Some loose illustrations to expand my visual library bit by bit - empty dragonfly exuviae and the blue emperor, the biggest dragonfly around our region. At some point this summer, I watched a dogfight between two males, and when a brown hawker (looking like an X-Wing with its reddish wings :D) came too close, they teamed up and chased the intruder instead. I learned so much this summer, freaking awesome animals!
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shot with a 1930s Voigtländer Jubilar on Fomapan 400
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>> It’s a cool, clear night, and you’re peacefully laying on your back in a small shallow river, basking against the cool rocks on the bottom as the water flows past you. It’s time like this you almost wish you’d been hatched a seadweller so you could live in water.
>> Nearby, your lusus, a large ten-foot rovipede, is curled around a tree sleeping. Normally you’d be annoyed by that, but the fact she came with you at all makes you happy. You turn to look at her and-- Oh. She’s gone now. You huff in irritation and sit up to glare at where she used to be.
Uuugh, not ♥️g♥️in! She could h♥️ve ♥️t le♥️st let me know she w♥️s le♥️ving inste♥️d of just ditching me.
>> You grumble and wonder if it would be worth it to go looking for her. A nearby sound of movement catches your attention. For a moment you think it might be your lusus, but it’s on the opposite side of the river. You stand up (being careful not to slip on the river rocks and silt) and look toward the direction of the noise.
Who’s out there?
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DONT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE! DONT STOP TAKING ABOUT GAZA!
DONT LET THEM MAKE YOU FORGET!!
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Got this nice shot of two mating common darters during lunch break :)
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a man self immolated in front of the israeli embassy in washington dc yesterday. not just any man. an active member of the us air force. he live streamed his death, and said that he refused to be complicit in a genocide any longer. he said that compared to what palestinians were facing every day, setting himself alight was nothing.
let me reiterate. an active duty air force member burned himself alive because he was so disgusted by what the us government was openly supporting. he live-streamed his own suicide, so the whole world could bear witness as a man in his military uniform set himself on fire to protest his government’s complicity in the horrors that we have all been forced to watch happen in real time. he became a new horror. footage of the immolation blurs him out the moment the fire catches, but you can hear him. it is over in seconds, really, but you can hear him screaming. he shouts “free palestine” until his body physically cannot make any sounds other than guttural screams of agony. and then he falls silent. a police officer arrives and points a gun at his still burning body, shouting at him to get down on the ground. and it is over.
his name was Aaron Bushnell. he was twenty five years old. and he isn’t here anymore because the political ruling class has decided that genocide is perfectly fine as long as it preserves imperialism. in the coming days, people will try to discredit him. to say that he was mentally unstable. they will try to bury his actions to save face and defend israel’s propaganda. do not let them. aaron knew what he was doing. he knew what he was doing when he put on his military uniform, set up his twitch stream, and made his final walk up to the embassy. he knew what would happen to him when he flicked that lighter. do not let them forget. aaron’s blood is on the hands of the political ruling class.
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One of the things that pisses me off most about this genocide and overall occupation is how many people say it's so complicated and there's so much nuance and there isn't one easy solution. This is one of the simplest things I have ever seen. Zionists invaded palestine in 1947-48. They have occupied it for 76 years while taking more and more land. They kidnap and torture and massacre Palestinians day in day out for those 76 years. They control every aspect of Palestinian life, including their water and medical care. And now they are committing another genocide against them. Where is the complication? What is hard to understand? "Well, Jewish people need a place where they won't be discriminated against" I absolutely agree. So make every country in the world safe for Jewish people. Fight against anti Semitism across the world. Don't commit a genocide and set up an ethnostate.
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