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This is so cool! Finding animal life beneath hydrothermal vents is incredible! Some of the things they found in the underwater cave systems in earth's volcanic crust include snails and tube worms. These tube worms alongside chemosynthetic bacteria, use the hydrogen sulphide in the chemical plumes from thermal vents by oxidising it to create energy and sugars to survive. How cool is that?!
I think this article also really demonstrates how important it is to conserve and protect lesser known ecosystems and species.
#protect the weird and wonderful#protect the ocean#ocean conservation#marine benthos#marine ecosystems#marine biology#aquatic ecology#aquatic creatures#ecology and conservation#marine ecology#deep sea#deep sea mining#deep sea creatures#deep sea conservation#Ocean thermal vents#tube worms#chemosynthetic bacteria#chemosynthesis
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Drawings I made for a quick rpg game on my twitter!
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Please use the MSN link box , above , to see
an extraordinary video of rare finds , including
that of an Octopus nursery
which is only one of three known nurseries in
the world .
The article is worth the read. :)
Please see the lower parts of this post also.
Enjoy ! :)
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Here's a wiki link , to learn more about them :
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May God bless His Octopus populations !
They are intelligent , playful and extremely
talented creatures that are being ruined by
cultural preferences and inhumane practices.
Humanity must treat these creatures ,
and others , with conduct becoming
of a civilized race - always.
Thank you for taking care of them ! :)
#Octopus#Sea#Sea Life#Ocean#Science#Nursery#Octopi#Deep Sea#nature#Culture#Video#photography#Life Cycle#Thermal vents#News
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I am once again asking for cis ppl to find a better compliment than how they couldn't clock me
#op#like yes I know it I know it but I literally. like. do they think I don't know?#twice in the span of a week...#I get it u think all trans men look the same and that you can always tell bc u don't understand how human sex hormones and genetics work#I don't care!!!!i look how I look!!!whatever!!!!my goal in life is not to look cis!!!y'all ain't that interesting!!!#do they think I'm that desperate for validation?#*sigh*just wish cis society could internalize that theyre literally just some guy (gender neutral) and aren't the blueprint for all gender#do I know they don't mean any harm? yes. does it make me want to roll my eyes to the bottom of the ocean floor and into a thermal vent? yes
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Tiny AU where they just have a normal baby 🥹
They name her Rosalind Elizabeth, after Franklin and Blackwell. She has a thatch of dark hair like the pelt of a mink. She has the kyanite eyes of a storm witch.
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“They look like a nice Stilton,” Mulder observes, Scully’s breasts blue-veined over skin so plump and creamy even her baggiest sweatshirts have a seductive air.
She wrinkles her nose. “You’ve been out of the game for too long,” she says. “That’s hardly complimentary. Mold, honestly.”
“I’m a fun-guy,” he says, and Rosalind turns her head to hiccup with disdain.
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Skinner holds the baby with surprising ease. “Eleven nieces and nephews,” he tells Mulder, who surveys his daughter for any sign of distress.
“This baby is especially discerning,” Mulder says. “She is highly refined.”
Skinner pokes Rosalind’s fat little frog belly.
She gurgles with appreciation, reaches for Uncle Walter’s tie.
“You can tell the difference can’t you, sweetheart,” Skinner asks warmly.
Mulder scowls as Rosalind coos in reply.
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“Fuck,” Scully hisses at her tiny daughter. “Sweet merciful Christ, we’re weaning her.”
Rosalind drools past four razor-sharp teeth, onto her mother’s bare, bitten nipple. Then she wails in disappointment, in deprivation.
Mulder pops a pacifier into her perfect rosebud mouth, watches her impossibly long lashes flutter against her cheeks like butterflies on Calimyrna figs.
The baby hums a little, settles. Sleeps.
Mulder nuzzles against the salt-caramel sweetness of her mother’s neck, his palm soothing the bleeding breast. “Sheriff Hartwell,” he murmurs into her pale throat. “I want a paternity test.”
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“No,” Rosalind says sweetly to Uncle Byers. She pats his beard with fat starfish hands. “No.”
