Intermittent and Lazy Reblogging

Over The Waves by Setsuko Matsushima

Mammals normally shed their skin in small flakes all the time when their skin cells die off, but because whales are living in the ocean -AKA, Bacteria Stew- flaking off like that would cause microabrasions (really tiny cuts) that would mean the whale is continually fighting off infections.  So, when a whale needs to replace it’s dead skin cells, it preps it’s new skin underneath, then sheds all it’s dead skin cells at once, like a lizard:

but not having hands makes it hard to remove this gross film, so molting brings many whales clsoe to shore where they can roll around on rocky/sandy coastal seabeds to scratch it off.  Here’s a bunch of Beluga coming in for a mass scratch:

And THIS is what a chunk of Sperm Whale Molt looks like, floating in the water before it’s devoured by pelagic microfauna, because you take what calories you can get in the open ocean:

And if they were in the remote reaches of the sea and found a large wooden object floating conveniently nearby they would have every reason to rub up against it a few times to scratch off the skin. Then dive and tell the nearby whales about its location.

A human riding on this wooden object might be alarmed by this. They be familiar with whales and not know they molt. So this repeated bumping and ramming and pushing by pale sperm whales could lead them to believe that this wasn't a natural function of a group of animals but instead one un-naturally pale whale that just had a grudge against your ship. So far from any port you might end up going to any length to save your crew from this crazed enemy.

i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Needs not being met

Little to no control over my environment

Overwhelmed and need some release

Desperately want a nap

Sam would be so fucking furious. Do you know how much more you have to WATCH YOURSELF when you're a GOD? How much WORK it is to make sure you don't do something that's WRONG, or abuse your power??

There’s something about the sun on the sea