I’m not sure why I feel this way, but imo this is the most cursed marine mammal fact I have ever heard
THAT’S RIGHT AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME SO I CAN INFLICT THIS ON EVERYONE AT 1AM!
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:
Nature is Amazing!
wish it still held in one big piece like a snake though. Wish you could be swimming in the ocean and you see a huge empty whale billowing like a balloon. like a latex glove a hundred feet long. imagine getting tangled in that. what if you died cause you got caught in an empty whale like it’s a big blanket
I love your thinkin @bogleech this’s is givin me ✨ideas✨, I’m probably never gonna use ‘em but they’re there is I need ‘em
I also JUST realized this is undoubtedly the “cryptid” this one scuba diver claimed to see. He said a giant “amoeba” floated up from the deep, made the surrounding water colder, then engulfed a shark and returned back to the trench.
Obviously a current blew a whale skin up from deeper water and a shark blundered into it, then kept on swimming anyway. Maybe it was a nice tasty treat??
You wanna know what I love most about bl/gl dramas?
It’s that they’ve given me something I never thought I would have: more queer content than I know what to do with. Every year we’re getting dozens of shows and movies where queer romance is first and it’s so much that I can’t watch all of it. It’s so much that I can choose the ones that really interest me and not have to watch things that bore me for scraps of representation. It’s so much that I don’t feel like I’m always needing more. After a lifetime I finally feel sated.
ok but status notes on who’s online are literally meaningless to me. I will send you my thoughts as they occur to me and you can respond whenever it’s fine
fanfic is so good bc the premise of some genres of fic are just inherently funny. I want these two grizzled crime drama protagonists to have some fucking fun for once, so they go to a water park. I dont care how i have to logic my way into them going there i dont care who has to drag them Theyre Going
but also the exact opposite. put these two sitcom lighthearted romcom protagonists in the middle of a cannibalistic serial killer rampage. i want them to suffer. no more episodic skipping around consequences. Spongebob must face God.
