Suicidal Cryptid

Watermelon piece is a good offering towards any adult wasp, but being a mud dauber she is a great wasp to observe, since they are not very aggressive and their sting is not too bad. I waited until she was a little more hydrated and started grooming herself to remove her from the house, since she was visibly quite dusty i knew it would be the next thing she would want to do.

Not a biologist, but the evolution of mammals is way more granular than you might expect. Humans are the sole surviving species of the genus Homo, which was a real party before the other ones went extinct. You're in for a fun time.

Domestic cats are believed to be domesticated not from tigers, but from the African wildcat:

Which evolved to be small just because it's sometimes more useful to be small.

And no, hamsters are not off-brand rats. They're part of the rodent order, which includes beavers, moles, capybaras, guinea pigs (yes, also wild) and lots of other fun things:

it's certainly different, and absolutely challenging considering the places you even can grow as a nsfw artist are ever-dwindling. i also didn't start entirely from 0, i already had a decent audience for my sfw webcomic, and i didn't mind pointing them toward the adult stuff in the beginning. basically all that is to say take my advice with a grain of salt. the environment in which i came up is different from the environment you're coming up in.

so here are my tips

do not do this for money. you are not going to make money. people that make money are the exception. going into it with that expectation will make you Insane when money doesn't immediately manifest. you have to approach this as a labor of love first, and if you get to a point where you think people will give you money, then you can try monetizing, but you will still not make money for a long time.

post a lot. i can attribute most of my success to the fact i post nearly every day. THAT SAID. i am only able to do that because i draw very quickly, and because my job is comics and i work from home. i am not a standard anybody should hold themselves to. but drawing quickly, and drawing efficiently, is a skill you can learn.

get good at drawing feet. not even in a foot fetish way, though people do love a good foot, but because convincing feet do an incredible amount of work toward looking like you know how to draw. even if your anatomy is a little off elsewhere, good feet will ground the drawing in reality. really this bullet is 'get good at drawing' but you don't need me to tell you that. practicing feet is just a great place to start.

have fun. don't draw what you think will be popular, unless it's something you actually genuinely love. if what really gets you going is crowd pleaser big titty babes, power to you. but don't do that because you think you have to. it is very obvious when you're only drawing the latest anime babe du jour for the numbers, and the rest of us sickos do judge you, and you will not develop an audience who loves your work for you. my audience loves my work because i made it and i'm the only one who could. the people who want to see frieren's bimbofied pussy can get that anywhere. what can they only get from you? figure that out.

In the dream, this boy was being called an angel.

He looks like an angel (a supernatural being), but if you look closely, each part of his body is extremely bird-like.

His intelligence is about the same as a crow’s. He’s treated like an animal. His body resembles a human’s too closely, so they’ve put clothes on him—just in case.

I guess I’m thinking about the same kind of beings whether I’m asleep or awake.

A drawing I did for a new business card.

He was perched on the shoulder of a well-built young man.

The man was a member of an organization dedicated to the protection, management, and research of mythological creatures — an organization I was also a part of.

In the dream, the man was wearing the organization’s jacket, but I’m sure he would get injured, so in this illustration, I’ve dressed him in body armor with ceramic plates.

“As a biologist, I have been asked by many, many people; “why do we need mosquitos?” and “Why can’t we just kill all the ticks?”. People may argue that they serve no purpose in the ecosystem, and nothing would really be affected if we got rid of them. After all, these animals are just nuisances, right? Everything would be better off if there were no parasites to bother them.

This is, of course, an untrue claim. Parasites play many roles in the ecosystem and their presence is absolutely necessary. For instance, let’s look at mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes are remarkable animals. There are many thousands of species, and only a few drink blood. Mosquitoes of all species subsist primarily on nectar, just like bees. This makes them critical pollinators. Of the few species that drink blood, only the females are interested in doing so, and they only do so to secure vital proteins for incubating their eggs. The males will continue to only feed on nectar for their whole lives.

But, besides being pollinators, what makes mosquitoes really incredible is their larvae. These larvae are aquatic and capable of surviving in extremely hostile conditions and in very small volumes of water. A mosquito will happily lay her eggs in an otherwise barren muddy puddle, and thousands of babies will thrive there, filter-feeding on microscopic organisms. This, in turn, provides food for other animals. Other aquatic insects as well as larval amphibians subsist largely on mosquitoes. Some insects will seek to lay their eggs in areas that mosquito eggs or larvae already exist, because it is a guaranteed food source.

This sudden abundance of life will attract predators of those animals, and so on and so forth. Suddenly, an entire thriving ecosystem has sprung up around this muddy puddle that otherwise would have supported little to no life, all thanks to these hardy larvae. In this way, mosquitoes are the foundation of many food-webs and allow life to colonize new, formerly inhospitable places.

However, defending the ecological importance of any animal is ultimately an exhausting task for biologists. The idea that animals must serve a purpose, must benefit humans in some way, is a fundamentally flawed way to view the natural world.

Every living organism that exists is a result of billions of years of evolution, all interwoven in a delicate balance with each other. If any of these pieces are removed, things will begin to collapse around it. We cannot sort animals into the categories of “useful” or “not useful”, because animals do not exist to be useful to us. They all have a place in the world, and we don’t get to pick and choose which species deserve to live without sending catastrophic ripple effects throughout the surrounding web of the ecosystem.

Whether we like it or not, parasites are part of the world and we have to coexist with them. Our focus should be on prevention of diseases associated with these parasites, by deterring them from biting, vaccinations against the bacteria they may carry, and affordable treatment if infections do occur, rather than figuring out a way to remove them from the planet entirely. Nothing in an ecosystem exists in isolation. Everything is deeply interwoven, and every species is necessary. The moment we allow ourselves to debate which species could be driven to extinction without consequence is the moment we will begin unravel the world around us, and, ultimately, humans will feel those ripples too.”