X[___________] This is so in the spirit of Dorstenia that I can barely stand it. You're amazing. I hope they sneak through at some point!!! They are legit some amazing design. Here are some more Dors for inspo lol

hell yes deep sea horror. Congrats!!

Hey, thanks John. And thanks for your patience with me and A too, it's been an absolute bear of a year that hasn't let up once

Sometimes you get a problem so big you can't even make a comic out of it, that's kind of been the last year for me... anyway.

I'll shut up and be happy about this for now and next step is tutorializing any lessons for indie applications, cuz no point in working on stuff like this if not to share.

Thanks... thankfully these are well-rooted, being quickly slip-potted, and tropical/ going into a tropical cabinet, so maybe... they won't notice what I've done (although I am also experienced enough now to understand that the plants ALWAYS know when I'm doing something stupid)

tbh i've been playing with the (very impractical) idea of serializing a comic via a single piece of printed paper that subscribers will be forced to mail to each other

the internet was and continues to be a mistake that drives people away from each other and into madness, i muse, isolated and insane, to myself from my rotting perch inside the internet

in 2008 I had people mail me a physical dollar to get my first comic, printed after hours on the warehouse xerox at my dad's work. that was probably the peak of my experience selling comics

Yeah it seems awesome from all you've been posting! Probably an even nicer experience once you can conversate a bit more.

Did you end up seeing any of the Amazon River in person (in this or previous SA trips)?

There was one of those River Monster episodes about small Amazonian catfish that were just horrific, I don't know if you remember it, but those little ones swam inside a bait animal and emptied it out until it was a bag of bones? extreme Creature behavior

The catfish loneliness epidemic has led this particular fish to seek out the company of your dad over and over again. It cherishes the moments when they can bond over their shared interest of getting forbidden fish out of the net

What I think about the most irt giant catfish is of course the unparalleled section in Teddy Roosevelt's travelogue "Into the Brazilian Wilderness," in which he describes 12-foot, 600lb Amazonian Piraiba leaping onto fishing canoes in order to swallow adult men whole. The nerve of those fish

Also he had a giant and extremely well-grown D. gigas that is very cool so it goes here too. Plants for the Southwest, if you ever want to visit a nursery that has the most interesting weeds on the world just sitting around everywhere, and one of the nicest growers of all time

Third pic is actually pretty cool, it’s Aristolochia watsonii, the Watson’s Dutchman‘s Pipe plant, an Arizonan native. The owner of the nursery we went to is a fucking sweetie pie and gifted me a bunch of seeds from his plants that have been on the property since 1930 ;__; I’m so grateful

More friends from Arizona

Yeah, the green really stood out