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Make me Choose

↳ Cavendish/Drax or Collins/Goodsir asked by anon

#my special little guys!!! #i love these two soo much i miss them #i should rewatch the terror <- no #the terror #collinsposting

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Rip George Hodgson you would have loved Kahoot

#the terror

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what if ahab got to be a little cosmic horror? as a treat? (more art from a few months ago because i’m so good at posting)

(ID: several black and white ink drawings of ahab from moby dick.

the first image is a full body drawing, and shows him hunched over wiping ink from his face while holding a harpoon. his eyes are cast in shadow, but what we can see of his expression is dangerous and angry. his form fades into shadow at the bottom of his coat. from the shadowy coat, both his live leg in a boot and his whalebone prosthetic leg are seen, as well as several squid tentacles protruding. there is a silhouette of the full squid behind him, and it melds with his form — it becomes unclear whether the tentacles are coming from Ahab or from the squid.

the second image has two bust drawings of ahab. most of his face is still in shadow, but he is looking at the viewer with a snarl, and we can still see ink stains spilling from his nose and mouth down his chin and onto his coat. the shadows and his snarl deepen in the second drawing. sideways handwriting on the side of the image reads “God help thee, old man; thy thoughts have created a creature in thee.”

the third image is a drawing of both squid-Ahab and starbuck, both from the waist up. they are embracing, ahab with a firm hand on starbuck’s upper arm, and leaning into each other, almost kissing. ahab is smiling mischievously, and starbuck’s face is in a reverent smile. the black ink is dripping from both their mouths down their chins. tentacles are pulling starbuck closer to ahab. behind ahab is a sketchy halo.

ahab has forgone his coat and is wearing a collared shirt and waistcoat. starbuck is wearing a dark blazer.

the fourth image is a pencil sketch of Ahab in profile, grinning, with tentacles and dripping ink drawn in front of him.)

#YEAAAAH WOOOOOO #SQUID AHAB I LOVE YOU #The Whale

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The Terror 1.01 “Go for Broke”

#hes everything to me btw #if you even care #the terror #collinsposting

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Salmon,, salmon funny fish pls or cod /nf <3 Looks at you with my big ol' eyes

NEVER DRAWN FISH BEFORE I HOPE THESE WORK WELL

SALMON !!

COD !!!!

catfish because i lvoe them

#FIS #hiiiiiii #fishie #creature

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I compel myself to do everything now... I have to try to convince myself that there won't be any problems.

#COLLINS #COLLINS HIIIIIIIIII #my special little guy #collinsposting #he even has his own tag #because i love him #the terror

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what if i decided to love you anyway. what if i decided to love you on purpose. what if im so damn stubborn that you cant stop me from loving you even if it kills me.

#oh you know #on this blog for a multitude of reasons

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men who could do whatever they wanted to me <3 who said that

[ID: A photo of a sketchbook page with a marker drawing of Ahab from Moby Dick. He is a tall, chubby and muscular Persian man with brown skin and short curly dark hair, with a thick beard. His left leg is amputated below the knee and replaced with a whalebone prosthetic. He is sitting on a stool and looking off to the side, holding a harpoon in his hand, as though posing for a portrait. He wears a light beige shirt with maroon braces, gray pants, and a black boot on his remaining foot.]

#HIIII HELLO HIIIIIIIII #COUGH . #HELLOOOOO #ahab. smiles #The Whale #friends tag <3

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fish man

#DREDGE #HIIIIIII #OHHH BELOVED AS HELL

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While researching for upcoming fish facts I ended up going down a rabbit hole on parrotfish teeth, and I need to share this information in another form than just a fish fact. This stuff is unbelievable. You know the beak of the parrotfish, right? It's formed from the fused teeth of the parrotfish, as an adaptation to have ample biting surface to scrape off and chew on coral, their main food source.

A close-up of the beak of a parrotfish. It has this honeycomb pattern which I find very cool.

Well. To constantly chew on coral, they must have some pretty hard teeth, right? And they indeed do: the teeth of the parrotfish are made up of a mineral called fluorapatite, which forms intricate, chainmail-like woven structures on a microscopic level. Fluorapatite just so happens to be the second hardest biomineral found. This stuff, the parrotfish's teeth?? They are stronger than copper, silver and gold. That's crazy, right!!?? A square inch of the parrotfish's teeth can withstand a whopping 530 TONS OF PRESSURE!! That's the weight of 88 ELEPHANTS on top of a single square inch!!!! The only biomineral that is tougher is the teeth of chitons, that is the single tougher thing in the whole world!!! Not only that, but the stiffness and hardness of the teeth increases the more we get closer to the tip (as the mineral fibers get closer and closer to one another), the very tips of the teeth even surpass the chiton teeth in stiffness!!!

Here are pictures produced through a process called PIC mapping, which shows the size and orientation of crystal fibers at the tip of the teeth.

That feels like it shouldn't be right, no? You'd think that the toughest biominerals in the world would belong to, like, the skull of an animal that rams into rocks or maybe the shell of some animal, not the teeth! The teeth of chitons and parrotfish out of all animals no less! Who would've guessed that the diet of "rock animal" would make the parrotfish require some of the toughest dentition the world has ever seen, huh? That right there is one super good reason why you should never stick your finger in the mouth of one.

Every day I am blown away by how amazing fishes are....

#THIS IS SOOOO COOL #incredible amazing 100/10 #i love the ocean #creature

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Sundogs my beloved

#AUGH #the terror

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i fucking love evil booping

#how do you evil boop #please #the terror

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Ahab: Hast seen the White Whale?

Hollw eyed traumatized captain: *points trembling finger in general direction* Don't go there, man.

Ahab: LET'S GOOOOOOO!!

Sometimes Ahab seems to me a prototype macho version of the protagonist from Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

#IN HIS DEFENSE #if you were on a deathquest to kill the representation of all suffering inflicted upon humanity #and you were getting worse and conditions were getting more dire #and a HAUNTED looking ass man told you to avoid it BECAUSE your life depends on it #then you would also have this reaction #tbh. #i would anyway #The Whale

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a "pretty boy" has been found sniffling and whimpering in the wilderness

#once again the plot of the terror

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dump of my favorite marine biology memes 🦑🐠🦈🪸

#there are many benefits to being a marine biologist