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ppnuggie · 7 months

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slides in,, claps hands together,, crosses legs,,

hello tumblr user ppnuggie i say ominously

i have a tarn request for you 🦀

first contact au where they dock on earth to snag a run away thats posing as reader's truck!! reader livin their best life pampering their old truck and driving on the beach and then theirs just a massive ass space ship on the beach and then giant ass robots come out and reader "nopes" the fuck outta there but when she gets to the parking lot her trUCK DUMPED HER and now shes having a very awkward staring competition with some purple man thats like "what is that thing?? its so small and squishy?? what do we do with it??" but also "its so cute,, it sounds adorable,, i like it,, i like this thing" and just fuckin,, nabs her

itd be absolutely delicious of you if there was a language barrier

　　　　　　TARN x fem reader

　　　　『　tarn ,, female reader 』

　　-> first contact au w/ tarn

　　— fluff ,, sfw ,, lil crack ,, kidnapping

　　— kaon takes reader ,, lmk if you want another part to continue w/ this 🙏

" are you sure he's here kaon ? i don't remember this planet or sector ." voice gruff and questioning the smaller bot . the red mech nodded ,, optics dark and empty as he smiled . " i'm sure of it , tarn ." he replied . the mech known as tarn nodded in return ,, looking at the scanners aboard the ship known as the peaceful tyranny . there was barely any trace of a cybertronian signal . barely ,, that is . there was a faint dot on the screen ,, showing one life signal .

" prepare yourselves for departure . lets make this quick ,," tarn said to his crew ,, the djd ,, or better known as the decepticon justice division . " watch out for the life here ,, theyre .... organic ." he said slowly ,, disgust dripping from his words .

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thankfully there werent a lot of people here today . not exactly hot enough for a beach day ,, per say ,, but you didnt mind that one bit . resting in the driver's seat of your old truck ,, you smothered your face with sunscreen . just because it was 70 degrees out didnt mean you were gonna risk getting toasted by the sun .

glad there werent too many little kids around ,, you were able to enjoy your little day off without many interruptions . or so you thought ,, when all the sudden a gigantic ass space ship came outta nowhere . aint no way in hell you were gonna let this moment go though ,, knowing the ufos exist and the government was keeping those aliens locked up and away from public . fishing for your phone in your bag ,, you quickly drew it out and snapped your camera app open .

switching to video ,, you got out your truck and starting to tape the spaceship . this was something outta star wars because aint no way this was government property and a thing for a movie . or maybe it was ? you werent too sure ,, busy being in awe of this majestic ship . until it had landed and out popped its crewmates .

this had to be for a movie ,, it had to be . nothing like just happens on a wednesday . the most that happens is that commercial with the camel saying its hump day . this sorta thing happens on a friday or sunday . one of the robotic beings opened their mouth ,, static and chirps coming out . you werent too sure what it was saying though .

it was all fine until they started looking around and one spotted you . it was quite big ,, purple with tank treads maybe ? it surely didnt look like something from the government ,, but it did look like it was some sort of military machine . a shorter yet more lanky one stomped forward ,, water splashing up against its legs as its hands wrapped around your body .

your phone slipped from your hand ,, eyes wide with shock and jaw dropped open . " hey !" you yelled ,, pointing accusingly at it . " put me down this instant ! who do you think you are ?!" you spat at it . the being looked curious ,, chirping at the purple one you were just looking at .

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" boss ! look ! its one of those organice you told us about !" kaon exclaimed ,, vos coming up beside him and looking at the creature . " it even gave me its goo ! that must mean we've bonded ! oh boss ,, can i keep it ?" kaok rushed excitedly towards tarn . he shoved the creature up at him ,," just look how cute it is ! please boss ! i promise to take care of it !"

tarn backed away a bit ,, leaning down slightly to get a better look at it . " fine fine ,, just focus on the task at hand . as long as you keep it in your habsuite only ." the mech grunted ,, waving kaon away as he pulled up his internal scanners .

tarn would later question his decision . the bot they were looking for had gone into hiding and with night falling ,, the leader had become quite irritated . he would just have to wait ,, it would seem .

#transformers x reader #x reader #x fem!reader #x female reader #tarn x reader #tarn x female reader #human reader #x human reader #🎇.mtmte #🎇.tarn #⌛️.first contact au #mtmte tarn #tarn #transformers tarn

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bodylanda · 1 year

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Wanted to draw this but ended up tired today so ill just write it down and pray i dont forget it tmrw lol:

Sticks vs ffxiv

Keep in mind some charas may have multiple jobs!

TSC: I think they’d be a Warrior ! Its a bit of the poster job of xiv, and they have their giant hammer. Theres no hammer looking weapon in xiv but the warrior axe is close enough. (Plus inner release + equilibrium and all that). An omnicrafter who just likes to make stuff for their friends. Tl;dr: Warrior!

Red: Paladin! I really debated summoner for them, but I think seeing them in AvM 25 with a sword and shield convinced me. Plus their tendency to rush ahead + how tanking is about love (and a side of that “dont look at these other hoes look at me” post) just made me think this actually really fit them. They can still be summoner, but I think they’d also just be a minion collector haha. Tl;dr: Paladin and Summoner!

Yellow: I think they’ve started off as a Black Mage (cool explosive magic!! Planning out your positions!! Knowing the technicalities of the content!! Yay!) but eventually migrated to Scholar or Sage to be a better playmaker. Scholar definitely fits their personality and aesthetic > Astrologian (even tho that’d be cool). I kind of see Yellow as a more supportive playmaker, making opportunities for everyone else to do more y’know. Tl;dr: Scholar, Black Mage and Sage!

Blue: Machinist! I do think they started out as an archer but just ended up enjoying machinist more. I think they got to bard, saw all the crafting stuff and immediately focused on that. By the time they all had to do combat, they just picked the least complicated ranged DPS. I think they’d also be the other healer, I think white mage, closest thing to a druid in this game lol. They spend most of their time in the island sanctuary tho. Knows the second most about how free companies work compared to yellow. Tl;dr: Machinist, White Mage!

Green: Dancer! I think they started out as conjurer, basically swapped with blue and started playing bard until they could be a dancer. I debated red mage as their main job here, but i think dancer fits both the musicality that green would enjoy with the mobility that they display (iirc they use the fishing rod for mobility the most, even in combat). They do have bard tho, theyre a Limsa afk musician 😔 Tl;dr: Dancer, Red Mage and Bard!

In case it wasnt obvious i made everyone have a little to do with the 5 warriors of light in ARR (warrior, paladin, white mage, bard, black mage) ^^; but some of them dont rlly fit it.

Purple: Hello it is now later, and I think they’d be a Dragoon! The jumps kind of simulate what its like to be flying, no? I think they’d enjoy the story a lot and pays attention to the job quests. Probably has the most jobs unlocked just so they can listen in. Their favourite stories is probably Reaper and Ninja but they really only play Reaper and Dragoon. Tl;dr: Dragoon and Reaper!

King: probably didn’t initially want to play but ends up tagging along because purple wants to play. King isn’t very good at fighting a lot of the times it seems, especially at close range, so I don’t think they’d be a tank… I think they might be the actual Black Mage of this group lol. Though I can see them also picking up Astrologian so they can run around healing (read: queue popping) for Purple.

TCO: Samurai for sure lol. It lacks a lot of the like, actual powers or abilities TCO has, but all of their like. Coolness factor I think. Its also the stormblood poster job so I think it fits ahaha.

TDL: Monk! If almost purely bcs its the second poster job of stormblood. There’s also them beating TCO in a straight up brawl in AVA5 even if they were enhanced by some thing.

Victim: omnicrafter lol. Just like tsc/tsc is just like them

#text #ava #avm #just some silly fun thoughts lol

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inthe-cloverfields · 2 years

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If u have been following my fishkeeping/aquatics journey i will let u all know i bought some cool bioactive gravel substrate and a 10 gal and a few other things and OH YEAH live plants-!!!!!!! Mostly for the nanotanks rn bt if they grow and im able to propagate them, well 😏 the 10g it is.

