Heron

Congratulations!!! Genuinely a monumental life achievement

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

A black bird stands on some cracked concrete, looking upwards at camera. The angle, its stance and its plumage - white eyes are the only let-up from the black - makes the bird look thoroughly pissed off

The Blackbird of Annoyance has replaced the Bluebird of Happiness in my life

A fluffy wide-eyed black cat.

Kemi-cat has seen things. Terrifying things....like the news. Poor little guy. He permanently looks like a little owl these days. 🦉🐈‍⬛️❤️ #caturday

Happy Wrensday Wednesday!
Here's a female splendid fairywren (with attitude) that I found near Froggy Dam bird hide at Gluepot.
#wrensday

A painting my dad did a long time ago of some sheep in the snow, on the border between the Midlands and the North.

Winter In Derbyshire, 1985: a painting by my dad, Mick.

I've been reading a lot of books picked at random from the library and it's been extremely enriching! The best surprise so far is The Silence of the Wilting Skin by Tlotlo Tsamaase, which was surrealist fiction at its best and I can't wait to buy

Three years!!! Time flies, wow

Sewing pattern for part of a shirt. It is clearly made from a dark brown manuscript page with small lettering written in two columns.

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling

A cat sleeping in an oil painting style

A little nap for the morning study cat ♥ #cat #art #morningstudy

Extremely tiny dachshund puppy waking in grass on a leash. His head is so proportionally larger than his body that it obscures the rest of his figure with the exception of his two tiny front legs

Do y’all wanna see the cutest thing in the world

does anyone else suffer from the rapidly and sometimes randomly incurred status effect called "I love my original character(s) so much it hurts." like it just forces you double over for a few moments cardiac arrest style before you're able to regain composure and continue on, newly invigorated.

Storm Passing Acrylic on 40 x 30 cm canvas

Storm Passing
Acrylic on 40 x 30 cm canvas

Even though most of us will probably never lead the charge, we all have a vital role to play in this battle before us.

"Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star." ~ MLK

Indiana Jones punching a Nazi

anyway

Scared past words but trying to persist

A Grey Heron stands perfectly still, its long neck stretched tall and beak pointed forward, eyes wide and unblinking. Its sleek grey feathers and sharp stare give off an air of quiet determination...or perhaps silent desperation? With an expression that screams, "If I don’t move, maybe no one will ask me to do anything," it perfectly captures that classic Monday mood.

Monday mood: This Heron standing very still, hoping no one asks it to do anything today.

#MondayMotivation

I am not saying things are going to be fine.

I am saying, find a thing to do that will put a little more hope in the world, however small.

This beautiful word for the plural of moose.

Battle cry for 2025.

hi, descendant of brooklyn theater jews who got hauled in to rat on their neighbors and friends by mccarthy's goons here, any studio, director, producer who works with these people should be condemned, their work ignored, their careers ruined

You can report price gouging landlords from anywhere!

Bison on the short grass prairie with a row of willow behind, mountains covered in pine behind that and a very low cloud deck at the top of the photo.

Bison in the fall colors. Fall is a great time to get some photos in the park because there's such great contrast.

I wound up on a mood stabilizer instead of a stimulant, sometimes supplementing with caffiene on really bad days, and that's working out honestly really well for me! Might be something to look at, med struggles are the worst

It is getting scarily close to a decade since I started writing this behemoth, I really need to finish the damn thing

Gingerly opening up Opposed to the Typical like it's going to bite me

text: turning the page to a new year image: a two-panel black and white comic drawn on grid paper a white rabbit furiously slams open a door, a stressed look on their face "MESSAGE TO ALL BITCHES" the first speech bubble reads a second, closer image of the same rabbit, eyebrows furrowed, sweat beading, mouth screaming "PLEASE SURVIVE"

it's that time

in the worst kind of teenage love. I wasn't bad. And I know I can get it back. It's just going to be so much harder now, and that's very daunting.

But it would be worth it to be able to do some small press stuff. That would be very fulfilling, I think.

I made the very stupid mistake of actively deciding to stop doing art because it was my friend's Thing and my friend was better than me, but now when I look back at their old art I really wonder if that was true. I think I was just desperate to feed their ego because they were depressed and I was