#speak whale

[rory-bor-e-alis]

Honestly it’s the same story

[string-star-lights]

laid in bed last night thinking about how herman melville died before humans knew about whale songs, or how they sleep, or about whale falls, or that they can be gay… he would have loved them so much

[solokabuto]

[the-final-sif]

Hi, I saw a very dumb image and got pissed off because it was incorrect about sperm whales and also just kinda rubbed me the wrong way by implying that things don't live at the bottom of the ocean & really far down and I wanted to stand up for my marine life pals. So here's a corrected image with some extra bonus context.

[otiksimr]

Sometimes I look up animals to reference for my critters. And sometimes I get terrified and have to take a mental breather before braving the wilds again for good critter design.

[0rmtz]

mermay pt 4: bumblebee as a gold gourami!

[akkivee]

HES SO COOOOOOOOOOLLL

[ripley8punchingbag]

Fat dragons are good, argue with a door

[takamikeigofan]

Look at my new grippers dawg

ANYWAYS ILY HAWKS

[the-almighty-god]

1000 Follower Face Reveal

Yes, I am actually Frances McDormand. It's been fun interacting with you all as my character in Good Omens. This community is so welcoming and creative, and it'struly an honor to be a part of it.

I didn't have much to do in Season Two so this blog has helped me get my fix of playing God. Hopefully I'll have more of a role in Season Three, but that's up to the real God of the Good Omens universe (and we all know who that is).

So for now I'll just say cheers to all my followers, and COME BACK WHEN YOU CAN MAKE A WHALE!

[moonshynecybin]

it’s probably been said already but rosquez howl’s moving castle

INSANE!!!!!!! vale's tiny earring vaguely androgynous wizard swag... old man marc... this got long?? under the cut

and see the thing is. i think this is a unique kind of torture for someone like marc. truly. like marc knows he's hot. marc enjoys people thinking he's hot. even in this universe, where he's sadly running the family shop so alex doesnt have to, i simply must believe he has six pack abs and is in fact invested in making people look at them. like he views his body as a machine, hes very active, he would NOT enjoy all of the new aches and pains and limitations that come with being magically EIGHTY. so after the witch of the wastes (uccio?? someone jealous and in love with vale LMAOO) brushes in to the hatshop that night and hates marc on sight/fundamentally alters his body, i think he IMMEDIATELY starts militantly looking for a solution.

the solution: the wizard valentino is this oft elusive but INCREDIBLY charismatic wizard known by whisper and rumor to a. be insanely powerful and b. eat the HEARTS out of his young suitors. and marc (CRAZY MAN.) goes oh well im not hot anymore so he wont do that to me. i will make him fix me! and then he invites himself into vale's home and refuses to leave! says i am your new HOUSEKEEPER. and you will help me break my curse thank you :)

BUT: instead of a mystical and powerful wizard, hes confronted with the HOT GUY that he met several weeks ago that he helped escape from the witch of the waste's GOONS. he was like. walking home. and vale (in his big poofy shirt) whisks him into a scheme... looks at marc all bright eyed mischief... and marc hasnt had any enrichment in his enclosure in so long and just feels LIT UP from the inside, falls into step with vale immediately, matching him as they go. feels ALIVE for the first time since alex took his apprenticeship in another town... so he helps vale escape, flirts with him a LOT and laughs even more. smitten. but crucially and unfortunately, he also has NO idea who vale is throughout this. so later when he walks in the door and finds out that the guy he has a major crush on is also THE WIZARD VALENTINO. who also has a small FLEET of HIGHLY SKEPTICAL teen boy apprentices that marc is now kind of in charge of coparenting and like. convincing to clean their rooms, its a bit of an insane time to be marc.

so some WILD but highly amusing control freak behavior from marc ensues.. lots of little frictions as he arrives... pushback from the kids, vale acting cold and dismissive, a brand new body that doesnt do what he wants it to do... but after a while, marc MAKES space for himself. forcibly improves their lives. settles in to a FAMILY and CRUCIALLY starts emotionally fulfilling the little feral animal inside him that yearns to throw himself off of motorcycles at high speeds. get this many adrenaline seeking freaks that know MAGIC in one place and they are inventing new types of danger Know This. marc is with vale and the kids doing insane shit. and for the first time since he took over his family's shop, he is allowing himself to do what he LOVES. find his purpose. enjoy a community. relieve some of the crushing weight of familial responsibility. its literally the best hes ever felt. and he is. SO in love. so so in love.

BUT im gonna pull something from the novel here: marc is also an incredibly powerful sorcerer. has been forever. he just has NO IDEA. like i see marc literally his entire life using magic in little ways to influence all of the crazy thrill seeking stuff that he's done, but entirely unintentionally. but vale fucking knows. could see it the second they met. in FACT. marc has already broken his curse (marc doesnt know that). but he likes sticking around vale. so he's unconsciously keeping himself old so he can avoid leaving. truly, like when he isnt thinking about his body and hes normal and happy he looks like his actual age. marc with silver hair just laughing with vale and the boys... smile lines staying there but wrinkles fading more and more as time passes... he doesnt want to go back to his old life!!! back to being unremarkable in the hatshop like he knows he should!!! and everytime he remembers he looks decades older... but vale doesnt want to lose him either. so he doesnt tell him. but he also vant make a move with it hanging over them like that... so they live in a fraught equilibrium of pining that is also lowkey a marriage LMAO. like you are coparenting. jesus.

EYE THINK. that the breaking point here is alex returning at some point. talking with marc. and marc is. SO happy to see alex. smiling as hard as he can. but also he looks older than he's looked since he first arrived. all of that responsibility and guilt rushing back for abandoning his life at the hatshop. and it TEARS into vale like omg i am keeping him here selfishly away from his brother.... so he sends him away, "breaks" his curse. and marc thinks hes being DUMPED. and thats how the divorce happens....

[rory-bor-e-alis]

SPOILER for Ahsoka S1 E5

[forestofbeginnings]

ngl I'm surprised people remember this blog since it's been a long time since I retired from active rf archival stuff

very nice to see people pop their heads in to say hi

[latimeria-fell-from-heaven]

I am so desperate for Ulpianus

Can I be his second wife, I know he’s like divorced so does he want another wife—

Mommy Gladii can join too, anything for them😔😔😔

ehhhh not really divorced, more like a soggy old man who's way too awkward for interpersonal relationships bc he's emotionally constipated and prefers to keep everything business. he's fair game tho, you just gotta be patient and determined enough to get past the initial awkwardness so you can bed this stubborn old man. good luck walking afterward tho, he's not the 3rd commander of the abyssal hunters for nothing. rip ur walking ability after fucking ANY of the abyssal hunters tbh,,

honestly, your biggest obstacle with these soggy bloodborne hoonters is their emotional constipation and baggage and the whole seaborn thing. they would be so awkward with any sort of intimate relationship. gladiia, bless her soul, would have trouble expressing herself emotionally but she's not completely incompetent. actions speak louder than words and that would certainly apply to her, with the uncharacteristically gentle way she handles you (pls gently hold her hand, it'd mean the world to her even if she doesn't say it).

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

[ID: The heirarchy of needs meme, with all of the sections replaced with a single block of text thats reads: "the heathen/antireligious character praying in a moment of weakness & the pious/godly character turning blasphemous in a moment of strength." End ID.]

realized something about some character arcs i like

[thecrimsonjaguar]

some old ass subject delta doodles. ive changed his face a bit since ive drawn these, but i figured id finally release these into the wild anyway

and teeny fambily