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Did you know?

There are exactly 2 kinds of animal!

The first type is the noble Salmon, and the second type is the occasionally vaguely interesting Insalmonous Creature.

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i read CS Lewis’ A Grief Observed one time years ago and i’m still not recovered from it

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I drew cats from stardew valley :D

kofi | commissions | instagram

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“I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn’t find the proof. It was just a feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force - a wild pain and decay - also accompanies everything.”

— David Lynch

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Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Cricket In An Armchair, 1911

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The only way out is through.

(credit: 5dock_dd)

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would you still love me if i was a worm?

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Some of my favorite birds!

American Woodcock, Gambel's Quail, Nightjar (really any member of the Caprimulgidae family)

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Late autumn evening moon

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Pipi The Barn Owl (Female, b. July, 2020, located in the Czech Republic). Pipi has a gene mutation called Melanism that is 100,000 to one and is an undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages and is the opposite of albinism.

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the cuntress & some bi dude

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Commission for Rebecca.

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Coach motel

(Coach beetle is a type of beetle, because I felt like drawing a roach in the hotel I'm staying at would be kind of backhanded)

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Bumble Flower Beetle (Euphoria inda) on a blueberry bush

May 1, 2024

Southeastern Pennsylvania

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« If you have to ask yourself where you will find the time to read, it means the desire isn’t there. Because no one has the time to read. Children don’t, teenagers don’t, adults don’t. Life is a perpetual obstacle to reading.

“Reading, I’d love to, but what with my job, the kids, the housework, I don’t have the time.” “You have so much time to read—I envy you!”

How is it that Ms X, who works, runs errands, raises kids, drives her car, loves three men, goes to her dentist appointment, is moving next week—how is it that she finds the time to read […]?

Time spent reading is always time stolen. Like time spent writing, for that matter, or time spent loving. Stolen from what? Let’s say, from the duty of living. Which is probably why the subway—this stinking symbol of the duty of living—is the world’s largest reading room.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

If we were to consider love from the point of view of our schedule, who would bother? Who among us has time to fall in love? Yet have you ever seen someone in love not take the time to love?  I’ve never had the time to read. Yet nothing has ever stopped me from finishing a novel I loved. 

Reading doesn’t belong to the societal organisation of time. Like love, it is a way of being. The issue is not whether or not I have the time to read (no one will ever give me that time) but whether or not I will gift myself the happiness of being a reader. »

— Daniel Pennac, Better Than Life