Fly Away Home

This blog is where I'm gonna (hopefully) share random thoughts I have during the day, and maybe the occasional random doodle.

[spatterdots]

I made an art blog!

I’m hopefully going to post there… if I do time management properly

It’s @imreadyforascesion

Check it out if you’d like!

[konoko]

mood

[bedupolker]

Helloo, what kind of bug is this? I ask because you always have such fun critter facts n takes

I cheated and used inaturalist because I sincerely had no idea, narrowed it down to a genus of true bugs called Jagged Ambush Bugs. Neat, didn't know these guys existed!

(Clearly not the same species as either of the above bugs but the photos just look cool)

[junewild]

incredible innovations on the beverage front

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[sjorsdottir]

Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Enjoy!

[translatingpoststogerman]

And we call these "Ampelmännchen" ("traffic lights little man").

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

omg that's amazing! I wanna visit Germany just to take pictures of all the cute traffic lights.

[dizzyisdizzy]

We Amour Luka

[taraxippos]

I think this is the single funniest artfight rule. Like....I guess?

[taraxippos]

[taraxippos]

WHO DID THIS

[taraxippos]

Rockwith Aleaf

[kaitlynillustrations]

This piece will be displayed at Boji Gallery in Shibuya, Japan starting July 18 in their summer themed exhibition! I’m so excited to have my work displayed in an area that shaped the fashion that inspires so much of my art!

This watercolor piece was inspired by my childhood summer vacations and the colorful souvenirs I would collect! 🐠🩷

The original painting is available at my Etsy shop, kaitlynillustrations.etsy.com 🎀

[chameliyun]

just tried to reference the xkcd "today's lucky 10,000" comic but I wanted to explain xkcd first, so I was like "you probably know the one about experts in the field overestimating their audience's familiarity with the subject matter" and uh. he didn't. love me some irony

[yellow-cat]

(voice of a person spiralling) its embarrassing but i still havent figured out if its ok for me to be alive

[tastylemonbread]

posts i think about: thursday edition

[forest-woman]

[laurierrose]

we need to start legally protecting these like make this kind of bathroom part of the national park system

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[unification]

we yucky slammingg

[anphivenas]

[kosmonin]

[dragongirlvenom]

absolutely legendary fucking poster holy shit

[pangur-and-grim]

[pangur-and-grim]

the club moss I got for my terrarium is dying, despite being lovingly packed into organic soil with oven-fried leaf litter and bioactive springtails and isopods, and meanwhile in my fridge my fuck ass onions are sending out bright green shoots as happy as could be in their cold dark box of fucking nothing

[pangur-and-grim]

I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

[kholdseid]

[sighinastorm]

As dandelions to sidewalks, so onions to refrigerators.