#gay marine

[wewerealwaysthere]

[jackinhofejr]

I'm working on a few illustrated stories about my ill-fated fraternity brother/roommate/fuckbuddy from college, but I'm being a perfectionist. I can see glimpses of him in each of these images, but none fully capture his essence. He was a Marine midshipman, and during the three years we lived together, he spent about 90% of his time wearing nothing but USMC silkies. He knew it drove me wild, and also knew I couldn't do anything about it when other people were around, which drove him wild!

[anthonysperkins]

Paul Brooks, Tony Spencer and Pat Trendell The Marine, the Cop and Youth (1966) dir. Bob Mizer

[clouvu]

Save me french yuri... Save me

[bedupolker]

When two crabs are in love the male will hold the female and carry her around (like/comment/subscribe if you agree)

[eddieintheocean]

Something something gay people gravitate towards weird and unpopular animals

[browsethestacks]

Star Trek Celebrations (2024)

Art by Kevin Wada

[foxsnails]

Quick plaice doodle

[feelingautistic]

Pride Month Special

Happy Pride Month to my shark enthusiasts across the LGBTQ+ spectrum! Since June is Pride Month, I thought I'd discuss the common view that being LGBTQ+ 'goes against nature' by talking about...being LGBTQ+ in nature.

In nature, sex typically serves the singular purpose of reproduction. Therefore, many animals don't engage in long-term mating like humans, instead breeding with many members of their species to spread their genes to as many offspring as possible. By this logic, same-sex relationships/mating in animals should be an unusual behaviour as the animal takes on the same costs to energy and overall fitness without the benefit of producing offspring.

That being said, over 1500 animal species have been observed engaging in same-sex sexual behaviour, many of which are marine animals. Male guppies have been observed flashing sexual displays at other males, male dolphins have been observed forming long-lasting sexual relationships with other males, female cleaner wrasses will perform the male courting rituals towards other females in the absence of males etc.

Particularly in marine animals, gender can be quite ambiguous too, with marine invertebrates commonly being hermaphrodites, capable of producing both male and female reproductive gametes (typically both sperm and eggs) which, as a result, have no distinguishable genders. Examples include coral, limpets and mangrove rivulus.

Not to mention, there are 500 fish that are known to be sequential hermaphrodites meaning they can change from being one sex to the other when necessary (for example, if the males in a population are wiped out, being able to have females become males is an excellent survival strategy). Many of you will already know that clownfish share this trait but wrasses, groupers and some gobies are also able to change their gender.

Humans changing gender and sexual orientation 'against the rules of nature' is not a reason to dismiss the idea as impossible or ridiculous. That being said, we can see that humans are not outliers in this area anyway and, without even considering land animals nor plants, we can see plenty of examples of the LGBTQ+ spectrum occurring naturally. So let's respect everyone's gender identity and sexual orientation :)

[nofacednerd]

Boimler totally would somehow manage to be the only person in the 24th century to experience comphet

[militarymenrbomb]

[olive-ridley]

The orcas are here to wish you all a very happy pride month! 🩷🏳️‍🌈

Original art by me! (stickers and pins available on my redbubble: misty-leaves)

[tobytheeggo]

200 notes and I’ll draw this as young adult RedStairs (Chidi x Kirill)‼️‼️‼️‼️

It’s not gonna happen and I’m gonna bask in that fact

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know what you are.

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[unsanctitude]

cracks open my coffin lid to show my newest disgusting old person furry

[thiefbird]

the best part of writing fanfic is when you have to create a character to fill a specific purpose and then all of a sudden you have created A Guy and now you're attached