#oc: fossil fuel

[homeskllet]

dual-wielder redraws round 2

[not-rascal-artz]

Can you do my Cookie OC drawn by @sufferingmp3 as based on a color swap by @misteriouschum ?

If you want full details, I'll give you the posts that explains the appearance and name respectively

Color swaps are so cool!! Ofc!! :DD

[voicehydrangea]

Man,,, it's been so long since I've done a sketch Dump, Which number is this, now? #10? #11?

[she-anemone]

Thinking up some sonic ocs

[mona-tan]

Olej has a drinking problem...and is prolly to blame for the high gas prices these days😅 P.s: DON'T consume petrol, its not for real humans...Olej is fictional so she can drink it.

[mimble-sparklepudding]

Incomprehensibly Further Anagram Ridiculousness…

It's a miserable day over here, so it's clearly time for another installment of the utterly absurd series for which literally nobody asked!

A certain very important OC over at @spotofmummery is the handsome Tad Kouris. What can the wisdom of anagrams tell us about his character and destiny? Well apparently he will be wearing A Dork Suit, which seems unlikely for a member of such a satorially sensible family. Although maybe it would be suitable for his future career as a children's entertainer on A Kids' Tour?

On a more serious note, he is clearly suited for a role as The Warrior Of Light - for his names tells us that I Oust Dark - but let's pretend we didn't see I Soak Turd, as it's not at all nice.

Hemlocke Reines over at @avampyone is a striking and saturnine figure. However he still knows how to have fun, and may even let you catch a glimpse of his Cheekier Melons. Or perhaps he may be in disguise as his alter ego Señor Mike Leech, most likely plotting to take advantage of fossil fuels, since he is a Keen Oil Schemer...

Aurelle Silmontier of @orime-stories is utterly determined to make hats and nobody can stop her, for she is A Resolute Milliner. Otherwise she will gladly draw your attention to the existence of tough and wet-nosed primates - Lo! A Resilient Lemur! And if you're unsure how to judge the difference between a lemur and a monkey, well Urine A Lot Smellier is one way of telling.

The darkly beautiful and dangerous Lady Vahalia Cress of @vahalia-cress is not somebody who you would want to risk offending, for once she Chases A Rival, they are not long for this world. Not that she chases them herself, being a Lady - she Has Cavaliers for that sort of thing. Seeing her in her full splendour might give one A Lavish Scare, but don't, whatever you do, call her a Saliva Chaser... it won't end well for you.

If you plan to invite Severia Zetsuen of @otherworldseekers to an event then make sure the place is big enough for her liking, for she is definitely one to Rate Venue Size. If she is really disatisfied then you may observe her experiencing A Seizures Event, which sounds quite uncomfortable. If she's really upset then don't be surprised if she Razes Venue Site entirely and leaves at once for Zestier Avenues...

OK I will cease my silliness now! Apologies for the nonsense!

[catenary-chad]

Early uses of electric trains (that may surprise you)

This doesn’t explicitly apply about any canon characters, though you could use it to expand on/reinterpret Electra, the Nationals, or make OCs. I’ve just noticed a lot of people in the Stex fandom, and even just general railfans, that don’t realize that electrification historically has had waaaay more uses than environment friendliness and high speeds. Here are some other things it was used for in the days before global warming was on anyone’s radar and smoke was considered a sign of prosperity (the early-mid 20th century)

TUNNELS- burning things in enclosed spaces is a pretty well known way to get carbon monoxide poisoning. Even open-ended but long, slow-speed tunnels had issues with smoke and exhaust from steam and even diesel engines lingering and blocking vision/suffocating people, leading to gas masks or cab forward engines being used. So these became some of the first places to require electrification. And it wasn’t just subways, you also had underground mines and long tunnels through the mountains like the Cascades Tunnel.

