pigeon boy watching the daisies grow

🕊🦤fairy-electric type! 🦤🕊 im actually a pigeon in real life. (it/ze/🌟) (θ ∆ & :): ∞ ) go vote in my tournaments, boy: @columbidaecontest ! you can call me Pigeon! talk 2 me about birds and math and phil ochs and talking heads and chess the musical! or anything else i love people! inordinately fond of beetles. adult 👍 Art tag is #my art

[thiscountry]

Don't be afraid to show the real you

[vintagewildlife]

Ticks By: US Public Health Service From: Life Nature Library: The Forest 1961

[a-book-of-creatures]

\o/

[vintagewildlife]

You people get me. I fucking love exoparasites. They need to make a tick that's the size of a cat and only eats specially prepared blood bags.

[vintagewildlife]

Yes!!! I've been lunged at by a dog, knocked out by a watusi cow, stepped on by horses a billion times, and got permanent nerve damage from a guinea pig bite. I've been bitten by ticks too. I love them all. They're just following their nature. And sometimes they look cute while doing it, like these ticks who want uppies \(^-^)/

[bogleech]

This is actually a fairly big question applicable to a whole lot of things! Given that many people say they'd rather mosquitoes disappear than just malaria disappear, that leeches transmit no diseases but are still feared, and that many creatures are hated who can't bother anyone at all, I think the threat of disease is often only a secondary factor in the perception of pestiferous fauna. Diseases are scarier, but they're invisible and aren't a guarantee, whereas the bitey creature is an immediate visible agitation, so that's what more people care about.

Our brains are seemingly just wired like that. It's the same reason it's so easy to put off a chore for future you to worry about, even knowing how much more stressful that's going to be. Same reason society would rather let environmental issues worsen later than take inconvenient steps to prevent them. Us big brain animals naturally feel the strongest about what we can currently see! Even if the thing we can see is smaller, it ends up taking priority by default and you often have to consciously fight against that.

I'm pretty sure there have been theories put forth that our brains had to adopt this once we were capable of understanding that we're all eventually going to die, otherwise we'd be so stressed about that we hypothetically couldn't even function. I forget if this is considered a wacky crackpot kind of theory so don't quote me.

[narcissistcookbook]

"i've got no qualms about it" meanwhile i'm over here making qualm chowder

[acidtheater]

Most annoying online emotion is "I have a funny personal anacdote to add to this but it doxxes like all of my personal information"

[yellow-cat]

has anyone else noticed that its awesome to have an anthropomorphic animal representation of yourself that you can draw in situations

[thefourththefifth]

I always get so excited thinking I got a notification on my post only for it to be these stupid fucking bots 😭

[myfanwywood]

Put baby in pelican mouth poster. For you

[dreadwedge]

used to be people would say things like "avast" or "hither and yon". nowadays folks mostly say stuff like "ethernet cable"

[lordofmasks]

The Collector | prints

[spookyweaselbones]

Don't mind me just designing my house

[hightide-error]

the poster that this incredible illustration is based on is extremely striking. but while searching for it, I also found earlier posters for conveying this message along with a corresponding one for summer, and I fucking love them. absolutely lovely graphic design work. (both are from 1924, artist is Austin Cooper)

the one I was looking for originally also has a summer variant. (artist is Frederick Charles Herrick: 'it is warmer below' is from 1927, 'it is cooler below' is 1926)

[rush-nimby]

wash ur hands

[squeakitties]

art prompt: draw a creature/animal that fits the name Scrimpering Whimperlet

[roomwithavoid]

this thing

[3rabbit]

daughter (non-practicing)

[dani-m-art]

Smaugust day 5 - "Small."

Very, very small.

Combined my love of dragons with my love of cell biology and sciart for this one!

[reeddraws]

I haven't used a lot of the brushes in the packs I already have and use, so I wanted to try out some of them for rocks. I need to figure them out more, but it still has a cool look already. Daily drawing 2444.

[vinceaddams]

It's nice that loud noises don't stick to clothes like smells do. That would be really bad if they did.