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Dr Vinca, PhD
@vincaminor42.bsky.social
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Silly, crafty, mathsy, dice goblin, plant nerd; she/her
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Fibonacci has decreed that Yuletide season has begun

(Normally I’m a staunch no Xmas til after Thanksgiving girl, but who am I to argue with that face?)
A white cat with black markings on his face and a bow tie on his collar looks up at the camera with a vacant expression, with a large red and green candy cane shaped toy he just grabbed out of the toy box sitting at his feet
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Happy #Halloween! Blessed Samhain! Who wants to see this year’s Jack-o-lanterns?
Four Jack-o-lanterns lit up at night on a set of steps. From top to bottom there’s one with 3 bays carved out, one with a goofy smiling face, one with a big jagged smile, and one carved to look like part of the game Pac-Man, with Pac-Man, a ghost, and a grid of dots A set of four lit up Jack-o-lanterns at night on some steps. From top to bottom there’s a happy one with vampire fangs, a cut cat face, the symbol for the mathematical constant pi, and one with big round eyes and a goofy wobbly smile A Jack-o-lantern at night with a blue light inside; the carving is a silhouette of a cat wearing a witch hat in front of a full moon
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Waiting til DnD tomorrow to try it, but tentative success?
A hopefully delicious apple pie sitting on a cooling rack, the pi symbol cut into its top crust
October 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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I somehow own 6 pie plates, all of them different
A photo of 6 pie plates on a table with a jack o lantern themed table cloth. Three plates are clear glass, one is white ceramic, one has a dark blue inside with a white pi symbol and the digits of pi around the rim, and one has, hand painted irises
October 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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One of these? (I had to actually log back into my old deviantArt account to actually view the former =P )
A digital painting titled "Animal Companion" by Ursula Vernon. It is of a tastefully nude Polynesian young woman sitting in front of a orange-pink background. A large hog has its front trotters up on her knee and is looking at her adoringly A digital painting titled "Monk of Mycology" by Ursula Vernon. It is of a young woman in a brown robe holding up a mushroom in one hand and a small pink pig under her other arm. She stands in front of a tower of various types mushrooms
October 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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It’s not fair that my 2 fav authors, @tkingfisher.com and @seananmcguire.bsky.social, both have a new book out on the same day; which one am I supposed to read first??
Two books leaning up against a seated black cat, who looks up with annoyance at being used as a book model. The books are What Stalks the Deep by T Kingfisher and Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire
October 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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I believe Ursula's goto hat is this one? (2024's Hugo acceptance speech)
A woman reading a speech at a podium. A black mask obscures most of her face. She is wearing a black leather wide-brimmed fedora (ala Indiana Jones) with an intricate hatband of coiled bronze wire and small stones
September 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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This is a very very close second, though
An image of an unconcerned man with a very large snail crawling across his face, captioned "Dr. Brian Fisher, California Academy of Sciences" Below the picture are three replies from tumblr users obsealpaca: do you think he knows waffleguppies: What I find really astonishing isn't that a giant land snail managed to earn a doctorate, but that he managed to land a national TV spot despite displaying this kind of egregious, disrespectful behaviour towards his co-host memoryblocks (quoting a previous poster's tags): #for god's sake dr. fisher #get off the poor man's face #you're a snail of science #act like it
September 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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It was close, but really big frog full of prizes and value and quite a lot of hatred will I think always be my number 1
A tumblr post from the user hollowtones, dated July 20, 2015, which reads: "basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body. that’s basically fine. if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out. unfortunately this will not deter a really big frog, because a really big frog is full of things like prizes, and value, and quite a lot of hatred, and it would REALLY rather like to replace any and all of those things with your blood, and basically by any means possible."
September 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Now that I finally finished it and gave it to Ursula at RCCC, I can post the painting I did based off this photo!

