#fish gets emotional

[spacefuneral]

there were multiple times in high school where i saved a whole class's asses by being the smart kid and tbh knowing how much of a dickhead i was back then, it's actually really nice to remember that, despite it all, despite how other kids acted like i was a weirdo, i still helped them all pass their exams. with effort, too. like one time i sat down and let people copy an entire year worth of notes because it was an open note exam and literally nobody else had done a lick of work the whole time. people hugged me after. and then the next year, i was weirdo to them again and i didn't skip a beat.

what i'm saying is, it's nice remembering the good things of my teen years, and how i tried to do good despite being an abused mess of a child. teen me would say they weren't bullied, and when i look back i totally was. i just kept going. i'm forever proud of that little shit.

#thinking of teen me as a little sister that's gone now #it's okay that she's gone #but she didn't deserve the life she lived #fish gets emotional

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 137

 What happens after a Halfa dies? What happens when their bodies of flesh can no longer hold the power of their soul? What happens when they’re no longer alive despite the fact they can never truly die?

 What happens when their soul finishes incubating in its cocoon of meat and bone that’s warped and twisted over an immeasurable amount of time? When the soul leaves a body that refuses to stay down because death is not an option? 

 What happens when a Halfa finishes incubating in their first form, and splits? What happens when mortals not understanding what they’re doing in their hubris, causes one to do so early? 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #I mean could also be just Danny Phantom #But can you imagine a mind-reader being Slammed with the twisting emotions of something that was One but is now Two calling for its parents #Eldritch danny #Eldritch halfas #Halfas naturally split once they reach their limit #There was a reason Danny found it so easy to split himself temporarily after all #There are other Halfas out there and they have awoken #They had heard the scream #like others long sleeping amidst Infinity #But the realms are Infinite and slow to travel even with their great size #The GIW aren’t going to just be dealing with a newborn pair of Godeaters #but also several adult ones circling the world like sharks #Most ghosts are the equivalent of fish in the ocean #Gods are the sharks and seals #Halfas are a mixture of whales and serpents #It takes Hundreds of years for them to even get ready to split #Danny isn't even a newborn he's a fetus and was just torn in two by the GIW trying to separate the ghost and the human halves #They got what they wanted but it was a Mistake #Neither is human #They created monsters and now they must face the consequences of their hubris #One body of flesh and bone ripped asunder no longer alive yet not dead either #One body of spirit and soul bloomed anew with life yet never able to walk among the living #Also could potentially have halfa batfam members or other once familiar faces from different timelines and realms

[undead-knick-knack]

Poor Fearne's been really going thru it lately :(

#critical role #cr3 #cr c3 #critrole #critrole memes #bells hells #bell's hells #fearne calloway #that's her emotional support halfling fighter #finding nemo dory fish getting ripped apart by seagulls #separation anxiety #fear of abandonment #abandonment issues #cr memes #cr shitpost #courtesy of me #cr campaign three #crit role #critrole meme #cr spoilers

[here-there-be-drag0ns]

Me: Oh nice an idea for a Gillion fic with some fish n chips as a treat! Let me just write it up quickly, it doesnt seem like it'll be a very long fic-

Me, a month and 11k words later, singed and clutching the finished fic in shaking hands: i was wrong

#dragons chatting #deadass i thought it would be a quick easy write #who knew that that the two characters that would rather die than talk about their emotions directly #would take 11k words to get to the fucking point #jrwiblr #jrwi gillion #jrwi chip #jrwi fish and chips

[musubiki]

most recent story development in my brain: ive decided to actually seperate taffy and coco during the timeskip

initially i had it that taffy sticks with coco because he has nowhere to go and they eventually get together over the timeskip. the new version is that he runs away and disappears right before mochi leaves

in my head i see him as the type to run away after what mochi and coco do for him-- after coco put in so much effort and time advocating for him because she saw that there were traces of a good person under his antagonistic nature, and after mochi beat his ass for the final time and finally cleared his curse, he doesnt know what to do with himself.

the rest of the guild at that point (mochi included) has an attitude of "We know why you were the way you were. Now that there's no reason for you to hate us, you're free to go where you want. You can even stay with us." and this sentiment eats him alive. the guilt he feels is insane. the fact that he spent months (years?) trying to ruin mochi, brewing in bitterness and rage and all of a sudden all of that is gone and replaced with forgiveness and warmth is unbearable and he cant stand it, so he leaves.

