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crowvern
@crowvern.bsky.social
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I like dragons and making art of dragons! sometimes other things.

crowvern/eonofaxolotls on other sites.
most active here: https://www.tumblr.com/crowvern

I have an etsy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Crowvern
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gloomyfates.bsky.social
they call it a hex editor bc you are casting little spells on the computer
September 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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sout.bsky.social
over the hills and far away
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
look at baby Pteroptyx firefly shoving entire head into a Plecostoma shell to try and eat the snail inside
Dark brown long bodied Pteroptyx firefly larva with head inside tiny white Plectostoma shell, trying to eat the snail inside
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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colinpurrington.bsky.social
After years of being curious but lazy, I finally got around to documenting what's inside the black walnuts in my yard. In the process I became obsessed with the strange wasp that hunts down the pupae of the resident flies. 🌿 #wasps #diapriidae #nature #diptera colinpurrington.com/2025/11/life...
Life inside rotting walnut husks » Colin Purrington's blog
There’s an eastern black walnut (Juglans nigra) on my neighbor’s property that rains down fruit every fall, and I finally got curious about what species might be inside. So far I’ve found four flies, ...
colinpurrington.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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prongead.bsky.social
a little agony
November 16, 2025 at 5:39 AM
crowvern.bsky.social
I WILL DIE. ON THIS SPECIFIC HILL. FOREVER PROBABLY.
if a human character has animal traits? that's neat + cool + i will probably like it. no issue. but if you point at some guy with horns and maybe slit pupils. and tell me that that's a dragon. nuh-uh. you are Lying To Me.
koboldfactory.bsky.social Kobold Factory 🏳️‍⚧️ @koboldfactory.bsky.social · 5d
Any time a dragon character turns into a boring human with horns the evil in my heart increases a thousandfold.
I’m glad I’m working on a comic where this doesn’t happen and if a dragon wants to be small with magic for convenience or whatever, they still look LIKE A DRAGON.
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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videochess.world
gaming magazines used to be so true........
A screenshot of Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast. A subtitle reads "Sonic Adventure manages to include not one... not two... but countless of those elusive 'gaming moments.'"
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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chentomology.bsky.social
*Niche critter profile*
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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werewave.bsky.social
the sushi (shisu) crafting quest in Breath of Fire 3 will never be surpassed. on my deathbed I'll still remember the sequence - 15 seeds, 7 horseradish, 4 vinegar, a fish 65cm or larger
inobscurity.bsky.social ⚝ vorsprung durch zauberkraft ⚝ @inobscurity.bsky.social · 19d
the problem with modern videogame rpgs is they don't have quests like the one in phantasy star, where you need to bribe a governor with cake, but the only cake shop in the entire solar system is on a different planet, at the bottom of a four-floor dungeon, behind a locked door.
October 31, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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foone.bsky.social
for some reason back in 2017, I decided to make a website to make fake video game screenshots. This was a good idea and made a lot of people laugh.

Here's to the Death Generator, eight years and 270ish games later!

deathgenerator.com
A screenshot of a twitter post by @foone on October 26th, 2017. She posts "PQ2 death generator is live! make ol' Jim Walls say whatever you want." with a link to the site, and an included image: It's the death dialogbox from the Sierra adventure game Police Quest 2. It shows Jim Walls, a retired police officer, as a portrait on the left. The titlebar says "Jim shakes his head and says..." and there's "Restore", "Restart", "Quit" buttons. The text has been edited to read: "YOU CAN MAKE ME SAY THINGS ANYTHING YOU WANT i miss sierra games :("
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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m1mimomo.bsky.social
the rendering was heavenly but I couldn’t think of a design for the background so I just gave up. whatever. GO my screenshot

#pokemon
October 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
I am deeply sorry that because youtube sucks and is locking more features behind subscriptions, I can no longer add silly music to videos as easily. Here is a garbage baby as recompense
October 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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r0ttenpanda.bsky.social
mood #BreathofFire3
Nina, a blonde girl wearing pink dress, laying down on the mat emotionless and staring blankly at the sky
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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decassette.bsky.social
shouldn't post him, but
weevil-faced little bug person in a cloak. hood down, hood up.
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
crowvern.bsky.social
#polymerclay sea serpent!
Used a bottle cap for its base, since I have so many of them and have no clue what else to use them for....
a tiny sculpture of a striped blue sea serpent rising out of the ocean. the base of the sculpture is made out of a bottle cap.
October 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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mrgeop.bsky.social
Legit problem: Moving game info to Discords is undesirable for a myriad of reasons

Bigger problem: The craft of ASCII art is being forgotten
Tecmo's Deception ASCII art from an FAQ. Written by Peter Chang ((I am not cropping out this artist signature))
October 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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gnowolfstyx.bsky.social
Since it's October, I can post this pic I have saved on my phone again
Some edit over a boomer comic (I think) but with Pikmin and nectar instead
October 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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cassandroid.substack.com
today I learned to fish for trapdoor spiders :D

what you do is gently open the lid, stick a straw deep into the burrow. they bite on it. when you pull it out quickly, they're attached to it :P

once out they just sit there. they don't have a program for this situation it seems :)

#iNaturalist
this goes pretty deep! after I put it back on its lid, it was just sitting there for a quite while, before going back in.
September 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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quest64official.bsky.social
A Jolteon from the popular pokémon game series holding a Brian from the very popular Quest 64 game series in its mouth
September 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
I don't think I've posted this one
worm or amphiptere fantasy creature with a colorful quilt pattern on its body and two small bat-like wings
September 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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heyitsscrappy.bsky.social
Toby Fox was talking about Breath of Fire in the stream today, I always knew he was the absolutely goat 🥺
September 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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nuiipointer.bsky.social
Rove beetles are fierce hunters. This one was in a long battle with a large prey: a dung beetle.

