#More water than land

[pointless-letters]

It’s a privilege to watch minds like this at work, it really is…

#Daily Star #Not a professor #Or a brain box #Agreed #On both counts #Minds of the future folks #Surely #Island #Water #Just keep everything damp #And no fires #HEY PRESTO #SUCK IT FIREFIGHTERS #Genius #More water than land #That’s just logic

[tiny-cloud-of-flowers]

"Oh, wow! So you're the one who has helped turn the tides of the town.. and you aren't even a monster! How fascinating!"

I made a render of the new self-insert I mentioned a couple of days ago, now that I've finally designed and constructed a reference model for her! This is Fioritura, or just Fiori for short - she's a siren inhabiting the waters around the town of Crop Haven, specifically being sighted near to the castle, for some reason. That "some reason" may or may not be a certain human servant who arrives there in the second year.. who knows?~

This render was quite tricky to get right, to the point that I actually had to try it twice with a different set of effects - but I was quite happy with how it turned out in the end. I hope it's therefore alright to use my tag list for this, even though it isn't explicitly a selfship render!

Tag list: @edencantstopfallininlove | @yoomtahsgf | @sunlight-ships | @dragonsmooch | @thatslikesometaldude | @kuroiikamen | @artificervaldi | @keyblade-ships | @seahydra | @dmclr | @neuvilline (To be tagged in things I create in the future, please see this form!)

(Anyone is welcome to comment on and/or reblog my work if they want to, as long as my DNI is respected!)

I also made a little mockup character reference for Fiori in the style of the ones on the wiki for the actual in-game characters, which is here under the readmore:

Tadaaa! Thank you to Chris (@sosawl, the creator of Crop Haven) for providing the information needed to assemble this~

(Fiori doesn't like being gifted fish because.. she lives underwater. She can already get fish by herself. Conversely, things she can't get by herself that are from above the water are things that she finds much more interesting!)

#heart of the void #creations from the void #made using MMD #selfshipping #sort of #self-inserts #self‑insert: fioritura tag pending #her design did definitely turn out much more mermaid-y than i had intended it to #because I wanted to encapsulate the fact that sirens were originally depicted in mythology as living out at sea but with birdlike features #and then over time they started being portrayed as a sort of subset of mermaids #but hopefully aspects like the head wings can help provide that. and also the wrist fins which are derived from ancestral harpy arm wings #since i'm thinking of sirens here as sharing a common ancestor with harpies but adapting to life in and under water instead of on land #aaaanyway it's half past one in the morning again oh no #please go check out crop haven #it's lovely

[ichthyorelationships]

an idea i invite anyone else to write about / run with lol....

the premise that The Change gets all messed up for alberto, say it's something that can happen from stress, &/or happens rarely and you just have to wait for it to resolve itself....used as some parallel to struggling through some emotional turbulence / upheaval / questioning / Realizing Things, etc etc

#luca 2021 #pixar luca #alberto scorfano #another idea i've failed to write for & so invite anyone else to run with: ciao alberto but what if he peaces out by swimming off lol #ends up in a coastal town maybe an hour's swim from genoa. but not Getting In Touch w/anyone for a while b/c plausibly he thinks that #giulia may not be a fan of him now by extension; just being too embarrassed asf to reach out to luca kinda lol....luca off doing his own #thing just fine & alberto not wanting to write him now like b/c i Ruined Everything again ahaha.... #and by ''not in touch w/anyone for a while'' who knows. months; a few years even....might stumble across news of him b/c like. #say more sea folk are coming to land / more humans know abt them & not many places are as [harpoon]ly from the start anyways #portorosso exceptional in that way....maybe where alberto settles down they're like legendary but also considered Good Luck anyways lol. #anyways like some people know of him who might; say; swim down to portorosso. have their own teen who knows a teen who mostly lives on land #most convenient re sparking [wow could they mean Our alberto] if he doesn't go so far as to take up an alias lol. but why would he.... #that difference in that massimo might figure that however alberto was surviving before; he could continue to do so now; but even though tha #is some comfort it's still Not Actually Enough....feeling way more Parentally towards alberto than his biological dad like that; obv #and anyways re: this [The Change gets messed up] idea it's more of an inconvenience lol but one that could still have some significance #like if he first finds out the issue exists via hopping right into the ocean; failing to change forms; never being human form'd in water b4 #thee worst....crash intro course to the experience of drowning. observation of How Humans Swim / being able to grab any part of the boat... #and besides That unpleasantness it's like; hey. where's my nonhuman form at #or; of course; being in sea form even while dry....especially if he's still dealing with Nonsense on land. which is presumed. #&/or if there's an upswing in nonsense b/c of Other ways you're Othered...ofc we can consider like; tfw you're a gay fish & maybe that's no #something that on its own would be like Aah until it's like well a) i kinda wanna do things that would make this Visible and b) i've learne #that humans also Have Issues about this kind of thing.... #appropriately my tablet was also all thrown off. no pressure sensitivity; input sensitivity overall was rough #but i would've had to restart my laptop about it lol like eh i'll just work around it

