#pinnated

[limendesign]

Vector Even Pinnate Leaf Seamless Pattern Background

[todaysbat]

video of a juvenile Pinnate Batfish (Platax pinnatus)

[respect-the-locals]

🐠 Daily Fish Fact: 🐠

Pinnate Batfish adults are normally solitary but will gather in large schools to move over open substrates. The juveniles are mimics of a toxic species of flatworm by colour and shape. They feed on algae as well as jellyfish and other gelatinous zooplankton. This species has been observed to significantly reduce algal growths on coral in studies simulating the effects of overfishing on the Great Barrier Reef.

[eldritchamy]

Same author as the Previous Story I linked but

What if a rebel pilot went alone on a doomed rescue mission for the girlfriend whose ship she watched get taken by femdom plant aliens, and she got immediately captured and then found out her girlfriend actually got domesticated like ten days ago, then she threatens an entire city-sized ship with a single exploding oven in order to be reunited with her girlfriend, and then ends up becoming a very willing pet to the same owner and they get a special version of the mind control implants that lets the girlfriends share each other's thoughts and sensations, and then they get doublefuck psychic brain blasted by each other's blissed out feedback loop?

WHAT THEN, HUH?

You'll squirm at how cute and hot this story is, that's what.

I swear this author dug a scalpel into my chest, carved out a piece of my soul, and put a collar on it. It's so good. Just clamped a jumper cable directly into my brain stem and said "what would it take to make Amy's brain, specifically, go WHOOSH"

And you know what happened next? My brain went WHOOSH.

I will ABSOLUTELY be reading this again.

Inosculate by SapphicSounds

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Pinnated Bittern

Photo: Mauricio Silvera

"Cryptic heron of freshwater marshes in tropical lowlands. Usually in areas with tall grasses or rushes, rarely in open situations. When alarmed, often freezes motionless with neck upstretched. The neck is finely barred horizontally, but the body plumage is vertically streaked (not horizontally barred and banded, as on immature tiger-herons). Compare with immature night-herons, which have streaked, not finely barred necks."

- eBird

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #595

Dusky batfish!

It goes through a major change as it matures, going from a juvenile with a deep black colour with bright orange highlights and large, elongated fins to an adult with more proportionate fins, lighter colours, stripes and yellow accents. The eye-catching appearance of the juvenile is meant to mimic a toxic flatworm, so that predators won't make the fish a target!

Oh, and here's the adult, for good measure:

[whywolfprincess]

Trick or treat!

Treat!!!

Happy Halloween, have a pinnate batfish kid ovo

[chaossmith2]

I just think they're neat

(X)

[mintytrifecta]

Top ten fish most likely to love safety vests number one: this guy

[bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Greater Prairie Chicken

^Image credit: Greg Schechter

Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)

Also known as the Pinnated Grouse, and sometimes given the nickname 'Boomer', the Greater Prairie Chicken is famous for their mating ritual known as booming, in which the males go to their 'booming grounds' and perform a dramatic display to attract females, which involves inflating their orange air sac and snapping their tails.

[domifucker]

everyone thinks they’re so slick and can identify all kinds of deciduous trees until the white ash and kentucky coffeetree and hickory and beech come out…

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

Friend: What kind of fish do you think you are?

Me: I know the kind of fish I wish I was but don't think I'm cool enough to be, if that helps

[random-racehorses]

Random Real Thoroughbred: PINNATE

PINNATE is a mare born in South Africa in 1990. By IMPERIAL DILEMMA out of PERFOLIATE. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/pinnate

[drama-but-gayer]

"Ah, I see, that's cute! So then... who would your pinnate be?"

