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I've started on this path and now I can't stop ⋆˙⟡₊˚⊹♡. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁
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I've been in "chrysalis mode" working on various projects and i haven't had much to share recently - so lets look back at some older works!
I started working on moving toward freelancing in 2020 and since then I've made a lot of drawings I'm proud of. Here are some faves! Many are available as prints in my shop. :-)
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African Death’s-head Hawkmoth - Acherontia atropos
Here is an info-post on another one of my favourite moths ever !
@zick-the-fairy, I hope you enjoy it :)
Distribution
Acherontia atropos occurs throughout the Middle East and the Mediterranean region, much of Africa down to the southern tip, and increasingly in southern Great Britain due to recently mild British winters. It occurs as far east as India and western Saudi Arabia, and as far west as the Canary Islands and Azores. It invades western Eurasia often, although very few individuals successfully overwinter.
Behaviour
This species displays a number of behaviours not normally seen in Lepidoptera. Unlike most moths, which generate noise by rubbing external body parts together, all three species within the genus Acherontia are capable of producing a "squeak" from the pharynx, a response triggered by external agitation. The moth sucks in air, causing an internal flap between the mouth and throat to vibrate at a rapid speed. The "squeak" described is produced upon the exhalation when the flap is open. Each cycle of inhalation and exhalation takes approximately one fifth of a second.
The (super adorable ! ! !) squeaking:
It is unclear exactly why the moth emits this sound, although there are multiple hypotheses. One thought is that the squeak may be used to deter potential predators. Due to its unusual method of producing sound, the squeak created by Acherontia atropos is especially startling. Another thought is that the squeak relates to the moth's honey bee hive raiding habits. The squeak produced from this moth mimics the piping noise produced from a honey bee hive's queen, a noise in which signals the worker bees to stop moving.
Biology (Description and Development)
No.1. African death's-head hawkmoth eggs, natural size and enlarged; and caterpillar. No.2. Convolvulus Hawk-moth Caterpillar .
The caterpillar of the African death's-head hawkmoth is sturdy and somewhat variable in colour, being some shade of buff, green or brown, with seven diagonal blue lines. At the rear is a curved, thornlike horn. It can attain a length of 13 to 15 centimetres. The pupa is stout and reddish-brown, and is formed 20 to 25 centimetres under the ground in a chamber the size of a large hen's egg.
African death's-head hawkmoth from a Description in Richard South's T'he Moths of the British Isles'
Acherontia atropos is a large hawk moth, the largest moth in the British Isles, with a wingspan of 80 to 120 millimetres; it is a powerful flier, having sometimes been found on ships far from land. The forewings are a mottled dark brown and pale brown, and the hind wings are orangey-buff with two narrow dark bands parallel with the hind margin. The abdomen is a similar orangey-brown, with a broad, dark dorsal stripe. Most notable is a patch of short yellowish hairs on the thorax that gives the impression of depicting a human skull. It is a striking insect, but is seldom seen because it flies late in the night.
The species shows sexual dimorphism, as in most Lepidoptera. Female moths of this species tend to be larger than males, appearing bulkier and sporting larger, more robust abdomens. The abdomen of a male is less broad, with a pointed distal abdominal segment. In contrast, the females of the species have a distal abdominal segment that is rounded off at the tip. Antennae seen on a male are thinner and shorter than the antennae seen on a female.
Here is a better picture with colour of the caterpillar:
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For those who are new to Flight Rising april fools and don't want to stress about the event item: it's a cycling chest. FOR NOW, opening it will give you a different color of the same chest, etc. etc. Last year we had two, but there were more colors in the past, but it's a pre-determined cycle. Once the event ends (about 4th 6:00 FR time, but check for dev info on that or keep an eye out on the chest's item database entry), the chest will lock in its current color, and opening it will give you an item that is somehow associated with the color.
That's it! Have a fun and chill april fools!
NJ Democrat senator Cory Booker takes the floor in protest of Trump/Musk, "saying that he will keep going “'as long as I am physically able'.”
“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able,” Booker said at the outset of his remarks. “I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis.”
