The Manifest

A lighthouse can be a sort of wizard tower

I love the ocean 🌊

this is your reminder to stay hydrated

unironically my favorite thing about tiktok is how the algorithm will sometimes assign you a random niche interest like for a while. it's just like hey you're gonna be into beef tallow now. last year it gave me pointe shoes. yes as in for ballerinas. my current tiktok-assigned niche interest is the north sea.

Look, if you've ever read a fantasy story and wished YOU could go to a magical land I want you to get on a ship and go far, far out to sea. Until land is so far away it might as well be a dream. Read one of those old fairy stories in your bunk- the dark, brilliant ones where if children aren't careful they can get tricked away to a strange and dangerous land.

And then go out and stand on the deck and look out at the world, the world of only water, the world you can only float on the surface of because all of the rest of it is death, death, all around you. The sea is everything, stretching to every horizon. It is so unlike everything you've known you might as well be on mars. It doesn't want you dead but it doesn't care if you die- and you're not made to survive it.

Despite that, if you stay too long the sight of land makes you sick. If you stay too long you're not fit for solid earth anymore. You don't have to dream of magical lands anymore; You're in one.

Fun fact of the day

you will never fucking guess which characters i'm about to draw over this bg

Illustration I made for my art project. To think we are looking for aliens in space, when we have all of this life underwater left unexplored.

Details, part III: “Arabesque” series, contemporary. Painter: Daniel Abel.

growing up by the sea really makes you understand why sailors were Like That back in the day. yeah the sea is the love of my life and i'm nothing to her but my heart belongs to her and her alone. she's a cruel, uncaring temptress and she wants to steal me away and eat me alive but to die in her cold, dark abyssal embrace would be such a wonderful way to die.

and there be Creatures in there

when she comes home

"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

don’t mind me i’m just tearing up over this photo of a whale shark and zebra shark

Everything in its place | warrenkeelan