travel painting🏜
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Some stills from my (not yet posted) film!
It's not letting me edit the original post, but watch the final film here!
Commission for a buddy's small business
Climb time! Feat. @bowelfly's magnificent weevzard, Quercus
Eating too much medically pure ketamine can give you a tummy ache
Random quick bumblebee
Forgetting Anything?
I wasn't going to say anything about Hazbin Hotel because I haven't watched it and probably never will but WHY does this random sports/dive bar's karaoke machine have every hazbin hotel song and not classic rock staple Hotel California by eagles
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Amphibian migration season is coming this spring. Remember to drive slow!
It's about to happen*
*in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada
Actually, I think I'd be more lovable as a worm
eating alfalfa sprouts is like if you shaved leafeon from pokemon and ate its hair
King of supporting public transit
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Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart
“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”
This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.
[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:
Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.
We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]
But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?
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because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing
I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation
I used to work for two of the authors, Mark and Nancy Deyrup. They are true naturalists, interested in everything that lives, and wonderful human beings. They still live in central Florida where the tortoise shell moth lives, and have dedicated their whole lives to documenting the Florida scrub ecosystem and educating the public. I don't know if their names reach outside of entomology, but they are beloved figures here.
Baby you take my breath away!
cave and abyss creatures
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Sorry guys, I didn't intentionally abandon the sparkledog comics, I just ran out of wacky scenarios that could apply to both a alternative teen girl and a regular dog
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“I loathe that word ‘pristine.’ There have been no pristine systems on this planet for thousands of years,” says Kawika Winter, an Indigenous biocultural ecologist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. “Humans and nature can co-exist, and both can thrive.” For example, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in April, a team of researchers from over a dozen institutions reported that humans have been reshaping at least three-quarters of the planet’s land for as long as 12,000 years. In fact, they found, many landscapes with high biodiversity considered to be “wild” today are more strongly linked to past human land use than to contemporary practices that emphasize leaving land untouched. This insight contradicts the idea that humans can only have a neutral or negative effect on the landscape. Anthropologists and other scholars have critiqued the idea of pristine wilderness for over half a century. Today new findings are driving a second wave of research into how humans have shaped the planet, propelled by increasingly powerful scientific techniques, as well as the compounding crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. The conclusions have added to ongoing debates in the conservation world—though not without controversy. In particular, many discussions hinge on whether Indigenous and preindustrial approaches to the natural world could contribute to a more sustainable future, if applied more widely.
Source: sapiens.org
girls night!
hey, I asked a while ago about using your art as a profile picture, but I'm shifting some of my presence to other platforms (Cohost and Discord) and I wanted to check if it was still okay to use your art over there? Will link to your tumblr/twitter pages in bio/about
with a url like that how could i say no