Jellyfishies :] From left to right they are sea nettle jelly, moon jellies, fried egg jelly, and, lion's mane jelly The Lion's Mane is my favorite, they grow so big!!

Gaze upon the Fish🎏🦐 | #art | #traditionalart | #artsky | #fish | #shrimp | #animalcrossing | #illustration | #sketch |

Lots of revelations for Ish today! From ecstatic experiences with whale sperm to discovering that everyone's chained to the ever turning wheel of samsara ("Oh! my friends, but this is man-killing. Yet this is life!"). 🐋

Humans exhibiting nesting behavior in the runup to snow events is one of my favorite things. It’s almost an instinctive herd phenomenon

as much as I complain about some scientific names, some of them are very nice. the species name of this jellyfish is "punctata" meaning spotted. that is a good name that soothes me.

Shipmates, he's onto us! 🐋 #md

i painted a jellyfish over the past couple days 🪼🫧

"Like household dogs they came snuffling round us, right up to our gunwales, and touching them; till it almost seemed that some spell had suddenly domesticated them. Queequeg patted their foreheads; Starbuck scratched their backs with his lance" 🥹🐋

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

I spoke too soon! 🐳 "But though the green palmy cliffs of the land soon loomed on the starboard bow, and with delighted nostrils the fresh cinnamon was snuffed in the air, yet not a single jet was descried."

Imagine you’re Antonia Ružić walking out after Naomi Osaka comes out in this complete Met Gala ensemble for your opening match at the #AustralianOpen

"...bespattering them and their glorying crews all over with showers of gore..." got me thinking: I don't believe Ishmael has talked about what any of this *smells* like. Surely there are many scents involved in whaling ripe for lengthy descriptions and digressions. 🐋

Yikes! I didn't realize my ebook habit was costing @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social so much money. It's a great benefit for DC residents. Interesting legislative idea to band with states to pressure publishers. Thanks to @maustermuhle.bsky.social, @51st.news for the reporting. 51st.news/ebooks-are-e...

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As part of my art therapy (self imposed), I'd been making cute jellyfish characters. But a friend asked for 3 jellyfish to hang in her hallway. I decided they needed to be at least semi-realistic. So, here are the first two, completed. Still working on the thirsand I'll share when I'm done.

Since Scott expedition posting seems to be a thing today, I'm going to take the opportunity to encourage folks to pick up a copy of The Worst Journey in the World and learn about the joys of collecting penguin eggs in the middle of an Antarctic winter.

I’m approaching forty years of age and have been starting to get those unfamiliar pangs, that feeling that I have to reach the south pole by sled

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

I don’t normally do these trends but jellyfish 🪼

It's Friday night! I've done enough this week. You've done enough this week.

Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer

Y'all. I got sidetracked by Chapter 55. “But though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so as only to give the tail of the latter…” Sir, that's a mermaid(man). “Though universally denominated a dolphin, I nevertheless call this a whale.” Not everything is a 🐋, Ish!

This is a personal attack.

"Are you through?" said Don Sebastian, quietly, speaking for all of us. 🐋

I love how clearly this conveys what Steelkit said without putting the actual words on the page. 🐋

Of course I remembered that tomorrow is Grandma's birthday...and as for pirates, when they chance to cross each other's cross-bones, the first hail is—"How many skulls?"—the same way that whalers hail-"How many barrels?" 🐋

Been messing around with different ways of faux-Gameboy Camerafying my photos and I think I like this one.

Going to keep re-upping this because we just need a couple more (literally) by Friday for this to run! Woohoo!

here's a balloon who just broke out of jail

Jelly cam today because my coworker said "You should probably just change your Teams picture to the melting face emoji" AND THEY WERE RIGHT

Square 12 #2026Quilt Leftover jellyfish and fish fabric from a skirt I’m currently making :)

Ishmael might be the maddest anyone has ever been about qualia 🐋 This is all John Locke's fault.

HPL [scribbling more frantically]: Put on your nose guard! Put on the life guard! The five dimensional solids! There goes the sting ray! There goes a manta ray! There goes a jellyfish! Ia, Ia... Watch out for that piranha! There goes a narwhal! Heh, heh... ever heer tell uv a SHOGGOTH?

Just in time for the new film coming out, I'll be running a couple of interactive workshops exploring the history of Wuthering Heights adaptation. It draws on the research (archival and otherwise) and we'll be diving deep into a really varied history of adaptation. Want to come along? (See below!)

just saw a video of a crab riding a jellyfish and my first thought was "how does it know when to get off?" like it's gonna miss its stop on the way to work at the ocean factory

This is such a great observation, especially in light of Ishmael opening Ch. 36 by recalling "the affair of the pipe" before diving into Ahab's ... ceremony? on deck.🐋

Me reading Ch. 35-39: Really ramping up the asides, soliloquies, stage directions... Does this just going to turn into a full-on play at some point? Me reading Ch. 40: Yeah, ok. 🐋

Some quiet time with jellies. Pace yourself. Take care of each other. 💙

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith "‘Er … would you accept a wee bitty lie?’ Rob said. ‘No!’ ‘It’s interestin’. There’s dragons an’ unicorns in it -’ ‘No. I want the truth!’ ‘Ach, it’s so boring.’"

"...has just been taking an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on the upper part of his ivory leg." 🐋 Hell yeah, Ahab. Does he have a knife or some tweezers in there too?

trying to go about my day with the aura of this jellyfish i just got in the mail from a friend

Linked in Leeper's annotations for today lol. 🐋 So Good. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-...

A strange little creature, an Eyeball Jellyfish. Was good eye practice, had a lot of fun with this one. Took me about 40 minutes. Palette: Grotesquely Cute by Jude Buffum #surrealcreature #pixel_dailies #pixelart #aseprite @pixeldailies.bsky.social

Musical interlude: Did you know that in the English version of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah, "Baal" is traditionally pronounced to rhyme with "whale"? This means that you - yes you - can frantically cry out to Whale while Elijah mocks you for the full "ignoring a prophet" experience. 🐋

🐋 Ishmael: If that double-bolted land, Japan, is ever to become hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone to whom the credit will be due; for already she is on the threshold. Narrator: It wasn't.

Jellyfish sleep like humans — even though they don’t have brains

(11 hours later...) 🐋