#seahorse love

[sharkanator]

What's my favourite reproductive method? I'm so glad you asked! (no one asked but that doesn't matter)...

Seahorses. They were my favourite animal as a kid and it remains the same as an early adult.

Seahorse courting is the most beautiful thing ever. They breed monogamously, and the courtship lasts for several days. They will entwine their tails around each other like they do with seaweed, and can be observed like this.

I had two seahorse plushies as a kid and used to put them in this position before I went to bed, where their snouts were touching and their tails were twined together.

I didn't really know about sex back then, but I knew the males got pregnant. Which is something I want everyone I know to be aware of (I'm just like that). So I'll explain how it works.

First I should mention they (as well as close relatives and bitterlings) are one of the only non insects that have an ovipositor. Additionally they do not change sex over life like clownfish or kobudai.

The male seahorse has a brooding pouch in his lower abdomen, which swells when he is ready to be filled with eggs.

Female seahorses put their ovipositor through the pregnancy opening on the brood pouch of the male, and shoots 1000< eggs inside.

He fertilises the eggs inside him, and ALSO keeps the eggs in his pouch for the whole gestation period (about 30 days). He has a placenta and all, and a pouch that acts as a womb, he goes through a whole pregnancy period, yet he's male. It's amazing.

What's really interesting is that (from my knowledge) they are the only animal where the male gets pregnant. ONLY THEY DO THIS.

[bigfootsmom]

Annie is Buck’s blue ribbon baby! He’s very proud! He worked very hard on growing her himself and she’s locally sourced!

My commission info

My kofi

[orangeno]

equidan slowdancestuck comm for MOthb4Lls on twt

[bibbysstuff]

HES SO PATHETIC IT'S CRAZYYY

You can also watch it on tiktok :3

[happyheidi]

𝗉𝗎𝗋𝗉𝗅𝖾 𝗎𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗋𝗐𝖺𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝗉𝖺𝗋𝖺𝖽𝗂𝗌𝖾 <𝟥

[bookwyrm-art-stuff]

Just about finished scum villain, which means I'm letting myself take a look at the fandom. I thought I was prepared for this- "I've already experienced TGCF and MDZS, how much worse could this be?"

You fool.

[nerd-who-likes-cats]

Elias Tsum!

Elias belongs to @r-aindr0p 💙

I put him off for a while because I didn't want to draw the ignihyde uniform, but he's here! I figured since tsum Ortho couldn't fly, tsum Elias wouldn't have Elias's cool prosthetic arm, and like tsum Ortho would get some cool technomantic upgrades while at Night Raven. (Story under cut)

Upon noticing the lights in the sky, and more importantly the hunter in a tree with binoculars already aimed at them, Elias swiftly activated his unique magic to get a quite literal birds eye view. He watched the scene through the eyes of a bird, fluttering around between the small round creatures falling from the sky. When he spotted one with familiar scruffy hair covering its face. He flew closer, this creature really did resemble him to a bizarre extent... as he fluttered around it, an arrow shot up from the nearby copse of trees. Just as Elias was realizing who shot it, the enchantment on the arrow activated, and rather than piercing the tsum, it transformed into a bubble around both the small creatures. Elias had seen enough.

Deactivating his magic, Elias rushed outside. On his way he tripped no less than three times, but he made it.

Elias! I do believe I've just encountered your tsum lookalike!" Rook said cheerfully.

This was a good chance to test a new feature Idia had added to his arm. Elias pointed and shot a tiny technomantic beam at the bubble, breaking it so the tsum and innocent bird could go free. It was barely a fraction of what Ortho could do, but only a fraction of him was robotic compared to Ortho, and hey, it was still pretty cool.

The tsum dropped down and stood at Elias's feet looking up into the tree where Rook was.

Rook was unphased "is that a new feature? Magnifique!"

"Yeah, it is" it was meant to help him be an even better hunter, but after having Rook catch his tsum before him, he didn't feel worthy of claiming it was working quite yet.

"Also!" Rook continued "I noticed les chats espiégles had a tsum companion aiding them in tripping you on the way here, I do believe we are due for some trouble while the tsums are around."

Rook had seen that? This was humiliating. "Yeah whatever" Elias said, picking up his tsum and returning to the main building, not looking back at Rook.

Once inside he noticed the new message he'd gotten, the headmaster was calling all those who caught a tsum to his office. He sighed and looked at the tsum in his hands.

The little creature was hard to read with its hair in its face, but Elias did notice something about it. While the tsums he'd seen before all had four nubbins as their appendages, this tsum was missing the front right one. Well, Elias had his first project in mind for once the meeting with Crowley was over. He was going to make this guy a prosthetic nubbin. (Or more likely convince Idia to do it for him, but eh, same result.)

[zeacat14]

fishies (and some cephalopods)

[lichenbug]

temple gets a full design now :P

[kindheart525]

(throwing in the joke that Pim was the one who actually birthed his 4 kids instead of his wife)

[lavaflowe]

Happy MERMAY!!! I really wanted to try and do something fun- I ended up going a little crazy with the colors lmao😌

[inkyclone99]

Saw this meme going around Twitter and Ofc I had to do with my t4t goodness 🥹

Had to add the second panel too cuz even if she looks nothing like him, Hunter loves Pan so much. His adorable chubby marshmallow baby <33

Meanwhile Asajj is just very proud of her genes (and that she is glad she could give Hunter this opportunity)

Again, they ain’t together in the AU, but are very much besties with maaaany benefits 🤭

[orangeno]

WIPS I FORGOT TO SHARE OUTSIDE OF TWITTER

[i-am-a-giant-siphonophore]

leafy seadragons!

leafy seadragons are found off the southern and western coasts of australia!

they are extremely good at camouflage and can easily pretend to be a floating piece of seaweed

it is a fish which usually grows to be an average of 30cm long!

they eat small shrimp-like creatures called mysids, and each day leafy seadragons can eat thousands

leafy seadragons actually do not have any predators!

they’re very poor swimmers so they rely on their camouflage to protect them

they have a long snout to slurp up their food :)

[kebriones]

Something something rip hector of troy you would've loved seahorses or whatever

[t00thpasteface]

i genuinely love cartoon/fantasy depictions of seahorses as huge, fast, powerful, highly agile Sea Horses. they are not any of that. but it fucks so hard visually that people keep doing it. and honestly? i support it. seahorses work so hard for such a meager lot in life... i think they deserve a little propaganda as a treat