Saddest Thing Ever Is Reading An Academic Paper About A Threatened Or Declining Species Where You Can

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

Mine is called Black Beauty :)

really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:

What a terrible world we live in where you can google wild plants or bugs because you're interested in them and the first results are all "how do I kill this"

sorry for resorting to a meme about this but people are making me mad 👍

the entire budget of the US military should be reallocated to insect research