#yes this is about the whale

[ghosted-jazz]

I like to think breaking the canary curse via dying in the void had some effects on Lizzie

[canisalbus]

Machete the Feral does this weird ass dog thing when they stare into your soul.

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[backhurtyy]

i am once again asking people to put whales in space. specifically whale sharks. and make their spots glow. they're stars. that move. do you understand.

[crossbackpoke-check]

blessed be (lorscher bienensegen) | telling the bees (wiþ ymbe)

"Bees" [remixed, abridged], Claudia Emerson // "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now" [remixed. abridged], Matthew Olzmann // "Letter to my Great, Great Grandchild" [remixed, abridged], J.P. Grasser | Len Redkole, Nina Weiss, Brian Babineau, Christian Peterson, Mitchell Leff, Dave Isaac, Megan DeRuchie

[thisantithesis]

klance fic that focuses on the time keith spent on the space whale and the horrors that he went through and then learning how to reintegrate with the team again after being gone for two years when for them it was only a couple months pls save meeeeeee

[orcinus-veterinarius]

I always get a good laugh reading comments celebrating an animal being “freed from captivity!” when it moves to sanctuary.

That is still captivity, my guys.

[keikoyume]

Nghhhhhhh Ferryman my beloved

[sherrymagic]

JuneMewnich for FABRIQUE.CO 💋

[ohdeesnow]

Lovebrush Chronicles rerunning Lars' Light Era card right when LADS drops Sylus' 1st birthday memory is actually diabolical

Like I'm whaling for Sylus obviously, but...you expect me to see that Lars and not???? NEED HIM ON A VISCERAL LEVEL???? 🐳🐳😭

[bedrockkbros]

c!tommy reminds me of that pigeon from Curious George. He knows how to get home but can just never seem to actually fly there. He's trying, he's trying really hard, but he just can't. Somethings blocking his way, and he can't seen to find the exit, so he must be guided there. C!Tommy doesn't have someone to guide him the right way, so he's left in the mouth of the wale. Left with the onlookers, those who won't help him.

[dev-posting]

day 2 of making a card every day for my game until i run out of steam or ideas or the end of the month

[eggie0]

Switch au where Subaru ends up in Reinhard’s manor and the plot is somehow mostly the same(also not) except he cries his hearts out to Reinhard and telling him they should run away together as he had been there with him throughout each loops and somehow they still fail.

(im gonna be ignoring the fact that he was called for a mission during this time so im gonna make him get called literally before the whale attack)

Of course its given he will disagree but likeee.. wonder whats his line of thoughts are and what he would say regarding Subaru’s desperate attempt of running away together.

Maybe i’m like so out of character here but in regards to like.. emotions or understanding from other peoples perspective i think its a bit hard for him to understand that. He can feel emotions ofc but its hard for him to fully understand the reason for their actions. (i got this because I’m like currently rewatching rezero season 1 and dang after that duel with julius and subaru his words stung… but logically thinking it through, it makes sense why he thought so.)

I think instead of a from zero speech from dearest Rem, Subaru and Reinhard might even find themselves arguing. Subaru also knows how to push peoples buttons— bring out a part of themselves. Subaru’s just that guy.

and somehow I can see them get even closer after this argument. A heart to heart talk I wanna see it sooo bad

[even-in-arcadia]

Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales

In my very informed opinion it is absolutely essential to read Chapter 55 with visual aids. Here are some highlights pulled from Ishmael's Most Hated depictions so we can all be on the same page about what whales definitely don't look like.

Guido Reni & William Hogarth get the benefit of the doubt on account of the fact that it never says Perseus's sea monster is a whale. We can all agree that these definitely are not:

2. Robert Sibbald was the first naturalist to officially describe a blue whale and I'll give him a pass on being first and blue whales being incomprehnsibly large even now, but this really is not accurate in pretty much any way.

See below the cut for more "monstrous" depictions!

3. Physeter or Spermaceti Whale by Captain Colnett. Allegedly drawn from "life" but, getting out our scale rule will show that its eye is the size "a bow-window some five feet long. Ah, my gallant captain, why did ye not give us Jonah looking out of that eye!" Truly a missed opportunity from the captain there.

4. Oliver Goldsmith's An History of the Earth and Animated Nature is truly a treasure. Per Ishmael "I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow". The illustration on the right isn't directly mentioned in here but honestly it's a treasure and I feel obliged to share it with you. There's too much going on there for me to possibly pick out highlights. They're so bad they're perfect. No notes.

5. Bernard Germain, defying the laws of physics here. "Not only incorrect" but also does "not to have its counterpart in nature"

6. Cuvier's Sperm whale is "not a sperm whale but a squash." Succinct and shady. Perhaps my favorite description in the entire chapter.

[buffaluff]

Buff! Hi! For no particular reason other than I love them and feel like it, will you tell me some of your favourite whale shark facts?

HI KRIS i’ve been waiting my whole life for someone to ask me about whale sharks!

my favorite fact is that their spot patterns are unique to each individual like a fingerprint! also, they can live up to 130 years old!

there are also weird facts like the fact that they have denticles (like toothy bumps) on their eyes to protect them from damage! and can also retract them deeper into their head for the same purpose. they have a pigment in their eyes so they can see better in the deep ocean, that deactivates when they are up at the surface, feeding. they are a multitalented fish!

thank you for asking!!! 💖🫶

[mothhuuny]

limbus company au where instead of fighting to the death, all conflicts are solved via roller derby. "limbus company" is actually a travelling roller derby group with dante as their coach. do they know a single thing about roller derby? nope! thats not stopping them, though!

[frascospecimen]

Oh yeah I meant to post these earlier but I forgot. white whale falls from a while back while I was trying to figure out how to draw them again