#insects #invertebrates #beetles #coleoptera
September 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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courtesy.bsky.social
I'm a Sucker for Lampreys (And You Should Be Too!), a comic I made about one of my favorite animals in 2024 and printed as a zine. (1/2)
A comic about lampreys. Description of contents: I'm a jawless, cartilaginous fish who's existed since the Devonian. I comprise the order Petromyzontiformes, and I'm invasive in some places and a keystone in others. I'm not related to eels - my closest relative is the hagfish. My mouth might be scary, but I'm a fascinating animal with an unusual job, and I'm excited to make your acquaintance. (Anatomical diagram also included in this page) An Umatilla creation story describes lamprey losing all his limbs while gambling with Coyote (originally Handgame, but depicted here as Yugioh.) Because of this incident, he has to live in the river and suck on rocks with his big mouth. (There's also a Nez Perce version where he gambles away all his bones.) There are about 40 species of lamprey, here are details on a few: Sea lamprey: Found across the American Ocean, though invasive in the Great Lakes. Can grow up to 47" long. Pouched lamprey: Males have a gular pouch used to oxygenate and massage eggs. They also carry rocks in it. Pacific lamprey: Culturally and ecologically important to some Native American tribes, but they were considered a "junk fish" and poisoned. Faces migratory issues due to dams. European brook lamprey: Non-parasitic, doesn't eat as an adult. Lamprey life cycle: 1) Egg 2) Ammocete (larva) with simple eyespots and no teeth. Burrows and eats algae. Termed an "ecosystem engineer" because it aerates the substrate like an earthworm. 3) Transformer (after several years). Develops eyes/teeth/kidneys over a few months. 4) Adult. Migrates to the ocean, parasitizes fish by clamping onto them, rasping with sharp tongue, and sucking their blood out. 5) Spawning. Returns to birthplace and builds a nest called a "redd". Dies after laying eggs. Lampreys feed the ecosystem with nutrients brought back from the sea.
September 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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courtesy.bsky.social
(2/2)
Eat lampreys! We're delicious! Some dishes with lamprey: Lamproie à la bordelaise (France) Arroz de Lampreia (Portugal) Yatsume kabayaki (Japan) Lamp dog (my invention. lamprey in hotdog) Dried lamprey (Native American, multiple tribes) Canned fried lamprey Lamprey pie (England) Humans harvest and eat about seven species of lamprey. The mucus & serum are toxic, so must be washed before cooking. Elaborate lamprey pies are served at coronations in England. King Henry I was said to have died from eating a "surfeit of lampreys". Due to lack of scales, they're haram and non-kosher. Some places with lampreys on their heraldry include: Nakkila & Eurajoki, Finland Pajares de la Lampreana & Villalba de la Lampreana, Spain Freguesia de Penacova, Portugal Sainte-Terre, France Carnikava, Latvia Also included is a list of 15 languages' word for lampreys. What lampreys do for us: Important to ecosystem, food source, fish bait, culturally importance, scientific research What we can do for lampreys: Fight their negative image, don't let invasive & non-invasive species be confused, support conservation of local species, get involved with your local tribe's conservation efforts (if applicable). If you live near Arbo (Spain), Willamette Falls (USA), Sainte-Terre (France), Carnikava (Latvia), or Narva-Jõesuu (Estonia), go to a lamprey festival! Kiss a lamprey...? (This one is being said by a lamprey) While I was working on this zine, I was shown photos of a friend of a friend's mom's coworker's Halloween lamprey costume. More people should do this. Lampreys in video games include: Eelektrik from Pokemon, Rae from Astronautilus, lamprey from Shadow of the Erdtree. Further reading (Titles truncated a bit to fit into alt text): Dispelling Misperceptions of Native Lampreys in the Pacific Northwest (USA) by Clemens BJ, Wang CJ. doi.org/10.1111/csp2.402 The Lost Fish by Freshwaters Illustrated. vimeo.com/116177956 Lampreys in Human Life, Their Cultural and Folklore Importance by Hanel L, Andreska J, Yuri V. doi.org/10.11648/j.hss.20221005.14 Pacific Lamprey Conservation Initiative. pacificlamprey.org Photo of the physical zine, and the cover & inside cover images.
September 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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dadrummond.art
Naphrys pulex, the flea jumping spider, in bronze and black glass, done at last! He is a good doggie. #sciart #invertebrate
A large bronze jumping spider with black glass, eyes perched on my open hand over a wooden table top. The sculpture is highly detailed, with each hair/seta on the spider individually sculpted. A flat lay of the parts list for the bronze spider on a white background. In addition to the large, shiny bronze parts, there is an arrangement of eight black glass eyes, along with five nuts and bolts used to hold the sculpture together.
September 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM