Fishes - Blog Posts
Dark academia moodboard set in Madurai,Tamilnadu
//I want to be a mystery, yet be known.I want to be together, yet alone is too much to ask, to be famous yet unknown? To be a wanderer, yet have a home?//
-Kara Douglas
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Some fish species, called mouthbrooders, carry their young ones in their mouths for protection.
They would be traumatised if they saw Asian parents dealing with their children.
this was supposed to be a doodle ... lmao
Taima tobiko
Meet taima kobiko!!!
don’t let her cute and beautiful hair fool ya she is a cannabis subbucus who will eat your heart out then save your liver for a left over dessert 😐
Gerald has a run in with her and he nearly died but Phoenix came in and kicked her ass 👍 don't worry they make up in the future and she becomes apart of the gang
Feeessh
learning a new meduim? Try fishies…
let me call it....🐟fish friday🐟
feels like a new tradition (hope i'll have enough energy to keep on)
i found out that thing really brings me joy,, like i don't feel exhausted and i don't hate myself after drawing 'em! so, its some new kind of relaxation i think.
Summer Solstice~~
It is time for the rawest of fuckin data
Anyways, this isn't the FINAL information i just wanted to show yall a snippet before i put everything together (which will take time bc im a full time student and i work)
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Overall we had 454 responses!
Q1 was generally about autistic identity.
80.4% of respondants identified as autistic (self or professional diagnosis was acceptable). 12.5% were unsure and 7% did not identify as autistic. I included a chart.
Q2 asks about if the respondent currently has an interest in fishes/marine life or if they have in the past.
83% of respondents said they do have a current interest in fishes, while 10.8% used to. 6.2% never had an interest in fishes.
As far as reasoning goes with regards as to why autistics like fishes: I haven't gone through EVERYTHING yet, but the common trends so far are: Comfort, they got there from a different special interest, the amount of diversity within fish groups, and because a lot of them are unusual. I'll go more into depth when i read them all and write my thingy.
What id do differently: In the future I wouldve liked to include one part for other neurodivergents and one for neurotypical folks, just cuz it'd be cool to see if there's a difference between why we like it vs neurotypicals. This was just to find out why autistics tend to like fishes so much, so that was something that popped into my mind AFTER i had gotten a fair amount of responses. I'd mosty just wanna focus on tightening up my questions.
I'll try to get the writing out when i can!
Have you seen this post?
You probably have. It currently has over 120,000 notes, largely because of this addition.
Of course it's going to get reblogged, this kind of unsourced factoid does numbers on here. But something about it wasn't quite right.
A bit of searching turned up the origin of the "fact".
Alright, so it's someone who posted this on reddit 4 years ago and somehow ended up in the search hits. And the post confuses the electric eel (from South America) with the electric catfish (from the Nile, which the Egyptians would have known about).
Reminder: this is an electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). It is from South America. (image from Wikipedia)
And this is an electric catfish (Malapterurus electricus). It is from the Nile and would have been familiar to the ancient Egyptians. (image from Wikipedia)
And then of course people were speculating in the notes to that post about trade routes between South America and Egypt. Excellent scholarship everyone.
At this point I was ready to call it another made-up internet fact that gets reified by people repeating it. But something was still bothering me.
An ancient Egyptian slab from 3100 BC. What could that be...
Oh.
The Narmer palette. It's the goddamn Narmer palette. (image, once again, from Wikipedia)
So where is this "angry catfish"?
It's not the Egyptian name for the electric catfish.
It's... Narmer. It's Narmer himself.
Narmer's name is written as above (detail of top middle of the palette), using the catfish (n`r) and the chisel (mr), giving N'r-mr. The chisel is associated with pain, so this reads as "painful catfish", "striking catfish", or, yes, "angry catfish" or other similar variants, although some authors have suggested that it means "Beloved of [the catfish god] Nar".
So.
Where does this leave us?
It would appear that this redditor not only confused electric eels with electric catfish, but also confused a Pharaoh's name with the name of a fish. And then it got pushed to the top search hits by a crappy search engine and shared uncritically on tumblr.
In short, "the electric eel is called angry catfish" factoid actually literacy error. Angry Catfish, who ruled upper Egypt and smote his enemies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Also the Arabic name for the electric catfish is raad (thunder) or raada (thunderer).
References
Afsaruddin, A., & Zahniser, A. H. M. (1997). Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East: studies in honor of Georg Krotkoff. Eisenbrauns.
Clayton, P. A. (2001). Chronicle of the Pharaohs. Thames & Hudson.
Godron, G. (1949). A propos du nom royal. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte, 49, 217-221.
Sperveslage, G., & Heagy, T. C. (2023). A tail's tale: Narmer, the catfish, and bovine symbolism. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 109(1), 3-319.
poem i wrote bout the humble yellow boxfish
cheesy fish (18/11/24) (remake from the original cheesy fish poem (04/02/24))
cheesy fish o cheesy fish you are not on plate nor are you dish i look upon your boxy figure and wonder why you are not bigger cheesy fish small and cubic cheesy fish yellow and blue brick cheesy fish ill call you rick
(this rick btw (just the image that inspired this (it's from wikipedia))
Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
Can you sleep with your eyes open? Fish can! In fact, most fish can’t close their eyes at all, as they don’t have eyelids. The only bony fish that can close its eyes are the puffer fish!
(Image: A spot-fin porcupine fish (Diodon hystrix) by Alessandro Cere)
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my puffer is the best in the world. surely almost all of the puffer owner think the same.
puffers sleeping in their own houses
Daily fish fact #782
Longspined porcupinefish!
As a defense against predators, this fish can swallow water into its stretchy stomach to quickly grow in size, erecting the sharp spines on its skin that otherwise lie flat! The stomach of the longspined porcupinefish is extremely specialised for this purpose: it is full of folds, has additional muscles surrounding it that squeeze out the water once it's time to deflate, and lacks any digestive ability.
