Living Fossils - Creatures That Remain Seemingly Unchanged By Time. Here's The Coelacanth, The Sturgeon,

Sam from the magnus protocol !!

I decided that I couldn't wait any longer before I drew him so here we are

my favorite thing about tma has always been the avatars who love the fears they serve, who show that love so vibrantly that, for just a moment, they sway you into feeling like you could learn to love that fear the way they do. when jane prentiss said "not loved as you would understand it, a deeper, more primal love, a need as much as a feeling" and when jude perry said "as the heat warped my bones and bubbled my flesh, all i heard was the loving exaltation of my god" and when mike crew said "falling had always held a special place in my heart, that wonderful border between terror and delight" and when manuela dominguez said "and at his words i felt afraid, and my heart soared in terror and elation as my eyes brimmed with tears, for i knew he spoke the truth" and when hezekiah wakely said "i had never felt such safety as within the crushing weight of earth all around me, the pressing embrace of the buried." do you get me

podcast protags are always so silly if you try to explain. archivist so bad at it that he becomes the eldritch overseer of a ruined world. accountant popsicle and his redditor best friend. 30s detective with some incorporeal asshole controlling his eyes. woman and guy that are spiritually entwined with the spirit of the idea of a really muddy river. it never gets old

I think we’re really not appreciating limpets enough. They’re just a snail with extra shell and they’re equally adorable

Transgender alligator gar art

here is our local sturgeon sculpture. he is shaped like a friend and i love him :)

there r so many characters who would never ever ever step foot in a club and we need to acknowledge this . not every character has a clubber's soul . this 23yo character should've been at the farmers market. this 21 character should've been at the skate park . come on

god i wish that were me

(grabbing your face) do you remember simon fairchild's statement about how he became an avatar. how he fell and the sky embraced him. i think about it all the time. how it would feel to be embraced by the vast. the entity that is about how you are insignificant before the endless void, holding you. the fact that being an avatar of the vast means loving a contradiction: you are insignificant and the entity of the vastness of everything else holds you in its embrace and takes away your mortality.

i wonder if when simon told that one guy enjoy sky blue if the reason he laughed while saying it was because he was sharing his own joy. if in his own way he wasn't being generous, sharing the experience that changed him forever. i wonder if as much as he spreads terror, maybe what he really wanted was to share that experience, and that's why he picked someone who loves sky-diving, someone who was also in love with the sky.

i wonder if that guy who was eaten by the sky isn't out there now, saying the sky held him gently in the huge jaws of endless blue, and he cried with joy as he understood. if what for his mother was a horrible experience that killed her son, for him wasn't the liberation from his mortal life and worries before the realization that we are nothing.

i wonder if simon was afraid, too, before he was in love or while he was in love with it, if he can even distinguish his love for the vast from his fear from it or it's just another facet of his adoration, something he can offer to it, if when he said he loved the sky he meant it like that, like we often love a god, with fear as strong as our adoration.

bro,,, to be seen as poetry???? to have someone look at you and see art?????? bro.