I am tired of the circumstances of my life being determined by men on the brink of non-existence who think they’ll never die if they have enough power.
A collection of moths trying to cosplay a human interdisciplinary artist. MedSci escapee, always drawing, in my chaos-bisexual-enby-hag era. Paintmaker. Moth, disability, & art-related sh*t-posting. https://linktr.ee/lycomorpha & lycomorpha.etsy.com
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I am tired of the circumstances of my life being determined by men on the brink of non-existence who think they’ll never die if they have enough power.
Oh mate, that is some friggin delightful alt to hear!
The pigments used in permanent green light differ between brands, but some are made with similar combinations to this colour. My personal fav green for mixing is PG36 phthalo green yellow shade - I use it a lot in mixing foliage colours!
This is made with red chalk or red rock, which is chalk permeated by haematite (the same stuff that makes red ochre red.) PSA: If you're collecting it locally - check first that the area isn't protected, and don't be a dick. Some places around down here (south coast, UK) are protected, at least.
So lime-y! 🍋🟩
The vanity name is lime, the pigment name is PY74 + PB60.
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that word! 😁
It sorta does, it's grey-er tho, and the granulation is not quite as crunchy.
Me too! The yellow undertone is so bright. ✨
Despite all the religious art, poor dudes in Galilee did not wear white and people who hang around lepers get a lot of nasty shit on them. You have a human god so that they can say “I was one of you, I understand, I went to the hard places where I was needed.” Grace, embodied.
The places where you actually NEED grace are filthy and bloody and despairing. Grace is the last cigarette shared in the gutter, the hand of the dying being held by the stranger, the kindness done by the broken.
Grace is a thing that happens in the world. It is not confined to churches, and I suspect you find it more often outside them. It is not a pale bloodless thing wrapped up in incense and white altar cloths.
Sending you thanks & solidarity. 💖
Also can we agree that the top left colour is pink and not lilac, please? I definitely think it's pink. But it's caused some head-tilt here. (I mean... Potato, potaahto tho, eh? It's still a good early evening cloud colour, whatever it is. 😂)
Aww thanks mate! 🥰💖 & I'm sorry about these twat-weasels too. But I intend to survive this bullshit RW era, out of spite if nothing else, cos I know the existence of loud ungrateful disabled people really annoys fascists.
Mate, you're welcome & also... Same, TBH. & I swear if I hear 'at least they're not as bad as...' one more time, I'm gonna lose my tiny fucken mind.
Swatching new colours for my shop update & behold my latest weird-ass paint-children! 🥹 Especially the 2 on the right. That ash teal is granulating but still somehow relatively transparent. (Which was luck more than judgement but uhh... Let's pretend I meant to do that, OK? Okay.)
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I look forward to every media outlet that platformed Nigel Farage and Reform for the entire summer now giving us wall-to-wall coverage of Zack Polanski and The Greens.
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& I appreciate it. 💖
Scuttle is a very good word! I would like to scuttle like a delightful crab. (Specifically, scuttle the whole fuck away from humanity and just hang out with some mudskippers or something. 😂)
I feel like becoming a crab at this point would definitely be a step up from... (Waves hands in the general direction of parliament)... Having to deal with whatever that asshattery is.
The Void is back! Unscheduled studio inspection!! Void-Floof has been poorly lately, so he's been taking a break from studio management. Good to see he's feeling better. 😁
A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca), from my time in Yellowknife, NT, Canada. #lichen #fungifriends
That sounds so cool! Does lichen-based air quality surveying fit the theme?
Gah. I guess rich people everywhere will pay arseholes anywhere to sell instant populist non-solutions, & point the finger of blame at anyone except them.
It's times like this that I think evolving into vertebrates & developing a society really was a gi-fucking-gantic error of judgement.
Populists here basically looking at the US and saying 'hold my friggin pint'. I am so exasped, mate.
I'm sorry, friends. I'm just so bastard tired of having to protest/write to some utterfuckingly line-toeing MP/scream about awful shit, that we somehow still really do need to keep yelling about. Have a nice fluffy moth to make up for it.
And do you know what? Not all my friends did survive those bloody things. But sure. Sucking up to right-wing shitpickles, validating their asshattery, & making yourself look willing to say anything and fuck over anyone to keep your morally vacant arses in power? That'll definitely help us all out.
'But if you tax the wealthy they'll leave' well they're fucken here now Jonathan, and I don't see my water bill shrinking or my weekly shop getting cheaper. Don't give me any trickle down dickweaselry. I've survived 2 shitspackled self-serving Tory govts, section 28, & an on-fucking-going pandemic.