HILLS: Due to electric motors being strongest at low speeds (and steam engines being strongest at full speed) and much better power to weight ratio, electric trains are REALLY good on steep, long inclines, especially if there’s any stopping involved. The Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension, the Virginian Railway, and basically the entire country of Switzerland are fun examples of early electric lines on rugged mountainsides where even very large steam engines struggled. On top of that, running downhill with regenerative brakes dramatically axes the amount of total power used. And as an added weird bonus, extreme low temperatures and lower oxygen at high altitudes impaired the performance of combustion engines on parts of the Milwaukee Road but electric engines saw no losses or even outright benefits due to enhanced motor cooling (cooling traction motors is a big deal and why a lot of older electric engines have such loud fans)

ACCELERATION: Electric engines and EMUS especially are great at stopping/starting quickly, making them great for commuter trains with frequent stops. This allows greater train frequency without increasing tracks, and is a major benefit of electrification even today (see Caltrain’s electrification project). Also see the GER Class A55 for how extreme steam engineering had to get to compete at the turn of the century.

SHEER POWER: It’s hard to overstate just how much more powerful individual electric engines can be vs diesel or even steam, not having to carry their own power source allows them to access a lot more. Just take a look at the “most powerful locomotives” wikipedia list, and that one actually leaves off a LOT of mostly older electric engines that would outclass steam/diesel ones included. There are a surprising number of huge early electric engines like the PRR FF1 with a similar tractive effort to later large steam engines (albeit a lot of these were slooow due to the aforementioned trait of motors being strongest at lowest speeds). This is also why high speed trains are almost all electric, their monstrous HP numbers are more to pull moderate loads at 200+ mph.

HYDROELECTRICITY: Using hydroelectric power was a practical and not environmental choice in the early 20th century and where it was readily available (especially where fossil fuels weren’t), electrification became very lucrative. Switzerland is the most extreme example, without much of a domestic supply of coal but a lot of hydropower. The Milwaukee Road and Pennsylvania Railroad also used dams as a major power source

MAINTENANCE AND LABOR COSTS: This was a bigger advantage in the steam era because the gap between them and steam engines in terms of maintenance and availability was so wide, and you can run multiple electric engines with one crew but double/triple heading steam engines requires one for each engine. They’re still competitive if not cheaper than diesel power today, especially on high-frequency routes, and especially when the costs of pollution are included. Electric trains are generally the lowest maintenance and most reliable of all traction, and tend to last longer due to fewer moving parts (50+ year lifespans are not rare). Now it’s more a matter of paying more up front and less on maintenance vs less up front and more on maintenance. The actual wires and infrastructure are a BIG up front cost that’s very hard for private businesses to do alone without government help (just see how many lines got bankrupted by these projects in the US in the early 20th century)

BONUS: this is technically a promo by the company itself, but it’s relatively willing to admit their faults, The Milwaukee Electrification

Goes into a lot of the points made above in a pretty fun and concise package

[quarturtherusty]

I rarely post actual pictures to tumblr (or any social media tbh), much less doodles, but i was looking through my old posts on other social medias and felt... actually kinda good about my art? There were many images i forgot about, and while not perfect, they were fun to look at and accompanying post were clearly written by someone who shares my sense of humor (lol)... I often notice that i start to like my art way more when i fell detached from it... "I am a shitty artist" vs. "i would never slander others artistic abilities" situation Anyway, i realized that i never ever made any compilation of my OC art/doodles, so i feel like making one!!!! These a images from last 5(?) years in no particular order, just a lot of doodles....For me to look at in the future at very least!!1 They are demons based on different types of fossil fuel, who meet in middle ages and continue to hang out to the modern days.

I honestly think i kinda cooked with this design, as goofy as it is....

Translation -"shit, i should have thought about it earlier" ( it's both actual main theme of this character and funny placeholder text) The big thing in their story is ones ability to adapt to changes. The Youngest (oil demon and often a lady) due to its flexible nature is able to thrive in modern world, while the Eldest ( coal demon, the masked one) is ready to perish alongside it's old ways. The Middle is stuck feeling as though the need of change is caused not by external change, but by inadequate choice made in the past (" if i choose something else it would still be good and efficient, but now i am stuck like this, because starting over would be even worse") . Hence the quote on the banner.

[homeskllet]

the next 3 dual-wielders are here!

individual images and more info on each of these guys under the cut.

FOSSIL FUEL

"A blast from the past!"

Youthful and spunky, Fossil Fuel always wanted to be more than just an ordinary dinosaur. Now that she’s a Dual-Wielder, she’s finally living that dream, and her incredible speed and wicked kicks prove that she has what it takes to be a hero.

