Mino

starry veins / a minotaur icarus / the Freischütz 20 he/him

[jupiem]

This piece was a bit ambitious for me, but I did it! I love these girls and had to draw them ^^ Does this count as mermay??? mayhap. ♡ Ko-fi ♡ BlueSky ♡ IG ♡ Twitter ♡

[oldpaintings]

The Peris, 1898 by Charles Courtney Curran (American, 1861--1942)

[so-many-ocs]

immediately after an interaction: i have GOT to get more normal oh god i need to get more normal immediately i have to get more normal or they're going to hunt me down they're going to hunt me down and flay me for sport

during an interaction: and why not put a little spin on it? why not add some conversational zest?

[caemidraws]

Queen of Swords

[i-am-a-fish]

just wanted to say that you are cute and the fog is not coming. you are beautiful and you really do not have to worry about the fog because it's not coming. The fog wouldn't even be a problem if it was coming, it isn't though, and you are very pretty

[skelesass]

so this destroyed me and had to doodle

[dailyclassicart]

Claude Monet - "Houses by the Bank of the River Zaan"

[elbiotipo]

why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

[elbiotipo]

If you read ecology books printed in the 70s and 80s, they were absolutely convinced that whales and tigers would not survive the century. There's a whole plot in Star Trek about how whales are extinct actually. Here in Argentina, we were sure that yaguaretés would have gone extinct. It was thought that rainforests would be forever lost, because there was no way that such complex ecosystems would be restored.

Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?

We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.

I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.

Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.

[crabussy]

if there are people who care, it's never a lost cause. at one point, kākāpō, a nocturnal flightless parrot species from aotearoa, were thought to be entirely extinct for decades. until 1977, where booming calls from males were heard on the small island of whenua hou. now, thanks to people who care so much they dedicated their lives to caring, kākāpō numbers are close to 300. despite the setbacks. despite the small gene pool causing infertility and health problems. people cared so fucking much that they survived. this is one of COUNTLESS, countless similar stories. I'm studying ecology so that I can go into conservation and all around me, every day, I see people who care enough to put years of their lives into learning about and solving environmental problems. I don't know man. hope isn't just some nebulous thing. it's tangible if you do something with it.

[kedreeva]

Tim Wong saw the decline of the pipeline swallowtail butterfly, and dedicated himself to providing habitat and raising babies, and it worked.

Spix's Macaws were extinct in the wild for 70 years, and now captive breeding and conservation groups have reintroduced a small population (with more on the way) and there are babies being successfully raised in the wild again.

And what else is there, but hope? We exist for the grace of hope. Those who have lost all hope don't stay here. If you are here to send an ask like this, it is not because you have given up, it's that you are hoping someone will show you that that hope is worth having.

It is!! It always is!!

There will be good things and if you cannot find them, make them! The time will pass anyway, you can choose what to do with it, and so many, many people are choosing to try to help.

[coinin]

The Lord Howe Island rodent eradication project never fails to make me cry, it’s so beautiful.

The population of an entire island working together to eradicate every last rat and mouse to save the native bird populations. They had to trap a bunch of the birds and keep them in captivity so they wouldn’t be hurt by the rodenticides, and released them after the rodents were gone. Normal residents helped by phoning in tips whenever they saw rodents. And they did it. Lord Howe Island, last I read, remains rodent free, and the native bird populations are rebounding!

Acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer, both of which were terrifying specters of my childhood, have been largely dealt with. Ecosystems devastated by acid rain are also recovering.

We are making a difference!

[aetherograph]

In 1979, an audacious, expensive conservation project was begun to try and breed california condors in captivity toward being released into the wild again. This was considered useless and hopeless by many people, but many more people said we had to at least TRY.

In 1991, the first captive-raised condors were re-introduced to Big Sur, Pinnacles, and Bitter Creek.

In 2006, three months before I turned eighteen, the first wild pair of condors was seen nesting in Big Sur in over a hundred years. A hundred years.

We did that. We fixed it.

How about another example.

When my mom was small, in the 1960s, there were many, many days of the year she was not allowed outside. Days and days they had recess indoors, because the air was so poisonous to breathe. Here's an article about it, with some good pictures.

My mom was 13 in the picture on the left. She was 50 in the picture on the right.

In 1987, there were 27 California Condors in the world, all captive.

In 2024, there were 566.

369 of them fly free.

That happened within my lifetime, and I'm not even 40 yet.

When you lose hope, think of our stories we're telling you. Recount them to yourself like a prayer. That's what I do.

There are 369 California Condors flying free in the sky right now.

There is no more acid rain.

There is an ozone.

There are wild tigers.

There are still birds on Lord Howe Island.

There are 369 California Condors flying free.

[dragonfly-wings1]

Black footed ferrets were considered completely extinct in 1979. Then we found a single den in Wyoming in 1981. In 1996 it was classified as extinct in the wild.

By 2013, there were approximately 1,200 living wild, across 18 dens. Their numbers increase regularly, and while the face challenges due to habitat loss, climate change, and their limited genetic diversity, they're in a much better place than they were.

Because people cared, and they worked, and they fought to make things better.

[coe-olivier]

Here's my top V favourite Centurions from Asterix comics, if anyone cares :]

I. Centurion Ignoramus - I think he's one of the smartest Centurions in Asterix who seemed capable of being a great determined Centurion for his people and carying about them if the things were going out of control. Bastard at the begining and later looking as a tired single dad, dealing with all the economic chaos couse by that twink. I love him 🤍

II. Centurion Gaius Veriambitus - He was super supportive for Claudius Cornedurus, I really liked that he did not necessarily want to solve the problem by fighting the Gauls, but by talk things out. He's adorable man and no one will change mi mind. I'm happy that they both ended on happy ending!

III. Nefarius Purpus and Dubius Status - I count them as a one point in this list, because they are both together all the time and I love them equally haha They're just trying their best, okay?

IV. Centurion Somniferus - I think I don't need to write here anything. I mean, who doesn't like Somniferus?!

V. Unfortunately I don't know his name, but I like him! He reminds me a bit of Octavius Citrus hehe

[rabenknar]

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[pangur-and-grim]

"It did something to see Domitia’s hand, warm and broad, envelop the entirety of her shoulder. Glenda wondered, flushing, if those hands were large enough to fully encompass her waist." 

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die is out February 3rd, and the artist responsible for the elf yuri above is @godaughtr

[pangur-and-grim]

the idea here was 'what if Lady Dimitrescu was a mommy elf', and I think it worked out well

[pangur-and-grim]

This is a genuinely charming description

it would work on me

[tinkerwolp]

[organhound]

i can't figure out how i wanna draw cult of the lamb fan art in my art style so you get this

lamb from this angle

[notrenfield]

habe Kunst für einen Freund gemacht.

[ortut]

Robert DuGrenier - Handle With Care

[pnglove]

[immediatebreakfast]

If the Dracula adaptation doesn't interrupt its low grave gothic soundtrack with the most stereotypical cowboy-western-sand whistle tune ever created every single time Quincey P. Morris arrives at the scene, then what is it doing?