Bats - Tumblr Posts
you know what, I’m not done posting about baby bats!!!
here is a fact for you: rescued baby bats are regularly given little blankets and swaddled up like itty bitty bat burritos! this is a whole Thing
Oh, and sometimes they get tiny pillows!
And they get fed out of teensy baby bottles!
They are even given mini bat pacifiers to nurse on 💕
in conclusion, here is a baby bat yawning:
BABY BATS!!!
Nocturnal friend 🦇
A scratch board mask for night time shenanigans
Sleepy little vampire all tuckered out after a long day of mischief 🦇
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First acrylic and oil painting I've done in a while, I enjoyed getting back into it!
I had a thought: What if his magic malfunctions when he's trying to get his wings out sometimes? Like he loses his concentration and suddenly there's a tiny little blue bat chittering angrily at you
all these fucking fools on my dashboard talk about how they love bats but only show pictures of fruit bats fuck you start posting pictures of all bats i can’t stand this fucking bat erasure
i love this this is gonna be rotating in my head all day
also now i wanna look up bats to figure out what kind my batfam oc would be- but no motivation means no results sadly
Anyone who knows me knows that my two hyperfixations are bats (the animals) and the Bats (the superheroes), and in my opinion, more oft should the two meet in twain! Anyways, this presentation is my magnum opus and I've run out of real-life people to foist it upon, so please enjoy.
Classic Horror Aesthetic ; requested by anon
Convergent evolution is wild, bc like, crabs keep evolving to look the same but aren’t closely related, nature is just like: BIG MEATY CLAWS, little legs, pincers, head, tiny eyes, let’s do it again!
and trees look the same but oak trees are more closely related to rose bushes than they are pine trees, fucked up
nature just likes these damns shapes:
but on the other hand, mammals flying with powered flight?? That shit only happened ONCE and it had to do some janky shit to get there, especially with bat immune systems
like bat’s immune systems are HYPER-POWERED as well as repress most of their inflammatory reactions because in order to fly they needed a bonkers-high metabolic rate which unfortunately also create waste products from the process called “free radicals” that damage cells
however, despite these free radicals they manage to live up to FORTY YEARS, which is super long for a species their size, because their immune system are basically always ON and in an anti-viral state that make them incubators for disease due to warfare between their jacked immune systems and disease
bats are so gdamn weird, I love them, no other mammal has been able to copy off their homework and accomplish the same shape, and for that they are the anti-crab of the natural world, God bless
Newborn babies all have terrible eyesight so that their brains don’t have to process as much information. Which I think is a little bit funny.
Nature was like “Look, we get it. There’s a lot of stuff out here. A lot of pores on your dad’s face. You have no idea what a hand is. Don’t worry about the pores for now. Just figure out, in general, what a hand is and then maybe we”ll pump it up to high res.”
Of wolves* and bats...
*A response to DD September 18 in two parts; I talked about wolves in another post.
Bats. VAMPIRE BATS, specifically.
Today our beloved cowboy, Quincey, relates the story of the overnight exsanguination of a horse, *relating the incident overtly to Lucy's illness." He describes damage to the "gorge" aka throat.
I have to conclude this was Stoker slapping the reader upside the head just in case due to their inexperience with vampire fiction they might not yet have figured out what was going on with Lucy. What with Victorian Lady Dying Disease being a thing, or whatever it's called.
But come on, Seward. COME ON. Did you not JUST NOTICE that Lucy's throat puncture marks look mangled? Have you not been racking your brain to think of how she could possibly be losing blood? Have you not SPOTTED BATS flying around in the sky?
I'm certainly not suggesting Jack should realize it's a vampire monster. But when Quincey told his story how could Jack not respond "HOLD UP. A bat drained your horse of blood overnight, you say? And Van Helsing insists we keep the windows shut in Lucy's room? DEATH TO BATS!!!"
"Yes but Cherry, vampire bats aren't native to England."
Of course not, but ships are docking in London from all over the world, friend. You really want to argue that ONE vampire bat couldn't have stowed away?
I get that up until now it was reasonable for no one but VH to have a clue about what the illness afflicting Lucy could be. But Quincey dropped *that* story and Jack didn't pick it up I'm dtvgdggdhhgjj
EVERYBODY SHUT UP IT'S BAT APPRECIATION DAY
IF YOU ARE NOT APPRECIATING BATS THEN GET OUT OF MY FACE!!!!!!!
Hii!! This account could be NFSW on occasion so MDNI please!
My DMs are open, I promise I’m super sweet so don’t hesitate to message me if you’d like. I love getting to talk to people, just be sweet and we’ll be fine!
I’m not comfortable giving out my name so don’t ask just call be baby or bat or something along those lines, whatever tickles your fancy I can probably deal with! I also don’t give out other social media so if you ask the answer will most likely be no, that’s why I’m here and we can just talk here if you want!
(Cute little baby to end this<3)
Thanks to @brokenstar28 for finding the photo <3
LOOK LOOK, HEAR ME OUT.
Does anyone remember the comic where Damian just casually kills a bat? REMEMBER? I can’t find the COMIC PAGE AND IM CRYING ABOUT IT BUT- I know you guys know what I’m talking about. (Found it)
HE LOVED BATS. AND THEN MRS HARSH TAUGHT HIM WEAKNESS WAS BAD AND NOT TO GROW ATTACHED.
IF this isn’t proof enough that Damian isn’t really a brat, it’s just a the horribly abusive league I don’t what it is- I just really saw the connection and got in my MatPat era for a second.
Let me know what you think?
…How often do illustrators get extremely tired just by merely thinking of a draft lurking in the depths of their database :/?
This is by far not finished and/or perfected yet, but…ugh. I don’t know what to do with the background….stuff….bats….It’s late. So let us consider this a WIP??
They are all characters from my Dungeons & Dragons party. We somehow have loads of shiny useless charisma ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The sexy half-elf with tattoos in the middle is my darling swashbuckling rogue: Fix.
Yngwie, who is our fancy Paladin (with the Flamberg) made great character designs for a couple of these, so please take a look at his Tumblr too
Shane screaming about the bat
A comic (?) about my love of weird little bats for this halloween