Some out of context, unused takes from our recording session with Anairis Quiñones, who is voicing Aika in the pilot!

Can't wait for y'all to hear more than just this one line. And also what this one line is for in context haha.

Flor de cempasúchil, la que guía a los difuntos con los vivos 🕯️

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Some recent Modest Medusa marker art. Copic markers on 6 x 6 illustration board.

Un megaproyecto para la explotación de gas natural licuado amenaza con transformar el Golfo de California —conocido históricamente como el Acuario del Mundo— “en una zona de sacrificio para la industria fósil”, aseveran expertos de más de 30 organizaciones ambientalistas. Estas aguas son el hábitat permanente y para la migración del 85 % de los mamíferos marinos de México, por lo que se teme, particularmente, por el desplazamiento y muerte de las ballenas y delfines.

El pasado martes 10 de septiembre, en una conferencia de prensa virtual, 30 organizaciones ambientales, climáticas y de enfoque marino presentaron la campaña “¿Ballenas o Gas?”, cuyo objetivo es la cancelación de un megaproyecto gasífero promovido por la empresa Mexico Pacific, que cuenta con el respaldo de la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE).

El proyecto contempla la construcción del gasoducto “Sierra Madre” que, con sus 800 kilómetros, atravesaría el noroeste de México —partiendo desde Texas, en Estados Unidos, y pasando por los estados de Chihuahua y Sonora, en México— hasta el Golfo de California, donde se instalaría una terminal de licuefacción de 400 hectáreas, llamada “Saguaro Energía”, en la comunidad de Puerto Libertad, Sonora.

Let me be the miserable wretch to whom the caring lead the disbelieving, that they might see the wounds and know how much of a human being's humanity three furry boys can take with them.

This video, by an ER vet, reaffirms what the therapist above is saying from the veterinary side. I rewatch it, and her video on euthanasia, whenever the grief over Sully and Alphi gets too bad.

Other than the mammal bias this reinforces much of the research on Human-Animal Bonding (HAB)!

El Popocatépetl dice que nos ama 🫶🏻 con esta fumarola en forma de corazón

Wampirine

He is a bird, but also a BardBarian... a Birdbarian. and he would like to RAGE.

Part 251 of  “A Tale of Two Rulers” (Oct 23, 2024)

Thank you for your patience!

I'll be giving birth next week, so I'm not sure how long the next update will take me , but I'm going to try my best to get the next one out in about two months. At times i honestly thought i would never get the opportunity to be a parent and this feels so unreal and joyful! Thank you all so much for your support and kindness as i start this new chapter in my life. I'm very grateful <3

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Also. Vaati just keep digging.

Guys they reintroduced Galapagos tortoises to espanola island and they’ve essentially terraformed their environment, knocking over invasive plants so that endangered albatrosses (who need space to take off using the ground as a runway) have returned and established nests!

https://www.popsci.com/environment/galapagos-giant-tortoises-ecosystem-conservation/

More detail below. Thanks for posting, OP!

"In the late 19th century, whalers, settlers, and pirates changed the ecology of the Galapagos Islands by poaching some native species—like Galapagos giant tortoises—and introducing others, like goats and rats. The latter species became pests and severely destabilized the island ecosystems. Goats overgrazed the fruits and plants the tortoises ate while rats preyed on their eggs. Over time, the tortoise population plummeted. On Española, an island in the southeast of the archipelago, the tortoise count fell from over 10,000 to just 14. Along the way, with goats eating all the plants they could, Española—once akin to a savanna—turned barren.

A century later, conservationists set out to restore the Galapagos giant tortoise on Española—and the island ecosystem. They began eradicating the introduced species and capturing Española’s remaining tortoises and breeding them in captivity. With the goats wiped out and the tortoises in cages, the ecosystem transformed once again. This time, the overgrazed terrain became overgrown with densely packed trees and woody bushes. Española’s full recovery to its savanna-like state would have to wait for the tortoises’ return.

From the time those 14 tortoises were taken into captivity between 1963 and 1974 until they were finally released in 2020, conservationists with the NGO Galápagos Conservancy and the Galapagos National Park Directorate reintroduced nearly 2,000 captive-bred Galapagos giant tortoises to Española. Since then, the tortoises have continued to breed in the wild, causing the population to blossom to an estimated 3,000. They’ve also seen the ecology of Española transform once more as the tortoises are reducing the extent of woody plants, expanding the grasslands, and spreading the seeds of a key species.

Not only that, but the tortoises’ return has also helped the critically endangered waved albatross—a species that breeds exclusively on Española. During the island’s woody era, Maud Quinzin, a conservation geneticist who has previously worked with Galapagos tortoises, says that people had to repeatedly clear the areas the seabirds use as runways to take off and land. Now, if the landing strips are getting overgrown, they’ll move tortoises into the area to take care of it for them.

The secret to this success is that—much like beavers, brown bears, and elephants—giant tortoises are ecological architects. As they browse, poop, and plod about, they alter the landscape. They trample young trees and bushes before they can grow big enough to block the albatrosses’ way. The giant tortoises likewise have a potent impact on the giant species of prickly pear cactuses that call Española home—one of the tortoises’ favorite foods and an essential resource for the island’s other inhabitants.

When the tortoises graze the cactus’s fallen leaves, they prevent the paddle-shaped pads from taking root and competing with their parents. And, after they eat the cactus’s fruit, they drop the seeds across the island in balls of dung that offer a protective shell of fertilizer...

As few as one or two tortoises per hectare [about 2.5 acres], the scientists write, is enough to trigger a shift in the landscape."

-via Popular Science, October 15, 2023

Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

Story-illustrations depicting both happy and sad days in Exit the Dragon.

There's new stuff in my you-know-where (not sure if tumblr has the word blacklisted). I've just shared a new short animation, and there's a couple new exclusive drawings some of you might be interested in ✨😳

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Recent doodles I'm really happy with, more details in the alt descriptions

Capri in the casual outfit I sketched months ago. Had wanted to do a proper illustration of her in this casual attire, but I couldn't think of a situation or scene. Then I remembered some photos I took during my last visit to Oaxaca in Spring, and used one of them for the background.

Oaxaca city is famous for its green limestone, which was used to build most of its historical buildings, earning it the title of "La verde Antequera." This is in the former Convent of Santo Domingo, where the ethnobotanical garden now exists. (Capri is not from Oaxaca, you could say she's there as a tourist).

Purepecha woman, Mexico, by Diego Huerta