Kaz's Cabinet of Curiosities

Another piece I started to play around with painting again, I almost completely forgot uploading. It's not quite what I was trying to aim for but I still had fun working on it

[ID: a digital drawing of a black and a white witch moth on a swirly galaxy background, with yellow stars and a crescent moon. End.]

“Death Conquers Faith” from the ‘Triumphs of Petrarch’ series

attributed to Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert after Maarten van Heemskerck

Happy Pride Month! And Happy Dinosaur Day! Heterodontosaurus is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur that lived throughout what is now southern Africa during the Early Jurassic around 200–190 million years ago. The first specimen consisting of a crushed but nearly complete skull and some now lost associated postcranial remains, was unearthed from the side of mount Tyinindini at an altitude of about 1,890 m (6,201 ft), during the British–South African expedition to South Africa and Basutoland (former name of Lesotho) in 1961–1962. Today, it is housed in the Iziko South African Museum. The animal was scientifically described and named in 1962 by paleontologists Alfred Walter Crompton and Alan J. Charig. The genus name refers to the different-shaped teeth, and the specific name honors George C. Tuck, a director of Austin Motor Company, who helped fund the expedition. In 1966, a second specimen of Heterodontosaurus consisting of a near complete articulated skeleton was discovered at the Voyizane locality, in the Elliot Formation of the Stormberg Group of rock formations, giving a much better understanding of the animal. These finds were remarkably important to the understanding of dinosaur evolution as prior next to no early ornithischian dinosaurs were known. Heterodontosaurus helped establish that ornithischia and saurischia were directly related and that dinosauria was a natural monophyletic group. Something not previously thought to be the case. Since then several additional specimens including multiple skulls have been recovered. Reaching around 3ft 10inches to 5ft 9 inches (1.18 to 1.75m) in length and 4.4 to 22lbs (2 to 10kgs) in weight, whilst heterodontosaurus was small for a dinosaur it was one of the largest members of its family. The skull was elongated, narrow, and triangular when viewed from the side. The fronts of the jaws were covered in a horny beak. It had three types of teeth; in the upper jaw, small, incisor-like teeth were followed by long, canine-like tusks. A gap divided the tusks from the chisel-like cheek-teeth. The body was short with a long tail. The five-fingered forelimbs were long and relatively robust, whereas the hind-limbs were long, slender, and had four toes. This ancient bipedal dinosaur is thought to have been herbivorous or possibly omnivorous feeding upon a variety of plants, insects, and possibly small vertebrates.

Aro and ace activism is healthcare reform, so that no one needs to rely on a spouse for health insurance, so that healthcare is available to everybody regardless of income, so that no one’s lived experiences or basic dignity are dismissed or overridden by doctors

Aro and ace activism is well-funded and expansive public transit, so that you don’t need to have someone on hand to drive you places if you are incapacitated, so that you don’t have to pay for an ambulance if you need to get to the hospital quickly

Aro and ace activism is disability and elder care services, so that no one needs a spouse to care for them, so that no one needs children to care for them, so that marriage is not a bind for disabled people, so that people on disability who want to and can live alone can

Aro and ace activism is community-building, it’s public events, it’s free social activities, it’s mutual aid, it’s activities that bring community members together without socializing relying on just a romantic partner

Aro and ace activism is developing a culture of believing when people tell you who they are and what they want rather than assuming you know them better than they know themselves