Phoenix

they/he/she 🦷 24 🦷 art school dropout 🦷 terfs, racists and zionists fuck off 🦷 the number 1 ai hater

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hi everyone! my main art account where I post my print is @blessedscavengers so I decided to make this account to share my sketches and little projects that I don’t want to share on my more professional account

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the exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.

- Ursula Le Guin

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bearded vultures always look very dragon like to me

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thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind

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be careful with each other so you can be dangerous together. and we really do need to be gentle with each other because I fear we’re entering some even darker and more unstable times and if we want make it out of here we’re going to have to work together

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our lady of public transportation

the reference for this was a picture I saw on reddit

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patriotism . . . is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity and increases his arrogance and conceit.

-Emma Goldman

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I fucking hate the supreme court with the power of a thousand suns

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peentttttt

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the assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking

-Murray Bookchin

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happy turkey vulture tuesday!

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orchids, an assortment of buildings and also a grackle

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it’s wolf wednesday! wolves are incredibly cool and very intelligent creatures who are absolutely critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems and yet for very stupid reasons (capitalism) ranchers and other people with very questionable motives are allowed to influence most wolf management practices in a majority of countries that have wolves.

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whale lice are officially my new favorite drawing subject

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a couple gouache ross’s seals! like most seals they have such a sweet expression

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a couple studies of birds I’ve seen over the past year! most of the references were found on the wonderful inaturalist app

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a bunch of frigatebirds on some kind of rig. I found the reference for this drawing on inat and couldn’t help myself