#Tiger Island

[earth-1218designate]

Hulk, but with the Iron Fist? The strongest there is, at his most serene?

Awww shit, these Avengers were fucked six ways to Sunday the moment I saw Hulk's fist glow :

*I can really go for some tea now

** Love how every attack was measured by one "Hiroshima". These Avengers withstood an annihilation force multiplied !

*The Winsome Wasp !!!

*America never looked more beautiful.

*Immortal Instruments doing joshi moves? i can dig it.

[blackandwhiteproductions]

Tiger island habitat at Loro Parque in Tenerife

[boitedeconcert]

Tiger Island

Bobiks, Newcastle, England. 10/03/23.

[tigerseyeisland]

The campsite at night 🏕️

[katrinthecat]

Despite the tremendous amount of work I've done, I don't really have much to say. Well, except that it's a reference to a scene from Avatar 2 and the first attempt to fit my fukai fishmen into some kind of timeline

Even back then, the relationship between the fukai - who had left their home island - and the ordinary fish people was not a pleasant one. The former refused to forget their true nature of predators, and after settling in a new place they gradually established the extraction of natural resources for trade. Not with just anyone, but with the humans, who by nature were not able to descend so deep, which in turn shook their already bad reputation in the eyes of the island brothers. Nevertheless, there were loyalists on both sides who did not want their kin to die, and among them was Anko Kitou Arekuzu.

During the general assembly, the angler fishman made it clear that hiding here would accomplish nothing but more bloodshed for the Sun Pirates. For there will be those above and those below who will want their blood. They can't hide here in the Underwater Sea.

Oh, no, there's something to say)

[5ky1arxx]

VAAS STIMBOARD!!

[deadite-central]

Time for some more Fishman Island gushing/thoughts because like I said, I love this arc

The entire flashback shows us different reactions to the racism that fishmen face. How different people deal with it, how it shapes their lives, their morals, their dreams. On one hand we have Fisher Tiger, who cannot bring himself to love humans, and refuses to let human blood be transfused to him, even if it meant he died. However, he doesn’t let that shape how he interacts with the world. He still lets Koala on the ship because he knows that no child deserves to be a slave. No one deserves that life. Then, you have Arlong, who believes that all of this justifies his utter hatred for humanity, how they should be the ones to suffer like he and the other fishmen did. While it makes sense why someone like Arlong would come out of the environment he was in, it doesn’t change the fact that what he did to Nami’s village was absolutely vile.

And finally, Queen Otohime. She understands that a war with humanity is going to bring them nowhere, and instead, she wants to change the world using political power. She takes a bullet for a celestial dragon because she doesn’t want all of the chances fishmen have for a better tomorrow be ruined. Something she had no idea would in the future save her daughter’s life. Otohime believes that they need to work for a better future, to show their children that hatred isn’t the way, because those very children are the ones who will shape the world when they’re older. She might have been an idealist who hadn’t shown enough care for the Fishman District, but her efforts were very real.

Back to the present, Hody gets an absolute reality check when the people of Fishman Island would rather have their home destroyed than let him rule it. It’s not like he cares about the people of the Island either way. But then Luffy comes swinging, absolutely perfectly landing a kick, starting the fight

And finally, the Straw Hats are altogether (even with Jinbei, who only joins them in the future, which I find lovely) ready to take on the New Fishmen Pirates, but also allowing the people to choose for themselves if they are the good guys. Luffy has no intention of parading himself and the Straw Hats as heroes, because what he cares about is freedom, including the freedom to choose what you see him as

Onto the fight with Hody himself, we find out more about his view of the world: he doesn’t actually care about fishmen. He only wants to get divine revenge for what they went through. He needs humans to be inherently evil to justify his conquest for blood, and he couldn’t give less of a shit how many fishmen die in the process. Humans never actually hurt him, but he was raised in an environment that made him believe all of this. This is how he, and many others in the fishmen district lived. That’s why you can’t just abandon a group of people into a district and let their hate brew.

Luffy finally defeats him in the end, once again completely disproving Hody’s and Arlong’s belief that fishmen are inherently stronger than humans, and after a few more problems taken care of (including Shirahoshi talking to the Neptunians) Fishman Island is saved by a human who doesn’t even consider himself a hero

Getting back to the comedy, my favorite gag gets brought back, and in a great way too. Because Big Mom gets introduced, and holy hell is she terrifying here. Luffy obviously doesn’t care, cause he’s Luffy, and talks back to her, finally resulting in saying he’ll defeat her, and the payoff for that will come much, much later

And to finish things of, just like Otohime believed, the children are the future, and they already have different views than their powers. Because while sure, there are still terrible humans, the Celestial Dragons exist, and surface isn’t completely safe. But there are people like Luffy, who the kids themselves see as their hero. And with the fishman district kids also getting another chance, maybe soon fishmen will be able to live their lives without the fear they used to have

[dindleseed]

Ergon the Necropolist

[otaharuo]

オキナワハンミョウ、Sophiodela okinawana、2022年4月26日、沖���

[every-sanji]

[nocternalrandomness]

F-5 Aggressor at NAS North Island - Aug 2006

[tigerseyeisland]

Checking out the bug exhibit with Maple 🐛

[toiletcleaner69]

ONE design done for my fucking Hybrid au.

I’m going to cry

Color palette for his design

chat this is probably going to get like 9 likes but I want someone to draw this in their design 🤑 (basically asking for some fanart😞)

[slaughtergutz]

some fun comic practice

did you know that the chain catshark is also known as the chain dogfish. like pick an animal.

they are also biofluorescent, which means they glow BRIGHT GREEN under a blacklight.

[tropicalpearls]

[fmlopla]

I’m making these by arc now. Almost done with Fishman Island!