Lover of the Weird, the Mundane, and the Random

Another comic based on a favorite post of mine, because what can I say? I love posts

Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going "I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them"

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

In Fontaine It's:

Accusation: This performer is guilty of murder because someone died during the middle of his performance, and my proof is the timing and the fact that he's an orphan who was adopted by the Russians that we allow to adopt children from our nation because we don't have our own orphanage for some reason.

Defense: Goes down to the basement to check the area of where the murder potentially happened. Does not actually check any of the boxes in the area which were hiding the real killer the whole time. Halfway through the trial, randomly is like, 'Hey, can we go through the dead guy's belongings real quick?' Uses scary myth no one believes to try and win over the court's favor.

In Mondstadt It's:

Accusation: This scientist is guilty of murder and the unlawful disposal of human remains because several people saw him disposing of human remains at the dead of night. There were suspicious notes found on his person. His most recent experimental research had to deal with human transmutation and what happens to human bodies under specific reactions. He practices a rare and dangerous art form that is known to do fantastical and dangerous things. He could not be accounted for during any of the times he disposed of the bodies. Any potential alibi is unreliable as the person he was with fell asleep and therefore didn't have sight of him all night.

Defense: While what little remains of the bodies is left behind, you cannot find a legitimate match to anybody in the city. Therefore, you cannot prove that these remains are actually human remains, or that they're from any of the citizens of the nation. No one actually witnessed a murder; they simply claim to have seen the accused burying something. Despite attempting to use his profession against him, there is no motive to be found. His temperament hasn't changed, and he isn't exhibiting any signs of madness. On the night of a supposed murder, he was in his office doing paperwork. There would be no time to commit a murder, bury a body far away from the city, and then get back to all of his work done to turn it in immediately in the early morning.

Is Archeops gping to land on her arm like a hawk? If so, how heavy is it. Can't be too-

Pine martens are an option!

I went pine marten, as I've been involved in helping their reintroduction to Wales, and then I wrestled with myself for an Age before finally going hedgehog.

Birds: puffins were the easiest choice. The UK - and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in west Wales specifically - has a significant portion of the global breeding population of puffins, thanks to Skomer and Grassholm islands. In a country with the biodiversity depletion we have (bottom 10% of countries globally for biodiversity), the islands of Pembrokeshire are almost obscene in how high their biodiversity is, and it's for breeding specifically. We can be justly proud of those. Plus, puffins are fun clowns.

And then I agonised about the others until I finally went for the Great Spotted Woodpecker, a bird I do periodically see and get excited about every time

The Lumped-Together-Others: the bumblebee, you have to. I adore bumblebees.

And then I went for the marsh fritillary, because it's super endangered and I'm an environmentalist with a specialism in habitat management and ecology, and therefore spend a non-trivial amount of my time explaining how to manage for the little assholes.

already suggested a

sapphibbatical

7 years ago someone posted this-

And 5 years a different user posted this-

And now, a quick sketch with one of my favorite ships.