Doing it for the kids

A little blog for my kids. Expect dragons, star wars, fairies, science and more. My real blog is www.coffeeslot.tumblr.com, go there if you want punk rock and stupidity.

[mayahan]

[bikiniarmorbattledamage]

We’ve reblogged a post featuring some of this cat/mouse armor before, but there’s some new ones in here :) 

~Ozzie

More pet armor on BABD

[catchymemes]

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Australia do you take constructive criticism on your wildlife?

[joemerl]

Australian wildlife has figured out how to use weapons. We need to blockade the island and shoot down any birds trying to leave by air.

[itsgeauxtime-deactivated2023082]

Australia waged war on the birds once already and lost. In your folly, you will doom the world to their same fate

[zombearzilla-old-deactivated202]

Those goddamn Emus!!

[glasseslives-deactivated2020062]

[lu-cille-deactivated20210110]

“My prince” by Telmo Miel

[visitheworld]

Wat Samphran (The Dragon Temple) / Thailand (by Sergey Brandys). 

[mysticat-art]

Ace of Swords

[amareverie]

Scout Team by SebastianKowoll

[thedragonbloodtree-blog]

By Cheungchungtat on DeviantArt. Please retain artist’s credit and link–thank you.

[moonwyvernarchive]

Dinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney. It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurus who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society. The first book has “appeared in 18 languages in more than 30 countries and sold two million copies.”Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and Dinotopia: The World Beneath both won Hugo awards for best original artwork.

[elodieunderglass]

God these images still send this ENTIRE thrill through me. They just evoke that feeling of being a child with a book too large for you, staying for so long on a single picture that you feel like you could turn around in it.

Gurney consistently produces a world that feels completely reasonable and real. The color, the light, the relationships between fore- and background,

the fact that it seems like a real world, where people are engaging in perfectly reasonable cultural activities…

The natural gestures, implying the personalities and relationships of characters in a single image…

And it’s quite creative. I mean, look at this pair of bagel sellers. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO SELL BAGELS?

I feel like there is so much to learn from the way Gurney does his work - his blog is here http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com 

[theotherwesley]

OMG if you feel this way DEFINITELY check out his youtube channel as well! :D

He does  his own incredibly charming special effects and sometimes has a very, very small saurian helper (RIP Mr. Kooks) that joins him in painting. He’s also got some painting/multimedia video lessons available on Gumroad that have, no joke, changed my whole outlook on art. It’s amazing watching his process. 

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I would like to be friends with these dinos :)

[bowelfly]

Best insect order, go

oh no how could you do this to me!

aaaaa I mean I primarily work on beetles for my research, so the natural choice would be Coleoptera for their incredible morphological and ecological diversity

(above: ant nest parasite beetles)but we both know how insanely good neuropteran larvae are as well….

But there are so many good beasts in Hymeoptera, like dear sweet Megachile bees

or the ever-delightful Cephalotes ants

augh but i also feel the need to champion Diptera because of the general view of flies as boring nuisances 

and you know, hemipterans are cool too

but yeah, gun to my head, i gotta go with Coleoptera. can’t beat the beetles

[betweenbeatriceandbaudelaire]

By juliedillon // Support the artist

[thecollectibles]

Lizard Riders by John Park

[stevolteon]

Yes! The… the spee-ider. Even the smallest bite from “arachnis deathicus” will instantly paralyze!

Sadly references for arachnis deathicus were thin on the ground, so instead we have Giant huntsman spider (Heteropoda maxima), Brazilian salmon pink bird-eating tarantula (Lasiodora parahybana), Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi) and Poecilotheria rajaei.

[darksilenceinsuburbia]

[formylittledragons]

Check out @Caitlin_Hackett’s Tweet:

[formylittledragons]

[bogleech]

A request was made for me to post any cute centipedes I might know of.

Centipedes pretty much all fall under a “sleek and lethal” aesthetic but to me one of the cutest things of all is when a tough fierce predator gets gentle and protective. A mother centipede will stay wrapped around her eggs and babies not only to keep parasites at bay but to hold them up off of the ground and keep them clean of any fungi or bacterial infections! Some studies find that if the babies are already hatched, the whole family will scatter and fend for themselves when disturbed (such as by a huge human uncovering them), so the babies don’t “need” the mother’s protection, but she’ll still hold onto them for a long time if she can. Every extra day that they get a little more time to grow under her watch probably makes a difference.