#😂😭why am I like this?!

[emry-stars-art]

sorry to bother you, but….

if statled jelly!niel stings, does sleeping jelly!niel sting? Because it seems to be a conscious effort for niel to not sting? Or did I misunderstand this?

what are the scientific implications of sleepy jelly cuddles?

Great question! Thank you for letting me put on my more beach-appropriate baseball cap and do more mer research hehe

So I asked the shark and he told me to mind my business I think.

Unfortunately for him, the manta ray will spill just about anything in exchange for pretty human stuff and I am great at taking notes.

Basically? It seems to me like it’s expected touch vs unexpected, combined with the jelly’s maturing self-awareness. When it’s younger, a jelly mer will start getting control of its sting by ‘turning it off’ consciously. As they get older, it can become closer to “will not sting unless actively startled or for good reason” as the jelly chooses! Think of the sting response like a knee-jerk, throwing-elbows response. Anything less startling isn't worth the effort. Or in jellyneil's case, maybe more of a nervous person's flinch response.

So at this age when jellyneil is awake, it generally won’t sting unless really startled - unfortunately for most mers, the poor thing is a little jumpy and most unexpected touches are startling 🥲

When jellyneil is asleep, there’s more of a “base state” idea happening - however it goes to sleep is how it’ll peacefully stay. So if it falls sleep with someone else touching it, no stings! If it falls sleep in traditional jelly fashion (wedged between rocks or otherwise anchored down) the tentacles and stingers are instinctively in defense mode and I cannot advise getting too close.

If it gets startled awake though? I can only assume it would sting then as well but I can't tell you for sure because the whale and the one shark twin are usually very good about not letting that happen.

There’s some point to be made here about the fact that the stinging is only ‘turned off’ while cuddling/sleeping on other mers - clearly, brushing up against rocks doesn’t desensitize the stingers to other outside stimuli. In open water, the sleeping jelly knows to fend for itself. The presence of another mer seems to be instinctively calming.

But I am not here to wax poetic about it, that’s your job, I just provide the research 🤲

Find the mer au masterpost here 💕

#lmao am I just like out on a lil research boat in the middle of the ocean #or am I at some research facility where Wymack brings all his kids for check ups #why am i suddenly making this au modern?? #I can NOT get existential about this 😂😭 #ANYWAY #‘scientific implications of sleepy jelly cuddles’ #anon did you specifically design that string of words to get all of my interests and joys at once #because it sure feels like you did #fan art #my art #aftg #all for the game #mer au #oops all mers au #mer research notes #lol imma make that a tag now #sharkdrew #jellyneil #jellyfish #whalemack #sharkaaron #….? did we give him a mer name #asks

[navybrat817]

Me yesterday: "I have too many AU's."

Me today: "Assassin!Bucky? Okay."

#navybrat rambles #bahaha #😂🤣😂 #but also #😭😭😭 #bucky barnes #assassin!bucky barnes #future fic #why am i like this #sorry lovelies #are you reading my tags? #go drink some water #stay hydrated my friends

[evansbby]

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#random and emo and will prob delete but #sometimes i feel so lonely in this fandom 😔😭 #like amongst the writers of this fandom I mean #like it feels like all the cevans writers are friends with each other and I’m the local weirdo on the other side like 🤠 #obv I talk to some people and am mutuals with some people whom I loooove but like #idk I’ve always felt this low-key 😂😂😂 #it’s bc I’m so awkward and I think that they all think I’m annoying #like I automatically assume most of the big writer blogs hate me lol #which is deffo just in my head and I’m insane yall know im fucking insane and jump to conclusions 😂😂😂 #but idk sometimes I just feel sooo lonely #well not LONELY bc I love my anons and my mutuals and I’m always on here yapping about something or the other 😅😅 #but I feel like I’m not part of that amazing writer community where everyone’s friends with everyone #MAYBE BC I NEVER FUCKING TALK TO ANYONE BUT THAT IS BC I AM SCARED SO I NEVER PUT MYSELF OUT THERE #😭😭😭😭😭 #but yeah lol #no fr tho why can’t I be normal lmaoooo

[baronessblixen]

My physical therapist told me to go easy on my elbow and what am I doing?

Moving furniture.

