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battlinghurricanes · 23 days
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Dude, careful, you're standing on poison ivy!
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
Feb 27, 2024
Southeastern Pennsylvania
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battlinghurricanes · 2 months
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love those things so heres mine
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doodling a fairy tale au concept
dragons have opposable thumbs so they can commit crimes 👍
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wait how did Wilson translate Hektor's horses' names?
Swiftfoot, Flame, Sparkle and Blondie.
It's the last two I have least tolerance for and a greatest grudge against.
"Blondie" = Xanthos. This is also the divine/actual name of the river god Scamander, aside from being an epithet in general. Are we going to call a god BLONDIE???
"Sparkle" = Lampos. This is the name of one of Priam's (very much alive, lol) brothers, plus a couple other men in Greek myth. Like it just becomes weird to translate a name in such a way, then. "Oh yeah, this is my brother Sparkle." Come on now.
It's not like she translates humans' names, so doing it to the animals (or only some of them, like with Hektor's horses) when at least some of them have names that are no different from what people can have is just... weird.
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battlinghurricanes · 2 months
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i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.
as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."
NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING
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battlinghurricanes · 2 months
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i put too much on my shoulders while im already falling short in so many basic ways. it sours things that deserve to be sweet. oh i just wish i were different.
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battlinghurricanes · 3 months
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hi. did you know australia has a fairywren species called the superb fairywren
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and another species called the splendid fairywren
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...and one called the lovely fairywren
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battlinghurricanes · 3 months
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Day 31: Fig Free Day for Angeltober 2023.
I don't have any previous work that fits today's prompt. So today is a free day! Here's an angelic squid for you all.
I'm thinking I'll make a few changes to this design, I want to redraw the eyes and add more details to the wing tentacles. I plan to make it into a pin once I'm happy with it.
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battlinghurricanes · 3 months
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nothing will change your perspective on a character like someone who is batshit obsessed with them
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do you ever think about hector seeing achilles on the battlefield for the first time. about the cold sweat of premonition striking him, making the spear slippery in his hands, and then he realizes that achilles is so young. about hector thinking of his brothers, of his son. and knowing in his heart that, like a man raising the cub of the lioness he's slaughtered, he could never kill this boy.
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battlinghurricanes · 3 months
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the thing that bothers me about dragon riders is that the dragon absolutely does not have to let you climb on its back. your ability to 'ride' the dragon is entirely dependent on the dragon allowing you to do that. it could fly just fine without you sitting there. which means you are not a dragon rider, not really. that beast is not your pet. you're the dragon's pet. you're its trophy wife.
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battlinghurricanes · 3 months
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Fortissax
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battlinghurricanes · 3 months
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Redraw of this 2018 Annabeth I drew.
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battlinghurricanes · 3 months
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indulgent doodle of a very vague au idea as I remember how to draw
(reference taken from this post again)
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battlinghurricanes · 4 months
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It’s been a minute since I drew a nice forest scene :) 🌳🌳🐅🌳🌳
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battlinghurricanes · 4 months
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Hell yeah! I hope you enjoy them! I was super into the books back in highschool, and I've recently been pulled back into my obsession when a couple of my friends read them for the first time. I have a lot of fun hearing what people think of them lol
SAME THO Jeremy Irons was the one redeeming quality of the movie
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Book rectangle my beloved
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