#shiner

[onirislanding]

🚬 Steddie Beginnings Festival 🚬

Hello, friends! Shiner, a Steddie S1 AU, is at 3K hits and counting on A03! Thank you to everyone who read, kudos'ed, commented and supported!

In honor of this story of two traumatized kids falling in love in the freezing cold -- and because I'd really love to hopefully make a moment of joy in tough times for anyone who's interested -- now and for the rest of the week, this blog will be the site of a:

Steddie Beginnings Festival

What does this mean? Honestly, I'm making it up but please hit up my inbox with:

Me and Him, My Only Shine - Shiner Stuff 🚬

Hit up my inbox with requests for timestamp ficlets, missing scenes, DVD commentary and anything else from Shiner!

It Hit Hard, There Goes Time - Early Days Recs 🩷

Submit S1 fic recs, art recs and more -- childhood best friends, pre-S1 backstory, no UD! AUs where Steddie meet early on -- anything and everything before S4!

A Stranger Once in Your Life - Eddie Backstory 🤘

Our beloved Eddie Munson was. . .doing *something* for three seasons, likely in Hawkins, before he swaggered onto our screens in S4. Where was he? What was he up to? Did he suspect or know about the UD? Did he have relationships with the rest of the Hawkins crew? I'd love to see headcanons, ficlets, recs, gifs and art!

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Beautiful inspirational moodboard by @camouflagedlove! Beta and life-saving by .@dodger-chan! Dreamy podfic by beakindrewind on A03!

Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see here, and happy Beginnings!

No-pressure tags beneath the cut!

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[herpsandbirds]

Bluenose Shiners (Pteronotropis welaka), males, family Cyprinidae, Cypriniformes, in a freshwater spring in Florida, USA

photograph by Isaac Szabo

[fishenjoyer1]

Fish of the Day

Today's fish of the day is the Lahontan redside shiner! 

The Lahontan redside shiner, also known as the redside minnow, or scientific name Richardsonius egregius, is a lesser known shiner of the West. Found in and around the interior basin of Western America stretching from South Eastern Oregon, down Eastern California and throughout Nevada.  This fish once was spread through the, now dried, lake Lahontan which existed in the Pleistocene 10 million years ago. In the modern day this lake has split into various streams, lakes, and reservoirs, most of which the redside shiner thrives in. Often mistaken for the Lahontan redside shiners better known relative, the Columbia redside shiner, which shares the northern section of the Lahontan's range. These fish, despite sharing very similar bodies and coloring, can be told apart by the Lahontan shiner lacking some of the dorsal and anal rays, as well as a longer snout and thinner body. These fish live in slow pools, quiet streams, and lake margins where these fish can surface and catch drifting insects. Insects, larvae, and various crustaceans make up the diet in near entirety, with algae and other vegetation making up the remainder. This diet supports these fish to get up to 17cm maximum, although most fish will only get around 7cm, with no major difference between the sexes of fish. The behavior of the Lahontan redside shiner is social, and these fish often school together for hunting, breeding, and other schooling behaviors. 

Breeding season for these fishes happens between May-August with a high in June. This breeding season is influenced not by temperature but by the light level, with aquarists struggling to breed the shiners, as they require a slow increase of light over the year, only breeding once the sun is out for enough hours and the water is warm. This may be due to these fish spending winter submerged in deeper pools where they remain near motionless for months. During breeding season in the wild, these Lahontan redside shiners gather in groups of 20-100 fish, swarming in shallow water above gravel or sand laying eggs on the bottom. These eggs will remain stuck to these rocks from the adhesive in their coating until they hatch in a few weeks. After this, these fish will mature within a year and survive for up to 5!

That's the Lahontan redside shiner everybody! I hope you enjoyed reading about them. 

Lahontan Redside (richardsonius egregius) - species profile. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database. (n.d.). https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=647

Richardsonius Egregius summary page. (n.d.-c). https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Richardsonius-egregius

NANFA captive care: Redside Shiners (richardsonius). (n.d.). https://www.nanfa.org/captivecare/richardsonius.shtml

[flagtism]

flags for shiner/shiny, steller, vast, and wish, all of which are “object of attraction” terms for altumic, merucic attraction, evoic attraction, and dreandous attraction respectively.

meant to be used as either identifying as the term in questioning, such as a form of referential language, or for when being said term is important to one’s identity.

terms/flags by us. tagging @radiomogai and @dimensen.

[every-day-creechur]

Fieryblack Shiner Cyprinella pyrrhomelas

A minnow native to the US states of North and South Carolina. During breeding season, males' snouts turn bright red, their backs turn blue, the caudal fin is marked with a bright red and white band, and all other fins turn white. Males have been observed circling each other with fins flared in a territorial display.

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[brutalrules]

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

Hey, it's Smalleye and Sharpnose, your favorite Brazos comedy duo! Sharpnose: Hey Smalleye, you know I'm not opposed to cussing but whose idea what it to have all these dams? Smalleye: Dam, I thought it was my eyesight! Is that why I can't get to Possum Kingdom anymore, Sharpnose? Sharpnose: Dam right!

Smalleye Shiner (Notropis buccula) and Sharpnose Shiner (Notropis oxyrhynchus)

since the dams they are limited to the Brazos River, upstream of Possum Kingdom Lake* in Texas

Status: Endangered

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*yes, I specifically mentioned this lake for its awesome name, home to the Hell's Gate rock formation 🤣

[fishwolfcrow]

@iambees finished the rest of the belcher family

Mandarin Dragonet, Tripod Fish, Lionfish

Bonus Andy and Ollie as Taillight Shiners