#so editorial

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.

He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.

He was poisoned.

He was sick.

He was suffering.

"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.

"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."

The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.

Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.

Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.

But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.

#flaco #tw animal death #tw animal sickness #better dead than fed is a horrific mindset #zoo animal welfare #screenshot feat the WCS's inability to remember to remove their editorial template from highly sensitive press releases round 2 #colored text #people who loved the ideal of him more than the reality of him #congrats #you killed this owl #I'm still so mad that people who wanted him to stay loose got all sorts of media attention for the elegies they wrote when he died

[blueskittlesart]

everyone look at this fish i had to draw for my illustration class. for a grade. i am going to get a good grade in therapy salmon, something which is both normal to w

#just did the calculation and this class costs me 8k a semester. btw. money well spent #new york times hire me to do your spot illustrations since i am clearly so fucking good at it. god i hate editorial assigments #skribbles #the worst part is i KNOW im going to go into crit and people r going to be like umm therapy salmon doesnt really fit the vibe of the articl #OK SHUT THE FUCK UP. MAYBE I LIKE DRAWING FISH HAVING MENTAL BREAKDOWNS. HUH. DID YOU EVER THINK OF THAT

[petitemelusine]

Pav!!

#my absolute favorite #his suit is tragic to draw because there’s so many details but it’s so so beautiful and so worth it #I love him #I want to be him tbh #Spider-Man India #pavitr prabhakar #Pavitr my beloved #children’s illustration #editorial illustration #illustrator #children’s book illustration #lgbtq artist #digital art #procreate #illustration #across the spiderverse #spiderman #spider man atsv #fanart

[keepinginkspots]

season 1 jaskier still holds my heart

#jaskier #the witcher #the witcher netflix #dandelion #the witcher fanart #joey batey #honestly im once again hiding from client work theres only so much editorial one person can do before they crack #joey batey is such a gem and i am glad he and his music exists #also everything but the colour is painted or a pencil drawing its about 80% traditional with some colour overlays and some spicy layer mode

[comradekatara]

can i be real with you guys for a second. do i have permission to speak my truth without being flayed alive. just for a moment. the way many of you talk about zuka makes me think you guys don’t actually enjoy their relationship. people will be like “oh i love how it’s grumpy x sunshine because zuko is a little grouchy grouch and sokka is funny and flirty and bubbly” and i’m just like……. in what world?????????? i don’t think you guys ship zuck actually i think you guys just wish you could ship zukang without being perceived as weird for age gap reasons. but in no world is zucchini a ship wherein sokka is emotionally uplifting zuko thru the power of love and friendship. they’re literally both suicidal freaks. and yet people love making them not only as boring as possible, but also giving sokka a personality transplant (aang’s personality, to be specific) because they hate the source material or they just see conventionally attractive teenage boys and black out or who knows what. but it’s okay you guys can just ship zukang if that’s really what you want out of their dynamic. i won’t judge

#hot takes #it’s not a bad ship in theory but ever since 2020 ppl have been so intent on reducing it and editorializing it and like #i don’t know those guys. those boys genuinely are strangers to me #it was only good back when gay people hadn’t been invented yet #and 7 people total on this earth actually understood it #but i kind of miss back when everyone was like ‘what a cute bromance’ #bc even if they weren’t being explicitly gay about it they DID Understand the nature of their dynamic #and now it’s like ‘well of course theyre gay’ but they don’t actually interrogate that further #and it’s awful. #literally ruining a freak4freak relationship it’s truly criminal #if u want grumpy sunshine (ugh) just ship zukang no one is stopping you #but that is NOT what’s going on with sokka at ALL #leave him ALONE!!!!!!

[saturdayschwartz]

so happy for the new Jackpot and I hope she gets to vigilante with her girlfriend

#listen: i think that that editorial is doing her dirty and i dread what they plan to do with her and this desifn #HOWEVER. #she is so hot #sometimes i can support editorial wrongs and still support mj rights #mjfel #mjfelicia #felicia hardy #mary jane watson #mj watson #jackpot #black cat #my art :) #marvel comics

[acaiyatree]

in celebration of my moms coming back from the war

#coming from the war that is dc editorial #so glad to have these gay losers back <33 #dc #dc comics #barbara gordon #dinah lance #dinahbabs

[texaschainsawmascara]

_mariajune_ by hovisual01 for Nasty Magazine

#so chelsea wolfe #photography #photoshoot #editorial #makeup #fashion #style #magazine #make up #red #red aesthetic #nasty magazine

[zvaigzdelasas]

why did i just see a noahpinion tweet with 30k likes try to claim the chinese social credit system was a thing. i thought we were done with this

All in favor of pointing and laughing at Noah (☝️🤣) but tbh not a fan of how "social credit isn't a thing at all" has become the standard talking point among anglo pro-china people bc. It is a thing. The reason these takes are ridiculous is bc they're acting like it's targeted towards individuals & some black mirror individual scoring system shit that controls the lives of individuals, when in reality it 1) does actually exist 2) is primarily targeted towards businesses (hence why "man on the street" interviews with people tend to show normal ppl in China don't really know about it) & 3) is actually cool and good

#social credit is one of those things i use as a benchmark for if u actually are educated on china or just a trend follower going on vibes #note: 2.5 of these are editorialized but have overall correct information #(the articles on chinalawtranslate are editorialized but they also have direct translations of legal documents) #seeking out information that contradicts a sources incentives is also a basic point of critical historiography #so 🤷‍♀️

[waystarresourceco]

James Cromwell explaining how he contextualized Logan and Ewan's backstory in preparation for the funeral/eulogy. (x)

The reference to Ewan bringing home dead animals is (I think) from a deleted scene in Season 1, except below the cut.