- My actual real life therapist

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Water

beautiful words with "water" to pour into your next poem/story

Backwater - an isolated or backward place or condition

Firewater - strong alcoholic liquor

Meltwater - water derived from the melting of ice and snow

Rosewater - affectedly nice or delicate; having the odor of rose water

Water flower - scum formed on the surface of a body of water by a bloom of plankton

Waterborne - upported, carried, or transmitted by water

Waterbuck - a stocky antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) of sub-Saharan Africa that commonly frequent streams or wet areas

Watercourse - a stream of water (such as a river, brook, or underground stream)

Watercraft - skill in aquatic activities

Waterleaf - any of a genus (Hydrophyllum) of perennial or biennial North American woodland herbs with lobed or pinnate toothed leaves and cymes of bell-shaped flowers

Waterlily - an aquatic plant (such as a water hyacinth) with showy flowers

Waterscape - a water or sea view; seascape

Waterside - the margin of a body of water; waterfront

Waterweed - any of various floating or submerged aquatic plants (such as elodea) having usually inconspicuous flowers

Waterworn - worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read them!

More: Word Lists

[tgirlrobot]

Karyn Felicidae, Third Floret was a very sneaky floret. She knew that if Mistress had caught her in the act she'd probably be punished in an absolutely embarassing way, but she didn't want to dwell on that while she carefully cut a small piece of ribbon. The last time Maryn was caught with scissors, and god forbid, cutting some material, she was put into a doll-body with no motor control for a week! Mistress was especially mean to her during that time, making her say such embarrassing things like how she "loved her Mistress so much" and that "she would always be a good girl" and and and...

A small mental hiss of xenodrugs stopped the thoughts from going off-course. her spine-friend, her Haustoric Implant, she reminded herself. She needed to stay on travk while she built this... what was it she was building again? No matter. She laid the ribbon into a bath of ichor-black goop before placing it on the handheld structure, smiling as it contracted into a small, loose curl before the substance grew transparent, showing the shining silk underneath.

"Darn 'fini and their dumb... stuff." Karyn muttered to herself as she placed a green rod into the contraption, nodding to herself as she watched everything warp around it, accepting the additional mass and shifting it about, adding onto the figure in front. This was absolutely helping her escape plans of finally rejoining her crew before launching her attack on the stars-darned evil plants that gave her this pretty dress and fancy collar...

Who knows what they've done to her head, though! She might be a brainless slave working in the mines and all this was right now was a machination of her mind! Perishing that simply idioitic thought, Karyn simply fitted the final piece of glass into the masterpiece of an escape tool before leaning back, taking in the full thing in all its two-foot wonder. Green strips of material swung around and around, creating ropes and intricate patterns implying a greater depth to the humanoid model. Moss and red ribbon laid on the top, creating a facsimile of terran hair. Half-moon glasses sat in front of a pair of diamond gemstone eyes.

"Perfect!" A voice harmonied Karyn's, looking upon the mkdel figure of herself. "Look at all that detail, pet! Aren't you proud~!"

Karyn turned around to see her. Mistress Dandel Felicidae, 12th bloom, clapping a pair of woven vined hands together excitedly. The doll in her hands being a significantly downscaled version of the being towering over her. "Fear me, plant lady! My escape is assured woth this!" Karyn pushed the doll towards Dandel, who simply laughed in reaction.

"Of course it is, sweetie! Now come on, let's get you to go for a bath~ then you'll totally get rescued by your pinnates!" Dandel replies, picking up the doll with a single vine, to add to the collection on a shelf of "escape tools", like the adorable knitted sweater she got for her Coreday, or a bookmark made so she wouldn't lose her place in the adorable floret's domestication contract.

"Can we use the purple class A shampoo again? Please?" Karyn batted her eyes as the both walked to the bathroom. "The overnet said it makes me immune to head scritches! And the "class A" meant "Anti-Affini"!"

Dandel laughed jovially. Making a closed overnet where it was only her and the floret was the best decision ever. "Of course petal. You're surely going to be unstoppable if you're immune to head-scritches~"

Funnily enough, Karyn Felicidae was never immune to head scritches, and lost tonight's game of "can she escape the compact" (she never wins~)