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PRINCESS MONONOKE もののけ姫 1997, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

driftwood wolves. driftwolves if you will (available on my kofi as adoptables!)

simple commission of Amanita the circle of Spores druid for @2momsatbrunch , Like to share a mushroom with her 🍄🍄🍄 ✨commission info in source link below✨

teaweltzer

Sprout, my druid, & our ranger are both reborns but different flavor: reborn via mushrooms & reborn via living statue. But together they give off a cat sunbathing on a statue vibe.

I'm honestly so happy with how this turned out

saccharine222

Cookeina speciosa

(Wine glass mushroom) 🍷

teaboot

I was thinking chanterelle would be a beautiful name and the mushroom gods made me paint her

violetsandshrikes

Sound on if you guys wanna know what a little King Vulture sounds like 👀

a-book-of-creatures

creachur… 🥺

fleshdyke

btw if anyone wants to know what she looks like now. she’s one :)

rockband2

People who cannot find beauty in every biome on earth are incredibly bizarre to me. "yeah this place is really beautiful but this place isnt :/". what the fuck are you talking about. start admiring that rock and that tree and that bug and that scrubby little plant and that weird animal and that extreme weather right now. im not telling you to go live there but please you gotta start enjoying all kinds of nature im begging you.

iravaid

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On conservation and survival

naamahdarling

I wish I could favorite things a hundred times but instead I will do it once and then reblog it while crying.

great-and-small

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

great-and-small

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

bogleech

This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

thepastisaroadmap

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

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headspace-hotel

because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

rackiera

I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

a-book-of-creatures

mossworm

I used to work for two of the authors, Mark and Nancy Deyrup. They are true naturalists, interested in everything that lives, and wonderful human beings. They still live in central Florida where the tortoise shell moth lives, and have dedicated their whole lives to documenting the Florida scrub ecosystem and educating the public. I don't know if their names reach outside of entomology, but they are beloved figures here.