Frohike hoots. “Well, if that isn’t her mother’s daughter!”
Byers looks mournfully at his copy of the Junior Cryptids board book. “Rosie,” he says. “S is for Sasquatch.”
Rosalind beams back with a gummy smile. “Monkey,” she burbles.
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Mulder holds her hand as she steps delicately across the grass.
Rosalind looks up at him, her hot chocolate hair a tumble of silken ringlets.
“Bye bye,” she says.
She releases his finger, staggers drunkenly towards her mother on the other side of the blanket.
“Daddy,” Rosalind observes. “Ma.”
She walks like Bambi on ice, like a coltish girl in her first high heels.
Mulder’s sinuses burn, his eyes are hot and wet as the deep-ocean thermal vents, where the most improbable life begins.
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GASP A CHANCE FOR ME TO SPECULATE RAIN CYCLES ON THE BOLING ISLES (sorry I saw the thing about fresh water and had to take this chance)
So as we all know the water and rain are boiling but WHY? Here is my reasoning. The surrounding ocean floor has a bunch of thermal vents that it heats up the water. This is backed up by Hunter in Separate Tides stating that some places have hotter water spots than others. But what about the boiling rain? Well it may actually be ACID RAIN!!! Acid rain is when stuff acidic liquids or toxic materials leech into the sky. Hydrothermal vents produce a ton of these materials and who knows what else the demon realm might have in terms of exotic and dangerous stuff. This is backed up when we see literal burning of plants, something that doesn't happen with just hot water. When it comes to fresh water we know it's needed since there's plants that die from boiling rain but others that don't. It is my hypothesis that certain resilient flora aren't just acid proof but actively purify and filter it forming a symbiotic relationship with other flora. When it comes to large bodies of water soil and cave systems can natural filter this and cause large pools. When it comes to the Knee's snow and ice that is explainable that since the cold is enough for regular rain to freeze and not acid rain since acid rain needs a much colder environment to become acid snow, over time it built up
Sorry for this long ask, but I am really into speculative biology and environments. HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY/NIGHT!
THIS WAS GENUINELY A FANTASTIC READ THANK YOU
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Turbulent Thermal Convection
In the winter, warm air rises from our floor vents or radiators, creating a complex, invisible flow in the background of our lives. Buoyancy lifts warmer air upward while cooler, denser air sinks back down. This thermal convection is everywhere: in our buildings, the ocean, the sky overhead -- even in the visible layer of our sun. (Image credit: A. Blass; research credit: D. Lohse and O. Shishkina in Physics Today)
Read the full article
#flow visualization#fluid dynamics#instability#physics#Rayleigh-Benard convection#science#thermal convection#turbulence
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Meet Flip!
Born from an egg that was shot out of a thermal vent deep under the ocean, Flip is a stranger to our world. To better understand Earth and its intriguing citizens, he devours every book he can get his “hands” on! And if he happens to learn more (ok, anything) about his mysterious origins, well that's just a tasty little bonus. Where did he come from? Why are his dreams filled with twisting spires reaching toward a blood red sky? His favorite food is carrot muffins.
#comics#cosmic puppy#art#drawing#illustration#comics on tumblr#illustrators on tumblr#character bio#cosmic puppy and friends#sara rubin
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im thinking about how cooking food is often sited as the reason humans were able to evolve the way we did with our big brains and trying to translate that to mermaids
Because obviously if mermaids have human level intelligence it makes sense that they would have some similar method of making food more nutritious/preserving it so they can spend less time looking for food and more time developing big thinky brains, right? But unless we're talking about deep sea mermaids that have access to thermal vents they have no obvious way of cooking things. The only way I can imagine being able to preserve something under water is a controlled rot/fermentation process but even then I have no idea the logisitics of it being underwater. (I haven't looked to see if there's a viable way to preserve food stuff underwater, I imagine there Would be some kind of way? possibly using bottles? but idk)
so obviously the easiest way to ensure you have enough food around is to farm it right? especially underwater, where you have things like mussels and clams. maybe some kelp to round out your diet. Like obviously the mermaids are still hunting fish and eating drown sailors, but I just think it makes sense that a staple food for them would be these easier to catch, non-moving sources of food that they could theoretically farm. I also don't know the logistics of trying to farm spawn casters in the open ocean, maybe they farm crabs or something that aren't spawn casters and have eggs.
