wormful friend

A) resource guarding

And

B) Harry Potter

So naturally, every time someone didn’t have a pencil she would charge them 10 house points (which, even in schools where there is an actual house point system, probably doesn’t fucking happen). She openly held the belief that she had to ascribe value to these precious writing implements or else no one would appreciate them, a concept evidenced by, i kid you not, how when homeless people are given houses for free they let them fall into disarray, because they didn’t pay for the house and therefore didn’t care about it. I, a pissed off 13 year old with a vendetta against power hungry teachers and also JK Rowling, brought a 100 pack of pencils to school so that whenever someone had to ask for one, instead of being charged a fictional currency and upsetting their fellow, deeply competitive students, i would just give them one. If the pencil didn’t come from the teacher, she couldn’t charge points for it.

This upset her. She couldn’t assert her power over the 1st period Advanced 8th Grade Math Class anymore. For i, The Pencil Liberator, had come to put an end to her tyrannous behavior.

“Tour Guides”

Like a sea lion can take a bite out of one and the fish won’t be bothered because they just bit into the armor.

This fish is fine.

The seal is getting nothing but tough skin and rubbery tissue (the armor)

The Sunfish’s survival strategy is to save energy and tank damage. Predators can’t get through the hard outside.

All of the actual fish meat parts of the fish, the muscles and organs are in a tiny compact circle deep inside the protective layer that make up most of the absolutely giant fish.

Nothing can get to its vulnerable vital organs- except these orca have figured out how. By exploding it the armor is destroyed and they can pick through the debris for the actual meat.

It’s brilliant.