Wildlife Tracking Tips.

absolutely wild how our view of self is always going to be so colored by our internal life that others can perceive us in ways that take us by surprise

Early bumblebee/ängshumla, and Buff-tailed bumblebee/mörk jordhumla. Värmland, Sweden (June 3, 2022).

Feeling accomplished today because I managed to take this picture from Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix:

And adapted it to create my own toad cable pattern!

If anyone is aware of any existing cable patterns that look like frogs or toads, please tell me. I would like to compare, and perhaps tweak mine some more.

Thanks Snips! I’ve never done this before, but let’s see how it goes:

Favorite color: Blue. Any sort of blue, really, but the best is a bright clean blue that’s just a little on the green side.

Listening: currently, my worship music playlist, which very heavily features Rich Mullins.

Reading: Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis. His whole space trilogy is just so good!

Craving: There’s a specific sort of dumpling that is made one of the countries that I grew up in that I can never make since they need to be steamed and I don’t have a steamer. I’m always in the mood for those.

Coffee or Tea: Tea. Always. Especially black tea with milk and sugar.

Sleeping: Somehow, I’ve had time recently for a ton more sleep than I normally get, but my days are so busy that I’m no less tired. :|

Place to Visit: Ironically, I’m sort of a home body. I miss my Central Asia. I’d go back any day.

I don’t really know how the tagging works, but how about…. @kanerallels and @fictionadventurer?

Here and Now Questions

tagged by @the-funtime-autocrat

Favorite Color: pink 🌸🩷🌸 💓🌺💖🌷🪷💮

Listening: Zeki Müren- Sana Muhtacım (I can't stop listening I've been singing this all day)

Reading: A Turkish crime novel called "Beyoğlunun En Güzel Abisi"

Craving: Pizza

Coffee or Tea: Coffee ☕☕☕

Sleeping: 6-7 hours if I'm lucky, I have trouble sleeping these days.

Place to Visit: probably my aunts house which it is in another city. But I really would like to visit Kazakhstan, I have this friend there I want to see.

tagging: @iliyarambles @not-easily-conquered @straynoahide @jester-to-the-king @sayonaramisa

So….. I SAID I wouldn’t be the one to help you with chorus lyrics. But my brain said differently during my six hours in the car yesterday. And somehow it went from chorus lyrics to a full version of the song (I blame the fact that “Leia organa” also fits perfectly in the place of “Eleanor Rigby”).

———————

“Ohhh help me obi wan Kenobi!”

“Oooh help me obi wan Kenobi!”

Leia organa

Desperate message recorded in flickering light

Hope through the night

Old Ben Kenobi

Watching the other twin beg him to do what is right

He thinks back to the fight:

Obi wan Kenobi

So long since he’d heard that name

Obi wan Kenobi

So long since that had been him……

………….

General Kenobi

Greets his opponents with charm

And a smug “hello there”

And incredible hair

General grevious

Gets out his lightsabers—

4, just to step up his game

Then bursts into flame….

Obi wan Kenobi

So long since he’d heard that name

Obi wan Kenobi

So long since that had been him…

……………………….

Master Kenobi

Looking in shock at the young boy, now his charge to train

In his dead master’s name

Haunted by phantoms

Smiles that shine like twin suns killing hopes in their heat

Pain on repeat….

Obi wan Kenobi

So long since he’d heard that name

Obi wan Kenobi

So long since that had been him

“Oohhh help me Obi wan Kenobi!”

“Oooh help me Obi wan Kenobi….”

………………………..

Padawan obi

Dreaming of glory and love while he measures his braid

How true Jedi were made

Looks out the window

Trying to leave behind dreams and look only ahead

‘Cause his dreams drip in red

Obi wan Kenobi

So long since he’d heard that name

Obi want Kenobi

So long since that had been him

Completely useless information, but I just discovered that Obi-Wan's name could be a good fit for the song Eleanor Rigby.

General Kenobi

Greets his opponents with charm

And a smug "Hello There"

And incredible hair

General Grievous

Gets out his lightsabers--

Four, just to step up his game

Then goes up in flames

Somebody please help me make a fitting chorus.

i love you because i know you

lily of the valley • 3x5 in • gouache

Here's a second little watercolor sketch! I liked the Sabine one so much I decided to draw Satine too, and I think this one turned out even better!

Small hands,

Wrapping hope in a box

That will never

be opened.

Fingerprints left in clay

That crumbles as it dries to dirt beneath the tires of a car already gone;

Life written in streaks of purple glue,

Secret writing fading faster than I can read,

A story no one will ever

Care to decipher.

Small feet

Waiting by the door unsure;

uncaring if they are going in or out

Because the cold is just cold

And they don’t know yet how hard

That it can bite

That life will be

One day

When the car that picks them up is their own

And the ground beneath their boots is a foundation

Built and broken

By those they followed into

adulthood...

And one day

Those Feet,

Frozen by the cold

And by boots grown too small,

Will walk back to the schoolhouse doors that no longer fit them,

And Those Fingers

Will let go of still small hands

And

Pray

That Someone

Still knows how to wrap up hope.

Here is my official vision for a Queen's Thief on-screen adaption:

The Thief: live action road trip adventure movie. First half road tripping and character dynamics, next sixth the temple and Gift, final third escape from Attolia and winding down in Eddis. Stories of the gods are claymation

Queen of Attolia: seven-episode limited series, lots of nighttime conversations and interiors and shots of bare landscapes. E1 is capture, hand cutting off, return to Eddis. E2 is slow difficult recovery ending with the reveal of being at war and "stop whining." E3 is intense war strategy with stealing the magus as the high point. E4 is Gen's fear of Attolia and developing his plan, interspersed with flashbacks of Attolia's backstory. (Does it give away too much for this episode to start with Horreon and Meridite, in super stylized 2d animation, like I'm thinking mostly black background, flat colored objects, and people as gold line drawings?) E5 is the kidnapping, extremely long tense proposal/cliff scene, ends with Nahuseresh attacking. E6 goes from that to "diplomacy in my own name", incredible drama and tension through the middle until we realize she's wearing his earrings (as late as absolutely possible). e7 is working out engagement difficulties, up to "she believed him"

King of Attolia: 25-minute sitcom, full length season. Every little event gets its own moment, multiple running plots are introduced and resolved, and we see Gen's power and relationships developing over time.

Conspiracy of Kings: 3-part limited series. First episode is the magus and Sophos getting to Attolia and trying to get through to Gen and Irene as humans and work out the politics, second Eddis arrives and Sophos tells her his slave backstory with voiceover, super saturated lush scenery, melodrama, etc. third part is a snappy political drama as Sophos takes back Sounis.

Thick as Thieves: most of it is a 5-7 minute web series (no fourth wall breaks). Those little episodes keep coming out for a few months and then when Kamet gets to Attolia we have a single 40-minute episode giving his backstory with Gen, Mede fleet stuff, new spy assignment, etc.

Return of the Thief: five-hour two-act stage play

So I sat down to paint last night, and for some reason decided it would be a great idea to try to draw Sabine in hologram-form, not knowing how challenging that would be. I am, however, satisfied with the result (if just because I somehow managed to draw Ezra finally!). Scene is from a piece I wrote half a year ago on ao3, Man's Second-best Friend. Go read it if you want to see a Murley's loth-cat-view on Sabine and Ezra's relationship.