bugs and monsters, eyes and teeth

@bowelfly / bowelfly.tumblr.com

Entomologist. I also draw shit.

Pinned

hello, i've decided to make a pinned post after like 7 years on this site. i'm a professional entomologist but spend most of my free time drawing. i picked this username while drunk many years ago and now i'm committed i guess. i usually go by ascalaphid elsewhere

tags i have tags for art and photos. i sometimes do pixel art or craft dolls and figurines. a lot of my art is of my character trungo or other bug people. i occasionally talk about movies

commissions i’m not doing high or even medium effort commissions anymore but i am always taking $5 bug doodle commissions on ko-fi

other accounts @cnestus is where i post bug photos @bowelflies is where i reblog stuff i like

other places to find me:

personal website ko-fi (selling stickers on here now!) INPRNT redbubble letterboxd artfight bsky

#also if we're mutuals feel free to dm me for my discord handle

Anonymous asked:

Would I be able to use your art as a study focus for some of my art course?

of course! have fun!

catch!

#bflyart #monastic menagerie #brother gregor #gharial #monkposting

Finished updating my 2025 gallery if you want to see the year's work in one place. Around 130 completed pieces and a bunch of doodles.

Not a ton there yet but I also started the 2026 gallery.

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godmybackhurts asked:

Would I be correct in my interpretation of Brother Gregor as a transmasculine gharial? I ask because his snout is much too long to be a false gharial, but he also doesn't have the knob on the end that a male gharial would have

bowelfly answered:

you're definitely not the first person to point this out so yes this is established Brother Gregor Canon at this point

#redid the doodle a bit just for fun

Brother Gregor's fish dumplings

#bflyart #monastic menagerie #brother gregor #crocodile #gharial #shrew #dumplings #monkposting

cerothenull asked:

I do wonder if Brother Gregor is the only reptile among the Monasteries because I can totally see a sweet old tortoise fitting in very well

i had suspicion and it turns out i did in fact draw a tortoise friar a couple years ago, in response to another ask, though i am once again confronted with the logistical nightmare of how to put a robe on a tortoise

#scribbles #monastic menagerie

Anonymous asked:

Does brother Gregor like biscuits? (This is an excuse to see more brother Gregor, i love him)

biscuits not so much but his fish dumplings are to die for

#bflyart #monastic menagerie #brother gregor #gharial #i might actually ink and color this one

whenever anyone tags my stuff as #digital art another ink stain spontaneously manifests on my fingers

skunkbomb asked:

I have to ask (I forgot if I have already). Any skunks at the abbey?

no skunks currently, but they're not out of the question. if I'm being totally honest though if I was to include a mephitid I might go for something a little funkier than a regular striped skunk. like maybe a teledu....

#scribbles #monastic menageria #teledu #stink-badger #i am kind of low key offering commissions to draw any species or fursona as a monk #but due to my limited free time and energy i'm not particularly cheap

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Brother Barley (Neurotrichus gibbsii) and Brother Rye (Blarina brevicauda) celebrating another successful midnight booze raid

now available as a zine

clearing out my inbox under the cut

#scribbles #i should set up a tag for asks #i used to get like MAYBE 5 asks a year #until everyone suddenly got shrew fever

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bowlerhatwearer asked:

Do you think there ever was a moment where Sister Dot attempted to get out of a situation, by using the ol "acting/playing dead" trick?

bowelfly answered:

Unlike Brother Ignatz, Sister Dot is under no delusion that she can fool anyone. She just like to be dramatic.

#can attest from personal experience this only works a couple times

bowlerhatwearer asked:

Do you think there ever was a moment where Sister Dot attempted to get out of a situation, by using the ol "acting/playing dead" trick?

Unlike Brother Ignatz, Sister Dot is under no delusion that she can fool anyone. She just like to be dramatic.

#monastic menagerie #sister dot #sister helga #opossum #porcupine #yes i thought about using the dead peter griffin pose #but i thought better of it in the end

quarter0master asked:

I am so deeply enamored with your art! I am going to send it to all my shrew-loving friends!

in this house we love varmints

#scribbles #monastic menagerie #shrew #opossum

Karl the merchant, purveyor of the finest cheeses, worm sausages, insect pupae, and sundry delectables and delicacies around

another collab with @gachimushi

#bflyart #monastic menagerie #mole #karl the merchant #he's not a monk but trades with them regularly

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it's gonna be a while yet until I come out with the Big Shrew Zine but in the meantime I spent all afternoon trimming a couple different mini shrew zines that'll go up on the shop probably tomorrow

They're up! come grab a couple shrews. I promise they look better in person than my crappy photos.

Shrew mini zines - ascalaphid's Ko-fi Shop

Two textless mini zines about monastic shrews (and moles and desmans). Both are 16 pages, including front and back covers. Shrews of the

#zines #monastic menagerie

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