The Peasantry

A band???

[threedollarsdotcom]

everyone get coniferous

[thatdisasterauthor]

Awhile ago I was struck by the similarity between fire towers and lighthouses, and wanted to capture that in a painting. Both are lonely, isolated structures that people tend to work alone, sometimes in extremely dangerous if not life threatening conditions. But fire towers are about warning people to run, about putting out a light that is a threat to people's safety. Lighthouses are sort of the opposite, drawing people in and guiding them to safety by keeping a light on instead of putting it out.

View more of my art in my portfolio!

[vespulainfernalis]

45 seconds of a very small thrip

[revretch]

For those that don't know, a thrips (both singular and plural) is its own order of insect entirely, on par with groups like beetles and flies! They're so tiny we don't notice them most of the time, but they're really unique little guys with all these different traits:

- Each wing is like a feather! Because they're so small, they don't need the sturdy flat wings that other insects have.

- They have asymmetrical mouthparts! They have mandibles more like beetles, but it's like they're trying to turn them into a beak like true bugs have by gradually making one side a little bigger.

- Some of them are eusocial like ants or bees, with a queen and everything. These eusocial thrips make plants grow little houses called "galls" for their families to live in!

- Like ants, eusocial thrips have soldiers and go to war with other eusocial thrips. The soldiers have big, beefy arms for crushing other thrips. At least, that's what we thought--but it turns out that those big, beefy arms secrete a medicine for healing their injured family members. More than soldiers, they're medics!

[thepeasantry-music]

Letting various canines rank our new Peasantry-branded kazoos...

(Come to our show! Globe Hall! January 3rd!)

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[rate-my-reptile]

Reach WITH IN To your LOCAL dirt and you may find A Friend And Boy…

[puppyhomunculus-deactivated2026]

jolly little lad

(drew this fella after the new paper (Engelman 2025) about Dunkleosteus having chubby cheek cartilage :>)

[crabussy]

"being a human is so boring why can't I be one of the COOL animals" okay hey. I hear you. but I actually really super love being an omnivorous persistence hunting primate with a stomach capable of dissolving many literal poisons and the ability to smell geosmin (released in the soil after it rains) at five parts per trillion. I super enjoy being a bipedal terrifyingly agile mammal with some of the most efficient sweat glands in the animal kingdom. I find a lot of joy in being an endotherm with mimicry abilities that rival most other animals with vocal chords. it's sick as hell I'm having a lot of fun

[mutationgirl]

it’s bullshit that being under this much stress has yet to awaken my latent psychic abilities

[squid-hug]

anomalocaris would be the perfect animal for aquarium touch tanks like they have for stingrays if not for the fact they went extinct 500 million years ago

[crazysodomite]

"i have free will" no you don't. My spore compels you.

[threedollarsdotcom]

no one can save you but yourself. thats why its important to start swinging your deadly sword around in a circle. dont stop regardless of what people tell you just keep swinging it around

[thepeasantry-music]

In the spirit of Lent, we have decided to minimize our instrumentation for tonight's performance. No fancy equipment, no strange microphones -- just human connection, between performer and listener. Let us begin with a simple little tale called "ballad of the 10 foot slide whistle"

[thepeasantry-music]

WE NOW HAVE PEASANTRY-BRANDED KAZOOS!!

If you'd like to get your very own Peasantry Kazoo, come see us perform at Globe Hall on January 3rd! Our Venmo is @thepeasantry-music for tickets! ($16 over 21, $21 if you're under 21!)

[shivroy]

[thepeasantry-music]

WE NOW HAVE PEASANTRY-BRANDED KAZOOS!!

If you'd like to get your very own Peasantry Kazoo, come see us perform at Globe Hall on January 3rd! Our Venmo is @thepeasantry-music for tickets! ($16 over 21, $21 if you're under 21!)

[stuckinapril]

They weren’t lying when they said that as an adult you have to fight for your life to practice your hobbies

[stuckinapril]

They also weren’t lying when they said that when you fail to do so your soul shrivels up inside your body and dies