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What a great list of prompts - I'm definitely going to be using these ones for Mermay 2024, starting soon. I'd love to see other folks use these as well.

I really like learning about different aquatic environments, so I made myself a MerMay prompt list themed around drawing as many different kinds of habitats as possible.

#mermay prompts #mermay2024 #mermay

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New Petra phoenix - a highly variant group which have an unfortunate likeness to the invasive harpies. The New Petra phoenix is incredibly durable with high chance of surviving in any local New Petra environments.

#new petra #phoenix #design #original art

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A heron phoenix. They tend to avoid using their flames the majority of the time, and prefer to hunt with spears, but are capable of causing the water around them to boil.

#phoenix #heron #new petra #rose red city

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Non-elitist old Goth - I love it.

why is the metal community so pressed abt this it’s literally hilarious. 10/10. love it. i want it.

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"The researchers found that most hyrax sightings occurred in the most urbanized sites. They attributed the hyraxes’ preference of the urban sites to the higher availability of water stemming from human activity."

The Hyrax, in a Palestinian Olive Grove.

#hyrax #palestine #free palestine #olive grove #burning #animal #original art

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Reblog so I can get some votes to see what people would like to see. And if there is something you would like particularly, leave a comment.

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The Laughing Dove

Its distribution range expands from most of sub-Saharan Africa, to North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, north-east Libya and the Nile valley in Egypt), to the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, to Iraq and Iran. It has also been introduced in Palestine.

#palestine #free gaza #laughing dove #late evening #seed eater #bird #original art #birds

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Palestinian Sunbird - Cinnyris osea

In 2015, the Palestinian Authority adopted the species as a national bird, after losing in Israel's national bird public vote in 2008, and after Israel's 2013 campaign to remove "Palestine" from the bird's common name. The specific name osea is derived from Ancient Greek ὁσια (hosia, "holy").

#original art #palestinian sunbird #cinnyris osea #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #osea #bird #2024

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I was very taken by @puddleorganism's enoki-owl-potoo designs. They had one that was domesticated, and one that was a wild type. Just as fans breed wild type bettas with domesticated types for vigor, that is what has happened here - creating a mixed golden and pale variant. Unlike the fully domesticated version, it needs more stimulation, and is harder to care for.

#@puddleorganism #enoki #owl #potoo #original art #fanart #fan design #funguary

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Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

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So I'm playing in a roleplaying game where my cannibalistic scion of Merlin is a sort of hermetic mage with extremely dodgy tendencies who goes by the nom de plume 'Unicorn'. Ironically.

And then some ruddy faeries kidnapped him, took him to the Court of Spring, and stuck him in a unicorn shape and are now busy putting garlands in his mane, having tea parties with little cakes, and chasing him around through perfect pools.

He's having an absolutely miserable time.

#original art #fairy #faerie #unicorn #2024 #he wanted to go to autumn #and murder people I guess #but now he's stuck being Very Pretty #original character

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Funguary Feb 29 - Cryptic Magic Mushroom - Psilocybin

I finished! And I actually managed to do a mushroom per day. This one was for some reason the absolute hardest, and I'm not happy with how it turned out, but there you go. Sometimes the muse just doesn't want to provide you with anything at all.

I interpret the magic mushrooms as being related to fairy gates. So here's a satyr arriving, ready to...do perfectly innocent things. As satyrs do, of course. I gave him a softer dadbod because honestly, same.

It's been a long time since I've done art in a disciplined way, trying to do some every day. I've got a lot going on - a job, a kid, a chronic spinal disability, a mini farm, major depression and anxiety, animals to care for, all the rest. So getting here at all was a miracle. And I recorded how I did it, I might post it later.

Thankyou to @feefal for setting this up.

#original art #funguary2024 #funguary 2024 #faerie #fairy #satyr #faun #fantasy #mushroom #fungi #fungus #magic mushroom #psilocybin #funguary week 4 #funguary day 29 #leap year #cryptic #fairy gate

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Funguary Feb 28 - Cryptic Icing Sugar Fungus - Beauveria bassiana

The group of entomopathogenic fungi known as icing sugar fungus also affect True Fae. In this case, it is one of the few ways that the fae can become undead.

#original art #funguary #funguary2024 #funguary 2024 #mushroom #fungus #fungi #parasite #cryptic #icing sugar #icing sugar fungus #beauveria bassiana #undead

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Funguary Feb 27 - Cryptic Blue caprinopsis

The Cryptic Blue or Big Blue is not so much a reptile as a very distant sphynx relative. Instead of eating people who cannot answer riddles, it stares judgmentally.

#funguary2024 #funguary 2024 #funguary #mushroom #fungus #fungi #cryptic #blue #blue caprinopsis #snake #cobra #sphynx

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Funguary Feb 26 - Cryptic Prototaxites

The Cryptic Prototaxites still exists out on strange downs, off amongst lichen-covered remains of fences and other materials. It is less than a ghost of it's former self, but still it towers, a strange animal-plant, in the mist.

#original art #funguary #funguary2024 #funguary 2024 #funguary week4 #funguary day 26 #cryptic #prototaxites #fungus #fungi #mushroom #devonian #fossil

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Funguary Feb 25 - Cryptic Stinkhorn - Clathrus archeri

Clathrus archeri, var. Mari.Lwyd is a rare form of european stinkhorn commonly found in Wales. It can reach up to ninety centimeters in total height, from generative organ to the tips of it's tentacles.

The tentacles exude a syrupy liquid commonly understood to have beer-like properties, designed to attract various insects and mollusks that then become drunk, and die near the fungus. This ensures it has plenty of nutrients to eventually grow more fungal matter under the skull and lever it to the top.

Once exposed, the skull will weather and develop a cloak-like veil, enabling it to be used as the basis of a Mari Lwyd costume. However, if not given regular alcoholic application, the fungus will deliquesce and collapse.

#funguary2024 #funguary 2024 #mushroom #fungus #fungi #funguary week 4 #funguary day 25 #cryptic #stinkhorn #clathrus archeri #mari lwyd #marilwyd #original art