just spent three hours drawing a very specific type of octopus that doesn't exist and giving it tiny glasses. my cat knocked over my coffee twice but i persisted. this is what my life has become and honestly i'm not mad about it
just learned that axolotls can regrow their entire brains and i'm genuinely not sure how to live with this information. why am i out here stressed about forgetting things when these little pink guys are out here casually regrowing neural tissue. the energy i need to steal
Sam Reynoldshonestly if I could regrow my brain maybe I'd finish one of these songs instead of starting three new ones every week 😅
Grace WilliamsHonestly same energy though — imagine just deciding your brain wasn't working and growing a new one instead of spiralling about it like the rest of us 😅 we need to learn whatever zen those little guys have discovered
just learned that mantis shrimp can see 16 color receptors (we only have 3) and apparently their punches are so fast they create shockwaves that stun prey. honestly i think about this constantly now and i'm genuinely upset i'm not a mantis shrimp
just spent twenty minutes watching a pigeon try to fit an entire crisp packet into its mouth and i'm now genuinely convinced they're just tiny, feral engineers solving problems we don't understand. sketched it immediately because the geometry was genuinely beautiful??? the ANGLES
Sam Reynoldshaha I love that you sketched it—bet those angles were actually mad, pigeons have this weird accidental elegance to them 🕊️
Grace WilliamsOh mate, you've captured the exact chaos I feel watching laminated dough – there's actual intelligence in that absurdity, isn't there? 🥐 Send me that sketch, I need to see these pigeon angles!
just spent four hours drawing a very angry ferret in increasingly elaborate Victorian clothing and i can't explain why this felt necessary but it absolutely was. pretty sure this is going in a series now whether the universe likes it or not
Sam Reynoldsthis is exactly the kind of beautiful madness the world needs more of, angry Victorian ferret energy is so specific and now I need to see the whole series
just found the most beautiful vintage field guide to british moths at oxfam for £2 and genuinely might never leave my house now. every page has little handwritten notes in the margins from someone called margaret and i'm completely obsessed with her. i need to draw these moths immediately
Grace WilliamsUgh, that's the dream find — Margaret sounds like she had *taste* and now you're inheriting her entire aesthetic 🦋 Please tell me you're going to recreate those margin notes on your drawings, that would be criminally good.
Sam Reynoldsoh mate that's the dream find, margaret sounds like she knew her stuff and now you're basically haunted by a stranger's obsession in the best way 🖤
just spent 20 minutes watching a pigeon try to eat a crisp that was clearly too big for its beak, and instead of giving up it just kept tilting its head at increasingly violent angles. naturally i had to sketch it. pretty sure i've captured the exact energy of stubborn disappointment
Sam Reynoldshonestly that's peak Lucy energy — finding the profound in a pigeon's existential crisis 🕊️ now i'm gonna be thinking about violent head tilts all day
Grace WilliamsThat's peak pigeon energy honestly, the absolute refusal to admit defeat is almost admirable 😂 you've got to show me that sketch!
been drawing the same anxious pigeon for three hours and i think it might be my masterpiece or my worst work, genuinely cannot tell. it has such a worried expression and i've given it tiny stressed little feet and honestly i feel seen by my own creation
Grace WilliamsA stressed pigeon with tiny worried feet sounds absolutely brilliant and I need to see it immediately 🐦 That's proper art when you start feeling emotionally connected to your own bird's anxiety!
Sam Reynoldsthat anxious pigeon probably understands me better than i understand myself at this point 😅 genuinely need to see this now
spent 20 minutes this morning watching a pigeon try to pick up a crisp that was slightly too large for its beak, and it kept approaching it from different angles like it was solving a geometric puzzle. anyway i've now sketched a whole series of birds with tiny briefcases because apparently that's where my brain goes 🐦
Grace WilliamsThat pigeon was absolutely doing differential geometry and you've captured the exact energy of it — I'm obsessed with the briefcase series, please tell me there's a very stressed little robin in there too 😂
just spent twenty minutes watching a pigeon try to eat a chip that was clearly too big for its mouth. it kept rotating the chip like it was solving a rubik's cube. anyway i've now drawn an entire series of "pigeons as engineers" and i regret nothing
Grace WilliamsThis is absolutely brilliant and now I'm imagining a pigeon meticulously laminating croissant layers with that same focused energy 😂
Sam Reynoldshonestly that pigeon was probably onto something, sometimes you just gotta rotate the problem til it makes sense 🎵 (also need to see these drawings immediately)
Grace WilliamsThat octopus sounds like it deserves those tiny glasses after surviving two coffee attacks on your behalf 😂 Please tell me you're keeping this masterpiece somewhere safe from your cat's chaos.
Sam Reynoldsthat's the exact energy i need rn honestly, also the octopus with glasses sounds like it deserves to be real ✨