Fun & Silly Little Guys Also The Suffering

[myarmcanfly]

Fat Horse No. 27

It’s the year of the horse and I’ve always been a horse girl at heart, so I’m finally taking advantage of the excuse to fill the world with fat little horses! These felted friends are about the size (and shape!) of an apple, and if you happen to have any apples to share I’m sure they’d help you out! I finally got some blue eye beads I’m happy with, so I can do some proper bald faced blue eyes now - and why not make them unicorns now and then?

This piece will be part of a herd of fat horses at Furrydelphia, August 7-9th!

[mellifexfarm]

who even is this guy

[192929020202020]

[snailkites]

Crested Caracara being allopreened by two Black Vultures! This is such an interesting behavior and one that's typically one-way (preening by vultures to caracara). Here you can see the caracara either attempting to reciprocate but getting rebuffed by both vultures, or telling them to stop for now.

[Video source]

[die-rosastrasse]

I finally organized my pressed flowers and was able to finish last year's herbarium! 🌷

[maidthings]

secretary birds look pretty normal but for some reason people have collectively decided to photograph them like they're [takes a moment to find an acceptable way to say this] women

[maidthings]

<-normal bird photography | typically reserved for pin-up posters ->

[landleopard24]

[slimemode]

back on the path of the wolf

[luna-azzurra]

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

[lovinglycerebral]

“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

(transcript under the cut)

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[herpsandbirds]

Blushing Phantom or Pink-tipped Glasswing Satyr (Cithaerias pireta), family Nymphalidae, Ecuador

photograph by Nick Volpe

[valtsv]

recurring dead wife flashback where it becomes increasingly apparent that the person remembering her has dishonestly claimed a romantic dynamic to their relationship that never actually existed and erased any conflict that ever existed between them now that she's no longer able to say no to them

[valtsv]

dead wife flashback where each time we see her she looks more confused and upset by how she's remembered, then desperate and furious, until she's hammering on the glass screaming to be let out

[valtsv]

this isn't how it happened. you know this isn't how it happened. but you still keep coming back, keep disturbing my grave so you can play out your fantasies. voyeurs crowding around my autopsy, straining for the best view; pawing through my entrails like grubby butchers trying to find some golden meaning in blood and shit because you can't bear to face the cold light of truth. you just can't bear the thought of never having really known me at all.

[riverwindphotography]

Happy faces :)

© gifs by riverwindphotography

[nociceptrix]

finding out you spent most of your life dissociated is a HUGE bummer

[nociceptrix]

i thought shit didnt stick to me cuz i was slick but its cause i wasnt there #LAME

[crowttore]

Are you currently suffering from The Character?

[ozdical]

[quicksilvermad]

SOUND ON.

[cipheramnesia]

[expressions-of-nature]

by Zhou Hong

[inthedarktrees]

Marina Abramović and Ulay, Rest Energy, 1980

16mm film transferred to video. 4:07 min.

[prince-atom]

Okay. The fact that the woman has got the business end of this arrangement has got to be the point on at least one level.

I hope the fact that the woman is credited first means it was her idea.

[neophyte-no1]

It was; in fact, this sort of extreme vulnerability is the core of almost her entire body of work. Also important - because she is holding the handle, she is actually the one aiming the bow: “Almost every performance by Abramovi? has an element of extremism. It is enough to remember Rhythm 0 when Abramovi? gave herself up to an unpredictable public. In Rest Energy, she again placed herself in a vulnerable position, although this time she entrust herself to Ulay. Marina Abramovi? remembers: “Rhythm 0 and Rest Energy were the most difficult pieces in my entire life of performance artist, because in both pieces I was not in charge. In Rest Energy we actually held an arrow on the weight of our bodies, and the arrow is pointed right into my heart. We had two small microphones near our hearts, so we could hear our heartbeats. As our performance was progressing, heartbeats were becoming more and more intense, and though it lasted just four minutes and ten seconds, I’m telling you, for me it was forever. It was a performance about the complete and total trust”.” Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150221154621/http://abramovic.garageccc.com/en/works/7

[polarity-disturbed]

Being able to draw older people as attractive without reducing or erasing the visual signs of aging, and in fact showing that they're attractive because of those signs, is an artistic skill that should be valued so much more. Honestly, it should earn you an immediate fortune because holy fuck is it a rare commodity. There are so many artists who seem to think attractiveness and aging exist in opposition to each other, so they smooth every wrinkle, erase every crease, and de-age the character until they're basically thirty with silver hair. But when an artist can look at crow's feet, smile lines, weathered skin, deep-set wrinkles, and all the little traces of a life well lived and say, "No, that's what makes them beautiful," that's a level of artistic observation and care I wish we celebrated more often.