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PhD in Entomology & certified scuba instructor. Queer trans masc neurospicy leftist invertebrate ecologist, scuba diver, kayaker, weightlifter, TTRPG gamer, scifi reader, cat lover, professional pessimist.

A dew-speckled lily with deep pink petals edged in white and anthers with dark orange pollen
A shorthaired black cat with white chin, chest, and belly lying on her back with all 4 white peets curled. Her little sea otter-like face is looking at the camera with wide green-gold eyes
A small yellowish spider is nestled among the petals of a deep pink rose.
A small fly with clear multiveined wings, large maroon-brown eyes, short bristly antennae, and a metallic coppery green body is perched on an orange poppy flower facing the viewer.
A longhaired orange table sitting on his butt with hind legs splayed, licking a hind foot.
A lovely slug with a long keeled olive greenish body patterned with large black splotches, eyestalks fully extended as it slithers along a gravel and dirt path. It looks very self-actualized.
A black moth with slender antennae, a red-orange head, two red stripes on the pronotum, and a thin fringe of white on its oval wings is perched on the yellow composite flowers of tansy
A shorthaired tuxedo cat lies on her back with white peets extended. Her front paw rests on the haunch of her longhaired tuxedo brother who is lying on his side.
A flower with long thin oval purple petals and a yellow-orange center.
A waterfall cascades over a cliff into a splash pool, with wet bedrock in the foreground
The bow of a blue paddle board with an orange stripe holding the letters NRS moves along a mirror-smooth river. A blue paddle blade and an orange dry sack & sandals held under bungee cords are visible.
Six tiger swallowtail butterflies with black stripes on butter yellow wings sipping the fluid from dark damp mud.
Flatfish with a rectangular tail fin and googly eyes, patterned in tan and cream, laying on sand of a similar color and pattern.
The chunky, spotted grey head of wolf eel is visible in a crevice between some boulders. An orange anemone with tentacles retracted is attached to a rock in the foreground.
Common Whitetail dragonfly with a dark head, broad silvery pale abdomen, and a dark band 2/3 of the way along each wing perched on a muddy log facing away from the camera.
A pale grey circular structure that looks like the end of a plunger or the top half of a pottery jar rests on the sand in greenish water.
A diver shining a light down into anemones is barely visible through chunky green water.
The water sparkles under a blue sky. Four divers are standing up in the shallows of a rocky shore.
Delicate green fern fronds in a swirl
Two oval lemon-yellow nudibranchs with nubbly bodies next to each other on a rock.
A white swirled ribbon of eggs attached to a red rock.
The bow of a yellow kayak with a bailer & paddle float tucked under the bungee lines extends into a broad river edged with trees, under a sunny blue sky.
A large fish with an orange-ish body patterned with copper splotches swims away from the camera against a dark background
Cream rose with red-edged petals
An alert-looking fish with dark reddish bands on a pale body rests on a rock, looking sideways at the photographer.
Sun shines over calm blue water
Small butterfly with long, brown, club-tipped antennae and a white-spotted orange and brown body, perched on a rush.
A dark tabby is coiled up like a snail next to a long haired tuxedo sitting like a loaf on a grey heated cat bed.
The pointed head and thick body of a green moray eel juts out from a crevice
A slender fish with a pale upper body and yellowish lower body barred with blotchy black vertical stripes and a black polka-dotted tail hovers above coral, facing away from the viewer at an angle.
A male Common Green Darner with a lime green thorax and blue and brown abdomen and female with a green thorax and brown abdomen are perched on a floating twig. Both have long reddish legs. The male is holding the female behind the eyes with structures at the end of his abdomen, while the female inserts eggs into the twig.
A wedge-shaped, slightly mottled flat fish the same color as the sand around it with two goggly eyes on the same side of its head lies on the ocean floor pondering its etymological origins.
A shaggy long haired tuxedo cat with mostly black body & a white band across his shoulders is coiled in a circle on a human's lap.
A chonky black with a white chest & white bikini belly is sprawled on her back on a fuzzy gray cat bed with a silly look on her face. All four of her white-tipped paws are curled. She is adorable & I would die for her.
A. broad-bodied pale with with small dark spots and short stout spines swims away from the viewer over a coral reef.
A dark strip of wet sand in the foreground leads to a calm expanse of blue water with low vegetated islands in the background. The sky is blue with a low line of ragged clouds.
a gray butterfly with long tails on the hindwings is perched upside down on a green plant
peachy colored feathery soft coral.
A grey tabby sprawls on a light brown cat bed with his feet splayed and a heat-drugged look on his face.
A sea cucumber with a cylindrical tapered greenish body covered with large pointy orange welts rests on the sea floor.
A bellicose-looking crab with a broad orange-red carapace edged in yellow reaches up with white-tipped claws to signify that it is ready to rumble.
A very handsome bristly crab with a yellowish tooth-edged carapace highlighted in orange-brown sits on greyish sand looking upwards.
A chonky black cat with white chin, chest, toes, and belly is sprawled inelegantly on her back with her hind feet splayed against the back of a futon. I adore her.
A big heavy-bodied fish with a sloping head against a rocky kelp background. The head and tail are dark and the center of the body is paler, and the chin is white.
A shorthaired & a long-haired tuxedo cat in the same adorable shrimp pose lying side by side on a grey cat bed.
A funny-looking fish with a flat pale body with fringed edges and a spadelike flat tail fin floats just above a coral bed. It has 2 googly eyes on top of the head and is ornamented with bright blue rings.
The cover of a book titled We Will Rise Again, a collection of short stories for resistance & protest, edited by Karen Lord, Malka Older, and Annalee Newitz.
A tuxedo cat and an orange tabby, both with long fur, are sleeping pressed together in a dark blue fleece blanket with a floral pattern. They are excruciatingly sweet together.
A big beautiful spider with an oblong brownish-green body with two rows of yellow spots and long legs banded in yellow and brown clings to a somewhat messy-looking web.
A tuxedo cat with white legs & chest and a black head with a white blaze down his nose is stretched bonelessly over a blue blanket in perfect repose
Christmas tree worms' spirals of feathery tentacles (radioles) in red and pink hues extend from the calcareous tubes embedded in the coral below.
A dark-bodied fish with bright yellow rims around its eyes and a white mouth and chin glares with irritation from a space in some soft coral.
A fish with huge dark eyes, and orange-brown face, and a pale body with longitudinal brownish stripes and yellow-tinged fins faces the camera with a 'what the hell" look on its face.
A smooth river surface edged by lighted buildings on the opposite bank under a cloudy foggy night sky.
An anemone with speckled tentacles sits in a crevice in coral. Near the top center the striped antennae and splotched body of a little cleaner shrimp can be seen peeking out.
A school with dozens on small oval striped fish with yellow fins hovers over white sand behind spikes of elkhorn coral in the foreground.
A view across the water's surface of an orange-glowing sunset behind low fluffy greyish clouds.
An oblong snail dotted with small irregularly-shaped orange blotches with black rims sits on soft coral.
A fish with a long narrow body striped in orange and white, fanlike tail fin, and elongated trumpet-shaped mouth drifts head-down above the coral.