This is Scottie.

"She is what gives you light."

yapping alert because this project is my child

(original comic by mhuyo on twitter)

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story I've had bookmarked forever for class.

I will die your daughter

Episode 52

Some years ago (never mind how many) I picked this up at my high-school's library discard. I never opened it. I found it recently at my mother's house, and, recalling the Offspring's fondness for Moby Dick, the Wellerman, the Sea Beast, and all stories of whaling, decided to bring it home.

This book is AMAZING.

There is so much to unpack here. DID HE HONEYMOON ON A FLOATING WHALE CARCASS?? Why is his wife so small???

This man is the real life Ishmael and wants to fistfight Herman Melville personally. I think I am in love.

So I did what any of us would do and looked him up on wikipedia...

Scottish biologist, cool cool, scientific expeditions, sweet, my kind of guy, science fiction writer, yes -

FATHER OF CRYPTOZOOLOGY

!!!!

...which term he coined...

Wrote the seminal works on Bigfoot, Yeti, and Sasquatch! WAS ATTACKED BY A GIANT BAT!

FOUNDED THE SOCIETY FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE UNEXPLAINED

He may have also been the first person to propose Space Whales 🐋 💙💫

I. I love this man with my whole heart. This is who Thaddeus wants to be when he grows up. I need to read all his books. (Especially the Abominable Snowmen one omg). Holy cow is this who Professor Travers is based on??

Anyway look at this delightful chronology of Whaling: