Moin

[muffinlance]

How Zuko met Sushi (sorry if it's doubled, my phone did sth weird)

The thing was, Jee reflected, they all knew something was up. All of them. The entire crew. They just didn’t want to look an ostrich-horse in the mouth, especially since the ostrich-horse had previously been either sobbing, yelling, or trying to climb deliriously overboard because He just needed to go back, he needed to explain, father would forgive him--

All three, sometimes.

So when that all stopped, when they went three nights in a row without the watch having to draw straws on who was going to bodily restrain a feverish child from drowning...

They all knew something was up.

Jee just. Hadn’t expected it to literally be up.

“Huh,” he said, staring at the little limbs writhing in the pipe works of the mess hall’s ceiling.

“Vaguely horrifying,” said Engineer Hanako, and did not clarify which of them she meant.

The Prince of the Fire Nation, wearing silk pajamas that had probably fit him better before the fever, and with his stunning lack of depth perception on display behind his white bandages, kept edging along, one hand outstretched.

The catopus kitten kept inching further away, somehow looking even more precarious than the kid. It had probably climbed aboard near the home islands, and hadn’t been able to leave once they hit colder waters. Now it was stuck here.

Relatable.

“Has anyone seen my nephew?” asked a somewhat frazzled Prince Iroh.

This, Jee would reflect later, would be the crew’s first practice at not seeing anything at all.

[titanic-ente]

Imagine my delight to see, upon googling "octopus juvenile", that they are rather see-through aside from the spots.

Of course this is rather difficult to convey in a simple sketch, but just imagine teeny tiny glass noodle tentacles.

[thefloatingstone]

Do you ever think about Doggerland?

Like how fucked up is it that it’s just….. gone.

I tend to forget about it and then when I remember it again I’m like “Oh yeah! There’s like an entire country sized stretch of land that’s just fucking GONE.

well…. “gone”….

[thefloatingstone]

Things I have learned since making this post;

The running theory (I can’t remember if it was definitive proof or not but I try not to make concrete statements on history any more) is that what caused the sinking of Doggerland was not the slow heating up of the Earth leading to a gradual melting of ice and snow causing the rise of the ocean….

What flooded Doggerland was a massive fucking CHUNK of Norway FELL INTO THE OCEAN and it caused the largest tsunami we have physical evidence for on earth and it fucking flooded Doggerland IN ONE SINGULAR DAY with a rush of water so strong, large and powerful it literally had the force to rip people to shreds when it hit them

[kedreeva]

Doggerland on Wikipedia

[brightwanderer]

I do think about Doggerland, fairly frequently! And I feel it’s important to point out that its disappearance absolutely was because of “the slow heating up of the Earth leading to a gradual melting of ice and snow causing the rise of the ocean”. By the time of the tsunami, the land area would already have been reduced to a handful of small islands.

In general, a true tsunami (caused by displaced water) is never going to permanently submerge an area of land, because the water displacement is temporary and it will return to where it came from (causing huge damage on the way, of course). However, with islands that were already barely above sea-level, it’s definitely possible that such a huge inundation just obliterated their topsoil and left them below water level.

It’s hard to say, though, because the end of the last Ice Age was a wild time for water moving around and getting into places it shouldn’t. In particular, as the glaciers melted you’d often get huge meltwater lakes forming behind dams of ice and rubble which might then burst, suddenly dumping nearly inconceivable amounts of water all over the downstream terrain. One of these bodies of water, Lake Agassiz in North America, was so huge that it covered multiple states, and it’s thought that it drained very suddenly into the Atlantic ocean about 8000 years ago (i.e. contemporary with the flooding of Doggerland), dumping so much water into the ocean that global sea levels rose 1-2m over the course of a couple of years.

And if you’re wondering - yes, it’s theorised that this event, or the combination of the others like it, was responsible for the flood myths that exist in so many cultures. Coastal and lowland settlements around the world would have found themselves in a period of time where the sea just kept rising - not overnight, but inexorably and seemingly without any end in sight. Many, many cultures would have retreated to higher ground, only to find a few months later that the water was once more lapping at their doors.  In some ways I find that even more profoundly terrifying than the idea of a wall of water sweeping everything away.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Has everyone seen xkcd Time?

