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Which shark is the most chill?

Most chill as in "I'm Not Going To Eat You Human If You Swim Near Me In The Ocean" or most chill as in "I'm Just Really Fuckin' Laid Back Lad" because I personally think there's a different answer for each of those:

First one, most chill if you're near em, is gonna be the Nurse Shark. They are listed as Fourth on the list of "Most Bitey on Humans" but that's more because they're slow and docile and divers be like "oh cute, lemme pet it" when it may not wanna be petted. So like, I would chomp on someone if they touched me unexpectedly too my bro.

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They can grow up to 14 feet, though they average more at 9 feet, and have small teeth that basically do the Needles Effect on you if you accidentally scare or step on them. They tend to prefer being near the bottom of reefs and such rather than open ocean.

They're also one of the few species of shark that can actually remain stationary, breathing by opening and closing their mouths to push water through their gills for oxygen. Most shark species have to move constantly in order to breathe; like the Great White.

Second Chill Shark category of just Being Chill It's No Biggie, is definitely between the Basking Shark and Whale Shark. These two behemoth sharks are filter feeders, like whales, and basically swim the ocean with their mouths open most of the time gently nomming on the plankton in the water. Honestly, they're just Really Laid Back.

Basking Sharks can grow to around 26 feet (that's almost as long as a double-decker bus) and aren't aggressive or dangerous to humans. The most harm you can expect from them is swimming into the side of one if you're not paying attention, I guess.

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For size comparison of a newborn, average and then large adult Basking Shark, Wiki has your back. Even offering an average scuba diver for reference lol.

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Although the Basking Shark is pretty chill and doesn't really care to Swim Fast like other sharks, it has been known to breach the water surface. Some theories suggest this is just to dislodge parasites, others to Show Off and Be Aggressive.

The OTHER chill af shark is the Whale Shark. At 29 feet, they're bigger than Basking Sharks and larger specimens have been found/caught over time that are even larger than that, as this diagram below shows:

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For size comparison, this bus is 18 metres long. That's how big a Whale Shark can grow to. Let that sink in for a moment lol.

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Just like Basking Sharks, Whale Sharks are plankton feeders. Their mouths are at the front of their head rather than under it, like with literally every other shark species. Females grow larger than males (woo) and lives in tropical and warm-temperate seas, unlike the Basking Shark which is found in temperate waters. There's two sub-populations of Whale Sharks, aka the Atlantic sub-population and the Indo-Pacific sub-population. When they feed, they literally open their mouths big, suck in water and filter it out through their gills (like whales) and keep the plankton for nomming.

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So, basically:

Nurse Shark is laid back but might bite you if you scare it.

Basking Sharks are just Chill Because They Too Lazy To Be Stressed.

Whale Sharks are just Big Spotty Boys With Big Mouths and Bigger Chill Levels.

I respect them all.

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I’m the guy in the silver car in the background who’s late for work because this goddamn chicken is fighting a chandelier

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Giovanni’s Persian was shiny??? Dang i learned something today

It’s still being debated, but the more dominant consensus is shiny. The Persian is sometimes animated with pink inner ears, and is sometimes a much paler yellow

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BUZZFEED UNSOLVED - but it’s just memes 2.0

[part 1.0] ; [part 3.0]

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Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg

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Huh? Your Chikorita is evolving! Straight up to a Meganium!??

Hey guys! Apologies for the recent inactivity, I’ve been working hard on getting my pokemon crossbreed zine ready for this year AX. It will include these, my chikorita and riolu crossbreeds and 7 more pokemon! It’s almost done and I will post more about it soon, so stay tuned!

Also last but not least:

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Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg

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One whole minute of a deaf Kitty getting excited that her owner is home 

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Pls draw sexy godzilla

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I feel fly af

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queer is literally a slur. like you’ve never been called that in a derogatory context like most lgbt people? you think your experiences escaping homophobia make it okay to justify the use of a homophobic slur?

queer is an identity.

it has also been used as a slur. there is no denying that. but using a word as a slur does not make it a slur. because before queer is a slur it is an identity. before it is derogatory it is a label. the use of queer as an identity is infinitely more important than the use of queer as a slur because the people who identify as queer are infinitely more important than the people who use queer as a slur.

say a lot of people decided they hated me. despised me. were disgusted by me to the point where my own name became a slur. would you tell me not to say it? would you tell me i could no longer be helena, and instead must come up with a euphemism for the name that belonged to me decades before it belonged in the mouths of bigots?

because that would make you an enabler.

you would tell me i can’t say my name anymore because some lowlife decided he could use it to insult me?

you would tell a gay man that he can’t be gay anymore because some teens in the early 2000’s started calling everything they didn’t like “gay”, and now he has to say “same sex oriented male identifying individual”?

does that enrage you? because it should. that’s exactly how you sound.

you are telling me i cannot use my label. you are telling me that when my great-uncle shouted until his face was red and he spat tobacco and the word queer at my feet, he was right. he was right to insult me, and i was wrong to say my name.

you are shitting on every single one of our predecessors. you are slandering every person who fought for their rights to exist and and be tolerated and be celebrated in their countries, every person who was lost to the aids epidemic, every person whose country criminalizes love and gender expression, every child whose parents abandoned them for straying from the norm, every person who was born and will die in the closet longing to be themselves. the queer umbrella is a safety net, a security blanket, the comfort of being known without being pressured to tell. it is near and dear and important as fuck to every member of the lgbt+ community and you are a blight upon the earth you walk.

how dare you speak upon my experiences with homophobia. how dare you disguise your own homophobia as activism. and how fucking dare you have the audacity to come to my blog and hide behind an anonymous ask and preach to me about how i’m oppressing myself. go look at the fucking wikipedia page for queer and read about how 1980s lgbt+ activists, especially lgbt+ people of color, fought to call themselves queer in a world that still hates peculiar things. and here you are forty years later spitting queer back at their feet.

i don’t give a fuck if people start using my name as a slur. my name is still helena. i will not change it. i chose it, i like it, and it belongs to me. it does not belong to bigots no matter how badly they want it. your discomfort with my identity is not my fucking problem.

i am helena. i am queer. die mad & go fuck yourself