I'm grateful to have an amazing GP. I know not every spoonie has such good medical experiences & don't take it for granted.

Anyway, thanks to all the good clinical practitioners who make managing chronic illnesses a team effort, & who avoid the ableist shitslide. 💖

& may we all remember our meds.

Today's mood:

Fuck all your binaries! Lichen doesn't care.

Be more lichen.

Fencepost lichen garden 💚

Hello this is smol reminder to please take care of yourselves and each other as much as you're able to right now, however much that is. Especially my spoonie people. Cos it's a batshit world.

Anyway, I'm wishing you all the best things 🦋🌿

It's Friday again. Please enjoy this fungus <3

It's Friday. Please enjoy these fungi. (Also pls let me know which one you prefer bc I can't decide which sketch is better? 🤷)

How is it that I drew all these botanical structures

Yet today am struggling to illustrate some basic, small, needle-like leaves?

Arrrrrrrggghhhhh.

Why is being human/Mondays/my brain like this??? 🙃😭

Today's assorted tools, today's colour pencil nub, and my fungi-themed compression gloves from Bibi Pins (not sponsored or owt, just good gloves that my putty erasers don't stick to! 😀)

It's Friday. Please enjoy this brittlegill fungus sketch from my mailing list zine. And this page of associated fungi sketchbook carnage 🍄✏️ (The ink drawing from my AC Valhalla video game botany illustrations is on that sheet too)

Good morning, for no particular reason please enjoy these mushrooms 🍄

& may we all somehow survive the relentless stream of wankspangled dickweaselry coming from our government of self-serving bigoted rancid shitpickles today 🫂💖 (I'm in the UK but I feel like this sentiment is valid in a whole lot of places rn)

Reminder, in case I'm not the only spoonie here who needs it right now 💖🥄♿💖

The Mycology of AC Valhalla

Sketches of all the interactable fungi in ACV, with their in game and IRL counterparts (for the fungi I see locally.)

Been going through my video game botany drawings. Thinking of collecting these sketches, making 3 more of non-interactable common fungi we see in ACV - tinder fungus, turkey tails, birch polypore - & putting them in a zine. (I've been going through my 'moths of Ravensthorpe' drawings too. Getting my 💩 together so I can finally take these zines to my next fair!)

If I can do 8 fungi I can easily make a zine with fungi art on one side and some species info on the other.

Just needed to look at some nice lichen. Thought I'd share 🌿💚

Lichen sketch - forked tube lichen AKA Hypogymnia imshaugii, from a photo by Jason Hollinger

I saw this strange white blorb growing on a stump in my scrap wood/log pile. I wasn't sure if it was a fungus or a slime mold... Turns out it's probably a false puffball - a slime mold cosplaying puffball fungi!

This is a new thing to me... I don't think I've ever found/seen a slime mold before. Usually the wood pile is full of sleeping moths, frogs, fungi and a bazillion tiny invertebrates. So cool to find a new species in there!

I'm pretty terrible at doing nothing and resting my neck... Handily, modelling clay is something you can hold at head height and twiddle with. This is my first attempt at making fungi in air-drying clay 🍄🌳

It's really nice to take some time and do something arty but different from work, even if I am still vexed by having to *not do all the things* 😂

I don't actually have any clay tools, so if anyone wants to recommend something fancier than cocktail sticks lmk!

Smol reminder 💚🌿

I'm recovering from some medical treatment right now and I'm the worst patient at stopping and resting. So this is as much as note to self, to slow down and look at the lichens 😊