#wolf trap anglerfish

[pansylair]

thaumatichthys binghami aka wolf trap anglerfish my beloved 💛

#thaumatichthys binghami #wolf trap anglerfish #anglerfish #marine biology #fish #deep sea creatures #fun fact the wolftrap in the name comes from those big upper jaw flaps being able to swing shut over the lower jaw

[bogleech]

Less Famous But Super Weird Deep Sea Fish

 I’m gonna write a post of cool animal facts just to Blaze later. Typical deep sea anglerfish and some others are pretty famous but I’m going to spend maybe even ten whole dollars to make an extra thousand people look at these other fish that I don’t think enough people know about. Sources included for all images, many with additional information wherever possible, but there’s still very little known about many of these animals!

GIGANTACTIS - common name ”whipnose seadevil” - the Schmidt ocean institute recently took this detailed photo from a deep sea ROV of a fish almost never observed live, but it sure does actually look dead. These anglerfish spend most of their time floating upside-down like this with their proboscis-like lure dangling below, and one guess is that they may send the lure down into the tunnels of burrowing worms or crustaceans. In some species, the lure can be over six times the length of the body. MORE FISH:

MONOGNATHUS - meaning “one jaw” - never observed alive and never given a common name (how about just monojaw?) this animal is closely related to the more famous “pelican eels” or “gulper eels,” but lacks the huge, expandable mouth. Instead, Monognathus has a strange skull with technically no upper jaw, just a gaping hole or in some species a bill-like protrusion. The thin, simplified lower jaws exist to swing prey into the single, venomous fang on the roof of the mouth.

 THAUMATICHTHYS - common name “wolf trap anglerfish” - also going by the cute name “wunderfish,” the source of this illustration was a japanese marine bio site that unfortunately went down over a decade ago, and no live photographs have ever been taken. The “lure” (illicium) of an anglerfish is actually modified from the first ray of the dorsal fin, but this angler’s anatomy is so twisted that the same appendage protrudes from the roof of its huge, broad upper jaw, which folds in half like a hot dog bun to create an illuminated tunnel (figure 2 in the image) that snaps shuts like a Venus’ fly trap on very gullible prey. On this page is a fantastic x-ray scan of one specimen.

IPNOPS - common name “Grideye” - this fish has adorable and beautiful larvae found closer to the sea’s surface, with large and well developed eyes. As they mature, the eyes deteriorate until they’re gone altogether, replaced with a pair of reflective, luminous yellow pits on the top of the skull, looking like somebody scooped its brains out. These pits are lined with thousands of photosensitive cells that must allow the fish to “see” even the faintest traces of distant light, and especially the light emitted by other deep sea organisms.

STYLEPHORUS - common name “tube eye” or “threadtail” - incredibly rare close up photographs almost all come from Dante Fenolio, see HERE. This fish is so weird that it’s even in its own entire order, which is basically like if only one single beetle or one single frog was ever discovered on the whole planet. Its big, binocular-like eyes see in full detail as well as full color, which is quite unusual for deep sea creatures. It also has a very large mouth, technically, but a very tiny mouth opening, its jaws covered in a stretchy membrane with only one tiny, tubular hole. As it widens the jaws, it pulls water (and tiny prey) through the hole with powerful, precise force that disturbs little of the surrounding water; it’s a living vacuum cleaner with pinpoint sniper accuracy.

TYPHLONUS NASUS - common name “faceless cusk eel” - hauntingly weird video clip of this animal here. There are many species of deep sea cusk eel, and they have a few things in common with the more popular but unrelated “blobfish;” they tend to be soft, bulbous creatures adapted to float neutrally in the water until they really need to move, feeding on just about any small creature they bump into. This species is so named because its mouth and nostrils are on the underside of its fat, gelatinous head and its tiny eyes are invisible beneath many layers of tissue. Yeah I know what else some of you think it looks like so feel free to get that out of your system.

MALACOSTEUS - common name “stoplight loosejaw” or “rat trap fish” - photos from Descna, these are dead specimens but the “fleshless” jaw and “detached” head are both completely normal: this fish can swing its skull outward like an arm to grab prey, and the lack of any floor to the lower jaw allows it to lash out with more extreme speed. This is also one of the few deep sea fish to produce red light, from bright “searchlights” under its eyes. The red spectrum of sunlight doesn’t penetrate into the deep sea, so the color red is invisible to most of its inhabitants. The loosejaw’s red lights allow it to brightly illuminate its prey before striking, while the victim usually sees no light at all. A fantastic illustration here by abiogenesis on Deviantart.

 If you ultimately liked getting a list of preposterous little creatures as a blazed post let me know and I will eventually maybe do others, especially if I just make the money back through my site and store (see profile)

#biology #animals #marine biology

[dogcommunion]

Came dangerously close to reblogging FNAF fanart cuz I just saw a hot wolf lady. It's getting worse. Fuckin furry anglerfish. Venus fly traps in combat boots

#barking

[amongtheus]

angler fish

The anglerfish are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes (/ˌlɒfiɪˈfɔːrmiːz/).[1] They are bony fish named for their characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified luminescent fin ray (the esca or illicium) acts as a lure for other fish. The luminescence comes from symbiotic bacteria, which are thought to be acquired from seawater,[2][3] that dwell in and around the sea.

Some anglerfish are notable for extreme sexual dimorphism and sexual symbiosis of the small male with the much larger female, seen in the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep sea anglerfish. In these species, males may be several orders of magnitude smaller than females.[4]

Anglerfish occur worldwide. Some are pelagic (dwelling away from the sea floor), while others are benthic (dwelling close to the sea floor). Some live in the deep sea (such as the Ceratiidae), while others live on the continental shelf, such as the frogfishes and the Lophiidae (monkfish or goosefish). Pelagic forms are most often laterally compressed, whereas the benthic forms are often extremely dorsoventrally compressed (depressed), often with large upward-pointing mouths.[citation needed]

Evolution[edit]

The earliest fossils of anglerfish are from the Eocene Monte Bolca formation of Italy, and these already show significant diversification into the modern families that make up the order.[5] Given this, and their close relationship to the Tetraodontiformes, which are known from Cretaceous fossils, they likely originated during the Cretaceous.[6][7] A 2010 mitochondrial genome phylogenetic study suggested the anglerfishes diversified in a short period of the early to mid-Cretaceous, between 130 and 100 million years ago.[8] A more recent preprint reduces this time to the Late Cretaceous, between 92 to 61 million years ago.[7] Other studies indicate that anglerfish only originated shortly after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event as part of a massive adaptive radiation of percomorphs, although this clashes with the extensive diversity already known from the group by the Eocene.[7][9]

Classification[edit]

FishBase,[1] Nelson,[10] and Pietsch[11] list 18 families, but ITIS[12] lists only 16. The following taxa have been arranged to show their evolutionary relationships.[4]

Suborder Lophoiodei

Lophiidae (goosefishes or monkfishes)

Suborder Antennarioidei

Antennariidae (frogfishes)

Tetrabrachiidae (four-armed frogfishes)[13]

Brachionichthyidae (handfishes)

Lophichthyidae (Boschma's frogfish)[13]

Suborder Chaunacoidei

Chaunacidae (sea toads)

Suborder Ogcocephaloidei

Ogcocephalidae (batfishes)

Suborder Ceratioidei

Centrophrynidae (prickly seadevils)

Ceratiidae (warty seadevils)

Himantolophidae (footballfishes)

Diceratiidae (doublespine seadevils)

Melanocetidae (black seadevils)

Thaumatichthyidae (wolf-trap seadevils)

Oneirodidae (dreamers)

Caulophrynidae (fanfin seadevils)

Neoceratiidae (needlebeard seadevil)

Gigantactinidae (whipnose seadevils)

Linophrynidae (leftvent seadevils)

Red-lipped batfishStriped anglerfish (Antennarius striatus

#sussy baka

[fluffomatic]

