i have a nervous system, i'm nervous all the time

"and when i check the captcha box that says i'm not a robot i'm lying to myself and I'm lying to my laptop" --- dove - 21 - he/him - gay - fanfiction writer, horror enjoyer, still a dsmp fan somehow previously pyromaniacslullabye

[dovedrangeas]

illputdownmyrootswhenimdead > dovedrangeas

had to change my url due to Circumstances. many such cases

[dovedrangeas]

celebrating the birthday of the AU that's stuck in my brain forever. i'm not working on it right now but its on my mind often

i'll get back to you one day, gay people in my google docs.

[lacedspine]

a while back i made fanart of @dovedrangeas’ things that grow in the snow au and i decided to do a very messy redraw 🔥🔥‼️‼️ (og under the cut)

[dovedrangeas]

going to the birthplace of snow au maybe i will get the vibes for it again

[dovedrangeas]

i don’t know. i’m tired. i’m just so tired

[dovedrangeas]

i don’t know why I’m writing this. but there’s something on my mind that’s making me ache.

i don’t know how to cope with the fact that i no longer have a spark for snow au. i don’t know how to handle it. it was so deeply intertwined with who i was and all my thoughts and emotions, but now… i don’t feel any of that anymore. it’s not that i don’t like it anymore, or that i’m not proud of the work i did, it just feels… oddly distant.

maybe it’s because snow au as a concept and a project is so inherently connected to a specific part of my life, a part that i’m just no longer in. It’s connected to a hope and experience that i just. Don’t have anymore. i’ve gotten sicker, i had to move back in with my parents, i’ve recovered from some of the grief that motivated me. and i just have no desire to keep working on it, because i feel like i failed that part of my life anyway, so now the project that i was so proud of is just a reminder that i fucked it all up and i’m back to square one.

and like, it’s not that deep, right? at the end of the day, it’s a stupid dramatic fanfic about block game roleplay and magic and angst. it’s not that important. but it was so important to me for so long, and no longer having that drive is just. it feels wrong.

and i’m still writing dsmp fic! I still enjoy doing it! it’s still one of my biggest interests! but snow au no longer holds that importance and i don’t know to cope with the fact that i might never work on it again and i feel so empty inside about it.

it's been almost 4 years. and i don't know what i'm supposed to do.

[herpsandbirds]

Sea Toad aka Coffinfish (Chaunax suttkusi), family Chaunacidae, order Lophiiformes, photographed in the deep sea (~740 m | 2,428 ft) in the Gulf of Mexico.

There are several species of coffinfish, many do not have distinct common names.

photograph via: NOAA Ocean Exploration

[herpsandbirds]

my life has only known joy since i learned of elysia chlorotica

E X Q U I S I T E

Eastern Emerald Elysia (Elysia chlorotica), family Plakobranchidae, found along the East Coast of the United States

This creature engages in kleptoplasty, taking the chloroplasts from the algae that it eats, and using the chloroplasts for the waste products they create though photosynthesis. Its kind of a... solar powered sea slug!

These sea slugs are not nudibranch, but are in a different order of gastropods.

image via: Views of Elysia chlorotica from Martha’s Vineyard. Figure 15 of Krug et al., 2016, Zootaxa 4148:1

image via: Karen N. Pelletreau et al.   http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0097477

[herpsandbirds]

Deep Sea Comb Jelly (Duobrachium sparksae), Order Cydippida, encountered 3,910 m deep, about 40 km off the coast of Puerto Rico

Described/discovered in 2015.

photograph via: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research

See video here:

Combing the Deep: NOAA's Discovery of a New Ctenophore (youtube.com)

[herpsandbirds]

Deep Sea Octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica) mothers with eggs at a communal nursery, family Megaleledonidae, 1,558 meters (5,112 feet) deep, in Noyes Canyon, off the coast of Alaska

The baby in the video is another species.

video via: oceanexplorergov

[herpsandbirds]

hi!! im super glad i found this blog i think it might be my favorite now😭there are SO many cool creatures on here and i really appreciate that youre bringing them to light!!

i hope you dont mind if i ask this, but do you have anything on crustaceans?? theyre some of my favorite animals!

Thank you so much pudding pop. I love crustaceans too. I haven't blogged a lot of them, but here's what I've done so far.

Herps and Birds (and More) (Posts tagged crustacean) (tumblr.com)

And, here's one of my favorites, a mole crab from the west coasts of North and South America...

Pacific Sand Crab (Emerita analoga), family Hippidae, order Decapoda, Laguna Beach, CA, USA

photographs by Peter J. Bryant

Northern California, photo by Jerry Kirkhart

[herpsandbirds]

Mediterranean Slipper Lobster (Scyllarides latus), family Scyllaridae, order Decapoda, off the coast of Egypt

Though the common name of this group uses the word lobster, they are ion a totally different family from true lobsters (as are spiny lobsters, which are in their own family).

photograph by Peterkoelbl

[herpsandbirds]

dragons are real! they're just aquatic and live among the fishes, i saw some at an aquarium back when i was on vacation :]

(you know what i'm talking about right i'm not trying to request false creature i just think its cool)

Yes, yes, there are 3 species of sea dragons...

Leafy Seadragon (Phycodurus eques), family Syngnathidae, order Syngnathiformes, found off the Southern and Western coasts of Australia

photographs by Dave Fleetham & James Rosendale

Common Seadragon or Weedy Seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), family Syngnathidae, order Syngnathiformes, found along the southern coast of Australia

photograph by John Sear

Ruby Seadragons (Phyllopteryx dewysea), family Syngnathidae, order Syngnathiformes, found off the coast of western Australia

photographs by Zoe Della Vedova

[herpsandbirds]

Common Guitarfish (Rhinobatos rhinobatos), family Rhinobatidae, order Rhinopristiformes, found int he North Atlantic

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

photography by Johan Fredrickson

[herpsandbirds]

Red Prowfish (Pataecus fronto), family Pataecidae, order Scorpaeniformes, found in the coastal waters of western and southern Australia

photograph by JW Turnbull

[herpsandbirds]

Two prompts:

A tiny bird (parrot or otherwise)

A tiny nudibranch

I'm open to either if you don't want to do both. 👍🏻

Well, let's go for the TINIEST BIRD!!!

Bee Hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, endemic to Cuba

This species is the smallest bird in the world, weighing in at a maximum of only 2.6 g.

photograph by Aslam Ibrahim

Various nudibranchs (order Nudibranchia)

photograph by Keita Kosoba

[herpsandbirds]

Sea Spider (Stylopallene tubirostris), male with eggs, family Callipallenidae, order Pantopoda, Tasman Sea, NSW, Australia

These creatures are not true spiders, but are in a closely related group, that are completely marine (living in the sea/salt water).

photograph by emikok

Thanks to @ruthlesslistener for the correction. The males carry the eggs!