#personal #why am i like this? 😂 #i wanted to read #really i just wanted to sit around and do nothing #now i'm rearranging furniture #it will never heal 😭😭😭

[xariarte]

two years ago Sportsnet did an animated series on their most prominent Canadian players and I've just rediscovered them.

so here's some of my fave screenshots from the Dillon Brooks one, where he builds his superhero team filled with Canadian NBA players:

it opens up with Steve Nash and immediately see that he's reading, "How to Win Games and Influence Players" complete with his two MVP trophies in the back 🇨🇦😂

(he's there to call all the Canadian players with their individual superpowers btw)

first up is Dillon and his superpower is "fearlessness" bc he never backs down from a big moment (so true) but what really gets me is the fact that he named himself–

MR. FEARLESS????? 😭😭😭

brb i am crying with laughter rn. hope i can make it through the rest of this post... 🤣🤣

(the animation team was not getting paid enough for this i swear)

next is my fave Toronto Raptor Chris Boucher (💖), whose superpower is elasticity, bc his arms stretch everywhere...i can confirm this, having watched him for five years now 😂

beloved Dwight Powell!! 🥺💕

you gotta have a center who is super strong, who's a "force to be reckoned with" (Dillon's words...he is so real for that) and who can be animated as a purple rock human being 😤😤

of course Shai has to be here, bc he's the most talented one. he's smooth. so smooth that he's silky smooth, and smooth enough that the animation team put r&b music in the background 😂😭

lastly, it's Lu Dort!! his superpower is teleportation, which is the best superpower out of all of them: "...you shake him with a great move, he's able to get back in front...teleporting from place to place."

but having him hold a Montréal style bagel is the cherry on top 🥯

and that's the whole team!! plus animated Steve Nash. a complete superpowered Canadian team (not a coincidence that 4/5 of these players are on the upcoming Olympic team either)!! 🇨🇦

really recommend watching this one. there is a reason why this one has the most views out of the whole series!!

...like yes you have to listen to growly Dillon Brooks narrate...

but you can't tell me that you DON'T want to see Dwight Powell run through a brick wall with his super duper strength !! 😤🧱

#this was a long one...apologies from all the way up north #this video was the one that inspired this screenshot series. i was like. y'all gotta see this. you DO. 😂 #why is dillon still holding ice cream at the end though??? #canadian basketball #dbrooks #mr. fearless!!! i am still laughing... 😭😭

[moonsbijou]

i love all the teen representation and younger that black girls are getting lately still yearn for the proper representation for us gals in our twenties and thirties too tho, it could always be better across the board tho

#wendell and wild #darby and the dead #gossip girl reboot #gossip girl #pjo live action #there’s more i am thinking of but I can’t remember the name right now #my post #my posts #and I mean as like main characters that’s not like struggle life movies #and actually black actresses 😂😂😂 cuz honey why Hollywood had me thinking certain people are black women 😭😭😭 lol #that girl lay lay #karma’s world #poc #woc #bgm #wakanda forever #had to add that too now that’s I’ve seen it #black panther 2 #saturdays #marsai martin

[dyk3leepuppy]

accidentally thought abt being babied and tickled 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞

#not nsfw. just too shy to post on my main #like i just wanna be babied n praised and teased till my brain is MUSH😭😭😭😭😭 #then tickle me silly to make sure my brain never works again😂 #or both at the same time!😆 #no but it’s such a ☹️☹️☹️🩷special thing to me nobody gets me😞😞😞 #like babying me and praising me AND tickling me???? makes me feel so ☹️☹️😞😞loved idk. #LIKE HOW TICKLING IS A WHOLE LOVE LANGUAGE TO ME #but that .like teasing. goes hand n hand w the tickling for me🎀 #me if loving tummy tickles was illegal #LIKEEEEE the stupid silly teases abt ur giggles being ‘trapped’ in there and the ler going ‘omg we gotta get all the giggles out!’ #me imploding like the submarine the second the ler (she😂) calls my tummy cute 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #OHHHH AND.cooing /baby talking that . Shoot me #ohhhh my god and i accidentally thought abt her tickling me but babying in spanish😭😭😭😭😭😭 #baby talking ‘miraaaa está pancita tan chulaaaa😆’ GOOOOOOD FUCKING BYE. GOOD FUCKING BYE! NEVER SPEAK TO ME. #oh why the fuck am i posting this. she gonna see it😭😭😭 #i’m fucking insane . #TICKLING IS SO FUN AND SILLY AND TEASINF MAKES IT SM MORE FUN. ☹️☹️☹️

