#like near the sea

[alexoreality]

Quick question for a new story I'm making-

DOES ANYONE WANT A REINCARNATION AU WHERE ROGER IS A HOUSE HUSBAND AND ROUGE IS GIRLBOSS/WORKING WIFE?? BIO TWINS! ACE AND SABO?? ANYONE??

And a side of Luffy having white hair and golden tips, being raised by Dragon in japan cuz why not?

#return au #one piece au #one piece #luffy #monkey d. luffy #portgas d. ace #sabo #asl brothers #portgas d rouge #gol d roger #monkey d dragon #would anyone like that #do you want it?? #i mean its an interesting dynamic 👀 #luffy is a traditional japanese citizen #dragon decides to immigrate back to Portugal lol #Portugal is where Grandline University is located in this world stfu #like near the sea #its where they fight #they take P.E. seriously and do a former marines vs former pirates battle all the time #second pirate king Luffy returns with white hair #Luffy: lets start a riot 🙂

[deadsetobsessions]

Sea Cryptic! Danny AU- Pt.1

[Pt.2] [Pt.3] [Pt.4] [Pt.5][Pt.6][Pt.7]

As someone who lived in the middle of nowhere, Amity, the ocean both terrified and enthralled Danny Fenton.

The first time his parents took him to the beach, it was the middle of the day and he’d been stuck in the prototype GAV for hours upon hours on their “quick, ghost rumor hunting field trip.”

It wasn’t quick, and they caught exactly zero ghosts. When Danny saw the expanse of sand underneath the summer sun, he and Jazz both bounded out of the van like feral little monkeys. Danny and Jazz sprinted down the sand, their parents ambling behind them with their arms loaded up with towels, a first aid kit, and an ungodly amount of mildly ecto contaminated food that they already fought before getting onto the beach.

Danny had splashed into the water, yelped at the freezing temperature, and then promptly found a shell to keep. His mom taught him how to swim with the waves, having come from Surf City herself, and his dad taught Jazz how to dive.

It was a day full of fond memories, especially the memory of the Great War of Sand-Castle Crushing he and Jazz waged against each other.

They stuck around for the sunset, the ripples of colors and peacefulness that swept across the vast waters caught Danny in its hold.

He hadn’t forgotten that moment. Not even when he died.

After a particularly hard day as Phantom, Danny would fly to the coast and loose hours just sitting on the sand and watching the waves lap against the shore. And when those nights were clear? It felt like a slice of his own personal heaven, with the stars shining on his shoulders and the encompassing crash of the waves sheltering his heart.

And on some days, when being Danny left him frustrated, Danny would fly out to the coast and use his intangibility to walk beneath the waves. Near the coast, it’s cloudy with swirls of moving sand and disturbed waters. He walked, and walked, and floated and floated beneath the waters, taking contentment from the way the moonlight of his stars filtered through the water. He admired the way light would glint on the scales of fish and crustaceans alike as he floated beneath the surface. On those days, Danny would pick up trash and polluted things and bring them to shore, to place in the trash cans and all of the recycling cans. He picked up shells and decorated the beaches he frequented, because if it were decorated, perhaps people would refrain from chucking their waste into the sea.

Well, usually, it’d be trash.

Danny watched speechlessly, jaw cracked open just a smidge, as an explosion happened right over his head. The distortion of the water did not hide the fact that there were large chunks of plane pelting down at him, a different figure flying away from the explosion. Danny went invisible and intangible as large metal pieces plunged into his current water space.

“Gosh, people these days,” he huffed. “This is gonna take forever to…”

Danny trailed off, seeing a humanoid shape crash into the water, clearly unconscious. Danny didn’t hesitate before shooting towards the drowning person, glowing green and fully visible again. The stranger’s eyes- holy shit, that’s Batman- turned towards him before closing behind cracked open lenses. Batman slumped falling unconscious. That’s not good.

Danny rocketed out of the water with the vigilante in his arms. If it weren’t for his supernatural strength, there’s no way lanky teenage Danny would have been able to carry Batman’s grown ass built like a tank self to the shore. Likewise, if it weren’t for his strength, Danny wouldn’t have been able to start chest compressions through the layers of armor.

Danny leaned back with a sigh as Batman coughed out only a bit of water, because Danny hadn’t taken all that long to get to him, and held up his hands in a “I don’t have weapons” way as Batman whirled to him.

