SynapsidGirl
@synapsidgirl.bsky.social
Paleoartist focusing on synapsids, including mammals. I make both 2D and 3D art.
Sometimes sweary, always actively hostile towards plagiarism algorithms.
She/her
https://cara.app/synapsidgirl
Sometimes sweary, always actively hostile towards plagiarism algorithms.
She/her
https://cara.app/synapsidgirl
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SynapsidGirl
@synapsidgirl.bsky.social
· Nov 12
I guess it's time for reintroduction with all the new followers.
Hi, I'm a paleoartist who also occasionally dabbles in general creature #art, mostly focused on synapsids of all sorts (mammals and our evolutionary line).
I mostly do #3d and #digitalart.
Hi, I'm a paleoartist who also occasionally dabbles in general creature #art, mostly focused on synapsids of all sorts (mammals and our evolutionary line).
I mostly do #3d and #digitalart.
Unfortunately, I decided that, since I had my birthday earlier this month, I should get myself a present. Unfortunately gog had a game I poured inhuman amounts of time into as a teen dirt cheap on sale. Unfortunately, I got the new account discount and also got Witcher 3 for equally dirt cheap.
October 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Unfortunately, I decided that, since I had my birthday earlier this month, I should get myself a present. Unfortunately gog had a game I poured inhuman amounts of time into as a teen dirt cheap on sale. Unfortunately, I got the new account discount and also got Witcher 3 for equally dirt cheap.
The world sucks, so here's a colour study of an elusive water potato I did on Monday, for your viewing pleasure
Proportions are a bit wonky, but it's been a long while since I was grinning this much while painting something
#Sciart
Proportions are a bit wonky, but it's been a long while since I was grinning this much while painting something
#Sciart
October 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The world sucks, so here's a colour study of an elusive water potato I did on Monday, for your viewing pleasure
Proportions are a bit wonky, but it's been a long while since I was grinning this much while painting something
#Sciart
Proportions are a bit wonky, but it's been a long while since I was grinning this much while painting something
#Sciart
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New Australopith Just Dropped...What Does it Mean?
YouTube video by Gutsick Gibbon
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Also, why are hurdy-gurdies so horrifically expensive? I mean, I know why, but still. Why.
September 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Also, why are hurdy-gurdies so horrifically expensive? I mean, I know why, but still. Why.
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My window prisms throwing little rainbows at some prehistoric beasts on the drying shelf 💕
September 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
My window prisms throwing little rainbows at some prehistoric beasts on the drying shelf 💕
In today's episode of misheard lyrics, I refuse to believe that this song does not, in fact, go:
"Magick is a laughing fool, a dance into the dark
A glimpse of hope within a circle... Le chonk"
Who am I to tell musicians they can't sing about les chonks, after all.
"Magick is a laughing fool, a dance into the dark
A glimpse of hope within a circle... Le chonk"
Who am I to tell musicians they can't sing about les chonks, after all.
September 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In today's episode of misheard lyrics, I refuse to believe that this song does not, in fact, go:
"Magick is a laughing fool, a dance into the dark
A glimpse of hope within a circle... Le chonk"
Who am I to tell musicians they can't sing about les chonks, after all.
"Magick is a laughing fool, a dance into the dark
A glimpse of hope within a circle... Le chonk"
Who am I to tell musicians they can't sing about les chonks, after all.
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"For centuries, scientists and sailors have know that sperm whales hunted the 'giant squid', Architeuthis dux. Whale bodies are scarred with huge sucked marks and gashes from Archituthus. But the battles take place in deep water, far beyond where humans can easily travel…"
- Awesome stuff.
- Awesome stuff.
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"For centuries, scientists and sailors have know that sperm whales hunted the 'giant squid', Architeuthis dux. Whale bodies are scarred with huge sucked marks and gashes from Archituthus. But the battles take place in deep water, far beyond where humans can easily travel…"
- Awesome stuff.
- Awesome stuff.
