#butterflies
monarch migration is fucking wild. they could just do what most other Lepidoptera species do and overwinter in a dormant state but no. first they migrate thousands of miles from as far as Ontario to Mexico, then overwinter, and then fly ALL THE WAY BACK to fuck
ridiculous. it’s one thing when birds do it but they have BONES
Also they have like. A migration generation but also a couple ones that DON’T migrate in between (ones that hatch and mature and mate and die all in the same place over the spring-summer). So the butterflies that migrate are making a trip that general neither their parents, nor grandparents made.
Then the MOB trees in Mexico.
I think about the summer generations all the time. It’s like if I moved back to my great-grandparents’ village in Macedonia to sleep for a hundred years and then returned to the US to give birth and die.
And when I got to my destination there was a big pile of my distant cousins all sleeping packed together in a heap in the woods and I immediately threw myself on top. Also, few things disturb us because we all spent our childhoods drinking nothing but poison.
actually this sounds better and better the more I think about it
Freedom
“Tropical Valley Paradise”
Starring Perfect and Polite Panda in their gorgeous homeland surrounded by snow-covered mountains… ❤️☀️
I experimented with textures and I don’t know which one is better, the with or the without one
Maybe I became so accustomed to my flat drawings that giving them depth just gets me out of my comfort zone.
What do y’all think?