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thegrazingblacksheep · 2 years

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Surfing Noob

Chilly morning. Warm blanket, feet sticking out, get back in, it's cosy. Should get up, weather promised to be nice. Mornings are too bright anyway.

Protein pancake, freshly ground coffee, quiet. Should really use this day to try my new board. I mean my first board... Memories of that one lesson when spent most of the time under the water rather ON it. But it was amazing, free, cool, and another dimension.

Does board fit in the car? Juggling, seat adjusting, backseats down, measuring, trying, YES. Warm air, clouds-sun-clouds-sun-clouds-sun. It is time.

Surf cam check, weather check, wind check, wave check. All green, rock and roll.

Funny faces, nerds, not those regular beach goers and body boarders. Most of the guys here seem they were born on some kind of board. Slight anxiety, slight I-don't-fucking-care, everyone started somewhere.

Keys to locker, OMG, board is heavy, or I am weak... Tiny sharp rocks, soft grass, concrete, bumpy concrete, juggle, bloodless right arm, and finally sand.

Low tide was 2 hours ago, so it is definitely happening. Brand new full wetsuit is in action. Still can't believe that the term "cold water" does not exist anymore. Quiet appreciation of any gods of surfers and good waves.

Holy hell, the waves. Poseidon woke up on the wrong side of his bed. Pure silver, foamy, white, loud and rumbling waters - threatening, definitely not leaving prisoners today. Body boarders, beginner surfers, showing-off surfers, coast guard, kids, and more kids.

Maybe now, no, not this one. The other one. Fuck, I messed it up. Okay, go back and see, that one. Yeah, that one. Doesn't seem.. Oh shit, it was stronger than I thought. This one. Oh my good, look at that silver monster, and it is coming for my life. Right, let's get on this huge sesame seed. Right, okay. OH MY DAYS, this was fast. Next time I try to kneel up. Bubbleing, underwater cursing. Repeat for 90 minutes.

Treading the water 80%, kneeling up on the board: 10%, falling, sliding off: 5%, badly beaten by waves and the underwater sand: 5%. Joy: 150%. Success: 0%. Happiness: priceless.

Megaphone, oops, the coast has gone. Okay, this will be the last. No, no, this one! Argh. Okay, this one. Sand, bumpy concrete, concrete, soft grass, sharp rocks, key back.

All mana is out, stamina is in ruins, aching body, heaviness. Clear mind and adrenaline in a body resembles to a potato made of pewter. Ultimate happiness in that particular dimension, missing Other Half, summer is over soon, and poof... Saturday is gone.

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montereybayaquarium · 11 months

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🎶 What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and watch out for me?

👀 Watch out! Snowy plovers are arriving on our shores from their annual migrations, ready to nest on open beaches and dunes. Low-fuss, no-muss experts, those nests are really just delicate depressions in the sand—sometimes even in a divot left behind by a human footprint!

🧐 These skittish shorebirds are currently listed as a threatened species due to habitat loss because of human disturbances. Snowy plover nesting season occurs during the summer months when people visit beaches the most. Adult snowy plovers scurry away when their nests are approached, and it may be hours before they can return. While they’re away, their eggs can be crushed, overheat in the sun, or become a meal for a watchful predator.

💙 You can help our snowy friends get by next time you’re enjoying some fun in the sun by keeping your four-legged friends on a leash, staying out of areas that are blocked off as bird nesting sites, and keeping beaches clean by picking up trash that might attract plover predators. Share the shore and keep an eye out on your next beach walk for a glimpse of these charming chums!

#monterey bay aquarium #nest rest relax repeat #they get by with a little kelp from their fronds #falling head plover heels for these floofy birbs

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skylersprompts · 5 days

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DC x DP Prompt *34*

Last night's patrol had been rough. Killer Croc got the jump on Tim, who won, but not without injuries. His son had a twisted ankle, bruised ribs and a wound on his back that needed stitches.

All of this meant that Bruce needed to find an excuse for Danny, who would be very confused why his brother was so hurt, when he was supposed to be sleeping at night.

