As far as society is concerned, you are a chimpanzee.

A bunch of MS Paint doodles from the other day. (I needed to feel "tool limited" to truly draw without a care, it was so much fun!)

A little help please

The Deluge by Ivan Aivazovsky

[FNAC x YOUTOOZ PIN SET]

Surprise!! More info bellow

[This was posted on April 1st, this is an April Fools post]

IM SO EXCITED TO FINALLY SHARE IT!!

Youtooz just announced their FNaC x Youtooz pin set (as part of the new Fanverse wave), and I got the chance to design them!! 🎉

The final desing might be a little different (tooz style branding and all of that) but we got the ok to share it after seeing people's interest on the QnA hosted on Reddit on the 22nd

I can't promise there will be more fnactooz pins, I guess it depends how well this one does, but know that I am willing to work on more the same way I did this theses (if they want me to!)

And heyy!! Any FNaC merch that isnt just Candy is a win kjalhkdjhaskjd 💙

Morgan Mandalay (American, 1985) - If You Name It... You Can't Keep It (2016)

Book rant? Anthropology, apes, and racism discussion.

I started reading a book titled "Bonobo Handshake" by Vanessa Woods. I picked it up because a) I want to learn more about bonobos since my knowledge of them is minimal. b) the author had interacted with bonobos in person so it's an interesting perspective to read. c) the book had positive reviews.

I was not expecting the author to start off telling us about the 'discovery' of bonobos in this way.

W-what do you mean, in Belgium? The author makes it clear that bonobos live in Congo and she gives us a few examples of local bonobo lore. Meaning, people in Congo know the bonobos very well. Way to go to give a colonizer the credit??? wtf. In this perspective, she is letting us know THAT was the moment when Bonobos entered western science, which is true. But I was really hoping the author would give it a more holistic view than this, but it seems she really believes in this??? And let me tell you, from what I am picking up between the lines, she ONLY accepts western science. Here is an example:

This is the page that confuses me immensely. I don't know if she is trying to come off as sarcastic or not. She sets out for us that Takayoshi Kano is the star of Bonobo research, but in the next paragraph says there is no one studying Bonobos. "there was never a Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey for bonobos." UHM NO? YOU JUST SAID THERE WAS???

[highlighting and writing over a picture of the page (32) since it's a library book and I can't write on it.]

She says Japanese researchers are responsible for all we know on Bonobos, but then starts talking about de Waal's zoo discoveries in detail, and they seem pretty minor compared to Kano's work with wild bonobos. She did point out that scientists don't take de waal's observations seriously because it's from a zoo, but she doesn't remedy that by telling us if it can be supported by Kano's work or not when compared. Kano is ignored. He does have one book available in English, so it's not like we can't ever learn about what he observed. you said western mainstream media don't want to listen to a man who only spoke Japanese??? UHM. You are too??? Why did you jump to de waal? If it's a book about bonobos, then please give Kano a little spotlight and tell about his research. (I actually want to read Kano's book now but I can't find a borrowable copy of it. It's a complicated long loop to get one. But it's possible T-T!!!!)

I very much dislike her tone in 'oh it's the Japanese that tell us about bonobo'. It is as if no one is actually researching them at all. They are 'foreign' so it doesn't count. Meanwhile, if it's a white person's discovery, it is humanity's. But if it's someone else theeennnn well we are not sure if it's actually real :/ Not until a white person observes this can we really put this into humanity's archive of knowledge. Otherwise, whatever they learnt is not very important or worth talking about.

I'm not gonna drop the book, because it does get me thinking about stuff and that's what I read books for. I guess it reminds me of University days, of how irritated I get when we are assigned a problematic reading to pick apart and present to class. I hope I'm not picking this apart too much 😭 I'm not sure if I'm enraged and reading too much into it. I might be totally wrong. idk... I think I need to join an anthropology book club to have people to talk with about this. Only way for now is to share on the internet and maybe a discussion starts. Want to see what others think of this (especially if they read the book).

you’re the last pilot standing; therefore, the best of the best

Francis Picabia, Le singe, 1939-1940

Francis Bacon, Monkey, 1953

man in yellow

Sculpture By: Hugo (Wolfang) Rheigold

Monument to a chimpanzee sitting on the works of Darwin and examining a human skull. The monument is located on the Island of monkeys-Hainan (China).

Monkey News

Great apes as styled by Lisa Frank 💕

The gibbon one was too cursed to post.

Medic and heavy’s children

Medic made them to both act and have some human features yet they are still mostly animal

doodles of my evil scientist chimp oc lady

We do a little swapping