Longhorn Fungus Weevil, Acanthothorax Longicornis, Anthribidae

Longhorn fungus weevil, Acanthothorax longicornis, Anthribidae

Photographed in Malaysia by albertkang

I am trying to choose to hope. 

I am choosing to imagine public transportation. 

Grocery stores with attached soup kitchens to decrease food waste. 

Neighborhood meal- and garden-sharing programs.

Green spaces connecting to other green spaces.

The rainforest ADVANCING, churning up dry soil and turning it dark and healthy. 

The sky filled with birds and the sea with fish, their populations increasing. 

The air and water clean. 

Emissions-free vehicles on roadways, with speeds governed, and safe streets for tricycles, bicycles, dogs, deer, and stray soccer balls.

Solar panels on every public building, over every parking lot. 

Beehives and wildflowers on the open berms between roadways. 

The total lack of gunshots around the world, and instead the sound of shovels, digging holes to plant fruit trees by public sidewalks. 

Upper Amazon Stub-footed Toad (Atelopus seminiferus), "nominal morph", family Bufonidae, endemic to Peru

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Cristian Torica

that one thing about blue jays being the one funky colorful guy in a family of goths is fake actually. theres a lot of blue corvids esp in north america. even some of the gothy ones have blue bc corvids just fucking love being blue.

GIVE ME TIGER BEETLES OR GIVE ME DEATH

Improved my tiger beetle sprites. I think they look much better now :) and for every reblog this post gets I'll add one additional tiger beetle species to the game.

The problem with the old sprites was that tiger beetles are like 90% leg and at rest they like to stand with their legs sprawled out and their antennae out, and it was hard to get all that leg in a 32x32 sprite and still illustrate the elytra pattern. To fix this I gave them 48x48 sprites which gives them much more room to breathe and look natural.

The old sprites for comparison: