#anime spread

[h0neytune-cherub]

Animedia July 1993

[cozylittleartblog]

not that we didn't already Know belos was full of shit, but it's even funnier knowing the titan was still alive the whole time and probably judging him

[thomdrowerart]

COLOR SPREAD REDRAW from ONE PIECE 1121

[min-play]

clapping really loud but can only do it once

[mellowforests]

I animated Jon Arbuckle quotes for 1 minute

This was ridiculously fun to do 😭 i might make more who knows lol

[vmpyrgal]

Sailor moon spreads ~ <3

[coyotecares]

this is a mess but someone on twt asked for teen emic and who am i to refuse them ?

[pangur-and-grim]

the Lascaux cave art pins are now live at greerstothers.shop

I’ve loved these for ages, because of how they show the colourations of extinct animals! that’s something that is so hard to preserve through fossils, but now we know that prehistoric horses had Przewalski-esque coats, that giant elk had these dark shoulder humps, and that cave lions were tawny with dorsal stripes

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Transcript:

Machine, this florp is a dubious little creature.

Up to no good.

The beast is demonic in nature.

Very icky.

Audio source

Animation with a similar clip

Vid being referenced

[lazylittledragon]

i finally got to go OUT out last night and dance away all my frustrations

also thank you drunk me for getting home at 2am and realising you hadn't taken any photos of your v cute outfit

[thepaintedsable]

GO WATCH LIL POOTIS!!! It’s by @quazies and it’s really really cute oh my gosh. I have not genuinely smiled at a piece of media in a while, I mean actually “wow haha that’s funny” smiled, but Lil Pootis did it. It won. ALSO WATCH IT WITH CAPTIONS ON ALWAYS. IT ADDS SO SO SO MUCH!!!! The animation quality just goes up and up as the episodes go on (this is a 1 person team!!! Just one person!!! Compare the first episode to the last episode, the improvement is EXPONENTIAL!!!!!!); there is so much personality in each character, from Pootis to Blu Team (I love how Pyro is animated. they are an absolute rat in every scene they scamper I love them); and the lore is it’s own thing separate from main TF2 (Season 2 Episode 1 has me in a death grip).

I feel like I jumped onto it so so late (like, I don’t even really know where the Pootis thing came from but apparently it’s a Heavy voice line?) but I am simply happy to watch funny cartoon and take part in fanart. Closeups under the cut!

That last Pootis is just a doodle of the cursed one from the boxes lol. He is a little goofy :)

[nevesceramics]

Futures

2021

cone 1 white stoneware, underglaze, glaze

for all the trans parents and parents-to-be out there <3

[reasonsforhope]

Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.

It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.

But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.

Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...

Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.

Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”

Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.

Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.

“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.

Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:

Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.

...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?

The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate

It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.

Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.

And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...

Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.

But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!

-via Vox, July 26, 2023

[hoofpeet]

Death By Misery, 1603

[chaoticallyfluffy]

Once again making a post about the difference between Billy and Marvel (despite being the same person lol). The guy at the end is Freddy but it’s my first time drawing him so idk if he’s recognizable lol.

[vmpyrgal]

Kamisama kiss magazine spreads ~