#Fishing off the rocks

[hildeeveraert]

Harold Cazneaux, Fishing off the rocks, Waverley, 1904

#Harold Cazneaux #Fishing off the rocks #Waverley #1904

[gilmores-glorious-blog]

i love the implication that the rest of the gaang thought zuko and sokka were off on a gay little fishing trip only for them to return with sokka’s girlfriend, dad, and chit sang.

#seriously though…… what did everyone else think about the two of them going off fishing together. sounds kinda gay to me. #anyways. these 45 minutes of television have my whole heart <3 #atla #avatar the last airbender #zukka #the boiling rock #eli.posts

[maclanahan--mermaid-comics]

What if they cut their hair?

Bonus pic to give clues to the inspiration to each one of them. Can you guess?

#art #pomegranate #juniper #haircut #digital art #fantasy #mermaid #mermaids #fish and chips #monstergirl #an extra hint for juniper is asking who had hair like hers before and then cut it off like this #also rocks sunglasses

[fisheito]

Imagine you have to set up yakumo's enclosure for the next couple months. How do you set it up and what do you put in there?

oh NO.! THE PROPPHECY HAS BEenm FUFILLED

i am standing in my room, leggies rooted to the floor. i am in shock .frozen and i have no idea how to proceed. there is a perpetual pathetically sobbing serpent under my blankie.

#stares at the camera and stage whispers #i can't be responsible for another living creature. i can't. or . er. i can. but I SHOULDN'T #i'll have to suppress every violent urge in my body to keep this thing alive for several months #i CANNOT fling him out the window. i WILL NOT grab his entire face and squeeze. I SHALL NOT chew on his tail. #now i'm reminded of that post where it's a pretty princess cage on the floor and comments go [that aint big enough for a dog] #and OP is all [it's not FOR a dog 😀] #yeah. that's me right now imagining a full grown yakumo in a cage by my bedside #SO FOR EASE OF MY IMAGINATION AND TO increase yaku's chance of surviving these next months #i'm going to try real hard to imagine him exclusively in pocket snake form (scrunches up my face in valiant effort) #his enclosure (crib?!?!) is flanked on all sides by eiden plushies #since yaku is an adult there is a smaller chance of him suffocating on eiden in his sleep. wait. actually #arranges the eiden walls to give some pockets of air. i don't trust him. he WILL suffocate on eiden given the opportunity #he gets one of those tiny dollhouse cooking sets for enrichment LOL #or i'll give him a bunch of those make-your-own gummy kits with elaborate setups and tiny egg gummies #crying yaku is the excuse i need to finally get a humidifier #i can survive not misting myself.. usually... but yaku will cry himself into dehydration. it's misting time #he gets an entire alcove closed off in the corner with his basic needs met. i cannot perceive #he can lurk in privacy as much as he wants. there are at least TWO hot rocks in there with garukaru's faces painted on em #there is a duplicate open-space alcove next to it for when he actually wants something from me LOL #is he a free range snake? can i take him to a bunch of restaurants and shove food into my sleeve for him? he wants to sample the delights.. #tempted to put a bell on him just so if he gets loose in the basement i'll know to fish him out #but he's pretty cautious... he won't get into any fatal situations in the house right? ...does he know how to swim?! #at least one day is reserved for testing yaku's swimming capabilities. #he is going into the bathtub while it has a film of water. gonna test his traction. i hope i won't get panic-strangled #asks

[fighting-naturalist]

"Careful, the last man who insulted me had to fish pieces of his tongue out of a garbage disposal." ... "I'm kidding!"

#i want to capture victor under a glass and study him like a bug #burn notice #s2 #ep6 #2.6 #bad blood #victor stecker-epps #michael shanks #***edits #the PERFECT role for him. absolutely gorgeous man who is off the shits insane. we love to see it #victor is the sort of dude you fish out of the dumpster BEHIND the club and your friends tell you not to take home #like yeah he'll rock your shit with something wild and incredible #but you'll wake up the next morning and half your shit will be missing and your apartment will stink of terrible cologne and mai tais #you're left airing out your place and wondering why he stole your microwave

[sapinelle]

I met with people to sell something on Facebook marketplace and the husband was the most infuriating person I’ve ever met, treating me like I was a crook. His wife looked grey and deflated. I can’t even imagine what her life is like

#sapinelle’s journal #they were buying my fish tank on their daughter’s behalf and she was lovely #the man was talking down to me from min 1 of our encounter. #first off he blamed me for not being clear enough about our meeting place when I sent him a google pin that he didn’t bother opening #he kept asking where the tank gravel was when I was selling a full kit for a fraction of the price #of course I’m not cleaning old rocks and reselling them to you with bacteria all over them are you insane??? #and he rudely laughed saying that fish keeping was a kids hobby and looking down at me #I did not flinch once and didn’t apologize for one thing #in fact I was going to leave and tell him to shove his gravel but his wife was desperately trying to soothe him #tldr I got my money and that’s all that matters but I was this close to leaving with my fish tank and telling him to fuck off

[adelaidedrubman]

funny how wildfire john learned about jessie liking rock climbing before he learned about her liking fishing

#it was due to situational relevance he was like ‘‘UH how are you going to get out of that grave??’’ and she was like ‘‘i go rock climbing’’ #and he was like ‘‘OMG she did a personal disclosure to me im a psychological mastermind and she’s going to jerk me off any day now’’ #and well then she did. #although she was also wearing a dylan’s master bait shop shirt during that conversation so ig he impliedly learned about fishing then too. #they were cute. i miss them when i don’t just want the whole thing gone

[headstrongblake]

i’ve never done it, and i’m not entirely sure that i would because that’d be a lot of different wounds to try to account for in more modern settings. HOWEVER, i sit here and scroll through the different dynamics octavia has developed over the years of writing her and i think ; my goodness, what would ya’ll do if i was cruel to octavia & actually kept all the scars that she should have had if the 100 cared about the wounds they gave their characters from the different traumas

#im just saying #lincoln cauterized that wound on leg #the knife across her chest from emerson #stab wound AND falling off a cliff (dont tell me she didnt break something) from echo #there's so many more and i know that but man #lmfao imagine if i kept those??? #the bite on her thigh from killer fish/snake #the scar she should have on her forehead/hairline after she smashed it against the rock when she tumbled down the embankment #maybe her assassin verse. there might be a few i bring them into but idk...ITS A LOT #but it's also her character??

[bunnyb34r]

Did go to the zoo

It was fun but I almost got stuck in a ditch bc I was going downhill on a brick path and it slanted into a lovely little ditch and had to abruptly stop myself and wait for my mom to come wheel me to level ground 😑

They even had an ADA pathway! Which was up a VERY long hill that was steep as shit and full of turns. Like my mom and cousin had to switch off a couple times pushing me up hill which ngl was kinda embarrassing... oh and the other path, which we went down, basically same fucking shit just less turns 😑😑😑

And it was raining off and on all day which wasn't so bad when it was a drizzle but when you cant hold an umbrella and wheel, you end up holding the umbrella for two people and that ends up soaking your exposed legs and shoes

But it was funny to see the animals that did not like the rain hiding bc the condor was in his little hut and he was staring out like 😒 and staring at us like "what are you freaks looking at?"

And the jaguar who was under her little hide looking up at us like 🥺 "it's wet..."

We did get to see penguins (Humboldt penguins, which don't mind warmer weather! They were enjoying the day and playing), a saggy boobied gibbon mom and her itchy assed son, and vine swinging mate, HUGE lionesses up close! They were right by the glass and they're SO BIG! and an otterly adorable and very photogenic river otter who kept doing laps by the viewing window and would swim right up to the glass, turn to show his belly, turn and belly roll, turn and then come back around again, like they had this down pat! And we saw him following our fingers and so we moved to the land part to see if he'd follow and he did! Then tried to get in the zoo keeper doors and then left sggdgdgdgd

So overall I did have fun even if it was uncomfortable at times with my cousin (I'm usually a huge chatterbox when I'm with people I'm comfortable with, i was pretty quiet), and if the zoo wasnt as ada accessible as promised, and if the gift shop sucked aside from the plushies (but the staff were very nice and the one working on a display moved his cart for me when I was coming around where he was, which was nice bc I was more than happy to go back the way I had come in from)

I dont think I got many good pics bc the rain + it's hard to get pics when you're wheelchair height, but I'll check them later and see if any are worth sharing