this is all coupled with his feelings for coco and the attitude on his end of "I don't deserve this. I don't deserve her. All I can do is bring them down. All I can do is bring her down. I have no right to stay here. I have no right to want to stay here."

so theres a pivotal scene in my head where he has all these thoughts, standing right outside the side door to mochis house hearing them all chattering inside, and has a long moment of hesitation before going inside. in the OLD version coco opens the door before he can make up his mind and forces him inside with the rest of them, but in the NEW version i think its much more taffy-like if hes gone by the time she notices and gets to the door

(tldr timeline: mochi removes his curse -> he disappears -> he only appears for the last amanita fight because really thats HIS fight as much as it is mochis -> he leaves again RIGHT after. i imagine coco tried to stop him or say goodbye but this man is notoriously good at escaping quickly)

and so timeskip-wise coco attends university on her own. she keeps in touch with oscar and lime (more oscar than lime) and while she never directly set out to look for taffy, there was always that desire to look for him in a crowd or something, maybe hoping to run into him at random or that he would show up out of nowhere like he did the first time.

I'm not totally sure what he does during the timeskip then. something far away from coco and the guild, but somewhere close to the ocean because he could never find it in him to stray too far from it for too long. maybe lost his touch with water magic a bit because he was too afraid and guilt-ridden to use it. never really stopped thinking about coco but couldnt muster up the courage to go find her again. for YEARS hes convinced that she doesnt want to see him and he wouldnt do anything to make her life better. hes done too much to all of them for them to ever accept him, he thinks.

until one day coco just. shows up. after tracking him down (with mochi and sulluvans help). sitting on a barrel at the docks he works at in some city somewhere, eating some cotton candy she bought at the docks like "Heyo! Mochi needs another guild member, and you kinda owe us one, soooo..."

#lore #bpp #text #and then while hes too busy processing one of his shipmates throws down some supplies and it clobbers him #falls right into the water #coco: gee youre a lot more of a clutz than i remember #or she BUSTS out hysterical mocking laughing #coco move #can you imagine the kind of feelings his heart went through in the span of 2 seconds #its like all the negative emotions were just washed away (haha get it) for a brief second #i think they return when he sees mochi though #i also like the idea of post-timeskip the running theme of (yeah im dating this guy from class now--) #and then you hear taffy shatter the glass he was hand-washing #i dont know what he does post-timeskip yet #maybe he'll be one of those guys who go out to rough ocean and fish crabs #taffy running away feels right #even though it sucks for both of them

[icewindandboringhorror]

sneepy cozy....

#cats #(medical stuff mention for tags) #poasting confortable image of boye for peace and serenity and such forthe #I have little weird episodes sometimes where I get shaky (but like violently like 'would spill a drink if you were holding it beacuse #your hands are moving so much' type shaky) and weird and sick feeling but usually it passes in an hour or less. but last night I just #literally couldnt sleep I was shaking so much and my heartrate was up a ton and wouldn't go down even after like 6 hours plus super nausea #so I went to the hospital and now shall wear a heart monitor for a week. which hopefully it's just some weird drastic low blood sugar #event or something and there's nothing actually going on. ekg + ct scan for blod clots + virus panel + almost all of the blood work seems #normal so... aa....... #Though me being so privacy focused hrggh... I basically have a constantly bluetooth connected device around me #since the monitor comes with a cell phone that is constantly transmitting data to the place. which they said they'll call you #if they see anything weird which is also scary. random phone calls... but definitely better than letting an issue go unadressed lol #the phone is also not meant to be more than 10 feet away from the monitor at any time so I put on this old tactical fishing #vest thing thats like navy green with 100 pockets and im just using one of the giant pocketson the side as a phone holder #my enormous silly vest just to keep one little phone #ANYWAY... because I got up early the morning before and didn't sleep at all and spent nearly all day in waiting rooms and such #I have been awake for like 32 hours striaght. which I'm sure also does not help with an elevated heartrate lol #feeling shrimp emotions or whatever people talk about unlocking at a certain level of stress and sleep deprivation #and also no food or water. after a while they brought me like 3 saltines and some ice water but I basically also haven't eaten since 3am #last night and it's 2pm now.. #thus............ bapy............. baby boye....... he will help ease all ailments with his baby powers... #And no I dont drink energy drinks or anything with caffiene really I'm afraid of all substances on the planet essentially #My body just likes to become shaky and weird randomly even when I'm not conciously anxious about anything/have had no caffiene/etc #and I guess I'm always more nervous about getting anything heart related checked out because of my arm/shoulder/chest area injury stuff #... i literally have constant chest pain all the time. it moves around but i nearly always have some sort of pain or pressure in my chest #so when people are like 'oh well a little weird heartrate is fine but watch out if you have pain!' it's like... i always do lol.. how am I #supposed to tell the Bad Pain apart from the Always Pain when the descriptions of Bad Pain are very very similar #AAAANYway.... hrghh... i wanted to be very productive and finally post drafts and wrok on things today. but alas.. #I can at least post small image of soft boye.. though he recently got into stuff in the bathroom whilst left #alone and knocked things into the toilet.. So perhaps not an innocent and NICE boy.. but still.. a soft one .. beautfile....

