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there's a common belief that artists know how to make art. this is untrue. i've yet to meet a single artist who has any idea what they're doing

oddarette

Ferrero Rocher Bulbasaur 🍫💖

jimthesquirrelking

cruel-hiraeth

if you build “community” around hating other people, just know that the second you step out of line—regardless of your moral uprightness or the hypocrisy on their part—you’re the next person they’re going to tear to pieces.

montesmithart

Mammoth girl 🦣

Revenge for Rhael!

kakyoinryoko

i think if you showed minecraft or fortnite to a little medieval peasant boy he would probably start writing parodies of church hymns. it’s human nature

kakyoinryoko

this has rendered me speechless

herpsandbirds

Let's Rename the Birds!!! (pt. 14)

As you may already know... ornithological authorities (such as the AOS and ABA) in North America have decided, for a variety of reasons, to rename all of the birds that have been named after people.

Some examples: Lewis's Woodpecker, Smith's Longspur, MacGillivray's Warbler...

I thought it would be fun for us to come up with some ideas for new common names here on Tumblr.

Here are some criteria for re-naming that might appeal to ornithologists and birdwatchers:

Habitat and geographical range

Physical characteristics

Call/song characteristics

Behavior

PLEASE MAKE YOUR NAMING SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS, REBLOG, OR TAGS.

We'll take the best ideas, and put them in a poll by the end of the week! (I and an esteemed panel of ornithological tumblererrsssres will make the decisions).

WEEK 14 - LeConte's Sparrow

LeConte's Sparrow (Ammospiza leconteii), family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes

Breeds/nests in the North central US, central Canada, as well as other various isolated areas of Canada.

Overwinters in the South-central US.

This species is usually found in grasslands, such as prairie, meadow, grassy wetlands, and agricultural fields.

They prefer moderately wet grassy areas with dense vegetation and open bare ground.

While the warm orangey-buff coloration of the bird often set it apart, there are other similar looking sparrows in the same grassland habitats. (Many sparrows may be hard to identify in the field unless the observer gets a really good look at the bird, which doesn't always occur).

This bird is particularly beloved by birdwatchers for its warmer colors (amongst sparrows).

They are relatively elusive/secretive, and are not seen often.

Length: 4.7 in/12 cm, Wingspan: 7.1 in/18 cm

The bird is usually seen feeding and foraging on the ground, but will occasionally perch up and move through tall grasses.

In the warmer months, they feed mainly on insects. In the winter they feed mainly on seeds (especially grass seeds).

Not sexually dimorphic.

Mother incubates eggs, both parents feed chicks.

Nests made with grasses and occasionally animal hair, attached to tall grasses and sedges.

Hear the calls here: LeConte's Sparrow Sounds, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

photograph by Laura Erickson & Jeff Timmons

SD, USA - photograph by Terry Sohl

photograph by Erin Prokopanko

MD, USA - photograph by Tim Frye

herpsandbirds

TIME TO VOTE!!!

We had so much input for this one, that we couldn’t possibly include all the great suggestions, but thanks to you all for your input.

I am not including sun oriented names, because we recieved so many sun oriented names for previous birds. We can't rename all orangey birds in north america sun something or other.

Okay, you made your suggestions, and our esteemed panel of judges has weighed in:

@passerinethehallway; @proton-wobbler, and I!!!

What should we rename the Leconte's Sparrow?

Flammulated Sparrow

Bittern-marked Sparrow

Bumblebee Sparrow

Tall Grass Sparrow

Buff-browed Sparrow

Prairie Fawn Sparrow

Voting ended onJul 21

herpsandbirds

Well, this one is pretty clear cut. The new name is...

Bumblebee Sparrow

footlongdingledong

idk man not to sound like a cartoon hippie but if your entirrrrre blog and dash is about how the world sucks and everyones bigoted i think you are going to give yorself brain worms

gaydiation-poisoning

It would kill half the 19-25 year olds online to realize "I can't help it I have trauma" is one of THE quintessential abuser excuses

dogpuppy

bedupolker

Autobiography of that one time i thought I saw someone dressed as a trout

bedupolker

You may be a catfish, but you'll never catfish me the way troutdog did... if you catch my drift.... if you know what im saying.... if you're picking up what im putting down.......

iesika

“Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he’d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. ‘There’s only one true evil in the world,’ he said through his characters. ‘And that’s treating people like they were things.’ And in the last of his ‘grown-up’ Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.”

— John Seavey, The Evolution of the Disc (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

realityis4thosewhocanthandlelsd

If you have never read Terry Pratchett, stop whatever you’re doing, get practically any of his books (I personally like the witches and the city guards arcs best, but honestly he never wrote a bad paragraph) and get stuck in.

Thank me when you come up for air.

Pratchett will be remembered beside Homer, beside Shakespeare, beside Dickens as the finest mass market literature ever made, and some of the most incisive ethical and moral commentary ever put on a page.

Seriously, get your nose in one of his books.

casket-girlie

Yeah running water is cool but uuh. You do know that if you use it to pour enough water into a container you can put your head in it and drown and DIE??? Yeah this is crazy and evil and sad. What if a kid does that. This is why I propose the idea to make it so people pay 200000$ every time they use the sink!!! This is because no child has that much money so they are physically unable to harm themselves <3 Wdym this is insane and we shouldn't be paying 200000$ just to get a glass of water. There are no ulterior motives. No it's not about taking your money. This is for child safety. Don't you want children to be safe??? You evil sicko freak. What's wrong with you for thinking this is wrong and won't work.

pleoros

José Eugenio Gómez Rodríguez - Rain water at the bottom of the copper mine in Bisbee, Az. 2008

liebelesbe

Yeah man, this wizard sleepover is cozy. I just saw a guy gently clap his hands together and say "hot beverage conjuration" or something, and suddenly everyone was holding a perfect mug of their favorite warm drink in their hands. Nobody who was already sleeping even woke up, that's how cozy it is. I'm over here casting pillow and level 2 pyjamas. I think I just heard "power word: blanket fort" two groups over. I gotta get in there.