“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety; financial stability; the core foundations of our democracy. “These are not normal times in America. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.” -source
I am posting this at 2:30am EST. He has been speaking since 7PM EST. This link (at this moment) is to a live stream.
FUCK YEAH, JERSEY!
So very proud of my state at the moment.
Reblogging and adding the livestream link from Senator Booker's YouTube (the other one was glitching) . It is almost 4am. He is still going STRONG. If you are watching and plan to go to sleep, turn the volume down and leave it up so that the "watching" number reflects the involvement of people supporting him.
If he can LITERALLY stand and protest as a single voice, we can keep it playing and symbolically stand with him.
Senator Booker is on Hour 13 and going STRONG
Yeah! That’s what I’m talking about. No business as usual! Slow the Fascists down! He should get some Democrat colleagues to join him so they can periodically cede to each other and spell each other off to keep it up longer!
STILL GOING! If you can open up the livestream to show support.
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what a good morning!! im gonna draw a dog!!
itpuddle
apRIL FOOLS I DREW TWO DOGS THEY’RE BEST FRIENDS
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Democrats won TWO special elections for the Pennsylvania legislature yesterday. One was sort of expected but the other was an upset which gives Democrats a boost in morale – in addition to an unexpected Pennsylvania Senate seat.
In the western part of the state, Democrat Dan Goughnour won in PA-House-35. He fills a vacancy left by another Dem who died suddenly. This victory returns the Pennsylvania House to Democratic control. It had been tied.
Dan's victory was largely anticipated. But the Democratic win in a more conservative part of Pennsylvania's southeast is considered an upset. In a race to fill a Pennsylvania Senate vacancy caused by a resignation, Democrat James Malone edged out a MAGA extremist to become the first Dem elected from PA-Senate-36 since the Carter administration. Four months ago, Trump carried this district with 57% of the vote.
Democrats claimed a majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and held a narrow lead in a Lancaster County state Senate district where Republicans have a strong advantage, according to unofficial results in special elections late Tuesday. Democrat Dan Goughnour won the 35th House District seat, previously held by Rep. Matthew Gergely (D-Allegheny), with 63.4% of the vote, according to unofficial results. His victory restores the 102-101 seat majority Democrats held in the House before Gergley died in January after suffering a medical emergency. A Democratic victory in the Lancaster County race would not change Republican control of the Senate, but would be a significant upset in the district, where President Donald Trump won by 15 percentage points in November. Unofficial results in the 36th Senate District election showed Democratic East Petersburg Mayor James Malone ahead of Republican County Commissioner Chairman Joshua Parsons by fewer than 500 votes, or 0.89% of the 54,000 votes cast. [ ... ] The 36th District covers a swath of northern Lancaster County including suburbs of the city of Lancaster, Elizabethtown and rural areas.
A general shift of 7% away from Republicans in the 2026 midterms would make the 2018 blue wave look pale. The upset of the GOP Pennsylvania Senate candidate should make Capitol Hill Republicans think twice about supporting the disastrous chaos emanating from the Trump administration.
HOLD THE LINE
KEEP GOING
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Do not obey in advance.
Keep hating It's working
Okay but reblogging specifically for "Tesla in Distressla" because whoever came up with that tagine deserves a moment of recognition.
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This might sound harsh but if you use AI to read tarot don’t consider yourself a tarot reader. Please use your own brain, It’s gotten alarmingly bad how y’all use robots for everything. The basis of tarot is to use your own intuition and understanding of the cards. The cards meanings also vary from reader to reader. It’s borderline pathetic to ask artificial intelligence what the spread you just pulled means and write down the exact answer it gives you for pacs on tumblr or wherever else because you can’t figure it out yourself. I’m sorry, but It’s embarrassing. There’s so many possibilities and so many messages to interpret when you read that a robot cannot catch. That’s the beauty in tarot!! You clearly don’t care for it if you use AI, if you’re gonna use it regardless at least be honest about it and don’t pretend you interpreted that by yourself. It’s ridiculous.
More actual things that happen in the 1897 Dracula novel without context, as people kept pointing out things I'd missed:
- The entire plot happens because Dracula is a teaboo
- A character proposes marriage with a scalpel in hand and keeps playing with it throughout the conversation
- Dracula roasts a chicken
- A vampire bat (not a vampire) somehow drinks enough of a horse's blood to cause the horse to collapse
- Dracula gets smacked in the face with a shovel
- After attributing nightmares to paprika consumption, a character eats more paprika for breakfast
- The heroes hire a locksmith to make their home invasion look more respectable
- To prepare for raiding a vampire's lair, one character brings three small dogs
- A character laments being unable to wed multiple people at once
- A therapist starts speculating about elephants' souls mid-session
- An official cause of death is written as "misadventure in falling from bed"
- Dracula has a Krampus-esque sack that he shoves children into
- A character realizes that his host has no reflection but is more concerned with shaving than investigating that
- A reporter brags about his running speed mid-article
- Dracula, while trying to maintain a low profile, goes by the incredibly subtle alias "de Ville"
- A character is misled by phonetic spelling
- A character receives three marriage proposals in one day
- The SPCA tries to adopt Dracula
- A doctor refers to a patient as his "pet lunatic"
- We are told vampires can be defeated by putting branches on their coffins
- A character gets slashed at with a knife and loot splatters on the floor, like a video game NPC
- Dracula is a horsegirl
- A character brings anti-vampire flowers but doesn't tell anyone the purpose of said anti-vampire flowers, which leads to another character moving them and enabling a vampire attack
- A character's hair turns from dark to white literally overnight
- Twice in the novel, Dracula says "Bah!" The second time is his final line of dialogue
- There's a deleted scene of Dracula lying on top of the protagonist and licking him for hours
Actual things that happen in the 1897 Dracula novel, without context:
- A character has ominous nightmares and attributes them to eating too much paprika
- Dracula first appears wearing a fake beard
- The person he was trying to fool with the fake beard immediately realizes Dracula and Beard Guy are the same man, due to both having really firm handshakes
- We are told parrots are immortal unless fatally wounded
- A Texan cowboy opens fire on a bat flitting around a window, and lodges a bullet in the wall of an occupied room
- A woman is called a polyandrist for receiving blood transfusions from multiple men
- An incorrectly addressed telegram leads to two deaths, multiple druggings, and several children being assaulted
- Dracula, while trying to maintain a low profile, takes a lovely trip to the zoo and freaks out the animals so badly that he gets mentioned in a newspaper article
- The one character who knows anything about vampires spends a good two-thirds of the book refusing to talk about vampires
- Dracula went to Satan's Witchcraft Academy and somehow this is only brought up in two throwaway lines
- A character gets stuck inside a circle of communion wafer crumbs
- A major plot point of the book is Dracula (who was said to be a brilliant scholar and has the strength of twenty mortal men) realizing he can move boxes without human help
- Someone is referred to as "manifestly a prig of the first water"
- Two characters have a hobby of reading train schedules
- A hospital lets a mental patient escape to see what will happen
- A character starts vomiting up feathers from eating whole birds
- A doctor refuses to give a medical diagnosis and instead makes a speech about growing corn
- Dracula impersonates another character just by wearing the same clothes, despite being taller and visibly much older. This deception is successful.
- A character "cleans" a room by eating all the insects in it
- Suddenly: rats. Thousands of them.
- The heroes progress in their efforts through "the wonderful power of money," i.e., bribery
- Dracula has three other vampires in his castle. Their relation to him is never explained, nor are any of them named.
- A character insists his salvation depends on having a pet cat
- Dracula is thwarted by flowers on more than one occasion
- A group of vampires stand in the hall outside a man's bedroom, talking loudly about their plans to eat him. When he comes to the door to confront them, they run away laughing
- Dracula wears an unfashionable hat and gets roasted for it
- A group of Romanians encounter a disheveled, shouting man and, "seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they [give] him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached."
- A boat crashes due to Dracula having the munchies
- A wolf is thrown through a window and immediately runs off, confused and covered in glass
- Dracula makes a bed
