#and they had fish babies

[fyanimaldiversity]

Xanthic alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) [x]

#alligator gar #gar #Atractosteus spatula #xanthism #xanthic #fish #it’s like a goldfish and a gar had a baby #color mutation

[hellenhighwater]

Hey Hell! Can you please explain how the cats that you talk about relate back to you cause at some point I was certain that you hasd at least five ?

Yeah, I forget how many of you are new here and this is probably confusing.

I have two cats. Their names are Malice and Vice; they're three years old, and they're not related. I adopted both of them when they were kittens, after the passing of the best cat I will ever own (Nimitz, the Terror of the Underbrush, in May of 2020). They are my permanent cats; I will have them until either I die or they do. Vice is a grey longhair male; Malice is a black longhair female. Both of them are mutts, but Vice looks like a Nebelung and Malice could pass for Chantilly-Tiffany, if you squint.

I occasionally post my mom's Himalayan/Ragdoll cross, Eleanor, who comes from purebred lineages. She's terribly fancy and I love her a lot. She lives with my parents, but my mom sends me pictures frequently and I often petsit.

I am also currently fostering! Right now I'm down to my final three foster babies (Blouse/Queen Skrungle, Maladict, and Jade) but I've actually had more-or-less three batches of fosters since I started in May. I may have a couple more foster kittens this year, but I'm likely to pause on fostering when the winter holidays make it too complicated for me to be able to provide reliable care. With the foster kittens, I keep them until they get big enough to be spayed or neutered, with is generally at the 3 lb mark. The current babies are ready for that, and I'm having a hard time letting them go! I really want these three to find good homes, they're such fantastic cats. If you're in MI, hit me up!

Honorable mention goes to my pet doves, Arson and Larceny. I don't post as much of them because 1. they live outside when the weather is nice, and will only be back in my house after first frost, when the outdoor aviary is no longer an option and 2. I really just let them do their own thing. They're a mated pair and they don't want anything from me aside from basic needs.

#having doves that are mated are is kind of like having fish #except that if I did want more social interaction from them that could be developed? #they're just fine on their own and i'm busy enough with the mammals #anyways I have had these three fosters too long and now they have Personalities that isn't just Baby! #and oh no i love them

[stbot]

Lydia + Walk Walk Fashion Baby (featuring an increasingly unhinged number of pins)

#grease rise of the pink ladies #grease rotpl #rise of the pink ladies #rotpl #lydia rotpl #i think i need a gif tag #lydia costume appreciation #known thespian 'i've studied your gait' lydia #me @ the wardrobe department: so how many old lady estate sales did you have to raid? #the ship and attached anchor<333?? #the baby face pin?? #what is definitely a lil portrait brooch of somebody's dead ancestor???? #some in that last one just look like fishing tackle?????? #i need some bts pics of just that last one and each pin bc i'm losing my mind #oh gosh and how could i forget #THE GNOME BUTTONS. #i will never ever ever get over the sweater with embroidered flowers and GARDEN GNOME BUTTONS #if EVER there was a piece of clothing specifically tailored to my tastes!!! #and i know the beloved gnome buttons don't count as pins but that sweater looks So Busy i had to include it #i need to see nancy reacting to some of lydia's fits bc omg #she's the fashionista but lydia really be making some choices #like we're not even touching on the classic beret + scarf combo okay #i just #i love when lydia is on screen idk idk! #like baby made some Choices but always! commits! to the Look!!!

[carefulfears]

sometimes i just want to cry over mulder’s fish and the way that we see both scully and doggett go to his apartment and feed them during the months he was missing and the fact that scully must have kept feeding them even months after he was dead and just to be loved so much that people come tend to your environment and keep your home and feed your fish long after you’re gone

and that the first thing he notices when he comes back is that one isn’t there. and how scully tried so hard, she tried so hard to find him and to keep him safe and to keep his work going and to keep those damn fish alive, and the first thing that he says to her when they walk back into that apartment is that one is missing

the way that in that scene, he says that he’s having trouble processing, that he doesn’t know where he fits in. you can be loved so much that multiple people come feed your fish and maintain your apartment after you’re buried in the ground, you can try so hard to keep everything going for someone else, but the world keeps spinning, and time goes on. fish die and baby bumps grow and answered prayers aren’t always miracles

he came back covered in scars to a clean apartment and a fish tank missing 1 molly and where does he fit in inside a world that hasn’t waited for him, no matter how hard she tried to make it stop

