#ocean stuff

[maraliga]

Is there a shark tumblr? Can someone please just like, infodump to me extensively about them? Or send me sites with good shark facts? I want to go down a shark rabbit-hole. (While sharks are my main focus rn this goes for all aquatic life, feel free to just drop me facts about ocean stuff you think I should know. I don’t know enough about ocean stuff)

(The tags on this are terrible, I don’t know how to tag stuff)

#shark #marine biology #ocean stuff

[volchonika]

Shipwrecked. This is definitely the coolest petri set I've ever made, and they don't even read petri from a lot of angles. I used transparent teal resin and black and metallic inks--and the metallics did a lot of weird stuff that I just love. They'll be available when I update my shop this month.

#dice #dnd #dice maker #dungeons and dragons dice #polyhedral dice #shipwreck vibes #ocean stuff

[karl-von-moor-official]

WHOOOP WHOOP #marine biology is trending, so I absolutely have to share some of my favourite marine bio facts with you: 

1. Take two breaths right now. Nice, right? Ok, did you know that statistically you owe every second breath of oxygen to the ocean? More than half of the oxygen in our atmosphere is generated by marine life! Mostly tiny algae and stuff. Microscopic life! Sure, rain forests are cool and all that, but the ocean binds A TON (several billion tonnes actually) of carbon dioxide and provides us with A TON of oxygen in return. Taking up around 25% of the emitted carbon dioxide, the ocean is responsible for cleaning and refreshing our air. We can breathe because of the ocean. Just think about that for a sec. 

2. Most of you might already know this, but for those of you who don’t: There’s a tiny underwater slug that’s actually only been discovered fairly recently. Its name is “leaf sheep sea slug” and it’s goddamn ADORABLE.  I mean, c’mon. Look at its face: 

And you know what’s even more amazing than its cute lil face? Next to corals, these tiny slugs are the only animals that are reportedly capable of photosynthesis! (And yea, corals are animals. And they’re also capable of photosynthesis. Actually, that works in a similar way as it works for the leaf sheep.) This slug is capable of preserving the plant cells that it eats in those leaf-like things on its back, making it possible for the slug to benefit from the photosynthesis of the chlorophyll in the cells! Free sugar, if you will. Nature is so smart. (And just look at its little face.)

3. During the first descent into the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the Mariana Trench, which lies at a whopping depth of about 10,9 kilometres under the sea level, two men were aboard the little vessel that was used for the descent. Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh manned the vessel called Trieste on Jan 23rd 1960. BUT HERE’S THE CRAZY PART: At around 9 kilometres under the sea level, the two men heard a loud cracking noise. They found the source: the heavy pressure down there had cracked one of the outer plexiglass windows! and guess what. Those two madmen decided to keep doing down despite of it all! They reached the ground, too, making them the first two people who’d ever seen the deepest point of the earth. After coming back up (both the descent and the ascent each took about 4-5 hours) they reported life forms, which was just WILD to think about, because everyone had just assumed that that wouldn’t be possible in such depths. It is, though. There’s sea cucumbers and stuff :)

#Ocean stuff #Marine biology #yeah i want to do my masters in that shit #Catch me in the challenger deep a few years from now xoxo #Biology #ocean #climate change #mariana trench #challanger deep #Leaf sheep #Cute animals #biology facts #science #i like science #<3 #rambles

[cloudyswritings]

You are a hagfish. Jawless, slimy, and nearly eyeless. You drift across the eye of the abyss, curling your sinuous around and through itself.

Scent. The brief taste of curdled, rubbery meat on the currents.

You move with purpose now, a fathomless hunger coils in your guts. How long has it been since you last fed? Long? Longer? Longer than that you think.

If you had a jaw- something you've seen the other, larger, faster beings have- it would be clenched in anticipation. But you do not have a jaw, and so you writhe onwards, unerringly following the scent of a fallen behemoth.

Time is foreign to you, it's a construct of the sunlit world, a world to which you do-not-cannot belong. Instead you measure by scent, and the fleeting pheremones of you kin.