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Millions of years ago, in the distant past, dinosaurs roamed the Skylands. Well, they didn’t roam the entirety of Skylands – their main city was the Cretaceous Castle, and the majority of dinosaurs lived in or near that area. Unfortunately for the residents of Cretaceous Castle, a meteorite struck the castle and wiped them all out.

In the not-as-distant past, another meteorite struck the exact same spot, which was now overgrown ruins with not a living creature in sight. However, this meteorite was bursting with Undead elemental energy, and all the dinosaurs pulled themselves up out of the ground and went straight back to whatever they were doing before, only fossilised now.

A museum was built around the crater and quickly became a popular tourist destination. Fossil Fuel had been hired as a janitor – a job she wasn’t particularly excited for, but it was a first step, she supposed – and was about to start her first day of work. Before she could even pick up a mop, a massive explosion from the impact crater shook the whole museum. Running as fast as she could, Fossil Fuel was the first to reach the crater, where a massive geyser of pure magic had burst from the earth.

Something within her took over, and without another moment of hesitation, Fossil Fuel reached out and touched the roaring geyser. She felt the powers of the Earth and Undead elements flow through her, and immediately knew she had to find the Giga-Geyser. There would always be someone else to clean the museum floors, but nobody else could be the Earth & Undead Dual-Wielder.

SPRAY PAIN

"Ink or sink!"

While better known for their street art than their combat skills, the once-anonymous Spray Pain is still a force on the battlefield, using their own ink collected in spray cans as a deadly weapon.

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For years, Spray Pain was a name that was as famous as it was mysterious. Nobody knew who they were, but everyone knew their art as it appeared out of nowhere on walls from Woodburrow to Rumbletown, with no trace of who did it aside from the distinctive stencilled style and strange black paint that seemed to be made from Mermasquid ink.

One night, Spray Pain was painting a stencil on the walls of Cyclops City, when a massive magical geyser erupted from the royal menagerie, destroying the animal enclosures and setting the creatures within loose upon the city. Citizens were panicking, guards were fruitlessly trying to fend off the horde of animals, and Spray Pain had to make a choice. They could disappear in the carnage, staying safe and secret but leaving Cyclops City to fend for itself, or they could sacrifice their anonymity and try to save the city.

Running was tempting, but they knew what they had to do. Spray Pain leapt into action, subduing the animals with cans upon cans of paint, turning the streets of Cyclops City into a strange abstract canvas. Their identity was no longer a secret, but at least the city was saved. It was then that the spirit of the geyser emerged, and offered Spray Pain control over the Water and Tech elements if they became a Dual-Wielder. Realising they needed a change of career now, Spray Pain accepted.

HOODWINK

"Watch out!"

Straight out of a millennia-old tomb, Hoodwink makes ancient magic look easy in combat. The modern world has a lot of things that are new to him, like ‘robots’ and ‘the Skylanders’ and ‘updog,’ but he’s getting used to it.

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Hoodwink was a well-respected oracle in an ancient Cyclops society… until he died of an unknown illness, which made it a bit hard for him to perform his oracle duties. He was given an elaborate burial in a fancy tomb, and spent the next several thousand years in there having a presumably great time being dead.

His eternal rest ended up not being very eternal at all when a geyser erupted beneath him and he opened his eye for the first time in millennia, seeing a bright blue sky instead of the ceiling of his tomb. As Hoodwink looked around, he noticed a very panicked geyser spirit apologising profusely to him. The spirit explained to Hoodwink that he now had the ability to control both the Magic and Undead elements, and told him to go seek out a group calling themselves the Dual-Wielders.

More confused than anything, Hoodwink set out on this quest, which fortunately wasn’t too difficult - he pretty quickly ran into some of the Dual-Wielders, who were on their way to the very geyser that had disturbed his slumber.

[therealroselovejoy]

Chapter Five of Run

Daryl Dixon x OC

My feet tread the same line as I pace back and forth. Milly bites her nails with anxiety and Ashley sits on Marie's lap.

"The air conditioning isn't working," Lori announces, her hand waving underneath the vent. My stomach clenches a bit tighter. How are we supposed to just act normal after Jenner told us about decontamination?