#nurse she’s rambling about the fish again #he loves those fucking fish #thinking about how they’re in scully’s apartment after he leaves in s9 #anyway i know it didn’t do things perfectly but i love ‘three words’ for this dynamic #she is SO pregnant in that scene and he has missed EVERY day of it #and she has a new partner and the fbi wants him out and what is there even for him to miraculously resurrect to #having this baby and solving x-files were things that she wanted to do with him #and as far as he knows she’s been doing fine alone and with her new partner #he doesn’t know that she wept on the floor of a hospital and slept clutching his shirt in his bed #that she had to be Ripped off of his corpse and that she watched that fish die and she couldn’t stop any of it #‘don’t quite have my legs under me yet’ indeed #txf.txt #three words

[luck-of-the-drawings]

smth smth about 'the thing that the character did that you thought was rly rly funny in the moment is actually linked to a terrible trauma that lies within said character.' or wahtever.

#jrwi show #jrwi fanart #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #made this within a short span of wahtever bc i gotta go up to the mountains for my stupid gay job tonight n im trying #nnot to frrRREAAAK THE FUCK OUUTTTTTTi dont wanna work but. get that bread we fuckin shall i guess #ONWARDS TO THE FISH TORMENT!! sometimes flowers feel pain when you trim them before their blossoming. atleast i imagine so #i used to draw gillion with loooong hair tied into a big ol braid. and then it was confirmed that he had short hair when he was little. #AT FIRST I WAS SAD. but then i realized the duality of. when they were little. gill had short hair. edyn had long hair. #AND NOW THEYRE OLDER. and gillion has long hair. and edyn has short hair #both mirroring eachother. looking up to eachother. subconsciously or not. they most certainly care. and most certainly miss eachother. #GILLION ALWAYS LOVED HOW LONG HAIR LOOKs. atleast i imagine so. he hasnt cut it since he left the undersea. sure he wanted to go back home #but even at the very start. he knew he was free in some way now. free to grow out his hair. an adventure would await him before he returns. #he knew it would be a while. so he cant let this go. he cant let this sought-after hair-length get cut away from him again #not yet. not yet. i like to think he loved music too. I SAW SOMETHING INTERESTING A BIT AGO #i see alot of ppl commenting on my baby gill comics like;'i wouldFIGHT this teacher i wanna KILL EM i want them DESTROYED #all very good and nice sentiments! i LOVE the energy here! and it would be nice. to have that catharsis #but the story of young tidestrider is not a story of catharsis. it is a story of agony and being so so small and so special and also so dum #and sucking so bad. and just being a kid and doing the things that a little kid does and so many tired tired people reacting badly to it #youre supposed to be the hero that will save us. our world hangs in the balance and you are the one who tips the scales. #YOU are supposed to SAVE US!! you NEED to SAVE US! CAN YOU PLEASE STOP SQUIRMING IN YOUR STUPID CHAIR!! #you'd think that young tidestrider ought to prevail. and be tucked someplace all safe and sound. #elders gone missing and rotting in a jail. their cultists nowhere around. but theres no happy endings. not here not now. #this tale is all sorrows n woes. you may dream that justice n peace win the day. but thats not how this story goes #BIG ideas for this lil baby gillion series. if anything i make ever gets disproven im killing myself in a well as to poison a water supply

[vinylattes]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2019-) | 5.03 (Pride Parade)

#what we do in the shadows spoilers #wwdits s5 spoilers #laszlo cravensworth #matt berry #wwditsedit #*pride parade (05x03) #dakotasvibe #userligaya #his best work fr #i can't stand his whiteass!!! #but srsly tho #he looks so happy guys wtf #he would've had gone fishing w baby colin :(( #all the fun the family might have if they're keeping this storyline

[daughterofsarenrae]

Absolutely horrible timing for me to acquire a fish but look at him. I couldnt just leave him for some dumbass customer to chuck him in a tiny shitty unheated tank. Meet Kal (better pics to come later hopefully)

#isnt he just. wow #he has several names but mainly gonna call him kal #we are. haha. about to move #so i dont have him in his permanent home #he's currently in my little 2.5 gal for the next week #and after we get to the new house he'll have my 10gal #which is nice bc i was just about to donate that. already donated one 10gal but not the second #so. good thing i didnt #anyways. hes stunning. i saw him at work a few days ago and fell in love but its INCREDIBLY impractical to get a fish rn #and then he was still there today and i was like. goddamn it i cant not have him #ive seen many gorgeous bettas but he's so unique. at least in terms of bettas we get in #he's had a BIG day so hopefully he settles into his temporary apartment ok #baby: kal-el

[nances]

hmm...

hm.

