#jellyfish post

[respect-the-locals]

🪼Daily Cnidarian Fact:🪼

Bloodybelly Comb Jellyfish: The blood-red stomach disguises the glowing prey inside. Many of the deep-sea animals the bloody-belly comb jelly preys upon can bioluminesce, or create their own light. The translucent predator needs to conceal its stomach—or risk its most recent meal lighting it up from the inside out and alerting potential predators to its whereabouts. Red is nearly invisible in the deep sea, so the vibrant crimson that gives this comb jelly its name is actually helping it hide from its predators.

[icestorming]

Again, I had to illustrate part of the newest chapter of "The line is covered in jellyfish" by @yunuen : click for better quality as always!

[arctvros]

with a view like this, who needs sleep?

my interpretation of viktor from “the line is covered in jellyfish” by staroverlord on ao3

[egophiliac]

you know what i really want to see happen in gavv? lakia turning back into his true monster form to try and scare sachika to see if she's really unafraid of him, only for her to be enthralled and amazed instead, confusing him

honestly, same. let her have her wicked adorable way with him.

Umashou 🤝 Hanty 🤝 Lakian = guys who learn very quickly that life with Sachika is just Like This and it's better not to try and stop her.

(you will succumb)

[qwertacius-boi]

Bros truck came equipped with the jellyfish launcher 😭💀

[staff]

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[starfruitsomething]

that one scene in Lions Mane

version without text:

[anistarrose]

thinking about:

Fisher's home planet, and entire species, was destroyed when they were a baby, and Magnus took them aboard the Starblaster.

Once Junior, Fisher's own baby, was born, they were the only other Voidfish — the only other creature in the multiverse like Fisher — that Fisher had seen in over sixty years.

But Lucretia took Junior away.

Lucretia took Junior away, because it was the only way to save the world.

Lucretia took Junior away, because it was the only way to get Magnus, Merle, and Taako back.

Lucretia couldn't see any way to reunite her own family without separating a different one.

Junior grew up in secret, hidden away, with Lucretia caring for them.

Junior grew up without getting to see any other Voidfish — any other creature in the multiverse like them — ever since they'd been a baby.

Junior becomes the Announcer at the start of episodes, because Junior is the voice of the Story.

The Announcer never acts mad at Lucretia.

Junior was raised by Lucretia. Junior barely got to meet the rest of the IPRE.

But Junior was fed by, and raised on, stories of the whole IPRE, before they were separated.

The Announcer all but flat-out urges the audience to be sympathetic, to both Lucretia and the rest of the IPRE, for each of their most morally gray and consequential choices.

At the start of the episode where the IPRE create the Grand Relics, and Lucretia erases her family's memories to stop the ensuing war, the Announcer calls upon the viewers to imagine the apocalypse. To imagine the burden, and to imagine how it would change you. To imagine how desperate you would be to "protect the ones you loved."

The Announcer wants the IPRE to be understood.

The Announcer unfailingly refers to Tres Horny Boys, and later, all seven birds, as "our heroes."

The Announcer is barely able to contain their excitement about Barry coming back.

The Announcer pokes fun at the protagonists, and the circumstances they find themselves in, but does it like another part of the family would.

The Announcer loves the IPRE so, so much, and wants you to love them too, and understand their mistakes.

The Announcer is Junior.

Junior never even got to meet most of the IPRE.

But they grew up hearing the story of the IPRE, and how they cared for Fisher.

Junior know they're a survivor of a destroyed home planet, one they've never even seen themselves. They know they were separated from their parent, the only other survivor.

They know the IPRE's home planet was destroyed too. They know the IPRE were separated from each other, too.

Junior was raised on these stories. Junior's destiny is to tell these stories. The interwoven stories of two families, which were torn apart, but were also always really one family, one story.

But Junior can't tell the Story alone.

Until they finally meet someone they'd only heard about in those stories before. They finally meet Magnus, who saved Fisher all those years ago, who raised Fisher like he was their father — who's like a grandfather to Junior, a grandfather they never got to meet before.

Magnus fulfills a promise, and brings Junior back to Fisher.

And... Junior's nervous. Because it's been so long since they saw their parent? Because Fisher's injured, and Junior's terrified to lose the only other Voidfish like them, let alone when they just got each other back?

But for the first time in so long, Fisher is able to reach out and touch their child. To reassure Junior — it'll be okay.

And the two of them, finally, get to do what Voidfish are destined to do, but cannot do alone. Fisher sends out the Song...

And Junior tells the world, the whole world, the Story of how much they love the IPRE.

[nocturnal-stims]

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[respect-the-locals]

🪼Daily Cnidarian Fact:🪼

Atolla Jellyfish: Also known as the Coronate medusa and deep-sea jellyfish, this is a species of deep-sea crown jellyfish. It typically has 20 marginal tentacles and one hypertrophied tentacle which is larger than the rest. This long trailing tentacle is thought to facilitate prey capture. This species is bioluminescent. When attacked, it will launch a series of flashes, whose function is to draw predators who will be more interested in the attacker than itself. This has earned the animal the nickname "alarm jellyfish".

[icestorming]

SUPER long post!!! I just wanted to illustrate this part of the second chapter of The line is covered in jellyfish by @yunuen !! I am fond of the funny parts, as you all might have figured.

A special thanks to @simplysamiblog that translated the fic in italian!! Reading both in english and in italian was something else!

Click for better quality!

[dollsahoy]

When I was young, I always hated the trope in Golden Age science fiction where The Old Person had insights into new technology that The Youth completely lacked, because The Old Person learned technology when ~everything was harder~ so was 'simply' able to Think Better than young people. That was preposterous. Technology would change things so much that the old ways would be completely incompatible with new tech, right?

So it is such a feeling to be The Old Person, whose life history and special interests (and also the fact I'm on desktop with a big monitor and not looking at these things on a tiny phone screen) combine to recognize when something is a generated image, to look at the notes and see younger people--many of whom I know detest the very idea of generated images--waxing rapturous over how beautiful the "photo" is.

and also to be the person who, for years, has been trying to get people to only reblog sourced images, to also see so many people in those same notes asking where the "photo" was taken, or who 'made' the items in the "photo," because it's so beautiful they'd like to see it in person someday

[mimikyuno]

SHE’S SO. SHE’S SO. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌸

[ren-054]

What a neat little guy!