[cookinguptales]

always so funny to me that ketamine in tv and movies is always like "omg party drug... but watch out!" meanwhile IRL I am preparing for my biweekly ketamine dose by wearing my softest jammies and cuddling up in a fluffy blanket with a heating pad and firing up stardew valley.

really living life on the wild side over here.

#it's doctor-prescribed but #I've been on very heavy and very light doses for pain & mental health and it never feels very fun #I don't get the emotional/psychedelic/dissociative effects as much #which mystifies my doctors #but it does help VERY much with my pain and a little bit with my mood so #I just put up with feeling dizzy and heavy and unpleasant for an hour or two twice a week lmao #and I just switched doctors and it's going from $90 a bottle to $60 thank god #cw: #drug use #I am actually amazingly good at playing stardew while high now #I kept running into walls and stuff when I first started #both... in the game and in real life #but concentrating on something light and repetitive helps with the dizziness #and I can even catch fish and do the skull mines in stardew now lmao

[beecampbell]

ok i'm not a bridgerton person so to say but i also totally am a bridgerton person and you know what i think is funny. how people reacted when it was first announced this would be Penelope's season. saying she wasn't leading lady material and they couldn't see a whole season about her and Colin. it's so fucking clear why someone would think that that it's not even satisfying to smack it back in their faces. why isn't she leading lady material? she's fucking lady whistledown, she's a barbie. if Nicola can't be a leading lady bc she's thicc with nice tits, what hope is there for us pasty bitches who are thicc and have nice tits I dare ask. if anything it makes her more likely to slay it in my eyes.

#fatphobia is a fucking disease get well motherfuckers i'm tired of asking!!!!!!! #Nicola Coughlan has proved time and time again in an array of productions that she is GOOD at what she fucking does #and she's proved it plenty on bridgerton also it's just that all those fuckers can see is wow everyone is so pretty and frail but not her #like mmmm weird it must mean that she can't possibly have emotions and experiences rich enough to lead a season 🤔🤔🤔 #that makes perfect sense to me and i am an adjusted individual 🤔🤔🤔 #i don't think penelope deserves a season bc i don't think she's as pretty as the others 🤗 #that's my right as a fucking bitch of a human being 😊 #bridgerton #born to fish forced to post #bridgerton netflix

[floralstorms]

they’re dads..

@sludgemetalsnufkin

#No I did not get emotional while drawing this whatever do you mean /s #bfhgjegdfj.. #Snufkin #Snufmin #Moomin #and their kids #snail and dandelion #dandelion and snail #My art #Dandelion has little patience for fishing #little patience in general #Snail doesn’t understand by gay do crime free nature etc. #The pink one is around after Dandelion’s birth I think #Little my #Moomin loves his partner #Trans Snufkin #by the way #Snufkin’s gender is just vibing I’m not going to specify Idk if he would either I mean he’d probably not label but he’s not cis #Am I projecting yes but that’s not new to me or the fandom so like #Bihvsdbjksdv these little guys are everything #Doodles

[awakenedsylvari]

a warrior retires to a simpler life; the story passes on to another

(she's reading the latest Snargle Goldclaw novel)

#ie. i caught up on all the story on my main since 2021 #which means keelie - my main from 2016 - gets to retire to being my fishing character #i'm actually genuinely a little emotional about it! #we did so much together! the first instance of HoT... scatterings of LW... 2/3 of PoF... all of EoD... #also: glowing sylvari feet <3 #sylvari #keelie #guild wars 2 #gw2 #gw2edit #mine: edits #vgedit

[turtleboyo22]

University (I'm English oops) au doodles!!