Tickle Island Master Post

Tickle Island

Dr. Alban Cackle

Intro/Design

Tickle Chart

Character Info

Dr. Zayne Grimm

Intro/Design

Tickle Chart

Tickle Bugs

Wooly Twirlers

Fuzzy Moths

Walking Feather

Tickle Fleas

Tickler Wasp

Chirpers

Fluffy Spider

Mint Moth

Lee Spider

Long Armed Clawing Beetle

Soft Snail

Dragonfloof

Pink Tongued Butterfly

Ler Scorpion

Hypnotic Firefly

Fluff Pill

Feathered Hopper

Feathered Devil

Sensquito

Lersquito

Lady Flof

Tickle Ants

Giant Feather Bees

Fluffball Caterpillars

Itching Fly

Giant Pink Centipede

Tickle Plants

Laughter Bush

Feather Blossom Tree

Motherbloom

Pink Cattail

The Royal Tickler

Jittering Rose Bush

Fluffy Dandelions 

Laughter Willow

Feather Bush

Tingling Shrooms

Tickle Pitcher

The Ticklish Plant

Jumping Soft Cactus

Feather Seaweed

Babybloom

Tickle Fish/Sea Creatures

Fuzzy Mouth Sucker Eel

Fuzzy Armed Starfish

Tickler Jelly

Wriggling Anglerfish

Nibbling River Guppy

Fluffy Glaucus

Tickyray

Inkling Mimic

Heart Eyed Piranhas

Pink Dolphin

Tickle Pickle

Angel Shark

Feather Mouth Shark

Tickle Animals

Fnoozy

Spidering Monkey

Feathered Porcupine

Lion Snake

Floofhog

The Great Pink Wolf

Spotted Brown Bear

Pink Belly Frog

Rug-Bellied Python

Teasing Lovebird

Truffle Penguin

Soft Toothed Alligator

Ticklepok

Tickret

Teasing Hyena

Fluffy Tail Mouse

Pink Panda

Mintcoon

Tickle Cryptids

Fox Tickler/The Fox/Slender Fox

Shallow Quicksand Trap

Lavender Deer

Mother Owl

The Giant LaughEater

Tickle Chimera or Chimera of the Forest

Yakoler

Other

Tickle Island Uniform

Tickle Chart

(I'll continue to update as more creatures are added!)

#tickle forest #tickle island #tickle bugs #tickle animals #tickle fish #tickle plants #tickle cryptids #dr. alban cackle #dr. cackle #dr. zayne grimm #zayne grimm #dr. grimm #there are so many creatures now that it only seemed right that i make a master list

[randomencounters]

Table of Were-Creatures

“Even one who is pure in heart / and says their prayers by night / may become a ___ when the night-flower blooms and the silver moon is bright.”

I’m not sure if I recommend using this with the Table of Races from a previous post (https://randomencounters.tumblr.com/post/631073167702687744/okay-fine-a-d100-table-of-races). I was trying this table out and, sure, a Drow Were-Styracosaur, a Succubus that turns into a Hyena when the moon is full, sure, but I’m not sure even I could handle a Mi-Go Were-Baleen-Whale.

Wolf

Bear (type appropriate to character’s native land)

Boar

Jackal

Hyena

Bat

Wild dudes with horns and hooves (d8: Deer, Moose, Ibex, Antelope, Gazelle, Fanged Muntjac, Saiga Antelope, Mountain Goat)

Big Cat (d4: Lion, Tiger, Panther, Jaguar)

Housecat

Domesticated Dog (d20: Chihuahua, Tibetan Mastiff, Great Dane, French Bulldog, Pug, Italian Greyhound, Golden Retriever, Black Lab, Basset Hound, Shih Tzu, Pit Bull, Husky, Beagle, Bichon Frise, Yorkshire Terrier, Corgi, Pomeranian, Boston Terrier, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Schnauzer)

Rodent (d10: Field Mouse, Rat, Naked Mole Rat, Guinea Pig, Jerboa, Squirrel, Sugar-Glider, Chipmunk, Capybara, Anti-Magic Field Mouse)

Beaver

Skunk

Possum

Fox

Hedgehog

Star-Nosed Mole

Ferret

Otter

Snake (d6: Cobra, Rattle, Ball Python, Puff Adder, Gliding, Winged, Hoop)

Frilled Lizard

Snapping Turtle

Horned Lizard

Suchian (d4: Alligator, Crocodile, Gharial, Caiman)

Plesiosaur

Deinonychus

Herbivorous Dinosaur (d4: Stegosaur, Styracosaur, Brachiosaur, Ankylosaur)