#so why's he being paralleled to hopper all the time #stranger things #midleven #byler #btw i had to fish for the mayhopclair scene just for you guys and it took a LOT of effort to get thru bc i weep like a baby EVERY TIME. #it's been a month ffs

[problemswithbooks]

Shark Genitals & World Building

So, I've seen this Q&A a few times now and it really got me thinking about Fish-man biology.

Now, to be clear, I think it's pretty clear Oda isn't being entirely serious. When you look at how he designs his characters he goes for whatever is fun. He's not doing extensive research on whatever aquatic species he slaps on his fish-men or Merfolk characters. This is why for a lot of them, if you look up what they are mixed with they rarely share much if anything with the animal he's picked.

Saying a character has two dicks is funny, so Hody has two dicks--that's all.

But taking the answer more seriously the idea that at least some (because they do vary so widely from fish-person to fish-person) have changed genitals because of their added fish anatomy is interesting from a world-building perspective.

As someone who has a special interest in animal biology and has watched a lot of documentaries I can say that fish have really diverse breeding strategies. So, I guess, if Hody can have two dicks because he's a shark, I wonder if this could be true for any other fish-people and merfolk.

We see that at least some fish-people do have children the same way regular humans do, but to my knowledge we don't see any pregnant mermaids. Given how much larger Neptune is then his wife, and how massive Shirahoshi is, I think it makes sense that perhaps like many fish, Otohime laid eggs that were fertilized separately (this is actually how goldfish mate).

It could be possible that the way mermaids or even fish-women have children depends on the father. If they are not compatible in size they can reproduce Ovuliparity (the way I imagine Otohime did), or if they are of similar size they either go the more human route or, after copulation they lay fertilized eggs (like the skate cases often called mermaid purses you find washed up on the beach).

There's also something to be said for the variations fish have with gender. Some fish are capable of changing gender. It's more common that female fish become male (protandry), usually the largest of a group replacing the dominate male in the group. This happens mostly with coral reef fish like wrasses, groupers and parrot-fish.

Meanwhile, anemone fish, like clown fish change from male to female. When the one female dies the remaining male will become female, while an outside male will become that new female's mate.

Then there are Black Helmet fish which are both simultaneously and take turns releasing eggs and sperm when they spawn.

So, if fish-people and merfolk had similarly diverse genders and ways of reproducing I think that'd just be really neat. It could also lead to some fun misunderstandings between fish-people, merfolk and humans.

Of course, I don't think Oda ever put that much thought into it. He just does whatever he finds fun character design wise. I mean, it's not like Arlong has barrels like Sawsharks do, and Jinbe looks nothing like a whale shark. On top of that the story isn't really focused on that type of world building. Nor do I think he could really showcase something that deals so much with sex--even if it is fish sex.

Still, makes for some really great head-canons.

#one piece #fish-men #merfolk #fish biology #Arlong #Jinbe #Jimbe #his name is always spelt different ways #idk i sort of wish there were more funny misunderstandings between fish-men and humans #i mean given how isolated they were #and that Jinbe grew up a orphan #he wasn't given an education and what he did get was based on the world he lived in #what i'm saying is that I don't think he knows Chopper is a reindeer or in the very least doesn't know that not all reindeer are sentient #I just want that one pic of Griffin McElroy replaced with Jinbe #holding up the paper that says 'idk what a reindeer is and now i'm to afraid to ask' #also i wonder if Arlong and/or his crew tried to give Nami the talk when she was like 12-14 cuz they felt they had to #not knowing she got it from her sister already (who got it from Bellmere before she was killed) #and she's just silently thinking 'what the fuck are you talking about?!' #already horrified that this was the one time they decided they needed to kind of act like parents to her #but they don't want to end up with any human babies so they're just like 'don't lay any eggs for boys you don't know' #it does mean she knows way more then she wants to about fish-people biology then she'd like though

[mxtxfanatic]

Because I saw that 7seas released the first volume, I'm very curious of what you thought about the disabled tyrant's pet palm fish? I wasn't sure what your tag for it is, assuming you've posted about it here. If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them since, as of this moment in time, I'm planning on picking up a copy next time I get the chance.

