#great ask!! :D

[namu-the-orca]

Do you happen to know why bowhead whales have that little line of black dots on their white chins? Once I noticed it it became so distinctive to them, it seems so unique! Is it markings or perhaps just like, white rubbed off by ice or something??

Hi! Great question! Bowhead whales indeed wear some beautiful "bead strings" on their chins. They are true markings, and each dot indicates the location of a chin hair! In some whales you'll see that nearer the tip of the chin, the dots become tiny and plentiful, indicating a hairy muzzle. See for example this whale captured by Todd Mintz:

There is a lot of individual variation though. Some whales have few, very large dots, while others have more, smaller ones. The white chin patch itself can also be very big, other times it is very small (like the whale on the left, photo by Kate Stafford), or entirely washed out gray, making the dots stand out less (like the whale on the right, photo by WWF).

Interestingly it seems the "coding" for the hair spots is always present, as they are even a slightly darker shade than their base greyish black colour. See? You can see the "chin" dots run almost up to this Bowhead's cheeks! (Photo also by Todd Mintz or another Arctic Kingdoms photographer).

And while the dots always follow hairs, the bottom of the white chin marking can have all sorts of funky shapes. It can fade out normally, have quite a jagged edge, or a spotted one, like this whale! (photo courtesy of NMFS)

Why exactly they have this colouration I do not know! It may have some advantage we don't know of yet. But sometimes colouration also just happens, and because it is neither detrimental not advantageous, it just sticks around.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 271

“Grandmother is visiting,” Damian suddenly said with no warning and with his usual not-quite demanding tone. 

“Who?” Tim wasn’t the only one to startle, seeing as Bruce had practically froze, a downturn to his lips in a silent show of confusion. 

Damian scowled. “Are you deaf Drake? Grandmother is coming to Gotham to, quote, make sure I am being properly cared for.” None of them had known that Ras was with anyone actually. At least Tim was pretty sure that would have been in the files. 

“Oh?” Dick didn’t quite crouch to Damian’s height but it was a near thing. “She-” “He,” Damian corrected, interrupting him. They all exchanged a glance before Dick continued. 

“Is he coming to the Manor or…” 

Damian scoffed again, a tiny bit of a flush against his face. “No, Grandmother will most likely be staying with Akhi-”

Now wait one moment-

“YOU HAVE ANOTHER BROTHER?!” 

[anniflamma]

I want to smash your Odysseus so badly, it's not even funny. I want to see him blushing, squirming, tears down his face, moaning, and begging for help. Anyways, have a great day :D

Starting to suspect that you might actually be Penelope in disguise… 🤔

[chinelacanta]

i love putting dragon in Situations <3

BIG FAN of the ‘dragon is xebec’s son’ but i can’t decide if i like it in a funny way or a sad way 😭. do you think dragon thought he’d lose his father’s love if he knew he was taken in by a marine. do you think he mourned garp’s favor when he also failed to be a ‘good man’ and turned to revolution, that he wasted garp’s life efforts in saving a child from evil and a life lead to a death sentence. do you think dragon grieves that he managed to disappoint both his fathers. do you think that when he held luffy for the first time he realized he was no different then xebec, that he’d condemned his child to the stake for the crime of existence, a life of loneliness if he lived, a forced marine career and shackled dreams from his only ‘relative’. hey man what if i cried real hard abt it

[triona-tribblescore]

I just stumbled across your Rottmnt pirate comic and I am WHEEZING I am IN LOVE 😂

THANK YOU! :D they are my idiots and I love them <3

[forgettable-au]

How are Wingdings’ cooking skills?

They're okay, he's usually good at following the recipe

But if the instructions aren't specific enough then it will go wrong...

He finds cooking a little stressful, so he would rather not

He doesn't have time for that stuff anyway

[bobabisch]

I often hear the argument that Luffy is dumb, and I can't help but be ticked off every time I hear someone say it, because Luffy isn't dumb, he's simply carefree. And I mean that in the literal sense of the word. Luffy truly does not have a care in the world. Luffy chooses not to complicate things. He does things for the simple fact of wanting to and he purposely refuses to learn about people, situations, and the nuances involved with both because the nuance just pollutes the true nature of the subjects. Luffy doesn't choose to do these things out of ignorance or selfishness, but because in the grand scheme of things, all the information that he chooses to ignore is wholly unimportant both by Luffy's own standards and to the development of the story as well. What Luffy deems unimportant does not matter at all to how things play out in the anime.

Luffy, at his core, is an incredible judge of character. Luffy's relationship with Tama is a perfect example of this. By all accounts Luffy's first impression of Tama should have been negative. She came off as a little bit mean and stand-offish. However, Luffy in his natural Luffy-fashion is unbothered. He didn't need Tama to tell him or show him explicitly the kind of person she was to understand her as a person. Despite the fact that she was a little girl, Luffy treated her with basic respect right off the bat. Luffy didn't see her as child, but rather as the self-sufficient human she was. Of course his fondness for her was only furthered by the food that Tama gave him. Luffy didn't need to know anything more about Tama after he heard that she had given him her last shares of food. He didn't need to hear Tama's sad story to understand her. She treated him with kindness, like she would a friend, even though they had just met. Luffy would go to the ends of the earth for her over that simple fact. He had no desire to learn of Wano's history to better understand how Tama got to this point in her life. All he needed to do and all thay he wanted to do was return a kindness. And that he did.