[zevrans]

so i got the epilogue finally :") and god.. i don't want this game to end 🤧 the credits hit me one more 🥲😭

#i wonder if there's a dlc to come with all the thoust may yet be needed talk from withers??? #also i fucked up with gale he became god 🥲 it hurts to see him like this actually nothing of gale i loved left 😭 #also i didnt get hugs from everyone 😭 #only karlach halsin and shadowheart ;_; #why wouldnt wyll hug us??🥲 i understand with laezel since she was an astral projection and gale well..not being himself anymore in my eyes #i was 100 exceptional with everyone and yet?? WYLL WHYYY 😭😭😭 #at least i got plenty of hugs from halsin and shadowheart 🥰 #karlach i could only hug once idk why ;_; #and asta i chose another option and after that he said to go mingle and that we have eternity togethercdmfmf🥺🥺🥺 #i need to reload to pick hugging him optionvdmdmdm #fUCK I LOVE THIS GAME SM I AM NOT READY TO PART WIRH IT IDC 😭😭😭 #and all the letters??? #I FORGOT TO KILL ARAJ AND SHE WENT THROUGH WITH HER PLAN OOPSVKXCKCM #and elminster's letter to gale broke my heart 🥺😭 #ALSO A LETTER FROM HARLEEP?? 🤯😳 #and arabella calling wlminster beard manvxncmcnc 😂 #and barcus' very formal letter like binch i love u why are u so cold???😂 #and alfira and lakryssa opening a bard school 🥺🥺🥺 #also i am sad there's no letter from isobel or dame aylin tho 🥲 #bg3 spoilers

[andthebeanstalk]

What up I'm married to a tall person who is basically Milo Thatch but agender, and uhhh, basically, yeah, everyone should be jealous and I LOVE MY CUTE TWINK NERD WIFE!!!!! 😤😤🥰🥰🥰❤❤❤👌👌

#original #i love my wife #had a big crush on that character growing up #you know who else is really into her? EVERY OTHER CHUBBY TRANS GUY IN CHICAGO apparently we just see her and are like OH HELL YEAH #do you know why this is? it is because we have excellent taste that is why. #and also we want non threatening masc people to be into us and respect our gender! that's me anyway #and this is excellent news for her anyway bc we're in an open relationship & she thinks guys like me (her HUSBAND 🥰😁) are incredibly hot #this is also bc she has excellent taste. #but it is a running joke that she keeps getting nice OKC matches that look a lot like me 😂 #anyway this post is a thing that would have made young me BOIL with envy if someone else said it but in fact it is ME #and young me grew into me and is in here like AAWWWWWWW YYYEEEEEEEEAAAHHHHH 🤘🤘🤘🤘🚀🚀🚀 #she doesn't just look like Milo she also moves and emotes and talks like him. and until recently her glasses would not stay on her face! #she got new ones. nerd. i adore her. #she is so kind to Jack (me) and to my giant anxious pitbull child #she puts his blankie on him as he rests on her toes to make sure she doesn't go anywhere 😭😭❤ #she is my best friend and she never makes me feel stupid or fake or undeserving. she just likes me so much and she fkn acts like it! #and we have good boundaries and communication in a very autistic way [positive] and she is so smart and funnyyy #oh i am falling asleep now #probably has something to do with how thinking about my wife makes me feel safe and warm or some gay shit like that 🙄 ;) #edit: omg it just occurred to me that she is like 80% Mill and 20% Jessica Jones. just in terms of like. vibes. XD #she cares a lot about Jessica Jones. I will tell her my findings in the morrow #*80% Milo

[leonpob]

Get to Know MeTag Game

I was tagged by @gunsatthaphan and @morkofday

thank you 😍

RULES: bold the ones that are true & tag 10 people to do it.

