TEAM AQUA

The sea is everything! Its importance is paramount! PRESERVE OCEAN LIFE!!!

[team-aqua-sea]

POKÉMON SPOTLIGHT #2: MONK SEALS

MONK SEALS

The post for today is about the critically endangered monk seals. Monk seals are the most endangered pinnipeds with around 815-997 Mediterranean monk seals left, and about 1400 Hawaiian monk seals left.

WHAT IS THEIR SCIENTIFIC NAME?: Monachus monachus (Mediterranean) Monachus schauinslandi (Hawaiian)

WHERE CAN I FIND THEM?: Mediterranean: in the sea near Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, Albania, and Türkiye, as well as the North Atlantic Ocean. Hawaiian: Mostly around the northwestern islands, with a small amount of them found near the main islands.

AVERAGE SIZE?: 2.4 metres long

MAIN THREAT: Mediterranean: Destruction of habitat, pollution, habitat deterioration, deliberate abuse by humans, bycatch, and entanglement. Hawaiian: disturbance from fisheries, deliberate abuse by humans, pollution. (causes toxoplasmosis.)

Toxoplasmosis: infection from a parasite (toxoplasma gondii)

MAIN DIET?: These guys are also GENERALISTS! They eat a wide variety of foods depending on the availability. Common fish, squids, octopi, eels, and crustaceans. (pokémon like wishi washi, inkay, octillery, krabby)

SOCIAL LIFE?: Mediterranean monk seals are thought to be polygynous, with the males being very territorial with the females they mate with, though not much is known. Hawaiian monk seals are polygynous, and mate at any time other than autumn, and peak in April and May.

WHAT IS BEING DONE TO STOP THIS MADNESS?: Mediterranean: in the Aegean Sea, Greece has allocated a large area for the preservation of this pokémon's habitat. Hawaiian: HINWR (Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge), prohibition of lobster fishing along the northwestern islands to combat net entanglement.

CURRENT STATUS?: Mediterranean: listed as VULNERABLE by IUCN Red List of Endangered Species, fewer than 1000 individuals worldwide. Hawaiian: listed as critically endangered by the ESA and the IUCN. My main source was wikipedia and google, PLEASE DM if i was incorrect about anything ^^

Mediterranean monk seal ^^

Hawaiian monk seal ^^

[team-aqua-sea]

POKÉMON SPOTLIGHT #1: VAQUITA

VAQUITAS Todays post is about a critically endangered Pokémon: the vaquita Vaquitas are the most endangered of the cetacean in the WORLD with as few as TEN (10) LEFT in the wild! WHAT SPECIES ARE THEY?: They are a species of porpoise endemic! WHERE DO THEY LIVE?: They live up north of the Gulf of California, which is in Baja California, Mexico! HOW BIG IS THE CREATURE?: The females are max 150cm (4'9 ft) while the males are 140cm (4'6 ft) in body length, making them the smallest living cetaceans! WHAT IS THEIR MAIN THREAT?: Their main threat is being caught in gillnets from the (ILLEGAL!) totoaba (a different pokémon) fishery! WHAT DO THEY EAT?: They are GENERALISTS! Meaning they can survive in a variety of environments and can eat various things, but they mainly feast on demersal (ground) fish, crabs, and squids! HOW ARE THEIR SOCIAL LIVES?: They are usually seen in pairs, most of the time with a calf, but have also been seen in small groups with up to ten (10). WHAT IS THEIR LIFE EXPECTANCY?: They can live up to twenty(20) years!