I'm sorry. But jaaysus tittyfucken kerrist. I'd just really like a govt that wasn't trying to kill us off, crapping from a magfuckingnificent height on the vulnerable, & maybe considered taxing the incredibly wealthy a teensy weensy bit more instead of proscribing people who don't like genocide. 🤷
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggghh. FFS. Reform are persistent dangling wanksicles on the bell-end of politics. Stop sucking their rancid arsehole and do something other than shitting on refugees, the chronically ill, and disabled people. You absolutely foul fucking wankbaskets.
Does anyone legit think this cruelty will give us a funded, functional NHS that isn't driven by a transphobic AI-fanboy cuntpuffin? Or stop a shit-tonne of literal shite being dumped int rivers? Or make food more fucking affordable? Even if you buy the breathless bullshit panic about immigration?
Because Who the fuck. Who the entire tittyfuck. Who the whole & entire actual bastardtittyfuck. Thinks anything is improved by a PM telling us how much time they spend sitting under a twatting flag? Which wankspangled dicklimpet thinks stopping reunion visas for kids will lower our friggin bills?
Aww thanks mate. I think I'm gonna go to the post and then just come & curse for half an hour or summat.
Can I just swear, really a lot, just for a minute please? Like. I feel like this is a place where you're all used to my general bullshit & profanity, but I'm more exasperated than usual. So I feel like I should give fair warning.
Oh wait. I just checked, and you're arbitrarily @'g people in every friggin post, which is annoying and spammy. Don't @ me again please.
No alt text no like.
The Void is back! Unscheduled studio inspection!! Void-Floof has been poorly lately, so he's been taking a break from studio management. Good to see he's feeling better. 😁
14. Lastly… - water boatman (I didn't know they could fly til I saw this'un) - one of many different ladybird visitors - unidentified fly (we get a lot of those, I'm bad at fly ID) - burying beetle & attached mites! Only every had one of these beets drop by, so cool to see. Happy #InverteFest!
13. Assorted caddisflies. At least I think these are caddisflies. I know very little about these bugs, but they're delightful guests. #InverteFest
12. Assorted wasps. As well as the classic jasper, a range of other things that I guess are wasps (?) drop by. #InverteFest
Heh! This isn't a mosquito though.
Their wings are just so perfect!
11. Brown lipped snail. Probably the most unexpected visitor to the moth trap yet. 🙃🤷 #InverteFest
10. Sometimes the lolling chafers give the optimistic spiders a treat... #InverteFest
It just confuses the shit out of me, when people who seem extremely middle class in all ways & are comfortable with those social norms say they're working class. Could just be my absolute total lack of social skills tho, which is my brain being like that & not a class thing. It just feels weiiird.
Like I can't say I feel like I fit into middle class spaces, & I probably never will. It's a whole different unspoken language there that feels alien to me. But I've gone from unsafe, abusive, insecure place to one where I'm very safe & don't have to panic every night about money. I got a PhD, FFS.
Perma-baffled by folks who did paid-for private school, have 2 working professional parents, & say they've never shat themselves over bills, but also say they're working class. Cos I feel middle class now? Even tho I grew up in a 1-parent low income working class family? It's so friggin weird...
9. Eared leafhopper. Amazing bark camo, I love it. Crypsis and mimicry are my favourite things when it comes to both spotting and drawing bugs. #Invertefest
They really are.
8. Green lacewings. Very lovely visitors. Not sure what else to say about them TBH, they're super pretty tho. #InverteFest
7. Not sure what this red mite is? But it snuck in on a moth. #InverteFest
Yep. Only ever see them one at a time. Why?
The antennas are so cool! I wonder why some beetles have these fan-like antenna... Maybe a bigger surface area for detecting things or summat?
That's a friggin great nickname, I'm borrowing that! 😂
6. Non-biting midges. I didn't know these existed until I got a moth trap. But we welcome our new non-bitey flapping friends. #InverteFest
5. Speaking of beetles, look at this utterfuckingly delightful acorn weevil! What a perfect little bud, no notes. #InverteFest
Mate, why'd you take the alt text off??
4. Cockchafers, summer chafers, and the like. These beetles generally loll around in the trap like they're half asleep, honestly. Adorable. #InverteFest
3. We get a range of spiders in the egg trays. They seem very optimistic, given the size difference between them and most moths. Maybe there's small gnats visiting for them to eat that I don't see, though. #InverteFest
2. Shield bugs, AKA stink bugs (which is rude, but I think it's because some of them can exude a noxious liquid in defense.) Specifically green, red-legged, and hawthorn shield bugs. I love these critters, which is good given quite a lot of them drop by. #InverteFest
For the last day of #InverteFest, a thread of things that have visited my moth trap that aren't moths. 1. This friggin adorable ectemnius wasp. Look at its cute boxy little head. Delightful.