Bruce stood up and made his way to Tim's room to make sure that the boy was still sleeping. To Bruce's surprise he not only found Tim, but also Danny in the bed. Both boys were deeply asleep. Danny's hand clasped Tim's wrist, his fingertips rested on the pulse point of his brother.

Unsure what that exactly meant, Bruce left. He would need to watch the development of this closely, to find out what was going on. If something was going on.

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Dick got doused in fear gas. Danny sneaked into his room at night. His fingers are against the pulse of his oldest brother. Bruce closed the door, a light smile on his lips.

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Stephanie got hurt in a fight against Freeze and stayed at the manor. Danny sat slumped on the floor of her room. His fingers securely against her wrist.

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Damian got into a fight with Ivy and was still recovering from her pollen. Dick was sleeping and cuddling with his youngest brother. But someone else had cuddled close to the youngest bird. Danny was holding Damian's wrist close to his own chest.

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Bruce was laying in bed with a broken arm after a run in with Bane. He wasn't surprised to hear his door open, or the smaller body that was crawling under his blanket. Danny's cold finger pressed against his wrist, until they found his pulse. The boy relaxed with a shuddering exhale. He pretended a little longer to be asleep, but before he could do anything else sleep pulled him under.

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Duke ran into the Riddler. While he did solve the puzzle, he couldn't escape uninjured. He cracked a few ribs and wasn't able to hide his limp. When Duke was going to bed, Danny followed him to his room and slept beside the daytime vigilante.

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Cass had a tough fight tonight. The court of owls was active again and while she was a skilled fighter, even she wasn't able to stay uninjured with too many enemies at once. She had a black eye and her wrist had a sprain. When Danny tried to sneak into her room, she looked at him and held her uninjured wrist in his direction. They both snuggled into her bed.

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Alfred had an accident, while doing housework. He fell a few steps down the stairs with a laundry basket in hand. Luckily he only twisted his ankle. But when the old man woke up in the early hours of the morning, he found a black haired boy sleeping in a sitting position beside his bed. His fingers tightly around his wrist.

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Jason had been shot. And while he tries to argue about being able to drive himself to his safe house, Alfred's disapproving gaze was enough to let him falter. But he stayed in the med Bay. When Bruce came to check on his second eldest, he found a smaller blackhead wrapped around him, his fingers pressed to the pulse point on his neck.

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toaster-fire-art · 1 year

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It's been a year and I fianlly got around to working on and finishing my Xie Lian poster (at least I'm calling it a poster)

I redrew it uuuuh 3 times before changing around and reworking complete parts of it and it still doens't have a background that I enjoy but hey maybe y'all will like it <3

He's a lil note sheet on the appearances here i guess, with my semi-chaotic notes.

Also, although I drew them together, i'm going to post the the matching Hua Cheng one seperately then maybe tac the other onto it if that makes sense. We'll see

#my art #toasterfireart #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hob #tgcf fanart #xie lian #the many many appearances of xl #god pleasing crown prince #flower crowned martial god #fangxin goushi #general hua #uuuuuuuhhhhh #bai wuxiang #technically but not really #white clothed calamity xie lian #my man is tired pleae let him rest

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rox-of-iu · 11 months

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ayoo guess who finally sat down and caught up with cultivate B)

is me. so you know what that means.

spoiler warning for cultivate ch 30-37

there was actually.... more things i wanted to draw but I already did so many I had to physically restrain myself hfsjkkdh anyway yes can you tell i love this fic very much

