#i was with the biologists for these

[aisling-saoirse]

Cypress Restoration on Okeechobee - February 20th 2024

[jellyfishmakeoutparty]

the fact that I will never truly know what it’s like to be a shark in a shark cuddle pile is cruel and unusual punishment.

absolutely devastating.

[sealaficionada]

Look at this nascent researcher! They look so earnest!

[hellsitegenetics]

Can U blast this https://urbanshade.org/wiki/Documents/Sebastian_Solace pls

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Closest match: Balaenoptera musculus genome assembly, ██████ ████████ genome assembly, Microcephalophis gracilis genome assembly, Carcharodon carcharias genome assembly, Bufoceratias wedli mutated genome assembly, Diretmus argenteus genome assembly, Gonodactylus smithii genome assembly, Homo sapiens genome assembly Common name: THAT FUCKING FISH THAT I HATE

(If this image source is shown to unauthorized personnel, you'll be BLASTed with my wizard beams)

[a-list-of-moods]

fish r wet. I think. This has been fun fish facts.

[lemonwrap]

Imagine: deaf Soap and siren Ghost. Soap is enraptured by Ghost, but it has nothing to do with the siren’s song.

[kinstein-art]

sanji's weird

[12thbiologist]

what can you do when your five senses are not enough? ... what occurs after revelation and paralysis?

- jeff vandermeer, annihilation

[sakasakiii]

not really a modern au but more like a weird future timeline thing where beach hermit maglor Hibernates™ all through the 2nd and 3rd ages & misses the last boats to Valinor.... thus resulting in him skulking about history until he ends up living among modern day humans haha?? the kicker is that he one day finds an abandoned baby thats all-too-suspiciously like a certain dead brother and becomes a single dad-younger brother-adopted guardian person...

i wrote a few pages of this back in 2022 but never really thought abt it further after i started posting less frequently hahaha.... heres just some feel good domestic sketches of this AU bc i miss drawing modern clothes 🤭 i have sooo many thoughts about it that i couldnt fit into these doodles !! its quite a lot of yapping so feel free to skip past the cut haha

assorted au thoughts:

i planned for maglor to eventually find all 6 of his brothers one by one through the power of Accidental Child Acquisition ✨ example: he'd spot a kid lurking around some woods near his home and eventually realise said wild child living amongst stray dogs is a bit too similar to celegorm

i just couldnt fit in the time to draw that this round... maybe next time!

though he's raising reincarnated-Maedhros, i think it makes more sense for him to give him a modern name and not explicitly call him Nelyo/Maitimo/Russandol just bc he'd not want to get his own hopes up or shove said identity onto the kid

(the occasional 'hey Nelyo' does slip out by accident from time to time however)

i think as Mae-the-kid grows up he will in time start to remember bits and pieces of his original identity? with the nicer familial things (like valinor, his brothers, feanor and nerdanel) first, and then the darker things (kinslayings, angband, war) once he's grown up that Maglor will struggle explaining or even helping him through

i promise this is a wholesome au 😭

side characters include a high-strung but good guy policeman named Officer Borden who's very suspicious of Maglor bc of all the random kids he keeps adopting.... and his younger brother Farren, who happens to be Maglor's scholarly coworker

as well as Maglor's next door neighbour Morgan, a witch-woman married to some guy named Hugh... she's got 3 kids who visit from time to time but from what Maglor's heard, the oldest son is followed by misfortune and has supposedly never met his youngest sister...?

credit to Ted Nasmith and Cartoon Network for some assets used in the doodles :D

[jellyfishmakeoutparty]

him: you better not be fucked up images of lantern sharks when I get there

my bathypelagic ass:

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

I know you made that post a while ago but actually imagining myself from an alien perspective makes me feel more confident about my body. Bots who hate humans probably wouldn't care, we're all same for them and they'd think we're complicating ourselves with this. But those fascinated with humanity wouldn't think anyone is ugly and instead be amazed at how differently developed we are. Looking at myself from a perspective of a big excited cybertronian scientist is much better than looking at myself through the prism what people want me to look like. I am human and that's amazing, this is the most important thing

Oh fucking absolutely.

I generally like to think Cybertronians would see us the way we see snails: small, fragile, disconcertingly sticky and soft, with hard structures in weird places, and it leaves them divided on whether we're cute or just kinda gross.

But even if you DO think they're gross, like. You ever seen an ugly snail? Of course not. Because we don't look at them like that, we aren't paying attention to if theyre too fat or too scrawny or if their eyestalks are too short or if their shell's not a good color. They just look like snails. None of it looks "wrong" unless they're, like, injured or something.

And to those that think us cute, they're not going to see the inherent variation in our species as anything but beautiful. How wonderful it is to be a soft little creature with traits that are uniquely mine, and how wonderful it'd be for an alien to study every variation I have with nothing but love in their spark.

[theaxolotlkween]

Generator Rex memes that I drew today.

(Last one is a post from owlpellet)

[artttho]

wraow

[varmsj]

do the others on the crew know the explorer is a big ol bug? and are the rest of them even human? (I am staring like this 👁️👁️(interest))

Only the biologist get to see the explorer face (not because they wanted to proof they aren’t ugly-) cuz they need to do check up + sometimes they get hurt and need to patch up 🤒🤕🩹

But tbf captain did see the explorer face since the latest animation is canon- 👁️👁️💦

👉 The animation in context

And everyone else is… maybe I’ll reveal that later-

[staff]

tumblr tuesday: the many benefits

@aquariumpacific and @oregonzoo joined us last week! Welcome! To celebrate, here are some blogs you might enjoy if you like sea (and sea-adjacent) creatures. 

@marinememes​:

@sarahmackattack​ is on a mission to get everyone to know exactly how cool squid are:

@montereybayaquarium​ is known for its jelly cams, but have you checked out the other live feeds? Currently: nesting African penguins!

@noaasanctuaries​ shares wonders from the national marine sanctuaries in the US:

And finally, as mentioned, @aquariumpacific​ are new here. They want you to meet this leopard shark. His name is Sam. 

[quillpokebiology]

Fun Fact: Noibat's favorite food is apples, and they often try to eat the apples off of Applin and Flapple. Once they realize that they cannot be consumed, they'll leave them alone, but it can still get annoying for them