Missing him, a Single Strand of Spider #InverteFest
I like that they fully committed and redid the whole underpass while they were at it
How did I miss this?? Also hello and welcome back 😁
@lycomorpha.bsky.social When I first ran into you and you shared your love of moths, I wanted to share this pic with you, but I couldn't find it! Just came back in my FB memories. When I Googled the image, it said it was a Tolype moth. - just beautiful!
YW, always happy to share cooking things!
Well you know where to find me! 😁 Also am a fan of big pot giant beans, tho that recipe does require chopping.
(But if you ever need a vegetarian or vegan sturdy soup recipe for 20 that requires minimum prep, I got you. 😂)
During the work week, I generally run out of spoons before tea-time. So my inability to cook anything small comes in handy. I cook a fucken huge soup, a curry, and a couple other big things for the week ont weekends. Not unrelatedly... We're friggin amazing at fridge/freezer Jenga in my house. 😬
Welp that's a quarter of the cherries eaten, and 2 or 3 litres of roasted garlic, red onion, and chilli purée made - with the good oregano, no less. I think I might need a lie down.
No, you can make peach black pigment (or buy it from Kremer.)
For research purposes, this is the pits from 1kg of cherries. (Not gonna weigh anything else, we're just gonna eat it. 😂) I plan to dry and clean all the pits before baking the shit out of them.
If this works I'll definitely be posting here about (also if it doesn't work, TBH! 😂)
Yes, that's what I've seen too - sealed metal containers! Apparently keeping a consistent temperature is also important.
OK. Back home, & pizza oven is planned for next weekend. I've a week to: - eat 4 trays of cherries, 1 tray of nectarines, & possibly a big box of apricots. - clean & dry the pits. - sort out my bake-able lidded containers. - roast garlic/tomatoes/chilli for the good pizza we'll also be making…
...And this is how I ended up in an unfamiliar town, collecting an ungodly amount of cherries from Costco. (Yes, Kitty got another rotisserie chicken for The Void. 🙄😹)
Friends have joked about me being a lemur in a past life because I love eating fruit so much... But I legit think I might need the help on this one. 😂
For my pigment nerds, I also need to catch up with the red chalk pigment & paint I made last month. I kinda got behind on my pigment bullshit. And now I'm planning on making pigment out of cremated things... I need help, seriously. 🙃
Good to know... I think I'd prefer to avoid cyanide. 😬
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
I don't think I could bring myself to carbonise a good home made pizza for this. As well as a sacrificial piece of ceramic cookware for testing, and a shit-tonne of cherries, I'm gonna need a cheap frozen pizza I think. 🤔 Costco. I'm thinking Costco will have all these things.
I have both lab glassware for paint-making and ceramic cookware. I need to choose a piece to test with first in case something goes tits-up, tho.
Oh if we do this, I will be taking pictures.
Yeah we're definitely reckoning stoneware/ceramics.
Follow-up thoughts include: - You can definitely carbonise pizza in a pizza oven. Could you make pizza black pigment? - What do I make cherry/pizza black pigment in? I need a container that won't melt at 450°C so the pizza oven owner doesn't hate me. - Again, why am I like this?
It's Saturday and before I've even got dressed... I'm hatching a plan with Kitty to eat a shit-tonne of cherries, keep the pits, and turn them into cherry black pigment. By carbonising them in a pizza oven. Why am I like this?
9. A couple of orange swifts. Super fluffy and delightful! Also today's furious grass veneer is an elbow-striped grass veneer, and it is a tiny ball of rage. Look at those eyes. Do not fck with this moth. #InverteFest
🌈 Keep it trashy 👈😎👈 #art #queerart #raccoon
Someday this bro will turn into goo and grow wings, maybe your messy phase will end well for you too
Mulling some marls today. This is a warm grey marl - I made the pigment by grinding and levitating a small soft piece of marl rock. I'm really loving the non-slip silicone mats, they're making life a lot easier! 😁
In this wankspangled shit-show world, I love these benignly funny things. Truly. A joy. 😂💖
The only thing funnier is this...
An extra good morning to people who know me and my bullshit, but still ask: "Hey, do you have a pencil I can borrow?" Only the 36 in my travel bag, mate. Plus about 400 in the studio. You're hilarious & I love you.
Same!
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The truth.