#or maybe a manatee

[simplyghosting]

OH SHOOT ITS MERMAY

[kitkatyes]

thinking about octonauts again, head in hands /silly

desperately need to write more barnacles angst

[ampdotnet]

friend wanted me 2 draw a manatee fursona

[bywandandsword]

Y'all I recently learned that the Gulf of Mexico used to have a native seal, but they went extinct in the the 1960s, partially due to hunting and over hunting their food sources. They were called Caribbean Monk seals and are closely related to the Hawaiian Monk seal and the Mediterranean Monk seal, both of which are endangered

(Pictured: a Hawaiian monk seal)

[puppetmaster13u]

Sea Lion Superman, Sea Lion Superman, Sea Lion Superman-

[borgeslabyrinth]

"Florida is hell on earth" sounds like a you problem

[aquatark]

West Indian Manatee - Great Aqua Cave

Endless Ocean, Nintendo Wii

the devs were so insistent on having a manatee species in the series... they conveniently ignored that *west indian* manatees don't live anywhere near where they're located in both eo1 and 2

[personallysunny]

what do you think is Dream's favourite sea animal

Like. Sharks actually. Bc they're misunderstood and sweeties(some of them)

[maks-punchout-hyperfixtion]

While I'm doing good old research and lore writing, take these little emote head things i did of the female minor circuit

In order:

Delilah

Vicky

Deedee

Manatee

Just some useless information about deedees and manatee's design

Deedee and manatee were the hardest of this circuit for different reasons

For deedee:

Over the course of her concept her hair was my biggest issue, originally i was going to give her something like box braids or corn rows, especially actually attempt a poc hair style. Unfortunately that's when my art style limitation came in, i have trouble drawing braids, let alone many smaller ones, and each attempt was a failure because something would always look wrong. I eventually resided with Just giving her a normal braided hair do, maybe one day i can make it better.

I'll make a post showing her designs later

Manatee however had a bigger issue

There was no reference!

It wouldn't be the minor circuit without our queen manatee! So she was completely reference less during her drawing!

Luckily these were just emote type things, i simple gave her short flowly hair a seashell hair clip (that i legit just drew two black bars behind and colored red). I choose to make her hair gray with green all around to reference actually manatees!

I hope you enjoyed this!

[hisbutlerclawed]

YOU CAN'T MAKE ME A WALRUS

All patient complaints must be filed properly, Angel... You can't just start raving in my clinic.

[pigswithwings]

not gonna lie i did not know what a dugong was or how different they were from manatees but then i googled dugongs and theres a bunch of pictures of them doing the exact same thing in the sand as the one in the video so now i feel kinda silly for being unsure

they truly do exist to vacuum shit up its magical... and yeah i dont blame you!! dugongs dont get a lot of coverage like manatees do but eyeah 👍👍 very sick and cool animals

[ferallester]

fun fact if you look into my brain there’s a high chance that you’ll see d+p as magical catboys

I should probably do something with this concept, but for now:

precure au

I have had extensive thoughts on this au for a while but it’s a quarter past three in the morning, so I’ll hold off

For Now.

[burningcheese-merchant]

Hey so if everyone that follows me or otherwise sees this reblog can you PLEASE reblog it as well? Because this news needs to be delivered to everyone. I am freaking out so fucking bad right now you have no idea

AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

[gameboyhamazing]

I know most ppl arent really focused on it but I gotta say I love how Drag X Drive puts real effort into making a paralympic sport look sick as fuck like it deserves, because you don’t really see that kind of thing! Sure maybe real-life wheelchair basketball doesn’t have halfpipes bc physics don’t work that way, but this is really the first time I’ve ever seen any attempt to make a paralympic sport into something cool and fun outside of the actual sport itself, which isn’t something that happens often

[demiurgenesis]

Having thoughts about the walrus fairy poll (a dangerous pass time, I know) and I'm trying to find a way to explain like... how a small inconsequential thing can be the harbinger of something more significant, and that that's where true comedy/terror/wonder lies.

A big part of my sense of humour is 'implication'. When playing Cards Against Humanity it's basically a guaranteed laugh to play a card that just says 'a hat full of shit' but I find it funnier to play something that you have to think about for a fraction of a second before 'oh god no!' as you realise what's being implied. (Nothing against the cards that say things like 'a monkey with a huge dick' - for one of my friends those are her absolute FAVOURITE cards. That's exactly her style of humour. Love that about her.)

But the idea that a fairy at your doorstep is 'easier' than a walrus at your doorstep doesn't track with me.

A walrus on your doorstep brings up so many questions, of course. How did it get here? How did it knock? Why didn't anyone notice, or did they notice? What's going on???

But even being able to engage with this bizarre situation is what makes it attainable. Yes it COULD have walked (dragged?) itself all the way here from the sea. Yes it could have escaped from a zoo or unethical neighbour. Yes it could have knocked on the door by messing around with it until it sounded like a knock that got your attention - or someone else knocked for it and then ran away and hid in a bush. Ridiculous - sure - but something I can engage with.

A fairy at the door? Oh easy, it's just a fairy, and they can knock.

...except it's not actually that simple.

I have to argue with my mum about bigfoot sometimes (long story) and she tries to Occam's Razor me with this:

"You walk outside and there's footsteps from a bigfoot in the snow. Now what's more likely? That a person went out of their way to make fake-bigfoot shoes so they could leave footprints in the snow, and was so careful about it that they didn't leave any trace of their deception, and correctly matched the stride and weight of a much larger creature, and blah blah all these other complicated things they'd need to do, and no one saw them do it...... or that it was just a bigfoot going for a walk in the snow? Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. So which of these two is simpler? I creature going for a walk or a human messing around with an extremely complicated and well executed prank?"

The answer is that a human doing it is simpler. Even though it sounds more complicated. Even though it takes longer to explain. Even though it requires an element of luck to pull off. It is still the simpler explaination. Why? BECAUSE THE BIG PICTURE IMPLICATIONS.

If a bigfoot 'just went for a walk' it certainly sounds like a simpler explanation. Except that bigfoots don't exist. So if they did then we need to explain why one's never been seen, or heard, or caught. Why there's nothing that's disrupting the ecosystem like a bigfoot creature would. No plants or animals are getting eaten by this undetected creature. Why there's no hair, or poop, or DNA. Why there's no bones or fossils or corpses. Why there's no 'marks on trees' or whatever else things an animal/creature leaves behind when it lives somewhere. And why following the footprints into the wood never leads to finding a goddamn bigfoot at the end of the trail.

That's how I feel about 'a fairy on my doorstep is simpler than a walrus' because it's not, it's actually extremely more complicated than finding a walrus. Yes, even though the walrus has to do all this complicated stuff to be able to show up and knock on my door. It's not NEARLY as world-shattering as what finding a fairy on the doorstep would imply about reality as I understand it.

You're goddamn right I'd be surprised to find a fairy - especially in knowing that that's what it is.

That's right: I'm asking how do I know it's a fairy? Do I just know? Do I just instinctively know what it is upon seeing it? How could I? Even with stories and media painting a picture for me of what a fairy might look like, why in the world would I know AND BELIEVE that the thing on my doorstep is a fairy? And yet apparently I do. I open the door and there is a fairy and I know this and believe this. I know and believe this as surely as if there were a walrus on my doorstep - a walrus being a thing I have never seen in real life, only in records and art, and yet if I met one I'd know it and believe it - you're telling me the same is true of meeting a fairy on my doorstep? THE IMPLICATIONS! Is the fairy affecting my brain in a 'BE NOT AFRAID' kind of way? Is the existance and recognition of fairies actually already embedded in my brain? Maybe I have seen them before. Maybe I've seen them and they made me forgot, but now I see one again I instantly know what it is. If there's one fairy are there more fairies? Where are they in the ecosystem? Why is there no evidence of that? Do they exist outside the ecosystem? Is fairyland real? A reality seporate from our own where all the fairies live? That's a hell of a thought. Or is there actually a conspiracy to keep fairy existence a secret from regular people? Could such a thing work? Apparently it does work, because here's a goddamn fairy, they're real.

And on and on and on and on the horrifying implications, they don't stop, they keep spilling like a waterfall as all understanding of the world is washed away before the witnessing of this fairy on my doorstep.

Oh a walrus? Yeah, that's strange. It probably escaped from a zoo. How did it knock? I dunno, maybe they trained it at the zoo.

[bonkin]

(from the Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game) 5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

HMM i would say probably a good 70% of my work gets posted online, Overall. that number isnt true to form for This specific account but across All platforms i think thats a pretty good rough estimate