#stingfishes

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[fish-daily]

A false kelpfish perhaps?

fish 213 - false kelpfish/sea ruffe/dusky stingfish

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ABUSE BRACKET - ROUND ONE: FALLKOS VS STINGFISHER

Propaganda is below the cut.

FALLKOS

"Cinder was so down for Pyrrha she even keeps using her weapon to kill people. Peak Romance."

STINGFISHER

"this ones just kinky its got stabbing and tying people up."

[by13x]

V-Raidā Daruma Set 4

[encyclopika]

Animal Crossing Fish - Explained #208

Brought to you by a marine biologist who’s a bit broken...

CLICK HERE FOR THE AC FISH EXPLAINED MASTERPOST!

If you saw my update last weekend, I went and broke my back somehow, and I’m sure my job going out on the water had something to do with it. Being a marine biologist is fun but it’s not a cushy job, especially if you’re going out and doing field work. So, a combination of lifting heavy equipment and animals and acting like I’m still a spritely, young spring chicken did me in. So, that explains why there were no fish explained posts last weekend, though I’m trying really hard to at least do 2 or 3 a week on the weekends for something that looks like a schedule. So, here I go again - this time, we’ll talk about the Weedy Stingfish.

The Weedy Stingfish debuted in AC Pocket Camp this March (2022) for Fishing Tourney 48 that featured succulent items as prizes. I love the theming here - both succulents (which include cactus) and the stingfish have sharp spines. The difference here is that, though getting pricked by a cactus sucks, getting pricked by the fish sucks twice as much because it’s venomous as well!

The large bony fish Family called Scorpaenidae includes very many species (some 454 in total) of prickly, spikey, and often venomous fish. When it comes to defense, these fish pack a punch! I mean, whoever named Scorpaenidae was really onto something, naming them after the equally prickly and venomous scorpions. Many of them are also masters of disguise, with complicated speckling patterns that allow them to hide motionless among corals and rocky habitat. Within this family are the Scorpaeninae, a subfamily that includes the traditional “true” scorpion fish and the lionfish - like the luna lionfish and red lionfish we have covered before. That also makes those fish the weedy’s closest relatives in AC so far, being a true scorpionfish in Tribe Scorpaenini. It’s scientific name is Scorpaenopsis cirrosa.

Picture from FishBase. I’m not sure ACPC could have really captured the complicated patterning on this guy, so I think they made a great effort. They also come in a bunch of different colors besides this pinkish-red color.

These fish are native to coastal waters around Asia and south to Australia. Their hunting strategy is just about the same as their strategy to avoid predators - depend upon that camouflage and wait for prey to come by and predators to swim away. Unfortunately, they are so good at hiding and remaining motionless that people also have a hard time seeing them and accidently step on them which is incredibly painful. Although it won’t kill you, I hear you’ll wish it did.

And there you have it! Fascinating stuff, no?

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[jamesbranwen]

Top 5 ships for Tyrian Callows

hmm it's hard to come up with five for him!

Nuts and Volts (Watts/Tyrian) - they're fucked up ironqrow it's awesome. extreme veteran discount if you remember my old url was a nuts and volts url.

Alcohol Poisoning (Qrow/Tyrian) - one of the hardest rwby ships to search for online, but a really awesome one. there is so much sexual tension in all of their interactions. tyrian knew all about qrow before qrow even knew who he was. qrow has sworn vengeance against him. so sexy.

War Crimes (Ironwood/Tyrian) - another top tier ship name to get you put on a list somewhere. i just love james being absolutely disturbed by this scorpion guy who will not leave him alone.

Tyrian/Jaune - idk their ship name but their thing with each other intrigues me. they have opposite semblances (aura boosting versus cutting through auras), they are opposite colors (the colors of the gods of light and dark even), and tyrian made that weird comment about him in volume 4. will they ever expand on that? who knows. lol

Stingfisher (Tyrian/Clover) - fucking iconic ship name lmao

[seatrench]

Inimicus didactylus,  also known as the Demon Stinger,  Sea Goblin,  or Bearded Ghoul

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[dragynkeep]

are you still doing the ship headcanons ask meme? Can I ask for stingfisher if you are?

send a ship for headcanons.

wakes up first.

again tyrian has never known sleep, but clover can easily get by on just a few hours also so it’s usually a toss up for who wakes up first.

sings in the shower.

