#keiko

[wewerebornsextuplets]

happy lesbian week 🎉

#my art #osomatsu san oc #ocs #kiru #keiko #kirukei #<-- figure i should make them a ship tag. for yuris sake #anyways im gonna be very annoying this week because its MY WEEK!!!! #im a lesbian and its my birthday on thursday GRAHHHHHH 🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥💥 #so look out for that :3 and some yuri of canon characters hopefully!

[zegalba]

Keiko breaching in Iceland

#keiko #whale #orca #orca whale #nature #water #iceland

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Can you elaborate the story of the ”Free Willy” orca (forgot his name). From my understanding the orca couldn’t survive in the wild and imprinted on hunans to the point that he seeked out human compaionship

Oh Keiko. His is a sad story. In 1979, he was tragically captured from his native Icelandic waters as a calf and, after bouncing around for several years, was sold to an amusement park in Mexico City that would eventually become Six Flags Mexico. It was here that he found fame as the star of Free Willy, a very sweet and very fictional story (a favorite of mine as a child!) that later spawned a trilogy, all while convincing the public that it’s easy to free a whale.

The tank you see in the movie is the same tank Keiko lived in during his time in Mexico. Intended to house dolphins, it was incredibly undersized, and the water was far too warm for an orca. Worst of all, he was isolated from others of his kind, with only the companionship of his human caregivers and a few bottlenose dolphins. The years of poor husbandry took their toll on poor Keiko, and he was lethargic and in ill health when his story because known throughout the world.

Although many parties were involved in what happened next, Warner Bros. studios (the filmmakers behind Free Willy) and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS, my beloathed) were at the forefront. Once it became public knowledge that the real Willy was not, in fact, returned to the wild to live with his family and was still living in that too-tiny pool, many of Keiko’s fans (mainly children) began writing letters asking for their favorite cetacean movie star to be released.

Doesn’t that warm your heart? *she says sarcastically*

Some time—and an incident in which Michael Jackson (yes, that Michael Jackson) tried to purchase the whale for his personal collection—later, Keiko’s owners relented. It was decided by the newly formed Free Willy-Keiko Foundation, founded by Warner Bros. and cell phone mogul Craig McCaw (and still in operation to this day, unfortunately), that it was time to make fantasy a reality and set Keiko free. In 1996, Keiko was transferred to the Oregon Coast Aquarium for rehabilitation, where he would spend two years.

Under the quality husbandry and veterinary care Keiko received in Oregon, his health began to improve. In my opinion, this beautiful habitat, with trainers who loved and cared for him, should’ve been his forever home. One would think this was the plan all along, considering his trainers were still doing waterwork with him. That doesn’t exactly scream “this animal is a candidate for release!”

But the HSUS and Free Willy-Keiko Foundation had promised the children of the world that Keiko would return to the wild. Think of the children, people.

In 1998, Keiko tasted the crisp saltwater of the Icelandic seas for the first time in nearly two decades. For the next four or so years, Keiko lived in a sea pen, with the intentions of gradually habituating him back to his native environment. Over time, his trainers took him on longer and longer “walks” in the open ocean. One day in 2002, the walk didn’t end.

Keiko was free.

15 months later, he was dead.

The cause of death was pneumonia, the most common disease of cetaceans both in the wild and in human care. He was 27 years old (average life expectancy of a male orca is about 30 years).

Perhaps it would’ve been worth it, had Keiko spent those last 15 months with his long-lost family. But he didn’t. Though he was occasionally observed trailing pods of orcas, Keiko never rejoined a wild pod. Instead, he spent those 15 months traveling the coasts of Iceland and Norway seeking out the only family he knew. Humans.

Keiko would approach swimming children, allowing them to ride on his back as he had with his trainers over the years. He would follow boats in search of food and companionship, as his caregivers had interacted with him from boats during his ocean walks. These escapades became so frequent that the local government passed ordinances to stop its citizens from interacting with the whale. Although the HSUS claimed otherwise, Keiko was never again a truly wild whale. He was a whale dependent on humans, humans who ignored the advice of experts and tried to bring fiction to life. In 2009, the journal Marine Mammal Science did a retrospective review of Keiko’s rehabilitation and release. They determined it was a failure.

Despite this, Keiko remains a poster child for anti-zoo activists. The still-hypothetical Whale Sanctuary Project (my even more beloathed) uses Keiko as an example of why their experiment is a good idea, tugging at heartstrings of well-meaning animal lovers like HSUS did all those years ago.

In reality, Keiko was quite possibly the worst candidate imaginable for release. He was a fully mature male, with a history of poor health, who had spent decades in the care of humans with absolutely no contact with others of his kind since he was basically a toddler. The decision to release him was made entirely on emotion and carried out by movie executives and animal rights activists. For further insight into the political and financial woes of the release, I highly recommend Killing Keiko by Mark Simmons, one of Keiko’s caregivers throughout the rehabilitation process.

