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These are the most annoying people I have ever met in my goddamn life. I'm not even allowed to quit. Goodnight.

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[The Captain grits her teeth, stands to her full height. The tips of her sunset hair glow faintly with the color of a glacial river lit from within.]

You rotten mutt of a man.

[Without another world she decks Heathcliff right in the face.]

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These are the most annoying people I have ever met in my goddamn life. I'm not even allowed to quit. Goodnight.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

Little fishy, don't you know?

Whale shall find you afterall.

You are no match for its maw,

Not like you are now, oh no.

Happily, I can show you help,

You need only distortdistortdistortdistort

Distort

D I S T O R T

What bullshit are you throwing at me? You think you can assume what my goals are?

I welcome the Whale, I welcome it's open maw. Its all encompassing eye that stares across the Waves, its awful awe-inspiring song that echoes for miles. I dream of the day I find it once again. I dream of the battle that will occur.

I will be the one to slay it. I am not afraid of it.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

well you can grab a sweeper leg from the sweeper given to Don if you need a new leg

Why the fuck would I need a new leg. My current one serves me fine.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

Yet you have shown yourself to be nothing but a mere huntsman. Why should I not treat you the way I would treat a Harpooner?

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These are the most annoying people I have ever met in my goddamn life. I'm not even allowed to quit. Goodnight.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

Opinion on prosthetics?

I've got one on my leg. What do you think my opinion is?

[She lifts up her leg and points to her whalebone prosthetic]

My leg got bitten off by that god-forsaken whale. I needed a replacement.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

Hm. Honesty. I like that.

The next time we find ourselves stopped by a tavern why don't I buy you a drink, eh?

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These are the most annoying people I have ever met in my goddamn life. I'm not even allowed to quit. Goodnight.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

*shows you a stonefish*

what kind of fish is this?

also why does my hand hurt?

Venomous.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

hi captain…!

if i may ask a kind of meaningless question, what’s your secret to keeping your hair so healthy while at sea? it looks so perfect all the time, how do you do that?

//also, to mod: omg the whale rant 😭 i can tell you read the book and i give you major props for that//

It's actually a right tangled mess. But I try to keep it as clean as I can.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

Hm. Honesty. I like that.

The next time we find ourselves stopped by a tavern why don't I buy you a drink, eh?

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These are the most annoying people I have ever met in my goddamn life. I'm not even allowed to quit. Goodnight.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

I could have sworn you N-Corp types loved your sermons.

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These are the most annoying people I have ever met in my goddamn life. I'm not even allowed to quit. Goodnight.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

I could have sworn you N-Corp types loved your sermons.

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These are the most annoying people I have ever met in my goddamn life. I'm not even allowed to quit. Goodnight.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

I decided to make myself very clear. You are free to prove me wrong.

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These are the most annoying people I have ever met in my goddamn life. I'm not even allowed to quit. Goodnight.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

Shouldn't you be giving a sermon or something?

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These are the most annoying people I have ever met in my goddamn life. I'm not even allowed to quit. Goodnight.

[the-obsessed-lcbe]

how'd the fishing session go

There are several distinctions to be made between fish and whales. While fish as an identification of animals is a poorly held together string board of vague similarities, those of the infraorder Cetacea are of the class Mammal.

Despite being fully aquatic they are warm-blooded, breathe air, and give live birth to their young.

Expanding further on the topic:

While the majority of cetaceans live in marine environments, a small number reside solely in brackish water or fresh water. Having a cosmopolitan distribution, they can be found in some rivers and all of Earth's oceans, and many species inhabit vast ranges where they migrate with the changing of the seasons.

Cetaceans are famous for their high intelligence, complex social behaviour, and the enormous size of some of the group's members. For example, the blue whale reaches a maximum confirmed length of 29.9 meters (98 feet) and a weight of 173 tonnes (190 short tons), making it the largest animal ever known to have existed.[5][6][7]

There are approximately 89[8] living species split into two parvorders: Odontoceti or toothed whales (containing porpoises, dolphins, other predatory whales like the beluga and the sperm whale, and the poorly understood beaked whales) and the filter feeding Mysticeti or baleen whales (which includes species like the blue whale, the humpback whale and the bowhead whale). Despite their highly modified bodies and carnivorous lifestyle, genetic and fossil evidence places cetaceans as nested within even-toed ungulates, most closely related to hippopotamus within the clade Whippomorpha.

Cetaceans have been extensively hunted for their meat, blubber and oil by commercial operations. Although the International Whaling Commission has agreed on putting a halt to commercial whaling, whale hunting is still going on, either under IWC quotas to assist the subsistence of Arctic native people or in the name of scientific research, although a large spectrum of non-lethal methods are now available to study marine mammals in the wild.[9] Cetaceans also face severe environmental hazards from underwater noise pollution, entanglement in abandoned ropes and nets, collisions with ships, plastic and heavy metals build-up, to accelerating climate change,[10][11] but how much they are affected varies widely from species to species, from minimally in the case of the southern bottlenose whale to the baiji (Chinese river dolphin) which is considered to be functionally extinct due to human activity.