Pterodactyl

Amphibian (d8: Bullfrog, Tropical Poison Frog, Spring Peeper, Surinam Toad, Chinese Mustache Toad, Axolotl, Salamander, one of those weird extinct hammerhead dudes)

Cow

Giraffe

Goat

Sheep

Horse

Llama or Alpaca

Armadillo

Sloth

Kangaroo

Platypus

Koala

Panda

Anteater

Aye-Aye

Ape (d4: Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Orangutan, Proboscis)

Elephant

Rhinoceros

Hippo

Tapir

Fowl (d4: Chicken, Duck, Goose, Peacock)

Wild bird (d10: Crow, Woodpecker, Hummingbird, Eagle, Hawk, Pelican, Vulture, Owl, Penguin, Dodo)

Freshwater Fish (d6 Catfish, Salmon, Sturgeon, Gar, Fancy Koi, Fur-Bearing Trout)

Saltwater Fish (d20: Lionfish, Puffer, Stingray, Remora, Swordfish, Coelacanth, Anglerfish, Stoplight Loosejaw, Gulper Eel, Blobfish, Hagfish, Mola-Mola, Electric Eel, Sarcastic Fringehead, Hammerhead Shark, Sawfish, Megamouth Shark, Goblin Shark, Wobbegong, Great White Shark)

Cetacean (d6: Orca, Walrus, Baleen Whale, Dolphin, Barking Seal, Narwhal)

Marine Mollusk (d10: Dumbo Octopus, Blue Ring Octopus, Mimic Octopus, Humboldt Squid, Vampire Squid, Magnapinna Squid, Colossal Squid, Cuttlefish, Clam/Oyster/Mussel, Spiny Conch)

Crustacean (d6: Blue Crab, Snow Crab, Hermit Crab, Lobster, Mantis Shrimp, Pillbug)

Other marine invertebrate (d10: Starfish, Jellyfish, Sea Urchin, Sea Cucumber, Bobbit Worm, Anemone, Anomalocaris, Opabinia, Barnacle, Glaucus)

Arachnid (d8: Tarantula, Spiny Orb Weaver, Cartwheel, Black Widow, Regular Scorpion, Vinegaroon, Tick, Horseshoe Crabs which are apparently Arachnids)

Centipede

Insect (d10: Stag Beetle, Mayfly, Stick Bug, Wasp, Moth, Camel Cricket, Junebug, Earwig, Bullet Ant, Orchid Mantis)

Snail (d10: 1-6 garden, 7-9 venomous, 10 Flail)

Ooze (d4: Banana Slug, Gelatinous Cube, Green Slime, Black Pudding)

Lurker or Trapper

Roper or Darkmantle

Bag of Devouring

Rust Monster

Owlbear

Dragonet (roll d10: Red, Green, White, Black, Blue, Gold, Silver, Brass, Bronze, Copper)

Duckbunny

Bullette

Flumph

Mimic

Displacer-Beast

Blink Dog

Elemental/Paraelemental (d8: Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Lava, Ice, Lightning, Void)

Wyvern

Bonnacon

Basilisk/Cockatrice

Pegasus

Unicorn

Phoenix

Mongolian Death Worm

Fresno Nightcrawler

Cryptoleporidae (d4: Jackalope, Skvader, Rasselbock, Wolpertinger)

Elwetrisch

Dungavenhooter

Squonk

Sidehill Gouger (aka Prock, Hunkus, Gyascutus)

Avalerion

Rhinogradentia

Fiji Mermaid

Pokemon of choice

Pixie

Giant

Worm-on-a-string

Venus Fly Trap

Car

Chimaera (traditional Lion-Goat-Snake)

Chimaera (reroll this table three times for the three animals to combine)

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#hybrids #humanoids #animals #tables

[maraudingforflesh]

Batfam with some timkon as a treat

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20935463/chapters/49772102

Into the Brighter Night (162,894 words); Tim plans his own rescue from being kidnapped and he calls on his young justice friends to carry out his plan. The batfam has to come to terms with the Tim outside of their dynamics and they struggle seeing him happy with other people.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25384345/chapters/61553851

Baby, Talk Me Down (Take Me Out) (WIP); Tim goes to live on the Kent farm for the summer to relax and take a break but things are never that simple