#cyno dresses nice when he and Nari first get to know each other #Then he starts wearing his shitty pun t-shirts #And ones that aren't even puns like women want me fish fear me vibes #Cuties #Also Cyno blushes from his ears bc he's so used to making sure his face doesn't betray his emotions #But his ears give him away and Tighnari teases him about it 😭😭😭 #Its so weird posting the same stuff to 3 dif apps jeez idek why I do #genshin #genshin impact #my art #cynonari #cyno #tighnari #tighnari fanart #cyno fanart #cynonari fanart #genshin fanart #yeah anyway #Dw tumblr you'll always be my fav #Even tho I have mutuals on other apps and here I just kinda exist lmao #Tis fun tbf #Its like my own lil corner of the internet

[spacefuneral]

I was a Goth kid who wasn't allowed to be goth so I dressed pretty emo but did not self identify as such because I didn't want those associations - I even hated MCR at the time because kids limited me to emo music when I was actually listening to industrial and EBM like a true goth under an overpass

Anyway, in 2006 I was cornered by kids and called emo and one of them demanded to see my wrists, but a Future Friend came in like the coolest 13 year old around and said, "what are you doing? That's not funny." And they left me alone. Unbeknownst to them, I really did have cuts on my wrists because I was an abused child who had zero control over my life, but I could sit in my closet and feel some sort of euphoria from maiming myself. I never had words for why I did it, I think I said it was so I could feel something, but in hindsight I think I did it because I felt like an object and I wanted to break that object. In truth, I think I sometimes hurt myself literally to hurt my parents, but they never once noticed.

Anyway, fourth wave emo being invented in 2009 is fucking hilarious. They must be young.

#self harm tw #fish gets emotional

[steinbit]

thinking about my childhood again lads.. ..

#vis-à-vis the last reblog #hoooooh boy idk if my period is making me Emotional™ but that sure was a wholeass Child getting treated that way huh #does fish make noise??

[narwhalandchill]

yknow as much as the (deserved) inazuma backlash has clearly changed hoyos writing for the better i do think there v much is one completely wrong lesson theyve taken from it and thats incorporating story quests into the AQ sequence (and specifically how theyve never attempted it again)

the concept itself was Never inherently bad. in fact it unironically has a ton of potential bc you could lessen the need for sudden character specific exposition in the AQ AND pull off way more high-stakes and timeline-specific plotlines in the SQs by ensuring players will experience it at the intended place and time.

the issue was that they introduced a bleak depressing inazuma in the middle of a fucking civil war and then went omg AQ on pause!!! lets go to a festival with ayaka and u will be her first friend ever OwO yoimiyas is at least vastly better written and actually involves the VH and sakoku decrees so its always been a favorite of mine but even then im sure theres things worth criticism in there its just been 2 years so i cant analyze it off the top of my head. but the greatest offender has always been the way ayakas comes with such a complete tonal dissonance it just takes you out of the atmosphere they spent the entire act I building up.

and it rly makes me sad bc i Know hoyo took the backlash about interrupted pacing and disjointed tone as "ok story quests bad as AQ requirements" when its like. no the one you wrote just sucked

AQ incorporated story quests need to have a damn good reason to be mandatory at that specific point and while its far from perfect i DO think yoimiyas fulfills that! but ayakas doesnt! at all! and like im realizing the issue is also in how genshins made it a standard that a character must receive a story quest Instantly on release. so i guess ayakas had to be in between acts I and II for plot reasons but like. that being the case then the story quest itself shouldve focused on a completely different theme as opposed to her very predictable tropey personal problems that werent even explored properly imo. like im sure plenty of depth and nuance in her characterization was lost in translation but i almost cry laughed the first time the restaurant vendor went "oh ayaka is lonely because she is so perfect that no one sees her as a friend but instead an aspiration" like what in the 3rd grader writing mary sue self insert fic tarnation 💀 you couldve worded that exact same concept in 12 different ways to make it actually sound poignant and you did That SHAHSKSJSKDLJH

(and a quick addition before i get accused of being a blind hater hater lmao. here goes: "the burdens of miss ayakas position as the public face of the kamisato make it difficult for her to shed the mask of practiced perfection. i think people struggle to see her as a person whod enjoy simple things in life like friendship just like everyone else when theyre so used to viewing her as an unreachable figurehead." there. now its way more clearly nuanced. this took me 3 minutes and is far from any fluid writing yet. the difference is staggering)

but like. as a result this ambiguous timeline limbo most story quests end up falling into is genuinely a shame bc i do think theres potential in attempting the ayaka n yoi thing again but with characters for whom it makes sense and actually enhances the AQ experience by necessitating it. and yeah yeah ik genshin wants to be casual friendly so they dont want to force ppl to do quests they dont like for AQ so its unrealistic to expect them to ever try it out again but man

as long as they pick the right place and time and characters for it they could massively alleviate the issue of some story quests contents ending up feeling like somewhat empty fluff bc they cant assume what point a player will be in the main plot could be so they lack actually impactful lore and or character beats.

