#dorado

Common Dolphinfish aka Mahi-Mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), family Coryphaenidae, order Carangiformes, Baja California, Mexico

Mid: w/ Pacific Chub Mackerel (Scomber japonicus), family Scombridae, order Scombriformes.

Top: w/ Striped Marlin (Tetrapturus audax), family Istiophoridae, order Carangiformes.

HELLO DORADO NATIONNNN (all... 5??? of you)

Had the pleasure of commissioning @beebundt for this piece!! Absolutely obsessed with how dreamy this is, Dorado's been this sorta elusive/cryptic person to me... Kind and sweet, for sure, but hardly anyone knows about their background. Anyone who'd try to pick at it would be met with a complete 180 and a topic change (unless you're perhaps Ais or their friends Setna and Corvus)

NGC 1566 !

This spiral galaxy was observed as part of the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program.

NGC 1566 is 60 million light-years away in the constellation Dorado.

Mahi mahi, Dolphinfish, Dorado & Lampuga, all names for the Coryphaena hippurus! These colourful fish are found in the Mediterranean Sea at this time of year (August-November), often aggregating underneath objects floating on the surface.

They live for up to five years, and can get to a meter in length!

By Save the Med Foundation.

Jaguar refs from @animalphotorefs

It has been 24 days but I am finally done with this stupid lineup. I do have a file with all of them lined up nicely together but tumblr refuses to upload it so! You get individual pictures!

Usually I color lineart but on the dawn of the 24th day I opened this file and went, "God I can't do this anymore. Just color the lines black."

Anyways, I wanted to figure out how the sphinx in my comic look and finalize some character designs.

All of the sphinx have names that are basically reverse riddles, where they go by the answer in their day-to-day life, and only their family, close friends, and partners get to learn the riddle behind their name.

From left to right:

Valiente - The brother of Dorado, an adventurer and treasure hunter of great renown. He used to travel with his brother, but now he travels alone, always on the hunt for the next great adventure.

Dorado - Named for his golden fur, Dorado is a retired adventurer and treasure hunter. He used to travel the world with his brother but after getting Patience pregnant, he decided to settle down and raise his daughters. Not that he had much choice after Patience left. His coloration is based on a strawberry (erythristic) leopard.

Patience - A princess of the Andadia kingdom, Patience's brother (who is not pictured here) was the heir to the throne. When her daughters were very young her brother and her nephew were killed by a wyvern, and she mysteriously vanished shortly after their deaths, refusing to tell Dorado where she was going.

Luck - Daughter of Dorado and Patience, and captain of the Royal Andadian Navy. In her father's culture, being born with black fur is considered lucky, and in her mother's culture, black fur is considered unlucky. She had a rough childhood, with her peers viewing her as bad luck and blaming her any time something went wrong. She became obsessed with luck and now constantly wears good luck charms, and performs little luck rituals (like knocking on wood) before doing anything important. She needs to get tested for OCD but she refuses to go to the doctor.