You've been tasting them more and more now, they're doubtlessly heading the same call that drew you in. And soon they will join you, and you will coil, and entwine. churning against eachother in an experience sideways of violence.

Hunger, you decide, is the main driver for your kind. At any other time, in any other place the twisting forms of your brothers, sisters, siblings, would signify scarcity and bitter competition.

But not here. Not now.

You inhale deeply, the taste-scent-touch of doughy, moldering flesh brushing against your mouth.

Not now. you think again, contorting yourself into knots and tearing free chunk after chunk of glorious putrifaction.

Here. You think. Everyone eats their fill, and more, and more. Hunger- the sole drive of your lowely kind- has no place when one feasts on the flesh of a fallen god.

#creative writing #hagfish #whalefall #short story #just a lil thing #ocean stuff #not sure what to call this tbh

[liverbiver9]

Hello fellow jelly lover!! Autism be encouraged, I would love nothing more than to hear your hyper-fixation rant on jellyfish!! Kicking my feet and twirling my landline cord B*)

Hi hello did you know that jellyfish have no brain? They are simply all nervous system and move around by electrical propulsion. Literally just vibing, no thoughts head empty.

The study of jellyfish is called medusology because jellyfish are actually only a stage in their life! They start out as larva with essentially a dot of glue on their heads and lil tentacle feet (called cilia) which they use to feed with (their mouth and their anus are the same thing lmao). They float around until they find a good solid surface to glue their head to and become a polyp (related to sea anemone and coral)! While a polyp, they feed with their feet and generally just chill for years.

Polyps produce asexually, where they strobilate (aka split apart like mitosis), and sexually, which is where jellyfish comes in!! The polyp splits apart into medusa (jellyfish) which is essentially the polyp’s gonads/sexual reproductive organs! Jellyfish are just floating uteruses/testicles!!!

No one is sure how long they stay in the medusa stage, but most jellyfish are either male or female and will spawn aka release eggs/sperm pretty regularly if they’re eating enough. Jellyfish eat passively as they swim, which is arguably the most energy-efficient swimming method in animals ever. Spawning is controlled by light (?!!) and they all spawn at the same time of day (again, no brains!! Only vibes).

The polyp who produced asexually (created the medusas) can live for many years, producing medusas each year. Jellyfish? Can live for an unknown amount of time. One species, Turritopsis dohrnii, is essentially immortal because it can transform from the medusa stage into a polyp again, essentially never dying.

Anyways. Jellyfish are so fucking cool!! Nature is crazy! I love the ocean and all it’s alien life!!!

#my autism really popped off here #thanks for letting me rant!!! #I haven’t gotten to rant about jellyfish in forever #medusology #jellyfish #ocean stuff #rants

[ygdrasilly]

sunset at sea, from ischia to naples

#my stuff #my photo #oceancore #ocean stuff #sunset #gulls

[plague-vulture]

i fukcing love the ocean

hel yea

#plague's thoughts #ocean stuff #certified ocean stan

[antennatoheaven]

art blog 🦇💌 carrd 🩸🕊️ ultrakill blog

header by @/mammoneythegreat. pagedoll by @/hoofpeet

art tag = #gala draws | doodle tag = #gala doodles

-i'm bad at tagging content as gore/suggestive, so be warned ig.

-i speak english recreationally ✌️

-i have an untagged shuffled queue mixed in with normal reblogs

#id included #a little tag list for my own use. sorry if i show up on a main tag #kirby #moomin #tma #toh #ahit #sth #pokemon #submas #kitty #me #undertale #deltarune #fav #quiz #the mountain goats #the mandalorian #ocean stuff #space stuff #machines #gala draws #gala doodles #words #insp #tiktok #ultrakill #fionna and cake #dp

[bloomstars334]

Apenas garotas sendo garotas <3

#ocean stuff #ocs #my ocs <3 #tumblr art #sapphic #wlw art

[bam-monsterhospital]

how wet you want your fish?