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24278113/chapters/58516114

Never Meet Your Heroes (46,347 words); Tim, Bart, Cassie, and Kon have to go rogue when Superman decides to capture Kon and treat him like a lab experiment

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30125073

anglerfish (6,484 words); Tim was having a rough night and that’s before Red Hood has to save him from some thugs

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26469157

between a rock and a hard place (5,449 words); Tim and Jason are trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building and Tim has a head injury

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30526899/chapters/75287202

Friable (7,424 words); siblings stick together even when the parent you’re against is Batman

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29429001

I Thought You'd Want To Be The One (3,665 words); Tim goes to Red Hood’s territory on purpose hoping to get shot and instead gets a hug

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28149216

Green-Eyed Monster (8,032 words); Jason finds Tim fear-gassed and shaken up and takes pity on a child who had no more choice in the violence done to him than Jason had

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27575426

air pocket (4,973 words); Tim and Jason are trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30238482

muzzled (5,967 words); Jason rescues Tim from human traffickers but the rescue unfortunately involves purchasing Tim and saying and doing unsavory things to sell the charade

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30572252

Little bird (8,162 words); Tim is meant to be at a parent teacher conference when Jason attacks him in the tower

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30286317

sharing is caring (5,717 words); Tim has been captured by traffickers who offer him to Red Hood as a gift

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2071341

Something better than you are today (series); fics depicting the middle-child robins who deserved better finding comfort in one another

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27660929

One Wrong Step (3,064 words); Damian and Jason run into some trouble with landmines in the desert

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23488282

Socialite (2,895 words); Tim is too good at playing his part for high society parties and it freaks out his family to see him in action

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30318522

pretty robin (8,389 words); Tim is undercover as a sex worker to get information about a smuggling ring. Unfortunately, Red Hood is also there and recognizes him.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31654376/chapters/78338444

Trust fall (22,423 words); Tim and Damian run into each other at the Kent farm when neither of them is technically supposed to be there

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29299959/chapters/71952486

Buried Things (WIP 1 chapter shy of complete); someone is recreating the events leading to Jason’s death but enacting them on the other robins

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1904848

Catch You, Help You Heal (series); Jason takes care of Tim when it seems no one else will

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29377743

touch me not (4,212 words); Tim has been hit with a combination of fear toxin and pollen and finds himself at the mercy of Red Hood meanwhile Jason is just trying to help his brother through the worst of the detox

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29300952

transaction (7,110 words); Tim and Jason first meet when Jason is working the streets and Tim is a neglected child with enough money and desperation to pay a sex worker for a hug

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32221027

ten cents richer (13,493 words); “If I had a nickel for every time I lost an organ," Tim slurred thoughtfully, "I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it's happened twice." -or- Tim has appendicitis and his family finds out he’s missing his spleen

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29790951

Endless Time (7,919 words); Jason is trapped in a time loop where he carries out his attack on Tim in the tower then wakes up to the same day beginning again

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30150207

Safe (4,516 words); Jack Drake sells his son to Red Hood

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32374201/chapters/80262160

On the Way Home (128,266 words); au in which the Wayne family are wolf shifters and Tim is their neglected shifter neighbor who desperately wants to be part of their pack

#batfam #timkon

[autistartism]

Mermen Bois

Drew the Madcom guys as mermen.

2BDamned - Electric Eel

Deimos - Red-Bellied Piranha

Hank - Bull Shark

Sanford - Anglerfish (a mix of the sea devil angler fish and the wolf trap anglerfish)

#madness combat #madcom #madness combat deimos #madness combat sanford #madness deimos #madness sanford #madness 2bdamned #madness combat hank #madness combat doc #madness combat 2bdammed #madness Doc #madness hank #mermaid #merman #madness combat alternative universe

[kamuykaici]

Golden Kamuy vocabulary part 2

I am delighted to show you my second list with more Japanese words & expressions from Golden Kamuy, related to my very favourite characters.

