i started a lazy pixelart doodle to pass time while sick, and it ended up being something i liked enough to put actual focus and effort into- and thus i made a night+ocean scene with bi lesbian colors! 🌙🌙🌸
Made a flag for one of my identities cuz it didn’t have one yet…
Pseudohuman Flag! Flag by me
[Pseudohuman Flag! Flag by me]
I don’t know who this term was coined by, pls lmk if u can find them :,3
Pseudohuman means that your body and/or behavior at first glance is presumably human in others‘ eyes, but your body more like a vessel or a veil that is not actually human.
Credit if u use the flag pls!! I would be curious to know if anyone wants to use it :0
Meanings of the symbols/colours:
Symbols:
• Wave: the wave represents the spectrum of expression similarly to the visibility of waves, how some of them are visible to the human eye but some just cannot physically be precieved by humans, similarly to how this identity might feel
• Moon: The crescent moon represents how only part of the whole is shown, how nonhuman identity is more than is just to the naked eye, expressing the uniqueness of the Pseudohuman experience.
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Colours:
• Maroon red: feralness and raw animalistic behavior
• purple-reddish light grey: the veil between the human body and the mind
• white: fluidity and transparency
• black: nonhumanity/ahumanity
• white: masking and ”innocence“; „playing along“ to human standards and expectations, like a life-long game of play-pretend of society
• bluish grey: (almost) a feeling of zoochosis; feeling that you are permanently trapped in this tiny limited vessel
decided to make flags for the little bee & bird war that's been going on outside my house for like 7 weeks
bug posts on tumblr tend to blow up, i swear if this post gets popular and fanart is made of the factions & stuff 😭. I am not opposed to getting drawn as a skrunkly little war photographer cat though lol.
OBSERVATION NOTES:
context: i live on the left side of a duplex; the right side will be referred to as "DN" (duplex neighbor), the neighbor by the right duplex / my right neighbor will be referred to as "RN", and the left neighbor will be referred to as "LN"
The crows HAVE killed a starling already (i unfortunately watched and heard that happen), and the crows dive bombed a tree causing mourning doves and sparrows to scatter (this was an hour after the previously mentioned starling incident). This happened across the street.
The sparrows sometimes fight the starlings, but not often (probably due to the size difference). Usually in the backyard.
The starlings bully the sparrows at any given moment and seem to avoid the crows. They are seemingly running a food monopoly. Shoutout to the starling that mimics the calls of geese and a red tailed hawk screech.
The robins, ravens, and hawks do not play any visible part in the war rn, probably because they're rare around here.
The sparrows seem to take advantage of the distracted bees and swoop and eat them.
The mourning doves seem to not play any part and are overall peaceful from what i've witnessed, although i've rarely heard distressed calls from them and i assume its the crows doing the attacking.
Eggs have been knocked out of the dove nests between my house and RN's house.
There was a rabbit nest mass casualty event yesterday, had to rescue an injured baby bunny and hand it over to a rehab center.
The carpenter bee colonies are mainly fighting one another
The bumbleebee and leafcutter bee colonies occasionally get dragged into the mess
The mining bees actively engage any carpenter bee and anything that looks like carpenter bee adjacent ON SIGHT (i've watched bumblebees catch strays from the mining bees)
Do not know what part the great black digger wasps (Sphex pensylvanicus) play, i've only seen them today, so either A) there is a colony of them that got disturbed by the mining bees or B) they're here to feed on the wild Bishop's Lace around the area
I noped tf inside when i saw the wasp.
The sweat bees have not seemed to engage in the war, they just come and go
While trying to get my cat in the house today (she was hiding in a bush located in RN's garden space between the duplex and their house), I had to step over a small bush, and i got approached by an angry leafcutter bee. They have approached me numerous times and i have no clue why, involuntary acting as a startled deer usually seems to make them disinterested.
There were three colonies of carpenter bees, but "#2", as i named them, the colony that also nested in our house alongside #1, are seemingly gone. #3 seems to nest in LN's roof.
I presume the leafcutter and bumblebee colonies are allies because i have not observed them fighting each other