once again thinking about mermaid saiki !!

him having bad days and just wanting to get in the damn ocean and swim with the fishies !! fish have thoughts but they r so simple minded that its just a gentle murmur and its so lovely for him !!

the ocean is so beautiful to him !! its one of the few things he allows himself to take comfort in !! my boy can literally make friends with sharks and he does !!

IMAGINE any of his friends being scared of the ocean and wanting to get over their fear and saiki is like. i can literally show you the beauties of the world. the wonders of the earth. let me show you.

cuz he probably gets to be a really REALLY good swimmer because of his mer shenanigans.. he takes his friends diving (not very far/deep) and holds their hands and shows them beautiful things..

they watch him pet sea creatures that they wouldnt have even thought to get near and are just like.. huh..

I feel like it fits your vibes. love you

SHARKY I LOVE THE MOON!! do you know how excited i get when the sky is clear (rare in england😐) and I can see the stars and moon??? SO EXCITED. can't believe you just casually sent me such a pretty gif and said it fits me you're too nice to me. I love you sweetie thank you for this pretty gif💐💐

edit: I now know it's a BADGE and am currently in tears bc wtf sharky you're the nicest person ever i can't believe you would send me this :((( I LOVE YOU

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Honeysuckle, she's full of poison She obliterated everything she kissed Now she's fading somewhere in Hollywood I'm glad I came here with your pound of flesh

Did not fall at ice skating AND I sweated all my rage out at one of my specialists 😎 He gets to live another day and I finished my first session at this rink! I think I made it hmm 6 out of 10 lessons which isn't GREAT, but also. What can you do in these unprecedented times. I remain as ever unable to do a crossover, however a friend I made in class decided the two of us are going to try the next group up in the next session. So at least I'll be learning new stuff and not be bored failing at the same things I've been failing at since 2018. I get to fail at new stuff!

I do think my parents maybe missed the mark not forcing me to do sports as a kid...appreciate them encouraging me to be a sensitive and tenderhearted poet and I think I excel at it, but every time I go ice skating for an hour or go hiking for a couple hours or just move my body in a way that creates endorphins I'm like damn, you guys hear about this?? If you move your body, sometimes it clears your head and makes you feel more hopeful about life?? What?? Amazing.

Anyway, excited to start the next session in July. And if work does change my schedule and I no longer work Saturdays I'm thinking of trying a softball clinic 🤔

We’re currently “only” at 4 fics, but I’m hoping more people will join us if I advertise the tag’s existence. *eyebrow wiggle*

throwing my wishes out there before i head to bed tonight: PLEASE let something change for amethio next ep PLEASE. i dont think i can take another "he shows up after being mia takes a loss looks real sad about it then dissapears again"

So there's a post floating around where someone oh so boldly declares they like rwby post v3, and im sitting here laughing because canonseeker, mr "own the rwde for being stupid and illiterate" himself, calls it "good faith criticism"

Babe. That's not even criticism, that's an opinion. Surely a galaxy brain like you understands the difference between subjective and objective discussion?

i love ur octonauts safe foods post but that also brings the question: what are the octo-agents safe foods?

wonderful question my anonymous friend- apologies for the delay, please enjoy post 🤲:

Paani’s patties have nuts, seeds, and bugs in them, which all have kind of similar tastes—hear me out—they all taste nutty (yes, bugs have a nutty flavour, if you didn’t know), and possibly a little roasty or smokey depending on how they’re prepared. Paani’s safe foods probably consist of a lot of other grains, nuts, or butters (peanut butter, sunflower butter, almond/cashew butter, etc). He probably unironically enjoys pistachio ice cream. Can’t go wrong with a giant jug of straight up rainwater, either.

Tracker grew up the same way Barnacles did: In the Arctic with very little variety. So, their tastes are probably the same, or very similar. He enjoys simple flavours, and dishes with non-complicated seasoning. I also imagine he’s an extremely picky eater, despite being taught in the Polar Scouts to be prepared to “eat what you have to” in an emergency. He might like a couple obscure or odd things here and there, but other than that his palate is pretty limited. He likes knowing what to expect when he eats something (and in general), so he basically just eats the same foods over and over. He’s an EXPERT at cooking these foods.