I don't know why I have suddenly become deeply invested in mermaid agriculture, but I am. I think mermaids should be farmers dammit
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🔱 Caeruleis - Ocean Zora 🔱
Expanded my ocean zora city from 2017 >:) here's the toyhou'se page if its easier to read there! Feel free to add zora residents to this city ✨ {Zora Cybele lore courtesy of @mochamart-tm} 1.1k words 🐳
Location: Eastern Sea (East of Necluda) | Type: Republic (no monarchy), run by elected high council | Alliances: Zora's Domain, Arctic Kingdom, Yona's Domain??
Summary: Far out to sea lies a massive underwater city renown for their military superpower, awe-inspiring library, airpocketed architecture, prestigious learning institute and their colourful glowing plant-life. This city is home to a variety of species rarely found on the peninsula or in Zora's Domain, where their culture is intertwined with their guardian cybeles: Circa and Vellanora (c) @mochamart-tm. Due to ongoing tensions with the Forbidden Sea and the abundance of sea monsters, Caeruleis appointed itself the protectorate of the eastern sea {extended military notes here}. The most formidable and tactile soldiers are in this ocean. Despite the dangers, Caeruleis is safe and peaceful as it is somewhat hidden, so the city lights wouldn’t lure in sea monsters.
General Lionel is one of the members of the high council, accompanied by his adjutant (Lieutenant General) Byers.
More below about main features, culture, history and characteristics etc
🔱 Main Features 🔱
Grand Caeruleis Library: In the capital lies an awe-inspiring underwater library affiliated with their university. Philosophers, historians, artists, and scientists work and study here, passing on their knowledge to new generations of aspiring scholars. One notable zora residing here is Sea-monster Specialist Niles.
Lumini Park: Like a big, beautiful garden park but underwater, where the plantlife are colourful corals and seaweeds with many of them glowing, like in Subnautica.
Cybele Statue: (lore @mochamart-tm) In the city plaza stands a statue of the Cybele leviathans Circa and Vellanora. Due to the reappearance of the Cybeles, the citadel occasionally provides offerings and prayers to their deities to continue being blessed by their protection. The biggest celebration is the return of the large Cybele Festival that now occurs once a year on the date the Cybele Circa reappeared. It's tradition for child zoras to weave garlands for the Cybele for this day.
Valley of The Fallen: A barren seabed of staked weapons (graveyard) honoring deceased soldiers.
Floating Trade Dock: A small village on the ocean surface, above the citadel. For trading purposes.
Kelp forests / biomes: like you see in Subnautica
Twisting Tunnels: dangerous and fast currents flow through a labyrinth of tunnels. Very fun, but can give you some decent bruises if you're not careful.
Statue of Volitan: This statue is located near the city garrison, a notable commander in the ancient past
🔱 Other 🔱
Sea Above: The stars above is an endless luminescent ocean where they swim when they die.
Great navigators: More sensitive to the magnetic field, and read the stars like a compass as if their ancestors are guiding them.
Physique: Bigger lung capacity bigger/more gills and not really used to walking on land. More likely to be bioluminescent. Improved cold tolerance than land zora. (cannot withstand the arctic without cold resistance elixirs tho)
Diet: High fat thermal diet like Hearty Salmon, Mackerel, abalone etc. Also eat mussel, crustaceans and edible anemone. Consuming Lantern Fish allows them to glow in dark areas of the ocean, like Cave Fish in-game.
Stronger zora weapons: including underwater bow/harpoons.
Incubation: Their nursery for their eggs are nearby the city's hydrothermal vents (they call them Vent Springs), for the warmth and rich minerals they expel. Also where zora can rejuvenate.
Sonar communication: Other than verbal communication and signing, ocean zora have become adept at their own sonar clicks and tunes to communicate/locate eachother out of earshot. Whale/dolphin zora have greater range: they're ecolocators who can detect distant sea monsters.
