#yes this is about the whale

[if-we-are-free-tell-me-why]

Hey just to all my fellow fat people out there: You are doing great and your body is amazing. I am tired of fat bodies only being depicted as funny, disgusting, frightening fuck that. Fat people are great and valuable and we deserve better.

[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

[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.

[angelofalls]

[OC] Ray Maximus vs Adam Greene (XtremeRebel1)

[keikoyume]

Nghhhhhhh Ferryman my beloved

[i-upset-to-dead-65]

Having a stupid phobia is so fucking annoying. Yes I know it won't hurt me. It's common enough to run into often but silly enough that if I try to pre-warn people they'll laugh and try to trigger me. I don't mind answering questions but eventually I just end up repeating myself saying "I know it doesn't make sense. It's irrational. No logic will not help. It's irrational. I completely understand what you are saying and I even agree. However it is an irrational."

[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

[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.

[cuteniaarts]

Hey 🗑️🔥 gang (@katkastrofa @rokurookajima @shadelorde)…

Heard you guys like feral women 😏😏😏

[acorviart]

more ceramics in progress, gonna try single color celadon glazes on these and hope the details aren't covered up

[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