#And also of course there were fish

[bloody-shadow666]

Yes a lot of things are awful a lot of the time but sometimes you can just go outside and find birds that are in their awkward teenager phase that still have some of their fluffy baby feathers so they look all goofy and ruffled and that makes it better I think

#The other day we stopped by the fosh hatchery and not only did we get to see a bunch of nesting geese #We also got to see ducklings that swam right up to us #And a big family of geese including several teenagers that were still fluffy and very disgruntled about it #Their heads were still yellow it was so funny #And also of course there were fish

[cthulhusstepmom]

Soap's Da had a saying, "There's two types of snake keepers, those that have been bitten and those that are lying bastards". And John "Soap" MacTavish is many things but a liar isn't one of them... Unless you count making any and every possible excuse to avoid letting Ghost into his room. But does that really count?

A liar he is not but stupid he definitely may be. Intellectually he knows that Wee Man is getting big enough that he shouldn't be free handling him without a spotter, it'd been one of the first things his parents had drilled into his head before he was allowed to even think about getting out the bigger snakes. and intellectually of course he realizes that he probably ought to have a spotter for feeding time too. But Wee Man is so sweet and really he's not that big. So now he's here, with a 7 1/2 foot python latched onto his arm and the stupid fucking rat dangling from the stupid fucking tongs, thankfully it's a frozen thawed otherwise it'd be even more of a shit show.

He's next to certain the snake nicked a vein or something with the amount of blood starting to pool on his cement floor. Fuck.

His head is starting to get a wee bit fuzzy and the arm Wee Man has is well past pins and needles when he remembers what he needs to do, and realizes that he's just been standing there bleeding out like a clueless bawbag. He grabs the handle of Vodka he keeps for any number of emergencies and quickly splashes some over the snake's head, cursing none to quietly at the burn in his punctures. Wee Man drops his wrist like he's been burned, tearing back with as much of a confused expression as a snake can make. Soap tosses the rat into the python's cage and fumbles for a minute before he manages to work his arm free of the slackening coils, pushing Wee Man in after it. Slamming the door near hard enough to shatter it he's left standing in the tiny walkway he's left for himself: tongs in one hand, vodka in the other; blood dripping from his wrist, and a brain fuzzy enough to make into a down comforter.

The rational part of his brain would have him check into medical with a convenient fib, but blood loss does silly things to a man, like making him laugh at terrible jokes and flirt shamelessly with his stunning superior officer.

"Johnny?" Wide brown eyes peer down at him through a crooked balaclava.

So it really isn't much of a surprise when he finds himself swaying in front of Ghost's door, clutching his wrist as he leaves a trail of crimson splotches down the hallway. He's trying to wrap his brain around the concept of knocking when the door in front of him eases open.

"Allo Lt, lovely night we're having. Could ah ask ye a favor?"

#dun Dun DUN #CLIFFHANGER #so Wee Man really isnt that big and Soap is fine to free handke him still but a spotter for feeding is still important #its just that his parent were a little worried having bite sized Soap around the big snakes so they taught him to be overly cautious #look where that got them lol #Wee Man is still an angel hes just really stupid and he has poor depth perception #so yeah vodka does work on snakes if they're not letting go or if you cant get them off the old fashioned way #also handsanitizer #shoutout to my coworker for the inspiration #they had this exact scenario happen a couple of weeks ago with Wee Man's irl inspiration #except my coworker didnt have a strapping protective lieutenant to go to for help just us idiots #really reminds you of your place in the food chain- cleaning that much blood off a big old snake #course he was curled up jn my lap like a great big scaly cat so take that with a grain of salt #cod mw2 #fish person gaz #ghost x soap #ghostsoap #john soap mactavish #reptile person soap

[bmpmp3]