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Thank you so much Totemic_tattoo (on IG) for making time for us to give me my very first tattoo. He was so knowledgable and kind, giving the best experience I could have hoped for! Both my partner and I are absolutely thrilled 🖤🥹
September 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Thank you so much Totemic_tattoo (on IG) for making time for us to give me my very first tattoo. He was so knowledgable and kind, giving the best experience I could have hoped for! Both my partner and I are absolutely thrilled 🖤🥹
Luna lately when I take her for a walk(unless she gets taken to the beach or a forest, that is): " no thank you, I'd rather go home and nap"
Luna the moment we get back:
" I have ball. Please throw ball, don't touch ball, the ball, throw it, throw the ball"
Make up your mind, you furry menace.
Luna the moment we get back:
" I have ball. Please throw ball, don't touch ball, the ball, throw it, throw the ball"
Make up your mind, you furry menace.
September 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Luna lately when I take her for a walk(unless she gets taken to the beach or a forest, that is): " no thank you, I'd rather go home and nap"
Luna the moment we get back:
" I have ball. Please throw ball, don't touch ball, the ball, throw it, throw the ball"
Make up your mind, you furry menace.
Luna the moment we get back:
" I have ball. Please throw ball, don't touch ball, the ball, throw it, throw the ball"
Make up your mind, you furry menace.
Yeah, I can't wait to hear the good old "but it's not about immigrants like you" once again.
Yes it is, it's about all of us.
Yes it is, it's about all of us.
Farage has been targeting my immigration group since the early 2010s. I'm confident, that, just like during the run up to the Brexit vote, my English colleagues will completely downplay my stress and fear, xenophobic threats made at my family, proceed to ghost me and provide no help and support.
Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.
September 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Yeah, I can't wait to hear the good old "but it's not about immigrants like you" once again.
Yes it is, it's about all of us.
Yes it is, it's about all of us.
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Research team Naiomi & Arjan approved coloration direction & gave some suggestions as I refined the paint job. Last steps after this: to add protowhiskers and some fuzz, next!
September 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Research team Naiomi & Arjan approved coloration direction & gave some suggestions as I refined the paint job. Last steps after this: to add protowhiskers and some fuzz, next!
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#SciArtSeptember Day 20: Glacial
The Southern Ocean is home to several unique orca subspecies, including these C type orcas.
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#orca #orcawhale #whales #sketch
The Southern Ocean is home to several unique orca subspecies, including these C type orcas.
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#orca #orcawhale #whales #sketch
September 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
#SciArtSeptember Day 20: Glacial
The Southern Ocean is home to several unique orca subspecies, including these C type orcas.
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#orca #orcawhale #whales #sketch
The Southern Ocean is home to several unique orca subspecies, including these C type orcas.
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#orca #orcawhale #whales #sketch
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85 usd, I'll draw your cat or dog or bird or lizard or fish #comissionsopen
September 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
85 usd, I'll draw your cat or dog or bird or lizard or fish #comissionsopen
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A little watercolour I’ve been working on, which all got a bit hypnotic for some reason.
#oaktrees
#savethebutterflies
#inverts
#nature
#wildlifeart
#teammoth
#oaktrees
#savethebutterflies
#inverts
#nature
#wildlifeart
#teammoth
September 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A little watercolour I’ve been working on, which all got a bit hypnotic for some reason.
#oaktrees
#savethebutterflies
#inverts
#nature
#wildlifeart
#teammoth
#oaktrees
#savethebutterflies
#inverts
#nature
#wildlifeart
#teammoth
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I'm very fond of Bactrian camels.
Detail from a drawing from 2022. Brown and graphite pencils on Fabriano Medioevalis, 95 × 64 mm.
Detail from a drawing from 2022. Brown and graphite pencils on Fabriano Medioevalis, 95 × 64 mm.
September 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I'm very fond of Bactrian camels.
Detail from a drawing from 2022. Brown and graphite pencils on Fabriano Medioevalis, 95 × 64 mm.
Detail from a drawing from 2022. Brown and graphite pencils on Fabriano Medioevalis, 95 × 64 mm.
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"Because people who have no hopes are easy to control; and whoever has the control has the power!" -G'mork
#kaseyart #penandink
#kaseyart #penandink
September 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Because people who have no hopes are easy to control; and whoever has the control has the power!" -G'mork
#kaseyart #penandink
#kaseyart #penandink
Actually, instead of whatever they're doing right now, the mod team should focus on the real problem: how to force people to tag their posts about whatever sports thing they have going on at any given moment, so I can mute them in peace.