"Sit down honey. Pacing like this is only going to scare the children," Marie says to me, causing me to look over at Carl and Sophia. They're watching me with a nervous expression on both their faces.

Sighing, I go back to the room I shared with Daryl, going to my bag to make sure it's packed. The redneck is in here also, drinking more alcohol. At this rate, liver failure will kill him before the undead does.

"How 'bout you settle right down on this bed with me, Sugar Tits."

"Great, you're drunk. Again." My bag looks good and I hoist it on my back, preparing for an immediate exit. The room goes dark and I realize the lights have gone out except for the hallway.

"Why isn't the A/C working?" I hear Lori ask someone.

"And why are the lights out in our rooms?" This is Andrea.

I look out the door, seeing Jenner walking through the living quarters. Daryl presses me against the door jam, wanting to lookout as well. "Why is everything shut off?"

"Energy use is being prioritized." Jenner grabs the bottle hanging from Daryl's hand, taking a swig of it.

"Air isn't a priority? And lights?" Dale brings up.

"It's not up to me. Zone 5 is shutting itself down."

"Hey, what the hell does that mean!" Daryl chases after him and I follow behind. "Hey man, I'm talkin' to you!"

He continues to ignore the sleeveless man. We follow him down the stairs, meeting up with the men from the group.

"Jenner, what's happening!" Rick storms towards the scientist. Jenner reiterates what he told us. We come into the lab again, the timer now at a half an hour left.

"It was the French. They were the last ones as far as I know." He hands Daryl back his bottle, looking at all of us solemnly. "While our people were bolting and committing suicide in the hallways, they were holding out. They thought they were close to a solution."

"What happened?" Jacqui asks.

"The same thing that's happening here. No power grid. Ran out of juice. The world runs on fossil fuels. I mean how stupid is that?" He walks away from us, not expecting a real answer.

"Everyone pack your things! We're getting out of here now!" Rick orders. My family is already packed, Marie having followed my lead earlier. As people scatter, an alarm goes off, filling the room with red lights. Before anyone can get to the door, Jenner shuts it.

"Did you just lock us in?" Glenn asks, staring at the sealed exit.

I pull my gun out, putting against his temple. "You better open it, right now."

"We've hit the thirty-minute mark and I am recording," he says to the monitor, ignoring me. I hear Daryl run up behind me, shouting insults. Shane grabs him before he can attack the scientist.

"Put the gun down, Lilly. It's not going to do any good," Shane says to me, earning himself a glare, but I lower my weapon.

"All the emergency exits are sealed. I told you once those doors closed, there would be no going back! You heard me say that! It's better this way."

"What is?" our leader asks, incredulously at him. "What happens in twenty-eight minutes?"

When he doesn't answer, Shane hits him on the back, causing Jenner to explode. "Do you know what this place is? We protected the public from very nasty stuff! Weaponized smallpox! Ebola strains that could wipe out half of the country! Stuff you don't want getting out, ever!"

We're silent, looking at each other. Jenner speaks again, more collected than before. "In the event of a catastrophic power failure, in a terrorist attack for example, H.I.T.s are deployed to prevent any organisms from getting out."

"H.I.T.s?"

"Vi, define."

"H.I.T.s...high impulse thermobaric fuel-air explosives consist of a two-stage aerosol ignition that produces a blast wave of significantly greater power and duration than any other known explosive, except nuclear."

"How comforting," I mutter, pacing again. "At least it's not nuclear." Sobbing starts around the room, the others hugging their loved ones, figuring out that we'll all burn to death.

"It'll catch the air on fire."

"Yeah, we got that, asshole," I respond.

"There's no pain. An end to sorry, grief, regret...everything."

Daryl slams his bottle into the sealed door. "Open the damn door!" he screams. Shane runs towards it next with an ax. Someone tosses Daryl one and together they do absolutely no damage to it.

"We can't make a dent," Shane comes back, out of breath.

"These doors are created to withstand rocket launchers."

"But your head ain't!" Daryl yells, running towards him with the ax. I grab it, taking the weapon away from him. He clearly can't think well with the alcohol and normal hillbilly rage he possesses. The other men drag him backwards when he goes to launch at me to get it back.

"You do want this! You said so yourself that it was only a matter of time before everyone you loved died," Jenner says to Rick. The group glares at their leader, despite him being spot on. We're all on borrowed time.

"I had to keep hope alive," he defends himself.

"There is no hope. There never was!"

Rick stalks over to him. "Maybe it won't be you, maybe not here, but somebody, somewhere—"

"What part of 'everything is gone' don't you understand?" Andrea says, almost in a fetal position. She's starting to sound more and more like Milly.

"This is our extinction event."

I scoff, leaning back onto the table. "I can't believe I'm going to die and my last hookup was Redneck McGee over here."

"Really not the time to joke," Dale comments.

"This is how she copes," Marie defends, pulling Ashley closer to her. She's holding it together better than Lori and Carol. Milly, like usual, doesn't give a shit about anything.

A gun cocks, grabbing all of our attention. Shane has a shotgun pointed at Jenner. "Open that door or I'm going to blow your head off!" Rick tries to calm him down, whispering something in his ear. He screams, turning and shooting at the monitors. Our leader wrestles the weapon away from him.

"Grab that ax. Help me hit the door again," Daryl says, nodding to Shane's discarded one. Sighing, I listen, following behind him. I drop my bag before landing blow after blow against the metal. It drops down and I look back to see Jenner's hand on the dial-pad. He opened it for us.

"Let's go!" the redneck screams at me, grabbing my bag for me. I wait behind for my family.

"C'mon, why aren't you running to the door?!" I scream at them, jogging back over to the three.

"I'm staying," Milly says, not moving a muscle from the floor.

"No you aren't. You have a daughter to worry about. Get your ass up and let's go!"

She shakes her head, tears slipping down her cheeks. "I'm just a burden on you...Marie...this group. I'm tired of fighting a battle I've already lost!"

I look around, noticing that Jaqui and Andrea have stayed behind, too. Are these bitches crazy?

"What the fuck are you doin'?" Daryl yells, running back in for us.

"Milly doesn't want to leave," I comment.

"And what, you're goin' to stay too? No, fuck that." He gives me my bag back, picking up my twin and throwing her over his shoulder.

"Put me down! I want to die! Why won't you let me die?!" she cries out as we head towards the exterior exit.

"Just shut the fuck up. You don't get to be a coward," Daryl barks back, practically dropping her into the floor. My sister is a sobbing mess, rolling into a fetal position.

"Rick, I might have something that can help!" Carol calls out, handing Rick an actual grenade.

"Look out!" We all duck for cover, Daryl dragging Milly with him. The glass shatters from the bomb. My stomach unclenches more. We're getting out!

"Let's go!"

Daryl grabs my sister again and we head out. I cover him, taking out Walkers that get too close to us. He tosses Milly into the bed of his truck before climbing in next to me in the cab. Marie and Ashley got into the other car with Carol.

Andrea and Dale climb out, jogging towards the vehicles. One of the cars honk, Rick screaming at them to get down. It looks like the CDC is out of time.

"Everyone get down!"

Daryl leans his whole sweaty body over me, trying to shield me from the impact. A loud sound echoes through the area before a wave of heat rolls over us. We sit up, looking at where the building once stood, now just one big bonfire.

The cars start up again, prompting Daryl to follow. His hand goes out to clasp mine, but I pull it away, sitting on my hands for good measure. He glares at me, turning back to focus on the road.

Everything about this place was a damn mistake.

[deadlyflan]

I have many questions about the Flammable Lizard, but in relation to the ask meme-

Which canon character annoys your OC?

Who would your OC say is their best friend?

Did your OC bear witness to anyone’s full character arc?

Meet Sally!

(Yes, Sally the Salamander. I let my players name her in the RPG and the Leonardo player got to her before the Michelangelo player, so. Our Leo was a little basic, so the name's a little basic, but Sally doesn't mind.)

