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...
Comics? Here's one that will fuse your synapses:
www.onlinedesho.com/work/comics
www.onlinedesho.com/work/comics
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Comics? Here's one that will fuse your synapses:
www.onlinedesho.com/work/comics
www.onlinedesho.com/work/comics
Hard To Find Books (Auckland). They're getting kicked out of the building they rent so I made a photography book about it to help raise funds and awareness:
Read here for free: archive.org/details/hard...
Read here for free: archive.org/details/hard...
October 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hard To Find Books (Auckland). They're getting kicked out of the building they rent so I made a photography book about it to help raise funds and awareness:
Read here for free: archive.org/details/hard...
Read here for free: archive.org/details/hard...
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 : )
Reading 'The Doors of Eden' by Adrian Tchaikovsky. One bit I'm really digging is how each chapter of the main narrative is followed by excerpts from a fictional book describing the point at which various alternate Earths diverged from ours.
October 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Reading 'The Doors of Eden' by Adrian Tchaikovsky. One bit I'm really digging is how each chapter of the main narrative is followed by excerpts from a fictional book describing the point at which various alternate Earths diverged from ours.
I've only designed for one podcast so far, but hopefully my other work will amuse and convince 🙏
Portfolio: www.onlinedesho.com
Portfolio: www.onlinedesho.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I've only designed for one podcast so far, but hopefully my other work will amuse and convince 🙏
Portfolio: www.onlinedesho.com
Portfolio: www.onlinedesho.com
Adding to my list of SF books about anomalies. Suggestions gratefully received.
The rules:
(i) An otherworldly object appears/is discovered,
(ii) whose purpose/intention is unknown,
(iii) it is investigated by professionals,
(iv) who travel to the object.
From: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
The rules:
(i) An otherworldly object appears/is discovered,
(ii) whose purpose/intention is unknown,
(iii) it is investigated by professionals,
(iv) who travel to the object.
From: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
October 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Adding to my list of SF books about anomalies. Suggestions gratefully received.
The rules:
(i) An otherworldly object appears/is discovered,
(ii) whose purpose/intention is unknown,
(iii) it is investigated by professionals,
(iv) who travel to the object.
From: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
The rules:
(i) An otherworldly object appears/is discovered,
(ii) whose purpose/intention is unknown,
(iii) it is investigated by professionals,
(iv) who travel to the object.
From: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Introduce the kid to a chunky caterpillar who smells like goats:
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
#STEM
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
#STEM
October 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Introduce the kid to a chunky caterpillar who smells like goats:
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
#STEM
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
#STEM
The face of a woman who is jolly well going to change the world for the better. Photo by Hugo van Lawick/National Geographic Creative, via this nice obit on Mongabay:
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/jane...
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/jane...
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The face of a woman who is jolly well going to change the world for the better. Photo by Hugo van Lawick/National Geographic Creative, via this nice obit on Mongabay:
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/jane...
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/jane...
Have you introduced the kid to the mysterious seal who likes underwater caves?
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Have you introduced the kid to the mysterious seal who likes underwater caves?
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
I've been arrested trespassing on Fortress Willow and spying on arcane rituals.
September 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I've been arrested trespassing on Fortress Willow and spying on arcane rituals.
Post a non religious picture you think of as holy
(Portrait of Grace Jones by Jean-Paul Goude)
(Portrait of Grace Jones by Jean-Paul Goude)
August 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Post a non religious picture you think of as holy
(Portrait of Grace Jones by Jean-Paul Goude)
(Portrait of Grace Jones by Jean-Paul Goude)
Got a nice shrimp for the kid. Quick, they are, and little. Plus two book recs for you, on botany and ceramics:
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
August 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Got a nice shrimp for the kid. Quick, they are, and little. Plus two book recs for you, on botany and ceramics:
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
It's world lizard day. What better time to introduce the kid to a vegetarian lizard and colour changing wizard?
Iguana iguana: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Calotes calotes: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Iguana iguana: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Calotes calotes: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
August 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It's world lizard day. What better time to introduce the kid to a vegetarian lizard and colour changing wizard?
Iguana iguana: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Calotes calotes: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Iguana iguana: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Calotes calotes: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Seeing as it's world elephant day, here's a bit about the Asian elephant, from Animal animal 012. Scroll past Kelaart's Long-clawed shrew (or read with the kid) and the Corpse Whale review:
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Image: Elephant kraal in Sri Lanka, 1785. Jan Brandes. Rijksmuseum.
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Image: Elephant kraal in Sri Lanka, 1785. Jan Brandes. Rijksmuseum.
August 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Seeing as it's world elephant day, here's a bit about the Asian elephant, from Animal animal 012. Scroll past Kelaart's Long-clawed shrew (or read with the kid) and the Corpse Whale review:
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Image: Elephant kraal in Sri Lanka, 1785. Jan Brandes. Rijksmuseum.
www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
Image: Elephant kraal in Sri Lanka, 1785. Jan Brandes. Rijksmuseum.
If you see this, post swords!
This one's from Ogawa's excellent 'Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156--1868'
This one's from Ogawa's excellent 'Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156--1868'
August 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If you see this, post swords!
This one's from Ogawa's excellent 'Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156--1868'
This one's from Ogawa's excellent 'Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156--1868'
Almost the same as the Gundam Marker Zeon Set. Were ancient Egyptians painting Gunpla models in their spare time?
August 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Almost the same as the Gundam Marker Zeon Set. Were ancient Egyptians painting Gunpla models in their spare time?
I learned everything I need to know about cows from Yotsuba &!, vol 7 chapter 44:
July 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I learned everything I need to know about cows from Yotsuba &!, vol 7 chapter 44:
Just started. Very funny, very weird, very much my bag.
July 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Just started. Very funny, very weird, very much my bag.