yet once again. cultivate by the wonderful @neonghostcat

#liushen #cultivate #cultivate: slow life on a monster infested mountain #mu qingfang #tagging him as well since theres lot of focus on him lol #and shen jiu as well u have to excuse me I love them they're meow meows #there was gonna be more sj content also but he ended up being cut in the end #wait- hdfdfhkj probably shouldnt talk about cutting something and SJ in the same sentence lmao jhfksdhfk ok bad joke sorry #anyway aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa absolutely deceased with all that has been revealed and covered in the past few chapter #actually dead wonderful powerful talented incredible showstopping never seen before #my most favourite part of cultive is its mysteries without a shadow of a doubt they're so intriguing and the reveal is ALWAYS sooo satisfyi #so the chain reaction of so many answers of the big ones tm? chefs kiss MWA #speaking of mysteries i never mentioned it before because I didn't know how to incorporate it without it being awkward but #for the longest time one particular piece of info has been rotting in my brain #and it was the off-hand comment on of the aqueduct by LQG #it is SO SILLY but THATS the one that has been just spinning in my brain FROM THEN ON ALL THE TIME it is indeed not the actually much coole #checkovs guns that have been setup nooo it was THIS hjkjsdfhksd I HAD TO KNOW where that was going AND NOW I KNOW I CAN REST EASY jsdhfkd #so yeah absolutely wonderful chapters indeed beautiful powerful #also some of you may noticed that time and time again I keep switching up the seniority between bai zhan and qian cao #and i have to formally apologize for that it is in fact not out of lack of attention to the text I'm just shdjkas #if im not mistaken qian caos position is not set in stone in canon so its free for grabs to put it in any of the free spots on the list #so i should respect neonghostcats (beloved i am so sorry) list in this case but i physically couldn't bring myself to write mqf as shidi #HSAJHS im sorry i am so biased and from doctors family i cannot put him in my head in peak seniority so low I'm sry i am legally not allowe #so lets just pretend i wrote it correctly ok sadhkas eyes closed xD #OOF th etags got long this time but im just SOOOO EXCITED WITH THIS FIC AND GOT FEELINGS OK BYE #anyway neonghostcat godspeed recovery buddy!!#also i hope using neonghostcat isnt like....calling u by your full name hdkfh but no idea to which parts i should shorten it either so hah

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tianmijun · 1 year

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Till the End of the Moon Ep.23 (2023)

i don’t care if other people like me or not, as long as you’re willing to like me. that is enough.

#I WANT MORE KISSES #WHERE'S THE REST OF IT #i missed them tgt so much #till the end of the moon #tteotm #chang yue jin ming #cyjm #tantai jin #luo yunxi #ye xiwu #bai lu #cdrama #thisseatgifs

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illuminatedferret · 4 months

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Back Hugs in Tian Guan Ci Fu:

1. Volume 2, "To Ascend is Human, to Fall Is Also Human", pg. 380

The Deputy State Preceptors hurriedly moved aside, and Mu Qing and Feng Xin didn't know whether to act. Seeing that everyone was avoiding him like he was poisonous vermin, the child was shaken and started thrashing even harder, biting and screaming with all his might. "I'm not! I'm not!! I'M NOT!!!" Suddenly, a pair of arms wrapped around his waist, encircling his small form. A voice came from above his head. "You're not. I know you're not. Don't cry, now. I know you're not." The young child pressed his lips closed tightly, grabbing on to the pair of snow-white sleeves around his waist with a desperate grip. He forced himself to hold back for a long time, but in the end, he couldn't. A stream of tears suddenly rolled down from that round black eye, and he burst out into sobs. Xie Lian embraced him from behind and reiterated with conviction, "It's not you. It's not your fault." Honghong-er whipped around, buried his face in Xie Lian's chest, and wailed.

2. Volume 6, "Cave of Ten Thousand Gods- Faces of the Ten Thousand Gods Revealed", pg. 78-79

Hua Cheng inclined his head slightly- it was like he wanted to glance back but was too afraid to look Xie Lian in the eye. Only the two streaks of blood on his cheek could be seen. "Your Highness, would you please... not tell me?" His voice cracked as he asked. "I'm sorry," Xie Lian said. "Something like this has to be made clear." Hua Cheng didn't need to breathe, but he still sucked in a deep breath. Although his face was awfully pale, he still smiled and replied courteously, "That's true. It's for the best." He was like a criminal on death row, waiting for his sentence. He closed his eye. Yet his eye didn't remain closed for long- soon it snapped open once more as a pair of arms suddenly circled him from behind and caught him in a forceful embrace. Xie Lian buried his face in Hua Cheng's back, but he didn't speak either. Though nothing was said, it was enough. It was a long time before Xie Lian felt the man he was hugging turn around. Hua Cheng fervently returned the embrace, engulfing Xie Lian in his arms.

3. Volume 6, "Warm Words of a Cold Ghost Beguile the Lost Child", pg. 203

And then, Xie Lian abruptly froze. White No-Face was hugging him. As Xie Lian tilted and fell to his knees in a slump, he had been captured by a pair of cold, powerful arms that pulled him into a lifeless embrace. At some point, White No-Face had sat down on the ground with him. "So sad, so sad," he murmured. "Your Highness, look. Look at what they've done to you." He whispered softly as he stroked Xie Lian's head, his hands gentle and full of pity. It was like he was petting a wounded puppy or his own gravely ill child on the brink of death. The smiling half of the crying-smiling mask was hidden in the darkness; the moonlight revealed only the half that was crying, looking like genuine tears of grief shed for Xie Lian. Xie Lian remained stiff and curled in on himself, moving no further. The man in white behind him raised his fingers to wipe the filthy mud from Xie Lian's face. He sensed a peculiar kind of loving compassion in the man's touch. Like the embrace of a close friend or a dear family member, it miraculously returned a bit of warmth to Xie Lian's shivering body. He never expected that this sinister creature would be the one to finally offer him compassion.

4. Volume 7, "Dominate Heaven and Earth, Divine Being Breaks Through the Kiln", pg. 19

Xie Lian stood on the giant's palm, one hand pressing the bamboo hat down on his head while the another blocked his face from the snowstorm. The stifling hot air was swept cleanly away, and Xie Lian took a deep breath of fresh, freezing air and shouted: "San Lang-!" The first syllable was still echoing in the air when a pair of arms pulled him into an embrace from behind. Xie Lian stiffened at first, but he relaxed when he looked down and saw red sleeves and silver vambraces circling his waist. A deep, forlorn voice came from above his ear. "...I was about to lose my mind!" Xie Lian hurried to turn around. He cupped his captor's cheeks with his hands and soothed him, "Don't... don't. I'm here... I'm out!" Hua Cheng stood before him. His raven hair was mussed, and there was a lost look in his eye. He gripped the cry-smiling mask Xie Lian hadn't been able to remove no matter how hard he tried, easily tore it off, and tossed it away.

Bonus: Volume 7, "Dominate Heaven and Earth, Divine Being Breaks Through the Kiln", pg. 29-30

Before Xie Lian could finish his thought, the three mountain spirits besieged them together. They surrounded the giant stone statue and pressed firmly inward, trying to crush the state to pieces. The divine state couldn't move a single limb, nor could Xie Lian. He poured all of his strength into getting the statue to push them back, but it didn't budge- and at that point, it was probably powerless to fight back! As he tried to think of another way to escape, he unconsciously took a step backward and bumped into a chest. When he looked back, Hua Cheng grasped his shoulders. "Fight freely! It'll be fine- none of them are a match for you. Nothing in this world can stop you!" His chest was the strongest backing in existence, and in an instant, Xie Lian was brimming with confidence. A refreshing current flowed through his body, and he struck back with all his might.

#tgcf #hua cheng #xie lian #tian guan ci fu #hualian #heaven officials blessing #tgcf meta #heaven official's blessing #illuspeaks #bai wuxiang #god this was a lot of typing #im pretty sure i didn't miss any #i thought mt tonglu opening was one too but it looks like it was a normal hug #the rest of the time theyre on the statue they dont hug #lmk though #tgcf spoilers #???? i suppose. dunno how to tag for donghua watchers

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shamefulzombie · 2 months

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Small doodles of my insanity, I love he

#bout time i rest bai bai #solo leveling #statue of god #alvory's art #artists on tumblr

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peachdoxie · 9 months

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The fact that Vlad is canonically obsessed with the Packers is the funniest thing in the world to me right now. The main villain of a cartoon who is a literal billionaire is obsessed with a real life sports team that he can't buy. And they wear cheese hats. Is this even real.

