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New Zealand's Goblin Forest

Honoured to have received some wonderful results from this year’s @greatwalksmag Wilderness Photographer of the Year competition, including a win for ‘Creatures in the Shadows’ (photo 1)

The Bleeding Mires are the most polluted places left on Earth, infested.

landscapes where humanity’s mistakes did not fade, they metastasized.

Born in the shadows of nuclear ground zeros, and waste melting pots, these wetlands exist where contamination reached such catastrophic intensity that even engineered solutions spiraled beyond control. The bacteria meant to cleanse the world created an atmosphere of living toxicity, a biome where the air itself bears the weight of human failure.

Crimson vegetation spreads across poisoned waters like an open wound. Every organism that survives here does so under constant chemical siege. Adaptation is not triumph, it is necessity forced by devastation.

Sorry for the late answer!

Ultimately it comes down to constant experimentation, literally just picking a random brush in a pack and seeing what it does then storing it in my brain for later usage.

Sometimes I have a general idea of what kind of effect I would like and go on a brush hunt for something that fits. Here is a quick breakdown of a recent study I did to sort of show how I often go about it.

commission for @nian101, their party's human fighter Farvald with his young moorbounder Blackmoor! thank you for commissioning me and giving me another opportunity to draw my favorite weird cat steeds 💜

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!

A walk down memory lane has led me to present to you Lord Preminger and his Knickknacks. (I'm today year's old when I learned the two goons ~I say, affectionately~ are named Nick and Nack.)

I’m in my mid-thirties and I have never had sex. I’ve thought about it and could have had one or two opportunities if I put in more effort, but I always decided against it because I just wasn’t into it at the time.

I can safely say that I do not feel I have missed out on anything. I was perfectly capable, by myself, of learning about my own body and boundaries without anyone else there to muddy the waters. The immense pressure that was there in my teens/twenties to Have Sex Just Do It is basically gone. I’m vibing. I’ve got my routine by myself in bed that I enjoy, and that’s enough for me.

And in the unlikely event that I ever decide to have sex with someone in the future, I don’t feel at all like I’m lacking some essential Knowledge or Skill that would “make it good” for someone else. I fully expect to ask my partner out loud what they like and to receive an answer clearly communicated and to relax and have fun. And if it’s a disappointing experience, I’m fine with that too. It is what it is.