Googled native Russian and Siberian cuisines for Natquik, and I’m seeing a lot of dough, pastry, soup, and salt (and a lot of other things, but they’re mostly meat and I’m going to pretend he’s vegetarian and so is everyone else, with the exceptions of Mr. Paani “The Bug Eater”, and Ms. Pearl “Eats Living Urchins Whole”). He loves savoury foods, as well as “earthy” flavours (below-ground vegetables, such as beets, potatoes, carrots (he might bond with Tweak over that one), or mushrooms) but can NOT tolerate spiciness at all; he’s worse than Barnacles in this regard. If he eats something too hot he will spit it out instantly, and be very dramatic about it. He also enjoys a cup of tea now and then, and he’s not picky about what kind; if it’s warm and got leaves in it, he’ll drink it.

I like to think that Calico Jack and Kwazii are alike in more ways than one thousand—and they probably have IDENTICAL tastes/safe foods. So, Jack loves sweets and sugars, but hates bitters. He hates citrus too (because he’s a cat), but has learned to tolerate it in all his years as a pirate. He chugs lemon juice like it’s milk, and he just ate a whole ghost pepper. You won’t catch him anywhere near a tangerine, though. (Disclaimer: Citrus is actually poisonous to cats in real life, which is why they hate it so much. This cat however, is fictional, and just thinks they’re icky.) CJ also canonically loves to cook and bake his own food, based on how many recipes he invented and passed down to Kwazii; such as pirate pie (real pie, see GBR for ingredients), pirate stew (main ingredient = kelp), and “pirate pie” (kelp and lima beans on toast), to name a few.

Ranger Marsh LOVES the Octonauts’ hot cocoa specifically, I don’t know if it’s the way the Vegimals make it, or what, but I’m taking this to mean the man is fan of chocolate. Dark chocolate. Meaning, he probably enjoys bitter things. Do not let him cook for Kwazii or Jack. I bet most of what he eats is foraged directly out of the Everglades’ thicket, so that would likely include weird and bitter berries, plants, and wild vegetables. I also headcanon that he taught Tweak how to make her famous chili, she just perfected it. Chili can taste like pretty much anything depending on how you season it, so you can bet he likes his extra bitter as well.

Okay now Pearl is probably the opposite of Shellington. I said that Shellington would enjoy intense or odd flavours (like extra hot sauce on cake), but dislike salty-anything because it reminds him of red urchin. He learned to like strange foods, as a result of being allergic to his species’ main source of nourishment (shellfish). Since Pearl didn’t have this problem, she didn’t need to branch out her plate; and thus would love salty things because it’s what she’s used to. She might dislike overly sour or sweet things, or generally “unnatural” or artificial foods. She’s probably not much of a chef, considering most of what she eats is stuff she literally picks off the seafloor.

Apparently a red panda’s diet is 95% bamboo, soooooooooooooooo... I guess that answers Min. She probably eats a ton of those bamboo biscuits, and that might literally be all. Bamboo tastes earthy, nutty, and slightly sweet, so if she were to expand her menu, she’d probably eat foods with similar tastes, or anything that has a good crunch to it. Y’know what? I bet she’d love a Paani Patty.

Ryla literally ate bat droppings covered in moss. Granted, the “droppings” were berries, but still. I don’t think she’s very picky. She doesn’t have any “safe foods”, because she’s a hardcore survivalist—she’ll eat ANYTHING (unless it’s poisonous then she’ll only eat it once). Wombats are strict herbivores, so she probably enjoys a good salad when she's not fighting for her life in a cave.

I think Koshi and Pinto are both stereotypical kids, who'll gladly inhale anything with sugar in it. Pinto specifically might have similar tastes to Peso, in which he'll also just eat... literally anything. Especially if it's weird looking. Koshi is a bit more sensitive to strong smells, so she'll only eat what she likes the smell of. She doesn't seem like someone who likes trying new foods, either. She likes sweet, or bland simple tastes.

Cheap coord challenge pt 1

Coord total: $146 | Cumulative coord total: $146 Other entires will be posted on the "20dollarlolita coord challenge" tag.

Okay, cheap coord challenge, first entry. There will be several, but I don't want to wait and make one master post.

So, the rules I'm following for the least expensive coord challenge: 1) Each coordinate's value must include all items being worn except for petticoat and medical devices. If we're including glasses and hearing aids and shoe orthodics then these are going to get expensive really fast. 2) the challenge of "how many coords can I make for the cost of a really expensive coord" only has to count an item one time. If I wear the same shoes for seven coords, the cumulative total only has to add the shoes one time.