tyrian will hum something to himself if he’s in a good mood, clover however loves to belt out a good tune if he’s woke up particularly raring & ready to go. despite himself, it does amuse tyrian to see him so vivacious.

makes breakfast every morning.

the biggest surprise for tyrian is when he found out clover actually made him breakfast, all on the table like they were a normal couple & tyrian hadn’t attempted to murder him the night before. clover just rolls his eyes & asks him if he thinks he was the first, now shut up & eat your bacon tyrian.

is the first to think about adopting / having a child.

tyrian only tried to get at clover once with this, shocked into silence at the ferocity clover shut him up with, knowing that maybe this wasn’t a line he should tap dance along so gleefully. oh well, there are plenty of others to prod.

gets sick the easiest.

tyrian is an established little bitch with his immune system, which clover doesn’t resist in taunting him about because fair’s fair.

loves to cuddle.

cuddling just really isn’t in the vibe for their relationship, their interactions either being a lot more mocking or dangerous; but there have been a rare few times that it’s happened & tyrian has found himself counting along to clover’s heartbeat.

falls asleep on the couch while they’re watching a movie.

no sleep, only furious make out sessions & potential attempts on the others life.

is super clingy.

once again tyrian is clingy in that only i can kill you uwu type of way.

[leafyaria]

Wanting to terraform my entire island vs wanting to make Keroro theme jackets

[koteshimi]

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21CvPUa7Szkから)

How to make Sashimi of Hairy stingfish

In Japan this fish is called "Onikasago". It is a type of scorpionfish. There is poison in the fins of this fish. Very swollen or numb. Let's watch out. Even boiling and sashimi are very delicious.

オニカサゴの鰭には毒があります。 とても腫れたり痺れたりします。注意しましょう。 煮ても刺身でもとても美味しい。

[joyousnudibranch]

It's getting hot over here in Muroto. For the past few days, the highest temperature was above  30 degrees C (86 F?) every day, if I'm not mistaken. When it's that hot, I need to keep my eyes on mom so that she won't sneak out of the house and get dehydrated or eat something inedible, thinking it's ice cream or something. But the good thing is that the sunrise is early now and if I wake up early, I can enjoy short fishing before my parents get out of bed. ;) So I was at the nearby fishing port at around 6:00 am this morning. 暑い。連日30度越えか？ そうなると、母が抜け出して外を歩いて熱中症になってやしないかとか、また異物を食べてやしないかとか、気をつけとく必要があって、外出が気が咎める日々になるんだけど。 ありがたいことに、今は日の出が早い！ってことは、頑張れば親が起きてこないうちにひと釣行というのも可能なわけで。

ということで今朝は6時ごろ近くの漁港に。

The sea was not very calm today perhaps because of a distant typhoon.  (No wonder I didn't see other anglers in the fishing port!) 海は遠くの台風のせいか、チョット波があって濁りが入ってて、どっちかというと釣れない日か。道理で他に釣り人がいない。

Look what I caught again! This rock fish (hairy stingfish?) is a so dangerous and so delicious one. Its fins are poisonous, but after cutting them off, you can make tasty dishes with it including sashimi. I did try it once a few years ago, and liked the taste. But after my curiosity was satisfied, I didn't feel like going for all the trouble of cutting the fins. So recently I just automatically release it every time I catch one. 見て。またコレ釣ってしまった。このオニカサゴ、おそらく去年も釣ってリリースした子です。場所が同じだから、たぶん間違いない。

オニカサゴはヒレに毒があるけど、それさえ切り落とせば超美味な魚。なので、数年前に初めて釣った時には、決死の覚悟でヒレを切って刺身で食べて、確かに美味しいと堪能しました。 が、もう好奇心が満たされたので、毒におびえながらヒレを切る手間をかけてまで食べたいとは思わず。 毎回のごとく、本日もリリース。

But more than anything, I was happy to catch this thing! This was plastic bags, tied together,  and I guess some angler was responsible for that. It was floating rather far from me, so I made a long cast a couple of times and finally made a success! Boy it made me feel so good to know that my casting skill is improving and I was able to remove one more trash from the sea. でも、今日一番釣って嬉しかったのはコレ！ 誰かが落としたレジ袋です。しかも2枚を結んでつなげたヤツ。まぁ釣り人でしょう。 けっこう大きかったので、遠かったけど目について、気になって。私のキャストのウデで届くかどうか、と思いつつ、頑張って狙ってフルキャストして、しっかり掛けてこられました！ 大き目のプラゴミをひとつ海から減らすことができたし、キャスティングのウデがちょっと上がった気になれたしで、気分ヨシ💕

