Somewhere in the Deep Blue Sea

New card back design for the 3rd Sefirot Tarot edition

Lift stop / Hollow bastion

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

Point Reyes, CA

Redwoods National Park, northern CA, USA

Redwoods National Park, northern CA, USA

Postcards from Yellowstone

The kingdom hearts x chiikawa crossover continues!!

The silky jelly is one of the fastest swimming jellies, using coordinated jet propulsion to flee danger. 🪼✨️⁠

Our observations of Colobonema in the depths of the Monterey Canyon have helped visualize that escape in finer detail. While at rest, Colobonema spreads out curly tentacles to capture food. But when threatened, the jelly’s bell rapidly contracts, and its shape quickly transforms. The rounded bell becomes almost tubular in appearance, and Colobonema’s coiled tentacles straighten and elongate. Now, a mad dash to safety begins. A single swimming burst can propel the silky jelly more than five body lengths forward.⁠

As they make a quick exit, they drop sticky tentacles to confuse potential predators. We have seen silky jellies with tentacles of varying, uneven lengths. This suggests that Colobonema can grow back their lost tentacles.⁠

We have recorded an extensive archive of deep-sea video that offers insight into more than just animal behavior. Our researchers use this trove of data to understand long-term trends in populations of midwater animals. Comparing thousands of observations of deep-sea jellies reveals how their populations ebb and flow over time.

(Oh, hey, Hisagi!) The wall has a name! I'm kind of tickled by them all being like, "welp, they're on the other side of the wall, so I guess there's nothing we can--" wait, hold on, holy shit.

Kira's been there the whole time?!?! I was fully ready to have to wait several more chapters for him to make an appearance! Oh, well, who cares--he's here! My favorite deep-thinking, multifaceted, sad wet cat!

You know, in hindsight, I'm kind of surprised that I overlooked Kira back then. He seems like exactly the kind of character my emo teen self would have fawned over. (Either him or Hisagi, tbh.) I mean, have you SEEN those bangs--OH. OH WAIT, HOLD ON, I CAN DROP THIS NOW! (I was gonna hold onto it until I started covering Thousand Year Blood War so it would make more sense, but screw it)

I am so sorry.

Where was I? Oh, right. Less important characters are doing things.

I like how this kind of feels like a diorama someone would make in school!

I'm also glad to see that it's not just human souls living in Soul Society! Of course, this is far from the strangest person we'll see affiliated with the Seireitei, but shhh, we'll get there.

Those are some pretty impressive credentials! It's hard to imagine anyone being much stronger than that yet. I wonder what plan the gang is gonna come up with--

Ah. I see they share a brain cell with Ichigo.

Too many girlfriends? Not a problem for the hawkfish! The species in this family are protogynous, meaning that all individuals start out as females at birth. As adults, they form harems around a dominant male; but if there are too many females, then one or more of them will change into males and branch off with up to half of the remaining females. Not enough girlfriends? Not a problem either! If the number of females in a harem gets too low, or if they lose a challenge from another male, the former harem leader will simply revert back to being female.