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aviantastic

Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards

fluentisonus

barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC

cryptidofthecove

english-mace

nonononononono

‘saw from the 1600s’ = ~400 years ago

this fresco is from ~3600 years ago

lenacraft

Have been watching the tree swallows for ~3600 years. Wonderful. May we get another ~3600.

theweirdwideweb

rimonoroni2

unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going

magicratfingers

nestlesslibertine

Effortlessly good-looking with those piercing eyes.

herpsandbirds

froggy in small, medium, and large varients

Those are some gorgeous… I’m thinking Canadian toads (Anaxyrus hemiophrys)?

That last one is an absolute Chonkasaurus Rex!!!

kushblazer666

flowercrownsylveon

wreniriis

It takes a Village

Happy 4th anniversary to the game that completely destroyed me

andmaybegayer

sometimes when you're travelling you will see a beautiful unique bird that captures your attention completely and you will discover that the locals call it the Boring Sparrow and there's 70 000 000 of them and they eat nothing but spicy chicken wings they find in dumpsters.

general-book-nerd

Some of my favourite examples.

aukkenopsia

birdfolks

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

"are you gonna take those pills the rest of your life?" you mean my molecules? why surely you wouldn't deprive me of my molecules. they are shaped exactly just so, you see. my molecules

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

do you know how hard someone had to work to make my molecules into their molecule shapes??

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

they invented a new shape of molecule just for me and you want me to what, not absorb it???

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

reblog to remind somebody about their molecules

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

people who shape molecules at their jobs found this post and they're in the notes being happy to be appreciated. go take your fucking molecules

antiqueanimals

Robert Hainard (1906 - 1999). Color woodcut. July 18th, 1964.

MutualArt

i-am-a-fish

I'm very sorry to ask something like this, I've really been struggling with this question, and I wanted to ask the combined wisdom of the people on this site

I would like to know why you keep going, and what drives you to keep living. I know there are a lot of reasons to stay alive and enjoy life, I can think of a few that personally resonate with me, but I really want to know what your reasons are

You do not have to comment on this if that's too big of an ask, and I'm very sorry for asking something like this, I really need someone's help, I feel like I don't have much purpose

Also if I may ask, please don't post any suicidal ideation in the comments of this post, I really can't handle something like that right now

kedreeva

I'll give you (at least) two- one from when I was a teenager, and didn't have anything else, and one from today when I made it past being a teenager and learned I have everything else.

The first is what my mother once told me offhand, but that lodged between my ribs and stayed there ever since: "you can always die later, but you can't always come back." I was kept alive at least twice by the question "what will I miss if I cannot come back for it?" And in those moments, it was a genuine comfort to me to understand that this all ends anyway at some point, and there's really no sense in going home early, but the question also made me stop and think long enough to find something I didn't want to miss out on because I can't come back to this level once I'm out. At the time, it was any number of things, but largely "I want to go scuba diving on the great barrier reef someday and I can't do that if I'm dead so I guess I'll keep going" (and FYI several years later, I actually made it to Australia from Michigan, USA, and went scuba diving on the great barrier reef, and it was every bit as amazing as I had hoped and it was 110% worth staying for, so feel free to want lofty things).

Today, 20+ years later, I don't have to stop to think that hard anymore, because so many of the seeds I planted between then and now, of things I don't want to miss, are growing beautifully. I have stories I want to finish writing, I have stories I want to finish consuming (reading, viewing, hearing about etc). I have art I want to make and art I want to see, places I still want to visit, events I want to go to, structures and animals I want to see in person. I have animals to take care of - my pets, and also the family of crows in my yard that visits and trades me feathers for leftovers and the woodland creatures (insects, birds, squirrels the groundhog under the mulberry tree, the doe that visits with two fawns in the afternoon, the turkeys that bring their gaggle of poults by in the fall every year) that visit my yard because I have rewilded much of it and take care to help preserve their areas for them - and a partner I promised not to leave. I have friends that I want to see who want to see me, and who might need my help sometime so I can't just abandon them. I have folks online looking forward to seeing the next silly little photo of my birds, and there's no way to know when someone just needs a silly little photo of a bird to remember there are good things in this world worth sticking around for a little longer, so they don't miss the next one.

I want to see Stonehenge in person someday. I want to pet an anteater someday. I want to hold my published book in my hands and cry about it a little. I want to see my nephews and my niece grow up and decide what they want out of life so I can help them get it. I want to see what baby peafowl my birds will make next year. I want to make a wild type celadon coturnix bloodline so I can offer others a clean slate. I want to finish creating the genetics info section of my website so I can share information about peafowl genetics for free and put both middle fingers up at the old white dude gatekeepers who want to keep everyone else dependent on them so they can make $$ off being the only ones who know stuff. I want to see the northern lights in person, up in Alaska or Canada or something where they're more visible. I want to go to the grand canyon. I want to walk in a redwood forest. I want to make a lucky Pokemon trade with my mother so we can get cool shinies.

The thing I've found is that you don't necessarily need a "purpose," to stay. You don't have to be useful, you don't have to have a destiny or a fate or a calling or be needed, and the idea that everyone does was a hindrance in my early life, because I didn't feel like the world needed my presence, or that I was ever going to do enough to fulfill a purpose. Turns out it doesn't matter if the world needs me or doesn't need me, because that's not what it's about for me. Life doesn't have to be about doing anything useful or meaningful in a greater scheme or even lasting, because it's not a job we're doing. There's no requirement for doing an amount of things or doing great things. It's a party we're at, it's an event we're attending, it's a movie we're watching, it is a story we're living. Of course it has an end, but there's simply no sense skipping to it early- we'll miss the good bits in the middle, even if we don't know what those are or will be, yet.

I might see a cool bird. I might find a pretty rock. I might see a weird cloud. I might find a new favorite fanfic. I might have a new story idea. I might eat the best nectarine I've ever had. I might bake the perfect batch of cookies. I might be outside on a warm day and feel the pleasant touch of a cool breeze. I might see a perfectly clean paperclip on a dusty dirty floor and be struck by how pretty it is when it glints in the sun. I don't know! I don't know what I will experience next but I know I want to find out and I know I can't find out if I'm not here for it. I know I am alive because that is what I needed (and continue to need) to be, to find out what I want next, to find out what thing I will experience next.

rampaging-robin

I imagine little Knight's scream sounds a lot like the Hollow Knight's, but it's hard to put that into onomatopoeia

glowingsquiddragon

it’d be funny if they still never talked

kktwojingle

My Silksong Miku design!!! ♡ she's blue for an amazing reason planning on redrawing some miku memes with her soon https://x.com/kktwojingle/status/2066758843359539209