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[mbari-blog]

Deep-sea light show brought to you by corals 🎇🪸⁠

In 2020, a team of MBARI researchers filmed bioluminescence from a variety of deep octocorals in their own habitat for the first time. The scientists worked with the pilots of the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts to equip the vehicle with an extremely light-sensitive video camera.

Since many animals only glow when disturbed, they filmed the animals while gently touching them with the ROV’s manipulator arm or a soft paintbrush. They found that many of the most common deep-sea corals can create their own light, including several groups not previously known to glow. The researchers also analyzed the animals’ DNA to look for the genes that might be creating the luminescence.

[hapalopus]

Kinda surprised how many different animals can be black and tan

[jizzardtower-deactivated2023072]

[detector-of-things]

Rat Detected!

(yes I did just steal a gimmick)

[gimmick-thief]

HEY WAIT A GOD DAMN SECOND

[gayhornythoughts]

@rat-detector

[rat-detector]

Stole it and didn’t even get it right. Thats a mouse you uncultured thief.

[willgrahamscock]

I do the opposite of gatekeeping, I’m not going to shut up until you like this thing as much as I do

[willgrahamscock]

here’s a wet pathetic man in a gifset to get you started and then I’m going to send you memes as propaganda

[destinationtoast]

gatetossing: hurling the gate at passersby and attempting to capture them, regardless of whether they wanted to pass through the gate

[ihni]

[frottinq]

beautiful drawing I saw in the women's bathroom last night at the bar

[semutamusic]

[mysticdragon3md3]

Ngl i prefer the 2016 version purple on the right.

[thedoctorknits]

in which I watch other hobbies learn about the problem of getting consistent dye lots

[agrioxoiros-deactivated20240927]

@mamoru

[mamoru]

what you have to understand is lamy dark lilac (2016, the real lamy dark lilac) still gets sold for hundreds of dollars per bottle by resellers when it originally sold for $10. and people bought it because they loved that limited edition ink so much. LDL is one of the grail inks for fountain pen ink collectors, and one of the most common reasons to mix fountain pen ink is to try to imitate it.

but the dyes used in the original lamy dark lilac are no longer even available, and it took several lamy representatives promising it was the exact same ink before anyone told the truth. and remember: THE DYES WERE NEVER AVAILABLE FROM THE START OF PRODUCTION. this is not a matter of inconsistency between batches, lamy knew that the ink would have to be completely different and they called it dark lilac anyway while several of their representatives communicated that it was the exact same ink.

people were fighting and fighting and fighting because it was obviously a different formula, it looked different, but lamy said it was the same, so the person doing the swab of the color must have been wrong, because lamy would never lie. and then when lamy admitted it was a completely different ink, there was fighting about whether or not it is wrong to call a product a re-release of the something while it is completely different. some lamy fans refuse to admit lamy can ever do anything wrong, when they do a ton of shit wrong.

there was no reason to call this ink a re-release of dark lilac other than as a cash grab for any sucker who had the gall to believe that when lamy calls something a re-release of one of the most beloved fountain pen inks of all time, that it would actually be the same ink.

I personally think that if you claim to be re-releasing one of the most famous inks in the world, it should actually be the same ink, or name it something different. lamy deep lilac. lamy new lilac. lamy green lilac because of the green sheen instead of the gold sheen lamy dark lilac became famous for. fucking, anything else

lamy is a piece of work, their quality control has been shit for years, and they make a ton of money by enshittifying their products for people who miss when they were less trash.

damn good thing the entire company just got bought out by mitsubishi pencil company.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

[daja-the-hypnokitten]

Ok, but y'all.

On *high quality* paper? The color isn't even CLOSE to the original. Like, the photo that the WSJ is using doesn't even show it off at its best. If you look at a pen retailer's review, like Goulet Pens, here, there's a really good set of photos on different paper types (because with fountain pens that makes a heck of a difference, trust me).

To pull one image from the review I linked:

Like. Can you look at that and tell me they look even CLOSE to each other? (For folk not into fountain pens, Tomoe River paper - such as this - is considered the best paper you can use)

So yeah. There's RAGE at Lamy for daring to do this to us, even though it's a function of the original pigments no longer being available.

[madlori]

TIL that there is such a thing as "beloved fountain pen inks" and I don't know why I'm even surprised. I am, in addition, delighted.

[lumipaiio]

Scraper need hopital

[crazysodomite]

Corrupt Adoptable baron meeting you in their office wearing an expensive custom fursuit. They slide you a rare dreamy adoptable as a show of power. They start talking about how they can get a custom design from any artist you can imagine while smoking a cigar and coughing loud as fuck because the smoke keeps getting trapped inside the fursuit head

[idlelizard]

salt cellar wants a taste of the food too

[herpsandbirds]

can I request a post on turacos? I’ve recently fallen in love with them (especially the red crested) and would like to see them get the appreciation they deserve ☺️

TURACOS!!!

Red-crested Turaco (Tauraco erythrolophus), family Musophagidae, order Musophagiformes, endemic to western Angola

photograph by Lisa M

White-cheeked Turaco (Menelikornis leucotis), family Musophagidae, order Musophagiformes, found in Ethiopia and Eritrea

photograph by Charles Hu

White-crested Turaco (Tauraco leucolophus), family Musophagidae, found in central and Eastern Africa

photograph by frankie.low33 

Hartlaub’s Turaco (Tauraco hartlaubi), family Musphagidae, found in Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya

photograph by @takanagaphotogallery

Purple-crested Turaco (Gallirex porphyreolophus), family Musophagidae, South Africa

Photograph by Richard Flack

Great Blue Turaco (Corythaeola cristata), family Musophagidae, Kakamega Forest, Kakamega and Nandi County, Kenya

Photograph by takanagaphotogallery

Ross’s Turaco (Tauraco rossae), family Musophagidae, Kilima Camp, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

photograph by takanagaphotogallery

Violet Turaco (Tauraco violaceus), family Musophagidae, order Musophagiformes, The Gambia

photograph by Hans Haek

[aukkenopsia]

been playing this big walk game with some friends

[bserranoart]

Detailed idea and a sketch of Torse

Been thinking about what combining the energies of zood and zern would mean for zernian design. And how torse may look if he got a makeover.

With the beauty of zood I think a lot about the ornate design of armor! So how could Torse’s body be decorated with Zernian motifs and icons of his adventures with the Wind Riders? I hid some of Maxwell in there.

Inspo:

[grimmghosts]

every business owner at my local city council meetings ever like

[xnzlian]

jalapeno doodles!

Asked my friend dzlian for permission to use one of their drawings as a reference for the teeth.

[kkoribyeol]

시시각각 다가오는 공포 2 The ever-approaching fear 2

[garaks-padded-cell]

if youre cold theyre cold let them into your house

[earthnashes]

A whole bunch of character design commissions I've finished recently! owo The first three are the KoFi versions of my character design option, and the last four are the larger, more customizable and expensive option.

I absolutely love doing character designs breh. I hoot and holler about it every time I get the chance to but MAAAAN it's just such a creative rush to me personally! I've tried to design the layout of the sheets to show off my abilities in giving each character their own unique layout as well; the color palettes and the text, specifically, I try to cater to the character and I design those too! :>

The only character here I didn't design is the female busty dragon, Priscilla. That gorgeous lass is a ref commission. uwu Aaand if you're wondering, the last two are indeed related to MLP, albeit for two different AUs. :]

But ye! Big shoutout to Kyrit, EyeApple, Sanyo2100, Chris_JDT, and WitchWay for commissioning me! ;w;