I made a little sticker for the sf elections contest recently! It didn't make it into the final selection, but I still kinda like it. If you're in sf make sure to vote for your favorite! I hope more cities start doing this! I can't wait to try to collect new ones.
Sea lions on the Sacramento River, California. I guess the sea lions like fresh water too. They stop by around March from southern California on their way to Alaska.
Hear me out: Lionblaze is born brown and is named after sea lions, actually.
I'm not taking into account the commonality of sea lions in whichever place one might imagine the clans are as it's a magical place no matter what and sea lions might as well be there. Really it would have made more sense for Midnight to be a sea lion instead of a dry land-ass badger hoping that high tide doesn't drown her this time.
Anyway, the journey group rolls up to the sun-drown-place and goes what the fuck is that a sea lion? I'd only heard RiverClan stories about those things!
And of course Midnight the sea lion is like BARK BARK BARK BARK [delivers prophecy in pinniped]
So naturally when Leafpool hands over her kits to Squirrelflight, Squirrelflight is like your names suck ass this one is Lionkit
And Leafpool's like ...why are you fucking reminding me about that fucking sea lion who broke up my illicit affair?
And Squirrelflight's like of all the cats you had crushes on over the years you just HAD to run off with the grumpy WindClan idiot whose original also-sapphic-leaning girlfriend kicked it in the mountains.
So of course Leafpool has no choice but to be like yeah fine Lionkit it is.
Lionpaw doesn't like this very much, mostly because his siblings like to make sea lion impressions every time he enters into literally anywhere. Hollypaw's gotten really good at it.
I also like to imagine one of the ubiquitous quests that everyone and their second cousins seem to have to go on leads them to a zoo and Lionblaze is like SEE! LOOK! I WAS NAMED AFTER THIS MAJESTIC CREATURE THE AFRICAN LION!
And he turns around, triumphant, to see that his siblings are just standing by the sea lion exhibit barking at him.
The quest is of course leading them to the sea lions. Lionblaze considers feeding himself to the land lions.
Also imagine a bunch of sea lions attacking the camp in Twilight. Like I mean they're probably still badgers I don't think that has to change but hear me out: it would be funny.
My tumblr following probably doesn't know this about me, but apart from audios my other hobby is finding and swimming with wild marine mammals. I have a particular affinity for sea lions and dolphins, both of which are gregarious animals with the ability to remember and even form bonds with humans. Here's one of my favorite photo sets I've ever taken.
Her name is Sola Rey! She's shy when it's dark out but loves socializing when the sun is bright. She likes coming up to me and giving me forehead "kisses". I had a head mounted GoPro on this time and the pictures were perfect. One of the ways sea lions communicate under water is by nuzzling their whiskers. They do this to communicate to other sea lions that nearby sea lions are not a threat to them. Does that mean she thinks I'm some kind of sea lion too? A mystery. Anyway I love her.
Since my drawing practice sheet featuring birds got a lot of positive attention, I thought I'd do a second part. This time I practiced drawing marine mammals, and by marine mammals, I mean mostly Baikal seals. 馃Ν