Heya, I'm Coral, and I use they/any pronouns
I've lurked on Tumblr for a while, but I finally decided to make an account alongside the many fellow twitter refugees.
I'm asexual, multifandom and also a minor, I might make a carrd with a DNI and hobbies and all that jazz later
Also read lies of locke lamora and listen to the mechanisms if you haven't already
happy Thursday the 20th
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
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You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years
HAPPY THURSDAY THE 20TH EVERYONE
the next days you can reblog this on a thursday the 20th are:
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in case you wanted to queue this for the another 6 years
But when is the next Thursday the 4/20th? Not for a very long time i bet. This one is EXTRA special, so you have to reblog it today!
As requested by my beloved Patrons, following on from last week’s Jellyfish Mermaid post, allow me to present the Stingray Mermaid
The stingray is a cartilaginous fish with its eyes on top, mouth below, and pectoral fins that have extended all the way around the body, front to back. You can basically think of them as floating heads propelled by a skirt of muscle, which is this species equivalent of arms. Super weird. And you wanted me to make a mermaid out of this.
If you haven’t seen the skeleton of a stingray before, I think you really need to.
It’s far more obvious how they are related to sharks in the evolutionary tree.
As voted by my lovely Patreon Supporters, this Fantasy Biology post is about the hypothetical, and rather creepy jellyfish mermaid.
How can we take a jellyfish, which is marginally more than a stinging glob of goo, and turn it into a mermaid? If you want any shred of realism in this species, you’re going to have to clearly define what counts as a ‘mermaid’ and stretch the known limits of nature.
The real, core basics of a mermaid are:
Now, it sure is tempting from an artistic point of view to use the body of a jellyfish like a skirt and plop a human body from the waist up on top, but that’s not how a jellyfish works anatomically.
A jellyfish is a fairly simple creature. Its basically a digestive sack with some stinging tentacles arranged around the opening. They’re radially symmetrical instead of having a left and right. Their mouth is the same opening as their anus. They do have a primitive network of nerves, but nothing you could really call a brain. Box jellyfish even have light sensitive organs that function like eyes, so you do have enough basic features to make a creature from.
this was honestly the funniest email in the defunctland garfield video. who was out there detailing their explicit sexual experience in the garfield dark ride so eloquently that kevin defunctland had to censor it this much. i want to study you
This is so ominous, I can’t wait to find out what this one’s gonna be about
[A series of tweets by twitter user @Defunctland.
The first one reads, "Some people have asked me about the status of Defunctland Season 3 (a connected series of videos I began in 2019), and it is still happening. Handwich, FastPass, and Garfield have all been stalls for a video I've been working on for nearly two years now."
The second reads, "I want to do each topic justice, which is why sometimes my one-off stall videos end up being 102 minute dissertations on queuing, but I have never worked so diligently on a video than I have the one I've been working on since October 2020."
The third one reads, "And you're all probably going to hate it." End ID.]
did you know red snapper can live for over 50 years…. whatre they DOING down there ( this used to say 100 because i CAN NOT read )
Mermaid Evolution
Mermaids are completely unrelated to humans, rather they are fish with adaptions in mimicry. The ancestor was a large, ancient fish that preyed on wayward sailors with disorienting shrieks.
As time went on, they rearranged their bodies and minds to more closely resemble humans. Their gills detached from their skull and created a resonating cavity that turned their shrieks to song. Their fins changed to resemble appendages, including splitting the base in two and creating a pouch that could be filled with water, resembling a human chest when displaying.
Be careful when sailing, and when you hear a song that sounds too beautiful for human lungs, it is. Alter your course, and pray it doesn’t follow.