The catch was not terribly great or anything, but better than nothing. These are juveniles of some good and tasty fish (greater amberjack and mackerel). Usually they don't taste as good as adult fish, because they're not fatty enough yet, but they are easy to catch. So I can't resist the temptation to catch them and usually take some home instead of releasing all of them. Yeah, I've been experimenting this and that to make tasty dishes with juvenile fish like these.  :) 釣果は思ったより良くないけど、まぁ無いよりはマシ。^^）

カンパチの子とサバの子、親ほどには美味しくないけど、まぁ釣れるし楽しいし。なので全部リリースはせず、いくらかは持って帰ります。味イマイチの未成年魚でも、美味しく食べられる工夫を見つけようとイロイロ試してるので。

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[earthstory]

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natgeowild A diver's sharp eye was able to catch a venomous stingfish disguising itself as part of the sandy seabed in the Gulf of Aqaba, between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Known as the two-stick stingfish, the sea creature would use its camouflage to ambush unsuspecting prey. However, it would also display its colorful fins as a warning to potential predators. Diver Vital Bazarov stated that it was unusual to spot the stingfish during the day since the species are normally active at night.

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RWBY ABUSE BRACKET ROUND ONE

(Click for better quality) Welcome to Round One of the RWBY Abuse Bracket! For those participating, you will be voting for the ship you prefer. The matchups for round one and links to the polls are below the cut and will be added as they are posted.

Fallen Petals (Ruby/Cinder) vs Irondeath (James/Salem) Holybun (Cardin/Velvet) vs Emerald Lair (Emerald/Salem) Tauradonna (Blake/Adam) vs Pennywatts (Penny/Arthur) Fallkos (Pyrrha/Cinder) vs Stingfisher (Clover/Tyrian) Neorose (Ruby/Neo) vs Silver Stinger (Mercury/Tyrian) Frostbite (Weiss/Adam) vs Queen's Maiden (Cinder/Salem) Roselem (Ruby/Salem) vs Sunwick (Sun/Roman) Cinwin (Cinder/Winter) vs Raging Bull (Yang/Adam) Emberald (Cinder/Emerald) vs Tyriqrow (Qrow/Tyrian) Knightfall (Jaune/Cinder) vs Mindless Worship (Salem/Tyrian) Rosewick (Ruby/Roman) vs Fallendina (Penny/Cinder) Hellbirds (Raven/Cinder) vs Shackled Ambition (Sienna/Adam) Bellawick (Blake/Roman) vs Bad Harvest (Oscar/Salem) Branweiss (Weiss/Raven) vs Ozlem (Salem/Ozma) Toxic Petals (Ruby/Tyrian) vs Hellfyre (Yang/Salem) Baked Alaska (Yang/Neo) vs White Ash (Weiss/Cinder)

[spitfire-of-the-sea]

Number 1

The first attempt of Ace to defeat Whitebeard; featuring mostly Saki, Wallace and Thatch and only a flying-projectile-Ace. Some Spade Pirates insight, though <3 =)

Number 1

Saki looked doubtfully at the uneven cubes of carrots on her cutting board. Leaning forward, she stole a glance at the one next to hers, where one of Thatch’s crew – Dave? – had chopped ten carrots while she had barely managed the one. They were perfect. Perfect cubes in a perfect size and all perfectly even. Looking back at hers, she winced.

She didn’t even dare to ask if these were alright, Thatch would probably get a heart attack. After watching him for a few days as he and his crew worked in the kitchen, she had a distinct feeling that he was a perfectionist. Honestly, she was pretty sure he was just being nice and humored her by letting her help; and help was a stretch of the word, since usually somebody had to check in on her and explain things, or worse, Thatch himself had to do it.

Quietly she pushed her uneven randomly sized carrot cubes to the side and took another one, focusing. It wasn’t that hard, she just had to concentrate more, right? Even cubes. She had a knife and she had eyes and that should really be all the equipment she needed to accomplish this freaking task.

“Oh, hi Saki!” somebody called from the door and when she turned to look, she saw Wallace amble towards her. Her mood brightened immediately, she had only caught glimpses of him these last days after they had been taken on board. The last time she had spoken to him was in those moments where they formulated their desperate plan to safe Ace; they had split up and he’d jumped into the water, ready to bring Ace to safety. As a fish-man, Wallace was a faster swimmer than any human could ever hope to be. Sadly, they hadn’t been aware that the fish-man commander of the Whitebeard Pirates was also present…

“Hey, Wallace!” She lowered the knife and smiled at him. It was always difficult to see if he was bruised or not – being a weedy stingfish fish-man, his skin was not only covered in ridges and many small appendices, mimicking the bottom of a coral reef, but also colored in hues of red. A number of spines spread up from the top of his head – each one of them venomous, as she knew well enough. At least those seemed to be intact. She leaned closer to try and get a better look at something she thought might be bruise, but he put his hand on her head and gently shoved her back with a laugh.

“I’m okay, you don’t need to bring out the magnifying glass,” he said. “It’s embarrassing… but I don’t think I was able to put up much of a fight before Nemur took me out. I’m really already super fine, I wasn’t really hurt that bad to begin with! So don’t worry!” He chuckled in the way he usually did when he felt embarrassed – thanks to his coloration it was equally as difficult to tell if he was blushing as it was to tell if he was hurt. Relenting, she straightened again and smiled at him.

“I don’t think any of us did,” she said, shrugging.

He looked around quickly and then leaned in close to her, whispering: “Well, I heard you guys at least gave a few of them a run for their money, saving our honor. So there’s that, huh?” She rolled her eyes and shook her head as he sent her a conspiratorial smile. It surely hadn’t felt as though they’d had any effect out there. She might as well have thrown cotton balls at Marco.

“You feeling okay here?” she asked. Wallace had always been a bit shy around humans and only gotten used to them with time. While she was pretty sure he no longer worried too much, he had never been surrounded by so many humans he didn’t know…

“Sure thing! Everybody is real nice, for sure nicer than Arlong and his posse ever were…,” he muttered and smiled at her again. “I volunteered for hunting duty! I’ll catch us some nice dinner, huh? Just wanted to ask if they want something special today, since there’s really nice hunting grounds just below us now.”

His eyes wandered to the knife in her hand and the carrot on her cutting board and he blinked in surprise. "They’re making you help with cooking? Oh no!” He grabbed her hand and squeezed it. “Are you fine with this? Maybe you’d rather help me?”

She felt her eye twitch. Wallace had a heart of gold and was being completely serious, she knew that much. In fact, exactly that was probably the problem because he always believed the most idiotic stories as long as they came from somebody he trusted. It was the only thing that kept her from snapping at him.

“You alright there, princess? You don’t like kitchen work?” She winced when Thatch stepped to stand behind her to peer over her shoulder, and resisted the urge to somehow hide her massacred carrot. Before she could answer him, Wallace stepped forward.

“Saki has to cry when she cooks! It’s really bad, that’s why we never let her cook anything other than breakfast pancakes where she doesn’t have to cut anything! Would it be okay if she helps me instead? Then she doesn’t have to cook and cry! I can then bring double as much fish if you want me to!” He pounded a fist against his chest to underline his words, looking at Thach who seemed a bit perplexed as his eyes landed on Saki.

She felt the heat rise to her cheeks as she turned to look at the cook, waving her arms for emphasis: “I do not cry!”

He caught her hand in his and gently took the knife, placing it on the cutting board as he quirked an eyebrow at her. Already a grin was pulling at the corners of his mouth.

“You don’t need to be ashamed, Saki! Everybody is good at something and doesn’t have to be good at everything, you told me that yourself! Even if cooking makes you cry, you’re really talented with many other things!” Wallace told her earnestly. “I don’t think you should do something that makes you cry, so I think Thatch should know. Thatch, you don’t want Saki to cry, do you?”

“I did not cry!” she snapped, glaring. She had no idea who started that stupid fucking rumor that somehow had been established as truth among the Spade Pirates by now. “I was cutting onions once and my eyes teared up, that’s all! It was just the onions!”

Thatch chuckled, crossing his arms in front of his chest. “I didn’t know you’re so sensitive, Saki,” he drawled and she grimaced. “I’d never forgive myself if I made you cry. I know what you do to men that upset you. Marco is still a bit wary of you, I think.”

“What…?” she asked but then saw his smirk and blushed even fiercer. “I didn’t even do anything!”

“Not for lack of trying,” he said, chuckling at the memory.

Honestly, if he kept continuing like this, she would start to consider that option… As she narrowed her eyes at him, he laughed and looked from her to Wallace, who was watching her doubtfully. “Of course Saki is allowed to join you, you don’t have to ask for it. You’re not prisoners, you know?”

“Wallace, you’re being really sweet, but how the hell would I even help you? I can hold my breath for maybe two minutes if I really have to and I definitely can’t dive down more than a dozen meters or so. I think it’s fair to say deep-sea-hunting is not exactly one of my talents,” she tried to reason with her friend.

He nodded slowly as if that thought hadn’t occurred to him yet. “Oh. You’re right, I guess.”

“I promise I won’t make her cry, Wallace, but thanks for bringing all of this to my attention. Now, about…,” Thatch said and turned to look at her cutting board, faltering as he caught sight of her work. He was silent for a moment and she bowed her head in shame.

“I’m sorry…” she said and felt his hand land on her shoulder, giving it a squeeze.

“No need to be so glum, everybody has to start somewhere, right?” he said good-naturedly and she somehow felt even worse for it. Gently pushing her one step to the side, he came to stand half behind and half next to her, circled one arm around her and grabbed her left hand. “See, you want to have your fingers bent like this so you won’t cut yourself, keep a good grip and shift your hand slowly along as you cut. If you keep your fingers outstretched, you’ll really have to watch them. This hand grips the knife nice and tight,” he said and switched to her other hand, correcting also the position of the fingers there. “With this type of knife, you don’t need to lift it quite so high, you just need to get into a rhythm. Lifting the back and chopping in a swaying motion as you move it along slowly, see? Like this. These knifes are sharp, you don’t need that much force. By the way, if you ever need to cut onions, just place a wet towel next to them. It’ll make sure I can keep my promise to Wallace here.” With his hands over hers he demonstrated the movement and within seconds the carrot was cut into perfect cubes.

She stared at them for a moment before turning to look up at him: “You realize that this was all you and none of me? I don’t think I will ever be able to do it like this.”

His smile was unperturbed as he let go of her hands. “Not a problem. I can show you as often as you need me to, just come and get me. It’s just practice – and even if they look like this, we can still use them!”

The guy next to her cleared his throat, looking at his commander with raised eyebrows: “That’s not what you told me when I started here.”

Thatch looked at him for a moment, the smile still in place, even though it looked definitely darker now. “Well, first of all you were a little shit about it, and second of all – you weren’t even trying to get any better when you started here.”

The guy laughed and stuck his tongue out at his commander before he continued. Thatch looked back at Saki and winked at her: “As I was saying, just keep going and get me when you need help.”

“Yeah, because you clearly have nothing better to do than teach an idiot how to cut carrots and not tear up over onions,” she mumbled, getting the next carrot and placing it on the cutting board, trying to arrange her hands the way Thatch had showed her. Flexing her fingers, she tried to concentrate on how she moved the knife. Wallace was peering at her, still doubtful.

“If I can’t even spare five minutes to help somebody, then I’m doing something terribly wrong in running my kitchen,” he answered and smiled at her, staying for a moment to watch her.

Both her and Thatch looked up when a sudden burst of Haki perfused the air and not a second later a loud crack reverberated through the whole room, just before a part of the wall on the far side of them started to disintegrate into a cloud of wooden splinters. A body came crashing through – or perhaps the body was first and the sound came after, it was a bit difficult to tell – and with it a large oaken table, heading directly towards them.

Thatch had already moved before Saki fully comprehended the scene, pushed her and Wallace behind him, and stretched a hand out to catch the table that came flying; Saki didn’t see much, since he was blocking her view, but she saw the body twist around even while still in mid-air to grab the table with a grunt and throw it to the ground before it got close to anybody. It landed on the floor together with the figure in a resounding thud that she could feel in her bones.

For a moment it was quiet enough to hear the big clock on the wall ticking away. One second. Two seconds. Three seconds.

Saki went slack-jawed, staring at the figure and even though she kinda sorta knew already, her mind tried to put together the information she had. She knew those combat boots, she knew the bright orange hat that was softly floating to the ground right now, and she knew the familiar tattoo. ASCE. Ace was lying on the floor, clutching his bleeding nose with a feral look in his eyes. Where once a nicely solid wall had been was now a table-sized hole. On the other side of the wall, she saw Whitebeard stroll past them as if absolutely nothing strange had happened, while Marco walked besides him. Neither of them so much as spared a glance their way.

