very-strange-watermelon

i have no idea how to use this website. 21/TF

[servilemonstrosity]

This is my new neighbor clark, everyone say hi clark

[sabertoothwalrus]

sometimes I think about how red is the first color in the visible light spectrum to be absorbed in ocean water

and how many deep-sea creatures evolved to be red as a stealth adaptation, making them near invisible when there’s little to no light present

and it makes me think. If there’s never any visible light present in these animals’ lifetimes, if no ROV shines a little flashlight in depths that would otherwise not have light, would these animals ever get the opportunity to actually be red? that might be a stupid question.

imagine being a little deep sea creature and having no idea you’re red until something comes along and shines a light on you except you still wouldn’t be able to tell because you’re probably colorblind. anyway. I don’t know where I was going with this post

[sabertoothwalrus]

Is color relative? Or inherent? Or both???

Like is color physiological and determined by the shape of whatever pigment cells that will always absorb certain wavelengths and reflect others?

or is color meaningless if there’s no light to absorb and reflect?

Is it completely relative because the way we percieve color is subjective, how even within our own species there are so many different kinds of ways people can observe color?

makes you think

[bogleech]

Red light doesn’t make it to the deep ocean from the sun, but that doesn’t mean red light doesn’t exist at that depth!

The stomiidae, which include the viperfish, dragonfish, and loosejaws, are one example of a deep sea animal that evolved to perceive and produce red light because it isn’t naturally present in their environment and most other organisms never hit on that adaptation. In most of this group, tiny red lights can be switched on and off throughout their skin to communicate with their own kind in secret. More threateningly, some of them have high-powered “floodlights” of pure red just beneath their eyes; almost no other deep sea fish emit actual BEAMS of light to illuminate what they’re looking at because that’d make them a shining beacon to every larger predator in the area, but since it’s red, the only risk ends up coming from their fellow red-light hunters and those remain just uncommon enough to be worth the chance. In many members of this group, most of all the loosejaws (hence the name), almost the entire skull can naturally detach from the rest of the body on specialized stalks at lightning speed so that their long, hooked jaws can grab prey in an instant, almost the same exact motion as the arm of a preying mantis:

If you were a little fish in this scenario you would see absolutely nothing but darkness around you and possibly feel pretty safe, because maybe you’ve evolved to blend in perfectly with the surrounding void and you can’t see any blue or yellow or green lights coming to get you. You have no idea that there’s been a spotlight right on you all along until its owner’s face flies off to impale you and shove you whole into its giant throat all in less than half of a second :)

[glumshoe]

I’ll never understand why anthropomorphic animal cartoons like Robin Hood and Zootopia will go to the trouble of creating character designs that are meant to be understood as “attractive” or even “sexy” to the human audience but explicitly avoid showing interspecies romances between anthropomorphic animals. Why is THAT weird but, like, trying to make rabbits recognizably sexy-coded to humans isn’t?

[glumshoe]

Sometimes, sure, but why was Maid Marian a fox in Robin Hood? There wasn’t anything particularly “foxlike” about her personality, and it would make more sense for her to be a lion. They made her a fox only because Robin was a fox and making her something else would be “weird”, but I don’t think the wolf cop or the chicken maid or the lion prince were actually meant to represent race.

[countesspetofi]

The best inter species couple is Kermit and Miss Piggy as the Cratchits in A Muppet Christmas Carol, because all their sons are frogs and all their daughters are pigs, as God clearly intended.

[glumshoe]

there are only two genders: frog and pig

[forestdwellingrat]

I’ve pointed out to my friends that the fact that Kermit and Miss Piggy’s kids are like that means either

1) they reproduce asexually and the children are clones of each parent OR

2) Kermit and Miss Piggy are members of the same sexually dimorphic species, hence the split between their male and female children

yes I have spent too long running about potential muppet biology

[glumshoe]

oh god

[sailor-lady]

Third option, when they want kids they get some fabric and make one, and hope a Hand inhabits it

[glumshoe]

Do you think there’s a ritual for inviting An Inhabiting Hand to possess the empty husk of your muppet baby?

[jenivi]

[aflowerthatbloomsinadversity]

Just wanted to show u guys that in Muppets Most Wanted, Piggy fantasizes about her and Kermit having babies and this is what they look like

So do with that what you will

[fremedon]

Recall that in The Great Muppet Caper, Kermit and Fozzie are brothers. And this was their dad (right):

[capitalism-and-analytics]

Thank you for specifying, which one of the two individuals in the picture was the dad haha

[la-pou-belle]

I, for one, think Shrek handled interspecies coupling the best. By this I am of course talking about the Dronkeys.

