The full Brickozuna line is blowing up on Twitter and while I am glad because I am proud of it, it's also a little frustrating how the designs I actually put my heart and soul into don't get a fraction as much attention. I guess that's just the artist experience.
The winds have changed, but at least it was hot and summery on my days off. Sucks to have a normal weekend now, doesn't it?
Got a lot of shit done. Really glad I went for a walk on the nature trail yesterday. Not like I did a full lap or anything, but it's getting pretty rare for me to be up for something like that in the first place. Especially after I exerted myself the day before with cleaning my snake tank. I only had one chance last year to wear my bucket hat with all my tarantula pins, and a nature walk in 80+ degree sun is exactly the occasion for it. I also did a partial water change in the aquarium, although it's still looking a bit cloudy so I might do another one next week. Not a high priority task, just something to put on my to-do list.
I might go back to Home Depot too since my garden needs some juice. As I said earlier, a lot of my perennials are MIA. I do see my calla lilies and dahlias starting to come in for summer, though.
My B. smithi molted overnight, so I guess that's the closest I'm going to get to a springtime cascade. I got a couple others in premolt, but you never know with these Brachypelmas and Aphonopelmas and Grammostolas and Tliltocatls. I'm not even sure these genera are even closely related within Theraphosinae, but all of them sure do love being incredibly hardy and living over 30 years and taking forever to molt. It was more exciting back when my collection was more diverse, but I've been burned by too many delicate species. I say while owning the one tarantula even other experts can barely keep alive in captivity.
I think my camera is just dead now. I guess that's what I get for using a decades-old piece of equipment. I like that sort of model though, It gives a certain air of professionalism. You know, I got the tripod. I got the card reader. It's all part of this whole Experience. I use my smartphone to take pictures, but I also Utilize my Digital Camera to perform Macro Photography of Wildlife and Seasonal Glamour Photoshoots of my pets. It's a Thing with me.
I wish I was able to keep the momentum I had when I made Glutthoney, Brickabrack, and Brickwald in quick succession, but Brickozuna still took shorter than than usual for me. I'm a little tuckered out for now, but Balloony will have a simplistic design so it shouldn't take me that long when I circle around. Balloony and Derangible are Poison/Flying but I'm wondering if I should change it to Electric/Flying for the sake of diversity and also because it would be really easy to incorporate lightning cloud imagery into them. I actually broke ground with Wermaid, but nailing down the shape I want is half the battle. Especially since I realized too late that this is what certain circles refer to as a "waifumon". I played myself.
Thinking about my unfinished concepts, maybe the glaucus can be a Dragon/Flying type that attacks Derangible to steal its electricity and use it itself. And it has a Steelworker/Rocky Payload type ability. You know what? I like it. And you know what I could call the ability? Stolen Thunder. That seals it. This is happening. The Glaucus' name is...uh...well, I'll work on that part.
Brickabrack -> Brickwald -> Brickozuna
Brickozuna, the Blockade Pokemon. It spars with its peers to maintain sturdiness in both body and spirit. Toppling it over is no small feat, but doing so will earn you its lifelong respect. Rock/Fighting
My camera wouldn't turn on, but at least I discovered this before I left. I guess you'll all just have to settle for phone pictures of bugs and flowers
The plant dealer I placed an order with last month has gone on hiatus to catch up with a backlog of orders. So I guess I don't need to contact him about that...yet.
The hardware store didn't knock my socks off, but they did have milkweed which is the exact sort of thing I expected to find there.
It's a shame a lot of the things I put in my garden last year don't seem to be coming back. St. Culver's root is even a native plant. I also seem to be missing most of my veronicas. It is June, where are my flowers? The rose bush and salvias are load-bearing right now.
It's June and 82 degrees out so I did what I said I would and cleaned my snake's tank. I actually had the perfect amount of cypress mulch left. It was a pretty big undertaking as usual, buying wheels for the tank was a great investment. They don't actually lock in place so you have to hold onto them while slowly pulling the tank, but without them this entire thing would have been completely impossible. I repositioned the tank in my room when it was finished, so now I don't need to dodge the corner when I walk across my floor.
As for the other thing I said I would do, tomorrow looks pretty good. I'm already exhausted. Thursday might be the day I do chores and errands, but it's also the day when recoil damage from work catches up to me. You can't push yourself to have a nature walk, that defeats the purpose of it.
HEY HOLD THE FUCKIN PHONE THEY’RE MAKING A NEW MONSTER CEREAL FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THEY MADE YUMMY MUMMY IN 1988
A zombie was the only sensible choice considering modern children probably think about zombies more than all other halloween monsters combined. Glad they took the opportunity to also make a goth girl monster cereal. Finally I gotta say I don’t really like cereal much but caramel apple sounds better than all the other flavors and it’s even an actual halloweeny fall flavor. Makes me wonder why they never made a pumpkin pie one. I hope there’s an animated commercial to go with it but I don’t know if they really do those anymore.
How did the gambado never catch on as a more famous dungeons and dragons monster? It has one big springy leg that lets it jump super high or bounce around like a pogo stick and it doesn't have a proper head but it has special muscles that can hold onto and manipulate any kind of skull of the right size, like a hermit crab shell. How is this not a beloved icon.
grimdark redesign of hit-me-hit-me-hit-me
Today I said "Oh, you're so beautiful" to a cockroach sitting on a leaf, and it was beautiful, with leathery brown slightly translucent wings like a shield upon its back, a slender head with round black eyes, and long, lovely flickering antennae. If only our eyes were opened to the wonders of this creatureful world more often
Today I felt it. The energy flowing around me and into my soul, the primal desire to commune with and become one with nature. It normally happens sooner in the year, but work has sucked more out of me than usual. Point being, I might visit the nature trail on my day off. Provided my body doesn't crap out on me. Again.
My daylilies are going to bloom soon.