Ace unsteadily picked himself up from the ground, and turned towards them. His eyes didn’t meet hers as he bowed low to them, but she thought he looked dazed as he picked up his hat and placed it on his head.

“I apologize for the inconvenience!” His blood dripped to the ground, overflowing from the hand he clutched to his nose. Turning, he also addressed the other half of the room: “I apologize!” He stumbled a bit as he turned, bowing again. “I’m sorry! Please continue!” This last one he’d directed at the hole in the wall.

He straightened, hoisted the table up on his shoulder with his free hand and unsteadily wobbled outside, this time using the door instead of the newly created hole.

Saki stared after him, trying to comprehend what had just happened. Had he…? Did he seriously just…?! Surely he hadn’t attacked Whitebeard in the middle of the day on his own freaking ship?!

“Huh,” Thatch uttered, watching Ace unsteadily squeeze through the door with the table still firm in his grip. It took several attempts. “Looks like you were right. He’s dumb of brain but kind of heart.”

Saki cast a glance at Wallace, who stood rooted to the ground and looked as paralyzed as she felt. She watched his eyes suddenly widened in horror and they turned to her and the next second he was flailing and pulling on Thatch’s arm in panic. “Thatch! Quick! Help!”

The commander turned, caught sight of her and then hesuddenly seemed shocked too. He reached out to grab her hand and hold it up, then took a clean kitchen towel from the rack next to them and wrapped it around her index finger, putting pressure on. She watched him in complete puzzlement until the white cloth slowly turned red.

“Oh,” she said. She’d felt a sharp pain for a moment, but had been too distracted to pay much attention. Apparently she hadn’t stopped cutting at the same time she’d stopped thinking. She fixed her eyes on the quickly growing red stain and faintly registered somebody gagging behind her. When she looked up, her eyes met Thatch’s and he seemed a tiny bit more perturbed than he had before.

“Oh? Is that all you have to say?” he asked and shook his head.

“Well…,” she answered. “Ouch?”

“I knew it!” Wallace wailed, wringing his hands as he was nervously pacing around Saki. “Saki shouldn’t cook! Saber told me, and he was so right!”

“Are you in shock?” Thatch asked, eyeing her. “You should get that looked at. I think I saw bone. Should I carry you?” The gagging sound behind her intensified. Apparently somebody wasn’t too comfortable with blood. Or bone. Thatch already bent down to pick her up when she thumped her un-sliced hand against his shoulder.

“It’s a finger, Thatch, not my liver,” she said sardonically, finally snapping out of her daze. “The shock comes from my fucking dumbass of a captain who just came fucking flying through a fucking wall after I haven’t fucking seen him for more thantwo fucking weeks because he’s avoiding me.”

He blinked at her in surprise, not letting go of her hand all the while. “That’s a lot of cursing,” he stated.

“That’s because he’s a fucking dumbass,” she answered and stared at the hole in the wall. She’d never get him, no matter how old she grew. She might as well try to decipher a poneglyph, the chances of success were probably higher. Wallace was still looking at her as if she’d been stabbed through the gut, hand on his cheeks and eyes wide in shock. She sighed.

“He’s not giving me a lot of material to defend him here,” Thatch said and gently put an arm around her shoulder, directing her towards the door. “Now let’s get you to somebody who’ll look at that finger.” Looking over his shoulder, he nodded at his crew. “Dave, stop gagging. It’s just a cut. Dario, take over while I’m gone, you know what to do.”

“You know I can’t see blood! It’s why I joined the kitchen and not the combatants!” she heard Dave gulp.

When she struggled against Thatch, he stopped and looked at her curiously. She turned to nod at Wallace. “Go get Aggie, ask him to please fix the wall. Cornelia is around somewhere here, she might be able to help with it. Also, and I’m serious, don’t tell anybody about this! Swear it!” She pointed at the bloody cloth wrapped around her finger. Wallace shifted his hands to his heart and nodded emphatically. “After you talked to Aggie, find Deuce and let him know what happened.”

“That’s really not important right now, we’ll take care of that later,” Thatch said, firmly pushing her along and she let him.

“It’s our dumbass that made the hole. We’ll fix it,” she answered firmly. As they left the kitchen, she craned her neck to see if she caught sight of Ace, but the only thing she saw was the table he had put back in its place. It had a crack along its top. A trail of blood stains led away from the kitchen. This was probably the best chance of finding him she had so far, she literally just needed to follow his bloody trail.

“Come, princess, you can worry about your dumbass later. He won’t be running away,” Thatch said and kept moving her along. Funny. She had a feeling that was all he’d been doing these last days. “Once we’ve taken care of your finger, we might think of some tasks that are safer for you. Maybe Wallace is right, maybe cooking just isn’t quite the right occupation for you.”

She’d have liked to protest, but honestly, somewhere back there was a bloody carrot and a gagging Dave and perhaps it was best if she did find alternative career options for the moment.

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Animal Crossing Fish - Explained #219

Brought to you by a marine biologist here to tell you to buy local!

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Seafood is really important. I mean, food in general is important to our lives - y'know, it keeps us alive and all that. But seafood in particular, both wild-caught and those raised in aquaculture, are so important, that for many people around the world, it is the single source of protein they rely on. Of course, many island nations come to mind, especially Japan, since we're talking about Animal Crossing. In fact, seafood is so important there, that at least half of the fish that we've covered in this fish explained (counting only the extant species, mind you) are considered important fisheries in Japan or worldwide. The dark-banded rockfish is one such fish.

The dark-banded rockfish appeared in AC Pocket Camp this past spring, from March to June 2022. That's a pretty long stay for one of these ACPC exclusives!

Now, there isn't much to say about the DBR as a fish. In Japan, it is called Mebaru, and accompanies a few seafood dishes as a smoked or cooked whole fish in a broth. The fish is caught wild *and* farmed to meet demand for these dishes. The DBR is often called the Japanese Red Seaperch as well and its scientific name is Sebastes inermis. It's part of the Scorpaenidae Family, a group of fish well known for their venomous spines and being prickly in general, like the red lionfish, zebra turkeyfish, weedy stingfish, and others that we've covered before. The family is quite diverse because venom and spikes are a great way to deter predators, especially around rocky or coral reefs where predators could be lurking in any crevice and you are generally small. The DBR is endemic to the Southwestern side of the main Japanese islands and near the Korean peninsula. They eat zooplankton for the most part.

https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/461136-Sebastes-inermis

Fisheries are my bread-and-butter. When you're a marine biologist, there are a lot of different paths you can take, and fisheries is great when you believe we can have our fish and eat them, too. About a third of what I do is promote local fish species to the people who live on the island I call home. The Northeast US is a hotbed for fisheries that basically built this region, including the Atlantic Cod, Sea Scallops, and American Lobster, among many more local favorites like Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass. There has been a huge uptick in aquaculture of oysters here as well. So, like the DBR is to Japan, these species come to our fish markets straight from the boats.

There's been a movement lately (within the last 20 or so years) to choose local, wherever possible. That includes getting local veggies and meat from local farms instead of big companies you see in the supermarket, and going to the local fish market to buy species caught in your area. Buying local does a lot of good for your community and the planet. Let me explain:

When you buy local, you're keeping that money circulating within your town, state, or region. You support small business instead of feeding giant, faceless corporations. And I don't mean to be such a liberal on main, but I actually do. Buying local is good for your local economy. When you buy a fish that is native to your area, you directly support the fisherman who caught it, the local dealer he sold it to, and your neighbor running the fish market.

Not only that, but you cut down the carbon emissions of your food. Seafood in general has a fraction of the carbon emissions that beef production does (and it's healthier for you overall). In fact, if you have local shellfish or seaweed farms in your area, those farms actually reduce carbon in the atmosphere! And, for a more obvious take, when you buy local, that food didn't travel a far by truck or plane as, say, a fish imported from another country. It might not have traveled at all if you buy straight from the dock!

Buying local means your food is fresher and thus is more nutritious and tastes better. When fish is imported, it is often frozen, thawed, frozen again, perhaps thawed again to process, and frozen yet again before it reaches your plate. All of that freezing and thawing ruins the meat.

And lastly, when you buy local, you have a better chance of knowing how it was caught, the regulations associated with that fishery, and knowing that your food was sustainably sourced, or grown in a bay you can actually visit.

This all applies to freshwater species as well. Find out what your local species are and choose them first. Easiest way to do that is hop on Google, find a fish market near you, and talk to the guy behind the counter.

And there you have it! Fascinating stuff, no?