life update :3c

ive been superrr offline lately I KNOWWW but that's j bc i've been super busy!!!!! sibling came home from college for a bit and school has been a wee nightmare.... next week i have off tho!! currently working on a research project for one of my classes, too, which is cool :) it is on biomimetics and engineering applications if anyone is interested in that sorta thing. i've also been getting back into painting which is rly nice, i might post the thing im working on once it's done :D

i also watched jaws (1976) for the first time last night and oh my god!!! the differences between the movie and books are staggering. it was also really horrid to the shark :( very saddening movie tbh

i've been thinking a lot about a theoretical gulf of mexico coelacanth too... current "evidence" amounts to one spanish goblet that hasnt been found, a few sightings in the mid-20th century, and 2 sculptures that are from an uncertain date. i think it'd be really cool if migratory patterns of that fish were to land it in the gulf of mexico, though. however, when thinking about it, it doesn't seem plausible. now, if there were coelacanths found in, say, japan, then i would believe that, because the current 2 separate populations are in southern africa and indonesia. therefore, a northern or southern coelacanth would be possible, especially considering theoretical migratory patterns over the past ~60 million years. i find it really interesting!