day two-hundred-and-eighty-eight - black squirrel

i don't want to talk about this

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what i do want to talk about is why melanistic subgroups (the black ones of species) are the chosen ones to be eliminated from the world.

example one - only BLACK llamas are sacrificed in bolivia, and first they are dressed up in woollen tassels and trotted around a festival. mean. what's so good about the other llamas huh?

example two - united kingdom citizens are meant to report sightings of BLACK squirrels in order to track the species and get rid of them. sure they're part of an invasive species, but the species in question is the GREY squirrel. so why target only the blacks huh?

animal racism.

xj

p.s. you may consider two examples to be inconclusive and you'd be quite right.

day two-hundred-and-seventy-seven - red squirrel

more watercolouring for you to dislike! huzzah!

actually this guy looks very cute, but it is an animal i've drawn before. there's always SOMETHING wrong isn't there?

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but i don't really count the christmas animals as a representative drawing of the species. i like this drawing quite a bit. i guess i could have drawn a grey squirrel, but where would the fun be in that?

many years ago i studied in montreal, canada for a semester and became obsessed with squirrels. in fact, i created and presided over the (imaginary) squirrel-fancier society of montreal. impressive hey? also impressive is the fact that i keep going to write squireel instead of squirrel, which makes them sound all the more cute.

please stay tuned for more of my life's stories.

xj

day two-hundred-and-forty-five - xmas red squirrel

apologies for the day-lateness... i was in a land of no internet yesterday

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not really worth posting anyway. oh noes! i have to start drawing again in a day or two... NOOOOOO!

xj

day eighty-three - flying squirrel

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evening.

nat geo reckons these guys should be called 'gliding squirrels' instead. yeah well guess what nat geo, flying squirrels think YOU should be called international geographic. both names are wildly inappropriate. wildly i say!

xj
(a fellow pedant)