[latinforest]

Jack Sparrow walks like That because he’s more accustomed to walking on ship decks.

#I am rewatching pirates of the Caribbean #so I realized that #Jack sparrow #walks perfectly well when the ship is on rough waters #and he’s great at jumping on the mast #and flying through the rigging #but the moment he hits dry land #he becomes a mess #which can happen when you spend a lot of time at sea #and when you go back to dry land you have a kind of sea sickness #it makes me imagine that Jack grew up on boats #he spent more time on the sea than he did on land #Jack #captain Jack sparrow #potc #pirates #pirates of the caribbean

[moe-broey]

Not your favorite! Not even your least favorite!

Like that could have been avoided. That should have been avoided. It's so easy to avoid that. And Yet

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #salmon run #i WAS gonna disqualify flyfish bc i thought there was a 10 option limit. #and also flyfish are like. the most boss salmonid to die to. it can be frustrating but there's no shame in it #alas!! i have MORE than ten options!!!!! also not including special wave salmonids (eg goldie) #WHICH i don't think i've died to but. well maybe i have??? but still. it has a funny factor to it #but functionally it's just a chum. #also i DO know the air coolers from mothership CAN kill you LMFAO #anyways my answer is flipper-flopper. LIKE. BEYOND ANY BULLSHIT #(jet packing and then landing RIGHT into flipper-flopper danger area after special 😭😭😭) #like. if you die to flipper-flopper. 9 times out of 10 that is entirely on you. #a close second is steel eels those guys are like. deceptive. you THINK they're no big deal. you think they're easy enough. #but somehow idk if it's just me and my skill issue but i keep dying to them. i get steel eel jumpscared #or i get overwhelmed while trying to run. or there's like three of them swarming the basket. OR #AND THIS IS THE WORST ONE. when it just bumps into you and you get LAUNCHED into the fucking water 😭😭😭 #now THAT'S embarrassing!!!!!!! 🧍

[arataki-neato]

God imagine Dan Heng finding out that the bracer was how Blade was tracking him though

Like the realization that no matter how far he ran or how well he hid, he never would’ve been safe, and all the people who died because they were in the way of Blade getting to him were kind of his fault

#honkai star rail #hsr dan heng #also if he realized that the only reason blade hasn’t been actively trying to kill him #is because they need him for some fucking script #because his life isn’t fucking worth any more than that #like blade actually managed to land a near fatal hit on him this time #maybe because he was distracted worrying about his friends or Yanqing but still #who knows what could’ve happened if it hadn’t said in the script that he needed to be alive to part the waters and shit

[izzy-b-hands]

Some of the pics from our beach trip/sea glass hunting trip today!

#text and photo post #we got a lot more glass than expected thanks to the land bridge bit being partially walkable!! #was v cool to be on land but also so far out on the water at the same time more or less !!!! #it was absolutely gorgeous and im v tired and happy and can't wait till we go again 🥰🥰🥰

[cgerice]

What would I give, to live where you are? What would I pay, to stay here beside you? What would I do to see you, smile at me?

...

Have I mentioned that I fucking love mermaids?