Yeti baby pics highlight flashback reel, in honor of his first hatchday
from reading through @curlicuecal's old bug xeno troll headcanons, I started to think, "what if a species that uses another species as part of its reproductive lifecycle, but they're both sapient?"
and what i came up with was: a world that's mostly covered in water, dotted with small volcanic islands that can only support a very small number of organisms as large as humans. the land-dwelling species crawled out of the ocean to take advantage of the much more abundant/concentrated resources on land, but as they tried to spread to smaller and smaller islands, groups frequently died out due to population bottlenecks and lack of genetic diversity.
enter the second species, who are sea-dwelling. there's much fiercer competition for resources in the sea, so they started hanging around landdweller-occupied islands cause they'd sometimes, e.g. drop fruit into the water.
what eventually developed was a symbiosis in which landdwellers provide seadwellers with nutrients in exchange for seadwellers spreading landdwellers' genes to distant islands. in the species' modern form, the seadwellers have a dedicated body cavity for receiving landdwellers' sexual emissions and extracting nutrients from it while preserving the genetic material for future matings. landdwellers are fully hermaphroditic, they can't afford sexual specialization when chances to mate outside their very small local gene pool are so rare and valuable. landdwellers are also very K-selected (few offspring with a relatively high chance of survival), maybe even more so than humans, because offspring who don't survive until adulthood just waste very limited space and resources.
this is completely separate from the seadwellers' own reproductive cycle. culturally, their pollination of landdwellers is in the same category as sex, because it involves the same sort of trust / social rituals / pleasure, but biologically it's a feeding behavior, and seadwellers have their own separate reproductive cycle, with two sexes and minor sexual dimorphism, like humans. landdwellers can also reproduce in landdweller-landdweller pairs, in a pinch.
i'm thinking seadwellers historically lived in relatively shallow seas (i.e. not deep seas), in coral reefs or kelp forests or something else with things to grab onto and make tools of. im imagining the landdwellers as roughly humanoid while the seadwellers have a mermaid-like body plan. the history of the two species has been deeply intertwined since before they've existed in their modern form, and there's been selection pressure to keep the two species able to understand and replicate each other's social communication, eventually including language. while there are many languages on the planet, they're not generally separated into "landdweller languages" and "seadweller languages", instead both the landdwellers and seadwellers in a particular area have shared a common tongue and other cultural aspects. in the modern world, there's the technology for landdwellers to have air-bubble enclaves in seadweller communities, and vice versa with water-filled seadweller structures on land.
anyway they play sburb.
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Starting to think that the key to being a staple “must watch” anime is to trick people into learning philosophy cause we’ve got:
Evangelion - come for the mecha fights stay to learn about the “self”, reality, and identity
Cowboy Bebop - come for the space cowboys stay to learn about what it truly means to live and to be alive
Trigun - come for the silly main character and cool fights stay to learn about pacifism, forgiveness, the sanctity of life, and the strength of hope
Fullmetal Alchemist - come for the cool science “magic” stay to learn about Plato, what is truth, and how to live a good life
Add Dungeon Meshi on that list I’m so serious
So I was wondering which pair of these would be “instant best friends”/“enemies to bigger enemies” and I realised I got it all wrong. Hear me out.
Jaskier and Edgin would absolutely not be able to stand each other at the beginning, each thinking that the other is a spotlight stealing, loud-mouthed lout but very quickly they’d realise that no, actually the other guy is GREAT. Jaskier would be impressed by Edgin being able to cast spells using music and would appreciate the fact that he’s not a diva but just genuinely loves music, Edgin would be very sympathetic over Jaskier’s (potential?) heartbreak regarding Radovid and would try to cheer him up.
Geralt and Xenk would start wary but respectful towards each other but after 1 hour in Xenk’s presence, Geralt would be ready to murder him. No, I will not elaborate.
(I think, ironically, Jaskier and Xenk, and Edgin and Geralt would get along just fine)
Bonus round:
Don’t know what’s happening here but it’s fun and I’m here for it.
I love you real sets. I love you real costumes, especially when they're for characters who aren't human. I love you real objects the actors can interact with. I love you enrichment in the actor's acting environment. I love you practical effects.
I also love you interesting camera shots and angles that mean something and can be easily watched. I love you well choreographed fight scenes. I love you well shot fight scenes. I love you fight scenes that I can actually follow and know what's going on.
If Miguel is 5'10 and Peter B is 5'10...
Spider Noir is about to TOWER over Miguel for hurting Miles >:)
I saw the new spiderverse movie today and can someone check on the animators?? r they ok
