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Invertebrate posting during October 2025 💜 she/her • 🎨 hobby artist • 🎮 anime and video game enjoyer • 🪼 invertebrate enthusiast • 🌼 plant liker • 🧩 puzzle hunt-er • 🔗 https://mesokari.tumblr.com/

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Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 24d

Happy 10th to Undertale! 🎉

I can't put into words what this game means to me so I drew the tarot card that I think best captures it instead.

#Undertale #Undertale10thAnniversary #Undertale10周年 #art

The 21st tarot card, The World, with gold leaf vines framing the text.

It's a happy group photo of Frisk, Flowey (arguably not happy), Alphys, Undyne, Sans, Whimsun, Vulkin, Monster Kid, Temmie, Mad Mew Mew, Asgore, Endogeny, Toriel, Papyrus, Lesser Dog, Shyren, Napstablook, Small Bird, Mettaton, and last but not least, everyone's favorite monster: Jerry.

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Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 6h

Oops, already shut down my laptop for the night. I'll post double invertebrates tomorrow 😅

Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 10h

I can tell the weather is getting colder because the cat is starting to beg to sit in my lap more

Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 1d

Happy World Octopus Day! 🐙

If you are crazy about octopuses, you've probably already read "The Soul of an Octopus" by Sy Montgomery. And if you're not, you should read it and then maybe you'll become crazy about octopuses.

(Plural of octopus is octopuses. Please delete octopi from your brain data)

Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 1d

Octopus vulgaris - common octopus (2019)

#invertebrates #octopus #WorldOctopusDay #art #sciart

an orange octopus with arms curling in all sorts of directions, in ink and watercolor

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 1d

hands up if you are a true bug and suck sap from plants

Shivaphis celti, the Asian woolly hackberry aphid, also known as Shivaphis (Shivaphis) celti, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants.

Pictured is schivapis celti, a small white bug that looks like a speck of lint, sitting on a leaf

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Kleptoplast 🌱 @kleptoplast.bsky.social · 1d

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Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 1d

I also had a dream I solved a secret Deltarune puzzle, by typing "pizza" but shifting all the letters to the right by one on the keyboard, and getting the word "freeze". Obv not true, and I can't read/write properly while dreaming to save my life. But I was so excited in the dream lol

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Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 1d

Last night i had a dream there was an adult antlion in my house that exhibited very cat-like behaviors (very flexible body, big strootch) so cute...

Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 2d

I am told that because of the many small bumps (papillae) covering the surface of their bodies, they feel soft and velvety. I usually hate the idea of animals with 3+ pairs of legs walking on me, but these guys are so cute I would make an exception for them. I want to feel the velvet wormies...

Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 2d

UNUSUAL ANIMAL ALERT!! Despite their name and appearance they are neither worms nor caterpillars; they make up their own phylum, Onychophora. They have stubby conical feet that each have a pair of claws, and they can shoot jets of slime out of their faces to ensnare prey and deter predators.

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Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 2d

Peripatoides sp. - velvet worm (2019)

#invertebrates #velvetworm #art #sciart

a blue velvet worm with small yellow spots on its body and legs, in ink and watercolor, against a white background

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 2d

IT'S ANTI-PRIME DAY ON BOOKSHOP!
Oct 7 & 8 you can get FREE SHIPPING on books, AND support independent bookstores!

You should get Hunger's Bite, a YA horror adventure set on a Titanic-like ocean liner suffering a curse of capitalist greed. Perfect October reading!

bookshop.org/p/books/hung...

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neeta gasps
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neeta: you were thinking of buying a book from amazon!
wick: I wasn't!
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wick covers his mouth
wick: well, maybe i was
panel 4
neeta swings a book at wick
wick: what's the big deal, it's just books!
panel 5
neeta taps her copy of dracula, with a thought bubble of vampire wick biting a woman's neck
neeta: always buy books from indie bookstores! never buy from amazon! they're the real blood suckers of the book world!

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 2d

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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Mali 💤 @ MCM G-24 💛 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 2d

Shop is open until the end of the week! 🌿✨️
sleepimali-shop.com

Shares are super appreciated, especially from EU folks 💛💛

#EUShop #ArtShop

Graphic of a floating bunny head with a puffy flower poking out of their forehead saying "THE SHOP IS OPEN! (WAHOO!!!)" in a happy bubbly speech bubble

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Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 3d

Actually I do have a general fact, sort of-- until recently I didn't realize how TINY some sea slugs are! Like, fit-on-your-thumbnail tiny! How cute...!!

Of course, the size varies by species and some can be Huge. Look up Aplysia vaccaria; you will not be disappointed. What a Chonker.

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Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 3d

I don't have a good fact about this nudibranch. I didn't even choose to draw it for a good reason (I thought the normies would like it better). There are so many other noods I should have drawn instead, like Luisella babai, Micromelo undatus, Cyerce nigricans, Glossodoris vespa, Doto greenamyeri...

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Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 3d

Jorunna parva - sea bunny (2019)

#invertebrates #nudi #nudibranch #art #sciart

A nudibranch superficially resembling a white bunny with black "ears", black "spots", and a little bushy "tail", against a grey-ish background. The outline of the nudibranch is somewhat blurred into the background, to make it look "fuzzy". Please rest assured, there is nothing remotely mammalian about this creature.

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on the periphery @peripherys.bsky.social · 4d

my song "pink midnight" is now on youtube, with a lovely new visualizer that you can see above by @paperaviator.bsky.social

sweet dreams
♥

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tf5...

pink midnight

YouTube video by on the periphery

www.youtube.com

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 3d

This right here. I love my art friends and art community, but I'm also trying to run a business as a freelancer/selling products and I need the reach! Every time we scatter to different platforms it's a little harder to exist as a working artist whose primary visibility is only online.

Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 3d

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

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Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 3d

HAHAHA I didn't think it was possible for a text to speech dog to sound so increasingly distressed and desperate, so I would totally believe it if he did that.

PS respect for drawing fanart in live time, feels like long time no speed demon seirette!!

Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 4d

i almost forgot today's invertebrate but remembered just before bed hah

ok time to pass out good night

Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 4d

Straight ladies should aspire to be like mantises. Strike fear into the hearts of men, especially those who want to sleep with you. Be beautiful, be dangerous, be cannibalistic after sex. Absolutely iconic, incredible role model for women, nothing problematic here nope

Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 4d

Hymenopus coronatus - orchid mantis (2019)

#invertebrates #mantis #art #sciart

a pink orchid mantis in ink and watercolor, against a black background

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Meso 🪼🐌🪱🪸🪲🦀🕷️🐙🐚 @mesokari.bsky.social · 4d

The only silver lining is that my problem was that i had too much fabric. If I didn't have enough fabric, then this project would have been an instant unsalvageable failure