Cetacean bodies are generally similar to those of fish, which can be attributed to their lifestyle and the habitat conditions. Their body is well-adapted to their habitat, although they share essential characteristics with other higher mammals (Eutheria).[18]

They have a streamlined shape, and their forelimbs are flippers. Almost all have a dorsal fin on their backs, but this can take on many forms, depending on the species. A few species, such as the beluga whale, lack them. Both the flipper and the fin are for stabilization and steering in the water.[citation needed]

The male genitals and the mammary glands of females are sunken into the body.[19][20] The male genitals are attached to a vestigial pelvis.[21]

The body is wrapped in a thick layer of fat, known as blubber. This provides thermal insulation and gives cetaceans their smooth, streamlined body shape. In larger species, it can reach a thickness up to one-half meter (1.6 feet).[citation needed]

Sexual dimorphism evolved in many toothed whales. Sperm whales, narwhals, many members of the beaked whale family, several species of the porpoise family, orcas, pilot whales, eastern spinner dolphins and northern right whale dolphins show this characteristic.[22] Males in these species developed external features absent in females that are advantageous in combat or display. For example, male sperm whales are up to 63% percent larger than females, and many beaked whales possess tusks used in competition among males.[22][23] Hind legs are not present in cetaceans, nor are any other external body attachments such as a pinna and hair.[24]

Whales have an elongated head, especially baleen whales, due to the wide overhanging jaw. Bowhead whale plates can be 9 metres (30 ft) long. Their nostril(s) make up the blowhole, with one in toothed whales and two in baleen whales.[25]

The nostrils are located on top of the head above the eyes so that the rest of the body can remain submerged while surfacing for air. The back of the skull is significantly shortened and deformed. By shifting the nostrils to the top of the head, the nasal passages extend perpendicularly through the skull.[26] The teeth or baleen in the upper jaw sit exclusively on the maxilla. The braincase is concentrated through the nasal passage to the front and is correspondingly higher, with individual cranial bones that overlap.[citation needed]

In toothed whales, connective tissue exists in the melon as a head buckle. This is filled with air sacs and fat that aid in buoyancy and biosonar. The sperm whale has a particularly pronounced melon; this is called the spermaceti organ and contains the eponymous spermaceti, hence the name "sperm whale". Even the long tusk of the narwhal is a vice-formed tooth. In many toothed whales, the depression in their skull is due to the formation of a large melon and multiple, asymmetric air bags.[27]

River dolphins, unlike most other cetaceans, can turn their head 90°. Most other cetaceans have fused neck vertebrae and are unable to turn their head at all.[citation needed]

The baleen of baleen whales consists of long, fibrous strands of keratin. Located in place of the teeth, it has the appearance of a huge fringe and is used to sieve the water for plankton and krill.[28]

Sperm whales have the largest brain mass of any animal on Earth, averaging 8,000 cm3 (490 in3) and 7.8 kg (17 lb) in mature males.[29] The brain to body mass ratio in some odontocetes, such as belugas and narwhals, is second only to humans.[30] In some whales, however, it is less than half that of humans: 0.9% versus 2.1%.[citation needed]

In cetaceans, evolution in the water has caused changes to the head that have modified brain shape such that the brain folds around the insula and expands more laterally than in terrestrial mammals. As a result, the cetacean prefrontal cortex (compared to that in humans) rather than frontal is laterally positioned.[31]

Brain size was previously considered a major indicator of intelligence. Since most of the brain is used for maintaining bodily functions, greater ratios of brain to body mass may increase the amount of brain mass available for cognitive tasks. Allometric analysis of the relationship between mammalian brain mass (weight) and body mass for different species of mammals shows that larger species generally have larger brains. However, this increase is not fully proportional. Typically the brain mass only increases in proportion to somewhere between the two-thirds power (or the square of the cube root) and the three-quarters power (or the cube of the fourth root) of the body mass. mbrain ∝ (mbody)k where k is between two-thirds and three-quarters. Thus if Species B is twice the size of Species A, its brain size will typically be somewhere between 60% and 70% higher.[32] Comparison of a particular animal's brain size with the expected brain size based on such an analysis provides an encephalization quotient that can be used as an indication of animal intelligence.[33]

The neocortex of many cetaceans is home to elongated spindle neurons that, prior to 2019, were known only in hominids.[34] In humans, these cells are thought to be involved in social conduct, emotions, judgment and theory of mind.[35] Cetacean spindle neurons are found in areas of the brain homologous to where they are found in humans, suggesting they perform a similar function.[36]

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