Social: Many don’t speak as formal as Zora’s Domain. While being altruistic, protective, humble, food-driven and mighty, they tend to like spending time in mutual quietness (vibing). They have expressive hand/facial gestures, languidly flick their headtails and undulate/flare their fins. As there's much larger creatures than them in the open sea, they stick together and watch eachothers back, just like schools of fish. Toddler zora do infact school like fish.
seaweed-based packaging
Military headquarters: Located in the center. Only accessible through another currented tunnel network that only authorized officers know how to navigate. The magic of the tunnel will spit anyone it deems an intruder back outside the walls or into a trap room.
Wedding traditions
Piezoelectricity: electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials, in this case it's magic power in rare crystals and stones. LTG Byers channels this in his helm.
⚔️ History - story time ⚔️
Leviathan Cybeles, when there were more, were heavily worshiped in ancient times.. out of fear. Ancient Caeruleis zora had to relocate countless times from seamonsters or natural disasters, becoming cautious and territorial of large creatures that ate them, even of the cybeles, who did not. Whether it was be cybeles themselves or by corrupt zora leaders, cybeles were imprisoned as threats. The Eastern Sea is dangerous.
The cybeles were offered sacrifices, even zora sacrifices. These cybeles however did not eat them, and gained a collection of uneaten sacrifices over time. The sacrifices preferred to stay with the friendly cybeles anyway. Over time, cybeles became myth as rituals were lost. Remaining cybeles that hadn't been imprisoned yet had ventured away. The only remnants being forgotten temples, statues and ruins on the deep sea floor and in the Depths' waters. There may even be a fallen cybele lost there, who knows.
Now that Caeruleis is stronger and more fortified, current era zora became more open and curious of ancient history and myths, which led to the search and release of deities. They are revered and loved by the ocean zora once more, while also atoning for their past.
Chief Commander Volitan: Having been accused of conspiracy/treason against the corrupt leaders for wanting change, they went as a sacrifice instead of execution. Seeing the cybeles as no threat, Volitan had an idea to have their soldiers sent as sacrifices to form a secret platoon, who then overthrew the corrupt leaders with the cybele by their side.
Return of the Cybele Circa (current era): Upon Lionel touching Volitan's staked glaive that called for him in effort to stop an all out war led by former General Kahn, a series of images flashed of a similar distress just like Lionel's. And of a legendary leviathan, lost to time. The power within the glaive urged Lionel to take it as his. With Niles finding old folklore scriptures within the archives, they sought distant Shrine Priests and Priestesses of the cybeles who deciphered it to be a puzzle.
Lionel was dropped into the eye of the storm by a brave Rito to investigate. With the glaive's ancient piezoelectric stone, he had finally set her free. From then on the legend resurfaced, now being worshiped and provided offerings just like old times in exchange for her protection.
#long post#world building#zora oc#totk#botw#zora#tears of the kingdom#loz#tloz#legend of zelda#breath of the wild#caeruleis#pri posts#my ocs#pri rambles
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A combat doll wanders a frozen wasteland. It stops for a second, raises an arm straight up, and lets a massive column of flame erupt from its palm.
It's an impressive piece of engineering. Its core, powered by the rage within its soul, provides constant thermal energy to its body. This both serves as a source of power for basic operation, and a source of fuel for attacks and movement. The angrier it gets, the more bloodlusted it becomes, the brighter its fire burns.
Its design would be brilliant, if not for a critical oversight.
Over the course of countless battles, lost friends, broken promises, betrayals, the doll's fury grew too great. In battle, it's a sight to behold, an unstoppable powerhouse raining hellfire down on anything that moves, but out of battle, it constantly overheats. Now, if it doesn't periodically vent the excess heat, its core will simply melt its tungsten frame. Making matters worse is the fact that it's in a constant state of bloodlust where everything looks like a target at first glance. Its self-control was slipping, and its body was following suit.
It would be so easy to keep fighting, to destroy everything until it inevitably destroyed itself, but it knew deep down that that wasn't what it wanted. It's a weapon animated by rage, but it still has a conscience, damnit. If it started indiscriminately slaughtering, then what little good it managed to do in the world would mean nothing.
So it did the only thing it could think to, and flew south, thousands of miles, until the land turned to ocean, and then the ocean turned to nothing but ice and wind.
It hates the cold, lifeless landscapes and the isolation, but it helps with temperature regulation. It also means nobody has to get hurt. And so it continues, heading further south. It's coming upon its destination now. According to its GPS, it'll only be a couple more minutes before it reaches the East Antarctic Plateau, the coldest location on the planet. -150 Fahrenheit, and unbearably windy. Perfect.
As it reaches the plateau, it sits down and, for the first time in months, stays motionless, hoping the abominable temperature is enough to keep its core in check. If the overheating is a result of its fury, it just needs to calm down, to quell that flame in its soul. It wonders if it will ever truly be able to return to society.
After pondering that question for a while, it decides that this is a challenge like any other, and it will conquer it. That's what it does. That's all it's ever done. No matter how long it takes, it will continue to meditate and try to come to terms with everything it's seen, everything it's done, everything that's been done to it.
One day, it will stop burning.
One day, it will return.
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The other day I dreamed we found microbial life on Triton, in the ice, using ammonia not to freeze. We got to witness it live-ish as the probe very gently polished the ice away and observed the surface with its instrumentation. It was a very moving moment.
What's interesting is that I wasn't consciously aware of ammonia serving as a basis for life, and I don't remember the last time I thought about Triton... Prophetic dream??? Keep an eye out for Triton missions
First off HEY ANON IM SO SORRY I FORGOT ABOUT THIS ASK TIL NOW
Secondly, that sounds like a really cool dream!! Triton is a very interesting called shot for extraterrestrial life imo. It's VERY cold, far below the freezing point of pure nitrogen (let alone ammonia). However, it is strongly suspected to be a geologically active planetoid due to extreme tidal forces from Neptune (it orbits backwards!), and cryovolcanism has been observed on its surface which leads many to hypothesize the existence of a subsurface water ocean like many other gas giant moons (Europa, Ganymede, Enceladus, probably Dione and Rhea, etc). Given its abundance of surface nitrogen, I would not be surprised at all if that subsurface ocean had a substantial partial composition of ammonia, allowing it to stay liquid at much lower temperatures. Another thing Triton has in its favor is its density, a cool 2.1 g/cm3 - this indicates a significant portion of its internal composition (65-85%) is rocky and/or metallic!
Between the tidal-thermal energy, liquid aqueous ammonia, and relative abundance of heavier elements, it is reasonably plausible to envision life deep below the surface of Triton. But it would be pretty different to life on Earth! The best analog I can come up with are the unicellular organisms found several meters below the deep ocean floor on Earth: metabolizing at rates so slow that a single cell may live for up to a million years. These organisms would likely be completely dependent on chemical energy, though they may also exploit the heat gradients found in the environments around hydrothermal vents.
There is a hitch, though. At the moment there is some serious debate as to whether the spontaneous development of protobiotic systems (abiogenesis, for short) is even possible in subglacial ocean environments! The key point of contention is the necessity of wet/dry cycles, which can't really happen in an environment that is all water all the time! Gas bubbles around hydrothermal vents might help in this case, but there isn't enough research for a real consensus.
Regardless of whether life lurks inside Triton, I desperately hope some space agency sends a dedicated probe out there soon. We are sorely lacking on information about our ice giants and their moons!!!
#thanks anon!#hope you're still watching this blog lol I don't know who you are#spy answers asks#spy has thoughts#space#science#biology#astrobiology#speculative biology#specbio
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carefully navigating your ship over charted thermal vents and pouring boxes of pasta into the ocean so they can be boiled and the fish can enjoy them <3
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July Reading and Reviews by Maia Kobabe
I post my reviews throughout the month on Storygraph and Goodreads, and do roundups here and on patreon. Reviews below the cut.
