#whale's fall

[thalassous]

WHERE IS YOUR KID SIDE

WHERE IS YOUR JOYFULNESS

WHERE IS YOUR EMPATHY

— fast asleep.

[just-some-guy-joust]

i'm making my own propaganda for my own polls before they even go up. i have put amedeo into 3 different tournaments and he lost all of them, badly, i think it'd be really really really funny if he "won" a tournament he's not even in

[catgirl-kaiju]

undersea animals when a whale dies

[rubiscodisco]

tumblr used to be a high throughput reef ecosystem but then they banned titties and now we’re like an ecosystem in the abyssal sea floor just quietly chugging along, cycling through nutrients at a much slower rate.

then every once in a while a some huge news comes along like queendeath and it’s like a whale fall, we come crawling out of the woodwork like isopods, hagfish, and burrowing worms to feast on the memes for years

it’s been almost two years since destiel-putin-election and we still linger around those bones like limpets

[acorviart]

whalefall ceramics 🐋

tested out my various blue underglazes, some of which look very similar to each other under clear glaze

[moldspace]

extremely cool news - i'm one of the designers in meow wolf denver's first fashion show!!! this get up is based on whale falls and ocean trash, and made up of entirely secondhand materials - many of which i actually picked up as litter. super excited to get to attend the show and see this piece walk in it later this month!!!

[montereybayaquarium]

Whale, whale, whale… what do we have here? 🤔🐳

As top predators, these mighty marine mammals have a massive impact on the ocean. But what happens to a whale’s body after it dies? For most of these titans, their sunken carcass—also known as a whale fall—eventually sinks to the ocean floor, providing a formidable and fortuitous feast for deep-sea denizens for years to come.

Learn more about whale falls.

🎥: Deepest thanks to our research partner @mbari-blog for the deep-sea footage.

[eddieintheocean]

[sleepy-seal]

GIVE IT UP FOR WHALE FALL WEDNESDAY

[spineless-lobster]

I think it’s cool that whale fall is a special term for a corpse. When we see roadkill we don’t call it “skunk fall”. There is a special kind of reverence in the surge of life that occurs after the death of a whale. I wonder if deep sea creatures, hidden from the warm touch of sunlight, are honoured to be able to feast on the rotting flesh of a fallen god

[booty-uprooter]

rip herman melville you would've loved adding several chapters about whale falls to moby dick

[thalassous]

A SMILE AND A GUN, ONE EACH.

[ ID: A fully coloured, full body drawing of Kusuriuri. He is kneeling to the right with one leg folded up, and the other folded under him. He holds his left hand out to show a card with intricate symbols on it, his head is tilted to the right and betrays a small smile. The background is a rectangle smaller than him showing an eagle eye view of a bridge and a lake. END ID ]

[just-some-guy-joust]

if you vote for bloody belly comb jelly and send me an ask with proof and a character/fish i will draw a lil doodle for you. my doodles look like this:

[esspurrr]

[erzfreu]

whale fall piece is suddenly getting a lot of love which makes me happy lol. theres actually a really huge already printed version out there which i forgot to post. i think i’d probably go for the smaller option in the first pic when i get around to printing / selling them .... unless

[mcgruffthecrimedog]

Yooo new whalefall just dropped. Y'all in?