#big fin

[zal-cryptid]

A bit ago, I decided to give Apalala a redesign since I was unsatisfied with his design and even name.

[lillypad-art]

I have been a bit quiet on here, but this is a big fin squid sketch that I thought I would share :) Really want to get better at line weight

[someonestolemyarm]

A lot of people have seen this beautiful boyo here and assumed its fake or Photoshoped because of how unrealistic it looks, but that is'int true. This is the big fin squid (Magnapinna pacifica), the first time we ever saw one of these precious little dudes was at the Azores in 1907 when a dead and heavily damaged specimen washed up on shore, because of how damaged the squid was we weren't able to get much information off of it, we continued to find 1 more in 1956, 2 more in the 1980's and finally in 1998 we found 1 more classified it as Magnapinna pacifica. Now that were done with all that boring stuff lets get to the fun stuff! Scientist assume that Big fin squids drag those massive tentacles across the sea floor and grab onto any living thing that touches it and drags it up to its mouth (sadly they most likely aren't strong enough to drag humans up). Fun fact: scientist aren't sure if we've seen an adult of these things yet, that means that this already 26 ft feet long squid could get even bigger!

Animal facts 1

[rapidpunches]

[dubersbutt]

Mikko Koskinnen deserves the world

3 shut outs! 3!

[retrogp]

Force India 2017 

[zonerguy]

Is anyone else excited? 

Cause Scyllia sure is!!

[signalstonoise]

A couple more additions to my rundown of my favourite songs of 2015...

Twelve years ago, Frank Turner was venting his spleen in Million Dead, doling out tongue-twisting lyrics about political and social revolution left right and centre.  The fact that he now spends most of his time playing what are to all intents and purposes (fucking fantastic) melodic rock songs seems to a bitter bone of contentment for some.  But whereas vast swathes of bands under the folk/punk banner are content to write drinking songs which glorify failure and the “fine art” of being an also-ran, Turner writes songs which invariably celebrate living life to the full - maybe it’s my own sense of positivity and optimsim colouring my opinions, maybe it’s the palpable sense of excitement that emanates from FT’s music, or maybe it’s those sublime vocal harmonies in Demons’ choruses (goddamn, I do love me some vocal harmonies), but damn near every one of his songs brings with it the cameraderie and joy of making plans with friends on a sunny afternoon; “Demons” is no different, and it’s one of his best to boot!

Around the same time that Million Dead were getting off the ground, a little known Southampton band called Howards Alias were busy recording a truly monolithic work entitled “The Answer Is Never.”  To these ears, at the age of 16, it was a game changer; an hour-plus opus that extolled the virtues of being yourself and not caving into the pressures of expecation and fashion, all set to a soundtrack that combined punk, ska, emo, indie and more than a handful of other genres and styles.  Fast-forward to present day and we find vocalist Matthew Reynolds (under his new moniker Big Fin) releasing an astounding solo album that takes the inspirational and eclectic nature of his work in Howards Alias and streamlines it into eleven tracks of hauntingly beautiful folk/pop.  “The Selfish Sun” was the first track to be released in anticipation of the album back in February, and yet the chorus’ crashing wave still gives me goosebumps.

Stream/buy Big Fin’s “Ebb and Flow” here.