“Hi. Are you alright?” Danny asked, ectoplasm and instinctive ghost speak fuzzing his words a bit. Damn, Batman must have nearly died a lot. He’ll freak out about meeting Batman later.

“You saved me,” an awkward pause. “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome. The other guy went that way.”

Danny waved vaguely.

“…What are you?”

“Oh my god, Batman, you can’t just ask someone what they are!” He immediately replied, inwardly smacking himself for the joke. He watched Batman’s face, watching for any sign of discrimination against ghosts, or any sign the man had a sense of humor.

“…”

Neither, apparently, was the answer.

“Don’t worry about it. I’m just here to clean up the beaches. You humans really like to pollute the beaches. It’s quite rude, you know. That plane of yours, well, it’s not your fault,” he amended. “But it’s gonna damage sea life. And I don’t know if you’re in the habit, but please don’t litter on the beach or in the water, especially with your unconscious body. It’s tedious to clean.”

“…I see.”

“Stay. I’ll take out your plane. Make sure it doesn’t stay on the sand, alright?”

With that, Danny stood. Unaware of the way the moonlight lit up his hair like white flames and accentuated the sharp points of his ears, Danny turned away and flew back to the plane site, dragging the pieces up with ease.

Batman sat on the sand, likely exhausted from his fight, and watched him carry the pieces of the aircraft up.

“Here. All done. I gotta get going,” because Danny has school and this just lost him two hours. “Will you be alright?”

Batman nodded once, sharply.

“Good.” Danny went invisible, watching Batman sat up straighter, glancing around in a suddenly visible awareness. Oh, well. Tucker’s gonna freak out.

——

Three years later, Danny’s moved to Gotham for university.

And after midterm season, Danny went for a ghostly walk, but this time, in the waters surrounding Gotham.

When he surfaced, Batman was crouching on a lamp post, waiting for him.

“Oh, it’s you,” Danny said. “Hello. Did you know that people are polluting these waters with bodies too?”

“Yes,” Batman said, graveled voice resounding on the shipping containers around them.

“You should do something about that. Do you like places that are polluted?”

Batman sighed. “What are you?”

Danny hears a small, tinny voice by Batman’s ear, coming from a comm.

“Oh my god, B, you can’t just ask someone what they are!”

Mind flashing back to the night Danny drug a waterlogged Batman out of the ocean, Danny cracked a smile.

“Phantom,” he said, decisively. And, because this isn’t Amity anymore, “the Beach Clean Up crew from the flip side.”

——

Bruce, waking up on the sand: wtf

Bruce, seeing a child next to him who probably saved him: wtf (in “adoption”)

Bruce, seeing Danny’s skin glitter like stars, hair aflame, and pointy ears: wtf (in “I can adopt fae folk, right?”)

Bruce, seeing that Danny doesn’t leave any footprints: wtffff (detective mind goes brrrr)

——

Bruce, after Danny leaves: *donates 20 mil towards beach clean up efforts and anti-pollution causes*

——

Bruce’s Goggle Search History, documented by Oracle:

Sea spirits

Sea vampires

How to parent supernatural kids

How to thank your sea child

Are shells a good gift?

Ocean conservation efforts

Sea spirits that glitters under moonlight

Sea spirits that cleans up beaches

Wayne corporation waste disposal

Companies that dump trash into the sea

*outgoing call to Lucius Fox*

What is “mean girls”

——

Bruce, learning “current pop culture” from his kids:

Bruce, remembering the kid who saved him and realizing he’s probably as old as his own kids are: *adoption tendencies intensifies*

#batman #danny phantom #dc x dp #Danny picks Batman up like a waterlogged shoe #like this isn’t supposed to be in the sea #I live near a beach #please do not litter on a beach #I saw someone leave one of those plastic mesh bags for oranges and a seagul got stuck in it #beaches are precious #fight me #bamf danny phantom #bruce wayne #Bruce Wayne: I’ve seen a sea spirit #Danny Fenton: Batman is littering on the beach with his plane #dc x dp crossover #oracle #oh my god Batman you can’t just ask someone what they are #sea cryptic! danny AU

[ride-a-dromedary]

I'm inclined to take Halsin at his word, but I wonder when he laments/jokes about having an awful singing voice if it's actually awful, or if it's just average/lower quality compared to other elven voices, which by human listening standards is still pretty good.

