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Moon man in a trash can.

Inspired by Chapter 8 of Solar lunacy  by @bamsara.

Photoshop kept glitching out and destroying the entire file so here's an alternate version with the data mosh of its deceased, elder brethren overlaid for vibes.

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I saw this ask by @not-a-fruit to @naffeclipse and it made me chuckle so I was kinda waiting for someone to make the art but to my knowledge no one has made the art and it occurred to me that I could maybe attempt to make the art so here is the art. Please forgive my mediocrity.

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Have a man with “the cold, calculated demeanour of someone not to f**k with" and his hype John. A more malevolent John, and an Arthur under normal lighting below.

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Day 26. American woodcock - Scolopax minor

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Bibbity bobbity birb. Why are their eyes so far back?

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Reference photos from eBird.

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Avian August days 17 to 22.

17. Lesser Florican, (Sypheotides indicus)

18. Hawaii Akepa, (Loxops coccineus)

19. Elfin-woods Warbler, (Setophaga angelae)

20. Indigo Macaw, (Anodorhynchus leari)

21. Loveridge's Sunbird, (Cinnyris loveridgei)

22. Guadalupe Murrelet, (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus)

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Isn’t it funny how sometimes the drawings you spend longer on don’t turn out as well as the ones you just throw at the page. We’ll just say the sunbird was having a bad hair day. 

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Do you guys think the time-lapse is too fast? I figure  30 seconds is the most I can ask before people keep scrolling, but this speed makes me feel motion sick.

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Reference images from e-bird.

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When you’re touch averse and have the means to avoid almost all human contact, but you could really use a hug so you draw fictional, non-human characters almost hugging you.

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Took an extremely self indulgent, insomnia driven, comfort doodle too far.

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Lyrics from Utada Hikaru’s Simple and Clean (frankly I’d be pretty surprised if anyone on this site didn’t recognise them.)

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Avian August days 23 to 27.

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23. Araripe Manakin, Antilophia bokermanni)

24. Kakapo, (Strigops habroptila)

25. Spoon-billed Sandpiper, (Calidris pygmaea)

26. Johnson's Tody-Flycatcher, (Poecilotriccus luluae)

27. Red-breasted Goose, (Branta ruficollis)

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My last time-lapse got reblogged with a seizure warning so from now on I’ll include a squinty Pepper bird before the cut (yes it says "slide", I can't be bothered making a different image for each platform).

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Reference images from e-bird.

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Skelebirb from last month.

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I’m sorry, how is it physically possible that we’re already two weeks into June?! It doesn’t make sense!