Skin Diving
Cadiz, 1967
The rich girls walked arm in arm, untouchable,
big silver crucifixes
below their necks, while the men
in outdoor cafes
smacked their lips at peasant girls too poor
to forget their bodies.
Each night my blond [sic] wife and I would go out
for shrimp and baby eels
or sherry and langostinas, and the men
turned and turned,
whispered, made gestures.
At Carnival—
amid the floats carried by penitents,
the noise and the crowds—
a furtive touching, Spanish boys pressing
into what they couldn't have.
Sundays it all exploded; the bulls dipped
into the horses, the matadors
into the bulls, then the streets filled again
with a wild vicariousness.
One day after El Cordobés had frightened
and aroused us,
putting his ear to the tip of a bull's horn,
a Spanish friend taught me
how to skin dive for moray eels.
You had to anger them
so they'd come at you, shoot the spear
straight down
their throats after the huge mouths opened.
I had no desire
to do such a thing, but I went down anyway
and later watched him
walk the streets with a moray around his neck,
smiling, proud, terribly hurt
when my wife stepped back, wouldn't take it,
his gift, in her hands.
— Stephen Dunn, Local Time (1986)
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Wally Gator headcannon
So imagine That Schwingin' Gator From the Swamp, himself also doing diving instruction on the side, offering some snorkelling lessons to Ruff and Reddy in some isolated and otherwise unknown spring down Florida way ... and Wally manages not to make the very first Hanna-Barbera Productions byproducts nervous in any way in so teaching.
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[Darkness flowed over my skin.]
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Did you know you can buy E-sims for people in Gaza, allowing them to continue connecting with the wider internet?
And that you can find directions on how to do that and get awesome art in exchange via the Cartoonist Cooperative's ‘Buy an E-Sim for Gaza’ Donation Drive?
So via said drive I commissioned the incredibly talented @breebird33 for an icon of my DnD rogue, Elias Wentel. look at him. im love him. 🥲
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I wonder if the Fenton parents would make something like an inhaled form of Ecto-Dejecto if they knew about Danny and Elle's status? It can be used as a spray or injection already in canon, but more options may be helpful for them.
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// I would write something about the relationship between the divine and absence for heysel- rosaria's divinity almost coming more from the fact that she is silent than the soul she carries, o.edon's shapelessness and impossibility to grasp, the nothing-place and its embodiment of what isn't right aside to things that are, or why not, her father's almost forgotten god in all verses- all those shades of emptiness that cannot quite be bridged- but like all days I am so sleepy because of the heat
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We now join Mildew Wolf mentoring a few young campers in the skindiving experience at some northern Wisconsin summer camp
[Having led his group of largely neophyte campers into the lake's shallows, we find the following ensuing--]
MILDEW WOLF, snark obvious: Hello, campers ... at any rate, Uncle Mildew is going to show and lead you into what is bound to be a new twist on the usual swim routine--SKIN DIVING!
A CHEEKY CAMPER: Do you mean we're going diving--
MILDEW WOLF, cutting short the camper's remark: I assume the next word from his lips was going to be "naked." Regrettably, such a term as "skin diving" does not imply your going "into the raw" underwater necessarily; and besides, our experiences will involve [holding one such up for all to see] a mask/snorkel combination and flippers, which is a rather interesting way to see things beneath the water's surface, and besides, there is much fascination to be had in what lies beneath!
ANOTHER CHEEKY CAMPER: Does this mean we'll be seeing lake monsters during this dive you're talking about?
MILDEW WOLF: Don't be silly ... and besides, Scooby-Doo has exposed more lake monsters as Outright Frauds than you've had hot dinners! More than anything, our dive taster will be a close-to-shore such, yet one offering some interesting perspectives as well! At any rate, let's get the masks cleaned off with the "spit-and-rinse" technique demonstrated previously ...
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I'm running out of video essays to watch does anyone have recommendations
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