#BG3 Musing #Halsin #Halsin Posting #i am inclined to believe he likely is telling the whole truth with no hidden meaning (considering he also can't dance bless this man) #but also like what if he wasn't (and by wasn't i mean to him it's the full truth but to non elves it's like??? false humility huh okay hal) #doesn't have that ethereal quality to it so it's automatically like meh in elf circles and to elf ears #halsin's just a baritenor in a sea of castrati and sopranos #dave jones can sing so... #halsin: our teacher used to say i had the voice of a wounded boar #anyway *is able to harmonize near perfectly with a human bard* #(just in the lower register)

[eddieintheocean]

very beautiful. very powerful (but from 1959)

#i went to the antique shop near me #and they were selling the observers book of sea fishes from 1959 for £5 ($6.29) #and it has 100+ fish pictures like these #im uploading them to google drive now and im gonna share my faves #very beautiful #very powerful #lumpfish #lumpsucker #eddie in the ocean #marine biology #marine biology shitpost

[laymedowntorest]

@sourtomatola

Context

#“Why would she be shocked” bc she lives more like a sea witch then a fae #Living as a sea witch in a house near the beach pfft #So she's kinda unaware how things work #Save her PFFT #shitpost #thing on your swing #dark fae au #Enyo

[arsenicflame]

as someone whos really into the intricate rituals of piracy (and thinks izzy is too) it hurts me that he didn't get a burial at sea. he lived his whole life there, he cared about piracy as a community, he thought they were good, he deserved to have that life one last time.

#this is the final thing #put the needle through his nose :( #idk its nice that hes buried there where ed is staying but i think he would have liked a traditional burial #they could have cast him to the sea in the bay that way he is still nearby and they can look out to sea and remember him #keep his marker near but. bury him at sea #nyxtalks #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #israel hands

[south-sea]

i think a lot of people don’t always realize the difference between “this is how i interpret canon” and “this is how i want to write it because that’s what’s fun to me”. a lot of times the latter is all headcanons or AUs are, not an indication of what the writer thinks “is” or “should be” canon

more power to those who are super tuned into actual canon and know these details like the back of their hand, but sometimes people just wanna use a series as a sandbox, not a ruleset. genuinely nothing but respect for people who ARE that knowledgeable, but i and a lot of other people are just here to have fun with characters we enjoy—and want to put them in more accessible settings

#this isn't meant to be grandstanding or anything i'm just thinking aloud. i know i've said stuff like this before it just hit me suddenly #thinking about those weird anons from a while back who were really getting on my case about this #and i could not wrap my head around what the problem was because it’s like. that’s why it’s an au? #why are you mad about details of an au not lining up with canon #that’s the whole point of it being. an au #like of course shadow would normally be able to visit certain places. of course he should already know omega. #but there is a deliberate reason why second chance shadow can't/doesn't #and now i realize it's probably because they were seeing my posts entirely out of context #but still don't go attacking people for out of context posts either?? #i'm shocked no one's seriously gotten on my case about aruna's hive yet because it's a prime example of 'intentionally nowhere near canon' #and like overall just don't be a penders and you're fine #lord knows i've got plenty of 'characters who have strayed so far from canon they may as well be OCs' in my pocket #but i still acknowledge they're not by definition OCs yknow #sometimes you just wanna use a funny lil guy as groundwork and then do your own thing #sea talks

[moonpaw]

thinking about nami's backstory and how she begged for help twice, and both times ended up with Gen getting beat up and sliced to ribbons, as well as the rest of the villagers getting attacked as nami watched in horror, and this was after watching her mother get shot in the head

then later on in arlong park, she watched as several marine ships came to try to help and watched as arlong and the fishman pirates sank each and every one of them before the navy stopped sending help altogether and in just a few hours nami realized that she can no longer ask for help, it won't successfully come without lose of life of either random people or those she cares about

so at that moment she decided that she can't rely on anyone, can't ask for help lest they get attacked, and that she is completely and utterly on her own

and then comes in luffy and the straw hats, determined to help, but i think it's important here to know that luffy waits until nami asks for it, something she was avoiding until arlong backed her into a corner and everyone she loves was about to be killed despite all her effort and struggles

asking for help meant death to whoever would, but not asking for help would lead to the deaths of those she was trying to protect

