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^ embroidered a net onto the front pocket of these overalls
^ shrimp in there
Merry whales in the log of the ship Susan, kept by Reuben Russell. Nantucket Historical AssociationPublic Domain
I have some a lil mermaid doll coming in and I wanted to make her a home. This is still a WIP but I like how it's coming so far! There's gonna be a lil shell couch and a treasure chest (hope they both fit in there lol)
I realize I don't think I ever showed the finished result! (Alas the rope is preventing it from being opened rn and I'm lazy)
<33 I'm obsessed with your barnacle vest
how did you attach them? I wanna try to add them to my own clothes but unsure how to go about it (fabric glue?? turing them into studs somehow?? drilling holes nd sewing them in like buttons???)
Thank you!! (Sorry for the delayed response, my main blog got wrongfully terminated n I just now got it back lol)
I would love to offer some photo reference but I seem to have misplaced my vest atm (don't ask me how, i am just as confused lmao)
For the bigger patches of barnacles, I made literally like patches. They're glued in clusters on some denim and then sewn around the edges
For other projects with less porous material, I've used E6000 to glue the barnacles directly onto them. (These are all either leather or faux leather.)
Hot glue could also probably work too tbh
🤯 love that! cannot wait to get my hands on more barnacle clusters so that I can start adding them to EVERYTHING
Ty!! Theyre my favorite thing to accessorize with lol The reddish thing in the last pic is actually my pirate coat for renfaire! Got a ton of compliments on my barnacles lol they're mostly along the bottom but I'm like I need MORE
I'd recommend getting a mold of barnacles rather than using real ones! I haven't tried this with real barnacles, I'd be afraid of them cracking and breaking since they can be a bit brittle. (The pointier shells and shark teeth on my vest have had a few that've chipped.)
I bought molds of barnacles off of etsy! I also plan on making some molds of the real ones I have once I get silicone again.
omg pirate coat!!! outfit pics when👀 (says me the hoe who still hasn't posted my pirate getup from last year's festival)
ohhh that's a good point, I guess I always imagined them being on the more sturdy side. What do you use w the molds? resin? silicone? polymer clay?👀 (RIP to the shells and teef on your vest they're leading a valiant battle)
I use foam clay! Altho resin is also an option (the way the molds I have are shaped tho they don't have a flat bottom which makes resin difficult so I've been meaning to make a holder for em so I can make waterproof barnacles lol)
PLUS having a mold means I can make a billion of em lol (I don't live anywhere near the ocean so I don't rly have any access to real ones.)
Outfit reveal!
<33 I'm obsessed with your barnacle vest
how did you attach them? I wanna try to add them to my own clothes but unsure how to go about it (fabric glue?? turing them into studs somehow?? drilling holes nd sewing them in like buttons???)
Thank you!! (Sorry for the delayed response, my main blog got wrongfully terminated n I just now got it back lol)
I would love to offer some photo reference but I seem to have misplaced my vest atm (don't ask me how, i am just as confused lmao)
For the bigger patches of barnacles, I made literally like patches. They're glued in clusters on some denim and then sewn around the edges
For other projects with less porous material, I've used E6000 to glue the barnacles directly onto them. (These are all either leather or faux leather.)
Hot glue could also probably work too tbh
🤯 love that! cannot wait to get my hands on more barnacle clusters so that I can start adding them to EVERYTHING
Ty!! Theyre my favorite thing to accessorize with lol The reddish thing in the last pic is actually my pirate coat for renfaire! Got a ton of compliments on my barnacles lol they're mostly along the bottom but I'm like I need MORE
I'd recommend getting a mold of barnacles rather than using real ones! I haven't tried this with real barnacles, I'd be afraid of them cracking and breaking since they can be a bit brittle. (The pointier shells and shark teeth on my vest have had a few that've chipped.)
I bought molds of barnacles off of etsy! I also plan on making some molds of the real ones I have once I get silicone again.