#homestuck #eridan ampora #karkat vantas #erikar #erikarweek2023 #prompt: crossover #honestly i think this could've worked either way #but i didn't even consider that karkat would be more likely to follow a cute boy onto the land than eridan would #but eridan also prefers being on land so w/ever it works lmao #anyway yeah excuse my shitty beach #water is hard dk;lshg

[quaranmine]

😐

#yeah sure let's give $14.5 bn to israel while also cutting the EPA budget by 40% and giving them only $6.17 bn #cause war crimes and weapons are more important than clean air and water and land right? #it's more important to kill innocent people than stop climate change? billions of dollars more important? #how can we spend this money. how. #idk maybe it's not right to compare things happening in gaza with the environment. direct loss of human life to long term environmental ris #i just mean that. the priorities the US govt has. the blatant disregard for life #that they pass billions in funding to support war--billions in funding that will result in countless deaths--but will not fund #climate change or environmental justice or clean energy #we'd all rather kill each other i guess than try to find ways to live! aughaghaghhg!!! #making this unrebloggable bc i dont want any insufferable comments #us politics #american politics #note: passing house doesn't mean it will pass senate and become law #i mean it still might pass but just be aware of the wording that this isnt automatically a done deal

[trashdorito]

Wait if after Ocarina of Time the goddesses flooded hyrule and the surviving people fled to the mountain tops, doesn't that mean the entirety of the Wind Waker civilians are living at really high altitudes? How much trouble did Wind have adjusting and breathing to the other Hyrules since they're at a usual altitude. Like we all talk about Sky's altitude problems but Wind?

One day the chain gets dropped on a really tall mountain and the others are not having a good time meanwhile Sky finds it easier to breath and Wind feels at home with the height.

Or another time when they finally go to Wind's Hyrule and the chain are fighting to breath again. And Sky just has a great time breathing.

#linked universe #lu wind #lu sky #just thoughts i had #also id like to think that after Wind finds new Hyrule is when the evil starts taking a step back and the ocean drains a bit #i mean the entirety of hyrule is now submerged more than it was before #some of that water had to give way to new land #so less altitude height but still high #idk if the altitude would fix itself after the flood but they're still living on mountain tops

[qalma-e-azadi]

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#israel is literally a false state. #like it was legit pulled out of an existing country and a super vague neo-nazi ideology #fuck i hate people calling this an issue #fuck you #if my country was thrown to some Europeans without my consent and i watched my land my water my trees my entire life being taken from me #then i would've been in al-qassam brigades too let's just say that #fuck you for saying they're terrorists and need to be condemned #even if they were 10x more violent than they are now they would still not be wreck the havoc and bloodshed THAT ISRAEL DID FOR 75 YEARS!! #and still continues to do. without any stop. without any condemnation. #why does one country decide what is good and bad what is terroristic or not #fuck you. #i support the resistance and appreciate them with my whole chest.

[odysseys-blood]

its so stupid to me when someone goes up to somebody (recently in the inboxes of palestinians doing their damndest to share information about whats going on with the genocide of their own people and some of yall still cant take being spoon fed this as if its the worst thing to happen to you to just pay attention (but it happens also after any catastrophe yall just rock up to anyone you judge an affected minority be it someone of another race, culture, gender, sexuality w/e)) and you ask "well who should i vote for"

thats your choice

when you turned 18 in the us of a you gained the right to choose whoever the hell you want on the ballot for president. nobody can make you vote for somebody or withold it. you make that decision. you should be able to think for yourself. do some research and stop talking out of your ass because that is literally the least you could do.

and also you shouldn't be going to someone (especially someone who this is of he least concern of) and go "well what do you think i think i have to vote for x because *despite every atrocity they've ever comitted* theyre still better than the other guy!" because what do you want? forgiveness? you made a choice. you also just told somebody that this choice WILL AFFECT that it was the only choice available to you (even though it wasnt). and then act like they should be grateful. like you're doing them a favor.

#this isnt well worded at all its just. getting on my nerves #like sorry you want recognition for voting for the guy who will feed you poison in a three course meal #instead of in a single slice of bread? #if you're gonna do it anyways at least just do it and shut up #yall put so much more weight on these votes than there actuslly is too #esp for presidential elections #will i go vote? probably #do i expect a damn thing? hell no #systems rigged to hell. but instead of focusing on that we focus on americas next top bomber and which one we gotta endorse #biden aint get them kids out of cages #biden let the pipelines get built on indigenous lands and spoil their water #biden let abortion rights fall through #you know how many black folks were killed by police last year? #and im supposed to thank you? #fuck all that

[tempest-loupnoir]