Of course you pick the novel I was conflicted about promoting LOL

So I read it and mostly liked it, like, a majority of the book is comedic and engaging. The beginning really gives a Cinderella-esque romance along with some mild court drama. Definitely a light read that won’t leave you too anxious or in suspense.

However I feel like ableism is baked into the plot in a way that becomes unbearably inescapable around the last 2-300 pages. It sat with me pretty unpleasantly that that love interest’s disability (mutism) is never accommodated in the entire story, not even by the people who love him in the setting, not even by his transmigrating husband who I know for damn sure knows sign language exists even if he doesn’t know it. They could have found some way to communicate with him that didn’t involve him mouthing words, writing, or having people just learn to read his micro-expressions, of which only one person can do so. I was willing to table these reservations because, despite the story pretending like disability accommodations don’t exist, the people who love this character never make him feel bad or less for it. Then those last few hundred pages hit…

Spoilers for some plot stuff: So the biggest issue for me that tipped the ableism into unbearable emerges with the sideplot of the main couple trying for another kid. MC wants a girl because they already have 4 boys (accidental quadruplets), only to discover that LI has been secretly taking contraceptives to prevent another pregnancy for fear that any pregnancy could result in a mute child, as he thinks his mutism is genetic. The couple end up having a good talk where the LI opens up about his insecurities about having a child like him because he knows how lonely it was growing up with his disability. But instead of turning this into a moment where MC could point out that their hypothetical disabled child wouldn’t be lonely because they would have a whole family who loved them—including a parent with the same disability—that LI should not have been isolated because of his disability, that he was the one who was failed not the failure, and that he (and their hypothetical disabled child) will be supported from now on, the author… has the MC agree and stop trying for a kid… Complete missed opportunity and waste of time in the long run, because not long after this it gets revealed that LI’s mutism isn’t genetic, which is why their 4 sons have no speech issues, and they go on happily to have their daughter. End Spoilers.

If you didn’t read the spoilers, then long story short: a side plot with eventual major implications for the main story arc treats preventing the birth of potentially disabled children as a reasonable thing because “those children will be isolated, otherwise,” while neglecting the idea that people—PARTICULARLY LOVED ONES OF THE DISABLED—can simply accommodate said disability. The story simply pretends as if accommodations for mutism do not exist in material reality or even as a concept.

#fireandgrimstone #had that whole baby sideplot not happened #i would’ve just trigger warned in my post #but because it became such a *major* plot point #it’s not something that can be given benefit of the doubt #this story really did not need to be about disability #if this was how it was gonna be treated #also those last 200 pages feel pretty meh plot-wise #like the story would feel great and complete without it #everything after feels very rambly #disabled tyrant’s pet palm fish

[mortellanarts]

It has come to my attention that this show never aired in the US so not sure how many people here can be nostalgic with me lol

#princesas do mar #sea princesses #2000s childhood #old cartoons #momento latam #mermay #“Okay so this is Bia! she's from an old cartoon I watched where each character was a prince/princess of a different type of marine animal” #“Bia here was from the abyssal zone and well two seconds on the wiki tell me there was a whole plot to overthrow her family” #“and that she had to wipe herself from all her friends memories to have a chance of coming back home” #“but I don't know about any of that! baby me just thought she looked cool and also really loved anglerfish!” #“I didn't remember there was actually royal plots all I remember is each talking to their respective type of fish and taking care of them” #“as a kid with a marine biology fixation it was one of my favorite preschool shows :3” #OH QUOTES ACTUALLY WORK NOW #“what” #I'm SO used to just doing this to bump up my tags while they're on drafts well okay #my art #deep sea #anglerfish

[sealrock]

tauvane's genes are strong and that means achille got his red hair (that he dyes blond for personal reasons) and red eyes from her. but I wondered what achille would look like if he took after his dad more (with a light dusting of his mom's freckles) ... oh my god, what a cutie

#mypost. #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv oc #🌪️ #this doubles as a subtle expression test. achille is very expressive #have you seen achille today? now you have!! eight times!!! #shaking him like a fish in a bag. lil guy #pelleas had green eyes so what if achille had green eyes. can you tell i love the color green #and if achille had natural blond hair he would look like this #only thing he didn't get was pelleas' stubble. permanent baby face if you look past the sideburns #achille got his dad's loud mouth his tall stature and big appetite instead. the original and the remix #of course only one person can have green eyes and freckles and it's patroclus #q.