Might be a bit before the 10g is set up though because my family is exasperated w my new hobby ...

#moon.txt #10g tank really isnt tgat big ......#but i will have some happy guys in it... eventually! maybe a male betta... my beloveds.....#id love a plakat so much. or a giant/king #theres a place near me that has giant plakats!!!! and its like. NOT a chain store and they quarantine tgeir fish 6 weeks so theyre healthy #so like. i trust them.#the fish are also like 80 bucks which is..... whew..... must be high quality (i hope at least...)#angways yeah #fishkeeping

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symphonicmetal101 · 2 years

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RANKED

Worst to Best: Storytelling

Based on: emotion, immersion, staying on topic, interest/dtamatics

11. Beel: not very good at telling stories, as he finds the main point, illustrates it as quickly as possible in the most monotone voice ever. In some ways its nice but sometimes you want a little drama. "I scored the final touchdown and won the game :)" and then move on to monchin his sandwich.

10. Belphie: Better at emoting than his twin, but too lazy to add any sort of flair, resulting in the same sort of barebones "story" as Beel's.

9. Lucifer: would be good at storytelling if he didnt always find something to be sad or salty about while hes telling it. His stories always end up being bittersweet, as theyre all about his past.

8. Diavolo: though being a royal has its perks, a strict father makes it difficult to have childhood stories that dont come with sneaking around and/or disappointment. Stories that happen now are either somewhat mundane for most people, like "I got to have fast food for the first time! :D" (but I love him so I would listen to his story anyways, dw bby boi). Other stories are hard to follow, as he bounces from subject to subject excitedly, so you might have to remind him what the original story was gonna be bc of the tangent he went off on.

7. Mammon: has a lot of interesting stories both from his past and more recent endeavours. Very enthused to share them, but also gets side tracked easily, starting one story that accidentally ends in a totally different one.

6. Barbatos: has a ton of hot gossip that makes for good conversation, but anything from his past does not make for too much of a happy story. Doesnt really remember his childhood, nor does he want to. If you can get him to talk about what he likes to do, he is able to tell some very interesting and engaging stories about himself. (Also didnt Barb say he used to dance/alluded to working at The Fall at one point? Thats one hell of a story in itself. If it wasnt Barb it was Luci, idk)

5. Simeon: as an author, he knows how to set a scene, a mood, stick to a plot line *once its been established*. Hes a pretty good story teller, with a lot of ebb and flow to his voice. He is able to catch and keep your interest quickly, but sometimes as he tells stories he gets another idea for the way it "should" have gone, and sometimes that takes away from his focus in the moment, so the story will be dry and boring for a minute before he gets back into it properly.

4. Levi: once you get him going, its hard to get him to stop, and who would want him to? He uses various hand gestures as he gets more and more into the story hes telling, whether its one of his own from times at sea or a retelling of something hes watched/read/played. As long as you reassure him that youre interested in what hes saying as he goes by asking questions and listening, hes happy to go on and on. If its some sort of water trick, he will absolutely dive into Henrys tank, demonstrate it, and hop back out/lean over the edge of the tank to continue the story without missing a beat. (Also, goldfish grow to the size of their tank so WHY the fuck does Henry 2.0 need such a big tank??? Levi??? You planning to ride a giant ass goldfish into your next battle? Or is Henry 2.0 secretly Lotans next giant treat- bc goldfish are so fatty it would be fucking junk food for your sea serpant- but like why the hell do you need a giant goldfish? Is the fish holding you hostage? Threatening you? "Give me big tank or else blub blub motherfucker " ????? Anyways)

3. Asmo: also has hot gossip, but he mixes it into his stories well, and he has plenty from parties hes been to, to Solomons embarrassing moments, to anything hes seen on social media- hes full of stories. He also has a mind like a trap, so if you want him to tell a story again, he can do it almost word for word but with the same energy from the first time. Very engaging and fun to listen too.

2. Satan: has read enough books to recount many from heart. He enjoys doing different voices and often does it subconsciously; if you point it out he'll get flustered and be hesitant to do it again, actively trying not to until he gets pulled into the story again. His enthusiasm makes it very engaging, and he knows how to make the mood right for the scene hes telling.

1. Solomon: yeah ok I had to make the bastard the best at something, and here it is. Having been alive in the human realm for centuries, in contact with demons and angels alike, and a magic user, he has *plenty* of stories to tell and knows exactly how to tell them in order to leave you wanting more. With certain stories he will use magic to animate the story in front of you as he speaks. (Kinda like that scene with Elsa in Frozen 2 when shes singing Into the Unknown). He loves to leave his stories with cliffhangers or tell them so that they sound questionable enough youre not sure if he made it up or if it actually happened. Is almost always down to tell you a story.

#v talks #obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me! swd #obey me!#obey me lucifer #obey me mammon #obey me leviathan #obey me satan #obey me asmo #obey me beel #obey me belphie #obey me diavolo #obey me barbatos #obey me! shall we date?#obey me simeon #obey me solomon #obey me headcanons

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autistichoromatsu · 2 years

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having a class 3 autism moment

just imagine a season where nyaa chan and totoko chan rework their image as a team but arent sure how to move forward. osomatsu very awkwardly reconciles with nyaa and they become awkward friends. therefore nyaa gets more and more sucked up into sextuplet shenanigans

the sextuplets finally realize the girls are Worried about their careers. totoko is getting more and more anxious about where she's gonna end up as she really starts to face the reality of her situation. nyaa has a toddler to feed, bathe, clothe, and nurture, but its sucking her soul right out of the tits. so theyre in a Bind. and the boys are like WE CAN HELP <- incompetent

ichimatsu takes totoko and nyaa to a local specialty pet store where he sometimes gets cat food/toys if he won big at pachinko. they have a giant specialty fish section where he thinks they might be able to get inspiration, since totoko's experience with fish is largely with the fish you eat instead of more colorful, decorative varieties. (bonus concept: totoko gets neon tetras and sets up a fish tank hauntingly similar to the one in perfect blue.)

i also just want an excuse to brainstorm about the cat and fish theme and how they can blend that together without making totoko the "loser". maybe totoko's character is a fierce carnivore, reflected in her costuming - even when she has a food themed costume (like sushi/sashimi or caviar or what have you), she's still characterized as fighting yowai (nudge nudge). nyaa obviously has a very cutesy youthful image as an idol, so maybe she's playing a playful kitty who likes water and befriends a fierce shark or something. maybe they're fierce rivals to reflect the combative nature of their actual relationship, but with a cutesy tone so that they still get the pop idol branding while being able to have a unique and interesting stage presence

strategically making nyaa chan's character more silly and lowkey would be an excellent excuse to give her less complicated / draining choreography compared to totoko, who is much more fit and capable. she still has a few solo songs / solo dance routines as to not throw the audience off, but she overall has less challenging choreo so she has energy to spare for her home life

also i really just think itd be fun to have a roundtable with all the matsus and totoko and nyaa and a few other friends of theirs all hotly debating what totoko should do with her image. and everyones trying to make it their own but still fiercely defending her honor. and totoko's like "i knew these people loved me all along but they really do love me, dont they?" and itd be nice i think. also more nyaa chan we deserve more nyaa chan. milf mondays

#exoticbutterstxt

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diavolosthots · 4 years

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The person mediavel haveth come thru to make a request for thee queen. Hc where Luke going out to the human world with mc and Simeon for the first time and went to the aquarium exhibit. Seeing fishes and getting him a big turtle plushie. Just floof floof for Luke. And here is also your sack of love from me for making the most awesome hcs and being the most precious human ever🌿💕💓💕💓🌿

Oof thy queen hath received thy request, kind human, and I shall make it worth yer while. Also thank youre awesome too ❤

Warning: this is PURE FLUFF NOTHING MORE.

