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 💚

Good moth friend alert: spotted today, a super-fuzzy pale brindled beauty (I think) on nice lichen. My 1st moth of 2025!

That is all, please go about your evening, thank u.

Lungwort lichen and wood sorrel growing as epiphytes on a mossy tree trunk. Ancient Atlantic woodlands are so precious.

Tomorrow I'm running a delightful drawing workshop on lichen and queerness, so pls enjoy this 💖

(Tonight my hosts arranged a room for me and it has bee-related decor and decorative fir cones and it's so gahdammed delightful I'm telling you ✨🐝🌲✨)

I've been a bit quieter on here lately because work is busy, and my health is... a little wild. I'm really looking forward to getting back to some frivolous video game botany over the holidays tho, fingers crossed 🌿💚

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

Lichen doodles from my sketchbook ✏️💚

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

It's Monday.

May we take care of ourselves and each other this week.

May we survive another week of our government of self-serving bigoted shit-spackled arsebarnacles.

& May we add alt text to images.

Pls enjoy this motivational lichen-covered pebble. 🪨🌿💖

Life & lichen - a small zine of non-binary thoughts

Making this zine meant a ridiculous amount to me, & I finally got my 💩 together and put it in my store here

I'm a bioscientist as well as an artist, & I used to study lichen in a plant sciences facility where I was a visiting artist. (It was at the same uni where I worked as a medsci postdoc - bc who needs sleep? Aii. 😬) Anyway... In this batshit-tory-hellscape I continue to find comfort in lichens; specifically how our knowledge of their inner workings, and our understanding of lichen symbiosis, has changed over time. Lichens don't care how much humans want to see nice tidy binaries. & They've been building their own communities all along.

This zine & the little concertina micro-zine contain some enby-life-thoughts. Thoughts about lichen & hopes. It was freeing to illustrate them. & That's all. 💚🌿

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 😊

Heads up! If you'd like to get a free natural history minizine full of moths/lichen/fungi/more moths, a discount code for my store, and get notified of workshops & store updates - I have a mailing list! Join here.

HUGE thanks to my Patreon patrons who fund me making zines & are an all-round lovely internet family 💖

(Up til now Moths in a Human Suit zine has been just for patrons, but in this batshit-tory-hellscape I felt we all need more moths etc. Luckily my Patreon folks are kind enough to share 🤗)

It feels like the kind of day when we need extra fungi/lichen/moss/love 🌿💚 May you find all the smol good things you need to get through rest of the week 🪲🍄🍀

Coral lichens, Coed Felinryd & Llenrych

Don't know if I already shared these and I don't care, because they're good lichens! Pls enjoy the lichens.

Pls also take care of your local woodland if you have one, and don't pick lichen and moss off the trees for your floral arrangements etc. The moss matts and lichens on trees take years to grow, and are their own special ecosystem. Take windfallen ones if you need em, but don't pull them off branches.

People peeling aaaall the moss & lichen matting off tree branches to sell for floristry or interior decor is also a problem in some forests - so be careful what you buy. Thank you for your time 🌿💚🌳

Haven't shared much recent drawing lately. For a few months I've been working on commissions I can't share rn. But have some lichen in the meantime.

This was from 2014... & I feel older & crustier than a lichen encrusted twig saying that 😅🌿💚