scene from pokemasters galar villain arc, inspired by their insane looking facial expressions. it was good

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it’s time to play chav or slav:

are these lads ENGLISH or SLAVIC

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fobs? fobs.

fuzz, and frank, and faye, and frank and faye's babies. the babies are new-new and still have egg teeth. no stripes yet.

a lot of inspiration behind my take on fobs is from the kakapo, an oversized nocturnal parrot from new zealand!

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hello, just wondering if you have any recommendations for fever dream movies like six string samurai? or any film in general i guess!

Ahoj hoj...

Oh hmmm...

Have this

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@/bogleech when will my husband return from the war I WANT TO DIVORCE HIM SOME mORE

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baby botfly gaming

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This is my first animation

their name is Wibbly None-the-Wiser

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YOTTOY Richard Scarry Collection “Lowly Worm & Apple Car”

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SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET 2019 | Presented by: David Attenborough

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oh wow I had a lot of these books and got some from the library. This unlocked a few memories!

LOOK AT THIS ADORABLE WORM DRINKING MILK.

Posting this because I reblogged something about Usborne Books and apparently most people seem to associate Usborne with lift-the-flap books for preschoolers.

Which is weird because to me as a child Usborne books were some of the spookiest books I could get my hands on. They filled the same place as Dorling Kindersley - colorful, creative, informative books that were educational as well as fun to read. And their approach to myths and legends was, not going to lie, very formative for me. If it wasnt' for Usborne, there might not have been ABC.

And much like Dorling Kindersley, Usborne went through a phase of extreme creative experimentation before stagnating into safer forms of publishing. But for a while, Usborne books were mindblowing.

So what has Usborne done then that aren't lift-the-flap books for preschoolers? Well, a lot. Puzzle Adventures. Extreme map and code puzzles. How to Draw Books. Cut-out and build houses, Trojan horses, and dinosaurs (by Luis Rey no less). How to Be A Detective. Nature spotter's guides. Nature Search books. Facts and Lists books that instilled cosmic horror in me years before I knew what cosmic horror was. I could go on forever.

There was a series of excellent myths and legends books which I posted about before.

These were illustrated by Rodney Matthews and were every bit as metal as you'd expect from something by Rodney frickin' Matthews.

Then there were the Quest books which were Where's Waldo-esque books that followed a storyline in a fantasy world.

In this case, they showcased lush art by Nick Harris in which you find various items or characters to make the story progress, as well as other random things (find 10 rats, find 8 clownfishes, etc).

The Tabloid Histories books, oh my gosh.

Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Medieval, etc. history told through tabloid articles and ads.

More about monsters though! There were books about folktales and legends illustrated by Stephen Cartwright.

For me it was my first time hearing of a lot of them, such as the Lambton Worm!

The Haunted World, now that was spooky! With lots of colorful, dripping art by Graham Humphreys.

Introduced me to a lot of ghosts, vampires, and monsters from around the world. Such as the story of Arnold Paole!

And there were maps and diagrams...

... and lindorns [sic] and mokele-mbembes!

The Supernatural Guides had denser text but sadly have not been reprinted anytime recently.

The World of the Unknown series, though... ohohoho those were good.

Of course (no offense to fans of ghosts and UFOs), I had eyes only for the Monsters book. With such gems as the Velue...

... the Lambton Worm...

... and cryptozoological rubbish such as the Monongahela sea serpent (below), the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman, and their ilk.

You know, the sort of thing that would keep a 7-year-old fascinated (and perhaps scared under the blankets) for weeks.

Anyway, yeah I just really love Usborne books. Or at least what they used to be.

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smoky oak millipede reading

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UN said: Gaza needs 70 years to be livable, at least 70% of the infrastructure is destroyed.. Gaza, the most beautiful city that I have ever seen in some before and after pictures that shows a little part of the destruction.

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Swoobat -- Kagemaru Himeno

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May I offer lesbian paranormal investigator tension in these trying times?

Bonus stuff: made a character over the break named Nicotina! She's basically my own silly take on a combination of various character types smushed into one (see pic 4.)

The last picture is the first drawing I did of her! Outdated now beacuse she no longer has ears.

Her basic deal is she is a smoker's ghost who can be summoned from a haunted box of cigarettes.

She tags along with one of the heads of a small private hire team of paranormal investigators and all sorts of hijinks ensue obviously. They are basically love letter to cheesy ghost hunting eras of media but with two lesbians and one happens to be a sleezy nicotine spirit.

Love her and her partner so expect to see them more soon (perhaps a ref VERY soon even👀🚬👻)

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Back when i worked in hell ( a supermarket ) the shifts were so mind numbing I had to be resuscitated every 45 minutes via defibrillator, so I decided I was going to make the time go by faster by learning all the ferengi rules of acquisition. So i made this tiny tiny booklet to study when it got slow. It looked like this:

The problem with this foolproof plan arose when a coworker found it on the floor after my malnourished white man cheeks failed to keep it confined to my back pocket. And when they questioned what it was i just

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how Europeans see the USA

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sneefy snoofer (rhabdocoela flatworm? maybe??)