Went ahead and designed a new character for myself, one that I feel represents me.
Meet Alex!
The Satanic leaftail gecko.
motch takes feelze to their doctors appointment whether they like it or not
idioticteen
Back in my day the teachers didn’t have nice laptops, they pulled this shit out and sat it on some unfortunate kids desk
starrysleeper
MAJOR FLASHBACK
what do you mean teachers don’t do this anymore
how long have i been out of school
Friends are like Trees 🌳
My good friend Kier gave me this advice awhile back, and it's helped me immensely to cope with my abandonment issues. I took the time to make this quick little comic in hopes that this advice will help others as it helped me. 🖤
(reposting from my Twitter because I feel it would be appreciated here haha)
I really want to like this video, but we have giant isopods (Bathynomus giganteus) at our local aquarium and I learned about their stressed behaviors and the poor fella is hella stressed. Giant isopods they only move to eat or escape predators because they need to conserve energy. Two of them were swimming which means they're probably quite stressed.
Plus taking them out of the water is the biggest problem here because the live in extremely cold water so it's probably also overheating. Hell, oceanic hermit crabs try to escape your hand's warmth even if you're holding them under water and they live in relatively warm water in comparison to giant isopods.
Educating children and introducing them to oceanic life is important, but not at the cost of the animal's comfort and safety.
Gosh! That’s horrid, I had no idea! D:
If you're wondering what proper giant isopod education and interaction entails and maybe need a pick me up, the Monterey Bay aquarium has a monitored touchpool with 4 isopods to gently pet so no one isopod gets too stressed, the water is absolutely frigid (which also helps with keeping people from bothering them too much) and they are never picked up, unless it's by a trained individual. They feel like sandpaper btw.
They're my favorite aquarium because I am biased and because they help do research on the animals they keep. When possible they try to rescue animals and only keep ones that are unreleasable and/or breed them so they aren't pulling animals from the wild as much as possible and because captive bred animals experience less stress in displays.
Once again a win for Monterey Bay Aquarium! Good for them and good for their isopods. :>
now draw him lost at sea and succumbing to the madness
forget about touching grass, i need to touch THE SEA I NEED TO GO INTO THE WATER I NEED TO DIVE INTO THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!
I NEED TO GO IN THERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️‼️‼️‼️
Lol. Everyone in the notes freaking out like 'I live by the sea, don't jump in, it dangerous'.
Like, guys, guys, listen, you don't understand. They don't mean... They want to be... Listen, ok, I grew up on the sea, I've been through hurricanes on trawlers and gale force 9 storms crewing tallships. I've seen enormous waves absolutely destroy boats. I've been caught in riptides while scuba diving and felt the complete powerlessness of it. The sea will absolutely annihilate you, consume you, never give up your body, and not even notice.
I know the power of the sea better than most, however, I know exactly what they mean. Sometimes you see it churning with unfathomable power and all you want is to just get in the sea and have it absolutely fuckin blast you clean. Like sandblast your fuckin soul. Fuckin powerwash your bones clean. Ya know?
Can confirm, getting beat up by the ocean is a religious experience.
tags from @spearxwind
Anonymous asked:
Do sharks cuddle?
THEY SURE FUCKIN DO.
many sharks are at least moderately social, and if a specific species of shark has the ability to breathe without actually swimming and tends to have a lot of sharks in a fairly small area, well.
they are just going to Pile. and there is simply nothing you can do about it.
also, fun fact! whitetip reef sharks in particular are SO damn cuddly with each other that they'll actively seek out a buddy or ten when they get sleepy!
it's pretty much slumber party or nothing for these guys. you won't find a whitetip sleeping alone except in the most dire and tragic of shark circumstances.
(shhh! they are. SLEEBING)
about fucking time
Reblog to give the prev person some dopamine.
Goats likes to eat yellow dandelions, Adeline is not a exception.
You get there and all the pretty boys look up from drinking from the reservoir and gallop away like gazelle
musterni-illustrates
the kicker is he was being asked if his work was coming from the approach of man vs. nature aka “THE ENVIRONMENT STRIKES BACK” but no. his literal words were along the lines of “sharks are not very scary if you are never in the water so i had to make them scarier, and now they have legs.”
Junji Ito has the best fucking take on horror, which is ‘wouldn’t that be weird’ and then he draws it into the most terrifying thing possible.
terftalia
One of his strangest stories is about a cursed type of honey that, when ingested, is guaranteed to be the best thing you’ve ever tasted. But, if you consume it, you have a 25% of being flattened like a pancake by a giant tree demon. Characters eat it, get addicted, and that addiction forces them to risk it over and over again until they eventually get turned into a gory puddle by this ghost tree thing.
It’s a weird story, but the funny part is that Ito wrote it because he thought it would suck to be a mosquito.
THIS IS IT
MY MAGNUM OPUS
POOL NOODLE AXOLOTLS
(and yes, they are lovers)
Encounter: Axoloodles, native fauna to naturally-occurring chlorinated pools and lazy rivers
Dinner time fellas
That bitch didnt stand a chance
HE FUCKING ATE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!