Asirpa   アシㇼパ

wakai (若い): young

chie (知恵): wisdom

kotan (コタン): village (from Ainu language)

chichioya (父親): father

omoidasu (思い出す): to remember, to recall

guuzou (偶像): idol

kari (狩り): hunting

yumi (弓): bow

dokuya (毒矢): poisoned arrow

makiri (マキリ): traditional Ainu knife

wana (罠): trap

maki (薪): firewood

shokuji (食事): meal

ryouri suru (料理する): to cook

nama de taberu (生で食べる): to eat raw

noumiso (脳味噌): brains

ookami (狼): wolf

hebi (蛇): snake

Sugimoto Saichi   杉元 佐一

Ittousotsu (一等卒): Private First Class

fujimi (不死身): immortality

kizu (傷): wound

juushou (重傷): serious injury

kaifuku-ryoku (回復力): regenerative ability

senjou (戦場): battleground

tatakau (戦う): to fight

juuken (銃剣): bayonet

ikinokoru (生き残る): to survive

nakama (仲間): comrade

kokyou / furusato (故郷): home town

shinyuu (親友): close friend

miboujin (未亡人): widow

shujutsu (手術): surgery

hoshigaki (干し柿): dried persimmons

mafuraa (マフラー: muffler scarf

Ogata Hyakunosuke   尾形 百之助

Joutouhei (上等兵): Superior Private

hohei-juu (歩兵銃): service rifle

tama (弾): bullet

ippatsu (一発): (one) shot

utsu (撃つ): to shoot

yagura (櫓): watchtower

shageki (射撃): marksmanship

sogekishu (狙撃手): sniper

reiketsu na (冷血な): cold-blooded

hitogoroshi (人殺し): murder

zaiakukan (罪悪感): feelings of guilt

sougankyou (双眼鏡): binoculars

gaitou (外套): overcoat

yamaneko (山猫): wildcat

suteru (捨てる): to abandon

aijou (愛情): love

ankou nabe (あんこう鍋): anglerfish hotpot

katame (片目): one eye

Hanazawa Yuusaku   花沢勇作

Shoui (少尉): Second Lieutenant​

otoko-kyoudai (男兄弟): brothers

hata (旗): flag

kishu (旗手): flag-bearer

rentai no kao (連隊の顔): face of the regiment

totsunyuu suru (突入する): to charge into something

shibouritsu (死亡率): mortality rate

katana (刀): sword

egao (笑顔): smiling face

kiyoi (清い): pure

doutei (童貞): male virgin

#golden kamuy #vocabulary #asirpa #sugimoto saichi #ogata hyakunosuke #hanazawa yuusaku

[royalreef]

@pasttorn​ || 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔟𝔶 𝔦𝔰 𝔟𝔬𝔯𝔫

      With a practiced kind of unsure excitement, Miranda marched her way up to Damien’s favorite place to play hooky from school staff, to lift two immaculately wrapped gifts up into his arms. One was obviously a bottle of some kind, while the other was a much larger box - both wrapped up in silver ribbon and shiny red paper that mimicked flames in the light.

      “Although my kingdom does not often recognize other royals’ birthdays outside of our own - I suppose I could make an exception for you, as a good friend of mine. After all, we both have ours in March, so it’s only fair I honor a fellow March-born.” Miranda’s fins pressed back a little, a sheepish smile playing on her face - a dusting of lights across her shoulders speaking where she did not that she really, genuinely hoped Damien would enjoy her gifts.

                                  “Happy Birthday, Damien. I sincerely mean it.”

      Inside the first gift : the bottle revealed itself to be some type of mer-made wine. The bottle itself was large, with the glass on the sides curving and winding into a spiral-esque pattern, but the front and back were flat and blocky - perfectly suited to see the pygmy sea serpent coiled up inside, mouth bared open to show off its rows of fangs and double jaws, fins flared in a permanent threat pose. The booze itself glowed in an unearthly red, and while the labeling was written in a mer dialect - it was clear it had been brewed with extra potency.

       The second gift was a bit more personal : once the paper came off, it revealed a kind of show-box, made of dark stone that seemed to absorb the light around it rather than reveal its true colors. Sitting on top of it was a crest in gold, showing where it came from, with more mer writing framed by images of hydrothermal vents and the tubeworms that surrounded them, matching with a lock on the side, made into the box for safekeeping.

      Thankfully, it was unlocked currently, the key to it kept safe inside - for when it was opened, it revealed a soft bed of red silk that flickered like the wrapping paper had, around which a knife and its sheathe was nested.

