Deshan Tennekoon
@deshan10.bsky.social
Animal animal: a weekly letter to you & the kid, filled with science, art, and love: https://tinyurl.com/4ttamcer
Mary Anning's Grewsome Beasts (palaeontology for kids): http://tinyurl.com/5f9
Writer|Book designer|Fulbright scholar| He/him: onlinedesho.com
Mary Anning's Grewsome Beasts (palaeontology for kids): http://tinyurl.com/5f9
Writer|Book designer|Fulbright scholar| He/him: onlinedesho.com
But your Granny called and said she wants a hand-drawn picture of a Sri Lankan yakshaya for Christmas:
www.onlinedesho.com/shop/origina...
www.onlinedesho.com/shop/origina...
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
But your Granny called and said she wants a hand-drawn picture of a Sri Lankan yakshaya for Christmas:
www.onlinedesho.com/shop/origina...
www.onlinedesho.com/shop/origina...
It's time to tell your kid about skunk bums. Also, I'm selling some original art soon. More in the new edition of Animal animal: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It's time to tell your kid about skunk bums. Also, I'm selling some original art soon. More in the new edition of Animal animal: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
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It's almost the weekend! 🥳
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It's almost the weekend! 🥳
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
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You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands
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“Ito Romo's vampires step across centuries with dignity, but with desperation, too—you don't want to get close to them, but you can't look away.”
-Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. As always, gracias, @sgj.bsky.social. Pre-order now wherever you buy your books. ❤️👊🏼❤️
-Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. As always, gracias, @sgj.bsky.social. Pre-order now wherever you buy your books. ❤️👊🏼❤️
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
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Among other things, about Beckett's science-fictional play KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
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The Butterfly and the Crab
Cancer and Krapp.
vajra.me
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Among other things, about Beckett's science-fictional play KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
vajra.me/2025/10/30/t...
vajra.me/2025/10/30/t...
Thank you! This was very useful.
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Thank you! This was very useful.
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Scarry Movie (1990)
October 26, 2023 at 2:01 PM
Scarry Movie (1990)
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I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
This is utterly gorgeous. Can it come to a bridge near me?
The excitement I felt reading these words...
this but huge, hanging off the Golden Gate Bridge lazily snatching at cars with sleepy, blinking eyes
this but huge, hanging off the Golden Gate Bridge lazily snatching at cars with sleepy, blinking eyes
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is utterly gorgeous. Can it come to a bridge near me?
Mary Norris eye twitch meme
Finding typos in The New Yorker is hard enough. But an actual mistake is like seeing a unicorn.
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Mary Norris eye twitch meme
Still the best Nosferatu poster (Albin Grau, 1922):
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Still the best Nosferatu poster (Albin Grau, 1922):
Happy #PortfolioDay to all who celebrate!
I'm a book designer and editor. Drop me a line if you need a book made : )
I'm a book designer and editor. Drop me a line if you need a book made : )
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Happy #PortfolioDay to all who celebrate!
I'm a book designer and editor. Drop me a line if you need a book made : )
I'm a book designer and editor. Drop me a line if you need a book made : )
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Sorry I pointed and screamed "El Diablo!" and threw holy water at your baby.
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Sorry I pointed and screamed "El Diablo!" and threw holy water at your baby.
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Today, we send solidarity greetings to all involved in the #NewZealand #Megastrike.
100,000 teachers and medical staff taking action.
Share this post and support the strike.
#StrikeMap
100,000 teachers and medical staff taking action.
Share this post and support the strike.
#StrikeMap
October 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today, we send solidarity greetings to all involved in the #NewZealand #Megastrike.
100,000 teachers and medical staff taking action.
Share this post and support the strike.
#StrikeMap
100,000 teachers and medical staff taking action.
Share this post and support the strike.
#StrikeMap
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Moms of writers everywhere, sitting up, suddenly given unrealistically high expectations of what their kids can do for them.
Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting ‘The X-Files’ for his mom, a major fan of the show, and she’s already read some pages: ‘She’s fired up.’
Ryan Coogler Is Rebooting The X-Files for His Mom
Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting ‘The X-Files’ for his mom, a major fan of the show, and she’s already read some pages: ‘She’s fired up.’
www.vulture.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Moms of writers everywhere, sitting up, suddenly given unrealistically high expectations of what their kids can do for them.
Lovely news to wake up to!
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
vajra.me
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Lovely news to wake up to!
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Human artists?
Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
October 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Going to do a new pinned post as I'm changing domain, my domain is now bigbeardedbookseller.uk and everything is going on this domain now.
I'm writing about pretty much anything I'm interested in when I have something to say, so no timetable as such.
#Introduction #PinnedPost
I'm writing about pretty much anything I'm interested in when I have something to say, so no timetable as such.
#Introduction #PinnedPost
August 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Going to do a new pinned post as I'm changing domain, my domain is now bigbeardedbookseller.uk and everything is going on this domain now.
I'm writing about pretty much anything I'm interested in when I have something to say, so no timetable as such.
#Introduction #PinnedPost
I'm writing about pretty much anything I'm interested in when I have something to say, so no timetable as such.
#Introduction #PinnedPost
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October 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM