ah yes they call me โNo Queueโ Jones because I post everything I reblog at once with no breaks in between and then vanish into the night for extended periods of inactivity
I bring you, sluggies. Everyone from Survivor to Watcher and Enot. After hours of work on both the designs and then the sprites, I'm so glad that they're done !! Hope ya all like em, and happy sluggin :]
This is a tribute to Peter Benchley, not the movie Jaws (1975)
The author of 'Jaws' dedicated the rest of his life to reversing the unexpected negative impact his book had on the image of sharks.
Not only were sharks supposedly killed to create props for the movie, but 'Jaws' ended up awakening a bloody sea of ignorance in people at the time, who, haunted by an irrational fear and lack of understanding about marine predators, felt motivated to take to their boats and kill thousands of great white sharks in the most feared ways.
Such as the promotion of great white shark hunting championships that targeted the biggest ones, which were mostly pregnant females who, after being displayed as a trophy, had their jaws ripped off and their bodies discarded in the garbage.
Fear spread widely to all shark species, creating a lack of sensitivity that made it convenient to exterminate entire shark populations around the world that for a long time remained invisible to people's perception.
And this has continued to resonate for a long time with the entertainment media perpetuating the portrayal of sharks as monsters, newspapers favoring sensationalism about shark incidents, governments promoting shark culls, the advance of the unregulated predatory fishing industry, scientists not being supported in their studies of marine predators, the destruction of their natural habitats and the pollution of the oceans.
For thousands of years, sharks have taken care of the health of our oceans, older than the dinosaurs or the first trees, they have gone through great mass extinctions, they have been worshipped and respected as gods and guardians by oceanic peoples and now we demonize them in our media and exterminate them by the millions every year, who is the real monster?
We are shark-eaters.
I hope you can also hear what Peter Benchley himself had to say about all this:
I finally finished this artwork! Hope you like it. At some point I will adapt it for my little Redbubble store.๐๏ธ
I reduced the quality to try to prevent them from stealing. I hope it's enough! ๐
My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.
I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think โWell, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot moreโ so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that โ10โ is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said โ6โ because I thought โWell, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.โ
do you ever think about how looks to the moon was most likely the first of her kind, about how she had to watch as her and her siblings slowly killed the earth beneath them, about how she watched the ancients grow desperate and impatient, about when she got older and unable to keep up and then how she was thrown to the side, her attonimity stripped from her and had her replacement built beside her, how she still chose to show kindness to her little brother, how she was shut out and denied again and again, how her brother cared so little that he was ready to lobotomize her to end himself, how even after everything she chose to forgive him, do you ever think about looks to the moon?????