looking up species in dnd land, and foolish me for thinking there's any sort of distinction in anything wizards of the coast -related.

what are the visual/aesthetic/cultural differences between: sea elves tritons water genasi nereids

none. there's none. there's no rules, there's no guides, it's all the same nebulous 'i dunno, ocean.'

at least merfolk are distinct in that they have fish tails shalarin are distinct because of their silly huge back fin. water genasi and nereids are representative of water itself, so they can be like, made of water-looking. so there's that difference between them and the tritons/sea elves. but fhasdkfl;dsa

i don't know why this bothers me so much. i go to poke around dnd land, looking at oceany elf-y species and designs to feed my ocean forever-cravings and i get met with the vague fog of dnd non-descriptions.

I have to make it clear: this isn't a dig against tritons or sea elves, or whatever. I love oceany species, CLEARLY. I just wish there was variety at all, and I'm so fuckin confused about the redundancy.

#don't mind me #even their cultures are the same: tritons and sea elves #like #did you really need two you guys? #there's nothing different about them #shuttup i'm not talking bonuses or mechanics it's nothing #i'm talking what sets them apart from each other as different species #dnd shit #ocean stuff #fantasy bullshit #rpg stuff #mer #specifically this was a tritons vs sea elves thing #because i discovered tritons first and sea elves second #and was like 'oh cool' with sea elves #until i read about them and found out they're just tritons #diggin out old art to express my state of 'r u srs' #ramblings #i put up water genasi and nereids because they too can look like underwater fishy mer people rather than just human-shaped water-elemental #ALL THE OVERLAP

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#cephalopods #ocean creatures #other stuff

[sea-dwelling-wizard]

Under a Canopy of Lies - Original Short Story

Darkness drowned the world in its allure, leaving only suffocation. Piercing through it were the stars.

They always shone above the seas. They never descended the depths, yet they found a way to dig through. Constellations adorned the skies as decorations, swirling above the people below, showing their grace, telling stories from afar. 

They were Stryllis’s disciples, followers of fate, and tellers of everything known and unknown.

The stars.

They spoke, too. Whispered and murmured and mumbled, laughter tumbling down from the Northern Star to the waves. Only a special few heard them. 

The stars.

Were they from another realm? Far away from the bustling streets of the Lunares Empire? Away from the so-called opulence of the Noctilians? Above the white, cold glaciers of the Northern Sea?

The stars.

What were they, really?

Questions grew under the blanket of doubt. Fear instilled in weak souls. 

To the stars, the theories were all entertainment— something to laugh about. It wouldn't matter much. They didn’t mind the attention, though.

The stars.

Did they laugh at humanity’s mediocrity? Cry at the gravest of tragedies? What was their ulterior motive? What did they chase after?

The answer was clear, however. 

They aren’t from this world. The tellers of fate they claimed to be were merely aliases, weren’t they? The people were playthings to their plan. 

Were they travelers, perhaps? 

Our world, and theirs; stars littered them both with their grandeur and power.

Could it be that…

They have arrived here, too?

#writing #my work #creative writing #writeblr #writers of tumblr #stars #heavenly objects #ocean stuff

[emerald-ocelot]

I love giant siphonophores so much omg you don't understand

I am currently obsessed with ocean stuff (alongside everything else) ((also I have been like my entire life)) but I especially love giant isopods, giant siphonophores, and magnapinna squid omggg

I've been making a playlist for ocean related stuff and I have some rlly nice videos and stuff

#hdjkfhdjkhfkd i love this stuff #idk why im posting this #ocean stuff #giant siphonophore #magnapinna squid #Youtube

[kujojtr]

look at them...

#they look so silly #marbled parrotfish btw. #ocean stuff

[lazysharkart]

Sailing ships are one of my favorite things to draw, whether they're actually sailing or not.

#art #artwork #artists on tumblr #drawing #doodle #illustration #pen drawing #marker drawing #color drawing #ship #shipwreck #sailing ship #sailing ship drawing #shipwreck drawing #ocean #ocean stuff #ocean stuff drawing