I never really realized how many incredible organisms there are that live on the seafloor.\u00a0 Sea slugs are so beautiful.\u00a0 They come in extraordinary colors that I never even realized occurred in nature.\u00a0 When you hear the word “sea slug” unpleasant imagery comes to mind.\u00a0 Past interactions with diarrhea-green slugs squirming over cement, leaving slimy trails and drying up like raisins on driveways, make one think of similarly revolting creatures that are only different in that they live underwater as opposed to in your garden.\u00a0 Seeing these animals as they actually are after having built an expectation for them is completely shocking because they are almost the complete opposite of what you’d expect.\u00a0 Regular slugs that you’d often see are pretty uniform; all of them fall on a spectrum of green-brown to orange-brown with less common banana slugs being the only thing to break up the dull pallet of land slug colors.\u00a0 Sea slugs have very little in common with this, coming in technicolor blues, pinks, yellows, and greens.\u00a0 I don’t know why all of these beautiful animals would be put somewhere where they can’t be easily seen by humans.<\/p>\n
I started this blog a long time ago but never finished it.\u00a0 I’m not sure why, but I looked up sea slugs on google images, and I was stunned by how beautiful they were and thought that they would make a really interesting blog topic.\u00a0 It turns out it kind of did but only for about half a blog.\u00a0 I could not stretch it out any further for the life of me, and as I let time pass, I only became less interested in the topic over time.\u00a0 I am honestly terrified of this happening to me as an artist.\u00a0 I don’t want to begin a million projects and lose interest in each of them before finishing any of them.\u00a0 I have started so many things that I’ve chosen to abandon rather than revise as I have changed and they stayed the same.\u00a0 I really want to change that about myself.\u00a0 I know that if I don’t, I will never be able to be a productive writer, but that doesn’t make it any easier.\u00a0 It is something that I will have to push myself to do.\u00a0 I am working on a book now that I will force myself to finish, and if I get halfway through and rereading the earlier parts has become painful, I will rewrite them so that they meet my new standards.\u00a0 I will do whatever it takes to make myself do this because I need to prove to myself that I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I never really realized how many incredible organisms there are that live on the seafloor.\u00a0 Sea slugs are so beautiful.\u00a0 They come in extraordinary colors that I never even realized occurred in nature.\u00a0 When you hear the word “sea slug” unpleasant imagery comes to mind.\u00a0 Past interactions with diarrhea-green slugs squirming over cement, leaving slimy … Continue reading “Sea Slugs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3495,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}