Sally was a bio-engineered mutant who started life as an animal. In addition to being bigger and brighter than the average salamander—about 3 foot long and about as smart as a search and rescue dog—Sally also produces a viscous layer of highly flammable ooze. Intended as an untraceable weapon of sabotage, Sally's Evil Handlers™ trained her to squeeze into walls, vents, duct work, gaps, crawlspaces, etc and smear her pyro-goo on as many surfaces as possible. After she infiltrated a place, the Evil Handlers™ could touch open flame to the slime trail and take out an entire complex. Sally herself is fireproof, cannot speak, eats meats and chemicals (any), and has a compressible cartilaginous skeleton that allows her to fit down any pipe 3 inches (7.5 cm) or bigger. Her mucus-y layer of arson-snot takes about 24 hours to regenerate. If she gets into any chemicals (like lighter fluid, cleaning products, charcoal briquettes, or fossil fuels,) she may re-ooze faster. Like a goopy, squishy, flaming golden retriever, she's eager to please and infinitely bribe-able with treats. (She loves mothballs.) In game, the TMNT needed to figure out why a pattern of laboratories, manufacturing sites, and science firms were all getting burned down in bizarre arson attacks. They did not manage to find Sally's Evil Handlers™, but they did find Sally. Specifically, Leo found Sally in a burned out building. And Sally was friendly. And not gloppy because she'd just had all her fire-smear burned off. And she was hungry and cold and… Yeah. He took her home. (Of course she got loose in Don's lab. Of course there was a fire scare. Of course Master Splinter isn't crazy about her. But she's just so darn cute! Kinda. In a bug-eyed, fleshy, loogie kinda way.)

YOUR QUESTIONS!!

Which canon character annoys your OC?

Sally is very frustrated by Donatello. He smells delicious, but won't let her nibble his hands. He has a whole room of delicious chemical treats, but he won't share. He's all the time scraping her for samples, but he never wants to play. He says discouraging things like, "No, Sally! Don't eat that! Leave that alone! You can't come in! Stop it! Where did you get that?! Are you oozing in here?!?!" All in all, he's a buzzkill.

Who would your OC say is their best friend?

Sally loves her whole new family. Way better than the Evil Handers™. Raphael gives her his used engine oil. (R: It's environmentally responsible! Need an oil change? Jus' give the old stuff to the lizard! D: That's not—no. Raph. Also, she's a salamander. Those are amphibi— R: Look, you want I should pour it down the drain? That's bad for the harbor! An' look'it her. She likes it.) Michelangelo also sneaks her all kinds of treats. (M: One pepperoni for me. One pepperoni for the pizza. One pepperoni for Sally. OH! I got a whole can full of cooking grease! You want the grease, baby girl? Do ya? Do ya? Spl: Michelangelo, oils may be unwise. M: She can handle it! Can't you girl? She just makes goo with it! Spl: We have yet to see what other waste she makes—giving an animal like Sally a laxative would be madness.) Even Donatello can be a good companion. He was the first to give her mothballs! She loves mothballs! (L: Is that safe? D: She's a self-ambulatory, compressible, industrial sabotage weapon. There's nothing safe about her. The mothballs keep her out of my chemical cabinet. L: I'll go get the fire extinguisher just in case.) But her best buddy, her ride-or-die, her new Not-Evil Handler™ is Leonardo. He gives clear instructions. He stays calm. He got her a giant glass aquarium to sleep in. He lets her into his room (unlike the other three who are scared she'll eat/ignite/slime some precious collectible or reading material.) He gives nice neck rubs. He does all her 'controlled burns.' And most fun of all, he gives her games! Challenging stuff like "find the bottle cap" or "obstacle course" or "hide and seek tag." Sally's not a human-level intelligence mutant, but she's not a sleepy house pet either. She deeply appreciates Leonardo's interest in her enrichment.

Did your OC bear witness to anyone’s full character arc?

The RPG that included Sally did not go on long enough to call it a 'full' character arc. And Sally herself, being 'clever-dog' levels of smart wouldn't have really grokked what she was seeing anyways. But the Leonardo at the beginning of game was pretty stressed and troubled. Over the span of having Sally in sessions, Leonardo did relax more, play more, and tease more casually. He was responding very well to having a pet and Sally was in love with having a Not-Evil Handler™. So yeah, I'd say there was character development.

Thank you so much for sending me questions, @the-starry-seas! I had a lot of fun with this. Happy New Year! <3

[gwynndolin]

my roomates and i have a parahumans OC who's name is powerplant because he can boil water (about as fast as an electric kettle) at an indeterminate distance and with no limit to the amount. He, as his name suggests, works at a power plant, boiling the water in the tanks in place of any fossil fuels.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

The United States District Court for the District of Maryland has tossed a flawed environmental assessment that grossly underestimated harms to endangered and threatened marine species from oil and gas drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.  