APPEARANCE

I have blonde hair // I prefer loose clothing to tight clothing // I have one or more piercings // I have at least one tattoo // I have dyed or highlighted my hair // I have gotten plastic surgery // I have or had braces (2006-2012 😩) // I sunburn easily // I have freckles // I paint my nails // I typically wear makeup // I don’t often smile // I am pleased with how I look // I prefer Nike to Adidas(honestly neither 🤷🏻‍♀️) // I wear baseball hats backwards

HOBBIES & TALENTS

I play a sport // I can play an instrument // I am artistic // I know more than one language // I have won a trophy in some sort of competition // I can cook or bake without a recipe // I know how to swim // I enjoy writing // I can do origami // I prefer movies to tv shows // I can execute a perfect somersault // I enjoy singing // I could survive in the wild on my own // I have read a new book series this year // I enjoy spending time with friends // I travel during work or school breaks // I can do a handstand

RELATIONSHIP

I am in a relationship // I have been single for over a year // I have a crush // I have one a few best friends who I’ve known for ten years // my parents are together // I have dated my best friend // I am adopted // my crush has confessed to me // I have a long distance relationship // I am an only child // I give advice to my friends // I have made an online friend // I met up with someone I have met online

AESTHETICS

I have heard the ocean in a conch shell // I have watched the sun rise // I enjoy rainy days // I have slept under the stars // I meditate outside // the sound of chirping calms me // I enjoy the smell of the beach // I know what snow tastes like // I listen to music to fall asleep // I enjoy thunderstorms // I enjoy cloud watching // I have attended a bonfire // I pay close attention to colors // I find mystery in the ocean // I enjoy hiking on nature paths // winter is my favorite season, but also I would prefer 70 degrees and sunny 😂

MISCELLANEOUS

I can fall asleep in a moving vehicle // I am the mom friend // I live by a certain quote // I like the smell of sharpies // I am involved in extracurricular activities // I enjoy Mexican food // I can drive a stick shift(not well) 😂 // I believe in true love // I make up scenarios to fall asleep // I sing in the shower // I wish I lived in a video game // I have a canopy above my bed // I am multiracial // I am a redhead // I own at least 3 dogs

Well that was fun 🤣

I'm passing it on to @boun-prem @wanderlust-in-my-soul @forcebook @pharawee @mantrisanu @mrsandypants @machikeita @forever-in-phapundao @smittenskitten @yeonjune

and whoever else wants to play.

#Tag game #get to know me tag #some of these felt like high school questions #😂 #why am I so old 😭

[bbylovess]

i don’t like when people enunciate their p’s calm down

#especially the word pop #why am i like this #😭😂

[pepprs]

being m*rried would fix me. goodbye

#purrs #like omg. iam so scared it will never happen to me because im 24 years old and don’t have a. drivers license and am terrified of covid and h #have never kissed or whatever in my whole life 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 b it i want to get married so bad and not just like to get married but to find my #Prrson. i don’t even think i want kids anymore (🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴) i literally just want to find my person and be with them already. this post brought #to you by someone i follow on another platform posting abt how their engagement ring makes them choked up when they catch a glimpse of it in #the most mundane moments of their life bc it means their partner is waiting for them and loves them etc etc. like oh my GOD. lying in the #street right now. please god please god please god let that happen for me please please please. i can’t take it anymore ♥️ #delete later #i used to never post abt things like this on principle but then last yr put me in a hydraulic press so now i will post about missing my #soulmate whenever i damn well please which is every single day. im going crazyyyyy with despair omfgnrhskdhdj why am i living like this 😭 #lkteraly i think abt my future wedding if i am so lucky as to ever get to have one every 3 hours at LEAST no joke.

[misty-moth]

I read Arthur’s sweet ending in the event 🥹 and he’s a sweet boi 🥹🥹 and I love him very much 🥹🥹🥹 and i recorded the whole thing and it took an immense amount of storage 😭😭😭

#i think i like the sweet ending a teensy bit more #i feel like Sasuke when he can’t figure out why mc seems to always glow #Arthur glows #😭😭😭 #guys why am i like this 😂 #it’s 3:30 am #and i am sick and should be sleeping it off #anyway here’s wonderwall

[zazzander]

Me: I'm going to write a fun little fic about Octavian bonding with Damasen and Bob, it'll be so sweet

Me two seconds later: oh but what if he was even more traumatized?

#literally i cannot write happy stories #nor can i write short ones #why am i like this 😭😭😂