The same can be said for the part Luffy plays in Nami's story. When Nami 'betrayed' Luffy, he'd simply brushed it off. Once again, Luffy knew who Nami was without having to ask and without her having to show him explicitly. Luffy saw her 'betrayal' yet did not take it at face value. Luffy refuses to leave her behind because everything Nami had said/done in that situation muddled Luffy's inherent and instinctive understanding of her character. This next bit is ironic to say because Luffy often makes decisions with his stomach rather than his head, but its clear that Luffy would rather trust his gut feeling than try to understand Nami's actions which appeared entirely contradictory to Luffy's perception of her personality/character.

This theme rings true throughout the whole anime. This happens when Luffy chooses to trust Law on Punk Hazard over Law's rather dubious choices without needing or wanting an explanation from him. This happens when he rescues Zoro at the very beginning of the anime and he simply trusts this well-known pirate hunter not to cut him down right of the post. I beg of you all, please do not dilute Luffy's complex character design down to something so trivial as him simply "being stupid".

Sorry for the tangent, I have just always felt people who say this about Luffy sell him and his whole character design short. There is so much more that I could say about this too. I could go into detail about the ways in which Luffy is as smart as the rest of the crew (in different ways than them obviously), but that would call for several more paragraphs, so I'll just cut it here I think.

Anyways tell me what y'all think, I'm curious.

[charmwasjess]

I can't believe I thought teen!Dooku and Asajj's revenge team-up was going to be the funniest pair to write in Time Travel Forward AU, when really it's Sith!Dooku and teen!Sifo-Dyas:

“I’ve seen your entire life and its end. I'm afraid it isn’t happy. No bright, grand adventure wherein you save the galaxy with your special gifts. You fail, Sifo-Dyas. You die alone, on a moon without a name, betrayed in ways you never even comprehend.”

[shepscapades]

shep! which wild life povs have you watched so far!! and what teams/day one alliances are you liking so far ^-^

HEHE I’ve watched martyn Bdubs and Jimmy so far :D this isn’t a surprise but I could not be more stoked about the tangthubs trio. I just couldn’t stop grinning/laughing for the entirety of bdubs’ episode, I’ll probably watch etho’s too when/if it comes out :D Jimmy’s episode has had me in peels of laughter too, he’s just so ridiculous <3 LOL and I couldn’t be happier about ren and martyn duo :3 AND GRIAN AND MUMBO!!! I’ll prolly watch mumbo next honestly. It feels like everyone’s kinda going back to their roots and I’m loving it so far :D

[zu-is-here]

I feel bad for making this

NOOO Gayfish this is a sad moment!! XD

[tatos-stick-pile]

This is why you don't let your kids play Minecraft- DJ

@wtfgaylittlezooid WELL ONLY FAIR I HELP COOK W UR STORY

[somegrumpynerd]

I really do like your Dadmare AU

It gives me comfort & I'm a huge fan of the Dadmare concept ❤️

Eeeeeee thank you!! <3

I'm glad to hear it brings somebody comfort, if there's two things I want my art to be in this fandom it's silly and soft so I'm happy it's working so far :D And yeah, I know a lot of people aren't into it cause it's super fanon and ooc but I'm just a huge sucker for criminal found family, so I'll keep on clocking in for my shift at the dadmare factory o7

Also I wanted to do a couple of dadmare doodles for you since this ask made me happy and uh, one of them kinda got away from me I don't know if you can tell

^A picture Dream captions: My brother and the son he "doesn't have"

[pokimoko]

Hello!! i just discovered your blog and firstly i wanna say that your art is gorgeous! <33 and secondly, if youre still taking requests could i get a lesbian/non binary cheetah? /nf

Thank you! Cheetahs be upon ye!

[elitadream]

Idk if you’re doing it for this purpose at all but “Mario’s” eyes in the body swap art are so intense with the shading, they look so sunken and hollow. I just imagine Bowser is doing absolutely nothing to maintain the health of Mario’s body. They’re gonna swap back and Mario is gonna feel so exhausted and hungry bc Bowser didn’t bother with any of that, he had more important things to do (like be a total creep)

Oh I'm so happy that someone has pointed this out! :D Okay, so here's a direct comparison:

One thing I did right away to give Bowser a more evil gaze was make the pupils a lot smaller. That's where a good portion of the intensity comes from. The size of the pupils and irises always plays a huge part in a character's overall friendliness, and it applies for both extremes.

As for the shadows and wrinkles, they make the white areas of the eyes stand out more, which tends to further accentuate that intensity. Even when he's relaxed, my Bowser indeed has those visible creases, but that's mostly because he squints a lot. He's got that typical "evil glare", if you will! 😆 Though I gotta say I love your interpretation of Bowser also neglecting Mario's body to the point where it shows! 👀 I'm definitely keeping that! 👏

[enden-agolor]

aiden fans hate you dawg im so sorry

That's okay, I don't really expect everyone in the fandom to like me. I'm aware there's some who don't like me because I'm jesskas focused, and that's understandable. It's a very popular ship in the fandom and I'm sure people who don't ship it get tired of seeing it and me. We all just gotta stick to our own little circles. In the end, I'm very thankful for the followers, mutuals, and friends I do have in the fandom : ]

[tradingjack]

slept through most of may, whoops

have some very late mermay stuff ft. those trigun fellas