William Mason Brown (1828-1898) "Raspberries In A Wooded Landscape" Oil On Canvas Located In The Crystal

It always upsets me so much when I see interpretations/illustrations of the two headed calf poem that show a living calf being torn away from its mother and killed to sell to a museum and framing the poem as being "humanity kills beautiful things for being different".

Two headed cows almost never survive more than a few hours after their birth. The farmer finds the *body* the next day. The calf was destined to die, and that's a tragedy, but for the time it was alive, it had a beautiful and unique experience.

It's not a poem about the cruelty of man. It's a poem about the beauty of life in an indifferent universe. It's about purpose and beauty being able to exist even in an existence doomed to come to an end, as all our lives are. It's not a poem about how a calf dies, but how, even for only a brief moment, it was alive.

And, for that moment, because of that life, however fleeting, the sky had twice as many stars.

“Garden of Eden” by | Martin Podt

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

All that silence. #pascalcampion

Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death, 1896.

palau’s jellyfish lake was once connected to the pacific ocean, but when the sea level dropped its population of jellyfish were left to thrive in the isolation of its algae rich waters, and now make a daily 800 metre migration from one end of the lake to the other.

the personification of death being portrayed as deeply kind in fiction is something that reduces me to tears every single time

Of death, endings and beginnings. To be able to birth anew, over and over during a lifetime is, at the same time, the reason we live for and the price we pay.

This is DEATH, Lady D for her friends, boss for you.

A design and illustration i did for a little game called Spooky Hat Shop, free on itch.io. Maybe went a little over the top with it since the aesthetic of the game is "cozy and cute" but the devs liked it!

And yeah she runs a Hat Shop.

I made some little fairies out of pressed flowers 🌷

I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.

If you’re pining you need to stop and pick a different tree. You know, spruce it up a little