[kestrelsparverius]

[adrnired]

In season 3 of BoJack Horseman, we learn Diane (middle) has been impregnated by Mr. Peanutbutter (left). The fetuses are confirmed to be puppies.

[autisticexpression]

This is the worst addition to this post

[araku-validrava]

I am reminded of Treasure Planet.

In which Captain Amelia (left), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic cat, had hybrid babies with Doctor Doppler (middle), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic dog, whom also gave birth to the babies

[wizardlizardinhislair]

I always thought that in muppet movies like muppet Christmas Carol the characters are played by the muppets (so kermit is acting and playing the role of Bob rather than being him) so the kids in that film would just be other acting muppets right?

Or is that just something my brain made up?

[ridiculouslyphotogenicsinosauru]

[kingscrown666]

Last time I saw this post (YESTERDAY) it stopped at the second Eggman

[the-haiku-bot]

Last time I saw this

post (YESTERDAY) it stopped at

the second Eggman

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[astronomical-bagel]

anyone in this thread smoke weed

[susiron]

In Leo the Lion (2005) a lion and elephant have the most cursed hybrid children and I think yall should see them

(also Matt Mercer voices the villain, Maximus Elefante and I think that’s very important)

[spaceinvaydr]

[handblogfortherecentlydeceased]

[girlballs-archive]

food...water...milf penis...

[themilanobitch]

top ten disco elysium dialogue options that take me out on spot

[deanwinchesterapologist]

Sorry I started acting like a skittish horse as soon as I realized you were flirting with me it will happen again

[joysmileyay]

wait. you guys are realizing that people are flirting with you?

[antifeminism-protacos]

I could slide my dick along your lips like I was applying chapstick and you’d think it was show of good sportsmanship

[joysmileyay]

IS THAT NOT WHAT THAT IS?

[deanwinchesterapologist]

Do you guys need me to point you in the direction of the direct message feature

[joysmileyay]

I need you to direct me to the nearest man to feel up

[duviten]

I drew some of the ideas people commented on my last post

[queermasculine]

the world needs more butch4butch trans4trans eroticism, so have this sketch of some butch cowboys (feelin’ all manner of things they cannot say…)

[duviten]

storymode but instead of smallfry I get my fav salmonid as my buddy

[kiora06]

Cultural differences

[palegreenstar]

VIBE CHECK *gently presses our foreheads together*

[theoutlawstar]

[femalepope]

i am SO kind to my mutuals. sometimes i don’t block them even though they put taylor swift on my dash

[jozzmingo]

Fine I’ll bite. Friends want me to read homestuck so if I get 2k notes on this then I will. I have 3 followers who actually respond to anything I post tho so it probably won’t happen.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

:) - mod jade

[cctinsleybaxter]

How various characters in Catch-22 would respond to Yossarian asking them if they would still love him if he was a worm:

Luciana: why are you a worm?

Duckett: No

The Chaplain: I’d like to think so <3

Scheisskopf’s wife: I’ll think about it 

Clevinger: What kind of worm? (confrontational)

Dunbar: What kind of worm? (genuinely asking)

McWatt (was not asked): you could ride around in my shirt pocket :-)

Milo: Is this time-sensitive?

Wintergreen: why do you get to be a worm and i don’t

Orr: [worm emoji]

Major Major: [left on read]

Halfoat: sure.

Cathcart: What worm? Who is this? (repeated 15 times in as many minutes)

[airplaner]

This is important I had to draw it out

[veronicathegoddess]

good pets don’t argue, they smile and say thank you before accepting their punishments even if it makes them all bloody and broken because i’m doing you a favor correcting your bad behavior when it would be so easy to replace you. after all, needy whores are a dime a dozen.

[katelyn-danger]

Perhaps it's because I'm a disgusting communist but I hate philanthropists and the concept of philanthropy.

"Bill Gates distributes food to impoverished children" no, he pays people to deliver food and takes the credit.

"Princess Diana visited AIDS victims" yeah, so did all of the doctors and nurses who cared for them every day, and nobody sings *their* praises when their mom dies.

Nobody gives a fuck about the actual workers, and nobody even cares about a cause until some rich fucker takes an interest in it.