[dove-da-birb]

Finally, I can make that fish bastard themed blanket

#aka i finally got the right hook size #fish bastards my dearly detested #i’ve had to frog this project like #- three times cuz i hated how it looked #how many projects do I have going on? like 4 #btw this is the yarn i’m using; bernat blanket yarn in baby seafoam and lavender sparkle

[carefulfears]

JUST NOTICED THE FISH TANK IN IWTB. EVERYBODY FREEZE.

#big moment for me #no because #these two lost a child and had to go into hiding #lost EVERYTHING #and then bought a house in the woods #just the two of them behind that gate #completely isolated and sequestered #for YEARS #and put a fish tank in it #mulder has to feed fish you guys he’ll go insane #he maybe could’ve let the fish go when they had the baby but he needs it more now #sorry for fish-posting for the millionth time #it will happen again #iwtb

[w1tchybusiness]

i could write a 100 page essay about what a fucking masterpiece warframe is. i will write many words in the tags. please readem if you want my 'tism.

#ive been playing on and off since 2019 but its only recently when i dumped destiny 2 (probably for good) and picked it up #to fill the grind-shaped hole in my heart #that i have uncovered just how FUCKING INCREDIBLE warframe is #everything about it makes me incredibly autistic #from its masterful utilization of an incredibly styled and individual soundtrack full of absolute bangers #to its seemingly unique understanding of how and why an MMO is special to and because of its players #and its truly special story- a uniquely human take on the “post-ruin scifi” tale #it knows exactly how and when to yank on your heart to make you weep like a baby #and it knows exactly when you're going to get angry and want vengeance #and it knows when to let you let loose and unleash hell #SPOILERS FOR THE NEW WAR AHEAD #IF YOU THINK YOU COULD PLAY THE GAME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO #SPOILER WARNING #i think the narmer corruption of fortuna was genuinely one of the most gutpunchingly horrible moments ive ever experienced in a video game #i started playing when fortuna was already in the game but the story of fortuna and vox solaris was really what made warframe stand out 2 m #i would drop into the orb vallis as gauss and dash around doing bounties and fishing and mining because i really loved everything about #fortuna and wanted to spend as much time there as possible #for me vox solaris was my proudest achievement (in warframe.) to say “i helped that! i did that!” was an incredibly good feeling #the story really spoke to me on a deeper level #and vox solaris has always been my favorite faction as a result #so to do absolutely everything that i could #to lift together with my tenno brothers and sisters and yet STILL fail? #and to have it rubbed in my face by the corruption of the greatest shining pillar of hope in the warframe universe? #felt like i got kicked in the stomach #i felt sad and angry. but most of all i was DRIVEN. #which is GOOD. because RARELY does a video game present you the “you lost” scenario and have it feel not only satisfyingly painful #but MOTIVATING. #my only complaint with the new war is that i didnt get to hack ballas to pieces by myself #i had real flashbacks to running around helping people as gauss while approaching the final boss with erra #and to step onto the ballas arena as gauss prime. i nearly came from the narrative significance

[lunarhobbits]

i find it really funny that allan and midge - canonically married in barbie lore, there was a wedding set and everything - are both in the barbie movie yet have nothing to do with each other and are reflective of completely different eras of barbie (early 60s and early 2000s, respectively)

#idk something about that felt very right to me #bc pretty much no kid playing with barbies is gonna stick to Barbie Lore #they're gonna mix and match different eras #different styles #different clothes #one day midge and allan are married the next allan is forgotten #the next midge is sidelined and allan is playing sidekick to ken #they have kids together and yet they don't have to always be bought together #and ofc they can be redressed and repurposed as different people! #this post was partially brought to you by memories of me playing with my friend's barbies as a kid including 2000s midge and allan #but we didn't know their names or their backstory or even that they were connected! sure midge had the magnets and the baby barbie doll #but other than that? they were just two of many options of barbies #they were all in the barbie bin and we fished out whatever we were using #and we used them however we wished. in a mix-and-match way. and only recently did i even find out my friend had allan #truly there is only one allan bc everyone forgets about him #barbie #barbie spoilers #i guess? #allan barbie #midge barbie