obviously im not a writer at hoyo and idk how much backlash the ayaya/yoi situation got them but like. idk. taking the lesson "never do anything like inazuma again" isnt rly what id consider the full picture. inazuma does suck and has clunky moments throughout but like in 2.0 people were still hype! inazuma had good ideas and concepts and attempted sth that couldve been great the issue isnt inazuma bad on all levels its that they never delivered its potential and 2.1 was an incredible letdown.

#like idk i dont want to assume but. i Daresay of recent quests. neuvillettes SQ will NOT hit the same if its not in between acts 4 and 5 #it does SO MUCH to expand on his character and relationship to fontaine and humanity and as a result act 5 emotional climax hits so hard #bc youve literally Been there seeing him retrospect on the way he and the melusines have gone from distrusted outsiders #to beloved members of the community. like hes super well written in the AQ either way but witnessimg that growth does sooo much for him #& adds weight to his ultimate choice to forgive the original sin of fontaines people. but played post act 5 idk if will hit the same at all #its still gonna be good im sure but. it was so scrumptious in between acts 4 and 5 #anywau. idk i just think more charaxters could get expanded moments and interesting dynamic stories #if this option of an AQ tied story quest was utilized well #thats all its just my thoughts in here. bouncing in my skull. slappimg together like fish in a barrel #genshin #rambles

[mortemcatabasis]

Unused Walleye from a comm

#digital art #doodle #walleye #fish #going unused bc its getting replaced by a fantasy snakehead fish bc fr dragon comm #i drew this as a little treat for me mainly ngl. its been my emotional support throughout the process #not because the commission is hard but ive been putting up w a family member and her very large and loud dog in my house for the past week #its been my guiding moonlight. my ludwigs holy blade thru the trails and tribulations of. constant sensory overload.

[rxttenfish]

merfolk tend to favor specifically complex sounds in their music, alongside sharp contrast between different sounds and fairly "extreme" versions of sounds. exceedingly high pitched as well as low pitched sounds are also both exciting to them. repeating patterns are also lovely, as well as repeating patterns with minor variations that their brains can track easier than ours, as well as overlaying rhythms.

because of this, a significant portion of merfolk music sounds like the most earwormingest versions of Textured Music possible. it all tends to sound either unearthly and like literally nothing else, or going hard as hell at full throttle with very few other options for gentler stuff to ease landfolk into.

merfolk music history progresses unusually fast and its a common hobby to "remix" or reshuffle other songs into their songs or otherwise twist and play with the music until it spawns countless new music, so they dont really have a "beethoven" or "orchestral music" like how we have to introduce someone entirely new to our music. you would have to go back so far to get relatively simple music that its just no longer relevant to them. and also maybe less in their stone age and more in their pre-society evolutionary history as well.

this also means that it is a blessing that miranda has yet to introduce liam to merfolk music yet because the sheer unfettered variety would mean that liam would never be the same again. its just TOO indie and TOO underground for his blood.

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #monster prom #they also love using a lot of sounds that we cant hear or cant process #as merfolk tend to process and understand music quicker than we do #and thus its a whole Thing for them to conceptualize music in three dimensions and overlaid on top of itself #them being aquatic doesnt help either since theyre already thinking of everything as being three dimensional #its weird! extremely weird! the fish love their music! #as you might expect when it plays a much larger role in the act of communication itself #and hugely tied into their language #alongside the major social function it serves in maintaining their huge complex social groups #and its fun and just a fun thing for them to do and play with! #they got their big ol ears and their big ol vocal organs and the water can carry their voices for miles! #of course theyre gonna be singsongy bitches #you dont just dedicate that much neural space to something and then NOT do anything with it #miri has to forcibly restrain herself from singing so much #both as a royal thing (only singing for specific social functions to restrict socializing with other classes and social groups) #(and thus restricting influence) #but also because she knows the landfolk Dont Do That and can Get Annoyed and its maybe not good for her emotions #she cannot perform the social glue act with her social group. she is heartbroken.