Look at ALL those FISH! (PLATONIC!LUKE x GN!MC x SIMEON)

You couldn't believe that neither Luke nor Simeon had ever been to the aquarium before. What do you MEAN all you know about sea creatures is from books or Leviathan's talk? Absolutely not.

Thats why youre now dragging both the angels to one of the aquariums close to where you live. "Will we see sharks!?" Luke's terrified voice caught you off guard and you couldnt help but laugh at him. "We can but they're behind glass. They wont eat you." Simeon turned to look at you, "behind glass?" You nodded, paying for the tickets to get inside. " yeah but dont worry. They actually treat them good here. This isnt SeaWorld."

A look of confusion was passed your way by both Luke and Simeon and you just sighed, "SeaWorld claims to rescue animals and help them but really theyre just harming them and forcing them to grow up in cages. This Aquarium here actually rescues injured animals, lets them live here for a few months, maybe a year depending on how badly injured they are, and then slowly releases them back into the wild." Simeon smiled at your words, "that's nice. I'm glad to see humans show compassion toward their fellow mammals." Luke nodded "yeah but i hope SeaWorld gets shut down!"

You giggled, "yeah me too. Anyway, come on. We should start with the Stingray, theyre pretty cool." You took Luke's hand, although he was already reaching for it; sometimes he did feel like your son. Simeon took your other hand since Luke decided to be stubborn. In a way, you did look like a fun little family.

As you walked through the Aquarium, it was quite funny to watch Luke get excited about how close the fish and dolphins came to the glass, almost as if he attracted them. "(Y/N)! Look at all those FISH!" Simeon and you turned to look at him and really, all the fish were at the glass in front of him "I guess he's a fish whisperer." You mumbled and Simeon laughed, placing a soft hand on your shoulder, "dont worry, I bet they like you too." You smiled softly in return.

Luke was even amazed by the sharks, which were Simeon's personal favorites, "you know sharks are majestic creatures, and theyre actually not at all aggressive. People just provoke them." You nodded in aggreement. "Definitely." "Hey guys!" Luke called from across the walk way, pointing at another massive tank. "Look at how cute they are!"

Another laugh escaped your lips as you saw the sea turtles follow Luke around the glass as well. "They seem to like you, Luke." Simeon said and Luke smiled proudly, "of course they do! They know I'm nice." Luke placed his hands on the glass, stroking over it as if he was petting one of the turtles. It was truly a cute sight.

You took both Simeon's and Luke's hand in yours and dragged them away. "Time for the gift shop and then we can grab something to eat." "Gift shop?" Said Luke, followed by Simeon's "human food?" And now you had both of their attentions.

In the end, you left with two bags of Aquatic animal shaped candies, a shark tooth necklace, a giant sea turtle plush, and two very happy angels.

#obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me headcanons #obey me scenarios #luke obey me #simeon obey me

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0-pixie-pop-0 · 3 years

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List of mcytblr walmart employees:

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@ribineran: The tired security guard who eats all the cucumbers and runs away from the Karen’s, who is also zhemself.

@hearty-anon: The parental manager who everyone loves but probably carries around a shotgun and will shoot anyone who bullies the employees.

@xxkorvusxx: The person who pushes around the shopping carts but with a monster truck and runs over people who don’t put their carts away.

@theartofmining: The second manager because they’re very cool, doesn’t do much but chases around @ribineran, demanding that they stop eating the cucumbers immediately.

@moonbowphobia: The one cashier who is done with life and smokes weed in the back rooms when they’re on break.

@mcyt-apocalypse-au: Goes around handing out food samples but also sells weed to the customers and other employees.

@weirdowithwaffles: The designated ✨undercover✨ security guard who everyone knows is a guard because you radio the managers every 5 seconds to ‘report suspicious activity’, also guards the dairy isle with their life.

@the-minecraft-corn: The main manager of the Starbucks, conviently by the plant corner, and when there’s nobody in line, they water the plants and spend a lot of time sitting in the corner and sleeping.

@terris: Helps out at the Starbucks, however can mostly be found by the fish and cleaning their tanks, refuses to keep them in small plastic bins. Terris and the owner, 404, replaced them with decent, huge tanks, the fish love them.

@lishblur: One of the high ranking cashiers, theyre the person you call over when you are dealing with a rowdy customer and such, drinks tea a lot, and can be founded often stocking shelves when they are not ringing items up, is up and running for employee of the month. Runs the art shop!

@inkflowindigo: The leaf person, runs around selling plants to customers, very good at spotting leafs and really sweet but rather threatening, because they always have a giant leaf blower. Is the main defense person and blows robbers and Karen’s out of the Walmart. Actually works at Walmart so +10 points, very cool.

@plainwallpaper: Owners platonic partner, helps run the Starbucks and is known for handing out stickers and making custom drinks. Sweetest person in the entire Walmart, everyone loves them, and if they don’t? Their immidiantly banned. Absolute queen. <3

@severely-nearsighted: Runs the electronics shop! Has a very cool spinny gaming chair and brags about it all the time- spends a lot of time on their phone but is one of the most liked employees.

@violet-sandwich: Helps the owner manage the Gunshop, and is one of the most chaotic employees. Steals chips and eats them and has shot at one of the customers for attempting to pull a scam. Has been banned from handling guns with bullets in them. Frequents the chip and ice cream isle, taking bins and eating them while serving customers.

@enbynamedbug: Restocks shelves but often get distracted and eats the food their supposed to be putting away, and spends a lot of time in the back room but is very nice so no one cares.

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To be continued :D

#mcytblr walmart #employee ink #employee demitri #employee corn #employee terris #employee ribs #employee waffles #employee abi #employee moon #employee lish #manager hearty #manager bee

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katedoesntexist · 3 years

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Stay-at-home journal 12/19/20

Yesterday:

Worked half day

Painted some recycled bottles and cans

Caught up on some podcasts

Made a few clay things

Took a bath

Today:

Transfer fish to the big tank together

More clay stuff

Possibly some zootr

Free space:

Ive had thrifting on my mind so much i dreamt abt it. I found a bag of river rocks i wanted. Someone had left behind a giant ice cream sandwich that was melting in a box. I went up to check out and it was like a teller line at a bank. I went up and my dad was working there and he was joking around as if he didnt know me but then giving me special treatment. It was funny. There were other parts of the dream where i woke up and looked out the window and some concert in the park type of thing was going on but nobody showed up in the audience. I felt bad but was like idk what they expected. I think yesterday i had a lucid dream. I realized i was dreaming and was like ha ha fuck this im gonna fly, so i did.

Today we're moving the guppies and one molly into the big tank that has two mollies. Im nervous bc theyll prob have to sort out who is dominant. I rly wish they didn't fight bc it looks stressful for them. We'll see how it goes.

I worked on some craft projects yesterday with mostly positive results. Painted a can and two bottles, which took several hrs and id why. I didnt prime so they'll chip easily, but if i just put them up as decoration its not like theyll need to be handled often. I also made just a few clay things, which also took several hrs. But two of them were more ambitious than what ive tried to make before. Theyre not cooked yet, but i dont think theres any rush to that. Anyway, even tho they took a long time, i felt like i learned a lot abt more of the tools i got and how to actually sculpt.

#katedoesntstayathome #katedoesntclayathome #katedoesntcraft #katedoesntdecorate #katedoesntdream #also my partner got a ps5 and it came just now which is wild

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grox · 4 years

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Did anyone else have fucked up outside dogs cause I remember I had one named Cookie and two male dogs I think one was named Jacob 2 and cookie got pregnat and gave birth and I was like Woah. And like under a week later I went outside and all them were dead and it was so fucked up I like called my mom about it and she was like. Yeah sometimes dogs kill their puppies. Sorry. Like damn okay...

I dont remember what happened to any of our dogs actually I know when we moved out of the city we didnt have any animals with us except the cat and I'm so mad because we left the giant fishtank and a huge jack dempsey named Mama Fish and she loved me so much I cried so hard when I learned we had to leave her behind and I'm crying a little thinking about her we were such good friends she was like 9 inches long she was vicious I miss her so bad

Mama Fish like destroyed everything and we had like them little plastic spongebob and squidward houses and sometimes shed rearrange the tank and move squidward far far away from spongebob and my mom and I would joke that squodward got fed up and left and it was so funny

I'm gonna get a jack dempsey once I'm stable enough living on my own theyre such amazing animals I had mamafish for about 5 years she was so impressive

#animal death

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mar-bluu · 4 years

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Just finished my 2nd day of work experience :)

It was strange but i loved it! Sorry this is so long :p Some high points over the 2 days:

Day 1!

Very nervous!

Very very nervous!

Got there at 8 and knocked on the door which a really nice guy opened for me and let me in

We introduced ourselves amd he told me his name was S, then he showed me the break room where i put my stuff away

Met K! Shes very nice and i helped cleaned out the puppy room while she did the kittens

Was then sent upstairs to cut up some fruit for the birds and guinea pigs

Fed the quails and budgies, then moved onto the cockatiels and other birds

Two of the alexandrines loved the apple and carrot, while the other two (in a different area) didnt want to eat unless i hand fed them (i slowly moved it to the bowl where they shared a slice of apple and aah!! 💖)

I annoyed the sun conures cause i went to feed them but they were climbing on the door so i couldnt open it properly, so i moved onto the other birds. They screamed at me for a while after that

Gave the guinea pigs some orange and saved a few slices for the two upstairs and are sick/unhappy :(

Washed up the bowl

Restocked the birb toys!! Very cool and made out of thicc sticcs and pinecones

Restocked chicken mince and dog bones

Went to the freezer, didn't find chicken mince, did find yoko, a bearded dragon in a freezer bag with the frozen rabbits/mice. Bag said "Yoko, passed after laying eggs :(" made me very sad

Did see Yoko's enclosure-mate who was sunning on a rock just vibing. Made me less sad

Eventually found chicken mince, but no bones

There was another employee who really scared me

Like a lot

Literally for no reason! He just makes me super super nervous

I think it might be because he looked very vaguely like this guy at school who also scares me (also for no reason, we talked once and he was super nice but he still scares me)

Anyway i did algae wipes on the plant tanks but also was super nervous and when i was done, couldn't see S and didn't wanna annoy the other employees so i just kept redoing them, like 6 times

Eventually found S who got me to clean the fish tank lids

The glass fishtank lids

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Other dude had hoses running that went through where i was so the whole time i was going "dont drop the glass, dont drop the glass, dont drop the glass, do not drop the glass, please please dont drop the glass

Did about 4 lids then it was time to go

All in all a pretty good day maybe a 7/10 :p

Day 2!

Got there just before 8, still nervous

K let me in and we put our stuff away upstairs

Met A!

A was a little sick but also super kind, made me a little less nervous

I cleaned out the kittens room while she did the puppers

One pupper was super loud and attention seeking so i stopped and said hi everytime i passed

Kinda felt bad that i kept asking A questions cause i could tell she was close to losing her voice

Finished up just as the store opened

Vacuumed the store

Felt bad while vacuuming near the birbs and guinea pigs cause they didnt like the vacuum but it was very very dirty so i spent quite a bit of time there

Would do one spot then turn around to see a more feathers and sunflowet seed casings (i have a feeling that the sun conures were still upset)

That took quite a while and there were still more feathers!!!!!!!!

Anyway K asked me to wash the outside of the puppy and kitten windows

That took about 20 minutes (smol kiddos kept touching the cleaned glass >:( ah well :/ )

I asked K if i needed to do anything else and she said to ask D (manager(?)) If he had anything, and if not i could,,,,,,, b r ush the kitten s

Ho ly hecc ye!!

Put the bucket/cloth/water away and asked D, he had nothing

Y E S

KI TTE N S

K gave me a brush and the guy who kinda scares me asked if i knew the code to get into the room, A told me before so i was good

But not for long

It was only 4 digits long and i knew the numbers but then forgot the order

I tried every possible order but nothing worked

I went back to the counter and asked again "the code? oh it's 1234"

Okay! I go back to the door "the code? oh it's 1uwje82k"

F r i c k

As im standing there hoping that this door will magically open for me, cause if i ask 3 times uhh I'll die ?

A and other scary dude were walking past and i tried to make eye contact with A and silently ask for help

But A wasnt looking, however, other dude was!

He came over and opened the door for me and had like a 10 second convo

Anyway he seems super heccin chill and nice but still scares me

Anyway

K i tt ies!

I went into their room and said hi then sat down with the brush

I will be honest, i was expecting some resistance whether it was playful, or frightened of the brush, or wriggly

What i did not expect was to be attacked by a fluffy blanket of pure anger

I named them the Shoe Siblings

There were 6, all with names from me

KL (knee licker), Panic Attack (a poor scared bby with HUGE eyes), Rat (just an asshole), Gentle Giant (big boi ! Thought he was most energetic, but was a good boi!) Mini M (Mini marshmallow, the tiniest bitch! Looks like a toasted marshmallow), and BWB (Black and White Bastard, stupid bitch, annoying, a pain, wishes only to cause pain, i love him) theyre all ragdoll kittens)

Literally no matter WHAT i did, i couldn't brush them

They tried to eat the brush so m an y t i me s

Attacked my fingers

"Please get off my shoe"

Play fighting each other and me

Let me do 1 brush stroke before turning around and chewing on the bristles

I let them smell the brush and my hands so i didn't freak them out

"No, thats not for kitty consumption"

Ate my shoes, ate my ankles, ate my arm, ate my shirt, ate my back

I COULD N O T BRUSH THEM! At all!!

"Leave my shoes alone please"

BWB was the WORST!

He bit onto my shoe grabbed the top and r a k e d his legs across the bottoms again and again and again, trying to tear them to shreds! Scratched the shit put of my arms too

I tried to get Mini M over by gently patting on my leg

THIS BITCH

Swung at my hand and stabbed my finger! I bled a lot, but I was fine

Panic Attack ate the fur that i had managed to brush off

KL and Rat wrapped around my leg in a ball of fury

BWB actually crawled into my lap and curl up into a ball, 'aww,' i think, 'he's giving me a hug! Maybe he feels bad'

Nope

This bitch was eating my pants >:(

Anyway another 30 mins later i was rescued by me being able to leave

(The cats were v cute tho)

And thats it :) thanks!

#it was actually a lot of fun #and dude who kinda scares me #im really sorry #you seem really cool actually #also my fave kitty was gentle giant #his meow was so #s o m f t #and his eyes #so blue!!#such a gorgeous boi!#sorry bout this tho #i rambled a lot #like #a lot a lot #long post #anyway have a good day!! :)

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clown-bait · 6 years

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Penny's reactions to your pets headcannon.

No one talks about how he'd deal with having to share you with a pupper or casually knocking things off the table with your cat. Im here to change that friends.

Dogs: He'd be super jealous at first. The two would not get along especially because you have to spend a lot of time and love on your pooch, time that should be spent with him. He'd growl whenever you say you had to leave him to let Fido out and get annoyed when your dog does something cute that takes your attention away from him and makes you go "awww." But then one day your dog protects you from something when he wasnt able to, and Penny realizes that theyre on the same team. He would carefully walk over to the dog and pat it on the head to thank it for keeping you safe when hes not around.

Cats: Same as the dog would be jealous at first but warms up much quicker since they both have similar personalities. He sees your cat hunting one day and watches with amusement. He decides to adopt this small hunter as his as well since they both love you dearly. Also both he and your cat have yet to figure out what the mysterious red light is and how you have managed to master its powers of evasion.

Small mammal: Sorry fam he'd try to eat it. Unless its a rat hed be chill with rats. "I have lots of those in the sewer human!"

Bird: Would also try to eat it. You come home one day and hes got a few feathers in his mouth. You make him spit your bird out and it flies free from his jaws. After a long time of repairing their relationship Penny would teach your bird horrible things to say. You would be chilling with your feathered friend when suddenly it squaks out "time to float fucker!" Followed by distant cackling.

Fish: He actually would succeed in eating it. RIP fish. And also your planted tank because Penny's ability to kill plants. Hed probably like a predator tank tho.

Reptiles: Anything but turtles He'd be chill with. LOVES feeding time will beg you to let him feed them, especially the snakes and large lizards, he cackles when they strike. Will let your snake burry themselves in his warm ruffles. He like the scary bois. If you have a turtle you better get it a new home fast before he finds out.

Inverts: LOVES THEM he gets so excited when he sees you like creepy crawlies because he is a creepy crawly. Has a weird understanding with your tarantulas, will actually help you care for them and giggles when they cronch on bugs. Will try to reveal his giant spider form to you. Gets more comfy about his many leggies sometimes they come out. Hes just really happy he can be a spooky spooder boi around his beloved human.

#pennywise #pennywise headcannon #pennywise x reader #pennywise hc #pennywise x you

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ifdragonscouldtalk · 7 years

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What happens when reioka and I talk

reioka: For real?! Tony's tiny, not person sized?! ifdragonscouldtalk: No XD hes person sized in the fic But it would make it funny Imagine bruce trying to find a needle small enough to get a blood sample reioka: I mean... ask a bird vet probably ifdragonscouldtalk: Tony hanging off Steve's pinky finger by his tail reioka: The idea is very adorable, if impracticle ifdragonscouldtalk: Bucky has a cat. The cat likes little tony. Tony does NOT LIKE the cat reioka: Awww. Wait like like "dinner" or like like "person!" ifdragonscouldtalk: We dont know. Tony screams when Cat gets within 3 feet. Steve keeps Cat out of the room now. reioka: Aw poor kitty lol Poor Tony "It's big! It's get sharps everywhere! EVERYTHING IS SHARP!" ifdragonscouldtalk: Bruce puts a filter in the tank. Tony doesnt like the filter. It swirls the water around and blows him away. Tony launches a war with the filter. Bruce is Not Happy. reioka: Smol Tony building tools with the rocks at the bottom of the tank, sacrificing one of his pieces of seaweed to tie them all together to fling into the filter and cause it to jam ifdragonscouldtalk: Hes smug af cuz he clearly Won until he sees Bruce's face o h s h i t reioka: Lmao does he even understand WHY he needs a filter Does he want to swim in his own excrement ifdragonscouldtalk: He lived in the ocean before reioka All he knows is before the waters were still and now they are Not He probably doesnt notice XD reioka: Lmao the waters were never still you water horse you were just too far down to notice

