my garden will grow so high

here's this week's #Paleostream flocking sketches!!

this week we sketched Yoshi, Tylosaurus (most of us drew Tylosaurus rex), Xianshou (mine is inside a speculative Weltrichia sp.), and Argyrolagus

Robust Assfish (Bassozetus robustus), family Ophidiidae, order Ophidiiformes, found in the deep ocean in tropical and temperate parts of the world

“The Great Southern Reef”

Tasmanian Blenny, Parablennius tasmanianus, poking its head out from a hole in a reef. 

Lewis Burnett, Australia

Susan Wanji Wanji (b.1955, active Melville Island, NT, Australia)

Dugong, 1983

Acrylic on paper

Colleague B: “….what’s a bishounen?”

Greek chorus of other queer scientists who are all 30 or 40 years old: [simultaneously jump in to offer assorted definitions of androgynous prettyboy anime guys, at increasing volume]

Colleague B, hopefully, after a lengthy and considerate pause: “…oh, like Hisoka? From HunterXHunter?”

Otherworldly Vistas: Kazakhstan Through the Lens of Isabella Tabacchi