The Flash elements are all emulated using Ruffle, and it has mods built into it (that you can add and remove at your leisure).
It was only just released to the public yesterday, so it may have some bugs, but it does currently have (from what I can tell) the entire thing, including the archives of the other MSPA comics like Jailbreak and Problem Sleuth.
Surviving so much abuse in my life, I relate to the unicorn tapestries through being a different beast held captive by unkind hands. My full beauty must be allowed to be open and wild, and no snare, fence, or rein may hold me for long.
This design is available as a gold foil postcard with matching vinyl sticker for those who sign up for my mail tier during March 2023. PATREON
Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart
“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”
This is how I learn there’s a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.
[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:
Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.
We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]
But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?
End image description]
because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing
I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation
The Lady and the Unicorn is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries created woven in Flanders from wool and silk, from designs drawn in Paris around 1500. The set, on display in the Musée de Cluny in Paris, considered one of the greatest works of art of the Middle Ages in Europe.
“According to my only wish.”
“The lady with the unicorn. Hearing”
“The lady with the unicorn. Touch”
“The lady with the unicorn. Smell."
"The lady with the unicorn. Vision”
“The lady with the unicorn. Taste”
I made my lovely wife very bored and the security guard very nervous to take closeup photos of these tapestries
look at the transparent outer sleeves of the Lady in the pavilion scene:
ENHANCE
alternating white rows with color to create transparency- clever
doing that while maintaining an underlying pattern, and shading folds in the transparent fabric? Absolute peak of mastery
Ooooh that’s magnificent! And the shading on the little pearls! What skill!
Highly encourage folks to try their hand at making their own seal plushie! Even when my etsy is up, there will not be enough seals to go around and I’m only planning on selling the extras I make for fun. Please give the pattern a go if you want one of your own! No matter what, the end result is a silly seal! :)
Beans was made w Bernat velvet yarn using a 3.5mm crochet hook, safety eyes, fishing line for whiskers, ultra plush Polyfil, and weighted Poly Pellets.
