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Hey everyone! There's a preview clip of Lackadaisy Episode 1 up on YouTube today! Rocky and Viktor have a heart-to-heart. Or something like that.

Watch the full thing here!

Clip above animated and cleaned up by Sam Kessler, Ashley Nichols, Robert Cox, Al Dens Manapat, and Ana Guerrero.

Compositing and effects by Matt Pichette, Michael Parsons, and RitoBandito.

Background art by Candice Messado and Jill Dykxhoorn.

Directed by Fable Siegel.

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to my last post i have this sort of similar but i think just as cool image. i never posted it but i think its cool...

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Into a SEA of BLUE...

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Birders: do you ever wonder if this happens?

Original on my site | Patreon

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do you merge all your layers (without saving the individual ones) when you're done with a drawing?

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Into a SEA of BLUE...

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I wasn't finding much about woodpeckers globally. Is there actually a tendency towards the black and white with a splash of yellow and/or red, or is that just an east coast US thing? (The only one around here that doesn't quite go that way is the Northern Flicker, and it still has the heavy black with showy red and yellow)

And if it is, any idea why?

Woodpecker coloration:

Though woodpecker coloration is varied across the globe, this is a set of colors you see again and again with woodpeckers in other parts of the continent and in other parts of the world. There are woodpeckers however that have wildly different coloration, as well.

The belief is that the checkered or striped black and white pattern is disruptive coloration, that helps them evade and escape predators.

Here are some good articles about woodpecker coloration:

Are Woodpeckers Evolving to Look Like Each Other? A New Study Says Yes | Living Bird | All About Birds

https://www.birdsandblooms.com/birding/bird-species/tell-difference-downy-hairy-woodpeckers

Black and white feathers help woodpeckers hide in plain sight

Here are some woodpeckers from around the world:

White-headed Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus), male, family Picidae, order Piciformes, NW United States

photograph by Jean Tuomi https://www.instagram.com/jeantuomi

Golden-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes aurifrons), family Picidae, order Piciformes, Santa Clara Ranch, South Texas, USA

Photograph by Doug Greenberg

Williamson’s Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus thyroideus), family Picidae, order Piciformes, found in the western US and Mexico

photograph by Glenn Bartley

Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Dryobates scalaris), male, family Picidae, Tres Ríos Wetlands, Arizona, USA

photograph by Anel Sandoval

Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major), male, family Picidae, Veneto, Italy

photograph by Daniela Settimo

Waved Woodpecker (Celeus undatus), male, family Picidae, found in northern South America

photograph by Schuler Franz

Cream-colored Woodpecker (Celeus flavus), male, family Picidae, Colombia

photograph by Morro Gomez

Yellow-tufted Woodpecker (Melanerpes cruentatus), family Picidae, Matto Grosso, Brazil

photograph by Joao Quental 

Yellow-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons), male, family Picidae, Brazil

photograph by Hudson Martins Soares

Lesser Yellownape (Picus chlorolophus), male, family Picidae, India

Photograph by Rana Mukherjee

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CONSIDERABLE LINDWURM REVAMP ... id always intended for them to be like some extant member of a very early ophidian family but they just looked like grass snake but feathers and four limbs for some reason. So now we have been made more silly. more info i couldnt fit into the sheet...

the mentioned integrated lindwurms in troll and tomte societies have now existed in them for a while - and the ones that have a longer history, actually have a slight genetic difference over solitary lindwurms, which affects them in that they have more gregarious tendencies. troll/tomte integrated lindwurms often have very different cultures than independent lindwurms, however, even they also have a more "casual" attitude towards their young, often having them be cared for by troll "serpenthandlers"

culture is sort of carried over in independent lindwurm populations through occasional interaction and the "bachelor groups". bachelor groups are actually often led by an "elder", or an elder couple of lindwurms who no longer breed. interactions are often still sparse, but elder lindwurms tend to be more open to interaction and often provide guidance and experience to them when prompted.

their spiritual beliefs often base themselves on the idea of the "mother serpent", whose eyes are always watching - the sun and the moon. it is believed that she flies across the sky during the cycle, slowly "spinning", with each full revolution being a whole day/night cycle. the sun and moon are the right/left eyes. so basically whether its day or night depends on which side of her body is facing the earth. im kind of generalising their religion here because while there are local variations this is the "base" they usually build on. tomte/troll acclimated lindwurm cultures usually integrate some of their religious figures as well, but the Mother Serpent remains the highest deity for them even then. the journey of the mother serpent also informs many lindwurms' view of raising young. kind of still figuring this out lol but essentially they believe that any personal "guiding" influence on a growing young lindwurm is going to make them veer off the "proper" path and mess up their development, most likely resulting in the young lindwurms never "evolving" from their more basal, serpentine state. again, the young lindwurms look a lot more like true snakes, scales and all (i did doodle this but it looks sketchbook crap so might doodle it some other time properly and make it its own post lol). this is why while troll/tomte acclimated lindwurms don't care about "raising" their young, they also are very particular in how trolls/tomtar raise them for them - in that they want no personal intervention and socialisation, basically just let them be little noodles in some enclosure. they do think its important for their young to encounter dangers and also take down live prey, so those are also requirements. like setting off a fox in their enclosures and only feeding live prey that the baby gets to hunt. if the baby gets hurt then that is what the forces that led the Mother Serpent to evolve wills (or somethang)

courtship among lindwurms often involve funny displays from the males with their eyes and moving their head around to show off their crest - not 100% sure how they go about it but it def looks silley as hale!!

while they dgaf about the babies generally, they are fiercely protective of their eggs.

very large as adults (basically as "tall" as an average human when "standing" like the gray one in the picture) but start out very, very small, about as big as a grass snake.

high mortality rate when young, they have relatively large clutches because of it. when the eggs hatch the couple just kinda fricks off a bit waiting for the young to leave

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Marsh Tit/entita. Värmland, Sweden (November 16, 2024).

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just made a new oc called guy whose life sucks

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phineas and ferb but everything is ambiguous and mundane

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i love being both severely mentally unwell and hideously self aware it's like a free completely useless bonus feature that enhances the experience in all the worst and most mortifying ways possible

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A tiny sparrow bird stealing a fry off a dinner plate in Greece.