One of the coolest bats in the whole world, Kuri the spectacled flying fox bat, passed away this summer. Her species is native to Australia but Kuri lived at Lubee Bat Conservancy in the United States, having been abandoned at the facility 22 years ago in a kennel with a note stating “Hi, my name is Kuri, please take care of me”. How she came to the United States in the first place is a mystery.
While in vet school I was privileged to help out with Kuri’s acupuncture treatments that she received every other week in her old age. I’d feed her peach flavored baby food during her treatment and she was a very well tempered little lady. I’m glad I got to know her for a brief time. If you happen to have any photos or artwork of Kuri (you never know, Tumblr is small!) the conservancy is collecting images for a memorial to be held in October. Here’s a video I took of Kuri grooming her fur so you can see how ridiculously cute she was. Her keepers and caretakers will miss her dearly, please keep them in your thoughts.
Oh shit Cassandra Cain and Bao Pham working together would actually make for a hell of a story if you wrote it with respect for both characters’ perspectives. Cass is all about second chances and being able to change for the better, and also about stopping harm when people haven’t changed yet, while Bao’s post-Joker-pocalypse thing is not giving second chances to people who did harm, people who for all we know are just acting like nothing happened instead of trying to make up in any way for the damage they did.
Like this wouldn’t work as something were Clownhunter is already tracking someone down, and Cass intervenes to stop him. It needs to be them teamed up to work on a mutual goal, and getting into conflict over methods, while having so much fucking compassion for each other’s pasts.
Also snarking the hell out of each other, Bao in his small-font rambles and Cass in her minimum-words + sarcastic-actions.
first art doll i've made that incorporates clay and i'm so proud of her!! it's hard to tell here but i used leather-textured clay which works really good for bat skin. the patagium was definitely the hardest part, couldn't find a great fabric for it but she certainly turned out fine anyway :P
willa angelo would not be an imagineer she would be a biologist and spend her free time searching the world for cool creatures and protesting sea world