11 fish

#art #traditional art #watercolour #inspired by the fact that in my studio classes recently - i and every other student who does watercolor or ink based work #always inevitable has viewers more drawn to our swatch test pages instead of our actual work LOL #i dont mind it too much i get it but it is funny so i thought yknow i have this tiny pad of watercolour paper that i dont feel like using #for normal drawings (too small) so i drew a shitty fish on each page and used it as a tester page whenever i was doing my #for-fun cartoon drawings <3 not looking at it at all just putting down the colour to check the consistency of paint #i think its kinda fun. its an interesting conundrum because that pure spontaneous quality u get from my test swatches Cannot be emulated on #purpose. i can get close and loosen up. but inevitably unless i make all my normal drawings test swatches while colouring in other stuff #my normal drawings will never truly have this quality. which i dont mind! but i thought itd be funny to find a way to still make something #with this intangible test swatch quality since people like it a lot! and it does look neat #also each one was a specific painting session. some were smaller sessions with only a few colours used #and some were really long sessions! and of course u can see how much brown and black and beige i use #and u can spot the traces of rosie in the green and pink HJKSDAHJKDSl hes always here #very interesting thing to play around with! i'd like to do something like this again i think

[effen-draws]

Something shambles and yet it stands still.

Various colour alts because you know how I am:

#Would you believe me if I told you I am also working on another art piece about the same themes as this one and it also includes fish? #because of course I am #anyways moray eels amirite:-)) #the sketch also included ribbon morays but unfortunately they didn't fit compositionally #so my poor little guys were scrapped #painting #art #marine biology #marine art #marine animals #moray eels #moray eel #effen's art

[attaboy-art]

siblings of the century

[Image ID: three digital sketches done in brown pen on a pastel blue background. On the left is a semi-realistic portrait of a teenage Alfendi Layton, a child Katrielle Layton, and adult Flora Reinhold-Layton. Alfendi is carrying Katrielle on his back and Flora is on his right. Flora and Katrielle are smiling, Alfendi is not. On the upper right is a sketch of adult Katrielle, Alfendi, and Lucy Baker. Katrielle is in the foreground, smiling with her eyes closed and her finger raised in confidence, saying 'I'm 57% certain!'. Alfendi and Lucy are behind her, both looking nervous. Lucy is looking to the side and asking 'That's not how it works, is it?' and Alfendi has his eyes closed and his hand on his neck and is saying 'No, it's not.' In the lower right is a messy sketch of Alfendi and Katrielle bickering. Alfendi is holding Katrielle's hat out of her reach and is saying 'Stop being an idiot!' and Katrielle is yelling 'Stop being a jerk!' /.End ID]

#queuena fish sandwich #i love them so much you dont understand #al and kat bicker all the time i bet #like when they were younger they were super close but also fought over the silliest shit #flora is the mediator and both of their confidants of course #nowadays its more like. You suck. no YOU suck. I carried the burden of taking care of you when I was barely an adult myself and as much as #I love you I cant help but feel I failed both you and myself. and then kats like :D hey have you seen my talking dog #art #professor layton #alfendi layton #katrielle layton #flora reinhold #sketches

[katyspersonal]

I've had a strange dream tonight..

There was a small round pound and a lot of fish were roaming in it in circles! Fish, and one squid-like creature that also had some eldrich glow emitted from itself. I kept trying to catch a fish all the time, with something like a bug net for some reason and not a fishing road, but they ALWAYS slipped away from me! And at last I've caught one fish but someone near me pointed out that it was dead, in a very grumpy "told you so" manner.. So I looked at that fish, and true, it didn't move. And also strangely had two heads, second head instead of tail, even though in the water it looked normal..

It made me despair and I let it slip back into the pond, and finally decided to abandon the fish and give that eldrich squid a chance. Not only it was way easier to catch than fish, but it even seemed to like me, wrapping tentacles around my arms, then I woke up. Strangely, before alarm clock, too

#dreams #personal #I wonder about the meaning of this but I have a guess...... #it is about my fandom life before summer isn't it. #trying to catch fish and constantly failing = my futile attempts to make friends back then #finally catching a fish but it's dead a literally two faced = making a bond but then- #-finding out people were two-faced (figurally of course) and would not be there for me #especially I think a certain someone that made me feel the safest and warmest Ive felt in a long time #only to block me without a single word and then work against me for not taking it well #and the squid... well... of course it was him #he definitely was an eldrich creature. #the last time I checked he finally became happy and stable (and promptly ditched me as- #-he didn't need me anymore in a happier and fixed life. it happens.) #but yes feels like it. I figured I could not find friends in 'mere ordinary fish'. it was all futile. #because of my negative charisma and apparently social cues I don't get #I also think relevant considering what I posted before going to bed... #damn my brain has interesting ways to illustrate my past or present.

