Jules Joseph Lefebvre: 'The Grasshopper' (1872)

From the Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously 🥺❤ (you can watch it here in US or with US vpn :) <3) (or just this bit on youtube here :))

Neil Gaiman: I miss him most when I get stuck. You know, I'll just be working on something and I'll go, "Oh, this isn't quite it," and all I want to do is just call Terry, tell him what's going on and have him say, "Ah, grasshopper, the answer is there in the question." And I'd go, "Oh, for fuck's sake, Terry, just tell me."

[Terry Pratchett laughing]

The Grasshopper By Richard Lovelace

To My Noble Friend, Mr. Charles Cotton                                                                                                                            O thou that swing’st upon the waving hair   Of some well-fillèd oaten beard, Drunk every night with a delicious tear   Dropped thee from heaven, where now th’ art reared; The joys of earth and air are thine entire,   That with thy feet and wings dost hop and fly; And, when thy poppy works, thou dost retire   To thy carved acorn-bed to lie. Up with the day, the sun thou welcom’st then,   Sport’st in the gilt-plats of his beams, And all these merry days mak’st merry men,   Thyself, and melancholy streams. But ah, the sickle! Golden ears are cropped;   Ceres and Bacchus bid good night; Sharp, frosty fingers all your flowers have topped,   And what scythes spared, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool, and now green ice! thy joys,   Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in ’gainst winter rain, and poise   Their floods with an o’erflowing glass. Thou best of men and friends! we will create   A genuine summer in each other’s breast, And spite of this cold time and frozen fate,   Thaw us a warm seat to our rest. Our sacred hearths shall burn eternally,   As vestal flames; the North Wind, he Shall strike his frost-stretched wings, dissolve, and fly   This Etna in epitome. Dropping December shall come weeping in,   Bewail th’usurping of his reign: But when in showers of old Greek we begin,   Shall cry he hath his crown again! Night, as clear Hesper, shall our tapers whip   From the light casements where we play, And the dark hag from her black mantle strip,   And stick there everlasting day. Thus richer than untempted kings are we,   That, asking nothing, nothing need: Though lords of all what seas embrace, yet he   That wants himself is poor indeed.

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Grasshopper (1987) by Peter Blegvad from Imagine, Observe, Remember

Do you think we'd be friends in another universe?

Us in another universe:

Bernard Suits has a gun kink and you cannot convince me otherwise

saw this comment on a cricket noise video and felt like something changed in me idk

I love when arthropods have a pseudopupil. It's so whimsical and cute, and they come in so many varieties!!

little kitty cat eyes!!!

bombastic side eyes!!!!

cartoon character eyes!!!!

bigass anime eyes!!!!!

BE NOT AFRAID eyes!!!!!

Jules Joseph Lefebvre: The Grasshopper (1872)

Review: "The Grasshopper" (1970)

The Grasshopper by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1872)

Grasshopper and Beetles. 1951. Leonard Baskin. Linocut. Plate 23 from A Little Book of Natural History. [source]

Have you ever seen a pink grasshopper? Though the meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) is typically distinguished by its green and brown coloration, a genetic mutation called erythrism leaves some individuals looking pretty in pink! Erythrism is the overproduction of red pigment. While these rare insects are beautiful to look at, pink grasshoppers are hindered by their vivid coloring because it makes hiding from predators much more difficult.

Photo: Back from the Brink, CC BY-NC 2.0, flickr (Meadow grasshopper nymph pictured)

It's been said before, but goddammit I love the material components for spells in D&D. They're so stupid.

Detect Thoughts requires a copper to cast. Gust of Wind needs beans. Sunbeam requires a magnifying glass. Passwall uses sesame seeds.

Darkvision needs fucking. Carrots.