In Case Anyone Is Having A Bad Night:

the greater flameback is a brightly colored woodpecker species found in the indian subcontinent. the bird is highly variable in coloration through its different subspecies, which occupy different portions of its range. males always have a distinct red crest, while the crest color of females varies by subspecies. like other woodpeckers, the greater flameback mainly feeds by extracting insects and arthropods from trees, as well as supplementing their diet with nectar.

Beyond the sky is the universe and that is our limit. chrislongpainter web page

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it’s World Rhino Day! The calves remind me of my bulldogs when running, tank puppies :) 

Important ideas to consider when creating characters who are black and indigenous people of color. (x) (Creator’s instagram post)

Seraphina, one of my lioness OCs! Hope you like her!

Scar, TLK. Also posted on DA.

There’s a website where you can learn ASL (American Sign Language) on your own, free and it’s a 31 Day program! The woman on there, her name is Rochelle Barlow, she runs the site and she actually is a homeschool teacher and teaches ASL. I am passing this on to some of you guys cause most of y’all on here is open-minded and curious and it is something important to learn.

I truly believe this site is helpful for some people who can not afford to going to ASL classes, or someone like me that just enjoys learning something new. This site will help with that. Once you sign up you will put in your email address and Rochelle sends you emails on tips on how to sign, gives you practice sheets, and gives you your weekly videos. And its all online. No need to paying for anything. (Unless if you want to she has something very different to this program) 

IMO and yes, this site is really amazing and is important because you never know if someone who is deaf or HOH needs help, if you end up losing your hearing ability this is something you will at least have on the back of your head, and it is just like any other language and should be taught. 

I'm honestly done dealing with people who don't know what they are capable of at their very worst. The people who don't know what they're like when they've been driven to the brink of their sanity and are desperate to do anything at all that would relieve it, anything at all to simply survive.

Desperation makes monsters out of people. It's not nice to aknowledge that, but it does. People who would be capable of so much good, who would breathe grace and virtue with every exhale if they were allowed space to breathe, will bite each others' throats and strangle each other for air when cramped tight enough together with none to go around.

People who have never been pushed to a breaking point will not wrap their head around this. I don't believe they're incapable, simply unwilling. It's easier to look down on struggling people making each others' lives worse and congratulate oneself on "never sinking that low", instead of feeling grateful they've personally never had to make the choice between being virtuous and being alive.