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The Honey Badger does not give a F**K!

There is something quietly magnificent about the honey badger, a small animal that walks through the world with the sort of confidence most humans spend their entire lives trying to borrow. We often move through life carefully, trying not to offend anyone, trying not to take up too much space, trying not to look foolish for caring deeply about something like art, music, writing, or whatever strange little dream keeps whispering in the back of our minds.

Yet time has a way of reminding us that the clock is always ticking. Our time on this planet is limited, which raises a simple and uncomfortable question. If we are all heading to the same finish line eventually, why spend so much energy worrying about what strangers, neighbours, or passing critics might think about the things that make us feel alive.

The honey badger has no such concerns. Known scientifically as Mellivora capensis, it is famous for its fearless behaviour and stubborn resilience. It will stand its ground against animals many times its size, including lions and hyenas, and it has been observed breaking out of cages, raiding beehives for honey, and surviving snake bites that would end most creatures. The honey badger simply carries on as if the rules do not apply to it, a small walking reminder that courage often comes from ignoring the voices that say you should be smaller.

That spirit is exactly what inspired my Uncommon Animal T shirts. Wearing one is a quiet little declaration to the world that you are not interested in shrinking yourself to fit neatly into someone else’s expectations. The honey badger version is for the people who understand that sometimes confidence is simply the decision to keep walking your path, even when others do not understand why.

So when someone asks who the most confident person I know is, the answer is simple. It is the person who has learned to embrace their inner honey badger. andycmarshall.com/2026/03/16/the-honey-badger-does…

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Somewhere in the quiet hours of making art the mind slips sideways and time loosens its grip, and that is usually where I find myself when I am drawing patterns like this coconut crab wallpaper, slowly arranging claws and shells into repeating shapes until the whole thing begins to feel less like decoration and more like a language that arrived from another world, a strange visual grammar where the Coconut Crab becomes a symbol, a rhythm, a repeating sentence written in colour and symmetry that somehow speaks to something older in us, because deep down we recognise the pattern not as alien but familiar, as if the natural world has been quietly talking all along and we have only just remembered how to listen.

The coconut crab itself is a stubborn, ingenious creature, the largest land living arthropod on Earth with the strength to crack open coconuts and the patience to wander long island nights in search of food, and there is something in that slow determined life that wannabe thriving artists could learn from because the work is rarely glamorous and almost never quick, yet if you keep moving like that crab through the dark with curiosity and a bit of resilience you eventually discover your own visual territory, and perhaps along the way you start to realise that these uncommon animals of the alphabet are not just subjects for art but quiet teachers reminding us that we share the same fragile landscape and that respect for their world might also be respect for our own. andycmarshall.com/2026/03/14/with-curiosity-and-a-…

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The southern elephant seal is one of those animals most people will travel their entire lives without ever meeting, let alone sharing a quiet morning coffee with, which is partly why it ended up in my Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet series in the first place. The series has always shown the animals straight on, like a passport photograph or, if we are being honest, a hunters trophy on the wall, and with the dear southern elephant seal that approach produced something that sits somewhere between a blob fish and the unfortunate silhouette of a poo emoji, but once a path is chosen sometimes you simply keep walking it and let people decide for themselves.

There is a quiet satisfaction in taking these strange little animal portraits and letting them step off the page into something physical that people actually live with. A mug is a small thing in the world, but it sits in your hands every morning, and it carries with it both design and a gentle nudge toward the existence of a creature most people will never see in the wild. andycmarshall.com/2024/03/13/art-dude/

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The last thing I learned came from an animal most people barely think about, yet it carries the kind of stubborn intelligence that artists quietly admire. The honey badger lives in a world that tries to bite, poison, sting, and overpower it every day, and instead of shrinking it simply keeps moving through the chaos with a strange mixture of curiosity, toughness, and indifference to fear.

That spirit found its way into one of my pattern studies which eventually became a throw blanket. Pattern making has always felt like watching nature repeat itself through different lenses, like leaf veins, river systems, and animal markings all whispering the same design language. When I began drawing the honey badger I noticed the face carries a bold geometry, in high contrast, like a kind of living symbol. When repeated across fabric those shapes become something hypnotic, a quiet rhythm that turns a single creature into a field of pattern. Draped over a couch it feels a little like bringing a fragment of wild intelligence into the living room.

Working with pattern often teaches small lessons about attention. At first you draw an animal as a subject, but after a while the animal becomes a shape, then the shape becomes a repeating structure, and suddenly you realise nature has been designing patterns for millions of years before any of us picked up a pen. The honey badger pattern on this blanket carries that idea. One animal becomes many, and many become a living tapestry of resilience.

Honey badgers are extraordinary creatures in ways that feel almost mythical. They have skin so loose and thick that if a predator grabs them they can twist around inside their own skin and bite back, which feels like something out of folklore rather than biology. They happily raid beehives despite being surrounded by angry bees, and they dig with such power that soil flies behind them like spray behind a boat. They also have a reputation for surviving snake bites that would kill most animals because their bodies can tolerate venom that would normally shut down the nervous system.

Read the full blog or buy Honey Badger throw blanket on my website andycmarshall.com/2026/03/07/a-stubborn-refusal-to…

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