Also, reality TV.
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(I am, obviously, not being serious)
Also, reality TV.
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(I am, obviously, not being serious)
September 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Actually, instead of whatever they're doing right now, the mod team should focus on the real problem: how to force people to tag their posts about whatever sports thing they have going on at any given moment, so I can mute them in peace.
Also, reality TV.
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.
(I am, obviously, not being serious)
Also, reality TV.
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(I am, obviously, not being serious)
I'm listening to a song where the chorus goes:
"Twinkle twinkle brittle stars
In this twisted realm you are
Lost above the world so high
Like black holes in the sky(...)"
And I know he means, you know, the actual stars, but I'm stuck imagining a night sky full of sparkly echinoderms.
"Twinkle twinkle brittle stars
In this twisted realm you are
Lost above the world so high
Like black holes in the sky(...)"
And I know he means, you know, the actual stars, but I'm stuck imagining a night sky full of sparkly echinoderms.
September 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I'm listening to a song where the chorus goes:
"Twinkle twinkle brittle stars
In this twisted realm you are
Lost above the world so high
Like black holes in the sky(...)"
And I know he means, you know, the actual stars, but I'm stuck imagining a night sky full of sparkly echinoderms.
"Twinkle twinkle brittle stars
In this twisted realm you are
Lost above the world so high
Like black holes in the sky(...)"
And I know he means, you know, the actual stars, but I'm stuck imagining a night sky full of sparkly echinoderms.
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Today we visited the two Lascaux replicas, words can’t do them justice! 🥹😭 Both were amazing in their own way: the older one felt intimate and sits right by the original cave, while the newer one is stunningly precise thanks to modern scanning. The photos are from the smaller exhibits afterwards.
September 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Today we visited the two Lascaux replicas, words can’t do them justice! 🥹😭 Both were amazing in their own way: the older one felt intimate and sits right by the original cave, while the newer one is stunningly precise thanks to modern scanning. The photos are from the smaller exhibits afterwards.
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This little shit has had quite the journey. Some pieces can be easy, but some drag you kicking and screaming the entire way.
I got there. And I'm happy with the end result, but boy am I glad to be done.
I got there. And I'm happy with the end result, but boy am I glad to be done.
September 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This little shit has had quite the journey. Some pieces can be easy, but some drag you kicking and screaming the entire way.
I got there. And I'm happy with the end result, but boy am I glad to be done.
I got there. And I'm happy with the end result, but boy am I glad to be done.
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Don’t support big company. Big company don’t like you. Support small artist. Or just save your money.
September 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Don’t support big company. Big company don’t like you. Support small artist. Or just save your money.
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The absolute garbage from Colossal continues, this time it's Dodos. I won't link to the article, because Ben Lamm their CEO is quite open about their intentions.
Instead read my sweary takedown of the dire Wolf claims from earlier in the year.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Instead read my sweary takedown of the dire Wolf claims from earlier in the year.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
September 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The absolute garbage from Colossal continues, this time it's Dodos. I won't link to the article, because Ben Lamm their CEO is quite open about their intentions.
Instead read my sweary takedown of the dire Wolf claims from earlier in the year.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Instead read my sweary takedown of the dire Wolf claims from earlier in the year.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
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That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing.
Not distressing.
Full tilt disturbing.
Not distressing.
Full tilt disturbing.
imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality
September 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing.
Not distressing.
Full tilt disturbing.
Not distressing.
Full tilt disturbing.
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I looked at the wrinkles on the necks/jaws of yawning hairless cats to inspire the folds for my Cyonosaurus. There’s no clear fossil evidence for skin texture: what do you do for something that’s not a reptile & not a mammal? I gave it a coarse skin texture w/a stamp I made from a cool pebbly leaf!
September 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I looked at the wrinkles on the necks/jaws of yawning hairless cats to inspire the folds for my Cyonosaurus. There’s no clear fossil evidence for skin texture: what do you do for something that’s not a reptile & not a mammal? I gave it a coarse skin texture w/a stamp I made from a cool pebbly leaf!