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new favorite bit is saying "I would be fangirling so hard if I met him in real life 😍" about random species of fish

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Sea monster illustrations by William 巴特尔  Bao

#inspo #fav #yeayeayea

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Senshi while I wait for my laundry

#i am looking 👁️👁️ #dungeon meshi

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"i'm mr sterling's right hand arm. man." is to say: i am the unutterable wisdom that precedes and gives rise to verbal understanding.

"i'm mr sterling everything" is to say: i am the undifferentiated matrix through which the phenomenon of "mr sterling" is apprehended.

"his confidant. his best friend. his silly rabbit." is to say: the unity of the two, differentiated and undifferentiated, quiescence and clarity, produces a third which is motion, who then goes on reproduce itself indefinitely.

"does he call you that? no." is to say: the name which can be spoken is not the eternal name.

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The two tipes of senshi fanart

#dungeon meshi

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she’s happy that I’m back!

#i love pangur so much

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Seriously what's wrong with him?

#loving the whiskers #some kinda creature right there #dungeon meshi

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Today's Seal Is: Loathsome Cement Eater

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chilchuck's scream 😭

#loved his finn scream lmao #dungeon meshi

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Art by John Stone

#knawing on these

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Art by Anastasia Shestak

#inspo #i need to get better at drawing trees

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Hi. I’m Jeremy Wade

(I used to watch the hell out of this show when I was little and revisiting between assignments lately has been so so fun)

#holy shit #jeremy my guy #fav #river monsters my beloved

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Knowledge Revenge.

#senshi noooooo!!!! #dungeon meshi

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#a sensible chuckle

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Smeeking on my flower

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did anyone else notice this golden country guy absolutely tearing shit up in the new opening

#dungeon meshi

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Commented this on the previous post cause I didn't see this yet but the Atlantic Brief Squid is currently the cephalopod with the highest tolerance for low salinity at 17.9%, about half of what normal marine salinity is. Give them a few thousand years (probably longer) and we might get some freshwater squid :3

Taking these out of the comments because I think it’s interesting and I want to talk about it more

Yeah so basically, any saltwater animal (which is the default state of life on earth) that wants to live in freshwater is going to have to evolve a way to maintain the correct amount of salt and water in their body. Their body is saltier than the surrounding water so if they didn’t have a sodium pump, osmosis would cause water to flow into their body too fast for their kidneys to process and it would kill them. Freshwater is very hostile to life adapted to saltwater.

But! The correct type of sodium pump isn’t necessarily “difficult” to evolve. Mollusks (namely Gastropods and bivalves) have done so on multiple separate occasions! Not to mention that arthropods, annelids and vertebrates have all independently evolved the ability to survive in freshwater as well.

There’s nothing about the cephalopod body plan that intrinsically prevents them from evolving a sodium pump. They just… never have. And that’s not unusual, necessarily. Many groups of life on the planet haven’t evolved freshwater forms because why would they need to? The ocean is huge and full of food.

But this doesn’t mean that they never could evolve freshwater forms. They just haven’t yet. Maybe someday in the distant future shrimp will start moving up rivers and cuttlefish will follow. You never know. There could be freshwater cephalopods yet!

#the only reason i know this is because i had a category 7 autism event when i was world building for my dnd homebrew campaign #and down a rabbit hole of research looking up things about cephalopods for like 4 hours