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need a trip to m&s, but sadly on the wrong side of the atlantic

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The Starry Night Cracker (Hamadryas laodamia)

07.30.18

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Calvin and Hobbes visiting different works of art 🎨

I made this zine with an old Calvin and Hobbes book (already torn), and some old postcards and art books.

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A manatee rescue that I follow responded to a call about a female manatee with two calves because one of her babies had been injured by a boat strike. The entire family was temporarily relocated from the wild into a wildlife rehab facility for the injured male calf to undergo treatment. While there, vets noted the female calf was significantly larger than the little injured male. They did genetic testing and determined that big sister calf actually wasn’t related to the other two manatees at all! She was in fact an orphan calf that the adult manatee had found and taken in to care for right alongside her own little one.

Wild to think this manatee calf was literally adopted and nobody would have ever known if it weren’t for random coincidence and human curiosity. Every animal that you cross paths with in life has a fascinating personal story that you’ll only ever catch a glimpse of (if you’re lucky).

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I didn't know this, but I just found out that the Philadelphia Zoo has a network of animal walkways to allow their animals to roam around the zoo! They call it "Zoo360" and honestly it looks pretty cool.

They've also got goats and horses and great apes that all have the ability to Get Around places. I assume that they just loop back to the original enclosure eventually, but what a fun kind of enrichment for animals who travel great distances in the wild regularly! I can't believe other zoos haven't added anything like this to their setups! It looks like it's been up and running around 10 years now, and if so, it seems like it must be pretty safe for everyone involved, and the animals are still using it regularly enough there are lots of videos of them from zoo visits. What a neat concept!

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There is a news article going around about a zoo in Denmark who has requested folks to donate privately-kept animals (and specifically chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs, and had previously asked for horses) who require euthanasia, as feed for their large carnivores. There are also a LOT of really incensed people getting their panties in a twist about this.

I want to share the original post, as it is being portrayed a LOT as something it was absolutely not:

Here is the link to their website page

So first of all, let's all have a bit of a breath and understand that this zoo is NOT asking for your pet dog/cat. They are asking for animals that are already considered livestock in many places, and animals that humans eat in various cultures.

I want to make it very clear that this is a really good idea. Whether or not you understand/believe it, zoos do a lot of conservation work, especially behind the scenes. They foot HUGE bills for fodder for all of their animals, herbivores included. If they can make use of some animals that individuals cannot keep or do not want anymore, then why shouldn't they open the door for it? Unlike PETA, they're not snatching anyone's puppies off their front porch like monsters. They're saying they have a way for animals who cannot continue on to instead give life to their animals. They're offering the option. Not a single person is being forced to take that option.

But it is GREAT to have it!! If someone is losing a small pet like a guinea pig, or has excess livestock from hobby farms, and that pet would just decompose underground otherwise, giving them a second life in another animal they can go and visit is actually really cool?? I don't know if they track this kind of thing, but I would be absolutely thrilled if I could go to a zoo and see the tiger one of my birds' bodies was fed to. I may have lost the bird, but look! This beautiful creature turned her into energy, turned her into continued life! Not only that, but in doing so, some other animal that would have taken her place does not need to, meaning she has given life twice! Is that not a good thing? Is that not a cause for joy in the face of grief?

And there are overpopulation concerns with a LOT of domestic animals all over the world. There are kill centers stocked full of horses that are already being processed for meat, and I can guarantee the horses are having a worse time than they would if taken to the zoo instead. Small animals that are already bred for food, like chickens, pigeons, quail, rats, mice, and even rabbits and guinea pigs, are all good sources of whole prey, and rescues for stuff like rabbits, guinea pigs, and rats are often overrun. And any animals that must be euthanized to make room for new animals are just going to waste afterward.

While ideally none of that would be the case, and every domestic animal from the largest to the smallest would have a lovely home forever and ever and no one would ever breed more than society can handle, that's... just not reality. And it's unlikely to become reality anytime soon. There's no wand anyone can wave to make that real. And even if you could get close to making that real.... carnivores still need to eat.

But there IS now the option for this zoo to take local small animals that would otherwise go to waste. There is a way to reduce the number of animals going to waste, and reuse their bodies after they have passed. It may not be for everyone, but I believe it's GREAT that the option exists for those who want to take it. I would take it, if I bred the animals they're looking for. I already am in the process of donating mouse and quail culls to a local nature center.