      Immediately, the craftsmanship was clear. The handle gleamed wickedly - it had been etched with some kind of winding creature with a segmented body and something that could almost be reasoned to be legs, but not quite, made with some odd type of material, almost akin to glass, but with unnatural ease to its grip and a sturdiness unlike any glass. Underneath it could be seen something hot and burning, as if the magma veins underneath the earth’s crust had been stored within, though it seemed to not give off any more than a light warmth to its touch. The maybe-liquid moved and shifted, sliding under the points in the knife’s grip where there was no segmented body, which had been left a dark damascened metal. At the end of the handle, there perched a perfect replica of a dire wolf’s skull in a sharp silver.

      Drawing from its sheathe, made out of some scaled leather, came the blade. Something was... off, with the metal. It wasn’t that it was badly made or delicate - but if a blade could know hatred without possessing a soul or even awareness. Only one edge was sharp, curving up in a mundane blade to meet the straight line of the dull edge, but halfway to the hilt, it switched, becoming wickedly serrated, akin to a saw or a shark’s tooth. And the aspect that seemed to hoard all of one’s attention, though otherwise plain in comparison, was the flat of the blade. It had been made with... Some odd technique, that lifted up the metal, seemed to shape it into the teeth and jaws of a wolf-trap anglerfish’s. By all accounts, the addition seemed purely cosmetic, with the lifting and further etching giving it the illusion of cruel jaws, though it itself was not sharp.

      However, looking at the design... Something was wrong enough about it to say that it having sharp points would’ve been mercy.

      Miranda cleared her throat, trying to grab Damien’s attention back to her, with a grave importance to her words, though she kept her tone light. “I must warn you now - do not cut anything with that blade that you would not want dead and gone forever. And absolutely do not cut yourself on it. Trust me.”

      A smile pulled itself back onto her face, though it had never truly fallen. “Anyhow - do you like it? It took a bit of planning, but I managed to get it commissioned from one of the best smiths of my kingdom’s Royal Armory, and just in time!”

#Glory and Gore || IC #pasttorn #long post #knives #(( HAPPY BDAY SPICY RED BABY #(( HAVE A KNIFE THAT CAN REALLY FUCK SOMEONE UP

[scrollingkingfisher]

Anglerfish

Castiel once told them that Archangels were heaven’s most terrifying weapon. Gabriel is no exception. 

AO3

  Even with the apocalypse looming, and a new and unexpected ally, life goes on. Dean’s out getting food, and had Cas tagged along with him, only sparing a long glance at the last two occupants of the motel room before he left.

  Sam knows that Gabriel is technically on their side now, but that doesn’t mean he trusts him. He’s got one eye on Gabriel where he’s sat in the corner of the room, the other on his research.

  Gabriel’s sitting remarkably still, almost unnaturally so, sprawled in an armchair. Cas once told them that archangels were heaven's most terrifying weapons. With that in mind, most other people would look at Gabriel and say, there’s no way that he’s an archangel. He’s too soft. Too human. It’s a very convincing lie, and looking at the other archangels they’ve met, Sam might almost believe it.

  If he had to describe them, Michael would be a wolf. Loyal, relentless, the strength of a pack behind him. Lucifer might be a great white bear, scarred and battered, unpredictable and deadly. Raphael is an eagle, all raw power and majesty.

  Sam’s been stalling on a metaphor to use for Gabriel for a while now. Nothing quite fit. But he’s finally figured it out. Gabriel’s not a cute dog, or a platypus. Nowhere near.

  Gabriel is an anglerfish.

  He doesn’t seem like a vicious predator of the deep at first. That’s the point. He’s humorous and light, carefully relaxed in their presence. But the affection of humanity, the trickster trappings, the sweets and mocking laughter, it’s all a neat disguise. A lure to draw you closer, bright and dancing and almost irresistible. Even Sam finds himself drawn towards Gabriel, falling under the spell. There’s something about the way he moves, the way he talks. Something that invitingly promises more, better, if you’ll step just a little closer.

  But behind that bright façade, there’s something lurking in the darkness. Something bigger and much more dangerous, bulging opalescent eyes all-seeing, rows and rows of jagged teeth ready to impale anything that gets too close. It’s too easy to forget that what they’re looking at is a vessel. The real Gabriel is not there. No, Gabriel is looming behind, just out of sight. Sometimes, if Sam concentrates hard, he can feel it; a prickle on the back of his neck. A presence in the corner of the room. He even captures glimpses sometimes. The split second before a crowd of demons are reduced to a grease smear on an abandoned warehouse floor. When he wakes in the middle of the night to find Gabriel’s vessel watching them through the darkness, still as a predator, eyes gleaming in the night.

  Because that’s what Gabriel really is. A patient predator, playing the long game. Hidden in depths so dark and deep that only prey will ever find him. And then? Well, Gabriel’s prey never live to tell the tale. Sam’s not easily frightened, has never been one to run from danger, but with Gabriel… He’s fascinated, but he knows better than to get too close.

  Gabriel’s staring at him from across the room, head tilted curiously. Like he finds Sam’s wariness amusing.

  “Something up, Sam?” He asks, eyes too-bright and shining with illusions. He smiles, and Sam wonders whether he’s the only one who can see the rows upon rows of jagged needle teeth behind it.

  “No, I’m good. Thanks.”

  He’s glad that they have an archangel on their side, on humanity’s side. But with Gabriel, all Sam can hope for is that they stay off the menu.

#one shot #spn #Gabriel #i don't know where this came from #i was just trying to sleep and it was punching me in the brain #so here you go #character study #a little darker than my usual stuff

[bogleech]

Less famous deep sea fish I think deserve more consideration:

Wolf-trap fish (Thaumaticthydiae) (image source) : this is actually a very divergent anglerfish with a long body and a lure that dangles down through the roof of its mouth. You can see how the huge upper jaw is folded almost inside-out, which is its normal resting position. The two lobes of the jaw fold downwards to close on prey.

Because of this arrangement and the location of the lure, it’s thought that this angler specializes in prey that live on the floor of the abyss.

Monognathidae (image source): this is a relative of the gulper eel, but instead of having huge pelican-like jaws, it has a unique switchblade-like lower jaw and only one tooth, situated in the roof of its mouth and supposedly venomous, though it’s hard to find sources going into any further detail on that.

Tube Eye Fish (Stylephorus) (image source) : this fish has an incredibly long, threadlike tail, huge binocular-like eyes, and fairly large jaws but only a TINY actual mouth opening. When the jaws are opened, that tiny opening results in a powerful but thin current of suction, and the eyes probably allow it to aim that vortex with extreme precision.

Grideye fish (Ipnopidae) (image source) : by the time it reaches adulthood, this fish completely loses its original eyes and instead develops a pair of concave, dish-like sensory pits that only seem to detect light and dark while emitting a faint yellow glow of their own. Why it goes to this extreme really isn’t known, so there might be something to these weird eye-pits that we don’t know yet. All grideyes are hermaphroditic and they spend a lot of time sitting on the ground, eating worms and crustaceans.

Tripod fish (also Ipnopidae!) (image source) : grideye cousins and probably the best known of the fish I put here, though you might not know everything that makes them so bizarre. They look like fairly ordinary fish without their “tripod” extensions, but they use those to stand in one place for hours, maybe even days, using their fins to catch minute bits of food. It’s the kind of feeding mechanism seen in barnacles, corals, sea lilies and other stationary filter-feeders!

#biology #deep sea creatures #mbari #animals

[glitterbee11]

stole the to do list idea from seizurecube

POKE TO DO LIST:

• pig-butt worm (greasy or greasy/ooze)

• opabinia (rock/something i literally have no idea)

• mantis shrimp (bug/fighting or bug/steel)

• those pump thingies i talked about in my last post

• glaucus (poison or poison/fairy)

• frigate (dark/flying)-possibly is what honchkrow is idk

• cave angelfish (water/fairy or pure fairy)

• tardigrade (pure bug)

• aye-aye (pure psychic, maybe interpreting aye as eye)

• sundew (grass/dark, maybe carnivine evo)

• tremoctopus (water/diaphanous or pure diaphanous)

• vampire squid (blood/flying)

• WOLF-TRAP ANGLERFISH (water/dark or water/luster)

• Leucochloridium (parasitic the evolves into a parasitic/slime type snail infected with it)

yes, i did steal all most of these from bogleech.com. pls don’t sue me

#fakemon #ideas