My Art, Vulture Culture, and Bugs!

Personal blog here! You may get my art, other people's art, dead stuff, pictures of my animals, etc... and lots of ants!

[shamebats]

This paints such a beautiful picture

[judiops]

I love that-- the idea of being so secure in yourself that a potential man in your life isn't competing against a shittier man, he's competing against the luxury of no man at all.

That kind of woman (or person in general) is somebody to aspire to be.

[kroska-pup]

I needed to hear this today

[kroska-pup]

Hello all! I’m alive just busy with work and life and existential dread lol. I’ve been really into diorama and miniature crafting videos on YouTube lately. I wanted to try some d&d mini sculpting, but I have no d&d characters so I kind of hijacked @papermonkeyism Dragonborn, Birdie. She has such a wonderful design :3 I don’t think I got the scale quite right for a proper d&d mini, but I’m happy with my first attempt. She’s about 3cm from toes to crest.

[bananatwinky]

when I get rejected by another job

[coyotevvitch]

friendly reminder that the “ethical vulture culture” doesn’t really exist and death at the hand of humans is much more humane than slow, natural death as well as being hit by a car. i personally would rather an animal was dispatched quickly and humanely, but in the end, death is death. it is not automatically ethical just because they weren’t killed on purpose by a human. also note that this blog is run by an aspiring fur farmer 💖 thx

[thenatsdorf]

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

[immaplatypus]

MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck.  Not bad luck.  I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!

[official-mugi]

“See him face”

I sure fucking do see him face

[just-things-i-enjoy]

Him face

[luccorvus]

Reblog him face for good luck in 2021

[catsbeaversandducks]

Reblog him face for good luck in 2021 (2)

[evgenyhontor]

Hyenas are cool!

Hyenas in my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DemiurgusDreams?search_query=hyena

[iguanodont]

‘Nother twitter creature challenge, this time to build a unicorn. I’m envisioning it a shy woodland creature related to the shadhavar

[jazencrou]

Here’s my info if you’re interested in a commission! Do NOT try to contact me on Tumblr, I won’t receive it, pls send an email!

[kroska-pup]

Idk how many followers I even have still, but my friend deserves you more! Go commission heerrr! Do itttt!

[blackwoolncrown]

pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills  instead of being seen as behaviors

so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives’.

[sonateharder]

I know I’ve posted this before, but it bears repeating.

This is a thing humans do; you don’t have to be good at it to enjoy it.

[shadyufo]

sortin some weiner bones

valentine’s day is coming up soon after all…

[shadyufo]

[kroska-pup]

[blackbackedjackal]

Hey Jackal, I’m sorry things aren’t going very well for you :( I hope it gets better. I have a question though. Do you know anything about preserving invertebrates? I keep finding dead crabs and darkling + sawyer beetles all over my yard and I’d love to do something with them.

I very rarely work with invertebrates so I don’t have much info on hand as to how to work with or preserve them. I’m sure some of my followers can help though!  

[mothwick]

Insects are super easy. Find a piece of cardboard or styrofoam and use that as a base to pin the insect to. Start with a pin through the thorax (on beetles, traditionally through the right elytra near the joint) – this pin can be used to move the insect around after it’s dried. Then pin the legs and antennae in place if you want it posed. After a week or two, the specimen will be dry enough to move into a shadowbox, just be mindful of the legs – they are very fragile at this point. Ideally, you would use insect pins which are very thin, but sewing pins will work just fine. You may be able to find small sewing pins in hobby stores. Small crabs can be pinned the same way, I’d just recommend keeping them outside so they don’t stink up your house. Larger ones may want the underside of the carapace cut and the insides washed out. If your insect is too dry to move the legs in order to pin them, look up how to make a relaxation chamber for insects.

