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Ahh classic stuff, nice big rocks!

Oo exciting - if you don’t mind me asking, what sort of species/where?

The absolute weirdest! I feel like (when I’ve thought of them) I usually focus on their pretty babies but I didn’t realise until yesterday how big they got!

Tails ftw

Paracanthopterygians are such an odd group. It’s just cods and then a bunch of relatively low-diversity freakazoid families.

Get out of my face!

This evenings “fish I can’t stop looking at” is the tinselfish (Grammicolepis) - look at this fella. What’s his deal.

A really nice otolith (an ear stone taken from a fish) - it has very visible growth rings and is shaped like a sort of wonky leaf.

A greater argentine (Argentina silus) - it is a silvery fish with a slight greenish gold iridescent on the dorsal side. The eyes are HUGE!

Had the absolute pleasure of mounting and sampling some greater argentine (Argentina silus) otoliths today - look how beautiful they are! And so easy to age!

These specimens were dissected at sea around 1AM, after a full-day migraine - gratifying to have them be nice samples!

Well they all have little stars next to them. Must be good.

This was supposed to be the #SundayFishSketch ...
The bumby snailfish is refusing to get painted at the moment :/ ... I may return to it later or try again.

Now this is what it’s all about!! Middle one looks almost like a ghost shark of some kind? Also, who’d have thought that an angular roughshark would ever look normal!

Bake 31 - black sesame & lotus bean moon cakes. Happy mid-autumn festival!

Bake 30 - white chocolate pecan shortbread, rolled in Demerara sugar

Film 3 for #31For31 was Possessor - really glad I finally got to see this, I’m excited to watch Infinity Pool at some point

Second film for #31For31 was the new Fear Street flick. Fine enough.

I suppose the other interesting thing is that at some point they must transition from suction feeding to snatching things with their jaws

Their lil fleshy tails are so freaky.

Important research but also, you can really tell this little fella is in the same family as cookiecutters can’t you?

Yeah, not as important as Zone of Interest but Nope is the film that I am most often going “oh shit I wanna watch that now”

The poster for the horror comedy Dead Alive - a lady is wide eyed and comically stretching her lips out in a rectangle, exposing a spooky skull face in her mouth! (Unfortunately it kinda looks like a famous internet shock image lol)

Something some of you may not know is that every October I try and watch 31 horror films in 31 days #31For31

Kicked it off last night with Peter Jackson’s glooorious splatterfest Dead Alive (1991), a film that had me grinning from ear to ear for about half an hour straight. What a treat!

The first bedroom -> dinner transition is quite Inland Empire

YES dude this one made me flinch and go "blagh!" out loud, great stuff

I actually think that’s a pretty easy thing to mime

To prove the next bond isn’t woke they need to have him drinking this. It would also have the wonderful side effect of tricking a lot of dads into drinking this shite.

Seeing this 5x5 a couple months ago made me get back into them. Just back from seeing them in London, they’re so good!!

Close enough, welcome back Aquilolamna

Bake 29 - tarte aux pommes 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

#SayNoToChord

Bake 28 - we are so back. Apple and carrot cake decorated with that leftover cream cheese frosting and candied walnuts