self love is the mommy

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Camilla Hect & Gideon Nav & Harrowhark Nonagesimus & Palamedes Sextus, Camilla Hect/Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus/Palamedes Sextus, Gideon Nav & Ianthe Tridentarius Characters: Gideon Nav, Ianthe Tridentarius, Camilla Hect, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Palamedes Sextus Additional Tags: Angst and Tragedy, polycule, First Impressions, Memories, Smoking, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, POV Alternating, Grief/Mourning, Car Accidents, Graphic Description, Falling In Love Summary:

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely

Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, CA, USA

This is obviously a really complicated topic that can't just be addressed in a single list, but there are some really good tips here and they draw from some excellent leaders/activists in this area.

If this is something that you need today, I hope this list can direct you to some good resources to draw on in the future!

From the article:

Limestone Bird (2025), lithograph with chine-collé, edition of 16

Archaeopteryx lithographica, literally! This project was such a cool thing for experimenting with a new print process and for some paleoart research. You may have heard that the Solnhofen limestone, where this bird hails from, is a classic lagerstatte site (a fossil site marked by exquisite preservation, including soft tissues like feathers), but the reason why it was so heavily quarried in the early days of paleontology was that the limestone was perfect for lithography stones. Lithography is now mostly a fine art technique, but until the advent of digital printing, it was the best way of mass-producing images. Just as the fine-grained stone enabled near-perfect reproduction of an artist's drawing, the limestone also retained detailed impressions of feathers on the bodies of a few small flying theropods, enshrining Archaeopteryx's status as the "first bird" for centuries to come.

Got commissioned to make art for a friend (in exchange for a mosasaurus tooth), so you know what that means, more paleoart!! + bonus Quetzalcoatlus

And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...

All of these creatures being preserved in marine sediments. For one it makes it possible to show all the cool pterosaurs and other stem birds from here. On the other hand, more importantly, it offers the possibility to show the environment many of these animals occupied.

Popular images of the Solnhofen islands show them as tropical paradises, often with cliffs and tall trees. The opposite appears to be the case. The islands were probably small, arid, flat and had vegetation that can be better described as shrubbery. Small conifers...

and bennettitaleans are the most common plants. The beaches were probably blinding white, consisting of sand that formed from broken down corals and sponges, as these islands were often not much more than reefs peaking above the waves. Formations/localities that housed the...

typical Solnhofen fauna form a long corridor through southern Germany but localities in France show similar preservation. The Atlmühltal Formation has iconic taxa like Archaeopteryx and Pterodactylus and was therefore the first of these formations we covered.

The size charts this time were a collaborative effort between me and 3 more friends.