[kroska-pup]

Also if you want to get super into it they can be posed and dried. I usually get them posed and then bury them in salt or borax to help hold the pose and dry them out. Here’s a desert hairy scorpion I got from a friend. I have his legs pinned in place, and some cotton stuffed under his butt to make him look fierce 😊

[elektroyu]

I’m OPENING ALL COMMISSION TYPES for a while from now on! Depending on how much work I get the longest they will be open will be until August (if new puppy comes in October I won’t have time for much art then). If you’re interested in something please drop a mail at [email protected] or visit my Etsy shop. Fantasy creatures are welcome, as well. If you’d like a human portrait please get in touch with me, I’ll need to review your reference material before I can tell you what I can do with it, as I don’t do many humans (would love to do more, though!). Also please share this post if you’d like to help out and spread the word! ;) Thank youuuu!

[elektroyu]

I’m opening a couple commission slots! Send me a message here, to [email protected] or head over to my website for other ways to get in touch.

[bobacupcake]

we are already living in the cyberpunk future and i know this because within a span of 3 days we went from this tweet:

to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:

and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether

i dont know what it is about stuff like this and the whole turn mei into a symbol of hk protesters thing but, its really reassuring for some reason

[pinkieperil]

And the next step…

[systlin]

https://teezyli.com/

Holy shit y’all look at the front page of the site right now

[cathrine-rose]

Oh my god

[systlin]

Anyway, I just emailed [email protected] to report the site for very evilly stealing Disney’s IP! Because obviously that is very evil and bad and shit.

[anthropohedron]

I’ve never seen such a perfect example of fighting fire with fire.

[systlin]

Holy fucking shit

[scifigrl47]

I’m DYING.

[ejacutastic]

[kroska-pup]

Nibblenibblenibblenibble

[catsbeaversandducks]

This speech-language pathologist taught her dog 29 words, and he can even form full sentences.

Video by Christina Hunger

[trustmeimanengiqueer]

[jenniferrpovey]

Dogs actually do have a language center in their brains. They process language just the same way we do, just not as well.

They do understand our words. This is not true of all domesticated animals (horses, for example, can only manage to distinguish a relatively small number of spoken commands…but boy do they know what you’re really saying).

They don’t understand “just your tone of voice” as a lot of people think.

As of 2016 the record vocabulary for a dog demonstrating understanding of words is over 1,000.

So if you give them a way to talk back, they’re going to use it.

The development of language skills is probably a side effect of domestication and of being kept in close contact with humans. A dog that was a better hunting partner would be kept and bred and over time they developed a better understanding of language.

In other words, dogs are pretty dang smart because we need them to understand us.

And also that is a very good boy.

[sandersstudies]

^ Would like to agree and make one amendment - very good GIRL. This is Stella the dog!

Check out the owner Christina’s Instagram: one of the first things I saw was a video where the dog started barking and, when prompted by the owner, said “outside, look look look look look look look, come outside.” Which is basically exactly how one would expect a dog to speak. 

The owner described bringing an unknown package into the house, and the dog ran away to push the buttons for “help no no help help” which is also about what I expect goes on in a scared pup’s mind.

In another video, the dog tried to push a button, and the button wasn’t working. The dog paused and then pushed the buttons for “No. Help.” 

In yet another (which the owner seemed impressed by), Stella said “come eat come play.” The owner asked the dog which she wanted to do, to eat or to play? And the dog clarified “come eat.” After eating, then the dog tried to instigate play. So the dog may have been able to understand a short spoken question, and how “questions and answers” work, and also understands sequences, even if she can’t express them (”I want to eat, THEN I want to play”)

Stella can even recount short-term memories, like when her family returned from the beach for dinner and she said “water good, no eat, play”

By the way, the owner uses the buttons as well, which probably really helps reinforce their meaning. She uses them to say things like “Stella all done eat” or “Stella and Christina go outside, bye!”

Wanna know my favorite part? Stella sometimes pushes the buttons for “Stella good” when she’s done a good job. Stella IS good! :D She also makes phrases using “love you,” like “Christina, love you, come play!”

[randomslasher]

*whispers* amazing 

[toadsandtiels]

Any time someone tells me birds aren’t descended from dinosaurs, I show them this.