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abyssalzones · 2 months

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favorite deep sea creature?

sorry this one took so long to answer. it's also very long. but I feel like you knew what you were getting into when you asked tumblr user "abyssalzones" what his favorite deep sea creature is.

now immediately my mind jumped to coelacanths because they're among my favorite fish Ever for a multitude of reasons, such as (but not limited to):

-their mystique (their fossilized ancestors were initially discovered in the 19th century, and due to their illusive nature were thought to have gone extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period until one was found alive by an unknown(?) fisherman off the coast of South Africa, and from there the discovery was accredited to museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimar who spotted it in the day's catch. however it's worth mentioning fishermen in the eastern South African region may have known about the species before then. kind of a 'who can say if it wasn't written down' situation.)

-their beautiful blueness (others have waxed poetic about their appearance more skillfully than I, but just look at this guy. wow. albeit I have to wonder if how blue they appear is very dependent on lighting but whatever he's beautiful)

-and, finally, their importance as lobe-finned fish! (the two extant species of Coelacanth today- alongside lungfish, who are also incredibly cool- hold a unique position in taxonomy and evolutionary history as the only living non-tetrapod sarcopterygians that we know of ^_^ they used to be much more dominant as freshwater predators, but then the great dying came along and they suffered a significant decline. so, essentially, these guys are survivors! ...if you felt it necessary to frame it as such. and "sarcopterygian" more specifically describes them as belonging to the clade 'Sarcopterygii', which classifies them as lobe-finned bony fish. this contrasts the other clade of bony fish, Actinopterygii, which describes ray-finned bony fish. in essence, they are the great-great-great-great-ad-nauseum-grandparents of all tetrapods! very very important animals from a grander biological perspective.)

...however, after typing all of this out, I realize this is a little bit of a cop-out. Coelacanths, as cool as they are, are actually not the deepest of deep-sea fish. It's difficult to get the exact numbers on their whereabouts as, previously stated, they're pretty elusive guys, but generally during the daytime they're found about 100-500 meters deep, resting in caves and saving their energy for nocturnal reef-feeding. apparently they've been found to migrate deeper as well, but it still feels a little disingenuous (to me) to say that they're truly deep-sea animals.

...so if I want to live up to my username, I need to take you on a journey. to the abyssal zone. where you will find some truly terrifying, near-alien creatures, straight from the pits of Dante Alighieri's visions of hell, or Hieronymus Bosch's bizarre garden of earthly delights...!

no, not that guy! get him out of here. shoo.

Instead we're going to be talking about his big brother. his... very, very big brother.

okay so chances are you've seen this photo before, it circulates quite a bit online as "BIG FUCKING SCARY THING IN THE OCEAN" and it's pretty apparent why, but I'm incredibly fond of "Scary fucking thing in the ocean" in general, and as such I think this guy is delightful. I debated on picking a couple of different, lesser-known species from the abyssal-hadal range (such as various arctic amphipods), but if I'm honest I have a soft spot for cephalopods. typical, typical I know, I should be ashamed, but in this case I can safely say the Bigfin squid (genus Magnapinna) is anything but "typical".

oh, sure, there's a level of wonder healthily exacerbated by the rarity of sightings- but that's all we have! sightings and footage! well, that and washed-up corpses dating back to 1883, all being damaged juveniles that were never properly collected. even so, their significance and oddity isn't really made apparent until you see their adult form, which first came to science's attention properly in 2001 when some very grainy footage was captured by an oil drilling ship, the Milennium Explorer, in the gulf of Mexico.

he's shy.

I say "first came to science's attention" because the Bigfin had actually been recorded prior, all the way back to 1998, but no one had really gotten up out of their chair and started dancing around at the realization of holy shit, what is this thing? and from there further work was done on properly identifying and analyzing the species based on footage.

however... it's still just footage. there has not yet been a captured live specimen, nor a well-preserved cadaver, or... really anything to tell us more about this mysterious cephalopod, other than what we can tell visually and geographically. we know it sure looks distinctive compared to various species of squid (check out the elbows on that thing), we know the largest adult specimens seem to be about 25 feet long (with estimates going up to 40 feet), and we know it might be the deepest-occurring genus of squid (we've had sightings as deep as 6,212 meters below the surface- well into the hadal zone, actually, not just the abyssopelagic), but in terms of behavior? breeding? feeding habits?? there are a lot of unanswered questions. and that's not to discredit any legitimate scientific analysis, past or present, of the bigfin, but moreso to stress that it's a very mysterious creature we don't have much data on.

I think just in general, my favorite deep-sea creatures (and this extends to just about any species, sea-dwelling or otherwise) are those that do a very thorough job of not being found. I am driven by a deep curiosity into whatever is so weird and leads such an unimaginable life to us humans that it eludes the microscope or the scalpel time and time again.

oh, and bigfin squids kind of remind me of the alien controllers that fly around your head during the xen levels in half-life. so there's that as well.