This wasn't the first one I wanted to do, but it's the first one that I ended up wearing, so here we are. This is $146, with 41% of that total being the cost of the shoes.

Blouse: Bodyline, $30 Skirt: $6, one of the first lolita things I made Overskirt and headbow: $20? Both of them were small items from lucky packs from Souffle Song, so I'm not sure how to count that Tights: $10 Wrist cuffs: $4, diy'd while I was at work specifically for this Jewelry: $16 from thrift stores, handmade, or the 14 years of my life that I had to go to Sunday school plus the year in confirmation class that I went through to be given the cross as a reminder of the pledge that they allowed a literal child to take to vow to spread the word of the Lord which became a vow that I never really honored, so this cost me disappointing Jesus, but didn't cost any money Shoes: $60

If we don't count the shoes, we're down to $86, and I'm not sure if it's fair to count the shoes since I wear them literally everywhere (they're the shoes that have the fancy ankle orthodics so they're my saily shoes). But including these is in the rules, so we're counting them. The whole reason I decided to sort of take a punk route with this coord was because I was going to wear those boots anyway. I started this look out by going to get breakfast with my grandma, and that original iteration is the look on the right of the collage with the flowered tights.

The thing that I really like about this look is how flexible all the pieces are. I have a lot of ideas planned out for this challenge and almost all of these pieces except the skirt are getting reused somehow. I also really like doing pink and black together, because that's what tiny me wanted lolita to be all the time. I also have a lot of nostalgia for that skirt just because I was so proud of it when I made it. The bow has a little book charm on it that says Holy Bible on one side and has a Chi Rho on the other side. I usually just hope that no one notices that, but today I went fuck it and wore a cross. I usually don't do that (religion is my sister's thing, not mine) but it made my grandma happy.

Things I'm not happy about: Boy is that skirt boring and way too long. It's so hard to work with but I'm so fond of it because babylita me made it. I wish I had something that reads a bit more punk than the blouse for this? I'd really like a graphic cutsew instead of a button-up blouse. These wrist cuffs are the reason I now understand exactly how long of a wrist cuff is too long, and they also need some adornment. I'm so incredibly tired of wearing those boots all the time, and I'd love to use some shoes that really take the look over the top a bit more. I also used to be able to tease my hair up pretty big and get this cool look, but since I've cut it shorter I've needed to re-learn the art of alternative hair teasing and instead it just looks like a 1960's flip hairstyle.

I wasn't planning on starting the challenge with an experimental coord, but I didn't decide what day my grandma's birthday was, did I?

Y'all know the rules, concrete is good and you can submit it anonymously if you want.

I got back to the house today and showered. She wrote I Love You on the mirror. I’m trying not to worry about it but I’m really hoping she wrote that for herself

started thinking about the draft and the way i didn't even give a damn two seconds ago but now i'm a bit invested and completely haunted and nothing is going to go the way I WANT. which is crazy cuz why won't things go MY way??? i need to do something so seriously awful and cruel. i’m cursing gary in a way no old man has ever been cursed before. God i need a drink

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Wanna tell me why I suddenly can’t see my typing on mobile??? Without changing the colors???

Hello???

EDIT: back into light mode and now THIS WORKS. ARE THEY FORCING ME BACK INTO LIGHT MODE??? I have an anger.

EDIT 2: back to dark mode. So I can’t see what I’m typing as I type it, but it shows up in the post proper. I am still much anger.

Did you REALLY have to do this a couple days before the fic rec???

Edit 3: goth rave mode. Look at this nonsense:

And if you were curious - no, changing the font color to white has zero effect. As far as the post editor is concerned, it already is white. Even though, see the above pic.

Looks like I’ll have to go back to light mode for a while asdfjklbfjblk nobody talk to me right now or I’m going to explode.

my other comment on the baby sharks that i did not want to put into the lb tag is that dougie jr's last gift to the sharks was clearly creating a prospie pipeline that is either short kings or big bois. absolutely no medium-sized men, just a bunch of giant fucks and then a bunch of guys listed at 5'10 who are barely pushing 5'9 if that. watching the bordeleau-eklund-cardwell topline on ice with onyebuchi and guryev was comical. jmac said i'm sending out my smallest guys to score goals (they didn't) and i'm sending out my biggest boys to protect them. and guryev and onyebuchi said yes sir coach jmac we take our job very seriously mr. coach jmac and got into like 10 fights each. future of the sharkuda looks funny as fuck.