I've Endured, Now What?

*covered in blood* i will.... *trembling* CHOOSE TO BE KIND... *in pain* i will be... NICE to others... *wanting to kill* i will see good in EVERYONE *yelding a knife* i will NOT be like those who hurt me... *screaming* i will be BETTER than who i was...

I just wanted to say.. your blog makes me SO HAPPY! I don't know what it is about birds but they make me smile and go crazyyyy! I love them so much! I was wondering, since you are the bird expert, do you know any interesting green colored birds? :>

thank you!!! And yes, there's so many interesting green birds! (DID YOU KNOW: many birds APPEAR green, but their feathers are only structured that way. the only 'true' green pigment in birds is turacoverdin, found only in turacos!)

There's the Javan Green-Magpie, now sadly critically endangered

A personal favorite & common pet, the Indian Ringneck

Couldn't mention turacos without including them...this one is a White-Cheeked Turaco

Double-eyed fig parrot...love how vibrant they are

green broadbill...gotta love a bird with a snoot

the iridescent shine of the Green Pygmy-Goose!

the green pheasant...he sure is green and a pheasant

the green inca (there's lots of nice green hummingbirds, but having green in the name means he takes the cake)

And, of course, the Green Jay.

False click beetle, Galbites sp.?, Eucnemidae

Photographed in Singapore

Photo 1 by budak and 2-3 by flyww

If you ever are self-publishing or illustrating a paperback, an absolutely essential tool is this page, which gives you the exact pixel count of a book spine based on its page count, and/or a template you can use for the correct width/height ratio.

Shit I slapped together recently 😭😭😭 I try to take into account their every form for my designs so I needed a reference sheet. Feel free to use it if y'all want

Added standing Narinder and made purged Leshy not blurry + close-ups:

do you have that chart with the low to high white spotting explained, all that stuff? you've posted it before but i forgot to save it

yeos

something you don't learn until you get really far into the making and tinkering life is that there's no such thing as "glue" really. there are so many kinds of substances that stick other substances together and they are all very different and if you just go look at the adhesives aisle in the hardware store the packaging never actually tells you anything useful. it's like "this is SUPER T-REX POWER GLUE" and the fine print says "good for use on wood metal and plastic". okay. but WHICH PLASTICS MY GOOD BITCH,

because SURPRISE, there's no such thing as "plastic" either. every kind of wood is basically the same on a chemical level, but the only thing every plastic has in common is "some of its molecules are long" and that is NOT a quality that determines how things stick together.

I just ordered some stuff I hope will permanently stick a circuit board to a steel sheet and withstand temperatures up to 150 degrees. by the way circuit boards are made of epoxy-bound woven glass cloth which is cool as hell but what the fuck do you glue that with? can any of the 12 kinds of adhesives I currently own do that? no of course not. if I want to stick two pieces of acrylic together so hard they become watertight to a depth of 3000 metres I have some shit that does that, but it does literally nothing else.

anyway. once you start learning how many kinds of sticking things together there are, the people at 3M start to seem like witches and I don't know if they're the kind we can trust with that level of arcane knowledge

Are we all but players in this game of chance?

hands on

Since you guys like my male name list, here are some vintage girl’s names from old historic documents, recently updated:

(Sorry I listed the name origin/individual’s place of birth on some and not others.)