Anonymous asked:
for requests: would you ever draw tenna using a white cane possibly. i am visually impaired and i like to headcanon him as blind or low vision from burn-in because he doesn't have eyes and often doesn't recognize people
mama-miba answered:
YESSS ABSOLUTELY!! i am also a very strong believer in low vision/blind tenna - i always think of his vision as something akin to very very strong visual snow mixed with general blurriness that is partially mitigated by his antennae and his familiarity with TV World and the studio (until well. cleaving,)
![Three drawings of Tenna with low vision. In the first drawing, Tenna quickly and easily navigates the halls of TV World with his hands behind his back. The drawing is labelled "[Tenna is] super used to + physically Is TV World." In the second drawing, Tenna (post-Ch3) is holding onto a guardrail and struggling to walk down the stairs in Castle Town, unable to see where he is going. In the third drawing, Tenna is readjusting to walking around with a white cane, scanning the ground ahead of him.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/ae4eddf9033a7579c4251e6603f4cfe6/21538a4ee0104a81-92/s75x75_c1/733db585e6f9b7054c87dca31bbc60c83509ec28.png)
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absolutejamer asked:
Why do kiwis have such massive fucking eggs “it’s because they are related to ostriches and-“ yeah ok but like why didn’t they evolve smaller eggs if I was in charge I would do that shit pronto. Thoughts?
crabussy answered:
their big eggs are actually that size for a similar reason to human babies having massive heads!! being bigger at birth can be important.
kiwi are trying SO HARD to become mammals. fur-like feathers, whisker-like feathers, little beady eyes, nocturnal, great sense of smell…. that’s basically a mammal!! they’re well suited for life on the forest floor.
their big eggs work alongside these adaptations to give them a leg up in the bird world. their young hatch already feathered! they’re precocial, which means they’re born with the ability to open their eyes and move around. like foals.
big egg = more powerful offspring from the get-go. babies don’t need to spend precious time vulnerable while they develop on the ground when they’ve already done all that in the egg!
(unfortunately, with the introduction of mammals to aotearoa, these adaptations are a little less useful…)
Important addition: baby kiwi come out of the egg looking like they've come out of a shower with a hangover
They look like one of the downsides of emerging from an egg fully formed is how aware you are off just having come out on egg.
First minute alive, already dealing with some fucking experience.