RIP Keiko. You were a beautiful, sweet man who inspired millions 🐳

#keiko #free willy #orcas #killer whales #cetaceans #marine mammals #killing keiko #humane society of the united states #whale sanctuary project #answered asks

[primdaisy]

closeups of keiko's room

#photowall took me amonth #and its not even full #ts4 #keiko #interior #no cc

[papabay]

Not sure if I posted this here, but here’s some possible Keiko redesigns/alternate outfits. I tried to borrow some elements of her parents genin/chuunin designs. Neji’s buckles, bandage wraps and Tenten’s colour scheme

#Keiko #Keiko Hyuuga #Nejiten #Tenten #Neji #Keiko Hyuga #Naruto #Naruto OC #OC #Boruto #Boruto OC #my art

[startrek-by-secret]

Absolutely love how when Keiko told Miles that she is not Keiko but rather has stolen her body and will kill her if he doesn't listen to her, his very first thought (AFTER EVERYTHING HE HAS EXPERIENCED ON THE DS9) was "oooh, kinky role-play?" rather than that it might be the truth

#he's dumb and I live him #star trek #ds9 #star trek ds9 #star trek fandom #deep space 9 #keiko o'brien #keiko #miles o'brien #ds9 o'brien

[misterspectacular]

I love this so much

#megamind #roxanne ritchi #keiko #minion #ol chum #chum #megarox #megamind rules #megamind vs the doom syndicate

[clambuoyance]

[OCs] random dump of my ocs!!

#clam draws #clam ocs #original character #I should start a tag #keiko #rolin #Artie #Mira #Val

[quinn-fucks-shit-up]

keiko is possibly one of THE most underrated star trek characters, also the most underutilised

she's literally the best, bro worked at a school that got blown up by religious terrorists and said, 'its fine, we can use a cargo hold while it gets rebuilt', badass

they really did her dirty, i wish there were more episodes with her

#keiko #keiko o'brien #star trek #ds9 #deep space nine #st ds9

[lasaraconor]

#mari yamamoto #keiko #wyatt russell #lee shaw #anders holm #william randa #monarch legacy of monsters #gif

[michaelnordeman]

Keiko and Kira. Värmland, Sweden (August 11, 2019).

#cats #kira #keiko

[softending]

let's find out 😇

#shrinedragon #yuuto #keiko #megumi #so much stuff with these characters is just infeasible to censor #this probably is too tumblr sensors just seem to hate skin tones in my experience but we'll see!

[rosalie-starfall]

Keiko O'Brien

Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

#Keiko O'Brien #Rosalind Chao #Star Trek: The Next Generation #Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #Star Trek Babes #Keiko #Star Trek The Next Generation #Star Trek Deep Space Nine #Star Trek TNG #Star Trek DS9 #Star Trek #TNG #DS9 #stedits #my gifs #my edits #tv edits #tv : Star Trek #Women Of Star Trek #March #Colm Meaney #Miles O'Brien #Patrick Stewart #Capt. Picard #Worf #Michael Dorn #avery brooks #ben sisko #nana visitor #kira nerys

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #yyh #yu yu hakusho #anime #yusuke urameshi #keiko #karama #kenfolk26

[primdaisy]

keiko's room

#i always forget how much i love decorating in the sims #ts4 #interior #keiko

[wewerebornsextuplets]

for no good reason i fought for my fucking LIFE on this oh my god. oh my god dude. but its DONE

also while we're here i'm gonna clarify something about choro and keiko's dynamic under the cut since theres a LOT more to their connections but i was unable to fit it on the chart

SO. keiko and choro actually have like, insane online beef with one another; both are fans of a lot of the same series, but have wildly differing opinions on the contents of them [whether it be characters, ships, etc.] and butt heads a lot on social media over this. they havent blocked each other yet, because they really like arguing with one another and making each other mad. and on choro's side of things, he actually really enjoys keiko's artwork [since she DOES draw doujins in her spare time]

the caveat here? neither one of them knows that they know each other in real life, purely by circumstance. keiko doesnt really like to talk about her hobbies much to people she knows IRL, and she hasn't really gotten a chance to speak to choromatsu in person one-on-one, so they just know that they both like the same genres of anime and manga. its a bubble just WAITING to pop

#my art #osomatsu san oc #ocs #keiko #i do have more thought-out dynamics for everyone #but i only really wanted to elaborate on choro's since its the funniest to me #also i hope you guys like kabosu :3 drawing cats in the ososan style is so hard HAHAHA