#It'll be like Hmmm!

[dougdimmadodo]

Ribbon Seal (Histriophoca fasciata)

Family: Seal Family (Phocidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Found in arctic regions of the northern Atlantic Ocean, the Ribbon Seal can be immediately distinguished from all other seals thanks to the distinctive banded fur of adults (typically black-and-white in males, while females can be black-and-white or brown-and-white), the purpose of which is something of a mystery (it has been suggested to be a form of camouflage, but how such a striking pattern would be any more effective as camouflage than the countershading seen in many other marine mammals is unclear.) Ribbon Seals spend the majority of their lives in the open ocean where they live solitary lives and feed on squids, octopuses and bony fishes such as cods, pollocks and eelpouts. During the later winter and early spring, however, large numbers of Ribbon Seals haul themselves onto masses of sea ice that are disconnected from the mainland to mate, give birth and undergo seasonal molts. During the mating season males will court females by producing grunts and roars using an inflatable sac in their throat (with each male courting and mating with several females), and after mating females are capable of delayed implantation (meaning that they can delay the development of fertilized ova until the ideal conditions to give birth in are met, in this case when sea ice is at its most abundant, to allow an embryo to develop.) After a gestation period of around 10-11 months a female Ribbon Seal will give birth to a single pup which is born with soft, fluffy white fur that (though suitable for providing camouflage and insulation) is not water tight, forcing them to remain on the ice they were born on until their adult coat develops (at which point their mother will guide them into the ocean and teach them how to hunt.)

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Animal Advent Calendar - Day 18

Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/41698-Histriophoca-fasciata

[wrathyforest]

where the Future meets the Past

[the-sunlit-earth]

a lot of clipping to fix, but hey I got it moving at least! I'll get the Telvanni robe properly physic'd if it's the last thing I do >:0

[castielsprostate]

if i had a nickel for every time 3 ex-buzzfeed members that started their own youtube channel continuing what they did back there on a couch after a massive controversy of their own doing, i would have 2 nickels! which isn't a lot but. it's weird that it happened twice

[thelonelyshore-if]

I think that perhaps when I was born I was cursed by a witch to always write way too much.

[capn-twitchery]

making very slow progress but progress nonetheless >:3

[bloggingboutburgers]

Just a heads up, but if you want some good aroa e rep it's popular but alastor in hazbin is explicitly aroace and that facet of his character is handled really well

Haha yeah I know, it's been kinda hard NOT to hear about it these days 🙈 Arguably I have yet to check out the show but yeah...

(...Is he also aro though? I HAVE heard about that one joke about him being ace but aro's actually the first time I hear about it... Then again I maybe just jumped to the conclusion that it wouldn't come up because from what I understand of his personality he's kind of a horrible person people probably shouldn't want to be romantically involved with for their own sake...? ...Idk that's just all I can observe with my non-knowledge of the show though so please do feel free to correct me if I'm wrong 🙈)

PS: With that said, explicit ace rep is explicit ace rep, it's rare enough as it is, and in a show with that much reach, I appreciate it èwé

[dailykugisaki]

Day 230 | id in alt

I need to actually make a good time with doodling these omg.

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

"well Gus passes as human but he is not one!!!" huh??? what??? excuse me???

(Yeah! He's actually a- [Bean is obliterated in a billion pieces] (silly!!!)

Don't give in Bean, you are strong, resist the tail-

MISSION FAILED!!!

I guess he has a tail now!)

[bumblingbabooshka]

Why is B’Elanna Torres the cutest girl in the world?

[rubberduckyrye]

I decided to draw out the 3 Twins AU designs, and then I thought: You know this might actually be a good time to make references for the Twins Anyway so let's just go ham on it."

I love their stupid tastes in underwear. Fucking nerds.

(For Kurochi, I vaguely remember L saying he had mustache underwear. Idr the pattern, but I liked the one I found so xD)

But yeah--Kokichi, unlike Kurochi, has scars underneath all of this clothes, all of them from Kenzo and his abuse. What are the scars exactly from? Who knows, but Kokichi has definitely seen some cigars being put out on him. Those are mostly on his back/shoulders though.

Kurochi doesn't have any scars from Kenzo... at least, not physical ones.

Also side note--Kokichi's hand is different because he's gonna have the Boom Stick. If you know what the Boom Stick is I applaud you because it's been years.

Anyway enjoy--or suffer, and beat Kenzo up with a bat.

[depresseddepot]

going to watch alien: romulus tomorrow (or possibly the next day) all by myself !!!!!

[dany36]

my friend perfectly summarized my thoughts about the new zelda game "echoes of wisdom"

[23y]

:D

[keeps-ache]

morning - afternoon - night

[look at my background boy- under the cut]

[howgalling]

i luv ur designss, theyre so unique and creative 🫶🫶🫶 also u said smth abt a pdf copy of the zine, ill be rlly ecstatic if youd drop that! :DD (if u want ofc)

thank you!!! i'm actually not sure where the best place to put up the PDF would be, i need to look into it! could i get some opinions about what a fair/reasonable charge for access to the PDF would be? ^^