(Please excuse the very sad background, painting cactus spines in watercolor is beyond me)
A watercolor painting of a bright red cactus flower
September 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Aww, I was picturing the Costco giant teddy bear size, but I suppose smaller it ok too
A display of giant teddy bears for sale at a Costco, with one sitting on a couple of pallets that's easily over 7 feet tall if it was standing up
August 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Ursula has warned us about evil squash in the past...
A page from the comic Digger by Ursula Vernon, consisting of 5 panels. Panel 1: a squash seems to be moving along the ground at speed, a "GGRRRRR" sound effect in the background. From off panel the titular wombat Digger says, "Merciful mother of moles..." Panel 2: a closeup of Digger's face, her eyes narrowed Panel 3: a closeup of the squash, the texture of its rind giving the impression of angry eyes Panel 4: the squash jumps at Digger, leaves outstretched like attacking claws, with a "Rrawww!" Digger looks up at it in surprise Panel 5: the squash is now attached to Digger's leg, its stem and leaves hooked on, with a "gnaw gnaw gnaw" sound effect. Digger looks down on it bemused, saying, "It's a squash. I'm being attacked - or possible romanced - by an angry squash. I should probably have taken that whole poppy milk thing a little more seriously."
July 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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And here’s the obligatory #cattax of the babies (of course Fibonacci set the flower down as soon as I got up to take a picture)
A black and white cat with tabby stripes staring up at the camera with deceptive cuteness, while holding a small knitted ostrich toy under one paw A large white cat with black markings on his face staring intently at the camera with a yellow catnip flower toy at his feet
July 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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@tkingfisher.com If you’re ever in Walla Walla you need to go to this crazy hole-in-the-wall museum I found out about today

Is surrealist/dada sculptures rather than taxidermy, but gave me strong Hollow Places vibes
A door with text on it that reads: “Gerald Matthews Museum of Un-Natural History Open Saturday 10- or by appointment dada” There are some odd looking wooden masks on the wall next to it
June 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Here’s a couple pics of Patches, one of our Mojave desert tortoises with quite the long story from back when I was at the zoo, since people are sharing terrapin pics :)
A closeup of the face and head of a tortoise The front half of a Mojave desert tortoise making a break for the edge of her mat
June 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Did I spend probably way longer than required to make this stupid joke? Yes, yes I did
Mr Burns from the Simpsons, but with a cartoon self portrait of Ursula Vernon's face wearing a badly photoshopped pope hat, telling Smithers to "release the nuns!"
June 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Mum already has 2 rescue cats and I have 3 so we sadly can’t keep them, but would love to find forever homes for these sweeties. All we ask is you get them fixed, keep them as indoor cats, and give them lots of love. Kittens are around 7 weeks old right now
4 small grey kittens huddled together in a box staring out at the camera
June 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The foster/adoption agency we’ve gone to in the past is full up right now, so mum and I are looking for homes for the 4 kittens & mama cat that we rescued from under her deck a fews weeks ago
A grey cat with white feet laying on the floor with 4 grey kittens playing around her
June 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I know this is likely a long shot, but is anyone in the greater #portland metro area looking to adopt, or know anyone who is looking to adopt, a #cat or #kittens?
Three grey kittens in a cuddle pile on the floor, looking extremely cute
June 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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This jar of small metal pellets was for sale at the college surplus store back in grad school, kinda weird?

(I of course bought it and gave it to a friend, who reported that he checked and it was slightly radioactive 🤷‍♀️)
A glass jar with a bright green lid with a piece of tape stuck the top, on which is written “Lead?”
May 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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A happy ending! Caught the mama cat this morning, and after reuniting her with the kittens the whole group is safe and happy in the spare bathroom. Mama cat even let us pet her and was purring, so might be able to be socialized & rehomed rather than spayed and released
A grey cat laying in a cardboard box with 4 small grey kittens around her: one curled up in front, the other three peeking up over her back
May 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Managed to get the last 2 kittens caught, however their mama continues to be elusive. Tried using the kittens in a carrier to lure her to where we could grab her, but she didn’t actually seem that interested in them :(
4 grey kittens in the corner of a cardboard box, staring out at the camera; they are very cute
May 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Well some good news: managed to catch a second #kitten finally! 2 down, 2 to go (plus mama cat…)
Two small grey kittens sitting in a cardboard box, one hiding behind but just peeking out from the other
May 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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For Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg! Happy Glorious 25th of May, and GNU Pterry

#discworld
Lilac flowers growing on a branch
May 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Yet again feeling the need for this here...
A marble statue of the god Apollo, his eyes glowing menacingly, holding the red rubber Dodgeball of Prophecy
May 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM