#zombie fish

[ms-scarletwings]

So it’s like a huge thing in Dredge that sometimes you pull up these lovecraftian type of mutant fish… like, they’re rarer and more valuable, albeit fucked up variants of the normal ones you catch. Kind of like shiny Pokémon if the shinies had many eyes where they shouldn’t or clumps of parasitic, Gigeresque cysts covering their malformed bodies.

Anyway the least disturbing and MOST funny one to me that I’ve encountered so far has to be this aberrant version of blackmouth salmon

Like, I’m sorry, devs?… that’s not some unholy divergence from the course of the natural order that’s just a normal ass chinook in the spawning season. No joke, they just casually rot alive exactly like that every single generation of fish.

Heads up: under this cut gets gross

Photos of real salmon during the spawn season that turn my stomach in a way this video game can only aspire to

In case you ever wondered, this is also the reason people don’t eat post-spawn adults.

Remember kids, as much as any of us try, it’s very hard to top the worldbuilding of the greatest horror author of all- Mother Nature.

[mimaknyaz]

Zombie fishhh

[rantingrando]

Back with the pokemon + prehistoric animal fusions and this time I got Wo-Chien + Dunkleosteous so I made a zombie fish. I took inspiration from the shiny version of Wo-Chien for the red collar, I wanted to make it look like blood painting the leaves and algae.

In a different timeline this would've been a sea slug with teeth but this one looks fine too.

[tea-time-terrier]

After spawning, Pacific salmon and most Atlantic salmon rot to death.

[teathattast]

via girbaudtx

[crypticdisaster]

God,,,,the small amount of fish themed stim toys I’ve been able to find have given me,,,,so much life

[kiame-sama]

I apparently have a zombie fish. It was dead for a full 24 hours, no gill movement, upside down at the top of the tank, turned white, DEAD. I forgot to fish him out and flush him. I look in the tank this morning to see him swimming and just fine. I have renamed him Lazarus for obvious reasons.

[dragoncreator312]