Hell yeeehaaa got some photos of a skittery critter I’ve been hunting for a while now!
This is a sea slater, a kind of isopod! For the longest time I had no idea what they were, too skittish for me to get close. Today was just wet and cloudy out for me to corner one on a walkway and herd it into submission for some photos. I chased it back to safety after!
If you look closely at the first photo you can see my awkward photography pose!
Okay so here’s my pitch for the season 3 cold open-
We open to a close up of Stede’s face, he’s clearly concentrating, he’s sweating a little, and covered in blood. It’s pretty clear as we pan out to a shoulder shot that he just killed someone. He looks very sexy about it.
We switch to a close up of Ed’s face, sweaty, clearly has just been fucked. Maybe his top button is done up wrong. Who knows.
The shot pans out and we start hearing their conversation. They are outside the inn, digging up Izzy (stick with me)- they’re talking about how silly they feel for just now realizing this is the problem- OF COURSE Izzy has been so mad, they didn’t bury him with his ring! How silly of them! And they didn’t even notice until someone tried to rob them and Stede killed the robber (and they fucked about it). THAT must be why Izzy won’t stop haunting them. They tuck the ring into his breast pocket and start to rebury him.
Next shot- we find out that they think Izzy has been haunting them because of a the ~weird happenings~ at the Inn. The haunting does not stop after they bury the ring. This part of the episode starts very creepy, real horror movie vibes. However, we find out through the course of the episode that what they think is a haunting is just two whim prone chuckleheads with no experience running an Inn.
“All of the produce mysteriously went bad!” - Stede, whose experience with food preparation is putting marmalade on toast just left them too close to the fire and the heat did what it does to produce.
“The room keys keep going missing!” Nope. Ed simply cannot remember where he put them.
“The desk bell keeps ringing at night but there is no one there!” It’s buttons the seagull fucking with them.
They both think they’re responsible for the haunting and having a crisis about it. Idk, dealers choice about what they feel guilty about.
They are losing their fucking shit over this haunting. Maybe Izzy shows up once or twice in a Badminton style memory ghost.
We pan back to The Revenge. It’s a total parallel to what happened with the red suit.
They also think they are being haunted by Izzy.
The word “twat” keeps appearing carved into random places aboard the ship. Frenchie’s peanut allergy is back full swing. They keep sailing into storms by accident. Etc
They set sail for the Inn, desperate to ask Ed to control the ghost of his dead best friend or burn the body, anything to get rid of this fucking ghost.
It’s Jim fucking with them and dumb luck. (Except for the storm thing, it’s just impossible for anyone to read the weather as well as Ed)
They all meet up at the Inn, and now we have a Scooby Doo style episode where the ghost was the friendship and character growth we made along the way.
And then for an extra layer of comedy, maybe at the end of the season we see Izzy’s ghost just sort of old man loitering around the ship because he didn’t want to leave what I am affectionately deeming his kids.
Sorry if you've been asked this, but who/what is the cybernetic looking creature in your banner on the far right? Also, your everything (every post) is always so thought out and fun to read, so thank you for sharing your ideas and art! I always love seeing it on my dash :) Feel free to ignore if you're very busy.
Thank you! And that would be Roach - she is a beastly companion of Demersa's (Demersa being the tall figure in the same banner overlooking the city). She has a few of them and they are beloved.
Roach, specifically, was a rescue/raised by Dem since she was a pup, and is unfailingly loyal and will sometimes join her in battle.
astronautilus is a game about hanging out with various fish women, im pretty sure.... anyway anthro/humanization designs of various vintages that i like
original sprites by @neozoid . you should check the game out!!
This is an AU of @fixfoxnox's Ghost/Soap/Roach (09!Roach gets Isekai'd) AU "Something in the Orange" (Read on: AO3; Tumblr)!
This took so many rough drafts and one (1) moment of experimenting with a different brush to create <3
EDIT: Comic now on AO3 as well!
Anyways enjoy a video!
Also spoilers for "Something in the Orange" under the cut! But also an explanation of this comic
So basically, in the last chapter of SitO, Roach has a dream with 09!Ghost, his fiancé in their previous lives. They have a heart to heart and it's implied that 09!Ghost reincarnated into another universe and has his own Soap and Roach he fell in love with.
Luke said this is Not canon but it was stuck on my mind even before he said so, so <3
Anyways the orange represent's Luke's Roach and the blue represents 09!Ghost's new world.
another hybrid! this time, bug boy roach! who is mixed with ghost crab 🦀
don’t quite Love his carapace, so i might try to rework that later, but!! this is good enough for now lol.
hybrid!roach is amphibious, & he can change the color of his shell! among other neat lil abilities. he doesn’t speak much because of mouth/throat damage he sustained from his hybridization. being hybridized with an invertebrate is also still a very new & experimental practice, & roach is one of the few that have survived it thus far.
A sin done in the shadow of night, enables another in the face of the light.
Huge thank you goes out to @tuherrus for their Calico Jack, Wee John, and Roach tattoo reference sheets AND for their Edward Teach tattoo sheet, you’re a life saver!
And as a cute little bonus, here’s the original sketch!
okay but has anyone thought about how Stede and Ed could open a inn at the republic of pirates and it could be a safe space for pirates between adventures and they could host talent shows and story time and Roach could run a spa portion