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) prepared the assessment known as a biological opinion—BiOp for short— in 2020 under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). NMFS is a federal agency within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

The biological opinion is required to ensure that drilling and exploration for fossil fuels in the Gulf does not jeopardize endangered and threatened species, and is a prerequisite for oil and gas drilling permits auctioned by the U.S. Department of the Interior. 

That same year, Earthjustice, a national nonprofit, filed a suit challenging the biological opinion on behalf of Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth and the Turtle Island Restoration Network. The American Petroleum Institute, Chevron and several other groups representing the oil and gas industry intervened as defendants in the case. 

The environmental groups argued the biological opinion underestimated the potential for future oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico and did not require sufficient safeguards for imperiled whales, sea turtles and other endangered and threatened marine species from industrial offshore drilling operations.

The Gulf of Mexico is home to a range of threatened marine species protected under the ESA, including the endangered Rice’s whale, which exists nowhere else on the planet. 

It also caters to much of the nation’s oil and gas extraction under federal waters known as the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). This includes a region known as the Gulf OCS that experiences a high volume of ship traffic to production platforms, tens of thousands of active wells and thousands of miles of underwater pipelines. 

In its Aug. 19 ruling, the district court agreed with the environmental groups that the biological opinion violated the law in multiple ways. Among other deficiencies, it found the opinion wrongly assumed that a catastrophic oil spill like the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon will not occur despite NMFS’ own finding that such a spill can be expected. 

The court declared the 2020 BiOp unlawful and ordered NFMS to produce a new biological opinion by December 2024.

“The new opinion should come along with more protections for the Gulf’s threatened and endangered species that are already struggling to survive in the face of an onslaught of threats, including existing oil and gas activity, climate change and others,” said Kristen Monsell, oceans program litigation director for the Center for Biological Diversity. 

[tales-of-aolara]

𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔤!

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As an introductory post, this blog is about a world called Aolara- a homebrew world that I created, and with the help of some close friends of mine we have all contributed to the lore of this world. This place will be where we share our lore, aesthetics, history, art, and more.

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𝔏𝔬𝔠𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰

(𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔦𝔯 𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯s)

Eldearon - Doc Ivoria - Doc Amorren - Wyrd Moricust - Max Lullan - Gordon Seren - Cooper Vurdoth - Cooper/Gordon Caskka - vacant Vichala - vacant

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ℜ𝔲𝔩𝔢𝔰

Feel free to ask questions, we would love to answer them I'm sure.

DO NOT repost our lore, reblogs are appreciated.

If you wish to make an oc based on the lore we present, feel free too, however please credit appropriately! Also we'd love to see what you may make, so please use the tag, #Aolaraoc , or just simply tag this blog.

I'll talk with the other members about rp on this blog.

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𝔄𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔄𝔬𝔩𝔞𝔯𝔞

(A science-y description)

Aolara is the 4th planet in the solar system called the Belt of Braronus. Aolara is an Earth-like planet, however is larger than Earth- it's size being probably half the size of Uranus, and has a much bigger moon than Earth, keeping the gravitational pull of the water upon Aolara's surface to be stable, and similar in the way Earth's water flows and how Earth's weather is. Aolara's atmosphere is similar in thickness to Earth's as well, however is not suffering from too much damage due to the citizens of this planet using non-fossil fuel means of transportation, rather- many continents usually utilize magic, ride horses or other steeds, and are unknowingly keeping the o-zone layer from being too damaged. Aolara has a faint ring that orbits the equator of it, similarly to Saturn- however its faint due to the gravitational pull of pieces of rock and asteroid not being able to be caught in Aolara's orbit as easily as it does with Saturn, again- its much weaker in terms of gravitational force.

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favorite color: gunmetal grey, and grayish blues

currently watching: oh god, whatever nonsense has been playing on the Travel Channel or the Food Network while i house sit for a friend.

sweet/savory/spicy food: yes. a preference for savory but i do like it just this side of spicy.

relationship status: single

current obsession: FNaF (sigh), unfiction in general, learning Blender, old camcorders and "outdated" VFX, do my OCs count?, and my current project which will not leave my brain.