#marquilla #so overall good for what i would have missed had i stayed home #but i dont think we'll be coming back sgdgdgdgd our zoo is much much better #they didnt even have elephants... like is it a trade off? you can have elephants or penguins? i know the Pittsburgh zoo has both #we were all a little peeved ab the ada thing sgdgdgd like we were joking that it was like that pic where it's a 'wheelchair accessible!' #sign on a flight of stairs sgdggdgd like god might as well have been that fuck #OH and there was a red panda and every fucking time id try to get a pic of this shit it would go back to sleep or look away agdgdgdggdgd #it happened like 4x it was so funny like come on man and the gibbon was hard to take pics of but the baby came up when we had made our #way up the 'accessibility' ramp and he was like !?!? bc he had just seen us below shdggdgdg then he went back to swinging #we also saw a tank that had a bunch of fish and a sign and we were like okay i see the fish and the turtle but i dont see the birds or the #stingray?? yeah the stingrays were blended in looking like rocks GAGSGDGDGD i was like oh we'd be so dead in the rainforest my god

[dragonbleps]

completionists when they have to progress the story in order to get an item to finish the area

i dont want to finish this area later, i want to finish it now!!!!

#missy rambles #is completionist the right word idk #anyway guess who spent the last 8 hours straight grinding in the beginning area to max out my vessel-- #before taking any quests outside the beginning area 😎 #im fast as fvck boi and *slaps my hull* this bad boy can withstand hitting so many rocks #missy plays dredge #im collecting all the fish like pokemon #im winning #i was so focused on collection and striking items off my to-do list and writing down points of interest #that i forgot it was a horror game #i mean the item isn't NECESSARY to finish this area but without it i'll be skipping days at a time waiting for a fish to spawn #the item would make it a shitton easier but.... #i just have one fish left from this area.................

[flamefatalis]

Spending some time with the boyos. They’re about half the size Oscar was.

#and Odin keeps scraping himself against the rock house in the tank #he gets spooked when the lights turn off and panics #so I’m going to have to take that out of the tank #that’s what those marks are on him #fish #flamey’s pets

[jupiterjunebug]

Wish i stuck w podcasting enough to write the podcast that i monologue to myself in the car sometimes so i could have THAT b my cringe hyperfixation w like 30 fans

#couldnt read fanfic of it then tho....dam #if dredge didnt autosave id hyperfixate on dredge #but i ran into a rock immediately after picking up the first quest npc of my first playthru and she fell off #and i was so annoyed abt it i restarted the game then got stuck in eel hell #which is the hell where i cant keep an eel on my ship bc whenever im fishing for eels ill catch an eel #and then the nighttime beasties will infect it #or the nighttime beasties will knock into my boat and destroy it #OR itll go straight from stale to the rot item so i cant give it to any1

[starsambrosia]

My goal is to give everyone that follows me /or even looks at my posts/ whiplash in the tags.

#heLLO PESANTS. #once again the sea calls out to me whispering sweet nothings into my ear that sound a lot like WOOOSH WOOSH WOOOSH yes i listen i wait #and slowly i become numb growing ever closer to that sweet state of empty bliss where my mind collapses in on itself #where reality bends and shapes and warps like the tides before me collapsing in around my every waking moment #while i disassociate into a world that actually loved me and the waves collide into my very being at last i am home i am amoung the dead #weaping souls of styx lf the forgotten of the sea under the sea the fish forever encased in layers of salt and rock #preserved fine beings let me rest amoung them let me weep so my salty tears may add to the ever growing toxic ocean of wich only the most #unique of crustations survive and thrive #i wish to see beyond the lids of the unknowing and forgotten beings staring up at an endless ocean never seeing the surface always watching #light beams dance far far abouve until the fractured particles leave in pinks and oranges #dropping off into an ethereal deep blue #and finally those gorgeous beams of pale moonlight drifting deeper than any sun beam can penetrate #lighting up the ocean in bioluminescent glory #take me home #country road #to the place #i belong #pinned post

[4trackcassette]

one sort of interesting discovery, in the absence of the in-group out-group dynamics of who-likes-what in high school and college and what those things represent, is that in a vacuum i do like a touch of country

#like not even stuff that's actually cool like lucinda Williams or whatever like straight up i like it i love it tim mcgraw. #fishing in the dark has been stuck in my head on and off for weeeeeks #And that awful Morgan Wallen song on the radio constantly this summer. #Though I'd say I've been more heavily listening to like. Dolly Parton from the 70s and shania twain #It's not that much of a discovery ig... I've always liked folk rock and folk etc

[ekho-ekho-ekho]

tfw you don't want to support Amazon(derogatory) for a simple purchase, so you order from a small specialty vendor instead; but then the package gets rerouted from UPS to USPS almost immediately, and neither tracking number updates for weeks; so finally you do some digging and realize that SOMEhow your street address got left out of the shipping info so this package is just going to "Apartment F" in City-State-Zipcode USA, which probably explains why it's been in limbo for two weeks; so then you have to revive your USPS account to try and reroute the package, but it's "not eligible" for vague reasons; and UPS makes you create an account before it'll let you reroute from there, only once you make the UPS account you have to make ANOTHER account within the first account before it'll let you put idk an ADDRESS? on your mail? except some kind of error keeps popping up when you enter your address during setup (the address you already gave them in the first account they made you create), and the only way to fix the error is to call a number and leave a voicemail that someone may or may not respond to; and you go to request a missing mail search with USPS, but the application page breaks unless you open it in an private window (for some fucking reason); and you've tried emailing the vendor, and you've tried messaging them on Facebook, but even though their reviews seemed okay when you initially checked (you're not an idiot, of course you checked), those must have been outdated, because this place clearly changed ownership sometime in the last year and the new owners clearly don't gaf; and your package has now been missing for three weeks; and the missing mail search hasn't found anything; and the vendor certainly isn't going to respond to a refund request; and you can't dispute the transaction through your bank until one of the two shipping services involved admits they lost your stuff; and it's not like the order was that expensive or important, but you're gonna die on this hill anyway because it's the principal of the thing goddamnit, even though you know, in your heart, you can't escape knowing, that you are going through all of this bullshit for a

GRAY

ROCK.

#personal #confusion and frustration in modern times #before anyone judges me: it's hardscape for a fish tank #like obviously you can just take a rock off the ground and clean it real good and put it in a fish tank. #but most of the community will recommend against that as you really do have to *sterilize* shit before it goes in your aquarium #...so yeah sue me I want my stupid rock.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

While researching for upcoming fish facts I ended up going down a rabbit hole on parrotfish teeth, and I need to share this information in another form than just a fish fact. This stuff is unbelievable. You know the beak of the parrotfish, right? It's formed from the fused teeth of the parrotfish, as an adaptation to have ample biting surface to scrape off and chew on coral, their main food source.

A close-up of the beak of a parrotfish. It has this honeycomb pattern which I find very cool.

Well. To constantly chew on coral, they must have some pretty hard teeth, right? And they indeed do: the teeth of the parrotfish are made up of a mineral called fluorapatite, which forms intricate, chainmail-like woven structures on a microscopic level. Fluorapatite just so happens to be the second hardest biomineral found. This stuff, the parrotfish's teeth? A square inch of the parrotfish's teeth can withstand a whopping 530 TONS OF PRESSURE!!! That's the weight of 88 ELEPHANTS on top of a single square inch!!!! That's crazy, right!!?? The only biomineral that is tougher is the teeth of chitons, that is the single tougher biological thing in the whole world!!! Not only that, but the stiffness and hardness of the teeth increases the more we get closer to the tip (as the mineral fibers get closer and closer to one another), the very tips of the teeth even surpass the chiton teeth in stiffness!!!

Here are pictures produced through a process called PIC mapping, which shows the size and orientation of crystal fibers at the tip of the teeth.

That feels like it shouldn't be right, no? You'd think that the toughest biominerals in the world would belong to, like, the skull of an animal that rams into rocks or maybe the shell of some animal, not the teeth! The teeth of chitons and parrotfish out of all animals no less! Who would've guessed that the diet of "rock animal" would make the parrotfish require some of the toughest dentition the world has ever seen, huh? That right there is one super good reason why you should never stick your finger in the mouth of one.

Every day I am blown away by how amazing fishes are....

#parrotfish #fish facts #fishfact #people need to know #biology