How Far The Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
This collection of 10 essays weaves together memories and experiences of the author's real life with the rich and varied lives of sea creatures, from octopi, Chinese sturgeon, whales, sand strikers and immortal jellyfish to yeti crabs and more. My favorite part was learning about some deep sea creatures I had never heard of before, the kinds of beings that live in oases around thermal vents on the ocean floor and survive by chemo-synthesis. I loved a story about encountering a bloom of clear, gelatinous creatures known as salps flooding the water of Riis Beach, a historically queer hangout spot in New York. This book wrestles with heavy content- one essay deals with eating disorders and parental pressure to diet, another with sexual assault and blackout drinking. It's hard for me to judge the quality of these essays when my life has not been touched by these topics, but I appreciated the author's honesty and the thoughtful maritime metaphors.
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente read by Karis Campbell
I listened to this 2 hour novella all in one afternoon. It's another spooky little fairy tale from a master of the genre, but if I tell you which one it's a remix of that would spoil the surprise. This wasn't deep or as original as some of Valente's work, but her writing is so vivid with flavors, sensations, smells, colors, I was thoroughly engaged the whole time.
Cry Wolf by Charlie Adhara read by Erik Bloomquist
Human Cooper Dayton and his werewolf boyfriend Oliver Park are engaged and beginning to plan their wedding, which is stressing Cooper out- not least because his family, who he didn't talk to much for a couple years, are being very supportive and it's weirding him out. Also, the chaotic scientist who threatened to expose the werewolf community and then turned herself in to werewolf government asking for a deal is making vague threats about enemies Cooper doesn't even know about. Then a body is discovered at the DC zoo, a werewolf killed and frozen in a half transformed state- nothing that the werewolves have ever seen before. I am still very entertained by this series as a whole and glad I listened to all of them, but I did want a little more than this book delivered on mysterious enemy front. There was a conspiracy, but it wasn't as far reaching as I was lead to believe by the cliffhanger ending of book 4. However, if you are reading these books more for the spicy scenes and romantic plot line, you won't be disappointed.
Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
What an ambitious and satisfying follow up to Seraphina! This book is much longer than the first one, and adds a ton of new elements and so many twists and turns. It opens with Seraphina, court musician of Goredd, setting out on a journey to find and recruit her fellow half-dragons to the war effort. The dragon society is being torn part by civil war, and some of the dragons will be coming to south to attack human settlements soon. Seraphina finds many new friends, but also encounters her oldest enemy- a half dragon who invaded her mind and attempted to control her as a girl. I really loved the way this book expanded the world and the various societies who live in it. It did a wonderful job of maintaining the pace and rising stakes over more than 600 pages; it also has a hinted at queer/poly relationship in the ending that really delighted me. I will definitely be reading more!
Eniale & Dewiela vol 1 by Kamome Shirahama
This series was pitched to me as "Good Omens with lesbians" but sadly I wouldn't say it lives up to that claim. It's by the same author as "Witch Hat Atelier" and it is just a beautifully drawn, but it's missing an emotional core to really hold the plot together. Each chapter is essentially a standalone story about a demon and angel who have been in petty conflict for millennia; the theft of a tube of lipstick or pair of earring will set of a battle that destroys half a city. One fun element is that the leads can both magically change their outfits, as well as grow and shrink their wings, at will; the looks are all so fun.
Eniale & Dewiela vol 2 by Kamome Shirahama
This comic is more visually beautiful than it is actually interesting to read. Eniale and Dewiela fight with each other over the soul of a child with a sick mother, then over a priest who feel in love with a criminal. One chapter is set in Japan and shows a conflict in which Japanese gods and spirits prove more powerful than Christian ones. I don't really have any emotional investment in any character or any story line but I'll probably read the last book in the series anyway.