<33 I'm obsessed with your barnacle vest
how did you attach them? I wanna try to add them to my own clothes but unsure how to go about it (fabric glue?? turing them into studs somehow?? drilling holes nd sewing them in like buttons???)
Thank you!! (Sorry for the delayed response, my main blog got wrongfully terminated n I just now got it back lol)
I would love to offer some photo reference but I seem to have misplaced my vest atm (don't ask me how, i am just as confused lmao)
For the bigger patches of barnacles, I made literally like patches. They're glued in clusters on some denim and then sewn around the edges
For other projects with less porous material, I've used E6000 to glue the barnacles directly onto them. (These are all either leather or faux leather.)
Hot glue could also probably work too tbh
A close up of the Blanket Octopus during a blackwater dive with The Three P diving club , Romblon Island, Philippines. Credit: Joseph Elayani
Bronze flute-playing mermaid statue at Soter Point, Marina Park, Ventura, California
From a travel guide: A bronze statue of a flute-playing mermaid is installed at the end of the walkway. It is a donation to the city from a Russian immigrant. A plaque in the 10 foot pedestal reads, “From Russia With Love”.
The second or middle image adorned with sunflowers is in solidarity for Ukraine.
Ocean announcement:
Just to remind you all, furry art is cannonically confirmed or at least heavily implied within the universe of Subnautica. No, I will not elaborate.
Where is it
Wheres the voice line op WHERE DO THEY IMPLY FURRY PORN IS REAL IN SUBNAUTICA
"Maybe you were off, or doodling inappropriately sea creatures."
"Those are Art!"
did goblin sharks evolve too? if they did, do they use sunglasses/sunscreen a lot because they tend to inhabit deeper seas.
I've long wanted to explore the sharks of the deep!
Yes, the goblin sharks have also developed their own culture, but unlike the euphotic sharks, they and other abyssal shark species have never left the aphotic zone. They have remained where the light never reaches, becoming guardians of the abyss. Thus, they became known as the Aphoteans.
The Aphoteans are just one of many aphotic sharks who have followed a unique adaptive path: they have developed arms, but never legs. Like the Halui, the Rayfolk, they became creatures of the eternal waters, a kind of “merfolk” of the abyssal shadows. It is believed that the reason they never emerged beyond the surface of the sea lies in the very nature of their bodies, shaped by the crushing pressure of the depths, they simply couldn't resist the absence of this invisible burden as they rose to shallower waters. Having never left the depths, the Aphoteans have also remained unchanged in one singular aspect: their gill count. While surface sharks have followed an evolutionary path that has reduced and refined their gill slits to just three, making them more efficient, the inhabitants of the abyss have remained as they were since ancient times.
For the euphotic sharks, the existence of the Aphoteans is an enigma. Almost nothing is known about their culture and civilization, except for scattered legends and ancient tales, records of ephemeral contacts over the centuries. Most knowledge about them comes from their artifacts and the ruins of their stranded citadels, pushed closer to the surface by earthquakes and submarine eruptions millennia ago.
If the modern technology of the Sharkfolk is still in its infancy for the Halui, who have never left the ocean, for the Aphoteans this kind of innovation is nothing more than a strange dream. Some believe that their civilization has remained stagnant in time, anchored in immutable traditions. But perhaps we are underestimating them.
Ancient libraries speak of long-forgotten mystical knowledge kept by the Aphoteans in the depths of the abyss. It is said that they hold secrets about the mysteries of the ocean and Mangoroa, the Cosmic Shark, and that they play a key role in the infrastructure of the hidden society of the Fathom Ones, the benevolent titans who inhabit the depths of the "Ocean Dreams", a domain not yet known.
Even though sharks have triumphed as the true guardians of the ocean, the depths still whisper unfathomable secrets ~ 🌊✨
Thanks a lot for your question, it helped me get inspired! ✨
Does it all matter in the end?
Get a print!
