fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
things you can never unsee and it's kinda cruel towards insects/butterflies specifically
https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
so much of art predicting (even live!) butterflies are actually drawn after dead, pinned butterflies in an unnatural positon :<<
basically, if the line between top and bottom part of the wings is horizontal, it's ded
first picture is a live monarch butterfly, second is a (drawn) dead one, notice how different the wing position is
things you can never unsee and it's kinda cruel towards insects/butterflies specifically
@f0x this is depressing af but as somebody who wants to do a butterfly tattoo, thanks for the awareness
things you can never unsee and it's kinda cruel towards insects/butterflies specifically
@elilla yeah :>
kinda ignorance is bliss i guess, but better know it now than after a tattoo :/
things you can never unsee and it's kinda cruel towards insects/butterflies specifically
@f0x oh jeez ;_; I always felt something was a bit off after looking at so many photos of moths, but poor babies...