Preparing Art For Up Coming Shows And Wanted To Share This Portrait Of Artist Michael Deas From A Few

Really enjoying how every "blaze" search result is either:

- talking about how "blazing" got weaponized, bc of course

- in-depth, well-done, sonic fan content

Something something duality of man.

Happy to share that I have illustrated Kristen Britain's new Green Rider novel, 'Falling in a Sea of Stars' coming later this year from DAW books. The commission request was made for me, with a field of stars and Karigan in armor!

Hard to believe, this is the eighth painting I have created for Kristen since first tackling High King's Tomb back in 2006!

Link for the preorder of the novel from our local bookstore, here in Brooklyn: https://booksaremagic.net/item/deHNKsv3TS9YU1PYnWXK2g

Falling in a Sea of Stars

24" x 36" Oil on Panel 2025

#krisenbritain #fallinginaseaofstars #dawbooks #donatoarts #oilpainting #fantasyart #stars #starfield #adventure #magical #horse #starscape #bookcover #greenrider #karigan

CLOWN FIGHT

CLOWN FIGHT

CLOWN FIGHT

-The Duel After the Masquerade-

💪😴🫸

I was running with my arms up a hill in my old neighborhood. I didn’t have legs, or they were small and tucked under, and my face was in my torso. Some guy grabbed me, I shouted “DON’T TOUCH ME,” and ran away on my arms, as per usual.

They who gaze into the BONZO become, themselves, a BONZO

sat through the entire hour. there's one audio glitch at 53:13 that honestly sounds like a genuine fuck up, and then the background music gets more intense around 1:00:45 as it's gearing up to end. you're welcome for this sacrifice. god is dead and mr. bonzo killed him.

TMAGP 10 SPOILERS

So apparently the "real work" is outsourcing hits to Mr. Bonzo. MR FUCKING BONZO

All your ships are boring, check this shit out

Strange Bedfellows: these unprecedented photos show a leafcutter bee sharing its nest with a wolfspider

I stumbled across these photos while I was looking up information on leafcutter bees, and I just thought that this was too cool not to share. Captured by an amateur photographer named Laurence Sanders, the photos were taken in Queensland, Australia several years ago, and they quickly garnered the attention of both entomologists and arachnologists.

The leafcutter bee (Megachile macularis) can be seen fetching freshly-cut leaves, which she uses to line the inner walls of her nest. The wolfspider moves aside as the bee approaches, allowing her to enter the nest, and then she simply watches as the leaf is positioned along the inner wall.

Once the leaf is in position, they seem to inspect the nest together, sitting side-by-side in the entryway; the bee eventually flies off again to gather more leaves, while the wolfspider climbs back into the burrow.

The leafcutter bee seems completely at ease in the presence of the wolfspider, which is normally a voracious predator, and the wolfspider is equally unfazed by the fact that it shares its burrow with an enormous bee.

The photographer encountered this bizarre scene by accident, and he then captured a series of images over the course of about 2 days (these are just a few of the photos that were taken). During that 2-day period, the bee was seen entering the nest with pieces of foliage dozens of times, gradually constructing the walls and brood chambers of its nest, and the spider was clearly occupying the same burrow, but they did not exhibit any signs of aggression toward one another.

The photos have been examined by various entomologists and arachnologists, and those experts seem ubiquitously surprised by the behavior that the images depict. The curator of entomology at Victoria Museum, Dr. Ken Walker, noted that this may be the very first time that this behavior has ever been documented, while Dr. Robert Raven, an arachnid expert at the Queensland Museum, described it as a "bizarre" situation.

This arrangement is completely unheard of, and the images are a fascinating sight to behold.

Sources & More Info:

Brisbane Times: The Odd Couple: keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'

iNaturalist: Megachile macularis

Oh, how much pain Jonny Sims has planned. I'm pretty pessimistic about Jon & Martin surviving "intact." Best case I can imagine, they've become something new - maybe a rare benevolent entity, even.

Whoa wtf that really is just a massive nail

Is this supposed to be a reference to how Cas almost got a nail in the head via Uriel back in S4? I’m trying to make sense of this.

well, that was a weird episode

Migraines make me feel like that prophetic rabbit from Watership Down. Fiver. Like the terrible whole body shivering and burning skull and teeth must presage awful events, each symptom an omen of terror to come.

I'm a little obsessed with seers and thinking about that is my coping mechanism for this cluster. Also, tracking migraines, I figured out they come in clusters. Beautiful brilliant great. I love it. I can predict the future! And the future is painful.

At least I know it ends. That's a pretty good thing to know.