You should probably see xkcd Time

http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/mobile/

xkcd Time - at your own pace

[o-craven-canto]

That’s not the only case!

That region had tropical climate, even at the peak of the last glaciation. There could have been a thriving agricultural civilization in those bygone river valleys 10,000 years before it started all over again in the Near East, and we wouldn’t know.

[cansomebodytellmewhatsgoingon]

Oh, dude, the amount of outburst floods that happened at the end of or during the Pleistocene is OBSCENE. The Altai Floods, which created giant ripple currents like sixty feet tall. The Black Sea Deluge Hypothesis, which could explain the lack of Paleolithic sites on Turkey’s northern coast because they all drowned. The Missoula Floods. The Missoula Floods. Floods with the height of skyscrapers that would hit you like a truck going down the highway. Floods that were 50x more river flow than the Amazon and happened in an area 38x smaller. Floods that happened SO often and were SO strong that they literally created the Channeled Scablands and is partially why the area isn’t very forested because all the topsoil got scrubbed away.

And don’t even get me started on the Zanclean Flood, because WOW

[pied-piper-pluto]

Someone else might have already mentioned Some Facts About Doggerland, a piece of writing that gives me huge emotions every time I read it, but if not please enjoy!

[mumblingsage]

To fellow Doggerland fans, I also want to shout out Julia Blackburn’s Time Songs: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land.

[mumblingsage]

In honor of this post coming back around on my dashboard, here are more maps of Doggerland through the ages, from Barry Cunliffe’s Europe Between the Oceans.

[elalmadelmar]

The one that always gets me hardest is the theorized flooding of the Mediterranean. In other words, at one point the Mediterranean was much smaller and most of that basin was dry land. There’s an old series of fantasy books exploring what a civilization on the floor of what’s now the Mediterranean sea might have looked like (and being fantasy, there’s magic and psychic animals and such; being older, I can’t exactly recommend it since it’s a Product Of Its Time in some very unfortunate ways), and ending with the crisis of their whole world flooding as the last remaining fragment of the land barrier across the Strait of Gibraltar crumbles away and lets the Atlantic in.

It’s hard to know what might have been down there, since we can’t exactly do archaeology on the seafloor.

[myriadplethorae]

… since we can’t exactly do archaeology on the sea floor YET

[titanic-ente]

Archeology has been done on the sea floor, if we count tidal flats as sea floor. Though (as far as I understand it) the digging part is both very very time limited and will be undone by the sea as soon as the tide rises again.

Anyway, look up the recent research on Rungholt (drowned medieval town in the Wadden Sea) if you are interested in that kind of thing.

[titanic-ente]

Sketches of the Fox for @muffinlance 's Fox's Tongue And Kirin's Bone.

I have to confess that they have been in my sketchbook for about a year now, unposted. I drew them based on the lasting impression those chapters with the fox left on me half a year after I had read them.

[titanic-ente]

turtleduck-ghostling in the dark

for @muffinlance

[peony-pearl]

@muffinlance​ please accept this interpretation of Iroh’s wife from Cuckoo-Vipers; in a short amount of time you made her such a fun and fascinating lady!

[muffinlance]

[id: Drawing of Iroh’s new wife from Cuckoo-Vipers. She smiles, looking back over her shoulder. Her face is pleasantly plump, her makeup immaculate, her crown hair piece holding a perfect shine. The perfect image of the future Fire Lady. End id.]

THANK YOU I LOVE HER

[titanic-ente]

Can... can you turn your head this far back over your shoulder?

Because I can't. Just saying.

[titanic-ente]

Finished sketch from this :-).

[ID: pencil sketch of dragon on mountaintop coughing up a fireball-sun. Facial expression is giving cat spitting out hairball vibes. Fireball and wings form figure lovingly hugging the mountain. End ID]

[titanic-ente]

The goal for this sketch is a dragon on a mountaintop spitting out fire that encompasses/forms the sun (or something along these lines). His facial expression gives me cat-spitting-out-a-hairball-vibes though XD.

Thanks to this photo I noticed that the fireball-sun and the wings look like a figure giving a loving hug, so that's neat.

