Catoblepon

I don't know what I'm doing

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[notdifferentjustdivergent]

“Ides” of April

[notdifferentjustdivergent]

Tho Boopening 2: electric boogaloo

[okcassin]

getting you getting you getting yu getting you getting yuo getting you getting u

[notdifferentjustdivergent]

“Ides” of April

[notdifferentjustdivergent]

Tho Boopening 2: electric boogaloo

[catoblepon]

Finished Swortember!

I've been forgetting to share progress but here's the whole month's work!

[catoblepon]

I've been worldbuilding online (with @worldanvil) for over 7 years and participated in many events of different types.

With all I've learned, I've written a small substack article about worldbuilding events and why you should join them. 😄

WAC: Events & Benefits

How do challenges help you grow as a worldbuilder and why you should join them.

[catoblepon]

Following the last article, I've published a second article, still talking about the worldbuilding events but focusing on the judged events, what you can get from them, and the surrounding feelings!

WAC: Join Judged Events

Winning is nice, but there's a lot more in them that should be considered and you should be prepared for.

[catoblepon]

Third post is up! Here I'm talking about how you can prepare for an event and how you could plan your time during the event itself.

WAC: Getting Ready

Joining a challenge is easy, but if you get ready for it, you'll make it easier.

[catoblepon]

Following post! Let's talk about reading other people's content and related issues and advantages to it.

WAC: Reading others

A challenge will mean there's a lot of people writing similar stuff. What's there to learn?

[catoblepon]

And the final article! Come read about Burnout, an unfortunately common occurrence in creative spaces.

WAC: Burning out

It's, unfortunately, easy to burn out in creative environments.

[catoblepon]

I've been worldbuilding online (with @worldanvil) for over 7 years and participated in many events of different types.

With all I've learned, I've written a small substack article about worldbuilding events and why you should join them. 😄

WAC: Events & Benefits

How do challenges help you grow as a worldbuilder and why you should join them.

[catoblepon]

Following the last article, I've published a second article, still talking about the worldbuilding events but focusing on the judged events, what you can get from them, and the surrounding feelings!

WAC: Join Judged Events

Winning is nice, but there's a lot more in them that should be considered and you should be prepared for.

[catoblepon]

Third post is up! Here I'm talking about how you can prepare for an event and how you could plan your time during the event itself.

WAC: Getting Ready

Joining a challenge is easy, but if you get ready for it, you'll make it easier.

[catoblepon]

Following post! Let's talk about reading other people's content and related issues and advantages to it.

WAC: Reading others

A challenge will mean there's a lot of people writing similar stuff. What's there to learn?

[catoblepon]

I've been worldbuilding online (with @worldanvil) for over 7 years and participated in many events of different types.

With all I've learned, I've written a small substack article about worldbuilding events and why you should join them. 😄

WAC: Events & Benefits

How do challenges help you grow as a worldbuilder and why you should join them.

[catoblepon]

Following the last article, I've published a second article, still talking about the worldbuilding events but focusing on the judged events, what you can get from them, and the surrounding feelings!

WAC: Join Judged Events

Winning is nice, but there's a lot more in them that should be considered and you should be prepared for.

[catoblepon]

Third post is up! Here I'm talking about how you can prepare for an event and how you could plan your time during the event itself.

WAC: Getting Ready

Joining a challenge is easy, but if you get ready for it, you'll make it easier.

[catoblepon]

Swortember! I've been participating in swordtember even tho I keep forgetting to share it over here... So here are the first 12 swords!

[catoblepon]

I've been worldbuilding online (with @worldanvil) for over 7 years and participated in many events of different types.

With all I've learned, I've written a small substack article about worldbuilding events and why you should join them. 😄

WAC: Events & Benefits

How do challenges help you grow as a worldbuilder and why you should join them.

[catoblepon]

Following the last article, I've published a second article, still talking about the worldbuilding events but focusing on the judged events, what you can get from them, and the surrounding feelings!

WAC: Join Judged Events

Winning is nice, but there's a lot more in them that should be considered and you should be prepared for.

[catoblepon]

I've been worldbuilding online (with @worldanvil) for over 7 years and participated in many events of different types.

With all I've learned, I've written a small substack article about worldbuilding events and why you should join them. 😄

WAC: Events & Benefits

How do challenges help you grow as a worldbuilder and why you should join them.

[catoblepon]

I was doing a bit of art exercises the other day and I'm quite happy with this landscape 😍 (It's the first time I did a landscape exercise)

The image is broken in three parts: a lineart of the reference, the image reference of the landscape, and a lineart + colour practice of the reference.

[catoblepon]

And the last giant, slug. He's a bit of an anti-social one and others don't really approach him either, so he's a bit lonely.

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/shattered/a/slug

[catoblepon]

When it rains or during night-time, this giant stretches his fins and spines and looks like a goofball. He once got a floating island stuck in his body!

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/shattered/a/lionfish

[catoblepon]

Whale is a loved giant in Shattered for her beautiful voice that makes the rainy days feel better.

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/shattered/a/whale

[tjtrewin]

Back on my pixel art practise for my new heroic fantasy worldbuilding project, Journals of Yesteryear 🙌🥰

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