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@bogleech / bogleech.tumblr.com

Visit bogleech.com for original art, comics, pokemon design reviews, year-round halloween content, weird animal facts and other stuff like that!
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Also going to finally make a pinned post for all my stuff:

BOGLEECH - my tumblr blog is named after this website I created around 2002 and still update. Thousands of pages worth of content focusing on creature design as well as real biology. My review of the original Legend of Zelda monsters might be the most straightforward example of my articles.

Links to some of the most popular content:

POKEMON REVIEW ARCHIVE: - I rate and review each and every single Pokemon, in Pokedex order, on its merits as a creature design. I also do so as someone whose favorite animals are all parasites.

DIGIMON REVIEW ARCHIVE - same, but more chaotic.

CREEPYPASTA COOKOFF ARCHIVE - for several years I hosted a yearly writing contest before it grew too big for me to keep up with. There are over a thousand user submitted horror, fantasy, sci fi and surrealist stories here emphasizing unconventional, original ideas you seldom see from the "creepypasta" community!

The original "MORTASHEEN" Monster Archive - since the early 2000's I've created and illustrated more than 800 creatures and counting for my own monster-catching world, now set for release as a tabletop RPG setting.

AWFUL HOSPITAL: SERIOUSLY THE WORST EVER (page one): an interactive comedy-horror-sci-fi webcomic I started in 2014 about a medical facility that could maybe be better.

Some of my other internet stuff:

PATREON - constant work makes my patreon updates inconsistent, but the content backlog goes back years with a huge amount of exclusive art and writing. I try to put up new exclusive stuff whenever I can.

ETSY - I design all sorts of original enamel pins like these, plus I sell zero-maintenance terrarium plants (just leave them in a jar!), original books and other things!

COLOR THE ABYSS (available on the above etsy!) - a 30 page educational deep sea coloring book! Includes a few famous favorites like giant isopods and hagfish, but mostly focuses on less popular, often much weirder animals.

UNBELIEVABLE BUGS - also regularly restocked in the etsy store, 30 of the strangest and most surprising arthropods most people have likely never heard of, illustrated by myself and @revretch, written for even the youngest kids to understand (but will likely teach you something new at any age)

My Itch.io and Ko-fi - both sell digital versions of my books, including some creepypasta collections and my first novel, "Return of the Living," about a world of entirely ghosts suddenly dealing with the appearance of ghost-hunting monsters.

TWITCH CHANNEL - I now try to stream something at least monthly, sometimes weekly when possible, from horror games to books and art.

YOUTUBE CHANNEL - archives my twitch streams and other little things.

INSTAGRAM - look at pictures of my huge weird collection of toys and Halloween collectibles

BLUESKY - I'm going to put mainly just updates to my stuff on here.

SEE ALSO:

HUMANS-B-GONE - a science fiction animated series by my partner @revretch, about a world of kaiju-size, technologically advanced insects and arachnids to whom vertebrates like us are just pesky little "gubs." Also has a tumblr account @humansbgone

FINALLY, HERE'S MY GUIDE AND RESOURCE TO MAKING YOUR OWN INTERNET WEBSITE IN A FEW MINUTES WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF CODING

#art#pokemon#digimon#biology#animals#halloween#monsters#creature design#creepypasta#horror
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wow I wasn't all that good at this game until suddenly I just kept killing everybody every time with the dredge, probably because the dredge is the cutest one

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Suggest SCARIE video games you'd want me to stream if I get back into really streaming

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To clarify, the insectarium has several beetles and roaches kids can freely handle with adult supervision, and these signs are more so the adults know what to stop kids from doing because otherwise some of them WILL try to play with them like they're literally tiny dolls or action figures

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What's the simplest way to make paper clay? Can you JUST mix wet toilet paper and elmer's glue? Everything online recommends adding other things.

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Sometimes I feel like I should stop pointing out and laughing at the most irritating and creepy trolls I get just so I don't give the other ones more ideas.

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Hot tip for designing creatures, maybe even designing cooler robots and weapons: some arthropods have multiple grabbing mechanisms on the same appendage; almost every segment of this vinegarone's palps has another gripping adaptation!

Notice the entire end pincer (topmost circle) can pinch against the spike below it (next circle down), that's a double claw on one arm! Then there's a bonus spike one segment down, and then the innermost segments form a set of opposing "grinders"

Yowtch! Look up close at arthropod claws and you'll spot this kind of thing everywhere, multiple nested layers of claw :)

#biology
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I remember Fil Barlow saying there was often little to no collaboration between the artists and writers on 90s cartoons and out of his entire vast library of concept art jobs I don't think anything demonstrates that more than this:

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Oh yeah but Fil Barlow designed a monster in the mortasheen book fyi

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I remember Fil Barlow saying there was often little to no collaboration between the artists and writers on 90s cartoons and out of his entire vast library of concept art jobs I don't think anything demonstrates that more than this:

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We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.

So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it’s the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we’ve landed in.

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During the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s, radio broadcasts would refer to upcoming marches as "parties" and use other such euphemisms to sneak calls to organize past censors. For example, the Birmingham marches of 1963 were called "a field trip in the park with a luncheon".

This is, frankly, a timeless strategy, just done online.

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If I ever wrote a superhero story I’d want there to be a recurring shitty C-list supervillain in the background whose power was changing something’s colour and all her villainous plots would be colour-themed things like “If the city council doesn’t give me a million dollars, I will turn the city of GREEN Bay into the city of RED Bay!” and she’d turn the Golden Gate Bridge magenta or whatever.

So it’s all low-stakes villainy, but everyone absolutely hates fighting her because her very shitty superpower works really really well, and there are dozens of background characters who’ve fought her that are just permanently green now

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Chicken finally appeared in the market today at $150 per kilo after 6 months of total absence. Yesterday, Israel allowed just one truck of chicken in—a staged move to deceive the world. In reality, it doesn’t even cover 1% of Gaza’s 2+ million people.

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They deprive us even of flour and medicine — the very basics of life. Before the war my mother’s treatment was free, now it costs $250 a dose, nearly unreachable, and she needs two every week. Your donation or even a share is a lifeline and a witness to the truth.

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Last donation was 12 hours ago!!

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200 people participated without donating!

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please give what you can!

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Please help!!!!

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i literally CANNOT and WILL NEVER get over that one Sad Pic with the story of how a girl and a guy were on a motorcycle and he noticed a wall in front of them so he stopped to let her off and then he drove into the wall and died

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IT WAS A CAR NOT A MOTORCYCLE IM. STILL LAUGIHMG YHOUGH

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When I die I wanna be resurrected as the crab in the bucket of crabs that pulls the other crabs back into the bucket. And I'll love doing it

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if i could die i would wanna be resurrected as a crab strong enough to pull your crabsona out of the bucket. and then where would you be

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One of my favorite toys as a little baby was the purple bat here. I made my parents take the watch part off because that is NOT a natural part of a bat!!!!!!