HOW DO THEY REPRODUCE?: The way they reproduce is actually also one of the reasons their numbers are dying off. See, they have a synchronous reproductive cycle (meaning they have a mating season). Their pregnancies last around 10 to 11 months, so a little longer than humans, and the calfs are nursed for roughly 7 months before becoming independant from the mother. They only give birth about every other year in the spring time. WHAT ARE THEIR MAIN THREATS?: Vaquitas live in close proximity to the coast, thus, their habitat being altered is a reason for their low numbers. There is also the birth rate seen above, as you can probably guess, they dont do a good job at reproducing faster than the seed at which they are caught. There is also runoff from pesticides in agriculture, which they ingest, this is toxic to them. Another reason is bycatching, which i mentioned earlier, bycatch is when a pokémon is caught by accident in fishing gear like gillnets, this is not only the vaquitas biggest threat, but also the biggest threat to ALL WATER TYPE POKÉMON!! Due to their massive decline in population, the gene pool for this pokémon has decreased significantly, causing inbreeding, which can lead to them getting weaker in future generations, this is known as inbreeding depression. WHAT IS THEIR STATUS?: They are listed as critically endangered, only one level above being completely wiped out in the wild, and have been on that list since 1996. There is around ten (10) left in the wild at this moment, and none in captivity. in Mexico, it is considered a felony to remove them from their natural habitat, and gillnet fishing in this reigon is strictly prohibited, and vaquita-safe fishing equipment has been developed to allow this beautiful pokémon to break free! I used wikipedia to write this article, PLEASE REACH OUT TO ME IF I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE I WILL FIX IT!

[team-aqua-sea]

FIRST REAL POST

HEY ALL, I have created this blog for a very important reason, and i hope some people will lend an ear (or in this case, eye) to learn about MY CAUSE This accounts goal is extremely simple: preservation of ocean life and the ocean in general The sea is a crucial part of earths ecosystem and we, humans, as a species, are causing it to decay, but you all probably know that already, considering the state of coral reefs. And this blogs whole porpoise is to shine a light on habitats and creatures that need help, and they want YOU to help them, too! Even if it is small, every little helps I will have you know! However, considering most people use online spaces to ignore things like this, I will be talking about this through the lens of POKÉMON! Every day or week (depends how i feel) will have a Pokémon (real life animal) that needs your help! The focus will be on water types for the most part. Are you ready for your journey?

[kirukrono]

Really normal about this one!!!!

[purpleskelet0n]

Did I mention I love absolutenutcase

Original Comic by absolutenutcase162, dub by Cris_559_2.0 on insta.

[pansoph]

for chinese new year they get all these famous actors and comedians together and they do a lil show and one of the comedians was like “i was in a hotel in america once and there was a mouse in my room so i called reception except i forgot the english word for mouse so instead i said ‘you know tom and jerry? jerry is here’

[beefmilkthings]

jerry is here

[eruriholic]

my chinese teacher once shared this story in class about someone who went to the grocery to buy chicken, but they forgot the english word for it, so they grabbed an egg, went to the nearest sales lady and said “where’s the mother”

[cuddlyaxe-deactivated20190218]

When I was a teenager, we went to Italy for the summer holidays. We are German, neither of us speaks more than a few words of Italian. That didn’t keep my family from always referring to me when they wanted something translated because “You’re so good with languages and you took Latin”. (I told them a hundred times I couldn’t order ice cream in Latin, they ignored that.) Anyway, my dad really loved a certain cheese there, made from sheep’s milk. He knew the Italian word for ‘cheese’ – formaggio – and he knew how to say ‘please’. And he had already spotted a little shop that sold the cheese. He asked me what ‘sheep’ was in Italian, and of course, I had no idea. So he just shrugged and said “I’ll manage” and went into the shop. 5 mins later, he comes out with a little bag, obviously very pleased with himself. How did he manage it? He had gone in and said “'Baaaah’ formaggio, prego.”

I was done for the day.

[ravenpuffheadcanons]

This makes me feel better about every conversation I had in both Rome and Ghent.

[elodieunderglass]

I once lost my husband in the ruins of a French castle on a mountain, and trotted around looking for him in increasing desperation. “Have you seen my husband?” I asked some French people, having forgotten all descriptive words. “He is small, and English. His hair is the color of bread.”

I did not find my husband in this way.

In rural France it is apparently Known that one brings one’s own shopping bags to the grocery store. I was a visitor and had not been briefed and had no shopping bag. I saw that other people were able to conduct negotiations to purchase shopping bags, but I could not remember the word for “bag.”

