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Handmade felt bookmark | Strawberries and frogs by ferntales

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autoportrait de champignon

ko-fi

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if you want young queers to want to associate with elder queers then maybe the culture shouldn't be so ridiculous and over the top. I get second hand embarrassment from drag queens and leather daddies and kinksters in puphoods acting like they represent all gays

I would much rather be represented by drag queens, leather daddies and pups than by petulant cowards afraid of their own reflection. You are talking about people who never had the option of being seen as "normal people who just happen to be gay" and channeled their pain into self expression, community and art. And who are you? You define yourself not in terms of who you are and what you create but in terms of who you are not and what you lack. These people you hate only seem larger than life because your life is too small and insignificant to fit them.

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Stress having physical effects is so stupid your body’s just like “you’ve been having a real shit time and I’m about to make it worse” I hope you die I hope we both die

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What is Up i DID IT change the colours and shrooms however u want this is just what I had on hand lol

Also left the back stitching off one mushroom just to make sure u know what ur doing bc I sure didn’t <3

Lemme know if u want mini patterns for different types of shrooms these were super fun!

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Potoos vs Frogmouths

Being related, Potoos and Frogmouths are similar in many ways. Their most striking similarity can be seen in how they camouflage themselves to look like part of a tree brach or trunk. 

Because of how similar their appearance and camouflage techniques are, a lot of people seem to frequently mistake one for the other. Despite looking almost like the same kind of bird, there is one easy way to tell the difference between a Potoo vs a Frogmouth: their beaks

As you can see, Frogmouths have a much thicker beak compared to a Potoo. Additionally, Potoos in general have slightly larger eyes than Frogmouths. Also note the two unique little notches in the upper eyelid of the Common Potoo, and how the Tawny Frogmouth does not have these. 

So the next time you aren’t sure whether the pic of a weird muppet-looking bird you’re seeing is a Frogmouth or Potoo, just take a good look at its beak. If it’s thick and bulky-looking: it’s most likely a Frogmouth. If it’s very small and pointy-looking: it’s most likely a Potoo

Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4

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‘Dracula’ illustrated by Yvonne Gilbert

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You know what? Destroy the "people in rural areas are all ignorant conservatives" stereotype and start mocking the "trad"/anti-feminist/neonazi people that are obsessed with rural areas despite having never been to one

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why does this airport have a flight to nightvale

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Black Lagoon Small Pennant // mabgraves

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hey don't cry. 7,401 species of frog in the world, ok?

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I want to make people see how much has been taken away from them.

Did you know that there are dozens of species of fireflies, and some of them light up with a blue glow? Did you know about the moths? There are thousands of them, bright pink and raspberry orange and checkerboard and emerald. They are called things like Black-Etched Prominent, Purple Fairy, Pink-Legged Tiger, Small Mossy Glyph and Black-Bordered Lemon.

Did you know that there are moths that feed on lichens? Did you know about the blue and green bees? The rainbow-colored dogbane beetles? Your streams are supposed to teem with newts, salamanders, crawdads, frogs, and fishes. I want to take you by the hand and show you an animal you've never seen before, and say, "This exists! It's real! It's alive!"

There are secret wildflowers that no website will show you and that no list entitled "native species to attract butterflies!" will name. Every day I'm at work I see a new plant I didn't know existed.

The purple coneflowers and prairie blazing star are a tidepool, a puddle, and there is an ocean out there. There are wildflowers that only grow in a few specific counties in a single state in the United States, there are plants that are evolved specifically to live underneath the drip line of a dolomite cliff or on the border of a glade of exposed limestone bedrock. Did you know that different species of moss grow on the sides of a boulder vs. on top of it?

There are obscure trees you might have never seen—Sourwood, Yellowwood, Overcup Oak, Ninebark, Mountain Stewartia, Striped Maple, American Hophornbeam, Rusty Blackhaw, Kentucky Coffeetree. There are edible fruits you've never even heard of.

And it is so scary and sad that so many people live and work in environments where most of these wondrous living things have been locally extirpated.

There are vast tracts of suburb and town and city and barren pasture where a person could plausibly never learn of the existence of the vast majority of their native plants and animals, where a person might never imagine just how many there are, because they've only ever been exposed to the tiny handful of living things that can survive in a suburb and they have no reason to extrapolate that there are ten thousand more that no one is talking about.

It's like being a fish that has lived its whole life in a bucket, with no way of imagining the ocean. The insects in your field guide are a fraction of those that exist, of all the native plants to your area only a handful can be bought in a nursery.

Welcome to the Earth! It's beautiful! It's full of life! More things are real and beautiful and alive than a single person could imagine!!!

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Pink Bat Beret // HoneyVixenCo

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people who don’t watch horror movies are SO confident that they know everything there is to know about the genre. like it’s okay to not know things. it’s okay if you don’t like friday the 13th or whatever. i promise you don’t need to make an ass out of yourself on the internet about it

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i think we as modern humans have a tendency to forget that historical people were also humans who had thoughts and feelings and dreams just like we do