#anecdotes by peachdoxie #danny phantom #vlad masters #green bay packers #i don't have the words right now to fully express how hilarious this is right now #especially in the context of the rest of the show #it's all just slightly absurd enough to make me laugh

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archersartcorner · 6 months

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“When I held you, actually saw you for the first time, I fully realized how vulnerable you were. You’re such a small thing, can’t see or hear, just have to trust the people around you are friendly, won’t hurt you. I… thought of hurting you, Skip. It would’ve been so easy to have crushed you, to have killed you and never have to worry about you taking over my body again. But you were there in my hands, trembling, terrified, and despite where my thoughts travelled, all I wanted to do in that moment was protect you.”

Was looking at some of my old doodles of these two and wanted to redraw this one. Never posted the original cus I didn’t like how it came out, but I still liked the little paragraph I had next to it, so here :-]

Edit: Speed paint here :)

#my art #described #dimension 20 #a starstruck odyssey #norman takamori #skip takamori #skipperskip #they are so everything to meeeeeeee #Norman vs intrusive thoughts: Norman 1 IT 0 #I love thinking of the hypothetical moment norm actually sees Skip for the first time and is like. ‘oh my god. small lil guy……….’#norman is constantly checking in the med bay after to see if Skip’s okay. ‘still breathing? okay good good. good.’#and while Skip is unconscious he can minorly detect norman’s psychic signature. and it’s a big comfort to him. the rest of the crew notice-#-skip seems… more at ease whenever norman’s checking on him. they’re not even sure if Skip knows he’s doing it or if it’s entirely subconsc.#anyway. *points* I like the slug and his man

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ltwilliammowett · 7 months

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Resting in the Bay, by Les Spence (1934-)

#naval art #resting in the bay #18th century #art #age of sail

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anxietyfluffy · 16 days

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im having so much fun drawing my oc Afshin and his basically-younger-sister Mariana ( @blugnettabutterflies's OC) i cant lieee, love these two doomed siblings :D

#criminal case #criminal case pacific bay #criminal case fanart #criminal case oc #looooooove these two #average older brother younger sister duo that ends in tragedy <3 #also dont be fooled he gave her his umbrella and he loves being in the rain LMAO #he just has a bad case of resting bitch face

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montereybayaquarium · 1 year

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Gliding into the weekend ✨

#monterey bay aquarium #byeeeeee fishes #starting the weekend off with a little pelagic magic #hope you can get some rest and ray lax ocean

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gornackeaterofworlds · 2 months

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Every so often, long after you've fallen asleep beside him, he'll let himself grasp the weight, the ache, of just how much he loves you. You'll wake hours later to find he hasn't slept a wink.

#i like putting him in red lighting too much #gornack art tag #gornack click to see details tag #bay tmnt #bayverse tmnt #tmnt bay #bayverse #bay mikey #ding ding wake up mikey well i got somethin for ya #i went insane on the scales #i need to find a better way to do those #it took me an hour and a half alone #..#but have some soft mikey #cuz the rest of my ideas are nastier #giggles and hides

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xieliancore · 1 year

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my contribution to the @nighthauntzine ! it was fun being able to do something a bit different from my usual this time!

#tgcf #tgcf fanart #xie lian #bai wuxiang #nighthauntzine #zine #zine art #my art #i loved everyones entries!!#im happy i can finally post this too hehe go check the rest of contributions!

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kasarasun · 4 months

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LQG you demisexual queen you

#my art #svsss fanart #svsss #meme art #liu qingge #I'm not doing the rest but its like 'im off to be the bai zhan peak lord'#and then the other ones are normal #pookie only has formal wear because the other peak lords told him to wear it #no way he ever goes shopping

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