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SHIPPING INFO //ANSWER THE FOLLOWING FOR YOUR MUSES SO PEOPLE KNOW HOW SHIPPING WORKS ON YOUR BLOG.

WHAT IS YOUR OTP FOR YOUR CHARACTER(S)?  

Hello there! As far as I have seen, there's not a bunch of extremely popular ships out there for Drake which means there's so much potential for ships, but my OTPs for Drake are SmoDrake, LawDrake, ZoroDrake, and Drake with @akagamiko's Shanks (I LOVE DRANKS OK!!!!!! NEVER WOULDA THUNK BUT HERE WE ARE!!!) There's also a lot of ships I've never explored, so there may be a new OTP on the horizon!!

HOW LARGE DOES THE AGE GAP HAVE TO BE TO MAKE IT UNCOMFORTABLE?  

Okay, SO! If you're character is 18-19 and wants to ship with Drake who is 33, it's just not gonna happen. I'm sorry. That's a 15 year age gap, BUT that only bothers me if the character is 18 or 19 years old. 2 years ago they'd be 16-17 and Drake, 31. NO. Please. Just no. Once you hit 20, DO AS YOU PLEASE, but please don't throw your 18 or 19 year old over here and expect Drake to be wooed. I will block you without hesitation.

HOW FAR DO STEAMY MOMENTS HAVE TO GO BEFORE THEY ARE CONSIDERED NSFW?  

Once the clothes are off, I'm tagging it NOT SAFE FOR DINOS (nsfd as you may see in the future) !!! Touching, kissing, straight up making out feels pretty suggestive to me and I'll put like a suggestive tag on it, but that's pretty safe for dinos!!!

ARE YOU SELECTIVE WHEN SHIPPING?  

I enjoy the build up and everything that happens after. The slowburn is excellent. The yearning. Lingering glances--or touches--secretly when the person is distracted or SLEEPING OR faking it off as swatting a fly or getting something out of their hair---all of THAT.

WHO ARE OTHER CHARACTERS YOU SHIP YOUR CHARACTER WITH? 

Other characters who I think would be interesting to pair with Drake would be Killer, Kid, Katakuri, King--damn, that's alotta K's--Hina, O-Kiku (VERY RECENTLY DISCOVERED THIS might work), ROBIN, Nami (ginger couple), IKKAKU (learning of Fossil Fuels through RP). I can also try OCs--I used to write several tbh, and Drake has had a lovely relationship with @bucketfullofocs Aya before I was lured away to Pokemon Fandom and gave Drake a break cause we didn't see him for a long time. I've even dabbed a pinky into Drake and Corazon (a Still Lived Corazon AU I think) and the possibility was surprisingly nice. I guess I'm just a sucker for people bigger than Drake and much smaller than Drake PFFFFF.

DOES ONE HAVE TO ASK TO SHIP WITH YOU? 

I have no problems with people asking if they can ship with me, but once that happens, lets have a few interactions and see how they mesh! If I've chatted with you and I like you, I think it'd be a bit easier to do.

However if we've never interacted before and you wanna ship, we DEFINETELY have to see how our characters will mesh with each other.

ARE YOU SHIP-OBSESSED OR SHIP MORE-OR-LESS?

I LOVE writing my OTPs because it makes me happy and I enjoy shipping AND considering Drake's backstory, he just honestly feels INCREDIBLY LUCKY that someone actually wants HIM like, this mans hit the jackpot!!!, but I wouldn't say I'm ship-obsessed.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SHIP IN YOUR CURRENT FANDOM? 

LawDrake held the top spot then SmoDrake came for my neck, but now since I've seen this incredible artist draw ZoroDrake/DreZo/ZoDre on TWITTER, I have written at least 10 fanworks and it is KING. Seeing them interact on WANO WAS SO. GOOD. DAMNIT. They were just fighting / arguing tho HAHAHAA. Two himbos together is amazing, ok?

FINALLY, HOW DOES ONE SHIP WITH YOU?  

Memes or just send something into my inbox! Just get the ball rolling. Ask about it after some interacts! That's all ya need!

tagging: i dont remember who i grabbed this from BUT DO IT!! perhaps @videcoeur ?