Anyway, I know that for a lot of people, their gut reaction is going to be revulsion and outrage, probably because when they hear "pet" they think "cats/dogs" and their brain shuts off. So, I'm making this post in the hopes of giving even one person pause, of getting even one person to examine why, exactly, they feel this way, and whether or not that reaction is justified.

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I was trying to get back to you the whole time

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If you mess up a social interaction you can say "Failed Experiment" and move on

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My son's pediatrician actually recommended horse riding to help with his core stability and hyper mobility in general. He has been riding every week since he was six, over half his life already.

For hundreds of years, equestrians have just made up bones and postures at random - until one brave man had the courage to call them out

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Two things you shouldn't take seriously in life:

1. Canon

2. Men

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Stiles getting a bruise from this week’s supernatural baddie and Derek seeing it for the first time. Everyone else in the pack heals so quickly and he’s never really been around humans long enough to see the consequences of the fights but his wolf snarls when they first notice the discoloration. It’s been a few days since the actual incident but the bruise has only darkened. The red turning into a deep purple. Stiles and Derek get along better now. Since rescuing Boyd and Erica from the vault the years have brought them closer. Derek is well passed accepting Stiles into the pack. It’s the only thing him and Scott seem to share anymore; The human beta who jumps between alphas like a ping-pong ball.

But Stiles is perched on Derek’s couch now, the right side of his face dark and slightly swollen. A cut running down his lip as he clacks away on his laptop.

He smells wrong. The fading remnants of the witches magic still stubbornly sticking to his skin and Derek has to close his fists to keep himself from shifting. His wolf is pacing against his ribs. Instincts making him anxious, and the smell is bad enough but to see the physical mark on his beta is enough to drive him up the wall. Without thinking he crosses the room, grabbing Stiles wrist to pull him from the couch. “What the hell are you do-”

Derek doesn’t let him finish. Just burries his face into his neck and lets out a low, possessive growl as he scrapes his human teeth across his throat. Stiles yelps in surprise, his body going rigid.

“D-Derek if you bite me I swear to god-”

“You don’t smell like me.” Derek says. As if that should be enough to explain whatever the hell this is.

“I don’t… What?” Stiles asks, bewildered. And it’s a testament to how far their relationship has come that he hasn’t pushed him away yet. The fact is not lost to Derek as he takes in his scent. Curiosity and confusion mixed with a slight hint of arousal.

“They bruised you.” Derek says unhelpfully.

“They… are you talking about the witches?” Derek doesn’t respond but he scents him, brushing his cheek against his face and collar. Some of the tension seems to ease out of Stiles shoulders, his hand coming up to rest on Derek’s arm. “Is this some weird territory thing?”

“You don’t smell like me.” He repeats because he’s not sure how else to say it. Not sure how to explain to a human what the physical mark means to him. But Stiles is smart and he should have known by now he’s never really had to explain the dynamics to this human. In some ways Stiles is more wolf than any of the bitten betas.

“You know I usually demand a first date before I let a guy neck me Derek. The least you could offer was to buy me dinner.” Derek is about to snap at him, to demand that isn’t what this is but Stiles is tilting his face to the side. Offering his throat submissively as he brings his hand up to tangle into Derek’s hair. “I guess I’ll make an exception for my alpha.”

“Scott won’t be pleased.” Derek growls and even to himself his voice is more animalistic than human.

“Good thing he isn’t my alpha then.” And that. That startles Derek enough to pull away. To look at him questioningly. Stiles grins. “Come on Derek. He’s like a brother to me and I’d die for him but I joined your pack long before Scott even became an alpha. It’s you. It’s always been you.”

It’s all he can stand. His wolf growls again as he bites down on him, sucking his own bruise into the pale skin.

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Johnny Cash having a cigarette outside of Folsom Prison in California, 1968.

Photographer: Dan Poush/AP

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Warm-up sketches dump

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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

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How fucking annoying is it when you feel so restless with creative energy but you can’t decide what to do with it and when you finally try to create something it comes out shit so you just give up and sit there being all creatively annoyed and jittery.