ifdragonscouldtalk: But ok tony getting so excited he flails around in the water and winds up tangled in seaweed He does Not Appreciate pepper taking a picture reioka: "Pepper I am suffering. This is abuse. I'm going to die here." "You are not going to die you dumb seahorse I won't let you." "*choking sound*" "...Are you crying--" Tony ducks further into the seaweed and mumbles no ifdragonscouldtalk: Bucky and steve storming in from opposite doors shouting whO MADE HIM CRY WHY "I'm not crying!" reioka: Lmao just the idea of them trying to threaten Pepper tho Like... what a death wish ifdragonscouldtalk: Im sobbing imagine some intern giving tony little barbie tools and shit and he gets so frustrated because "I know these are fake! They're plastic!" reioka: He lets go and they float to the top of the tank and he is at the bottom just glaring up at them like... "You've all betrayed me. I know they're plastic and I hate you." ifdragonscouldtalk: Im a g ine someone buying Real Seahorses and putting them in the tank and tony is so territorial and ends up actually just wrestling a bunch of them reioka: I just snorted water out my nose omg "MY tank. MINE. GET OUT." ifdragonscouldtalk: And the actual seahorses are just so curious about this Strange Seahorse They think hes just trying to bump bellies until he grabs ones snout and then theyre Angery reioka: OH NO What does an angry seahorse do [ifdragonscouldtalk sends a screenshot of seahorses fighting with their tails] ifdragonscouldtalk: Seahorses punch Tony with their tails. Tony wails. Theyre meanies. reioka: Wtf Tony you've got actual fists HIT 'EM BACK ALSO A TAIL What a whiny baby I love him ifdragonscouldtalk: Tony eventually emerges victorious They find them the next morning with the others cowering in the corner and the water very slightly pink Bruce is Not Happy reioka: Just name the entire series Bruce is Not Happy because that will probably always be his reaction to everything. ifdragonscouldtalk: Series starts Bucky -- hey yo stevie look at this weird fuckin fish i found Steve -- screams reioka: *snort* Everyone debates on whether or not he's technically a fish and he's just sitting there like "I'm a seahorse" but are you a FISH? "A seahorse." ifdragonscouldtalk: "What is your species" "Awesome" reioka: "What do you call yourselves?" "Our names? I'm Tony, in case you've forgotten." "No, I mean, as a group?" "A family? *gasp* Do you guys not have families, is that why you don't know?" An intern is crying in the background from the effort it takes not to laugh because Tony looks honestly distraught that they've never heard of a family. ifdragonscouldtalk: Oh my g od Good reioka: Finally "Tony. Tony. Are you a fish?" "I'm a seahorse." "Seahorses are fish." "Then I gotta be a fish." Bruce screams in frustration in the background. They've been at this for hours. God damn it. ifdragonscouldtalk: Shoulda just googled it Tony compliments Bruce's singing because he's a gentleman But secretly wtf sort of singing is that reioka: LMAO if the real seahorses are still in the tank, just whispering to them "Did you hear that? Do they draw mates with that? Horrifying." ifdragonscouldtalk: The seahorses just look at him Bruce screams again reioka: Bonus if Betty is there for some reason and comes to see what happened and Tony gasps. "It worked!" ifdragonscouldtalk: Im crYING Whenever pep walks in the room now tony screams reioka: Bonus points: Pepper knows why and one time she screams back and Tony ducks back under the water, covering his blushing face. God I wish I could draw Just seahorse Tony covering his face and Pepper laughing good-naturedly in the background ifdragonscouldtalk: Bucky and Steve spend the whole day trying to figure out why tony keeps blushing and why hes making a "mating hut" reioka: HAHAHA I wonder if Pepper feels bad for "leading him on" because come on, they don't--even have compatible parts, not even talking about the size difference ifdragonscouldtalk: Tony scoffs and says he knows and he was only joking and then literally just turns around and starts crying. Shes still standing there. TONY. reioka: TONY THE ENTIRE TANK IS SEE-THROUGH Aw now I feel really bad for him haha ifdragonscouldtalk: He'll be fiiiiiiine, natasha challenges pep to a fight on his behalf The fight pretty much entails nat biting and kicking peps hand with her tail, but w/e tony loves it reioka: "I will protect Tony's honor," Natasha tells everyone and then BITE BITE BITE Pepper pretends it hurts more than it does tbh Natasha beating the shit out of Pepper's hand Pepper wrapping it in bandages longer than strictly necessary because every time Natasha sees it she puffs up proudly and Tony looks pleased ifdragonscouldtalk: Tony still kisses all the band aids tho Cuz hes a whiny sweetheart reioka: Aw Natasha grudgingly tells Pepper she was a worthy opponent and Pepper glows for hours. ifdragonscouldtalk: Tony starts screaming at steve ans bucky instead reioka: One time when the humans go out for drinks Pepper gets sloppy drunk and cries and the others are like "What's wrong" and she's just like "God I just love these stupid fish so much" YEEE Are they smart enough to scream back or do they just get nervous because they think they've done something wrong ifdragonscouldtalk: Oh my God pep I bet bucky screams back just for the heck of it and steve shrieks cuz hes startled but tones takes it for a scream. Tony glows "I got /two/ human mates nat" She screams at hill just because she likes a challenge and human women are Cute reioka: Natasha is daunted but if they hurt Tony she's gonna fight 'em anyway lol Lmao does Hill scream back OH Hill doesn't scream back but Natasha's just like "aw yisssss motha fuckin challenge" Tony supports Natasha's endeavors even when he thinks she's out of her mind ifdragonscouldtalk: Tony is a Good Bro Tonys new mating house tho Its glorious Nat helps him with it Bruces like "what are you doing" and tonys like "showing off for my mates" "Who?" "Bucky and Steve. They didn't say?" Bruce is Not Happy reioka: It's a good thing Bruce doesn't have Hulk powers because I assume literally everything we've said so far would make him turn into the jolly green giant. ifdragonscouldtalk: "You guys cant fuck the seahorse. It is physically impossible to fuck the seahorse." Steve actually chokes ifdragonscouldtalk: Real question: is clint a seahorse or a human Because i can see him accidentally almost killing Tony and Nat on a weekly basis and them loving it but i can also see him convincing Tony to do stupid shit with him like rock their tank off the table Bruce comes in and screams so loudly and tony looks at clint and goes "wow he really loves you" reioka: On one hand: "You wanna try coffee?" *pours coffee directly into tank. Everyone hates him. Tony and Natasha have not stopped vibrating for hours. They could have died. "MORE COFFEE! MORE COFFEE!" they chant, banging on the glass. Everyone HATES him. On the other hand: "That box they brought in looks interesting do you think you can throw me at it." Tony puts his engineering cap on and Bruce walks in just in time to watch Clint fly out of the tank, screaming, and lands on a pizza box with a splat. ifdragonscouldtalk: Im vibrating desperately as i try not to laugh Clint: puts an entire bar of chocolate in the tank, its gone in two hours, Tony and Nat are simultaneously in immense pain and doing theur best to tear the tank apart Or Clint: challenges natasha to a fight and sends everyone running when he screams because "SHE WAS GONNA RIP MY TAIL OFF" reioka: Lmao beautiful "She wouldn't have ripped your tail off," Tony tells him soothingly as Natasha gives Tony her best wtf face and mouths "yeah I would." ifdragonscouldtalk: Either way bruce screams and tony thinks theyre mates. reioka: Tony, whispering: Bruce must really like you, he screams an awful lot. Clint, thoughtful: ...We could make it work. Natasha: I dunno he screams at a lot of people? Maybe he's not monogamous. Bruce: *notices all three of them staring intensely and is somewhat uncomfortable* ifdragonscouldtalk: Tony: maybe he's what the humans call a player! Clint and Nat: *gasp* Bruce: why tf are they glaring at me what are they planning now ifdragonscouldtalk: Imagine someone trying to explain to them that screaming =/= mating reioka: Tony: It worked for me??? In both cases??? Pepper's just not ready for children but I am and I understand that. Pepper: *spews coffee* Tony: But Bucky and Steve like me! :D Natasha: *smug* Maria likes me. *everyone turns to look at Hill* Hill: ...I have paperwork to do. ifdragonscouldtalk: Bucky and Steve nearly have a heart attack when bruce askes when they were planning to tell him about the children reioka: Steve: Tony, we... can't have children. Tony: D: you... you don't want children with me? Bucky: That's not it! We, uh... we're physically incapable of. Conceiving. With you. Tony: ...WELL. You can't help that you're barren. Steve and Bucky: *bug-eyed* Tony: Maybe I could talk to Natasha. The fry wouldn't be your biologically but it's the love that matters. Bruce finds Steve and Bucky crying later and he doesn't want to ask but he does anyway. "It's the love that matters," Steve sobs, and Bucky adds, "That's so beautiful, holy shit." ifdragonscouldtalk: Oh my g od If they did have children only one ends up having a normal name because bucky and steve are never quick enough to imprint on the fry reioka: Lmao LOL THE PREGNANCY Steve: So how many kids are we lookin' at, Bruce? Bruce: At least two dozen. Bucky: *faints* Bruce: Probably more. Steve: ...Can I afford that many children Bruce: GET OUT OF MY LAB. ifdragonscouldtalk: OH MY VGOD Pepper buys another bigger tank Clint and Nat start hissing at anyone who tries to touch tones except his mates reioka: Aw, little tiny ultrasound on Tony's belly! Bruce endures Clint and Natasha's biting with aplomb. ifdragonscouldtalk: Steve and Bucky both pass out minutes into the labor and continue to pass out every time they wake up till its over By the time they wake up the last time theyre already named - dummy, you, cutie, friday, toast, stan Nat names one Hill and Hill is her Best Niece reioka: Lmao "Why Toast" "Why not Toast? Do you not like it? Well it's too late her name is Toast." ifdragonscouldtalk: Steve and Bucky are crying. The seahorses think it's joy. Pep and Bruce are just patting their shoulders. Pepper thinks they shouldve seen it coming Clint names one Hawk just to piss ppl off reioka: Lmao Tony introducing all the fry to Steve and Bucky, "Children, these are your fathers. Steve, Bucky, this is" long list of names. They're never going to remember them all, they're terrible parents. Eventually Tony orders his children to tell them who they're speaking to because when they misbehave he wants to yell at the right one. "That's fair," the fry agree, and then start doing it for everyone except Pepper and Hill. reioka: Pepper: Isn't it... kinda cruel? Natasha: I heard a seahorse gave birth to fifty kids once. Some of them drift away because they're idiots that won't listen. One time my mom called me every name but mine. ifdragonscouldtalk: Imagine how much Trouble clint gets them into reioka: Clint: Do you think with all these seahorses we could tip the tank Tony: Do not tip the tank. Clint: I bet we could. Natasha: Do NOT Fry: *cheerfully* TIP THE TANK! TIP THE TANK! Tony: STEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEE CATCH THE TAAAAAAAAAAANK ifdragonscouldtalk: Tony and Natasha actually screeching Bucky and Steve catch the tank but tony is sobbing and panicking because his cHILDREN ARE GOING TO DIE LIKE IDIOTS reioka: Steve: *angry* DON'T DO THAT TO YOUR MOTHER. Bucky: Steve, you shouldn't yell at the kids. CLINT YOU LITTLE SHIT. Tony: *sobbing, gathering the fry to him frantically* Fry: *feel terrible* ifdragonscouldtalk: Imagine them all going to the beach and all of them are hanging off Buckys hair and Steve is makin sure none of them drift away Tony is actually screeching in joy because a c t u a l s a n d Toast would prefer to be near Steve so she hangs on to his drawstring of his swimsuit Nat teaches Hill how to train and ride hermit crabs reioka: Tony: *cries* Look at my beautiful family. Bucky: Aw, doll. :) You don't have to-- Tony: MY FAMILY KICKS EVERY OTHER FAMILY'S ASS. Bucky: ...Doll. Steve: *laughs, chokes on sea water* ifdragonscouldtalk: Clint.... Challenges a blue crab,, to a fight Bruce has to save him reioka: Okay so hear me out -- Bruce and Betty are together but Clint just kind of gets inserted into their relationship because "I'm pretty sure he's lowkey trying to die" Bruce says and then Betty has a baby and Clint was like "Holy shit this thing is huge. I love her. She's mine now." Betty's amused. Bruce just sighs. ifdragonscouldtalk: G O O D Clint trying to get the baby to challege a crab to a fight reioka: Baby sitting on it and crushing it with her diaper. Clint: ...That works. Bruce: Stop trying to get our child to fight everything bigger than you, Clint! Clint: *starts crying* Bruce: Oh God what did I do Betty: *snorting, trying to get the crab to let go of the baby's diaper* You called her 'our' baby and he's included in the 'our' and he's happy you idiot. Bruce: Oh ifdragonscouldtalk: Natasha rides past on a hermit crab and clint starts blabbering to her and shes just like yeah? Can YOUR kid race hermit crabs Clint looks at Bruce and Betty. Bruce: No, our kid cannot- Betty: if you can find one big enough Bruce: BeTTY reioka: Betty: Oh my God Bruce he's never going to find a crab big enough. Bruce: I don't believe that. I believe he could find one. He regularly gets himself thrown out of the tank to steal my pizza. Betty: He's so tiny how much could he eat? Bruce: *stony silence* Betty: D: ifdragonscouldtalk: Ok but Bucky with seahorses just hanging onto his hair. Theyre everywhere. He looks like a seahorse tree. reioka: Pepper takes lots of pictures. Bucky loves them. He'd thought about cutting his hair at one point but now that he has become the seahorse tree he vows to only have it trimmed. ifdragonscouldtalk: A horseshoe crab scares one of the kids and Tony's just like im gONNA FITE IT and Steve is like nO reioka: Tony manages to knock it upside down but it's so distressed by it that he gets Steve to turn it back over and it scuttles away in the opposite direction ifdragonscouldtalk: Ok but also Clint and Tony and Natasha forcing pep to help them set up a 'human date' for Nat and Hill because yes reioka: Clint and Tony vibrating when they see Hill coming back with Natasha, ready to interrogate her on whether the date went well, but then Hill leans down and presses a kiss to Natasha's cheek (Well, her entire side of her head, but they intention is still there) and they squeal and then slap at each other to shut up because NATASHA IS BLUSHING OH MY KRILL ifdragonscouldtalk: G O O D Natasha is smug like "She's definitely my mate. She just hasn't done the ritual yet." Hill going to Coulson like "a fish is courting me" reioka: Coulson: Stranger things have happened. Hill: Not to ME ifdragonscouldtalk: Wwheezesx justin hammer,,, stealing them reioka: NOOOOO Can you imagine Tony, Natasha, and Clint trying to protect all the fry Trying so hard, but they all get taken anyway, and they know they couldn't really do anything against a human but they feel like they SHOULD HAVE ifdragonscouldtalk: Can you imagine,, tony breaking down,,, and justin trying to get them to breed. Cuz m e r m a i ds. And tony just telling him that if he touched the kids his mates would kill him reioka: Justin would probably curse himself for missing two seahorses But NAY TWO SUPER SOLDIERS ifdragonscouldtalk: ScReech can u imagine justin putting a little glowy tracking device in tonys chest reioka: Honestly I'm just imagining them all being so scared that their tails clutch at each other until they're just a big ball of trembling, teary seahorses WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT I love it ifdragonscouldtalk: When they finally do come it's actually Maria who gets there first and she scoops up hill and nat and holds them desperately Just nuzzling them Bruce finds clint actually sobbing Steve and bucky beat justin mostly dead reioka: GOOD He deserves it ifdragonscouldtalk: Tony clings to steves fingers and cries while bucky gets the kids reioka: Steve presses desperate kisses all over Tony's body but his lips glance over whether the tracker is and Tony wails in pain and Steve is horrified because oh God what did Hammer DO Bruce physically stops Steve from walking over and crushing Hammer's skull under his boot because he needs to know everything Hammer did