so she asked

#one piece #i had to reread arlong park like 4 times bc of the zoro project and every single time i was bawling like a baby #just argh #one piece is so good #and sometimes i see people misunderstanding this part or thinking nami was weak for it and im just #no you dont understand #she couldnt ask for help because she didnt want luffy and the others to get killed by arlong #because that's what she associates asking for help with because she watched what happened when she did the same day her mother got killed #she doesnt want them to die!! #she doesnt want her village to be killed either! #she couldve easily run out to sea and abandoned them if she wanted to free herself but she didnt #because she loves her village #she put herself in danger for them and didnt get to live a normal childhood as she started to go out and rob other pirates for money #she would be gone for weeks and months but she always came back #even if coming back meant being near who killed her mother and ruined her life #just augh #nami....

[bonegrove]

Love to see how more people finding out that Lemuria is based on real life world's myth from that one tiktok. I found out about it through a book I bought years ago when internet was just in very early stages makes my little world mythology and lost civillization nerd heart is so happy and giggling in the know now.

#no pun intended- #bonemurmurs #love and deepspace #lnd rafayel #love and deepspace rafayel #otome games #otome game #mobile game #scifi games #romance games #lemuria #lemurian #mythology #rafayel my beloved fish boy #rafayel #the fact its also located near my country is even better #its like unearthing lemuria through sea of my memories #i forgot the title of the book since its a very old book

[br1ghtestlight]

why is a fish called tina like the ONE bob's burgers episode that makes me cry every single time. nobody else even talks about it and im out here sobbing on the 50th rewatch. louise's speech at the end KILLS ME like instant tears

#I KNOW THAT MY BIG FISH IS THE BEST POSSIBLE FISH IN THE SEA 😭 NONE OF YOU BIG FISH CARE ANYWHERE NEAR AS MUCH AS SHE DOES 😭😭 #I WOULD BE THANKING HER FOR EVERYTHING SHES DONE FOR ME AND MY EIGHTH GRADE BROTHER HERE 😭 #BUT I DONT WANT HER TO GET A BIG HEAD ABOUT IT SO IM GLAD SHE CANT HEAR THIS PART😭 #AND IF SOMEONE DOESNT LIKE HER LIKE WE LIKE HER THATS THEIR LOSS!!!!!! 😭😭😭 #do u even understand what this episode does to me. if the subplot wasnt lowkey boring it would be one of my favorites ever #txt #bob's burgers

[amelikos]

Rayquaza, Liko, Amethio, eyes meeting.

#thinking about this again and the fact they highlighted the moments their eyes met and that rayquaza seemed to recognize them #i wonder if rayquaza will appear in the next eps because so far all of its appearances have been near the sea (ep 6 and ep 33) #and at different times of the day (during the day and then sunset so maybe next time will be at night?) #the group is near a beach right now (just like when rayquaza first came out of the ancient pokeball) #and the building at the end of ep 42 is definitely the explorers' so maybe? #i wonder if the explorers purposefully went there knowing rayquaza would be more likely to appear in such a place #also: the contrast between rayquaza flying away after seeing liko and attacking upon seeing amethio #liko #amethio #hz006 #hz033 #episode notes #character notes

[grimalkinmessor]

Anglerfish mermaid Light WHEN

#death note #yagami light #i mean this in a symbolic way like it makes so much SENSE #the way light hunts is by lure. he looks all nice and pretty and you want to get close to him. #then all of a sudden you're close enough to see his teeth and then its too late #L is an octopus because he clings. you dont see him because its dark and then all of a sudden you run into a tentacle and its over. #he's eating you #also jellyfish misa #fluorescent jellyfish specifically #im in a sea life mood #bobbit worm near #dolphin mello #and vampire squid beyond that is all

[an-unraveling-unknown]

I've fallen down a rabbit hole of Gaelic deities and personifications and I am having so much fun its unreal

My favorite so far has been Lir (or Ler!), who is the personification of the sea - his name quite literally means 'Sea' in Old Irish and I have to respect a fellow who's straight to the point.

