Take me high and I'll sing

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

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has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

Just wanted to show off some of the exclusive merch and swag i’ll be selling this weekend at the Don’s Dead Market virtual sale. There’s only a couple days left to buy a ticket to get into the server where this is being held, so if you’d like to snag a zine, a limited special edition sprayed edge signed book copy, or a physical print of one of my dead dove itchio exclusive titles, go go go!

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it gives him screentime in the first arc of which he didn’t have a lot in the original material, but that makes you completely understand why illumi terrified him so much in their confrontation.

people often focus on the form of something rather than the content. some fans dislike that killua lashes out at gon during the hunter’s exam, but if we actually look at the moment, it’s an attempt to protect his new friend. killua says “i’m someone who makes enemies”, knowing his presence endangers gon, seeing gon as something much more innocent than him, and so in order to prove this to gon he tries to scare him without hurting him. he expects gon to cower away but gon just stands, unflinching, showing killua he’s not only willing to take killua as he is but that he also has a screw loose. it’s a declaration of understanding.

this behavior is completely in line with early killua who was always narratively teased as being destined to hurt or betray gon or as being jealous of him. moments like these just enhance the fakeout and make it even more touching that killua ends up as such a loyal character.

1999 leans heavily into the struggle of the destiny of a bloodline and choice which is a theme present in the manga but wonderfully reinforced with 1999’s original content. if you look at these moments for killua that are sometimes claimed by the fandom to be “out of character” the resolutions to them actually always perfectly line up with him growing in a positive direction and rejecting illumi’s control of him. he can’t immediately stop himself from committing the violence he was tortured into seeing as normal, but he can understand he has a network of support that will help him as he struggles towards this aim. 1999 does not present an incorrect killua, rather a more thorough one. one that, i remind us all, was approved by togashi because he was closely supervising 1999.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

I'm SO excited to finally share these pieces I created for D&D's Ravenloft: The Horrors Within.

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Fragment of a red-figure volute-krater with the departure of Amphiaraos, king of Argos, by the Darius Painter 

Greek (from South Italy), c. 330 B.C.

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