Life's been giving  archteryx the raw deal on a far too frequent basis of late, which is as far from what he deserves as it's possible to get, IMHO. I'm no good at supportive commentary, so I figured I'd offer a show of support in the form of random art.

Also, I wanted to draw a gryphon in a lab coat.

So here we have Arch, hard at work on his doctorate thesis in the lab. I dredged up every last memory of my own science classes for this, from the stand to the clamps and hooks and flasks and rubber stoppers and tubing and bunsen burner and gas jet and ugly greyish-black faux-slate hard-to-scorch work surface. Then I realized he was basically doing a fractional distillation, which was probably more biochem than bio. One brief silent rant later, I decided that, dammit, fire was more interesting than petri dishes, centrifuges, and pipetmen, and I was keeping it the way it was.

Then  indigoangelcat pointed out he should be wearing safety goggles. I went "Aaaaarg", and decided to just post an informative flyer on the subject.

Anyways. Microns and Prismas on laserjet paper b/c I drew it at work and that's all they had. And I think I got his eye-color wrong. (I was working off Stewed Prairie Dog, and I'm pretty sure they're bluish there. That's not to say I didn't screw it up that time, also.... :p)

In any case, it's done and it's nifty and hopefully it brightens up someone's day.

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