#long post #reioka #reioka writes #talon writes #tal talks #kampos #sort of #seahorse au #tony stark #natasha romanoff #my favorite people #sorry reioka but i had to share

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mighty-mitte · 7 years

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wishlist and resolutions

resolutions and possible plot things for all characters are here, as well as my own resolutions as an rper!

My resolutions

Get Perry more involved in the arching Swynlake plot lines, so he can get his detective shoes on. Plus I feel like I don’t give him enough attention rn, and he’ll really shine when he has a case to sink his teeth into.

Complete more of the monthly tasks (though realistically, with settling back into uni it might be a while before I can do this) they’re really useful for fleshing out characters and a lot of fun, I’ve just been hella busy.

START PROOF READING! I put this as one of my flaws, I don’t proof read enough and so a lot of the time I leave silly mistakes in replies and it really irks me when I realize what I’ve done.

Try to keep up with a steady queue- I’m back and forth with this, sometimes I’m super on top of it and sometimes not, so I wanna keep that going especially with how busy I’ll be in the coming months, what with graduating. So yeah I need to keep an eye on that.

Write better bios- honestly a lot of the time I get over excited to take up a character and I don’t think on their bio as long as I should. Have you read Mitte’s??? Don’t. It’s not that good.

Character resolutions

Okay let’s start with Mitte- she has no resolutions. As with most holidays, Mitte doesn’t really celebrate beyond getting trashed and finding someone to fuck, so. It’ll be like any standard weekend for her really, just with more glitter. She thinks new years is a bogus occasion and she’s already perfect as is, so no resolutions needed!

Deb on the other hand has plenty of things she hopes to do with her 2017!

Learn more slang words- like dope, hella, lit, etc. Basically all the Cool Kid words, that she has never known.

Conclude research and get a giant tank filled with pretty tropical fish. This is happening, Deb is gonna be such a wonderful fish mother, they will be the happiest fish you ever see.

Make lots of friends! Pretty self-explanatory, Deb has never had friends before and so now she wants to be friends with EVERYONE because there are SO MANY PEOPLE in the world.

Begin to understand her magick and come to terms with what it is, learn how to control it. Another that’s kinda obvious- of course I know already what her magic is/its limits and strengths etc, but Deb herself doesn’t, so it’s gonna be cool to see her deal with that this year.

Perry wants to do some stuff too

Basically his only resolution is to better establish himself as the towns reliable detective by solving a really big case and everyone deciding he’s super Good and Useful.

Wishlist

so I copied over my wishlist from the questionnaire and all those ideas are up for grabs, as well as adding some new stuff.

Deb’s sexuality is currently described as ‘undecided’ sooo any help with that would be greatly appreciated, anyone for crazy girls first crush?

Waiting for mitte to have a serious incident (like get hit by a car or idk) and for her to be all tryna get herself discharged and outta hospital and insisting shes ok and for it to hit someone that this girl does not live well, and so they look after her.

Power cut, don’t ask me why, theyre just so much fun

Power switch up weekend- people w/o powers suddenly got em, some magick suddenly mundus, some magick suddenly different magick

Whos gonna be the lets start a band muse, huh??? I bet Deb, but someone start a shitty band w/ me go on go onnnn

More time travel! Lets go to the future

Something with mermaids

Maybe deb loves mermaids

Um yes hello is this the alternate reality where mitte is the queen

This is in resolutions but a big juicy case for Perry please

Also as far as Perry goes i’d like to do more with his asexuality? Like, perhaps he meets a woman and obviously theres never sex or kissing or w/e but their friendship evolves into something that errs on romantic, i just think it woul dbe interesting.

Mitte needs to sleep with more people, so if you’re interested hmu, she’ll sleep with anyone legal.

I’d kinda like for Deb to have an enemy, bc the world aint all sunshine and rainbows, someone needs to not get along with her bc it will mess her up

in the near-ish future when Deb’s started to get more of a handle on her abilities I know it’s really gonna screw her up for real she will hate it when she figures out that she is in control of Flo. There’s going to be a big old breakdown and Flo will vanish for a while, and Deb will need a friend to help her. Like I said this won’t be for a while, but let me know if you’d be into helping her out.

Also Deb is having a new years bash, so anything plot wise in and around that would be cool, maybe you make out with Deb, or just near Deb, idk, anything goes!

Flo being visible to other people, who’d like to see that

This is mean, but I would love for Mitte to con someone, like a locked in target and she takes like half their life savings- or something less drastic! I’m flexible, I just need more Evil Mitte in my life.

Someone buy Perry a fez/stetson/some kind of ridiculous hat. I promise you’ll release his inner child nerd and he’ll love it.

Mitte should probs get a job tbh, but I know she’d be skimming money from the till/stealing from customers or something, so that could be a cool lil plot line, business peoples holler @ me if ur down.

