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.

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 🦋🌿

Another one bites the dust ✏️🪦 Doing sketches for illustrating small square covers today; a heather, and a species of cup fungus 🍄 It's in pencil over acryl gouache - a paint I haven't used in a while so it's a nice change

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

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 🪲🍄🍀

It's been a ridiculous couple of weeks. May we all remember to take our meds, no matter how batshit things get.

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 🌿💚🌳

Craggy and covered in lichen, moss, and liverworts - my life goal tbh 🤷

A fallen chunk of bark from last week, full of lichen, moss & liverwort. There were a few trees down in the area too. So much lichen everywhere though, it was a real joy 💚🌳

Some nice script lichens I met this year

Turkey tails by Richard Droker Via Flickr: Seattle my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439... my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections

Video game sketchbook: AC Valhalla

Ink sketch for a drawing based on plants around the Temple of Ceres in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Sharing for @bookfacearts chapter 12 at the Rising Sun Arts Centre

Views from my shuffle around the woods this wkend 💚🌲🌳🌲

Script lichens on cedar

The flora of AC Valhalla - Part 2: a quick botanical survey of the Temple of Ceres

NOTE: No plot spoilers in here, but there is a beautiful in-game location in the Forest of Denu, Glowercestershire. If you haven’t played that arc yet; you might want to skip this until you’ve discovered the area for yourself.

A walk around the Temple of Ceres

OK, having got questions of scale and seasonality etc out of the way last time… What kinds of plants are recognisable to a non-botanist like me in ACV anyway? Let’s go for a womble around the Temple of Ceres in the Forest of Denu (Dean) which is home to seriously beautiful Roman ruins, lichen-speckled statues, and maaany ferns...

Do you turn to the patterns of lichen, moss, fungi, & liverworts when the world gets too much?

Me too. So I made a zine about that how small things help me cope with life’s asshattery. It's full of licheny drawings and colouring sheets, and you can get it here

Thanks and pls take care of yourself as much as you’re able to today <3

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