#not seals

[sealsdaily]

I think that's a ouppy !

[slushyseals]

Hey all, we're hosting a fun little Halloween virtual Jack O'Lantern carving competition on the seal server! I've put together a template file that's super easy to use to carve your pumpkin, and a tutorial video that's only 5 minutes long that can guide you through carving your first pumpkin (above)!

If you don't own Photoshop you can carve your Jack O'Lantern at https://www.photopea.com/ for free, no registration required.

If you're not on the server you can still have fun carving your own virtual Jack O'Lantern and share it as a reblog or your own post! Have fun!

High Res Template - Low Res Template If these Discord based links are broken there's an alternative file host in the video that will work for 30 days from the date this is posted.

[thalassata]

As a heads up, Tokkari Center has requested no reposts of their photos and videos. Anything I post from them from now on will be direct links to their twitter or Instagram. Please support them and all the original photographers!

[sourdough-seal]

hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

[allthatispeculiar]

[sealsdaily]

My bf loves seals a lot and loves this blog! I was wondering if you have any seal hug gifs or something similar? I wanna brighten up his dash :)

Absolutely. Have fun

[slushyseals]

Looking for Fantasy Adventure RP Writing Partners (OCs & CCs Welcome)

Psst... does anyone who follows me still roleplay on Tumblr anymore? I'm looking for some friends to write with and posted a new open starter on one of my side blogs! This one is dedicated to all the characters at Boffle's Resort and Insula Mea- so if you're itching to explore a world of fantasy, magic, and robots this starter is open! Message my RP account @bofflesresort if you'd like to plot together!

[silky-selkie]

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[slushyseals]

Y'all so worried about walrus and fairies showing up at the door you didn't even CONSIDER a fish using the ring cam to ring the doorbell. ...and that's the one that actually happens!

VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.

Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)

[3liza]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/theyre-not-human-how-19th-century-inuit-coped-with-a-real-life-invasion-of-the-walking-dead

Indigenous groups across the Americas had all encountered Europeans differently. But where other coastal groups such as the Haida or the Mi’kmaq had met white men who were well-fed and well-dressed, the Inuit frequently encountered their future colonizers as small parties on the edge of death.

“I’m sure it terrified people,” said Eber, 91, speaking to the National Post by phone from her Toronto home.

And it’s why, as many as six generations after the events of the Franklin Expedition, Eber was meeting Inuit still raised on stories of the two giant ships that came to the Arctic and discharged columns of death onto the ice.

Inuit nomads had come across streams of men that “didn’t seem to be right.” Maddened by scurvy, botulism or desperation, they were raving in a language the Inuit couldn’t understand. In one case, hunters came across two Franklin Expedition survivors who had been sleeping for days in the hollowed-out corpses of seals.

“They were unrecognizable they were so dirty,” Lena Kingmiatook, a resident of Taloyoak, told Eber.

Mark Tootiak, a stepson of Nicholas Qayutinuaq, related a story to Eber of a group of Inuit who had an early encounter with a small and “hairy” group of Franklin Expedition men evacuating south.

“Later … these Inuit heard that people had seen more white people, a lot more white people, dying,” he said. “They were seen carrying human meat.”

Even Eber’s translator, the late Tommy Anguttitauruq, recounted a goose hunting trip in which he had stumbled upon a Franklin Expedition skeleton still carrying a clay pipe.

By 1850, coves and beaches around King William Island were littered with the disturbing remnants of their advance: Scraps of clothing and camps still littered with their dead occupants. Decades later, researchers would confirm the Inuit accounts of cannibalism when they found bleached human bones with their flesh hacked clean.

“I’ve never in all my life seen any kind of spirit — I’ve heard the sounds they make, but I’ve never seen them with my own eyes,” said the old man who had gone out to investigate the Franklin survivors who had straggled into his camp that day on King William Island.

The figures’ skin was cold but it was not “cold as a fish,” concluded the man. Therefore, he reasoned, they were probably alive.

“They were beings but not Inuit,” he said, according to the account by shaman Nicholas Qayutinuaq.

The figures were too weak to be dangerous, so Inuit women tried to comfort the strangers by inviting them into their igloo.

But close contact only increased their alienness: The men were timid, untalkative and — despite their obvious starvation — they refused to eat.

The men spit out pieces of cooked seal offered to them. They rejected offers of soup. They grabbed jealous hold of their belongings when the Inuit offered to trade.

When the Inuit men returned to the camp from their hunt, they constructed an igloo for the strangers, built them a fire and even outfitted the shelter with three whole seals.

Then, after the white men had gone to sleep, the Inuit quickly packed up their belongings and fled by moonlight.

Whether the pale-skinned visitors were qallunaat or “Indians” — the group determined that staying too long around these “strange people” with iron knives could get them all killed.

“That night they got all their belongings together and took off towards the southwest,” Qayutinuaq told Dorothy Eber.

But the true horror of the encounter wouldn’t be revealed until several months later.

The Inuit had left in such a hurry that they had abandoned several belongings. When a small party went back to the camp to retrieve them, they found an igloo filled with corpses.

The seals were untouched. Instead, the men had eaten each other.

[spicymochi]

silly seal

[idlelizard]

celestial seal. sealestial? celestseal? a harbor starbor seal

[slushyseals]

This is one of my favorite videos in existence <3

[sourdough-seal]

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

[randumbkatt]

this picture is so beautiful to me, the colours brothers