I think we should headcanon Percy as having more weird powers based on actual marine life and similar, just for fun. he spits bioluminescence as a defense mechanism. and also is bioluminescent himself sometimes. he can see shrimp colors. he can breathe through his skin. sometimes if he punches things underwater he briefly creates a bubble hotter than the surface of the sun (real thing that mantis shrimp do). he can echolocate. he can regrow his teeth. he can be frozen solid and thaw out and be fine. he can hibernate in mud. he’s poisonous.
I just ordered your Pond Life bowl and I am literally so excited about that I showed a lady at the grocery store. She was also very excited about it for me. :D
This is the cutest message and I LOVE it 🥰 I’m glad the lady at the grocery store was excited for you. I’m excited for you too! this piece took a lot of reference hunting and a ton of sketches before carving and I’m really proud of it. I’ll be packing it up tomorrow ❤️
Goliath frogs excavate meter-long pools and guard their tadpoles through the night
Cameroon's Goliath frog is bigger than a whole human foot, measuring up to 34 centimeters and weighing up to 3.3 kilograms. Although the world's largest frogs are well known for their girth, their jumping prowess, and their ability to provide a hearty meal for us humans, their reproductive behavior has long been a mystery. Now, scientists think they know how these forest-dwelling frogs care for their young: by building them their own swimming pools.
Most frogs lay their eggs on whatever happens to be nearby—leaves, twigs, even the ground itself. But researchers looking for Goliaths (Conraua goliath) along a 400-meter stretch of the Mpoula River in western Cameroon discovered a strange sight: empty dips in the shore rocks that had been cleared of leaves, gravel, and other debris. Soon, the researchers happened upon a few other cleared pools above the water line.
Some pools were empty. But others were full of tadpoles. Then, the researchers realized what they were looking at—Goliath frog nests. Altogether, they found 22 potential nests, 14 of which contained up to 3000 eggs each, the team reports today in the Journal of Natural History. A few nests held tadpoles of different ages, suggesting the frogs reuse the pools. When researchers filmed one nest with an infrared time-lapse camera overnight, they observed a parent watching over its young until dawn, keeping potential predators at bay...
Pictures from our trip to the aquarium! This was the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga TN. Its my favourite aquarium I have been to so far, and its super cool because there are 2 separate buildings for the salt and fresh water fish.
There were lots of really cool guys that we saw, my favourite is always the Arapaima (Pirarucu). They had a touch pool for sting rays and a little shark, and a touch pool for little sturgeons.
This is Sam and Dean! My two African Dwarf froggies! They were brainless and cute as anything.
If you saw my last post with Elessar the fish, you may start to notice that my pets seem to have a, erm… naming theme of fandoms. Sam and Dean are of course from supernatural.
When I bought them both, I was told they were both boys. A couple of months later I did in fact find out that they were not… in fact both male.
Dean became Deanna.
And they bred! The eggs thankfully never hatched but lawd did they try 🤣
here’s a trollsona i made for my friend @gravenravens last night :333 rhe last 3 are just overlay variations teehee. i wanted to rly get their vibe down cuz the music they listen to is so cool… and theyr just really cool in general😯
Techno + Rock inspos. but its a prog rock + psychadelia troll :-)
I could have drawn something artistically complex and meaningful instead just made this sketch of Eli Cash from the Royal tenenbaums, Ned Zissou from the life aquatic and Francis Whitman from the Darjeeling limited all as Kermit the frog inspired by @windswept-fields
continuing to post my ocs tonight. sleazy chief lifeguard at a beach. slacks off a lot and gets into questionable shenanigans while on duty making other lifeguards assume his position.
So was that a big purple dumb dumb moment where he jumped without thinking it through? Or did he actually think he was gonna swim?
both lol. i hc baby purples are at least semi aquatic, so he used to be able to swim when he was really little, but he is much more dense now and hasn't been in the water since he lost his gills. so he sank like a rock.