Hi !! My name is Lunie or Aster and I use they/them and star/stars pronouns. I'm also a non-human and identify as a snow leopard, opossum, red fox, and star :3c
I'm on Tumblr to post my art, rambles, and to escape life lol.
I'm in a gajillion fandoms, but as of rn my main fandoms are Dandy's World, FNAF, TADC, SFAWTDE / DAWTDE, the furry fandom,, and Deltarune.
I yumeship w Megurine Luka!! I'm ok w sharing/doubles, just pls don't get weird about it ^^,
My favorite music artists are Deftones, Mitski, Fleshwater, Tyler the Creator, Renee Rapp, and TV Girl.
My favorite book series is The hunger Games, and my favorite movie is Mean Girls.
My special interest is marine biology!!!! pleaseplease PLEASE ask me about it... I'd love to give facts and answer questions!!
For any and all vent posts there will be trigger warning tags, but pls lmk if theres anything else I can ever do to make my blog a safer place for everyone!! ^^
Goodbye for now everyone!! I hope we see each other again soon.. ❀༉‧
Sorry for missing the last two "Fish" Fact Fridays.. as I mentioned in my parrotfish post, I haven't been doing too hot with my health recently. It's nearing the end school for me, and some old mental health issues have come up recently as well. Thanks for everyone who follows this blog and supports me <33 (educational information starts at paragraph 4).
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Today's topic is... deep sea isopods! (a general overview.)
Do any of y'all remember roly-polies? Pill bugs? Potato bugs? Whatever you call them, I'm sure we all have fond memories of either lovingly holding or running away from these guys, memories that are stained with the cedar smell of bark chips and the itch of that goddamned sequin shirt rubbing up against your stomach.
If you couldn't already tell- these guys were a staple of my childhood. Before I found my love for marine biology, I was a bug kid at heart (with roly-polies being one of my frequent jar pets). Understandably, when I discovered their oceanic relatives, it was love at first sight.
Surprisingly, a lot of the people I know seem grossed out by or downright afraid of these little- or big- buggers. "That's a face only a mother could love..." Yes. Unfortunately, I am their mother. Get out of my sight. So today I'm going to give some more information about these guys. If you know me, you know there's nothing I hate more than fear created by misinformation.
Deep sea isopods range from about the length of a credit card to the length of a toothbrush, with some larger species being the length of anything from a standard pencil to a skateboard deck or baseball bat. They are- you guessed it- deep sea dwellers (about 170 m to 2,140 m before the surface).
Despite their "freaky" appearance, they are COMPLETELY HARMLESS!! Unless you're a dead whale or plankton, of course. They mostly prey on slow moving or dead (they are scavengers, after all) creatures. Common staples in the Bathynomus diet include sponges, sea cucumbers, and all sorts of dead fish.
Hopefully now you understand a little more about these wonderful giants, and aren't freaked out about the potential of somehow encountering one of these (*cough cough*- looking at you, A).
just saw someone point out that because Rocky was in space for like- 50 or so years, when Grace was looking up at the stars as a kid, Rocky was out there. Alone, on a ship, with no one to watch him sleep.
Non-binary people can't use they/them because they're only one person. Non-binary people can't use it/its because it's dehumanizing. Non-binary people can't use neopronouns because they're too confusing. Non-binary people can't use he/him and/or she/her because that's not gender neutral. Non-binary people can't use no pronouns because that's too hard to use.
No matter what pronouns a non-binary person uses somebody will get mad at them.
I know these posts don't get a lot of likes or attention, but to the people who do read these thank you sososoo much. I love making these "fish" fact Fridays because I'm a nerd and I love doing research lol. On that topic, I'm sorry that I missed last "fish" fact Friday. I've been kinda stressed with school and mental health stuff, but I'm back on track !! Thanks for everyone who listens to me ramble <33
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Today's topic is... parrotfish!!! And how their poop makes up the sand you sunbathe on :)
If you didn't already know, parrotfish and moray eels have one recognizable feature in common. Their pharyngeal jaws!! Pharyngeal jaws are a second set of jaws contained at the back of an animal's throat. This is what parrotfish's "beaks" are!! More teeth!!!
"But- Aster, why the fuck do they have teeth??"
IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED!!!! Parrotfish use their teeth to scrape algae off of rocks and coral, removing calcium carbonate along the way. Where does all this calcium carbonate go? Back into the ocean, of course!! Most of the pristine, white, tropical sand you see on beaches is actually parrotfish poop. Now, I say parrotfish poop because it's funny, but rest assured it's not actually fecal matter. This sand is just calcium carbonate and coral bits that have passed through an animal. It doesn't contain any disease-causing bacteria or any other digested nutrients, so feel free to touch as much sand as your heart desires!
your world is dying. your husband presumably dies in space so now you're a widow and your world is still dying. then 50-ish years later your husband everyone assumed was dead pulls up in a random spaceship full of a highly volatile atmosphere with the solution to your impending apocalypse and none of the original crew from his mission and instead with a wet, blobby alien that he pack bonded with and almost died for and is now emotionally codependent on that now wont stop complaining about the temperature of the water in its enclosure. your name is adrian and you dont know how you got here
Today's topic is... squids!!!!! More specifically, their heart....s. They have three.
As you can probably imagine, jet propulsion can get exhausting, especially in freezing water!! So, evolution has solved this problem by giving our suction-cupped friends three hearts!!! In the middle of their body, there's one larger heart called the systemic heart, which is responsible for pumping blood with oxygen, and on either side of it are two smaller branchial hearts which pump blood without oxygen.
Another reason for squid's impressive cardiovascular abilities is that squid gills have small capillaries. They need three hearts because the pressure would be too much for one heart (also, their blood is blue, which I am somehow just finding out)!
The final impressive feat of these swimming cephalopods that I will be discussing today is their efficient swimming (as pictured above, lol). Because of the way the gills are placed in the squid's mantle, each time the squid propels the mantle contracts, flushing water over the gills. This means that for them, breathing and swimming can be done in one smooth motion! Way to kill two shrimp with one beak. This is one more reason why squid are such amazing swimmers!
So fun fact that won't surprise anyone who knows me: I've done this. My job had a inclusivity survey that pissed me off (they included "transgender" and "cis gender" as possible responses for "what's your gender?", alongside "male" and "female"!) but I noticed they didn't put a length limit on the gender field if you selected "other". So...
They didn't accept binary files (which is fine, my gender isn't binary) so I had to base64 encode doom, but even though it froze chrome for nearly 8 hours, I was able to paste a full copy of the Doom install disks into the form.
as a side project while waiting on chrome to unfreeze, I developed a way to encode Doom into PNG files that could safely be posted on Twitter without them being corrupted into JPEGs, as Twitter loves to do.
Anyway, the thread is here, but really all you need is this one screenshot.
