✧ A Mothers Revenge ✧
A kestrel seeks revenge on a European Starling after it kills and eats her chicks. In the U.S, European starlings have a devastating impact on our native ecosystems in the entire United States. This species is known for their aggression towards other cavity nesting birds, outcompeting native species for nesting spots and food sources. They’ve been known to kill many native species from bluebirds, to woodpeckers, to kestrels. They are violent towards competing species, destroying their nests, and pecking holes in eggs laid by other birds. Not to mention, they also destroy crops and devour multitudes of grain each year.
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I wanted to portray something intense to kind of grab people’s attention to this problem. Most people don’t know how horribly invasive they are. While they’re pretty birds, they’re not meant to live in the United States. I wanted to use colors like red (to represent anger, sadness, revenge, betrayal) to portray what native species have to endure every year towards a bird that was never supposed to even come in contact with them. And colors like yellow (to represent wrongfully perceived innocence and guilt).
The spills of blood can be represented as the successful revenge the kestrel has, or, the multitudes of blood spilled from native species by European Starlings.
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Did you know? All the European Starlings in North America descended from 100 birds set loose in New York’s Central Park in the early 1890s. The birds were intentionally released by a group who wanted America to have all the birds that Shakespeare ever mentioned. It took several tries, but eventually the population took off. Today, more than 200 million European Starlings range from Alaska to Mexico.
The bimbo feminism girls who love Legally Blonde really missed like the whole point of the movie. The point is that she's not a brainless bimbo. She saves the day with her knowledge of haircare, sure, but she got in the room by going to law school. You cannot reduce that movie down to "Girl knowledge saves the day!" because the perm wouldn't have mattered if she hadn't spent the entire rest of the movie working her ass off in an unrelated field. The feminist angle is that she can have girly interests and also be smart, not that having girly interests is feminist in itself
amongst other stuff (cough, art/writer's block, cough), me not knowing how to write is kicking my ass, someone save me
Haven't rewatched Detentionaire yet (<- point and laugh at the procrastinator), but I am attempting to write a fanfic (it might never see the light of day) because there is a really half baked plot cooking in my brain, and I wanna see if this goes well or if the oven explodes
just got too used to it, after a while.
Decided to draw (then redraw) my Detentionaire oc/sona because of orngbananaa's post reminding me he existed
There's more I wanna say, but my brain's fried and I need to sleep jgfhicihckh
His Cuban shirt has a pattern, but I did not want to draw that 🫠
Edit: was going to sleep and then noticed I somehow fucked up his hair colour in the side drawings??? Can't really change it since 🧍♂️ <- merges layers
rocky horror is the worst and is also transmisogynistic can we please finally get over this shit movie
there are so many things i could scream about the watcher situation because i'm So upset but i think i can summarise it through a comment i saw on The Video that said something like "we didn't care about anything more than text on a black background. all we wanted was You" and. yeah.
A couple weeks ago I was practicing my owl calls on a night hike and I successfully called in a barred owl. My owl call is pretty good, but I've never called an owl to me from afar because I rarely do night hikes and so I don't get much chance to. I had expected to be really excited about this, especially since two of my coworkers are really skilled at owl calls and they don't usually get a response, much less a full conversation, but instead I felt so guilty. I eventually had to start ignoring this poor deceived owl that was following my call through the park. I felt like I catfished him.
I don’t think bro realizes his classmate and desk seat buddy is a retired glamazon 😭 but that’s ok because they’re having fun chatting 💖💕💖💕💖 it was supposed to be a doodle until I decided to go all out on drawing it kdjdhdbegsjshdd talking with Michelle so true <3
Mako belongs to @starboardharpy eheheehehee 💕💕💕 I had fun coloring him teehee
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