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She Doesn't Know the First Thing About Halloween, but She Can Make You Into a Ghost

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09 You already know that someone is having a bad day when you walk in on an 82-year-old admiral back ...

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The "Woolly Defender" Fungus of Nestis 3

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, overlaid on itself and rendered on purple ... "See, there's this ancient technology -- it's ...

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The Legacy of the Oldest Bluehorn Wasp High Queen of Cygni 5

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09 “I am personally offended that these two old geezers are back on the fleet's full-time dime, diggi...

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So You Think You See a Smiling Alien Penguin, Right?

My uncle's meeting with the fleet's high command was brief, but necessary. “Admiral Banneker-Jackson, I want you to go over how you vapo...

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Beyond Human, Alien Deity: All Things Mirror His Glory

Chapter 1: Getting a Headache, But Keeping One's Faith Testimony Captain Almira Banneker-Jackson looked at her husband, Admiral Benjamin...

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Up In Smoke Over a Misty Sthtoke (and, Stealing Is Bad, Twice Over)

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, overlaid and mirrored on itself When at the end of the whole Khellphire situation I shared this n...

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PeakD

Spiny Sail Clam (Or, How Humanity Almost Made a BIG Mistake)

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09 “Man, I wish I knew how you stay so trim in middle age!” “Look, John, when you eat in the galaxy, ...

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PeakD

SPRING CHALLENGE: A Sunny Spring Day, Reconsidered

So, I found out that one of my photos last week was at least as popular as the art I made ... several people loved this photo ... ... b...

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PeakD

From Bud to Throne: Eighty Years Watching Reoihli Royal Fungi

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, overlaid on itself in three different ways If blooming bugs are winging across the sky in the ski...

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SPRING CHALLENGE: The Spring Embrace of the Tree of Life

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, mirrored and overlaid upon itself, and now minted at NFT Showroom! There are two things I especia...

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PeakD

The Blooming Bug

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, overlaid on itself It was a spring thing on Earth that was a beautiful failure of containment of ...

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Jewel Tick

A fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, overlaid upon itself “If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times – 'but they are so pretty,...

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PeakD

The Beautiful and Bionic Industry-Promoting Fire Kraken

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, mirrored and overlaid on itself Like firecrackers in municipal areas: beautiful, hard to resist, ...

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PeakD

How to Become an Honorary Kathshekudarian Wheat Bat

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, overlaid upon itself in the first of two ways Two people I know are honorary Kathshekudarian Whea...

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The King of Three Veils (and How Not to Nuke Yourself Trying to Compete With His Fashion)

“Now, not everyone was happy that the Suliibruum plasma-based contingency crashed the party because frankly, Khadijah, it was hard for s...

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The Suliibruum Party Crashers (Because Plasma-Based Creatures Don't Generally Have E-Mail)

This is the first of two last overlays of a fractal made in Apophysis 2.09 that gave us the Suliibruum Scream, the Suliibruum Fly, and th...

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The Spike Gryphoniat Will Give You Plenty of Time To Say Ouch Before You Die

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, mirrored and overlaid upon itself -- for the color scheme, see my note at the end! The way a thin...

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Some Love Affairs are Like Fivespout Violet Cup Flowers ...

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, mirrored and overlaid upon itself How to stop two entire starship crews' worth of foot traffic in...

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How the Ghost that Is Not Yet Was Not "Whebbed" Up, With Some Help from a Ghost in a Machine

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, mirrored and overlaid upon itself “OK, but sir, how did you know that Capt. Silver would get his ...

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That's a Whole YOU Problem (If You Mess With This Fleet Here)

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, mirrored and overlaid upon itself “But, Captain, we're just five hours from finally being in the ...

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Reflective NhiiPaalian Royals Don't Like It When We Don't Read

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, overlaid upon itself “I'm going to need everybody giving out tourist company permits in the NhiiP...

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Talent Tuesdays: She's Got a LOT On Her Mind (Fractal Art Self-Portrait)

A portion of a fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, mirrored and overlaid to get this shocking result! Hello to the community at Free Complim...

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Firebloom Warriors (and the Two Botanists that Got Them To Show Their Stuff)

A single pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, mirrored, overlaid, and rotated a few times around each other More things to do when runni...

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Kinggems, and Why They Were a Gloriously Beautiful Problem To Solve

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09 and overlaid upon itself Things to do when you are running a crew of 735 when you normally have 43...

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A Unique Hatching (with Inspiration Reborn)

One pure fractal mirrored in Apophysis 2.09 The Khittipods, above, are partially credited for saving the careers of 433 fleet officers. ...

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PeakD

The Cutting Web of the Petraon Fishers (and What Happens When You Steer Your Ship Into It)

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, mirrored and layered upon itself “Listen, Captain, I would cuss you out in German, but you wouldn...

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A Pink Crystal Queen, and Her Heart (and the Heart Who Still Loved Her)

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, overlaid in two different ways Trying to get home for Christmas on a starship is always a dicey p...

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It's Already Handled

“Well, the nice thing is, we will be home for Christmas, Captain, because all this running around at around Warp 9.75 and above means ou...

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This Is Not a Eucalyptus Leaf Flower Arrangement ... If You Get This as a Gift, RUN!

A pure fractal made in Apophysis 2.09, overlaid upon itself “Well, they just reminded us of Earth's baby eucalyptus leaves so much...” F...

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Fish Bigmouth, and How a Human Bigmouth Got (Figuratively) Eaten Alive by a Bigger Bigmouth

I knew my first officer, Helmut Allemande, very well – an immense person in every way, but as calm and wise as he was immense, loyal, fa...