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ppprecious babyyyyyy😭😭😭😭

Today's Seal Is: Shrimply Postured

happy weddell seal wednesday!!

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Today's Seal Is: Some Kind Of Wuppy

Today's Seal Is: Some Kind Of Wuppy

the humble motor:

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the kisserssssss the loverssssss

bah

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SOUND ON.

honk

I feel that rain world may have DEFINITELY had some lovecraftian inspirations when it came to the void and rot creatures. Especially when it comes to the rot worm and prince. Were they seeded from a higher entity? Where did they come from...?

that other anon was right, people he/him-ing prince is absolutely infuriating. 'prince is a masculine term' have you never heard of a metaphor in your god damn life. do you really look at this rot born thing, and think that it would use traditional pronouns? that thing would NOT care. it has things to do like spreading its kingdom. coming from the same fandom that misgenders srs, i'm pretty sure at least a good 50% of you would continue to use he/him even if it was named the monarch.

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On The Prince's awakening, and enlightenment through echoes

While the throne has probably existed for eons, and something was starting to coalesce at its peak, it is pretty openly stated that it is watcher's precense in the throne what acted as catalyst for the birth of the prince's selfhood

Ahh! To move! To breathe free!

Never again... STARVING, pressing, grinding, SQUEEZING

against... us? But now... I? A... SELF And... an OTHER.

Oh the joy! The incomparable JOY!

Ahhh hah... familiar.

There was... such discomfort... and hunger. Endless hunger! And then... a presence!

A light! A scent! A tunnel! To freedom! How beautiful, FREEDOM!

A scent. Familiar. So familiar.

The watcher is probably the first living thing to be to the throne proper in an eternity

But I think there's more to this

4 karma "murals", 4 karma upgrades

4 visits, 4 warp points

Watcher's visits brought enlightenment like visiting echoes would do for a slugcat

"The highest enlightenment, achieved by the hardest path. A feat even guardians must respect" This achievement requires the player to raise their maximum karma to the highest level without visiting Five Pebbles. To do this, the player must find 4 out of the 6 Echoes, each of which raise the player's maximum karma by a small amount. All 4 Echoes must be found before visiting Five Pebbles. The achievement is earned as soon as the last Echo raises the player's karma level to the maximum of 10.

And is not as simple as just visiting 4 times either: for this awakening to properly progress you must make it to the top, eat the karma flower, then make it to a previously sealed chamber to open a warp point there

almost as if you're opening new pathways in its brain (tree)

A light! A scent! A tunnel! To freedom! How beautiful, FREEDOM!

These paths you weave. Through them I have expanded my kingdom. I have tasted and I have become. It is my true purpose I believe. Perhaps the only purpose!

Enlightenment is gaining knowledge, understanding, insight

Perhaps Echoes don't just give you more karma merely by merit of being extraplanar beings with influence over karma itself, or by the insight behind their anecdotes

Perhaps Echoes give you a glimpse into what lies beyond, a window to the fractal layers of reality

Perhaps what is happening here is something similar, the watcher showing the throne other worlds through the paths

the karma flowers though, thats harder to understand

perhaps the one at the very top represents the little death that is sleep ("like sleep like death")

Echoes always send you back to sleep after all

ouroboros

ii have to illustrate this in a way that can be comprehended. also pretend i remembered to draw the crosses on that 1 patch of sentient rot with the tendrils

Mainland She Oak Skink (Cyclodomorphus michaeli), mother with pups, family Scincidae, eastern Australia

photograph by Ken Griffiths

as a lilypad enjoyer, can I have them being cute please? they don't need to do couple things if you don't want to, I just like em sitting together..

Silly robot kiss + a doodle I will probably finish another day for them :P

wow I love to sit crosslegged without moving for several hours straight!

Do you love the color of the North American teiid lizards?

Komodo dragons have iron-tipped teeth, new study shows

Komodo dragons, the world’s largest species of lizard, have iron-tipped teeth that help them to rip their prey apart, according to new research. The metal is concentrated in the cutting edge and tips of their curved, serrated teeth, staining them orange, scientists wrote in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. Komodo dragons are native to Indonesia and weigh around 80 kilograms (176 pounds) on average. They eat almost any kind of meat and are known as deadly predators...

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/24/science/komodo-dragons-iron-teeth-scli-intl/index.html

a second skywhale has hit the signal spires

My comfort character isn't allowed to feel comfortable. Make him regret. Being born.

Nile Monitor (Varanus niloticus), family Varanidae, Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa

photograph by Ruth Rising

[WIP] This guy sure... Watches a lot. Wonder whats up with that

this but i stole it from twitter

The Watcher! <3.

awesome beach near me