The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa read by Vico Ortiz
Mar is transmasc nonbinary, a pirate, and a magic user who can control fire and ice. On their 16th birthday, disaster strikes the ship they live and work on with their father and a crew as close as family-a storm takes the crew, and El Diablo comes for Mar's father's soul. Somehow, Mar is spared and wakes up on a different ship, also crewed by pirates who steal from the Spanish and give food, weapons, and other supplies to those in the Caribbean islands fighting Spanish control. Mar strikes up a somewhat reluctant friendship with a boy their age on the ship, and refuses to the negotiate with a demonio who says they can help Mar free their father's soul. This story has a lot of fun elements, and the audiobook is expertly read by Vico Ortiz. But I didn't love this book as much as I wanted to. I found the first half quite slow, and overall felt like not quite enough happened to justify the length. I loved the nonbinary rep and the Spanish phrases in the dialogue, but wanted faster pacing and quicker reveals, especially of the demonio's motivations.
The Joy Luck Club (abridged) written and read by Amy Tan
I listened to the abridged version of the audiobook, which is read by the author, and only runs for 2.5 hours (the full book is 9 hours). This turns the full length novel into a much more concise novella of interlocking short stories, each one quite poetic and moving. I love reading books set in and around San Francisco, as are the scenes from this book which aren't set in China. The stories focus on four women, friends and mahjong partners, who met after immigrating to the Bay Area, and their daughters. The daughters are mostly in their mid-30s, at various stages of their careers and marriages, and at varying levels of close with their families and Chinese heritage. The mothers recount stories from their childhoods and their flight from war in the 1940s. I know I watched part of the movie adaption once, and maybe also read part of the full length novel in high school, because a few scenes felt so familiar while others sounded unfamiliar and new. I would like to pick up the full novel at some point, but I also really enjoyed hearing the dialogue in the author's own voice.
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So I was trying to find out what the Pandoran ocean’s salinity might be to see if I can conceivably cook a dish with salt (I imagine the Na’vi probably aren’t mining rock salt so I’m just skipping that) and while I did not learn that, here’s what I did learn
Pandora has more ocean than Earth
Pandora has significantly more acidic oceans than current Earth due to the massive amounts of carbon dioxide in the air. For comparison, earth’s oceans have a roughly 8.05 pH at the moment (though it’s projected to drop to 7.7 by 2100) (important to this, pH is exponential, so a pH of 8 is 10x more alkaline than a pH of 7 so that will wreak havoc on the oceans if it gets to then) and the carbon dioxide from the air that’s throwing all this off is about .04% of the current Earth’s atmosphere. Meanwhile, Pandora has an 18% carbon dioxide atmosphere
Pandora’s oceans might not be salty at all, that’s a possibility
Pandora’s oceans do have a bunch of sulfur in them due to all the volcanic activity and thermal vents. They presumably also have other things as well, such as potassium, zinc, and copper that also come out of Earth’s thermal vents. They probably also have some unobtainium too, because Pandora
Pandora has thermal vents
Pandora has 5 distinct levels of ocean: Epipelagic (Sunlight), Mesopelagic (Twilight), Bathylpelagic (Midnight), Abyssopelagic (Abyssal), and Hadalpelagic (Trench), all five of which have life in them
There is an official Pandoran Ocean Simulator, which you can make a Pandoran-style creature and release it into a virtual ocean, where it will swim around indefinitely
Anyways, this did not answer my question but it does give me new questions, like is Na'vi sweat or skin oils super alkaline to combat being dissolved in the ocean and does Ronal have alkaline eyedrops for the Sully’s and anyone else who actually opens their eyes underwater instead of using their clear eyelids and is that even needed?
#this is not what I planned to do with my night#I’m literally writing fanfic for the tawkami clan we’re not even near the oceans#avatar movie#food#avatar the way of water#and yes obviously this acidity thing is overlooked because Cameron just didn’t take the atmosphere into account when making his ocean#but still#oceans#ocean#pandora: world of avatar#pandora#Pandoran animals#Pandora oceans#this is going to bother me now#especially when regularly exposing what is basically an alternate spinal cord to this acid without any protection regularly#but kuru are a whole different problem#thank you high school oceanology class for teaching me how oceans work so I can use it in the best terrible way possible#by analyzing a fictional ocean of a fictional moon that didn’t have that much thought put into it
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man remember when they sent lucifer to the bottom of the ocean as punishment. like his little time out spot right next to the thermal vents and spider crabs.
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