In the last few years I’ve moved more and more towards theming my general online presence around horseshoe crabs. There’s a general reason for that, and to properly honour horseshoe crabs for what they are, it deserves to be explained.

First, we have to start at the beginning. Or, the best we lesser specimens can know of the beginning. Back around the late Ordovician, at least 445 million years ago[1], there was a chelicerate currently called Lunataspis, which looked something like this:

Fast forward 445 …

Inktober is a thing where anyone interested attempts to make an ink drawing every day of October, or at least a once a week, or anything else in line with the main goal of making good habits. I’m more of the pixeling persuasion, so this year I did indeed produce an assortment of monochromatic pixels for all 31 days, using the Official set of prompts. Observe, should you desire.