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Per usual, Artfight is over and I haven't even posted all of my attacks. Oopsies.

I made it my mission to draw at least one HnK OC during Artfight because I love drawing shiny hair. Moss Agate belongs to @crowgutzzz !

#other artists #pretty hair

tothechaos

the thing they dont tell you about learning to "trust the process" is that you forget and relearn it every single time you make a new piece of art. unfortunately there is no cure either

tothechaos

a chart of what i mean for the visual learners in the audience

veitstanz

vizlip

Page 6 of my digital sketchbook! I'm playing around with making "stickers" and stuff for fun and give it that proper sketchbook feel😂

This time it's some Alex sillies, a Kostya charcoal brush sketch and my first attempt at the pride drawings I did (which I first intended as a mini comic thing)!

#the cross eyed one😂#vizlip #other artists

blumineck

Be yourself as best you can whenever you can.

painted-bees

this week has been way too exciting [negative]

I had just gotten back from my dog's neurologist appointment, which was...4 hrs long and stressful😭 Planned on eating a nice lunch and then getting some work done while there was still time in the day.

Only to watch a myna with a fat grub in it's beak land by my back door and then deliberately drop said grub and stare at it for a moment before flying off with a little "bwee" sounding coo.

And then I watched the grub move.

And then the horror dawned on me that it was not a grub.

it was this fucking thing:

I had a very ugly reaction that I will not describe in detail but fuck me 😭 I did not need this rn.

because I knew. I KNEW no rehabber here would take a myna hatchling. And I was right. Was basically told "congrats, it's urs" or "let nature take its course". It's such a strong, spirited little guy, if he's gonna die, he's gonna die warm with a full belly. Got a heatlamp and the appropriate food.

Let me be frank, I have no hope for this guy.

I have hand reared chicks before, but never this young. I hated doing it back then and I never wanna do it again. but this guy...He is like..1-5 days old.

SO, my life for the next week is gonna be waking up at 5:30am to feed this guy every 30 minutes until midnight. All day, every day. Assuming (biiig assumption) he doesn't just die overnight.

But he IS eating and pooping very well so far...so maybe he's gonna force me to live like this for a while after all 🫩 I give it a 50/50 chance, very generously. There's still a matter of diseases n' shit. He looks and acts healthy but who fuckin' knows what's going on under the hood.

It will be what it will be and all I can do is my best.

painted-bees

So, I have 2 plausible theories abt this

usually, when a parent kicks a chick out, it's because the chick is obviously very unwell and tending to it further is a waste of resources.

This chick, however, is very strong and determined AND had apparently been fed prior to abandonment. So--not unwell and not a waste of resources.

my first plausible theory is that these are first time parents who are very stressed by the monsoons and LOUD construction taking place across the street. Filicide can occur under such conditions.

My more plausible theory, however, is that the myna I saw was a home-invading kidnapper--not the actual parent of this particular chick. Mynas will kill rival nests, and evict chicks in order to claim the nesting site for themselves. And I think that's what happened here 😩

painted-bees