Doc Fancy

@docfancy.bsky.social

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Writer, singer, marine biologist. Enjoys making smartarse remarks and quips, getting the laughs, explaining things with nerdy enthusiasm, and ranting, but tries to make the rants entertaining as penance. I am back in my house in the woods. (she/her)

A picture of a deck railing looking out on a forest. There are steel cables wired tight between the posts. They are horizontal. That's it. That's the issue.
Zoomed in image of a house plan, with a square highlight circled.
A house plan showing three skylights. The one in the kitchen is a square. The one in the corridor has been crossed out.
Picture from up hill perspective, showing a house that has clearly been cut in half by a large tree.
Picture of a log cabin cut in half by a giant tree that landed on my study, and which shows one side of the house has shifted off the stumps.
A silky cream-coloured rag doll cat is being very affectionate with one of his people. He bumps her face with his face, and his mouth is partly open so the purr sounds like gargling spit. At the end, she starts to turn away and he pulls her face back with one paw to insist on more face-hugs.
A tiny tortoiseshell kitten wrapped in a red blanket, purring.
A fluffy cream coloured chocolate point rag doll cat gazes at the camera, head tilted, blue eyes on display. You may wonder what he’s thinking... if anything. He is extremely handsome.
A tortoiseshell kitten on a white couch.
A fluffy cream coloured chocolate point rag doll cat (with shaved sides) sits on a square of cardboard, for some reason. He seems quite pleased.
A fluffy cream coloured chocolate point rag doll cat, cuddling into a blanket while a hand skritches his jaw from the other side. He has soft little feet.
Simpsons gif in which an old man holding a wooden paddle says to a classroom “oh you better believe that’s a paddling.”
A young rottweiler is curled up on a couch. He has seized his tail in his mouth, and his whole expression conveys surprise and confusion. He was not prepared for success.
An excitable young rottweiler stalks a pig’s ear as if there were any chance of it running away. He has… zero game.
A ten-armed dark red feather star, oral view.
Three images of deep-sea holothurians (sea cucumbers). Top left: small fuzzy lilac blob. Bottom left: long wriggly bright pink deflated sausage. Right: enormous purple football, almost like a cobb loaf. The barcodes are 5cm in length for scale. They are all the same species of Paelopatides.
Five quarto sized volumes of a monograph on the extant feather stars, by Austin Hobart Clark, spanning the years 1931 to 1967. The last volume was published posthumously and finished by Ailsa McGowan Clark.
Pencil sketch of the base of a feather star. It’s smooth.
Pencil sketch of the base of a feather star. Less spiky.
A pencil sketch of the base of a deep sea feather star. It’s spiky.
A young rottweiler is flopped on a couch, chewing a goat horn, gazing at the person taking the photo. His people are on the couch with him and all is well in his world.
A sable-point cream coloured rag doll cat has his eyes closed in bliss as he gets skritches on the side of his head.
Screenshot of Facebook post. Someone has spray painted a fluorescent orange cock and balls on the road, with one ball centred on a pothole. Text is the end of the post, and reads: “VicRoad, your move. Fix the bloody roads or prepare for the mother of all erections. This man is not asking anymore. He is telling you, in twelve-foot neon orange, exactly where to stick your repair budget. Victorian motorists, we ride at dawn. Bring rattle cans.”
A house wall of cedar logs, sanded back to bare wood. There is a scaffold positioned below the peak of the roof.
Double page spread in a notebook, entitled “Project: WalkThe Plank.” Various messy diagrams, labels and measurements for pieces of scaffolding and width of available space and angles of slopes. It is a mess. Gaze not into this abyss for too long.
Scaffold up against the side of a house. All wooden plank have been stripped back to bare wood, except one section, beneath which a scaffold waits.
Wall of a log house with a peaked roof, next to a scaffold, with a ladder visible on one end. Two planks sticking out from the scaffold are just barely visible at the bottom of the image. The entire wall has been stripped back to bare wood, except for one small section near the top.