Interview excerpt from an interview with James Cromwell with Vulture - May 25, 2023

Script excerpt from a deleted scene in "I Went to Market" in Succession - Season One: The Complete Scripts

#so I generally don't editorialize too much on here #but I'm so tempted to write about the above #the way you can see echoes of Logan's trauma in how he raised his own children #how he hated being sent away like Roman - the burden of being banished #how he had his aunt and uncles future expectations thrust upon him like Kendall - the burden of being chosen #how shiv is discounted from this narrative entirely because Logan has no idea how a girl could fit into any of this #because Rose never got to fit into any of it #and then there's Ewan's resentment #So many thoughts #roy family feelings I guess? #logan roy #ewan roy #hbo succession #succession #cast interviews #james cromwell

[citybops]

'heaven' special exclusive editorial for pap magazine starring lisa tebeneva

#this editorial is so pretty !!!

[gingerteaonthetardis]

The X-Files | S07E12 X-Cops

Scully, I appreciate it, you don't want me looking foolish. I do. I appreciate that.

#love love LOVE that mulder is so used to looking like a jackass that he's immune to shame and will happily look like a jackass on television #txfedit #msredit #xfilesedit #danascullyedit #foxmulderedit #tvgifs #tvandfilm #tvedit #90sedit #scifiedit #abbey gifs #also for reference: the editorial note was provided by me. lol #i am just obsessed with how unabashed he is and how adorable he obviously finds her discomfort and protectiveness #dana scully #fox mulder #txf #s07e12 #flashing gif

[indelicateink]

watching the s2 trailers i'm just so loving the 1790s glimpses so far. it could be totally misleading, but i kind of get the sense that (for now, in these clips), armand is kind of painting a picture of how initially(?) lestat impressed him as a sexy badass when he came into his life? bc these memories, sir. damn.

which is a hilarious contrast to a season of louis's condemnation of him mostly as a manipulative, insensitive, selfish partner who was a crap mentor and a terrible parent, who nonetheless had a compelling "way about him" (and a vampire bond). (BUT! ofc if we read between the lines it's clear these aren't louis's only feelings on the matter. just the framing he currently has for daniel.)

i'm really curious whether louis or armand (both?) is portraying lestat looking glamorous and villainous at the trial:

and not to break your dash, but of course claudia's recounting of him that we're allowed to know is mostly lestat as anywhere from a negligent to cold to monstrous maker/uncle/brother/tormentor.

so curious to meet lestat from lestat's POV?

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #like so far i get the sense the case being made is maybe lestat is just a force of nature that happens to people daniel #breaks up covens (presumably) #crashes your brother's funeral. makes a compelling enough case to get you to marry him later that night #has a way about him (onstage) (in ur catacomb sucking on ur wrist) (that black tar heroin sex) #not that this story is About Lestat! just observing how other people frame him so far #amc iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #armand #claudia #iwtv s2 spoilers #yeah i took the editorial liberty of color coding their stories blue and red bc it was visually too confusing otherwise

[ef-1]

I'm like. just thinking about how dystopian it is that Vogue, undisputedly the most influential fashion magazine in the world, who's demographic (according to Mediascope TSN) is split at approximately 80%/20% people who identify as women to people who identify as men would churn out an issue about women in motorsport, an actually grotesquely under-represented minority in that field.

BUT instead of shedding light on women who are ACTUALLY involved in motorsport in ANY meaningful capacity, they put a turbo fascist nepo baby on the cover whose claim to fame is being some guys daughter and some dudes girlfriend and whose last two visits to the spotlight involved a fascism scandal and a racism scandal and had her cosplay as a driver then proceeded to crown her the princess of motorsport whatever the fuck that means. it's not even satirical bc the irony is laid on too heavily

we sure do live in a society

#like. who scripted this shitshow. how did it go through multiple people. did no one during the editorial process think 'hold on.' #lol. whatever #the system is so parasitic its hard not to be discouraged. #f1 #kelly piquet :) #FEMINISM AMIRITE LADIES?

[pivsketch]

am i going to attempt doing a study of this photo every three months lol

a hard expression to nail, though i keep trying cuz i like the photo. this time around i committed to doing the fullbody with no tracing, just eyeballing. dunno if it was a constructive use of my time… "keeping the knife sharp" i guess? 4h40m work time recorded in the file

#ref studies #wrestling #cm punk #i think its the eyebrows that are ever so slightly off. its editorializing his expression... #but w/e i dont think itd be productive to continue working on this just to replicate the photo #if i did tho. i should use the liquify tool to extend his right leg a bit further to the left

[kingycrow]

#illustration #illustrator #procreate #editorial illustration #my editorial unit final #I like it #by that I mean I’m evil #cows #pls zooom in on this the details are so small on a phone