Something I found fun was that his son's name is Manannán mac Lir, which translates to "Son of the sea" and is that such a cool flex. Like 'Hey, I'm very obviously the son of the massive, powerful, terrifying body of water that makes up 97% of the Earth' THATS SO NEAT DUDE BUT IT IS NOTED THAT I SHOULD NEVER ANGER YOU EVER

#irish mythology #welsh mythology #deities #personifications #Edit - I feel validated on my stance because it seems in Gaelic myth Manannán takes over Lir's position of whatever he does as the #personification of the sea and id just like to say I will be wary when nearing the ocean upon any given point in my life from now on #manannán mac lir

[delta-orionis]

Hm. What if instead of a high-altitude iterator designed to study the sky, there was one deep below sea level to study the ocean. How would that even work…

#catch me over here thinking about weird iterators #maybe they could be built near a mid-ocean ridge where the planet’s crust is thin and they have easy access to the void sea #does rain world’s planet even have oceans?? #I don’t know. maybe I will chew on this #also hear me out: pathos-ii iterator. #rain world is like my brain’s chew toy right now LOL. the lore is SO fun to think about #personal #rain world

[phoenixcatch7]

Man I am just SO CONFUSED. About the time line of this game.

No one is telling me how long links been gone! Or how long the botw-totk timeskip was! They all just started selling my stuff again lol. I'm going to have to get everything redyed!

Me: hey random stranger! Lore dump? You look like a lore dumper.

Kindly npc: why hullo there, link ^^! My, I haven't seen you in a while since the calamity ended! I was so worried when they said you and the princess had gone missing! But it's good to see you're well.

Me: aw, thanks. How long has it actually been tho.

Kindly npc: ^u^

#Having a great time btw I've just been chased across a near sea of miasma by stal riders and more! 10/10 nearly died in a high speed chase #Made it out relatively unscathed which is truly amazing lmao #Spoilers ahead: I have had the funniest time doing the great plateau quest chain. Once I sucked it up and made nice with the creepy statue. #He's(?) been alright. Fair trader. Good deals. I've mostly been terrorising kohga in between absolutely failing to craft working vehicles X #His new boss fights are so much easier than the first one lol. Less fun I'll admit but the music is groovy. You can probably make a #Machine and try and dog fight him but with few exceptions the turning circles are decrepit so I just stuck to mild dodging and shooting him #And running over to hit him some more. Kinda bland for a boss fight I'll say. Could have done with a lot more pizazz. It's kohga come on. #Anyway I do feel kinda bad because apparently he's been stuck down there for however many months/years and I AM kinda cheating with the arm #After the first fight he fled to the gerudo mine and the steward very nicely showed me how to get there but never underestimate #My procrastination because I'd already found it by just exploring so I just teleported. In game it must have been terrifying lmao #Racing across an endless void filled only by the light of your rapidly running out of battery glider and the red glow of the gloom away fro #The apparently immortal ancient warrior who beat you up and tossed you down there and there's no sign of perusal so you're probably safe #But you get there and he's already sitting there poking some bananas having wiped out your goons and plundered your supplies. #Like sorry man but the arm comes with the hero territory I can't exactly take it off. #Maybe if you stopped terrorising the people purah would let you have one of her long distance teleportation slates. It comes with photos? #It can't have been long since botw link hasn't grown an inch XD. Also I've been turning the lore timeline over in my head and still no idea #Are we not sure Rauru isn't from some alternate timeline that got fused with the main loz timeline by accident?? #loz #legend of zelda #totk #loz totk #tears of the kingdom #loz tears of the kingdom #totk spoilers

[that-gay-jedi]

Please watch and enjoy this video regardless of whether you like/engage with cowboy iconography at all bc it's got something for everyone.

Also addresses uncomfortable truths about race and colonialism in the wild west mythos in a context that made my brain do a little lightbulb pop to like... the ways in which care jobs, professional cleaning, fast food, retail, and call center work fill a similar niche today, in the sense that many PoC find employment there for the same reason many LGBTQ+ people do and both groups experience a gooey mix of (relative) opportunity and blatant exploitation therein.

#im also so fuckin ready for queer and/or poc historically revisionist cowfolk to take over the media niche from pirates any day now #solely bc i am tired of hearing about the pirates #i live in a region so steeped in seafaring history that i could happily go the rest of my life without ever seeing a ship ever again #all cool parts have been ruined for me by related industries & living near the ocean itself for so long has diminished that primal mystery #i find that sense of vastness and timelessness and allure in like trees and rocks bc i havent spent 30+ years overexposed to them lmao #all my mutuals who wanna live in a lighthouse or somthn can come kive here by the sea i wanna go sit in some tree roots