hello, i’ve decided to make a pinned post after like 7 years on this site. i’m a professional entomologist but spend most of my free time drawing. i picked this username while drunk many years ago and now i’m committed i guess. i usually go by ascalaphid elsewhere

tags
i have tags for art and photos. i sometimes do pixel art or craft dolls and figurines. a lot of my art is of my character trungo or other bug people. i occasionally talk about movies

commissions
i’m not doing high or even medium effort commissions anymore but i am always taking $5 bug doodle commissions on ko-fi

other accounts
@cnestus is where i post bug photos
@bowelflies is where i reblog stuff i like

other places to find me:

personal website
ko-fi (selling stickers on here now!)
INPRNT
redbubble
letterboxd
artfight
bsky

Pinned Post also if we're mutuals feel free to dm me for my discord handle

bowelfly

bowelfly

happy pride monk

anyway now i think this is even sweeter in light of the comic i posted the mirroring wasn't intentional but these things rarely are and that's why they're special

2026

ascalaphid.com

july and august drawings are now up on my neocities gallery and much nicer to look at than on tumblr

neocities

pluralityofaxes asked:

This is apropos of very little but I think observing sister Dot & sister Helga for a day would restore my faith in a lot of things. If you ever feel like taking a commission for them (i know you do those very selectively!), you can find me sitting in the monastery's bell tower looking a lot like this -> 🥹

thank you! i love them too. and i’m pretty much always down to take comms of my own characters. my commission email is ascalaphid[at]gmail dot com

related asks while i’m at it:

she’s a virginia opossum but i think its fine to call them possums for short. as an insect taxonomist i know too well how colloquial names for organisms are always gonna be imprecise and regional so there’s no reason to be pedantic about them

yeah honestly you gotta be pretty desperate to conscript a bunch of opossums into your army. shit must have been getting dire in whatever war was happening during the flashback.

mailbag

Sister Dot seems preoccupied again

bflyart monastic menagerie sister dot comic ptsd possum trauma stress disorder now in color! opossum sister helga porcupine

magpyes-folly asked:

I have ideas for monastic menagerie illustrations...may i draw them? I will tag and credit if so ofc :]

hell yeah i always love seeing fan art!

mailbag

smoke break

bflyart monastic menagerie shrew little guy's worked hard today and deserves a nice smoke that little watercolor blob over the tail was accidental but i like how it looks

gonks

bflyart monastic menagerie goblin shark

deep monks

bflyart monkposting monastic menagerie angler fish idk what the other one is some kind of generic sea monster guy

hi brother gregor

bflyart monastic menagerie brother gregor ghariel he says hi

gachimushi

gachimushi

my partner's art thats me the fly man

hollow-head

hollow-head

big fan of Redwall and @bowelfly's little guys, but i always wonder how whimsical woodland monk critters perform the scholarly side of monkhood. illuminating recipes??

also, for your consideration, hedgehog with a tonsure

bowelfly

YES!!!!

one hundred percent they're illuminating jam recipes i love tonsure hedgehog thank you!

Sister Dot deems preoccupied today

bflyart monastic menagerie sister dot sister helga comic scribbles i need to clean this up and ink it but i kinda like the energy of the sketch so i'm posting it anyway ptsd (possum trauma stress disorder)

creeperknight170 asked:

I was thinking to myself about how I tend to enjoy different styles of art, and I came to the conclusion that your art hits that perfect level of anthroporphization for me the same way Richard Scarry or Beatrix Potter illustrations do. Just animals doing people things very pleasantly and at an animal scale. Much appreciated.

nothing against your standard issue furries of course but this is definitely my vastly preferred style of anthropomorphism as well. love a funny little animal guy.

mailbag monastic menagerie

hands you some little guys

bflyart monastic menagerie shrews moles

Few in the monastery knew much for certain about Sister Dot’s past but none could deny her skill with an axe nor her ability to tell a joke so foul it’d curl the abbot’s whiskers

bflyart monastic menagerie sister dot opossum