#little GUYS

[itslittleguys]

It’s another race!

[jaguz123]

me when i

[3liza]

eBay listing for "Pegasus Horse Ceramic Handmade Figurine Animals Miniature Decor Gifts Souvenir 2", https://www.ebay.com/itm/232598906383

[dieinct]

i was just talking about this after being wrecked by the discovery that the little elf-goblin fellows my parents/family used to tell me warnings and stories about as a little kid are regionally specific, and that you can trace people's geographic origins by what word they use for "little spirit-fellows who live in your house". no matter what you call them (domovoi, kobolde, brownies, so on); for purposes of this post henceforth "little guys"

i think one of the things that i find frustrating about like, idk, modern animist revivalist movements is that very few of them ime spend a lot of time romanticising and spiritualizing human habitation. obviously, we as a culture need to think more about protecting and defending nature/the earth/so on, but like.

if you don't have room in your heart for making up a little guy who lives in the water heater, or who squats under your stove and makes it run 15 degrees off the programmed temperature, and thinking of him with the same kind of respect/affection as you do for the spirits (or whatever) of the wildlife you interact with like.

genuinely: what are you even doing. you are removing a source of richness and fun and whimsy from your life! like, pip @creekfiend made up the concept of "little guys who live in an airport (and are the reason it's so shitty to be in an airport)" and i already like airports like 30% more just knowing it's the little airport inconvenience guys doing that.

more importantly, like. genuinely: interrogate what parts of the world seem ~rich with spiritual meaning~ to you. what parts of the world are "wild"? what does that make the rest of the world - a chore? a burden? who has to carry that burden?

we're never going to like, "return to nature", because that's nothing and the concept of untouched nature is also nothing; we're always going to have some sort of human habitation and interaction and cultivation with nature. if you can't extend grace and whimsy and genuine and sincere meaning to human habitation, including its inconveniences and annoyances, you are making your own lived experience duller!

notably, most of these kinds of little-guy-spirits historically exist in the parts of human habitation that are partially abandoned, partially removed: haylofts, inside the walls, under the house, in the bathhouse, behind the furnace... i've been thinking a lot about urban wildlife lately, and the animals who make space for themselves in and around human habitation. the "natural" and the "wild" persist inside and around the edges of the "tame" and always, always have. if you have a crawlspace, there's a little spirit who lives there and he's the reason the dryer always eats your socks.

LIVE WHIMSICALLY.

[theolivetree123]

Art block sucks.

ANYWAY HERE’S ADEUCE AS GGBG

AAAAAAA I LOVE THEM but now my wrist hurts these took me forever

[drawing-myself-in-and2-death]

adding him to my bone garden, he can pick out as many tiny sticks, moss, bones and trinkets as they'd like

art of a little crow i did!

Feel free to do whatever you want with this fella

[rabbit-illustrations]

Demon boys

[treasuregamble]

ceramic pen rests from jet pens!!! look at them

[tharett]

Sonics your Emerald Duo (again lmao)💥💥💥👊

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Convierte tu Emerald Duo a Sonic (otra vez JAJAJA) 💥💥💥👊

[sailboatkid]

my cats rated using @littleguysdaily ‘s template. they are truly two different beasts…

thank you @corporationkills for perfecting capturing louis’ essence in your art

[papayawatermelon]

[greenblings wip] They make me so sad man

Tragic siblings yeahaha

[itslittleguys]

Little bugs, my beloved. Pages for my new zine, “all scrunkly”

[queencordite]

I was overdue doing a @littleguysdaily of my chinchilla, the ancient and wise Hööpus Bööpus.

[littleguysfromretrogames]

-Nintendo Power May/June 1990-

[molassicide]

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