#spook fish

And an old illustration I made a few years ago! Maybe I should redraw it?

some wips hehehe, feel free to comment any fish you wanna see (only real fish/sea creatures, the basculegion was for a friend)

Unlike most barreleye fish, or spook fish, this fish has more forward-facing eyes! Typically fish like barreleyes can point their eyes directly above them (as well as in front of them), but binocular fish are an exception.

hated it! it’s not necessarily a bad ending and I don’t think it ruins the series... well actually I’d say it’s a bad ending in terms of not following through with hime, but it’s fine with how akira is treated and how their friend gets a wedding. It’s just so strangely normative and heterosexual for hime when she was obviously going through her own gender/sexuality stuff? I don’t think she needed to end up with akira but the fact that what’s his face kind of barrels in at the end snd essentially derails her whole ‘I hate the male gaze and being seen as attractive to men makes me uncomfortable’ with ‘but what if it was me?????’ was kind of weird! literally if there wasn’t a ‘married to a man and has a kid’ it would’ve been the perfect ending for me. hime without a romantic partner at the moment? fine. hime in a relationship with someone else that’s not a man? fine. hime married to THAT guy??? I hate him. let me delete him from the series. I guess people could argue that there’s gender nonconformity with the crossdressing but it reads to me like circumstantial stuff rather than gender stuff and kind of acts as a counterpoint to akira—akira as a trans gal and what’s his face as a guy dressing up as a gal. it’s just really irksome how a series that did a good job highlighting and prioritizing non straight male characters kind of swung back around and made them. matter a lot. was it for the straight fans?? was it to appeal to the straight fans????? did the editors push for it?????? idk but I think it was unnecessary. it’s like. what’s his face is fine or whatever he’s just some guy. actually no I do kind of dislike him because it felt kind of like naoto’s romance route in p4 where a gnc character is basically told ‘ok but what if you presented in a feminine way as a cis gal for me’ when hime was very. baby butch.

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photo: Stephanie O’Byrne