[bumbleblurr]

Actually on the train of thought of tfs being semi horrific in a sci-fi way, I think just their presence on the planet would rlly effect nature on a ecological scale. like if they crashed on earth and immediately started to try to hide away from people, they wouldn't rlly be able to stop scientists hearing reports of things not being right in this location they crashed in. fishers complaining about a lack of fish, animals acting weird, and traces of metals that are unlike those on earth. That would be fucked up yeah?

#tfs taking the thematic form of unknowable horrors is. something i think about teehee twirls my hair #I THINK. IT COULD BE COOL #and a rlly suspenseful way to introduce tfs into the earth setting #of course the notion of being unsure abt them would be completely wipes away once they get onto their normal tf stuff #since u would then be aware of their intentions and the story would shift to being abt a space war #but cmon it would still be fun !! for the brief moments it would pass as cosmic horror a la the color from space #also it could just be funny. like we all assume the transformers can hide from humans #but some ecology major finds out abt them bc they were doing a study on the bacteria levels in a lake #ig thats why they gotta have the government help cover it all up #but like in tf:a they weren't gonna work with the us government THEY WERE NAPPING!!!! #some nerd shouldve found out abt them in those 50 yrs by seeing the biodiversity of the lake get fucked up #but nooooo we don't get fun things /j #whatever i think there should be a human companion that works for fish and game or smth #and they discovered the robots while documenting the fish population #🐝 could you repeat the last part? 🟦

[soldier-poet-king]

Idk if it was growing up working class or being raised primarily by first gen immigrants or both but I'm listening to shmanners while at work (and enjoying it) but like hot damn I was unaware of 90% of this shit, and the stuff I did know was from reading period lit

#IK IK im a fish out of water in my white collar office but like. gah #franposting #i mean its immensely helpful for me to learn these basics #yes i think theyre classist and stupid but i DO have to play these stupid games to navigate the world #and at home i will be elbows on table loud shouty italian and it will be good #also like. salad??? as ur first course??? I KNOW THAT'S THE USUAL #but i HATE IT its wrong salad goes at the END of the meal before fruits and desserts #WASPS be wild ig #also dont get me started on having a meal with my uni friends super rich familt #i have never felt more inadequate and worse about myself in my life #i literally wanted to crawl into a hole and die #i think. not to be that person. but when i read trc and met adam #and his whole thing about masking and fearing ppl will see/hear/sense his poor beginnings #even after he leaves henrietta and quote unquote makes it into the world #like hes so afraid theyll find out. that he'll never truly fit. he'll always been like the dirt he came from #like. yeah. yeah i get it. and it hurts. and im so tired of being made to feel inferior for not knowing these things #like i am well educated but so narrowly #i am not wide read in classic lit. im missing so much. im not cultured #i could only do so much catch up in uni. i missed out on the first 18 yrs bc we were poor and my parents are #working class. they had nothing to give #ugh. im getting emo #anyway. shmanners is great i am learning things. but also i am like. so aware of my beginnings and unshakeable sense of inferiority #which IS STUPID AND CLASSIST but our society is DUMB AS SHIT

[chessmanz]

my two fave quotes from cheng is 'why do i have to be punished like this? in ancient times, i would have married you 800 times and then repudiate you another 800 times.' and 'how i miss the time when you were trembling on the bed and didn't dare to say a word. cheers.'

#also when tong yao got absolutely plastered drinking long island iced teas thinking they were just tea #and cheng was like 'how could you not know? there is no sweetheart in sweetheart pastry. no squirrel in squirrel mandarin fish- #no lei feng in the leifeng tower. so of course long island iced tea is not tea 😑' #i have a document w all his dialogue so i obv have more quotes i like but these 3 are the main ones #tbd.

