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Being a monster is not the same as being a bad person. It just means you’re willing to eat the world if that’s what you have to do to keep yourself alive…You’re not willing to admit that you’re a monster too, and you should. You should just let yourself be the monster you want to be.

Chimera – Mira Grant (via ashreec)

roadthrills:

frolicingintheforest:

Red Shouldered Hawk
(Buteo lineatus)

I couldn’t bear to see this GORGEOUS hawk laying in the middle of the road. I couldn’t stand the thought of it being ran over, or crushed. A truly magnificent creature! This is the first hawk I’ve had my hands on… and let me tell you, it was amazingly beautiful! Its feathers were so soft. It hadn’t been there long before I found it, and other than a broken leg I could see no visible damage. Such a precious creature. Even under the terrible circumstances, I considered it an honor to even touch it, to have the chance to see the beauty up close and in such lovely detail. I arranged these flowers to show my respect, then returned it to the forest, to rest among the moss. The middle of the road isn’t fitting grave. From death comes life, this amazing creature will turn into soil, rich and ready for new life. Strange and beautiful how life works. RIP sweet angel. 

(P.S. its eye is not white because of death, that is actually its eyelid! It comes for the bottom instead of the top, I thought that was really cool! )

roadthrills:

Before and after the degreasing and whitening. I use acetone to degrease and it takes a while, but acetone can be reused until it turns a darker orange. Just remember to wear a face mask and work in a ventilated area while using it. Acetone also requires storage in a cool place, and can’t be poured down the drain to dispose of it. My township has a chemical recycling program, thankfully.

The other option for degreasing is keep the bones in heated, soapy water, but it has to be heated constantly. You can do this with a fish tank heater and a plastic tub, from what I can tell. I’ll look into that method at some point, if I ever have a place to work outside of the house (which isn’t looking good right now, but you never know.)

tiny tiny chip.munk bones! the skull got pretty wreaked, I couldn’t tell if it got broken or if it’s just the natural seams in the plates coming apart, but I salvaged most of the pieces, even if I completely lost track of where they go and how. I got a paw and a bit of a leg that I didn’t want to clean and separate completely, so I’m drying them in salt and hopefully that’ll work. never done anything like that before, so we’ll call it an experiment.

pretty proud of myself for cleaning it, it’s my first time going from wet corpse to clean bones! might string the vertebrae on something and make earrings

yesterday’s bone bath! added in soap after these pics to make it a bubble bone bath, let them soak for like an hour, then went and scrubbed the last of the dirt off. they’re still drying on milk crates, I left them in the garage overnight and hopefully they can get some more sun today to dry them completely