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![from user lemondoddle [I.D. lineless digital art separated into three panels, each panel showing a greater blurred out scene with only a small portion framed in bright, clear colors. the first panel shows a group of several small buildings made of fibrous material in a clearing with two trees and various wildflowers. the section in focus for this panel is cropped around the cluster of flowers, on a sliver of one the homes in the foreground making it into frame. the second panel shows two indigenous people in the foreground tending to the plants and harvesting some, a basket of plants nearby. once again the clear portion of this image focuses entirely on the flowers, an even smaller amount of the people visible within the frame. the final scene shows a colonizer aiming a musket at one of the indigenous people, only their hands held up in surrender are visible. the cropped portion focuses on the flowers, a section of the colonizer's glove in frame. end I.D.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/a057e507becb7cc26ebed444e9ab8643/c7529e62a5a4e17e-de/s75x75_c1/56acdcb51d1f64e023d33dd915ea218e73ab37f8.jpg)
ALTthinking about what is and what isn’t allowed in frame with reference ecosystems in prairie restoration
ill have you know, my ipad died completely and i was struck with ABSOLUTE HORROR because there was MUPPET SMUT on there
life takes us odd places, but rizzles is forever
Today I got a new pair of Birkenstocks and was gifted a carabiner from a trans angel at the queer environmental book store. Weather report says Pretty Homo skies, and the aurora borealis does not disagree
today in “are you fucking kidding me right now”:
the only photos I managed to get of the federally-endangered rusty-patch bumblebee today
bonus round: here’s the photobomber from last friday in Iowa
Reached out to a biologist to request some info about an extinct species of freshwater shrimp and the email she sent in response was not only lovely and helpful but also kind of poetry to me? People who study invertebrates are actually the most hopeful and compassionate scientists that we have.
i just know things about dirt and plants and bugs and a television show from the early oughts, what do you want from me
i am going to tell all the other mental-health-havers in our new-executive-order jail so much about melissodes trinodis fluffyness
excellentblurrecognition asked:
also i have evangelized and multiple people want to buy it. just fyi
THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUU I’m so glad!!! I just want people to read the thing. but also I don’t want to think about it ever.
the thing about dissertations is that no one likes their dissertation. I’m working hard pretending it doesn’t exist
If you ever get the chance to visit Cape Coral in Florida, it’s literally this for an entire suburb worth of housing subdivisions. Just goddamn silly tiny owls glaring at every car that goes by
Did someone misplace their federally-endangered, textbook-perfect bumblebee in north Chicago? Because I think I found them
look at this goddamn teddybear i found this afternoon
having a good laugh about this beautiful, balding, federally-protected lady I met today. Native plants are the best but goddamn, if you’re a celebrity bee, why not go for the trashy sugar rush ornamental cultivars?
Someone literally got in an argument with me over if rusty-patched bumblebees will nectar on hydrangeas and, well….
