i can bludgeon pretty hard.

lacey | 25 | 🦇 icon by @bugcouncil

[obskurity]

Dek and Thia - Predator: Badlands

[cocodavie]

I want to draw Thia holding Dek's face and I did two sketches of it, but couldn't decide which one to do so I did both.

[dotanadots]

that drip..... why does it look... familiar...

[zeiinoviah]

Heated Rivalry? Yeah, I have one for ya

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying “you’re blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!” and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying “Every day. I have to fight people who think like this.”

As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species

[nixmori]

Date Night

Emmrich checks his appearance in a mirror before heading out for a date with Rook. Inspired by Leyendecker.

[sirpyes]

Frutiger Areo Sonic 🌿🫧📀 #SonicTheHedgehog #frutigeraero #sonadow #shadowthehedgehog

[frogguchi]

me and the bad bitch i pulled by trying to exorcise her on our first meeting

[breikka]

Jacinthe jumpscare

[scruffyturtles]

lebanne approval!

[bytesie]

hi there is going to be a us nationwide shutdown happening this friday, jan 30th

it basically means no shopping, no working, no school

we did it in the twin cities last week and it was huge - consider how you can be a part of it, if you can't join a protest, commit to not doing all three, etc, i would try to donate or find ways to help out your local protestors, unhoused neighbors, or your immigrant neighbors who may not feel safe right now. there are many ways to help and many are just about providing your time. make time for something important please

xoxo

[improveordie]

“I pray that my service will be of value to thee” Serena from vampire the masquerade: redemption, the best sidelined goth girlfriend

[cbedfordart]

A look of the Serenity Forge PlayStation 5 physical edition. A glance at a page in the booklet, the CD proof before its finalisation, and inside case cover. You can buy it here: 💿https://store.serenityforge.com/products/sorry-we-re-closed-premium-edition

Both Switch and PS5 versions come with a booklet, holographic stickers, and digital download of the OST all within the case!

It's kind of cool knowing there will be an actual physical CD of the game...

[bytesie]

i read sue monk kidds book on writing and i think honestly one of the lost arts of young writers/writers of my age group is collaging. like i think weve transitioned to making pinterest boards but pinterest is an algorithm ur not getting that home grown brain connection u get from cutting images out of a magazine that u dont know why connect to ur story but u feel it in ur bones that they do

[dogpuppy]

[bytesie]

it is very normal as a human being (maybe -- this is someone w moral ocd & who has had it my whole life speaking maybe it is not normal KLJSL) to feel like "personally attacked" or wounded when ppl talk abt "you" in the broader sense of you . like you as an american as a white person as a straight person etc . especially if you hve not learned to move past that . it is very normal to feel smth but in those circumstances u need to let it wash over u or whtever they say in therapy. feel guilt feel sad feel bitter feel angry feel whatever within urself and not at others. sometimes it is not really about you but a lot of the time it is about "you" and you should learn and teach urself to accept it and figure out what you the individual can do better. and then move on and accept ur not getting a pat on the back either. ur not the "good" one ur just one

also and i rlly mean it u need to feel ur emotions and not bury them and that doesnt mean act on them it means feel them in ur bones and how they physically feel and naming them bc stuffing them down doesnt let u become emotionally intelligent enough to break this cycle it makes u confused and not know what ur feeling ever and a person like that cannot learn sympathy and empathy for others

[bytesie]

minneapolis places to donate that have been helping/on the frontlines:

cair mn: https://cairmn.org/

mirac: https://www.miracmn.com/

freedom street health: https://www.instagram.com/freedomstreethealth/?hl=en

link tree with more places to donate, ways to help, etc: https://linktr.ee/ICEOUTmutualaid

[bytesie]

joyce uptown foodshelf which is helping to bring food to local families directly : https://www.joyceuptownfoodshelf.org/donations