Lantern Bearer, Salve Maker, Blood bringer

You, and the squirming beings in the dirt under your feet are the Same, Don't dare forget that. We're all just earth's creatures.

[recklessmoss]

THERE IS ONLY DANCE MUSIC IN TIMES OF WAR

[karroana]

gouache study of beautiful ancient artifacts !

[389]

Bird Trails, Edu Aguilera

[iheartmyart]

Ahmad Nadalian, series Sand Prints

[werewolf-transgenderism]

new year new mountain goats

[feather-bone]

[ID: a digital drawing of many different animals and plants in a simple style in grey, including opossum, owl, snake, seal, panther, chicken, monkey, bat, turtle, squid, scorpion, frog, penguin, jellyfish, and more. they surround the words "every other being is as real as i am" in light blue capital letters. end.]

Why am I me and not someone else? Does everything have its own "me"? Living beings see from only their own perspective, but we can observe our fellow beings and imagine - what is it like to exist as a cat or an oak tree? They're all out there having their own experience of existence that I could never come close to understanding with human senses. But does that mean those experiences are less important than mine? Maybe from my own perspective, presumably not from theirs.

Anyway, that line of thinking results in drawings like this one - an obvious truth that we can perhaps forget at times when our empathy fails. How many different living things can you identify in this drawing? :)

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Jupiter Ascending

[pjharvey]

my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

[laziestgirlintown]

Ramon Casas I Carbó, Jove decadent. Després del ball (1899)

[petitworld]

by Gustaf Emanuelsson

[artofmaquenda]

Feral Hearts

Two odd beings find tenderness, or a quiet kind of love that doesn’t need naming. What they find together may be love, or safety, or simply the relief of being seen. The world around them mirrors this truth: bones feed roots, insects thrive, and so-called unwanted beings persist. Nature does not reject them, and neither do they reject each other. There is no mistake here, only belonging. Everything exists exactly as it should. Prints: https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/4427468901/feral-hearts-print-wolves-nature

[artofmaquenda]

Bodies of Earth

[gilly-moon]

anyone wanna see the most sexual vintage medical illustration i've ever come across

[gilly-moon]

The people have spoken:

[kathy-rah]

I hope this vampire bat running on a treadmill will make your day better

[snototter]

A leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) emerges from the kelp on Bird Island, South Georgia

by Derren Fox

[moeggoi]

My illustration for The Moon for @novaandmali 's LGBTQ Tarot project; it was a fun challenging balancing the original card visuals with my own personal spin and experience.

Please check it out here! 🙇https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/novaandmali/star-crossed-a-queer-tarot

[bugshroom]

Proutoscia mirifica by Jeff Tingle

[lichenaday]

Got bit by a new bird species today!

Red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus)

This guy doesn't even go here! Recent high winds blew him over to Iceland from his typical American homeland. Awww, kinda like me!

(I am a licensed bird ringer for the country of Iceland and all animals are captured and handled according to regulations under the authority of the Natural Science Institute of Iceland)

[elodieunderglass]

He grisps you 🤏

[ivy-meshle]

Only fair, to both grisp and be grisped

[craftingcreatures]

In all fairness, if a humongous monster grabbed me by the legs and subjected me to ultimately harmless but nonetheless distressing and incomprehensible procedures with neither consent nor explanation, I too would attempt to bite them

[lichenaday]

Absolutely! I love the ones that bite because I am like "very good, do not go gently, rage rage and all that. You are a survivor and I am proud of you!"

Of course I then also love the ones who just sit there confused and stare at me with big, confused eyes, cause then I gotta be like "hey buddy c'mon, it's gonna be ok. This is such a weird day I totally get it. You can fight back a little if you want."