#lab notes #askbox #I am not by any means an expert so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or misled about any of this!

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royaletiquette · 11 months

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5 Pieces of Fiction Media that Influenced You as a Writer and Why? I don't consume enough fiction to be able to do this so I gotta broaden the scope

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison Most of the time, the only fiction I enjoyed in school was sci-fi. It's the only thing that remains with me today at least. Harlan Ellison is such a jackass and boy does that show through I Have No Mouth and everything surrounding it: his interviews, the computer game, the guide he wrote to the game that's really just a book version of the short story. Ted is like peak Hibiya in the way that if the reader is blind enough to believe that he's telling the truth, then they aren't getting any of the story. And I just love honestly how angry that story is without being... too whiny? I wouldn't say there's anything subtle about it, but it keeps drawing you forward for sure. Also just how Harlan writes I can relate to a lot. Which is a big one.

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch (painting) I'm not one for art. I just. It's nice. Cool whatever wow I'm so impressed. So seeing this in Madrid I think, after having to go to a billion other art museums and being really tired of it, stumbling on this as a final room to poke our head into is such a pleasant memory I have. Going from feeling very whelmed with my mother, and we're suddenly both like. Man what the fuck am I looking at. I wrote multiple songs about this piece. I bought miniatures inspired by this piece. I would gladly get it tattooed on me when I decide what and where and by whom.

It's such a great level of absurdity that isn't offensive in a jarring "make you think" bullshit way. Maybe it's because when I think of absurdity, I think of films from the 20's. But this painting has more of a through line so like, it still makes sense. So I don't know, something about it gives me a lot of muse.

Dead Kennedies (band) This might be one that also mainly inspires me more as a song writer than an rp'er. But it's again Jello Biafra playing with the skewed perspective of the author, which is apparently how I get my rocks off. You're supposed to hate him. He dawns this mask of a rich prep, or politician, or people you hate but really with a second of introspection you realize that's also you, and he just says the quiet stuff loudly. And musically Dead Kennedies is just fucking spooky with their bassline. So it really inspires keeping that core motivation for Hibi as me, and bringing forward those quiet parts of them that ruin the illusion sometimes.

Fantasia (movie) I can't pick between Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky, so fuck it. Fantasia is what introduced me to them and that's what matters. I will always love and be inspired by Fantasia/Fantasia 2000. Everyone's got a Disney movie, and that's mine. I can't listen to Rhapsody in Blue without picturing it, or Rite of Spring without seeing the ballet. It just. Fucks me up the way you want classical music to. With writing though, it's the meaning and inspiration behind those pieces and composers that inspire me. They all ride such big waves and are so contrarian to what's expected from them in the music hall. There's just no way I don't also see Hibi falling in love with them and digging that "I'll do what you want, but under my own rules."

Historical/Period dramas None specifically. Just the widest net I can cast here lol. But really, watching any really inspire me to come up with new plots and different ways people around Hibi would act. Which is something I really struggle with, so it's an amazing resource, you know, human history. But it's also like, a really fun lens to put on your muse, and think about them through the eras. Personally, it helps develop them more, and understand the things in their life that make them unique and how they would change if those little things didn't happen. I'm also just such a slut for Titanic.

tagged by @mannequinentity and @distopea♥

#this is where i expose my balls on stream for being an edgelord #but thats what makes hibi so fun and unique. is adding those hints of punk in them #less so with hibiya at times. but it becomes this flavor of rebellion thats not just a temper tantrum #ooc;#mun #dash meme #honorable mention: Supertramp

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drawing-way-outside-the-lines · 2 years

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For the music asks:

1, 9, 11, 18 and 19 for you and Andy

2, 7, 13, 19 and 21 for Adrian

2 and 3 for Caspian (if he feels up for it xD)

and 12, 15, 18 and 20 for Nekaya <3

Thank you so much for this Ask! YAY! :D I apologize tho, that Tumblr wont let me edit this post properly, so at the moment I can't get to write between the pics like I usually would.... eh.... what can you do? I also apologize is my characters at the moment don't speak much, as you know, life kinda flipped and turned upside down.... sooooeh.... I hope it's easy/fun to read none the less. Andy: A song you currently have on replay - Gorillaz - Cracker Island ft. Thundercat A song you were introduced to by a friend - Stereophonics - Just Looking A song that makes you wanna dance - Oh Wonder - Lose It (Jerry Folk Remix) A song from a genre you usually don’t enjoy - (genre being country, but this actually used to be one of his favorite songs 7-8 years ago, and I fucking hate this song!!!) Lady Antebellum - Need You Now Some of your favorite lyrics (explain why if you want to) -

