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Pokémon Down Under, pt 2.

Another single-evolving pair, this time a grass type. My favorites so far.

This may be news to anyone who hasn’t been yet (it was to me), but the silver tree fern or ponga is the unofficial but very pervasive symbol of New Zealand. Ferns are everywhere here - not just the actual plants, but every other piece of iconography or logo you see is fern-based.

Pokémon Down Under, pt 1

Having recently gained access to Photoshop allows me to act on an idea I had when I was out traveling in February. As an ecology major, coming into a completely foreign ecosystem felt a lot like exploring a new area in Pokémon, which inspired me to design some New Zealand-themed pocket monsters. It’s a lot of fun.

Let’s start out with a couple simple bug-types, shall we? (Weta are basically large, flightless crickets; they’re pretty adorable.)

This one is actually like four years old, but I still think it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever made.

Two updates today, to make up for, well, no updates for a month.

An anonymous reader asked what I’d do if I had a cat. Tumblr messed up my reply, but here’s the answer.

Entomology field trip! bugs bugs bugs bugs

Maybe it’s true what they say about 50% of security staff being people who didn’t get into police academy because they failed the personality tests.

A few weeks late, I forgot I had it: the hostel I stayed at in Te Anau had a poetry corner, and this was my contribution.