Springpaw

They/them/theirs  ─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─── elves, flora, felines ─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─── Professional artist & enjoyer of evil elves.

[lorbitele]

A glimpse of us

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

[moethh]

die die die

[lycosofscribes]

It's a pain in the ass, but it's my pain in the ass!

[choppun-kun]

I wanna beam my thoughts onto paper not use the unwanted one.

[yokolate]

qifrey and brushbuddy

[bodhrancomedy]

Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.

Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

[grace-in-the-wilderness]

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

-- G. K. Chesterton

[calware]

spiritual successor to my email post

[calware]

ok this too

[bells-lettres]

local matchmaker losing it over yet another unrealistic demand from the clientele 🤣🤣

Translation by me. :))

[phantomrose96]

Hey hey don’t cry. Character who destroys themself in the end for nothing

[shithowdy]

hello have a bird that you are allowed to color. if you feel so compelled.

transparent version also available on my ko-fi! 🐦‍🔥

[parksrway]

a couple of small practice/experimental studies

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[teaspoon-of-stars]

Theres the lil thang

[planefood]

rules for thee and not for me

[sharrrrknight]

Yknow the lil fanfic trope where a character, usually non-human, purrs like a cat. In this case it would obviously be Rocky but what if it was Grace instead hear me out-

[stas-j-fox]

✨ Unicorn ✨

[nevershootamockingbird]

[ Begin ID: A digital painting of an all white Spinosaurus Mirabilis from the chest up. Its head is curved down to rest against its long neck, teeth protruding in alternating places along its jaw. The curved crest on its head ends in a sharp point against the bright full moon in the black sky. Light and stars radiate out from the moon. / End ID ]

[thetiredprometheus]

Tolkien only has two kind of elves: Enderenwen the fair, who's eyes hold centuries of pain and yet his gaze is as kind as the first sun in spring, his mother was a nightingale and his father a seabreeze, flowers grow wherever he walks;

And Finwendulenfinfedë, who has killed half of his entire family and is here to fuck shit up and/or die trying