"500 bloody words as ever, when one would do" -nettleblack

My art account. Bi, Biologist, White, 24. Ask me for animal facts. They/He/Xe

[i-am-aprl]

Palestinian activists get their message across on Londons iconic Tower Bridge landmark- one of the cities most historic buildings. We need a ceasefire now.

[catchymemes]

[hopepunk-humanity]

ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS

i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.

there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.

there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.

doing nothing is good for my soul.

i am not defined by what i produce.

my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.

i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.

i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.

[laneichy]

Grumble grumble…

[pijaman-deactivated20240720]

Hey, amidst the chaos of... everything on the internet, pay attention to Hawaii/Hawai'i!

There have been plans from a non Hawaiian organisation to build a 5 acre parking lot, 13 lot subdivision and a comfort station for tourists on the ridge of the sacred Pololū Valley!

This project doesn't acknowledge Pololū Valley as a wahi pāna (a celebrated and storied place in the cultural traditions of Hawaii/Hawai'i) and instead treats it as just plain land that can be sold to a highest bidder.

Pololū Valley is anything but that.

So please sign the petition to stop this project! As of writing this, 883,470 people have, but we need more!

Petition to protect Pololū Valley

Reblog to reach more people, please! Don't just like and move on, sign the petition and make sure more people see this!

[thelifeofsharks-deactivated2025]

[dollsahoy]

just saw this on the website of a company that manages carousels in malls

This is a Carousel because it revolves counter clockwise, whereas Merry Go Rounds revolve clockwise.

and that sure feels like the very edge of some Big Unseen Discourse

[amazingphil]

one big gay night of single life left...

The Bachelor Party

[frozenwolftemplar]

Ocean Life. James M. Sommerville (probable designer); Christian Schussele (artist).

[liefst]

felt an urgent need to share some toast appreciation

[twostarsinthesky]

Okay, so I finished the Todd in the Shadows video and have been scrolling through the Hbomberguy and James Somerton tags for a while now, and for all the good points being made there, I haven’t seen that many people talk about one of the things that really made my blood freeze in Todd’s video: the fact that Somerton explicitly and uncritically spread the “most Nazis were secretly gay” myth.

As a queer German who’s spent a huge chunk of my life having to argue about and debunk this grossly homophobic claim to so many people, even within my own family… Seeing a grown ass gay man in the year 2022 repeat it to his audience of hundreds of thousands of (mostly relatively young) people is so unbelievably disgusting, I don’t even know what to say. Especially since he claims that it was supposed to be an “educational” video chronicling “The Story of the Gay Holocaust”.

Anyway, for those that somehow still don’t know. Yes, it’s a myth, it’s always been a fucking myth. Remarkable how Somerton was always capable of googling the right key words to find tons and tons of academic material to plagiarise for his content mill-ass channel, but couldn’t be assed to do the literally two seconds of googling required to debunk this wildly harmful myth he so willingly spread about his own community.

The level of disrespect to the thousands of gay men who suffered and died under this regime… Unfathomable. Then again, his thoughts about survivors of the AIDS crisis are also vile, so I guess expecting him to emphasise with other gay people’s suffering at all is just not on the table. Can’t believe I ever considered giving this man money, fucking Christ.

[mascingtape-deactivated20230626]

[great-and-small]

I hate that I’m always trying to find cool biology themed stuff to wear but all the “nature inspired” clothing companies just have like two crossed arrows or a minimalistic mountain on a sweatshirt. Fucking lame, that’s barely even nature-adjacent. Put the life cycle of a salamander on a jacket, put hyena skeleton patterns on leggings, put a damn field guide of birds of prey on a peacoat and THEN you can have my money. Do NOT give me a shirt with a leaf on it that says “stay wild” or some bullshit I would much prefer clothing that broadcasts to everyone around me how many teeth an adult Jaguar has or how some pitcher plants can catch and digest rats.

[fishgummy]

recommendations from the notes :)

studio 252MYA (paleontology)

ray troll's webstore (surrealist fish designs)

liberty graphics t-shirts (biology/dinosaurs)

present indicative (science-themed clothing + home items)

donbea tees - something fishy collection (silly fish puns about substance use)

camp mustelid (nature themes)

crime pays but botany doesn't (botany/biology)

umvvelt (marine biology patterns)

morningwitch (nature patterns)

svaha USA (science patterns)

cognitive surplus (some clothing, but mostly home items)

[birdwarde]

CM MENTION!!!!!! thanks so much :-)

here's a few more great nature themed small biz shops for you to check out!

MOTEL777 nature goodies with a cryptic twist

Curlworks cute critters with a hint of silly

Fossilforager especially good if you're a bug or amphibian fan

Quailtea Goods wide range of animal art including mythical ones!

Loonpflug specialty on plants and insects!

Come support some cool small businesses for your nature inspired shopping! 🌟🍁

[godflesh-deactivated20240624]

[moonlightredfern]

I’m all scratched up and I can still taste spray paint in my mouth and my husband almost fell out of a tree BUT THE GHOST SCULPTURES ARE FINISHED!

They’re finally finished and I’m so happy with them!!

Some progress shots:

[ambertoadlet]

utterly incredible art for spooky season

[moonlightredfern]

I’m all scratched up and I can still taste spray paint in my mouth and my husband almost fell out of a tree BUT THE GHOST SCULPTURES ARE FINISHED!

They’re finally finished and I’m so happy with them!!

Some progress shots:

[unwelcome-ozian]

[roach-works]

when i was getting trained as a welder the guys started playing sneaky grabass with each other and with me. i almost hit a few people while holding dangerous tools in my hand because they wouldn’t stop grabbing me from behind, then laughing that i ‘almost’ hit them, so i finally had to go to the instructor and say, look, i’ve had years and years of self defense training due the fact i’m a very small weirdo who is in legitimate danger of getting hatecrimed and at some point one of these guys is going to goose me again and im going to bury a wrench in his eye. get them to stop grabbing me, because i don’t want to get kicked out for hitting people.

the next day i ended up punching someone in the face with a doughnut in my fist because she thought i was being a big fucking buzzkill who tattled to teacher about a harmless game, and, guess what, grabbed my butt. i got icing all over her hair. she complained to teacher...who let everyone know that this was why they weren’t supposed to be playing grabass in the fucking shop.

anyway don’t fucking sneak up on twitchy little queers with hypervigilance, it fucking sucks and you’re lucky if you get a doughnut to a face instead of a hammer.

[kyraneko]

given that this was a welding class, I was expecting this to end up so much worse