Here’s what I need I need someone to accidentally leave their baby with Mitte bc they have to rush to the bathroom or have their hands full bc Mitte likes kids, she thinks they’re so pure, she’d go all gaga ove the baby for a moment and I just think it would be interesting to explore her more maternal side.

#bdrptasks #inspo

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alienvirals · 7 years

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Alien intelligence: the extraordinary minds of octopuses and other cephalopods

After a startling encounter with a cuttlefish, Australian philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith set out to explore the mysterious lives of cephalopods. He was left asking: why do such smart creatures live such a short time?

Inches above the seafloor of Sydneys Cabbage Tree Bay, with the proximity made possible by several millimetres of neoprene and a scuba diving tank, Im just about eyeball to eyeball with this creature: an Australian giant cuttlefish.

Even allowing for the magnifying effects of the mask snug across my nose, it must be about 60cm (two feet) long, and the peculiarities that abound in the cephalopod family, that includes octopuses and squid, are the more striking writ so large.

Its body shaped around an internal surfboard-like shell, tailing off into a fistful of tentacles has the shifting colour of velvet in light, and its W-shaped pupils lend it a stern expression. I dont think Im imagining some recognition on its part. The question is, of what?

It was an encounter like this one at exactly the same place, actually, to the foot that first prompted Peter Godfrey-Smith to think about these most other of minds. An Australian academic philosopher, hed recently been appointed a professor at Harvard.

While snorkelling on a visit home to Sydney in about 2007, he came across a giant cuttlefish. The experience had a profound effect on him, establishing an unlikely framework for his own study of philosophy, first at Harvard and then the City University of New York.

The cuttlefish hadnt been afraid it had seemed as curious about him as he was about it. But to imagine cephalopods experience of the world as some iteration of our own may sell them short, given the many millions of years of separation between us nearly twice as many as with humans and any other vertebrate (mammal, bird or fish).

Elle Hunt with an Australian giant cuttlefish at Cabbage Tree Bay, Manly, Sydney. Photograph: Peter Godfrey-Smith

Cephalopods high-resolution camera eyes resemble our own, but we otherwise differ in every way. Octopuses in particular are peculiarly other. The majority of their 500m neurons are in their arms, which can not only touch but smell and taste they quite literally have minds of their own.

That it was possible to observe some kind of subjective experience, a sense of self, in cephalopods fascinated Godfrey-Smith. How that might differ to humans is the subject of his book Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, published this month by HarperCollins.

In it Godfrey-Smith charts his path through philosophical problems as guided by cephalopods in one case quite literally, when he recounts an octopus taking his collaborator by hand on a 10-minute tour to its den, as if he were being led across the sea floor by a very small eight-legged child.

Charming anecdotes like this abound in Godfrey-Smiths book, particularly about captive octopuses frustrating scientists attempts at observation.

A 1959 paper detailed an attempt at the Naples Zoological Station to teach three octopuses to pull and release a lever in exchange for food. Albert and Bertram performed in a reasonably consistent manner, but one named Charles tried to drag a light suspended above the water into the tank; squirted water at anyone who approached; and prematurely ended the experiment when he broke the lever.

Most aquariums that have attempted to keep octopuses have tales to tell of their great escapes even their overnight raids of neighbouring tanks for food. Godfrey-Smith writes of animals learning to turn off lights by directing jets of water at them, short-circuiting the power supply. Elsewhere octopuses have plugged their tanks outflow valves, causing them to overflow.

This apparent problem-solving ability has led cephalopods (particularly octopuses, because theyve been studied more than squid or cuttlefish) to be recognised as intelligent. Half a billion neurons put octopuses close to the range of dogs and their brains are large relative to their size, both of which offer biologists a rough guide to brainpower.

The coconut octopus is one of the few cephalopods known to exhibit the behaviour of using a tool. Photograph: Mike Veitch/Alamy

In captivity, they have learned to navigate simple mazes, solve puzzles and open screw-top jars, while wild animals have been observed stacking rocks to protect the entrances to their dens, and hiding themselves inside coconut shell halves.

But thats also reflective of their dexterity: an animal with fewer than eight legs may accomplish less but not necessarily because it is more stupid. Theres no one metric by which to measure intelligence some markers, such as tool use, were settled on simply because they were evident in humans.

I think its a mistake to look for a single, definitive thing, says Godfrey-Smith. Octopuses are pretty good at sophisticated kinds of learning, but how good its hard to say, in part because theyre so hard to experiment on. You get a small amount of animals in the lab and some of them refuse to do anything you want them to do theyre just too unruly.

He sees that curiosity and opportunism their mischief and craft, as a Roman natural historian put it in the third century AD as characteristic of octopus intelligence.

Their great escapes from captivity, too, reflect an awareness of their special circumstances and their ability to adapt to them. A 2010 experiment confirmed anecdotal reports that cephalopods are able to recognise and like or dislike individual humans, even those that are dressed identically.

It is no stretch to say they have personalities. But the inconsistencies of their behaviour, combined with their apparent intelligence, presents an obvious trap of anthropomorphism. Its tempting, admits Godfrey-Smith, to attribute their many enigmas to some clever, human-like explanation.

A paradox: octopuses have big brains and short life spans. Photograph: Peter Godfrey-Smith

Opinions of octopus intelligence consequently vary within the scientific community. A fundamental precept of animal psychology, coined by the 19th-century British psychologist C Lloyd Morgan, says no behaviour should be attributed to a sophisticated internal process if it can be explained by a simpler one.

That is indicative of a general preference for simplicity of hypotheses in science, says Godfrey-Smith, that as a philosopher he is not convinced by. But scientific research across the board has become more outcome-driven as a result of the cycle of funding and publishing, and he is in the privileged position of being able to ask open-ended questions.

Thats a great luxury, to be able to roam around year after year, putting pieces together very slowly.

That process, set in motion by his chance encounter with a cuttlefish a decade ago, is ongoing. Now back based in Australia, lecturing at the University of Sydney, Godfrey-Smith says his study of cephalopods is increasingly influencing his professional life (and his personal one: Arrival, the 2016 film about first contact with cephalopod-esque aliens, was a good, inventive film, he says, though the invaders were a bit more like jellyfish).

When philosophers ponder the mind-body problem, none poses quite such a challenge as that of the octopuss, and the study of cephalopods gives some clues to questions about the origins of our own consciousness.

Our last common ancestor existed 600m years ago and was thought to resemble a flattened worm, perhaps only millimetres long. Yet somewhere along the line, cephalopods developed high-resolution, camera eyes as did we, entirely independently.

A camera eye, with a lens that focuses an image on a retina weve got it, theyve got it, and thats it, says Godfrey-Smith. That it was arrived at twice in such vastly different animals gives pause for thought about the process of evolution, as does their inexplicably short life spans: most species of cephalopods live only about one to two years.

The study of cephalopods gives some clues to questions about the origins of our own consciousness. Photograph: Peter Godfrey-Smith

When I learned that, I was just amazed it was such a surprise, says Godfrey-Smith, somewhat sadly. Id just gotten to know the animals. I thought, Ill be visiting these guys for ages. Then I thought, No, I wont, theyll be dead in a few months.

Its perhaps the biggest paradox presented by an animal that has no shortage of contradictions: A really big brain and a really short life. From an evolutionary perspective, Godfrey-Smith explains, it does not give a good return on investment.

Its a bit like spending a vast amount of money to do a PhD, and then youve got two years to make use of it … the accounting is really weird.

One possibility is that an octopuss brain needs to be powerful just to preside over such an unwieldy form, in the same way that a computer would need a state-of-the-art processor to perform a large volume of complex tasks.

I mean, the body is so hard to control, with eight arms and every possible inch an elbow. But that explanation doesnt account for the flair, even playfulness with which they apply it.

They behave smartly, they do all these novel, inventive things that line of reasoning doesnt resolve things, by any stretch, says Godfrey-Smith. Theres still a somewhat mysterious element there.

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