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drew some very serious emotes for me n my friend's ffxiv server

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love this piece by Javier Pérez titled ‘Carroña’. Ten stuffed crows carefully placed on a shattered red chandelier to look as if they were feasting on a dead animal. 

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Behold, birds who have lost the ability to can!

Just kidding, guys.  These birds are just trolling the hell out of ants.  I really, really wanted to show you this clip of a Galapagos finch or something harassing the shit out of formica ants and then being all “Yes, yes, bathe me in your fury!  Your chemical defenses are now my own!  Mwahahahaha!”, but the closest thing I could find is this video of David Attenborough pissing off some wood ants.  It was basically like that, only instead of an Englishman with a stick, it was a bird stomping around with its wings spread just being an absolute asshole about everything.

This behavior is actually called anting, and there are two types of anting that birds can engage in.  One is just anting, where birds will rub ants all over themselves to get that precious, precious formic acid all up in their feathers.  They’ll also do it with mothballs, cigarette butts, and certain sorts of beetles and millipedes.  The other one is passive anting, where a particularly lazy bird will find an anthill and just flop down on it with all their feathers spread and puffed and annoy the ants until they hop to and try to make them leave, at which point the bird rubs its wings together and goes “Yeeeeeess.”

They do this to get rid of external parasites, because external parasites are annoying.  Ant-eating birds who do this are getting a two-for deal out of it, because they get the ants to empty their acid sacs in a beneficial location (the bird’s feathers) and then get to eat them without having to deal with the acid in their crops, so it’s basically like if your bug-spray or deoderant came in a bacon bottle.

Formica ants get the brunt of this, because they’re super-common and quite frequently spray the acid instead of trying to inject it, so the bird can get itself doused and then preen it into its feathers.  Considering the spraying of acid is like the ant way of saying “Oh my god go away you dickhead I hate you we all hate you why are you still here jesus christ what is wrong with you,” we can be reasonably sure that they’re not super-thrilled by this bird behavior.  Since the birds keep doing it, we can be reasonably sure that they don’t care about the ants’ feelings.

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Hi! Your art is keeping me sane currently thank you for being awesome! If I may throw this abstract idea I keep daydreaming about: shaxxwinter moment with Shaxx doing the hand kiss(tm) but he still has his helmet on.

Bonus round: "well that wasn't as satisfying as I thought- are you alright?" "[Fel visibly overheating]"

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I finished this animation!! I started it in May, and its finally done!

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Wife and I decided my Hildryn and her Yareli are girlfriends that hang out at the space mall ❤

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From Software Fan Art (x, x) by Espen Olsen Sætervik

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Artorias v Manus

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It was a fated encounter, they knew.

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Triumph Of The Will: The Challenge (Detail) - James Tissot

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*throws shaxxwinter at ur face like it’s a big rock i found on the sidewalk*

yes it’s just sketches but my laptop died for a few days so i got nothing else to offer. also i’m obsessed with these two and my lungs will collapse if i stop thinking about them for a second

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My collection of clothing references for writing. 

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I’ll setup an album with my DaS sprites at their original sizes later for people who want to use them as avatars or whatever else.

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Ladybird spider (Eresus kollari)

Photo by Armen Seropian

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Half of a broken stone pendant. The vine appears to originate from Oolacile. A powerful magic can be sensed from this ancient stone. Yet men of this time can neither manipulate nor sense its power, which has a distinct air consisting of both reverence and nostalgia.

@nick-foo once again kills it with the art and animation for this month’s L&B comic, featuring Gwyn’s Four Knights for the first time! You can support the artists of the comic on Patreon and find rest of the comics on the Lordran and Beyond website!