It's Rhys's Art Pieces

I abandoned this blog n someone beat me to my new username but I'm rhysartpieces everywhere else! (formarly rebelparrot/rebelinksart) he/him, 27, proud cat dad

[rhysartpiecess]

I've been absent again cause I've been getting my schedule tag-teamed between working on a comic and getting trained to take over my dream job at the museum. Haven't had any time to do art for myself in a while but I'm quickly getting better at time management

[systlin]

i think some people aren’t realizing the mulch works because the mulch BECOMES the soil, that’s why it’s so universal. rot is just incredible, shout out to the forces of decomposition. can’t wait to meet ‘em.

Back when I worked at a greenhouse I heard some people complain that they had to buy more wood chip mulch or straw every year to re-apply it.

And yes! Good! It's working! The soil microbes and fungi are Feasting and turning that wood into humus! That humus is now becoming soil full of bio available nutrients for your plants...and the things in the soil...to feast on! Go to the county landfill they chip up trimmings into FREE woodchips stop buying the stuff here that costs $2.99 a bag! Talk to some tree care companies they'll be delighted to dump waste chips in your yard for you!

If your neighbors are Fools and rake up and discard leaves, grab that shit and use that too! And their grass clippings! Steal all that sweet sweet plant matter and let it rot into YOUR soil and enrich it! All Hail Rot, the one true god, which makes life on this ball of rock possible!

[systlin]

If you REALLY wanna give your plants a treat, when you're planting them dig the hole extra deep and plop some leftover chicken bones in the bottom of the planting hole. Cover with some compost. Plop your plant in it. Watch your roses go apeshit as they feast on all that tasty phosphorus and calcium!

[c3rvida3]

kitten if you don't get daddy his 3D printed sensory slug in the next five seconds you can kiss your grandma's drywall goodbye

[c3rvida3]

This was supposed to be unrebloggable, but I was flying into a gamer rage at the antique store because someone was wearing too much Victoria's Secret Love Spell body spray and it gave me a migraine.

[suraira]

[gaytanic-panic]

[huffylemon]

[aureatearthrodire]

SPEΛKING FROM EXPERIENCE: IT'S KIND OF BOTH. INHΛLE THROVGH MOVTH, EXHΛLE THROVGH GILLS.

[paesthethyc]

immediately that visual is so cool in my head

[rhysartpiecess]

Yesterday I turned the big 27 and God what a difference a year makes- last year we got kicked out of our living situation for my birthday, this year we left our house (house) to see Shin Godzilla after I got confirmation the day prior I'm going to get my dream promotion.

[mindboogling]

I love the headband theory, so I like to think the reason Ralsei keeps his hands behind his back is because Kid Kris would draw their monstersona the same way. Hands are hard to draw.

[swordshapedleaves]

Watching Jurassic Park and I have Opinions on this place as a zoo. Feeding the predators live prey?? There's other ways to provide enrichment! Also that enclosure is way too small for multiple large animals like that! Electric fences? Ha! Electric fences won't stop a fucking goat! Where's the zoo experts? Who designed these enclosures?? Were all zoos this shitty in the 90s???

[swordshapedleaves]

This t-rex is so happy to be tearing a car apart and pushing it over a cliff! She's got so much energy! She needs healthy outlets! Where the fuck is her enrichment team???

[ruffboi-mags]

#i love this post #both because it's funny and good #and because it gets right to the heart of the problem #jurassic park wasn't designed as a zoo #it was designed as a theme park #the amazing scientific advances? #the miracle of real live dinosaurs? #it meant nothing #the lives of the creatures themselves were nothing #just the means for a rich old white man to get even richer #hammond was never doing it for the children #the kindly old grandpa facade was a lie #he was a billionaire doing what billionaires do #and this is way too much rant for a post that made me laugh #but here we are 

ok but these tags tho

[luxlightly]

This is actually a big part of the book! The fact that the people designing and working with the animals aren’t considering the inherently chaotic nature of living things, they overlook obvious and simple mistakes that cause huge problems. They just expect everything to “work” and be normal and don’t take into account the vast differences between the park and a zoo and between a place of entertainment and a place meant to properly house and care for animals. That’s why Malcom being a chaos theory scientist is so relevant. 

In the book, Hammond is a much darker character, as well. Movie Hammond is misguided and sort of buying his own sales pitch about this place being so magical and that leads him to overlooking or ignoring the danger out of a sort of naivety. Book Hammond is just kind of an awful person. He rejects all advice and warnings from everyone even when the danger becomes very apparent to others. He wants to control every aspect of the park and it’s just not possible,especially since he also wants everything to be automated for ‘effiency’. He makes the classic mistake of thinking that containing animals is making sure there’s “no way they could possibly escape”, which anyone who works with animals knows is not possible to achieve, instead of “make it so the animals are contented and happy and don’t feel the need to try to escape”.

[rhysintherain]

"Look at this really badly run zoo" could have been the subtitle of the book, honestly. That's the premise behind most of my favorite moments in the books.

Velociraptors are social animals, with learned traits they didn't learn at the park. The park's raptors don't know how to work as a team or live in a pack, because they had no adults to teach them. That's why you have adult raptors keeping the juveniles away from the food, or attacking baby raptors.

The deterioration of the 2nd island's dinosaur population was due to a prion disease. Park organisers bought the cheapest feed (derived from scrapie infected sheep) without considering the consequences, and the populations were collapsing because a prion disease called DX had become endemic.

None of the people running the park understood the biology of the animals they were keeping. They were concerned with having a static, point-in-time population, not a functioning ecosystem. So when the dinosaurs started breeding, they had no idea what to do.

Similarly, they were more interested in the environments as dioramas for visitor viewing than as ecosystems for the animals. They kept predators isolated and tossed all the herbivores together ("it's not like they're gonna eat each other!") rather than studying their behavior to decide which dinosaurs to put where.

They picked plants based on the prehistoric aesthetic they wanted rather than their actual properties. Remember the sick triceratops? It was sick because it ate a poisonous plant. Ellie figured that out because her area of study was paleobotany. She also figured out that some of the plants around the family-friendly swimming pool were highly toxic. Nobody double checked the plants they used for their impacts on visitors or the dinosaurs.

They had hundreds of animals and no staff ecologists. They had 1 veterinarian. Instead of having paleontologists on staff, they had a big game hunter. All their biologists worked in the lab. They built everything like theme park rides because automation kept labor costs down and made secrecy easier.

The whole point was to demonstrate how spectacularly a project can fail if new scientific advances are used for profit before they're properly understood. That said, you could make an argument for dinosaurs being a novel way to highlight the shortcomings of for-profit zoos in general. A tiger eating the visitors isn't as headline-grabbing as a T-Rex, but it's still very much a possibility if you decide to show tigers without any understanding of their behavior or ecology.

[isitcasualnow]

Also to be clear if you put the new Harry Potter show on my dashboard I will be unfollowing and probably blocking you. JK Rowling is responsible for the death and pain of too many trans people to count in my country and I cannot tolerate her new way of trying to gain cultural and financial power in any way shape or form.

[lifryxai]

[virtualgirladvance]

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drawing people i see in the city (26/?) this is the first one i haven't had to go back and redraw/edit and around here is when the style for the project really began to solidify

[j-tee]

Grandpa gator and his rowdy grandsons

[vee-dmsr]

[rhysartpiecess]

The sequel series to the moth witches, my Mushroom Witches, permanently stuck in WIP with their other three sisters unfinished until I get some more projects done.

[rhysartpiecess]

Another illustration series to go along with my sticker designs, my Moth Witches! A bunch of lil magical gals inspired by different moths!