#north sans

[emo-axel]

A while ago I was messing around with trying to mess around with potential armor designs for my swap sans guy (nicknamed "North")

Shout out to cross sans for helping me with some inspiration. Mainly with the boots but... you know. I wanted to try and mainly make his armor unique (the best way I can, anyway)

Also, bonus doodle for y'all. I love his cute little freckles... :)

[fortunelowtier]

OH GOD DAMNIT IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN

SANS IS THE CONSTANT VARIABLE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SANS

[reasonsforhope]

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As he peered over a secluded cove off the coast of San Francisco, Gerry McChesney couldn’t believe the scene that was unfolding in front of him. 

Fur seal pups — hundreds of them — had taken over the inlet at the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and were bobbing on the surface of the water in a shiny, blubbery mass, likely hiding from great white sharks as they waited for their mothers to return from the sea to nurse. The sight wasn’t exactly unheard of — island biologists at Point Blue Conservation Science had first noticed the older seal pups using the cove as a covert hideout sometime last year, McChesney, a manager for the refuge, told SFGATE. But he was on the island one day in late October when biologist Jim Tietz delivered the news: The seals were back in full force, and in numbers they had never seen before. 

McChesney decided to go take a look for himself.

“I was amazed to see them all piled in there, getting tossed around like they were in a washing machine,” he told SFGATE in an email, adding that he counted 440 in all. “They looked pretty content and like they were having a good ol’ time.”

The video McChesney captured was shared by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on social media earlier this week, garnering thousands of comments on Instagram and Facebook, with users referring to the phenomenon as “seal pup daycare” and “nature’s mosh pit.” 

To the biologists, it’s a sign of “a truly remarkable recovery.” 

The rookery’s history

The Farallon Islands host one of just two fur seal rookeries south of Alaska (the other being San Miguel Island in Santa Barbara County) after the species was completely wiped out from the area in the early 19th century. There was extensive seal hunting between about 1810 and 1838... In the first few years of widespread hunting, he estimates that over 150,000 fur seals were slaughtered (“The rookery must have been huge,” he noted) and soon, no fur seals could be found at the islands at all.

But large-scale market hunting came to an end by the mid-19th century, he said. In 1911, the United States signed the Northern Fur Seal Treaty, banning the hunting of marine mammals at sea. The Marine Mammal Protection Act, which prohibits killing and disturbing animals including seals, was established in 1972, further aiding in the protection of the species. Two years later, 141 acres of the islands were designated the Farallon Wilderness and were closed to the public in an attempt to mitigate human disturbance so the seals could return and “breed unfettered,” McChesney said. Large breeding colonies still persisted on the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, and the Commander Islands off eastern Siberia, and in 1996, a female fur seal from a recovered colony on the Channel Islands made her way back to the Farallones, giving birth to the first fur seal pup there after more than 150 years of the species’ absence.

Since then, “the Farallon population has been growing rapidly,” McChesney said. Within 15 years, the local population had boomed to 476 individuals, Bay Nature reported in 2018. Initially, they clustered in one area on the west end of the islands — but now, they’re beginning to expand.

Pictured: A photo of a northern fur seal in Alaska.

A seal surge

Pupping season runs from June to August, with most of the seals born in July and remaining in the breeding colony for a few months before they are weaned, usually by the end of November. Then, the newly independent animals go out to sea on their own. 

Farallon Island biologists from Point Blue Conservation Science have been documenting the population, and this year recorded 2,133 fur seals in total, including 1,276 pups, which McChesney called “the highest pup count yet.” 

“Given that the entire colony can’t be seen, this was a minimal count and there were certainly many more,” he noted.

Pictured: The Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco.

Though Point Blue biologists have never documented white sharks feeding on fur seal pups (they typically go for juvenile northern elephant seals and sea lions) the “threat of shark attacks on the seal pups is certainly there and I’m sure the pups are aware of that,” McChesney said. “The cove where the video was taken provides a secluded spot to swim and play without worrying about the sharks.”

When the mothers return, they find their pups by using a distinctive call. But in the meantime, the pups seem not to mind the hours away in their secret hideout where they can splash and play to their hearts’ content.

“It was so much fun to watch,” McChesney said. “And knowing that the sight represents such an amazing comeback for their population made the sight mean so much more.”

-via SF Gate, December 23, 2024

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Bisti Badlands, New Mexico, United States: The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a 45,000-acre wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Established in 1984, the Wilderness is a desolate area of steeply eroded badlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, except three parcels of private Navajo land within its boundaries. Wikipedia

[smolmight97]

In regards to the ut/dr/UTY sexiness poll

[vintagehomecollection]

The Carr House, San Diego, California.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Saint Patrick Cathedral - NYC

[zu-is-here]

in my DBH phase again but with the power of au sanses >:)

[breathtakingdestinations]

Golden Gate Bridge - California - USA (by Loren Kerns)

[batteredshoes]

Make The Scene

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Eastern North Pacific long-beaked common dolphin Delphinus bairdii bairdii

Observed by chrisearley, CC BY-NC

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So, it seems like you guys really liked my little swap sans oc from the last time I posted him, and I figured that I'd make a little something as a thank you for all the love and support I got on my initial post for North.

I was inspired by this post from roadkill-creatures and I realllyyy wanted to try my hand at doing a sort of painting type artwork? Its not something I typically do and was a bit out of my comfort zone, but I'm really happy that I tried something new and I'm super proud of how it turned out :)

North belongs to me

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[knifeforkspooncup]

iwtv really said "what if everyone was the most unreliable narrator of all time" and then released us into the wilderness to fend for ourselves huh

[northameicanblog]

Cable Cars, San Francisco, United States: The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco. San Francisco's cable cars are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of only two street railways to be named a National Historic Landmark, along with the St. Charles Streetcar Line in New Orleans. Wikipedia

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Why did Ceroba do that