Big boy! This brown bear was lazing in the cool green summer grass, just waiting on his frozen fish treat. Gorgeous animals! This picture was taken at the Wildlife Safari park in Winston Oregon, where you can walk through the village, visit the children’s petting zoo, and drive through the larger animal park. 

Many times I feel like the sad fish you 'buy for a child because its low maintenance', stop doing that

These little fuckers are round gobies. They are a freshwater goby that's invasive in Michigan, and they're in the nearby lake. They're distinct from the four native species due to their fused pelvic fins (middle pic) and a big black dot at the rear of their front dorsal fin. Though some other gobies have spots on their fins, NO Michigan-native species has a fused pelvic fin. These guys are very aggressive feeders and are very good at outcompeting native gobies.

They're also extremely good at stealing bait off big hooks as people on the docks reel in their lines. In particular, the bastard in the bottom photo stole my bait two days ago, so I caught him and filleted him for Bug.

Today, after acquiring smaller hooks, I went back and got 16 more, and educated several other fishers about their invasive nature. I got two turned over to me by others, and caught 14 more myself.

One man wandered over and asked why I was catching them on purpose. It was too much trouble to explain my feelings about invasive species, so I just told him, one of them stole my bait two days ago. He stopped watching my bobber and boggled at me and goes:

"You're doing this for revenge?"

So now there's some guy in town that thinks I am exacting revenge upon fish kind for a single stolen worm.

"Don't u know what u're asking me with these?

'Abandon the sea, and stay on land'"

"Are you sure you know~ what u're getting into, Trey-san?"

[x] [x] [x]

My favorite kind of ship is the acts of service hoe finding a guy that got never taken care of and deciding to STEP UP

Sea Toad (Chaunacops coloratus)

"Trick or trout," I say at your door

"Did you mean treat?" you ask me

"No," I reply, "Gimmie the fish"

Harvey telling the farmer it's their time for the annual check up before knowing them for a year is always funny to me. But the fact I keep drawing Asmodeus♡ with a big mouth and fangs made me read the dialogue more like "that's scary, please stop" rather than "okay onto the next part".

Anyway, I have never drawn Harvey before so please enjoy my attempt. (gives him a lil gray. as a treat. to me. the gray is for me.)

fish gem!

yet another little Treat for myself! do i have a problem? maybe!

one of my friends got me on gender worldbuilding headcanons and I was thinking about empires. and you know what. I think that the ocean empire’s concept of gender is WILDLY DIFFERENT from people who aren’t fish. I think they don’t have an exact cultural 1:1 equivalent to our gender because they’re fish people, right, I think they switch sex characteristics based on water temperature and need because that’s what some fish do and I think that’s neat. so they don’t have a concept of immutable gender tied to sex characteristics. however they DO have a somewhat equivalent concept of like, leadership and dominance roles and also visible presentation. I think to outsiders it reads as matriarchal because their “leader”/“dominant” role tends to be the most brightly colored, frilly one, and is related to “the ones who get to reproduce”, and also maybe grammatically it’s considered a “feminine” word by linguists, so it gets related to being a woman, and like, lizzie will go with that if it’s the equivalent right? and societally there ARE GENDER ROLES except it’s NOT BASED SO MUCH ON OUR IDEA OF “GENDER” AS ON THEIRS… I need to flesh this out more but I think it could be neat that’s all,

two dashing trick or treaters appear at your front door

Bug is enjoying her (3mo) birthday fish! We were able to pick up 100 Rosie reds and 2 dozen feeder goldfish! I was not sure she would take the goldfish because they're so much bigger, but she gobbled almost all of them down.

I put a half dozen into the pond for tomorrow, and she shared a couple with her dad. Now she's up on her perch and preening away happily.

Some days you just need to draw some fishbutt.

Pose reference from this month's random pack on @adorkastock's patreon.

Fish?

Fish!

at what point does this become a problem