#carcass

[claypigeonpottery]

it just is what it is

[lavendercowboyart]

“In the margins”, 2025

The margined burying beetle (Nicrophorus marginatus) is a carrion beetle native to North America. I won’t go into much detail here in case you’re feeling kinda squeamish, but the aptly named burying beetles raise their young in “crypts”; formed from the flesh of dead vertebrates that the adults processed and buried. Both parents then stick around and raise their grubs all while defending their fleshy nursery from competitors until the larvae pupate. It’s not often that non-eusocial insects care for their young, so it’s really neat that burying beetles take such great care in ensuring their grubs make it to beetle-hood! 🪲🦴🍄

I’m solidly back in my beetle era, so my page may be pretty beetle-heavy for a bit. I’ve also been having a blast with ecosystem/insect lifecycle pieces as well lately and have a few more on the back burner that I’m slowly chipping away at! Are there any particular insects/invertebrates/ecosystem scenes you’d really like to see me illustrate? Let me know!

[felonwort]

[the-outlands]

‘I wanted to depict the darker reality of the well-known wildebeest migration,’ says Simon. Returning after a stampede at first light he saw this pack of spotted hyenas gorging on the lifeless trampled bodies of those that didn’t survive. As one hyena momentarily broke from the feast, it gazed across in Simon’s direction. In the surge to cross the Mara River the blue wildebeest struggle to climb the deep gullies they carve – many slip and perish under the hooves of those behind them. Spotted hyenas, with jaws powerful enough to crunch bones, will devour everything except the horns of their prey.

Spotted Hyena | Simon Stafford

[tigerleopardlion]

Ribeye. This is a picture I have long asked for. Others have it, but I wanted one for my own. On this occasion one of the lionesses started behind the rib cage of a fallen buffalo. A hole appeared so we repositioned for a cleaner angle. The hole grew and all that was required was for her to appear in the frame it formed. I think of the twenty minutes or so of opportunity, a couple of seconds only was offered. Maasai Mara 2024

Southern Lion | David Lloyd

[sugar-petals]

fuck it. at this point we need more anti-establishment metal to break containment like gojira. if the band is right and the message is clear through place and presentation, the cultural payoff might as well be worth it. most of what we do just seems to argue with the damn wall so the situation is too dire not to unleash our best metal beasts. if no kings and luigi can’t take it down, cannibal corpse windmilling their way into dc should. dave mustaine hates the govt? make the old man finally prove it by dismantling the nation state before he retires already. is he just standing around to look submissive and breedable? this mf is useless! send lamb of god to that golden tower in nyc i guess, what are we even doing. if the US can use a noise weapon in venezuela, slipknot and their reddit sub can clobber some billionaire bunkers like a steel keg. corey taylor is our portable sonic weapon and he has fucking clowns. like why isn’t metallica crusading with stan twitter and some oldheads to end the legal system. no one’s saying anything against the epsteins of the world, well lets see what korn and maria brink will do about this. we can literally lure some white power dumbasses into a trap using pantera as bait. judas priest deflates the homophobes with a high note and system of a down never trusted hollywood so they might as well seize it. hell, let’s mobilize tiktok to go outside and storm their local bastille to receive a free mayhem crop top in pink (trust me, that’ll do it). like what are they gonna do, arrest trent reznor for staging a mass rave with the scientology speed runners? he’d turn the jail into a bdsm dungeon and just do the same thing all over. now make meshuggah cause a polyrhythmic shredquake at the kremlin while we’re at it. i mean who is better suited for the job than a bunch of face melters. good luck throwing floor jansen, a peter steele cosplayer, or any death metal band out the window. at this point just unveil carcass at the world cup to protest the medical system and animal abuse and spit in the face of the silicon valley overlords with a skunk anansie invasion in the vip section. and if all else fails? let the DSBM folk take the streets! (i mean. a scare-em-so-much-they’ll-run-away tactic doesn’t sound too bad at all, so). listen we have all the subject matters covered for a metal revolution, y’all. and even if this never happens, at least freddie mercury would be cheering it on because one thing metal is not and that is boring, and to play it you need to be skilled (usually) and stick it to the man (always). bring on this energy, like why are we still sitting here.

PS: and if you say ‘those broke metalheads have no funding for this nonsense and tom morello has to do it all on his own’ just wait until we rob slayer

[skinkmi]

Carcass (England) / Infester (USA)

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