[titanic-ente]

Hello! I'm fanbinding Salvage and planning on fanbinding Cheating at Pai Sho. Would you be okay with it if I used some of your art in it with credit given?

I would be honored :-D

[titanic-ente]

A happy Advent (or whatever else you may be celebrating at the moment <3) with lineart of @muffinlance‘s catopus Sushi.

Some options for these lovely catopus ladies include, but are not limited to:

Print, colour, glue onto your gift card and fill the sign with some words that may comprise, but are not limited to: Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, Thank You For Your Attention; or any other variety of nice messages.

[This post’s images claim to be comprised of:

1. A lineart drawn to depict a hybrid between a cat and an octopus (also referred to herein as “catopus”). Wherein the catopus holds up an empty sign. So that the sign can be filled with a variety of symbols according to the user’s determination.

2. The linart of claim 1 wherein the catopus is wearing a christmas hat.]

[titanic-ente]

Finally finished colouring this :D

[ID: The Sea Snake Lionfish from Li's Friends, coloured with broad stripes of black and orange-ish red, the black stripes subdivided by smaller yellow stripes and the red stripes by white ones. This venomous friend was coloured mostly with watercolour brush pens, often layered for shading in a criss-crossing way to suggest scales. End ID]

This was also an experiment in trying to utilise that you can't evenly fill out larger areas using these pens. I am quite happy with the results ☺️.

[titanic-ente]

The Ghost Seahorse in all it's glory.

From Li's Friends - Horrible Pets to Protect You From the Horrible World

Em.... How big are these exactly again?

[titanic-ente]

One coloured oyster snake, from Li's Book of Friends, with love.

[titanic-ente]

a muffinlacelance for @muffinlance <3

[titanic-ente]

I'm alive!

Have a sketch of one gnarly older dragon (I have headcanon's for the developmental stages of the horns!).

I have no idea if any living beings lips can actually snarl-growl move like that, but I had already drawn her with that nasty nose wrinkling expression (totally not inspired by a nasty bullying mare I know), when I decided she also needed to show some teeth in the corner of her mouth.

The last months my very low creative energy was mostly put into a bit of sewing and some silly short poems, further adding to my list of unfinished projects instead of reducing it, but God knows I can't resists drawing dragons for long.

PS: You know what would greatly inspire me to turn this into a proper painting? Interesting colour suggestions.

PPS: I have also coloured a bunch of pages of a certain colouring book, anyone want to see that?

[titanic-ente]

[ID: Two photos. The head of a cat made of snow, with orange pebbles as eyes, a dirt smudged nose and lavender sprigs as whiskers lays at the base of a rosemary bush. The second photo shows the same snowcat head, but this time from farther away so you can see the entirety of the snowy rosemary bush spreading its thirty plus twig-tentacles in a half circle with a six snowcatopodae head radius. End ID]

Ever walked through your garden and went: "Huh, when did this plant grow so big many tentacles?"

(What if Sushi's tentacles grew tentacles?)

[titanic-ente]

[ID: A watercolour painting of cactus in a plant pot. They have big enthusiastically sparkling eyes, their mouth open in a shy smile-shout. 'Hi!' written next to their head. They also have two twig stump arm thingies, one of which is holding a bunch of balloons floating on long lines over the cactus' head. There are also some burst balloons dangling from lines that weren't quite as long and one burst balloon still sticking to a spike on the cactus' head. End ID]

What is a good business for a family of cactuses? On another note anyone want to buy some balloons? Before the business goes down with puffs of helium.

[titanic-ente]

[ID: A lineart and watercolour painting of a cartoonish bonsai tree in a black pot with handles at the sides. They have a more or less flat silver green canopy, reddish brown bark on a twisting stem, two bare twig arms folded into the approximation of a martial arts stance*, a lopsided open mouth smile and two eyes, one of which is bruised. Next to their face a short text reads "HA!" and underlined under the picture it reads "Bon-sensei". End ID]

*I don't know that much about martial arts and was sketching this while deciding on the traits of my own character (so no looking stuff up).

Bon-sensei was (obviously) the teacher of someone else's ninja cactus character.