Once Again Thinking About Gregor And Ares' Brief Divorce Arc, It's Honestly Unbelievably Funny. They're

From jellybean to (frosted) cinnamon bread loaf...

Juvenile Eastern Red Bat, via

...Made all the more heart-wrenching by how borderline hopeless the future of chiroptera is. Between significant heat events frying megabat/flying fox camps in Australia, white nose syndrome wiping out significant numbers of (certain species of) cave-dwelling bats in North America, and wind farms killing thousands of bats (hundreds of thousands in regards to a certain species; Aeorestes cinereus) per year, a cull that could be drastically - and readily - reduced in mortality if certain protocols were implemented. (Unfortunately, it seems that the hoaries of the American supercontinent are doomed to be sacrificed to the dollar by the wind-energy sector.)

Eyes full of hope, yet little of that remains in the world. And not just for these lil'fluffy nuggets.

Eyes full of Hope

Lil Frosty Boy

Fastest Bat Alive

I will continue out of spite. If anyone wants to take me out that badly, they will have to get their hands dirty and do it themselves! If they wish me miserable, they will have to wipe off my Joker smile with their own two hands!

Hoary Bat, unknown photographer, (source)

AURORA UPON YE