[icewindandboringhorror]

a littol rats 

#i still love cat toys so many of them look very cute and cool and soft lol #when I was a kid I used to ask my guardians to buy me cat toys even when I didnt have a cat. I just wanted to keep them for myself #same with fishing bait. I had a whole box of those little rubbery plastic looking soft fish bait things or whateer they are #because they were squishy and bright colors lol #'i used my birthday money to buy a new doll! what did you get?' 'hand sanitizer because it has bubbles inside of it. erasers #to chew on and destroy. a bunch of cat toys and fishing lures.' #and then carried them to school with me #A VOLLEY BALL!!!! jhbjhb that was one of my goal gifts when I was a kid and I never got one #because they had one at one of the afterschool daycare things I went to and I would carry it around. and when we would go outside #I would put sunscreen on it and talk to it and stuff and pet it like a cat because I really just loved the texture of whatever it was made o #ut of and the fact that it was white ( my favorite color) and round (one of my favorite shapes) and just looked really cool #and then the adults of course were like 'please stop taking the volley ball out of the toy basket and carrying it around with you all day #it does not belong to you and the other kids want to play with it. also stop putting sunscreen on it..' and I was just like >:T #i will get my own!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #and I never did #I also used to think it was 'volley vall' #ANYWAY fvjhjh #still sometimes I go into stores and feel drawn to the cat toys..

[el-im]

yes one of the funniest thing about the history of science/the bumbling stumbling tread onward that humanity makes to meet the sciences (to me) is the presentation of the watchmaker analogy (which first of all--is a killer name) as evidence for the divine creation of man/animals, the reasoning behind which was (very much simplified): “the eye is so complex a feature that it surely indicates that something made it deliberately--this feature could not have been made from random mutations and chance adaptations to the environment” and then it turning out that the eye was not a feature that evolved once and was carried on down the line, with one common ancestor having one and then passing the eye onto a million different branches of animals, but instead that the eye has cropped up at least eight separate times that we know of, and that many different evolutionary pathways have developed a similar feature for light/motion detection... but my point here was that. uhh. assuming that the eye has appeared with such regularity just on earth, it can be assumed that that’s one feature which may be common among life on other planets (though--like carl sagan wrote in ‘the cosmic connection’ it may be that some hypothetical species--depending on the conditions of their planet--may have evolved an ‘eye’ which detects other types of light more appropriate to their surroundings. some may see other phenomena, such as radio waves, uv, etc. if that is more prevalent where they are from) but uhhhh watching star trek makes me wish that there was some hint of truth to it/some deeply odd and imaginative biologists working on their science consulting teams because i’d give anything, anything, to see what they could come up with for the physiological features of different species. how is the cardassian experience of time (in which memory is not something classified as distinctly “passed” and is instead being recalled, like a projection over the experiences they’re presently engaging in, such that it seems they--at all times--are playing with children’s toys beside their mother in the library at a home long since abandoned, and at the same time laying awake at night in a bunk at the boarding school they attended as an adolescent, while at the present they are working at their job) reflected by the anatomy of their cerebrum? how does the innervation of their eyes compare to that of their human counterparts? 

#im going to fish out my old anatomy prints and hang them up again #add that to the 'to draw' list. comparative ocular anatomy of humans/cardassians #because i have an image of it in my mind... but. ... #AH #trek #captain's log #sorry if this didn't make sense i was listening to 'isn't it a lovely day' by fred astaire as i was typing it so i think my sentences were #probably blown off course a little bc i was also. thinking about the lyrics to that song #i had. too much tea this morning i think. #ive got to buy some fucking decaf. #christ

[firedragon1321]

I’ve mentioned this on Twitter with like zero real structure but...I thought about it more.

Slice of life fantasy anime that revolves around all the ways you can cook hentai tentacles. Protag just goes around killing things like the Kraken of the Dark and the Unseeable Thing of Horrors, cooking the tentacles in cool ways. 

This eventually leads to positive social change. Less tentacle rape happens. It’s safer for ordinary folk to travel previously unexplored areas. Copycats wrangle the beasts, too (potential rivals?). World hunger ends.

“But isn’t that just weird vor-” Shh. SHHHHHHHHHHH. Let me have my stupid idea.

#tw rape #i know there's apparently a consensual version of this trope from very old art #and consentacles exist #but we're going to pretend they don't #we're also going to pretend that balance of the environment doesn't exist either #just always wanted to get rid of those stupid things #if they were real i'm sure at least one (1) person would try to eat them #humans will eat literal poison fish of course they'll eat the bodiless tentacles #first person to mention vore gets a ticket to space

[elytrafemme]

i’m so in love. fuck, i’m so in love.

#nightmare.personal #i'm so down bad for her and it's fucking ridiculous because like #i'm literally helping her get together with a guy. i spent several months flipping between rage and idolization of her #but just. i don't know. she holds my hand a lot and we've been texting all the time #and we both leave each other space to hang out with our other friends but we always drift back together #she keeps telling me i'm the only person who understands her #and i feel like i understand myself better because i understand her #i'm starting to make the same kinds of jokes that she also makes #on friday we were talking to our teacher and she came behind me and wrapped her arms around me and he didn't bat an eye #and later i stole her jacket and neither of them really cared much #i was on the verge of throwing up out of fear while setting a boundary with her but she accepted it easier than anything #and she tells me she loves me all the time #and of course it stings a little that she keeps making it a point that we're never going to get married or be together #it hurts and i know that. but i have got to learn patience #if there was anything on this earth worth waiting for it's her #because she watched off-brand hallmark films as a kid. knows how to skin a fish and applied that knowledge to an aloe plant #we closed the door on our teacher when he stepped out for a bit and danced to her spotify in his room #even if i never find someone like her and even if she never wants me it doesn't really matter #she's not going to settle down at the age of 16 and the only reason i'm ready to is because i'm 17 yes but have lived for longer #maybe in 10 years we'll have it click but for now. this is enough #so long as she lets me keep loving her then i think it's enough. it's okay #we all ache and we all wait and that's why we're alive

[darkaac]

literally what's the point

#''you have to understand. with the kitchen being how it is...'' im not the one with week old dishes #or a legion of fishing casters (idk how to call the spinny thing with the thread) with a decade of salt in them #in the sink. or a house 22 years in renovation bc you keep milkmaiding yourself out of any progress #by the way could you stop ignoring me each week when i tell you i don't like the things you show me #and could you not be a fucking prick making me put on the music you like and then complaining that it's a bad version #like genuinely what is your angle there #things that would also be nice! if you trim the yard a bit like i asked you all pretty please like #so i don't carry fleas all the way back home. again. smiles #ooh speaking of which! remember how you didn't believe me the first time we had an infestation #even though the cats and i were getting eaten alive #until you got bit once? of course you don't. why would you! #and on that topic! how are the yard cats doing. huh? still sick and dying because you refuse to take any actual responsibility? hm hm i see #im not gonna say that i'll laugh and cackle and gloat when they finally sue your ass over the literal shit smell of the house #because saying such a thing is not polite :)

[subtlybrilliant]

People who only get in contact/say they miss you when they need something 😒😒😒

#thank you for observing the bare minimum niceties i guess #but also #i no longer work there #and you don’t reach out/reach back when I tried to maintain social contact for like holidays and stuff #(seriously. how hard is it to just say ‘happy holidays to you too. hope ur well too!’) #idk #it wouldn’t bother me so much if i hadn’t thought last year we were friends enough to do that #like i was starting to think of them as friend friends and not just work friends #but like. none of them reached out or checked in. even tho i reached out for holidays abd beginning of the year and everything #which. ya know. hurts a bit #and now that they have a question now they wanna reach out #i mean like. i answered and was polite bc of course that is the correct thing to do #but i am feeling some type of way abt it #and i’m not sure if it is just the general discontent/depression of this time of year exacerbating things for me #or why this strikes such a nerve #but apparently it does #kiki shouts into the void #and i guess it wouldn’t bother me so much if my own family didn’t do it too #(estranged family) #only reaching out not to check on us or with genuine concern/care. only when they are fishing for gossip or being nosy abt our lives #or wanting something #idk. idk. #i just am Feeling Feelings today #and have to vent them to the void #which i guess is better than letting them consume me? #and my journal is far away at home. so. shouting into the void it is!