#a dragonfly

[magnumopos]

it's like a strange little insect to me

[momopatchi]

old assignment for school . prompt was "best friends"

[bone-free-as-the-wind]

Fossil of dragonfly larva or I don’t know.

[sassybears]

I did not need another hobby but now here I am with 6 mini diamond paintings lmao

[onenicebugperday]

I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.

In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!

Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.

Anyway dragonfly for admiration:

Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy

[oooocleo]

hmm hmmmmm hmmm

[aideshou]

Let’s go for a walk, longer than we usually do.

Thanks for clearing the DOR, leaving OR behind as your helicopter goes into that haze of the Hamptons.

[snippit-crickit]

BLOOD IS FUEL HELL IS FULL AND THE NEW ULTRAKILL UPDATE is so much fun,,,,,,,,,,,,, also i am spreading the tailed/dragonfly V1 propaganda

[arctvros]

how are you gonna let yourself get used like that, suguru?

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Close-up of a dragonfly wing, not stained glass.

[honourablejester]

A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?

[3amsunday]

dragonfly mug

[nemfrog]

The magnified cornea of a dragonfly sits in the middle of a decorative book cover. Views of the microscopic world. 1851.

Internet Archive

[littlealienproducts]

Bug Gallery | press on nails by LalaLunaNails

[prinnay]

Weapon fairy no. 5

Flame skimmer dragonfly, Calendula, Warhammer

[onenicebugperday]

Crimson marsh glider, Trithemis aurora, Libellulidae

Photographed in Singapore by budak