“Can I have a box that is not a box,” I said.

The checkout lady looked extremely tired and said, “Un sac?” (A sack?)

Of course. A fucking sack. And so I did get a sack.

[kat2107]

I once was at a German-American Church youth camp for two weeks and predictably, we spoke a whole lot of English. 

When I phoned my mom during week two I tried to tell her that it was a bit cold in the sleeping bag at night. I stumbled around the word in German because for the love of god, I could remember the Germwn word for sleeping bag.

“Yeah so, it’s like a bag you sleep in at night?”

“And my mother must probably have thought I lost my mind. She just sighed and was like ‘So, a Schlafsack, yes?”

Which is LITERALLY Sleeping sac … The German word is a basically a one on one translation of the English word and I just… I failed it. At my mother tongue. BIG

[eridaniepsilon]

My former boss is Italian and she ended up working in a lab where the common language was English. She once saw an insect running through the lab and she went to tell her colleagues. She remembered it was the name of a famous English band so she barged in the office yelling there was a rolling stone in the lab…

[backonrepeat]

I’m Spanish and have been living in the UK for a while now. I recently changed jobs and moved to a new office which is lost somewhere in the Midlands’ countryside. It’s a pretty quaint location, surrounded by forest on pretty much all sides, and with nice grounds… full of pheasants. I was pretty shocked when I drove in and saw a fucking pheasant strolling across the road. Calm as you please.

That afternoon I met up with some friends and was talking about the new job, and the new office, and for the life of me I couldn’t remember the English word for pheasants. So I basically ended up bragging to my friends about “the very fancy chickens” we had outside the office.

Best thing is, everyone understood what I meant.

[eridaniepsilon]

I love those stories so much…

[acleverforgery]

Picture a Jewish American girl whose grasp of the Hebrew language comes from 10+ years of immersion in Biblical and liturgical Hebrew, not the modern language. Some words are identical, while others have significantly evolved.

She gets to Israel and is riding a bus for the very first time.

American: כמה ממון זה? (”How much money?” but in rather archaic language)

Bus Driver: שתי זוזים. (”Two zuzim” – a currency that’s been out of circulation for millenia)

[learningftw]

that’s hilarious

[shiraglassman]

I am officially screamlaughing at my desk from that last one OH MY 

[speakertoyesterday]

Does everyone know the prime minister who promised to fuck the country?

So in Biblical Hebrew the word for penis and weapon are the same. There is a verb meaning to arm, which modern Hebrew semanticly drifted into “fuck”: i.e. give someone your dick.

The minister was making a speech while a candidate, bemoning the state of the world. “The Soviet Union is fucking Egypt. Germany is fucking Syria. The Americans are fucking everyone. But who is fucking us? When I am prime minister, I will ensure we are fucked!”

[andhishorse]

What the hell Biblical Hebrew.

[moral-autism]

Just guessing: The path from something like “give someone a blade” to “give someone a blade, if you know what I mean ;)” is probably not that difficult or unlikely.

[liminalreader]

^Given that the Latin word for sheath (like, for a sword) is literally “vagina”, I can verify that this metaphor is a time-honored one. 

[liminalreader]

Oh yeah and one time my Latin professor was at this conference in Greece and his flight was canceled, so he needed to extend his hotel stay by one more night.

Except he doesn’t speak a lick of modern Greek, and the receptionist couldn’t speak English.  Or French.  Or German.  Or Italian.  (He tried all of them.)

Finally, in a fit of inspiration, he went upstairs and got his copy of Medea in the original Greek (you know, the stuff separated from modern Greek by two and a half thousand years).  He found the passage where Medea begs Jason to let her stay for one more day, went downstairs, and read it to the receptionist.

She laughed her head off, but she gave him the extra night.  

[team-aqua-sea]

^ SPECIFICALLY THE LAST REBLOG I love people like this lol

[wandering-lounge]

Nadairead on twitter has some amazing art of Pentniss content. And it convinced me to make some of my own <3

[team-aqua-sea]

does anyone know where Nadairead has gone? every trace of them, that isnt a reupload of their work, is gone. I really enjoy their style so every little helps!