Well you know I look like a woman but I Cut like a buffalo Stand up like a tower, tall But I fall Just like a domino

You can hit me if you want to, hey Do whatever makes you happy You should try to take it easy on me Cause I don't know how to take it

You're a prick with a pin woman, yeah

Wake me up when it's broke Only if it's broken You know I treat you like a joke but you Can't tell when I'm joking (It's just basically nonsense, aint it? Which is why he, and well also I, enjoy it so much! Song is The Dead Weather - I Cut Like A Buffalo)

Adrian: An all-time favorite song of yours - (not to just feed you Simple Man, again, have this instead) Blur - The Universal

A song that reminds you of yourself - The Doors - People Are Strange

A song you would listen to while driving in a car at night - Gorillaz - Empire Ants ft. Little Dragon Some of your favorite lyrics (explain why if you want to)

I wish I was like you Easily amused Find my nest of salt Everything is my fault I'll take all the blame Aqua sea foam shame Sunburn freezer burn Choking on the ashes of her enemy (He finds it very melancholic and poetic, as most of Kurt's lyrics. The song is Nirvana - All Apologies)

A song that makes you nostalgic - John Lee Hooker - Hard Times Caspian: (He doesn't listen to music really, but I think I can squeeze an answer out of him for both of those XD) An all-time favorite song of yours - Archive - Fuck You A song from your childhood - Kashmir - Mudbath (Evan was listening to it on repeat, going through the loss of Jackall/Jacob, so it's kinda his trigger song) Nekaya: A song you would listen to in the morning - Apocalypse Orchestra - The Garden Of Earthly Delights A song from one of your favorite artists - Lacuna Coil - Blood, Tears, Dust

A song from a genre you usually don’t enjoy - Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now A song without lyrics - Giuseppe Tartini - Devil's Trill Sonata

#Well #that was a mixed bag of fun XD #ask answer #tag thing #Daniel mumbles #eternal infamy #Andy Shaw-Thompson #Andycorn #Adrian Blackwood #Caspian D'Angelo #Styro #Nekaya D'Angelo #Kaya

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cherrylmoon · 2 years

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the things. the things i overcame as a child. i stay alive as i take other people's lives. i'm committed to killing things. i send a letter to my dead friends. i talk with my dead father in my dreams. the death of the dream. dream is a murderer. i lost myself hundred times. life has left all its poison on my shoulders. i didn't have time to get to know myself because i was too busy introducing myself to the world. hell is here. earth is hell. our deepest scars are those that we receive from the farthest place to our heart. i'm all alone. my soul is begging to go to anywhere. i can be many different people. ⎯happiness is exhausting. we fed on the fear of about to died. ⎯god is the invention of devil. devil's eyes made of fire. i'm on the border of geniusly and madness like van gogh. if god is stronger than satan, what does it mean? why this world be like this? is it means god is evil? ⎯the hunters in the snow. the home of earthly delights. we will dance when we die. we will die when we dance. it's just our destiny. you're being alive on the neptune and i'm being alive on the venus. born on the mars. died from the rays of the sun. you're become a planet. blue is our color. this is where i started to peeling my face. this is my universe. it's called ''cherry node'' pigeons biting my toes, it's hurt but at least it's not hurt as much as you did. i smoked a menthol cigarette. whatever people not say i am, this is what i am. perhaps i write a letter for my soulless soul. me and my wrists full of scars. i spent too much time to make a garden of fairy but i couldn't. time flies, can't catch it. afraid being an angel. i have nothing left to lose after neptune. i'm crying in blood, 'cause my soul is gone. your hands are tale my soul away. you're blooming. i'm making a sky of your crown of daisies. all the lost blues says "kill me when i'm try to kill you." swimming in the pool full of broken hearts. i have demons in my mind. dead rabbits bring your letter to me. madness made of my thoughts. only tomorrow can save me. whistling my name. peeled black nail polish, black is catch our love. tiny things in life. being alive. black is the standard. i was just looking for a friend and i saw death. it's pulling me itself. i didn't fight with death. i accept it. i love it. i'm no one's no one. i am nothing. killing people. it's only thing i think. i love the notion of killing. killing human race, killing my feelings, killing my soul and killing our love. eating human meat. tiny but pretty details in life. i want to disappear completely. give me all your venom so i can kill myself. all the poison in my memories. i hate think about thinking. are they watching me? are you watching me? am i watching myself? break my body because i don't want to be escape point in your life. escape from nine to five. i love you like kayra loves kinyas. nothing can hurt me anymore owing to my things. will it all end here? i wish i wasn't a human. the death of god was fascinating. obviously, everything about death it is. furthermore, this includes my death. i'm a godeater. we embrace death. death is hiding behind a curtain, waiting to reach us. we're moonstrucks. my safe stuff is my cigarette. what am i now?

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