if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

Do you know why Sun Bears look so...weird compared to other bears? Is it the eyes?

it’s not just you, sun bears just look incredibly bizarre when you stack them up against other bears!

pictured: bear

pictured: film extra from the first narnia movie in a hyperreallistic fursuit:

but as always, there are real valid reasons behind mother nature’s stupid horseshit!

the sun bear has bizarrely humanlike limbs because, living in a hot tropical environment, they have no need for the enormous fat reserves of the temperate bears! this makes their bodies a LOT thinner and really screws up their proportions. 

like really, REALLY screws up.

but sun bears do actually have longer front legs than other bears, along with larger claws, longer tongues, and cartoonishly mobile muppet faces.

and for good reason: sun bears are specialized predators of social insects!

the long legs and huge claws let the sun bear rip into beehives and termite mounds alike with wild abandon, while the long tongue and agile face assist the sun bear with getting all slurpy slurpy on the innocent hive insects and their delicious larva who were just going about their normal insect day when the sun bear rolled into town.

“aaaieeee! please, not the children!”

now insects aren’t ALL a sun bear eats, by any means, but they DO form the bulk of the protein in the sun bear’s diet, so they’ve got good reasons to look the way they do!

humans just tend to find the wonky proportions pretty off-putting, and it doesn’t help that many sun bears also have light-colored eyes which humans find incredibly freaky.

NYEGH okay that is pretty awful. 

anyway tldr sun bears look weird because the bear family tried to produce an anteater, and they didn’t do a half-bad job at it!

As terrible as an angel, be afraid.

Salvador Dalí's surrealist dream sequence — Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Angel designs based on cursed emoji mashups. What emotion do these invoke on yall

brown eyes 🍂🤎

got tired of people staring at me for using a cane so i made a cane that stares back.

2020. googly eyes, hot glue, and cane.

[ID: a black cane covered in black and white googly eyes is in front of a white background. the cane tip and handle are black. there is a thin gold band at the top of the cane right before the handle begins. end ID]

eyes in art by nell brinkley 🌙

It’s been a long road, from the beginning to the end

(Full disclosure: drew this before I heard the episode)

Megan Fox in Jonah Hex (2010)

Them, but now in color

Marc Quinn (British, b. 1964), Untitled (The Eye of History), 2016. Pigment print with oil, 105 x 102 cm.

Haven’t you heard? Im looking for you.

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Ophthalmologist sign in Tainan City, Taiwan, 1962.

They only look like us so we’re able to understand what we see, but what are they truly... A collection of ideas and concepts for them :) maybe i’ll talk about them more another day (Yes before anyone comments, Pride from FMA was a big inspo for eef)

The endangered Black and Chestnut Eagle                           

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