[team-aqua-sea]

ok so y'all know how in my bio it says I post art? yeah dont believe its lies im SHIT when it comes to art

[daily-spooky]

[gummybyte]

i like cookies alot

[aledthebooknerd]

if you can't reblog, comment!

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[consumerofshorthomies]

I LOVE TRANSJENNERS

[kitkat-moon]

TRANSGENDER PPL R SO SWEET ISTGGGGG

[t0yfr3ddys-b1gg3stglaz3r]

FRRRRR

[sapphic-affirming-memes]

are you autistic and gay?

lesbian and autistic perhaps?

an autistic pan or bisexual?

asexual and autistic?

trans or non binary and autistic?

any autistic member of the LGBTQ+ community?

well guess what...

you're fucken great and I love you

[zikadraws]

Repost if your account is LGBTQ+ & autistic-friendly

[cipher-of-the-round-table]

For my followers

[kagefloofyboots]

fuck yeah my place is everyone friendly

[drawing-dinos82]

@darn-skipyy

[team-aqua-sea]

skibidi

[dragongirlbunny]

maybe this time picking at Textures on my skin will lead to being silky smooth

[dragongirlbunny]

bleeding

[lxcke]

THE SWIMMING PIC HAS ME SOBBING 😭😭

[marat]

i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

[marat]

Drawing challenge: draw your favorite male characters like this

[thatdemonbish]

this is exactly why i’m a huge fan of posemaniacs!

you get 3d model pose references with the option of having a male or female anatomy for each pose

they have a WIDE VARIETY of poses that you can search for using a TAG SYSTEM

(as you can see by the scroll bar in the second image there is Even More Tags)

you can select a pose you like for larger viewing and the convenience doesn’t stop!!!

you have full 360 viewing range of the pose plus zooming in and out

and what’s that? a TOOLBAR?? MENU?? THING??

Correct!

the eye button hold a very fun menu

negative space blacks out the background and fills the pose with a solid white silhouette

the “texture” refers to the skin situation of the model with the “color” and “grey” shown below

(i usually use color personally)

then there’s the option of different sized drawing grids(4 and 16 below)

idk wtf bounding box is about but it looks like this if it matters to you

“floor” toggles all shadows on the floor, “floor grid” you guessed it puts a like perspective guide grid on the floor that goes to forever, and “shadow” toggles ALL shading. there is NO lighting happening if you turn that off. NONE.

NEXT ITEM! that box thing with the line through it? flips the pose horizontally.

the little person symbol? lets you switch anatomies

camera icon? you can choose from a selection of preset camera angles PLUS an option for … idk what to call it but you can do this!

less flat right!! i’m sure there’s a word i just don’t know but this is maximum *that* so there is less *that* if you want it

the lightbulb gives you a menu like the camera one but it offers a selection of lighting styles with variable intensity

CHARMING!

and that’s not even everything this site provides!!!!!!! they have tutorials, instructional videos, lessons, all sorts of shit!!! (although they are vast majority if not all in japanese just a heads up)

AND ITS ALL FREE

DONT EVEN NEED TO SET UP AN ACCOUNT OR APPROVE OF COOKIES JUST GET IN DO YOUR THING GET OUT NO STRINGS ATTACHED

and if you don’t have ad blocker or are on mobile(like me) NOT TO WORRY

the ads are few and far between! ZERO video ads, NONE take over your screen or glitch you at all, they are of no concern i forget they’re there!

(this is not at all sponsored btw i’m just a genuine fan of this site and i’m happy to spread the good word unprompted)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[bocceclub]

wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never know….

[trickstertime]

“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”

This was in place till 1973.

[commie-cosmo]

Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy

[shofarsogood]

The stereotype of “the Irish are drunks” is English propaganda used to justify paternalism and controlling the Irish. It’s bullshit.

[mirukash]

[team-aqua-sea]

NEKOMURA ON MY DASH?? YES PLEASE.