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✧ A Mothers Revenge ✧

A kestrel seeks revenge on a European Starling after it kills and eats her chicks. In the U.S, European starlings have a devastating impact on our native ecosystems in the entire United States. This species is known for their aggression towards other cavity nesting birds, outcompeting native species for nesting spots and food sources. They’ve been known to kill many native species from bluebirds, to woodpeckers, to kestrels. They are violent towards competing species, destroying their nests, and pecking holes in eggs laid by other birds. Not to mention, they also destroy crops and devour multitudes of grain each year.

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I wanted to portray something intense to kind of grab people’s attention to this problem. Most people don’t know how horribly invasive they are. While they’re pretty birds, they’re not meant to live in the United States. I wanted to use colors like red (to represent anger, sadness, revenge, betrayal) to portray what native species have to endure every year towards a bird that was never supposed to even come in contact with them. And colors like yellow (to represent wrongfully perceived innocence and guilt).

The spills of blood can be represented as the successful revenge the kestrel has, or, the multitudes of blood spilled from native species by European Starlings.

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Did you know? All the European Starlings in North America descended from 100 birds set loose in New York’s Central Park in the early 1890s. The birds were intentionally released by a group who wanted America to have all the birds that Shakespeare ever mentioned. It took several tries, but eventually the population took off. Today, more than 200 million European Starlings range from Alaska to Mexico.

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I had to put them side by side.

Maedhros, before and after.

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love characters who (for whatever reason) absolutely cannot smile for the life of them. they just don’t know how. they don’t have the training. but then they do anyway and it’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen in your life

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A very cat shaped cat

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public libraries are so sick. there are five books I want to read and they're all relatively new so they're only available in hardback which is so expensive but it just cost me $0 to place holds on them. five books for zero dollars. it requires nothing but clicking a button and then going to the library to pick them up when they're ready. zero dollars. that's crazy

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graphic design is not my passion but I'm trying my best. might as well make this if no one else is going to! critiques welcome as always. gonna put this up on redbubble when it's done :)

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You can take the apartheid out of South Africa but you can never take it out of a white South African

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hired a galapagos finch at my burger joint and after 2 generations it evolved to take peoples orders

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No man

Éowyn faces the Witch king of Angmar on fields of Pelenor. Inspired by Anato Finnstark.

@anato-finnstark instagram

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Vampire Mushroom by Denis Zhbankov

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A small victory to celebrate for today

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What Americans know as "Danish pastries" is actually something called a 'spandaur' and it only represents a fraction of the pastries integral to Danish life. Here's a few more commonly available pastries:

Spandauer - Kanelsnegl - Fastelavnsbolle

Napoleonshat - Tebirkes - Brunsviger

Hindbærsnitte - Kransekage - Medalje

Kajkage - Gåsebryst - Kartoffelkage

Linse - Træstamme - Wienerstang

Kanelstang - Frøsnapper - Studenterbrød

Kokostop - Chokoladetrekant - Kaffebrød

Makronsnitte - Nøddesnitte Smørstang

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"why is this flower broken?"

A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]

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a chart

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Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT

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