#fish scale skin

[cipher-the-sidhe]

Oooooo you wanna pet his shark tail so bad oooooo

[maxyvert]

🐠Mermay begins now! 🐠 This year I’m trying to use gold texture as a base with a whirly-inky marble texture as background. Actually I made a bunch of those so I’ll be making them available later :) 🐠3-4🐠    🐠5-6🐠    🐠7-8🐠    🐠9-10🐠

[the-dragon-girl-27]

flocking drawings!!

Young Altispinax preparing to do a mating display

Thyreosaurus slaying a Theropod

Ornithoprion just swimming round

Mama Mapusaurus bringin home a Chakisaurus carcass for her daughter

[sodaspringz]

hey guys, just dropping in to tell you that by our biology system gillion tidestrider would be classified as an amphibian. have an awesome night and keep on stridin

[finrays]

Also, I was checking out the cosplay guides for Horizon, and this caught my attention;

And honestly? I was lowkey giddy about it. Give the costume designers a RAISE.

Why is the fact that a Quen Marine’s uniform is made of wool important? Well… it’s one of the BEST things a sailor can wear, actually! It’s the reason you always see grizzly sailor dudes in wooly hats and sweaters in ye olde pictures of them.

Wool maintains a steady temperature, even when fully saturated with water (which is also harder to do, since the lanolin and structure of the outer layers of the wool have some natural water resistance). And I dunno how much they emphasize this outside of marine science, but…

The ocean is cold as balls. One of the reasons whales are so fuck-off huge? Yeah. Maintaining the right surface area to volume ratio to retain heat in the frigid-ass waters of the open ocean.

By making their fleet’s uniforms out of wool, the Quen are ensuring that their sailors are at least somewhat protected if they go overboard; cold water exposure is super dangerous, and any sort of protection helps. Wool being able to keep you insulated for that extra small amount of time until someone can rescue you? That’s good planning.

In addition? Wool is wicking, and blocks UV rays, so it’s pretty darn good for working in the hot sun, too. Sailors have worn wool for a LONG-ASS time, basically, and it’s so cool to see these video game sailors following the tradition and reaping the benefit of the material.

I don’t know what the benefit of a fishtail-shaped cape is, though, other than making me want one for myself.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The Microscope

Maxine Kumin

Anton Leeuwenhoek was Dutch.

He sold pincushions, cloth, and such.

The waiting townsfolk fumed and fussed

As Anton's dry goods gathered dust.

He worked, instead of tending store,

At grinding special lenses for

A microscope. Some of the things

He looked at were:

mosquitoes' wings,

the hairs of sheep, the legs of lice,

the skin of people, dogs, and mice;

ox eyes, spiders' spinning gear,

fishes' scales, a little smear

of his own blood,

and best of all,

the unknown, busy, very small

bugs that swim and bump and hop

inside a simple water drop.

Impossible! Most Dutchmen said.

This Anton's crazy in the head.

We ought to ship him off to Spain.

He says he's seen a housefly's brain.

He says the water that we drink

Is full of bugs. He's mad, we think!

They called him dumkopf, which means dope.

That's how we got the microscope.

"Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... And Other Modern Verse" - compiled by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders, and Hugh Smith

[duthea]

au where lynx acts more like a cat

[receding-tides]

it has just occurred to me I like never actually talk about playing splatoon ever but lately I've been encountering more and more people in salmon run who have the 333 gold scale banner and let me just say I want to be them

[deepgrotto]

I painted a tank stand! The Aquatics Club at my vet school, a chapter of WAVMA, moved our freshwater tank to a new location with a new stand, and I gave it a makeover. The panels have close-ups of different aquatic animals, featuring cycloid scales (common in teleost fish), harbor seal fur, blue crab shell, giant pacific octopus tentacle, green sea turtle shell, and placoid scales (seen in elasmobranchs). Each half has a fish, an air-breather, and an invertebrate. Great way to spend a little free time while on clinics!

[theinheriteddutchess]

'the Cold Ones', but it's a mermaid au.

[maximusboltaqon]

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION: does triton shed skin like a person, a fish, or a lizard

[bam-monsterhospital]

i GOT THE FISH

i got the SCALES AAAAAAA

FEESH

... i feel like Azandar may be judging me. Yeah me, not my elf, but me on the other side of the computer screen.

[lillybean730]

i used to draw on my arms all the time when i was bored, felt like doing it again now

[lucielovekj]

https://www.tumblr.com/lucielovekj/733915573555167232/i-loathe-how-much-people-struggling-w-hygiene-is

thank you... I needed to read something like this.. it's so lonely and I'm really happy a lot of other issues that come with mental health struggles are talked about a lot but this one makes me feel so lonely, like I'm an exception, you're worthy of love and valid and a human as long as you take care of yourself, but if you can't do that.... and it hurts so bad to feel that way

I didn't mean to show up and vent, I just feel crazy seeing someone talk about this for once. for a moment I felt less alone, thank you 💗

Sorry, I didn’t see this - this is so sweet! I’m glad the post could help you, this is exactly why I want to talk about and encourage others to talk about these things, because there’s so much stigma not even just about the actual mental illnesses but the fallout we experience from suffering from them, which makes it so much scarier to open up and get help or even just…talk to people sometimes.

Hygiene has always been a big one, but with stuff like the skincare and beauty industry boom it’s definitely gotten harder and people have definitely become even more judgemental.

And, yeah, it can be so easy to convince yourself you’re the singular exception to any and all positivity. I promise you’re not, none of us truly are, it’s just another part of what we’re going through.

[girlboar]

WOAH! GYOKKO... dare I say it.

hes pretty

[michplante-patterns]

(via T-shirt graphique avec l'œuvre « Fish scale patterns black and pink » de l'artiste mplantepatterns)