Reblogs are appreciated, my recent posts aren't doing too well :')
It would also be really lovely if you considered checking out my print shop and maybe buying a print! It helps out a ton, you're directly supporting me and helping me make more art by buying stuff from there :} i shall add more things soon
i invented a goth mermaid but i dont have a name for her yet
The ancient mollusk punk ferox feeding on the detritus littering the seafloor.
Florida Gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus), family Lepisosteidae, order Lepisosteiformes, Florida, USA.
photograph by Lindsie Nicole1
Have you seen this post?
You probably have. It currently has over 120,000 notes, largely because of this addition.
Of course it's going to get reblogged, this kind of unsourced factoid does numbers on here. But something about it wasn't quite right.
A bit of searching turned up the origin of the "fact".
Alright, so it's someone who posted this on reddit 4 years ago and somehow ended up in the search hits. And the post confuses the electric eel (from South America) with the electric catfish (from the Nile, which the Egyptians would have known about).
Reminder: this is an electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). It is from South America. (image from Wikipedia)
And this is an electric catfish (Malapterurus electricus). It is from the Nile and would have been familiar to the ancient Egyptians. (image from Wikipedia)
And then of course people were speculating in the notes to that post about trade routes between South America and Egypt. Excellent scholarship everyone.
At this point I was ready to call it another made-up internet fact that gets reified by people repeating it. But something was still bothering me.
An ancient Egyptian slab from 3100 BC. What could that be...
Oh.
The Narmer palette. It's the goddamn Narmer palette. (image, once again, from Wikipedia)
So where is this "angry catfish"?
It's not the Egyptian name for the electric catfish.
It's... Narmer. It's Narmer himself.
Narmer's name is written as above (detail of top middle of the palette), using the catfish (n`r) and the chisel (mr), giving N'r-mr. The chisel is associated with pain, so this reads as "painful catfish", "striking catfish", or, yes, "angry catfish" or other similar variants, although some authors have suggested that it means "Beloved of [the catfish god] Nar".
So.
Where does this leave us?
It would appear that this redditor not only confused electric eels with electric catfish, but also confused a Pharaoh's name with the name of a fish. And then it got pushed to the top search hits by a crappy search engine and shared uncritically on tumblr.
In short, "the electric eel is called angry catfish" factoid actually literacy error. Angry Catfish, who ruled upper Egypt and smote his enemies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Also the Arabic name for the electric catfish is raad (thunder) or raada (thunderer).
References
Afsaruddin, A., & Zahniser, A. H. M. (1997). Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East: studies in honor of Georg Krotkoff. Eisenbrauns.
Clayton, P. A. (2001). Chronicle of the Pharaohs. Thames & Hudson.
Godron, G. (1949). A propos du nom royal. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte, 49, 217-221.
Sperveslage, G., & Heagy, T. C. (2023). A tail's tale: Narmer, the catfish, and bovine symbolism. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 109(1), 3-319.
I'd call this net zero information except I learned quite a lot. Except what an electric eel was called before electricity was discovered.
I already posted this in previous reblogs, but here it is again! In Tupi the electric eel is called puraké, poraké, poroquê, poraquê, puraquê, or simply purá. Puraké also means deception or disguise. In Yanomami the electric eel is õrãmisiwë, shenini, or yahetipa. Sometimes the metaphor wakë rë yëre ha is used to refer to it (“the place where fire burns”). And there are others, certainly.
References
Lizot, J. (2004). Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmi. Vicariato Apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho.
Navarro, E. (2007). Dicionário Tupi Antigo A Língua Indígena Clássica Do Brasil. Global Editora.
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A true friend is seen in times of need...
Hey so do y'all understand how revolutionary this is, if this really is what the video indicates, and it probably is since the other horseshoe crab left the moment the problem was resolved.
All of those times when humans desperately tried portraying arthropods as nothing more than mindless, worthless, inferior automata are being obliterated with the power of a thousand suns (as they should) because this horseshoe crab demonstrated empathy and altruism. And the metaphorical sun is the bright little individual that is this crab.