#horses are not an invasive species. #horses do not damage water holes and grass as much as cattle and sheep do #horses help the environment When they have room to roam and disperse naturally #it’s such a dumb argument saying they hurt the land when deer literally pick through their feces for seeds and drink where they dig #yes they are large animals who can damage an overly small environment be #they need a lot more than most state parks can give them #same with all large ungulates and predators #people can co-exist with all animals but many do not want to learn how #animal sense should be taught in schools. it’s embarrassing how few people know how to read animals and nature #rant over #will probably delete these tags later but after so many roundups Killed horses recently I am still furious #there are millions of #mustangs in government concentration camps #with no shelter no browse not enough room to run #mustangs either get shipped off to buyers who will sell them for meat or they get sick and die in the holding corrals #tax payers are paying for animals to suffer. #Move them to other wild areas. Stop treating them like a parasite #don’t even get me started on how bad predators are treated #I had to stop following conservation centers and rescues online because I was getting bad news constantly #I am oversaturated with bad news and I have too much to deal with in rea #real life to deal with getting my heart broken online too

[yeonban]

* Date Soma - Pirate AU.

The infamous Date Soma, Captain of the Uminyudo pirate ship, the capital ship of the Funayurei pirate fleet famed as one of the five largest pirate fleets and the worst one to come across, is most well-known for his tenacity, the imposing aura every survivor remembers him by and the rare swordsmanship only recognized in some northern parts of the land of the rising sun as part of the emishi that had been shunned from Japan by the imperial authorities' legacy. Never has there been a single enemy lucky enough to escape the Funayurei after choosing to stand against Soma regardless of whether they were pirate ships or royal fleets, and only those he has personally granted freedom to can rest easy at night without keeping an eye open.

In spite of his reputation as a ruthless pirate however, Soma takes great care of the pirates under his wing and often grants the innocent a choice rather than immediately sinking them to the bottom of the sea. This kinder side towards his own men, paired with his strategies, resilience and greatly amassed power, is the main reason why many continue to obey him, as well as why many prefer to steer clear from the places he's known to be at, much too afraid of accidentally directing his wrath towards them. In the same vein, Soma upholds his pirate code down to the letter, never once having violated it.

Most of Soma's time is spent on the Uminyudo, at times boarding other ships of the Funayurei as well depending on the circumstances, but it's not an incredibly rare sight to come across him at various taverns either. When setting foot on land, it's always with the intent to either acquire (better) alcohol or to sell rarities he's come across at sea for exorbitant prices, but unlike many pirates, the Uminyudo and the Funayurei never attack ports nor cities where civilians can be found. As such, the general public's opinion on the Uminyudo remains rather unclear - with some wishing for him to be caught and killed, and others offering to cover for him if need be.

The Uminyudo pirates and the Funayurei fleet

Named after the Umibozu yokai from Soma's birth region of Tohoku, the Uminyudo primary ship as well as its allied forces conform to the myths of japanese folklore that stem from Umibozu and its creation of Funayurei.

The Uminyudo pirates are rumored to only attack sailors when the sea is unusually calm, most often on nights with a clear moon, and as such "the calm before the storm" has become a collective fear of all those who set out to the sea without baring a pirate flag. The Uminyudo under Soma's leadership may choose to spare the sailors willing to hand over all of their ships' goods, but the naval ship they are a part of will always either be destroyed or made their own in his wake, allowing the sailors' escape to only ever be made on smaller or makeshift boats. That being said, there have been instances (though few in number) in which sailors have chosen to become pirates under Soma's leadership rather than risk their lives to reach the mainland on their own.

In comparison, the Uminyudo's treatment of other pirates depends on several factors - from the number of pirates onboard, to their infamy, and to the state of their ship/s. For similarly large pirate groups, there is generally little mercy to be shown, and the Uminyudo endeavors to sink every massive pirate ship until theirs is the last to remain, therefore also perceiving each pirate fleet as an enemy. When it comes to smaller pirate groups, though... the Funayurei pirate fleet has gained its name after sinking hundreds of pirate ships and granting them the privilege of making a choice: to either sink and die as proud pirates under their own flags, or to discard their former identities and join Soma's fleet. With the fleet being comprised solely of defeated pirate groups that chose to obey the Uminyudo, they are considered "ghosts of pirates who have died at sea, seeking to bring others down with them", hence receiving the japanese folklore name of Funayurei.

