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35. she/her. usa. assorted ridiculosity
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You are greeted by a cursed mop.
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This is the standard winged nightjar and it has one singular stupidly big feather on each wing… if you even care.
Love this guy
That’s standard as in “pennant” or “banner”, not standard as in “normal”.
But it’s not a pennant-winged nightjar. THIS is a pennant-winged nightjar… if you even care.
can’t forget the Lyre-tailed Nightjar! there’s actually a number of these ridiculous guys, and they’re partly why caprimulgiforms are some of my favorite birds
also the Sickle-winged Nightjar, which is. come on, that’s just a weird moth
Everyone does care about nightjars 🥹
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Cover art for Geister-Krimi (Ghost Thriller), 1974-1981.
(Source: Flickr / mickythepixel)
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Clinging On
Watercolor on Black Paper
2021, 12"x 16"
Aspen Trees -
my watery friend… are you too brushed with the pattern of the dappled light…?
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René Magritte
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SCARLET WITCH & QUICKSILVER #1 cover! ✨✨ Wanda’s story continues in a new series written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Lorenzo Tammetta, with main covers drawn/colored by me — out in February from Marvel. ❤️🔥 Thrilled to be continuing!
Also thrilled that I got to do the corner box 🙂
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oh your pronouns are he/they?
well that’s mathematically incorrect becuase you can still simplify the fraction since both sides have “he”
making your pronouns technically 1/ty
>:)
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Hollow trees are often more stable than before their cores rotted! “The removal of the tree’s dead heart brings yet another advantage. The change of form from solid pillar to hollow cylinder alters the way in which the trunk reacts to mechanical stress. It is much more resilient and stable. The removal of many tons of timber also reduces the strain on the tree’s elderly and doubtless somewhat decayed root system. The result is that an old hollow tree is often able to withstand a gale better than a younger undecayed one. In the ancient hunting parks of England such as Windsor, where trees stand out in the open, unprotected by others from the wind, it is by no means rare after a storm to discover that hollow oaks, four or five hundred years old, remain upright when younger ones, a quarter their age, have been blown over.” https://asknature.org/strategy/relationship-provides-nutrients-stability/
@themotherfuckingclickerkid not bonsai, but look at the cool tree thing
I’ve seen a lot of hollow bonsai. Having hollows and big holes is a great way to make your little tree look ‘aged’ which is what bonsai is all about. One of my favorite bonsai trees is almost completely hollow.

And a shitton of shimpaku juniper bonsai are almost entirely deadwood with a single living vein supporting the foliage.

The white of the trunk here is deadwood (specifically ‘shari’ which is deadwood on the trunk) and that brown vein running through it it is the only living part of the tree, which is where the foliage is growing at the top (well, the far left).
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FUCK THE CLUB UP JIMMY LETS GO
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Beloved ones. You feel this way BECAUSE you don’t do anything all day. Whether mental illness holds you hostage, or an aspect of neurodiversity says, “Hmm not today!” Or if your self-care day turns into weeks of paralysis, or you just take the damn day off…chances are, at the end of the “do nothing” period, you will feel more overwhelmed and exhausted than you feel you have a right to be. You are borne down by in insupportable weight of time passing by, empty of anything meaningful. Panic can set in, or despair, or guilt, or numbness, or mania, or any/all combinations thereof…it hits us all differently.
If this feeling is bothering you, see if you can find the energy/focus/spoons to do ~something with your hands~
It doesn’t have to be quote-PRODUCTIVE-unquote. You can color (a real page with real writing implements, even if it sucks). You can massage your hands and feet with good-smelling lotion. You can go outside and stack little rocks on top of each other until they fall down. Arrange leaves into a heart shape. Count the anthills in the sidewalk near your house. Draw on concrete with chalk. Paint your nails or toes. The more useless and non-taxing for you, the better.
The point is, you ~complete a physical task~
Your animal-brain doesn’t know that this task has no “productive” value! Certain parts of your brain can’t necessarily parse that sort of thing!!! The deep wiring in your noggin senses that you initiated a task, spent time & energy on it, and completed it! Even something as small as the ideas above can start to re-wire your brain back into functionality when you’re overwhelmed and paralyzed. The biggest part is to engage with the PHYSICAL WORLD, because while our phones & computers & tablets can be serotonin-generators, the deep ancient-animal wiring in our brain still doesn’t quite interpret it as REAL. (This is also why practical VFX are always more charming than CGI, but that’s a rant for another time.)
Sincerely,
Someone who has fought this battle many times before (and studied it, and researched it in others, and almost literally has a Masters degree in motivating the unwilling)




















