Call me Squid, I’m a nerd with a biology degree (20+), Ace/Aro ♠️ and go by any pronouns. FaboKraken on Ao3, I get called different names sometimes depending on what social peeps now me from. Ask me about my aus and fanfics and I will talk your ear off.
I’m Squid (I am also known as Fabo, Kraken, Quail, and Kelpie; depends where you know me from lol), welcome to my blog!
I’m an acearo adult with a bachelor’s in biology, I go by any pronouns and I draw and write about whatever interests me but I have a few things of particular note here:
My mouthwashing fic that kinda got popular lol; Last Chance on Ao3
My Wings of Fire series about the snowball effect of Arctic saying a few words differently, Albatross choosing to protect Fathom, and much more; Foraging a Different Ending, most commonly known by its first work Diamonds Fall and Fates Change (often I just call it Diamonds in shorthand)
My recreation of a cool painting into WoF fanart
My long ass, ongoing Mandela Catalogue fic where Adam runs and Jonah doesn’t; Under the Anomaly’s Skin
My Minecraft Speculative Biology series where I come up with speculations on different Minecraft mobs/minecraft lore;
Currently canon posts for this series: Mushrooms, Suina, Hexapods, Bugs, Enders, Bonus Creeper Content, Winged Folk, Creepers (Updated), Bovini,
Out of date and planned to be revamped posts: Phantoms (needs to be revamped but information still canon), Axolotl (out of date/needs rework), Creepers (old version before update)
This extinct spider I requested to be drawn that basically no one knows- Cascade Funnel Web Spider
Pride Animal Series, a bunch of gay animals either colored to match certain pride flags or wearing clothes in the pride colors;
Pride Birds- 2021
Pride Prehistoric Creatures- 2022
Aromantic Week- 2022
Pride Dinos- 2024
Pride Whales- 2025
Aromantic Week- 2026
Pride Marine Mammals- 2026
To add in future: Deltarune posts (Lyrebird Spamton), Invader Zim (Color morphs and genetic variability in Irkens), further Wings of Fire posts (Color morphs and genetic variants seen in different dragons), etc.
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My fellow bird nerds will understand the breathless excitement I felt to turn a corner in the wetlands and witness this quiet scene! The secretive King Rail is a bird I’ve rarely been able to photograph, let alone film. How cool that my first chance to catch one on video was such a gorgeous and relaxed bird.
periodic reminder that the queer liberation library is an awesome non-regional library you can add on libby to access hundreds of queer titles. NO LIBRARY CARD NEEDED. i just found an audiobook for a pretty new release on there with no waitlist. also everyone use libby for your local library too NOW
senior/elderly nonbinary people. I adore you and you make the world a better place. whether you've known for multiple decades or you just found out last year. thank you for just Being. so much love from me.
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i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”
The first attested cat in Japan was given to a young 9th century emperor and his diary about it includes such gems as 'I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.", "The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink.", "When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk." and "I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.” Basically posting about how his void is the best little void and so good at getting really round
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Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you
“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.
Gorgonavis alcyone was an enantiornithean bird that lived in what is now Spain during the early Cretaceous, about 129-126 million years ago.
Enantiornitheans were a diverse and abundant group of Mesozoic birds that retained claws on their wings and often had toothy snouts instead of beaks, and many also had ribbon-like display feathers on their tails instead of lift-generating fans. While they externally looked a lot like modern birds they weren't ancestral to any living forms — instead they represented a separate "cousin" lineage to euornitheans that convergently evolved similar features and lifestyles.
Although known only from an isolated skull, Gorgonavis would probably have been around 14cm long (~5.5") with an estimated wingspan of 30cm (~12"). It seems to have been a close relative of long-snouted enantiornitheans like Longipteryx, having similar elongated jaws with teeth only at the tips.
If it was a longipterygid it would be the oldest known member of that group and the only one currently known outside of China, suggesting that particular family was much more widespread than previously thought.
Longipterygids were traditionally interpreted as kingfisher-like birds specialized to prey on insects or fish, but two specimens from China with preserved gut contents recently demonstrated that they may actually have been frugivores feeding on the fleshy fruit-like seeds of gymnosperm plants.
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References:
Nebreda, Sergio M., et al. "An isolated skull from Las Hoyas (Early Cretaceous, Spain) informs the early evolution towards elongated rostra in enantiornithine birds (Aves, Ornithothoraces)." Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145 (2026): 251-265. https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.182813
O’Connor, Jingmai, et al. "Direct evidence of frugivory in the Mesozoic bird Longipteryx contradicts morphological proxies for diet." Current Biology 34.19 (2024): 4559-4566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.08.012
Wikipedia contributors. “Gorgonavis” Wikipedia, 17 Jun. 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgonavis
[Image description: Drawings of Rocky and Grace from Projact Hail Mary. Grace is lying down next to Rocky and says, "Y'know Rock, I feel a bit bad. I've been referring to you as a 'he'. I just kinda assumed that. That's considered kinda rude where I'm from..." Rocky replies, "It is okay. Eridians do not have a 'gender', but I do not mind. I have been referring to Grace as "it", like all other Eridians. I hope that is okay, question?" Grace, now in the colors of the agender flag, says, "huh." It then grins and says, "yeah, that- that's cool!" Rocky says, "good. good. good." End description.]
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Self indulgent AU where I save my favourite woman who has done NOTHING WRONG EVER! from imprisonment and ostracization by shooting her to space with her ambiguous dead wife, whom she killed
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