As opposed to the tactics used against sailors, the Uminyudo and Funayurei tend to use the weather to their advantage when faced against fellow pirates, creeping in on them during foggy, rainy or stormy conditions and taking them by surprise, typically already dealing cannon blows before the enemy can become aware of their presence. As such, many lesser ships have started sinking before they could even tell that there is an enemy nearby, and many have sank as a result of cannon fire paired with rough waves.

Though there have been cases of other pirates or naval fleets successfully sinking Funayurei ships, the worst of their losses have always resulted from accidentally encroaching on siren territory after being tossed wayward by the rough seas during storms. Unable to make contact with other ships from the fleet and being beckoned to sail even closer to the sirens after listening to their mesmerizing songs, many pirates from the Funayurei have found their final resting place deep within the waters, leaving only their empty ships behind as warning. The Uminyudo (and thus Soma) has never personally experienced the call of a siren nor has it ever seen any, but it has found plenty of its allied ships laying in the middle of nowhere with no soul left on board to tell him their tales. After years as a ship captain and then as a fleet commander, the first siren Soma has laid his eyes on, is Seiroku.

#muse: date soma. #How... do I even tag this. ADGSAJDASDHSADK #atp I'm allergic to not adding at least SOME bits of Tohoku lore in everything I write about Soma so it had to be done #and after professional mental gymnastics; Soma retains p much the same ol' personality his Orient counterpart does <3 #except instead of accepting an alliance w the other large bushi bands; pirate Soma goes against the other large pirate fleets #and instead of facing oni/kishin & Obsidian Eight members daily; out at sea there's the merfolk/sirens & the enemy ships #Tbh pirate Soma is pretty chill if you get to know him. Less worries than he has in Orient and much more alcohol on board #plus unlike w the Obsidian Eight towards which all he feels is pure disgust; towards sirens and merfolk he feels a tinge of curiosity #like yeah he ISN'T pleased w them considering his men keep dying bc of them; but he doesn't necessarily see them as smth evil #he knows that no matter how at home he may feel out at sea; the sea isn't /theirs/ to own; it belongs to the creatures living IN the water #and as land creatures who have ventured into the unknown of their own free will... some of them are also bound to die out at sea #it doesn't really make a difference if it's at the hands of a storm a siren or another ship; which is why he doesn't feel hatred for sirens #w that in mind tho Soma DOES try to steer his fleet as far away from places known to have sirens as possible instead of going after them #but alas if the sea has other plans for them (ie. drifting them into siren territory / meeting sirens in places they shouldn't be) then. L #QUEUE.

[apuff]

candyland (oc world that unfortunately shares a name with a popular board game due to 9 year old me's decisions) map

doing this made me realize i need to fix the map to make more sense LOL

#i keep doing hours of research about random stuff so i can more effectively do candyland worldbuilding #like once i did essay level searching about how swamps are formed so i could tell what to do withthe neapolitan marshes #apparenly they are often formed by low land level and rivers dumping water so that's what i did #i need to fix the town placement (esp the capital it makes no sense) and the empty space issues #inktober #inktober 2023 #inktober day 5 #art #traditional art #map #ink drawing #sketchbook #i guess pen art might be more accurate than ink but its the same thing #i was going for the antique super cross hatched map look hope it turned out close enough

[illdothehotvoice]

Okay I'm in a better mood about all of it now lmfao sdhjgkndfh thanks for listening to my rants dshgjkfdh

#ouuugh i just hate how elitist art school is dshjgkfndh #I'm sorry that gallery work isn't really what interests me I think there's a space for both kinds of art in this world #and one isn't inherently better than the other #PLUS I think it's interesting to push more industry like work into gallery spaces! I think mixing the two could be REALLY cool #So that's what i try to do with my school work qwq cause I LOVE industry work! #BUT I also understand I'm in a fine arts program! And Fine Arts has it's own merits! And I really like mixing the two concepts! #And sometimes that lands me in hot water with my professors! #dshgjdfkngkdh like i literally do not know what else to tell you besides this is just how i draw dshjgkfndh this is what interests me #my school pushes us to persue things that interest us but the second it's something out of the norm it's a problem #my professor was very adamant that we do the things we WANT to do in her class and be open about our influences. #And the second I bring up I'm influenced by video games and character/story driven work it becomes an interrogation sdhjgkdnfh #okay rants over for real does anyone want to send em asks about sans undertale sdhgjkndfh