Side of a house with two ladders up against the wall. You can’t see how they’re propped up. That’s for the best. You don’t want to see that.
The opposite side of the house, completely sanded to bare wood, with a scaffold positioned to one end with plenty of space.
A scaffold erected across a brick path, over the top of a gate, against the side of a house. The brick path narrows up-slope, and the steps are not flat (as shown by angle of subfloor). There is a black dog on the other side of the gate.
The side of a house, peaked roof at about 3.2m from the floor. There is a tall scaffold set up at one end. The entire wall has been sanded to bare wood, except for one patch right at the top which cannot be reached from the scaffold. Just barely visible at the bottom of the image: there are two thick planks extending out from about halfway down the scaffold).
A wall of a house, with no windows and a peaked roof at 3.2m height, near a tall scaffold. The wall is bare sanded cedar logs. There is a fusebox here.
Picrew of a blue elf with dark red hair and gold hoop earrings
Pencil sketch of a giant anglerfish beneath sand dunes, titled “Sand Anglerfish (Beth’s impression).” Two lures extend from its head and look like cacti, labelled “lures (cacti) bioluminescent; at night glows blue-green”. A stick figure near the cacti is labelled “naive desert botanist.” The fish has the following labels: “Modified dorsal fin (timpanic membranes, senses vibrations” “Thick hide, secretes very thick mucous to eliminate friction” “Electrosensory organs” indicating pores along the lateral midline. The base of the lure is labelled “fluid-filled channel to conduct electrical signals.” Eye: “Vision poor. Sees mostly movement. Nictitating membrane to protect from sand.” Tail: “Muscular caudal peduncle for shifting sand (caudal fin very tough)” Pectoral fins: “Clawed fins for digging/steering.” Gills: “Gill slits capped with bone. The sand anglerfish can survive on stores water for months from its home aquifer, waiting for prey.” Small protuberance from body: “male anglerfish remnant fused to body wall.”
Gormless rottweiler with his head sticking out of a car window, tongue lolling.
A set of gorgeous polyhedral dice in a fancy box, next to a book. The dice are a soft lilac purple with gold lettering and intricate pictures of nudibranchs on them. The book is a Choose Your Own Adventure called “Journey Under the Sea”.
A handsome young rottweiler on a couch being petted.
A misty winter morning, with tree ferns and eucalypts and grass. It is very green.
Picture of a young rottweiler in a colourful lounge room, ears and tail up.
A young Rottweiler launches himself in wild joyful circles through a steep mountainous yard carrying a grey piece of PVC pipe. There is a carpet of sycamore maple leaves.
Very cute young Rottweiler in a “drop” command, waiting for his treat.
Fine composite fibres at one broken end of a weirdarse fibrous root system.
Five large quarto sized books, authored by Austin Hobart Clark, titled “Part I: Monograph of the Existing Crinoids,” including volumes 3, 4a, 4b, 4c and 5. Volume 5 is co-authored by Ailsa McGowan Clark.
A concerned looking young rottweiler hiding under a coffee table.
Drawing of a young rottweiler staring upwards in confusion.
picture of a young rottweiler, sitting bolt upright, staring STRAIGHT UP, wide-eyed.
Picture of a printed sign which reads: “IT FOLK — PLEASE DO NOT UPGRADE THIS COMPUTER. It must stay on Windows 7 for the software to work. This Leica will only last until the camera or firewire dies — there is no possibility of replacement so be gentle 😊.”
Excitable young rottweiler bouncing around the house with a squeaky fluffy octopus toy in his mouth.
A young rottweiler lying on the floor wagging his tail happily.
Stoplight loosejaw. Rafael Bañón, Wikipedia.
Ruby seadragon. Photo by Zoe Della Vedova, ScienceAlert.
Leafy seadragon. Photo by James Rosindell, Wikipedia.
Weedy seadragon. Fins look like seagrass. Photo by Richard Ling, Wikipedia.
Ribboned seadragon (pipefish). Photo from Quality Marine, by “Quality Marine Staff.”
Robust ghost pipefish, green. Photo by William Tan, Australian Museum.
Ringback pipefish. Photo by Sascha schultz, Australian Museum.
Bullneck seahorse. Photo by Martin Gomon, Museum Victoria.
Bargibanti’s pygmy seahorse. Photo by James Wiseman. reefs.com
Pygmy seahorse. Definitely in the shot, I promise. Photo by Jens Petersen, Wikipedia.
White’s seahorse, surrounded by sponge. Photo by Richard Ling, Wikipedia.