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Character duo where one *remembers I don’t like fitting characters into trope boxes* is a completely fleshed out and realised person *remembers treating characters as real people and not story devices written with intent is bad* who is written by the author and *remembers death of the author* uh. And *fumbles and drops my pile of queue cards* ah fuck wait no *the menacing horse* what was that.

Legit just finished Korra, and omg I finally get it now, 10/10 I'm afraid. The effect it would've had on teenage me would've been insane.

The second I hit that last credits scene I ZOOMED to AO3 for wuko fics.

#legend of korra #wuko #avatar the last airbender #lok mako #avatar korra

keldrikakand

Discovering my characters backstory by listening to music

crabs-but-better

fun fact! did you know that you can gain extra ‘forbidden time’ by staying up late in the night? but Watch Out

amiru-shrubfeast

Shit this is great! You can get so much done if you don't sleep!

amiru-shrubfeast

THE CONSEQUENCES

casgirl

fandom people online will ignore the political landscape and blog about their blorbos all the time and then make the shocked pikachu face when abortions become illegal while they were blorbo blogging in the blogosphere

What do you want me to do about it on tumblr man. It’s tumblr.

casgirl

I’m sorry guys I could’ve personally stopped the overturning of roe v wade but I was too busy running a supernatural blog.

natalieironside

ampervadasz

tell-the-stars-hello

this was cute until i realized the fish is probably trying to not get eaten

killhitleragain

A fish trying not to get eaten wouldn’t slow down when the “predator” slows down. It also wouldn’t constantly swim in a circle near the edge of the tank; It’d try hiding. Also a fish in a tank in a a public place that is constantly filled with people is not likely to see people as predators.

darkwingsnark

Animals, I think people tend to forget, also enjoy playing.

bunjywunjy

yeah that fish is absolutely playing with that kid, if it really wanted to escape it would just dive into the reef in the center of the tank!

(Moorish Idols are reef fish and naturally will seek shelter in the nearest nook or cranny if they get scared.)

many people don’t realize this, but fish aren’t stupid animals! most of them are on par with mammals like mice and squirrels in terms of intelligence, and they absolutely do play.

i-need-glitter

I was at an aquarium a few years ago and decided to sketch a fish. It came up to me.

I decided to flip the book around and pressed it against the glass. Fish lost it

Swam away then came back with MORE FISH

to this day I love those little sketches and I really love how I got the fish to bring me it’s friends

mysticdoodles

Hi! Professional marine biologist and aquarist here- fish absolutely play, and not only that, can be trained.

I accidentally trained a fish once through playing.

Let me explain.

The small-time aquarium I worked at about 4 years ago had a decent sized female Sheephead. Sheephead are bright red with the males sporting a black head, and get big. I’m talking almost 1m long at full maturity (and may or may not transition from female to male depending on the number of males present). Point is, even though not fully matured, this Sheephead was a bit of a heavyweight in her kelp forest tank with a length of about 1ft making her the resident Biggest Dog In The Yard. And she absolutely knew it. She would bully her tankmates if she wanted to steal their food.

The thing about this Sheephead- let’s call her Red- is that she had one heck of a ‘tude. Red was known to splash aquarists whenever they fed the tank, and at almost a foot long with a wide tail, her splashes had quite a bit of heft and would soak you from the torso down. We were advised to bring a towel or two to protect ourselves from most of the drenching. When it was my go-around to feed Red’s tank, I was fairly new to the little facility, but I had been warned in advance of Red’s penchant for food thievery. I noticed she would follow my hand movements, so I slowly moved to drop her food in a far corner, and fed her tankmates directly from my hands or by tong if they were too deep. I always made sure Red had plenty to eat, but I didn’t want her to associate the food with bad behavior, so I treated her to a bit extra food whenever she didn’t steal food. One day, she made a beeline to the surface so fast that she did a small jump, her entire head breaching the water. She wasn’t bothering her tankmates or doing anything remotely dangerous- and full disclosure, it was cute seeing a fish jump for joy- so I laughed and gave her another piece of food.

Naturally, positive reinforcement led to her connecting the dots that jumping at the surface, even the tiny jumps she was doing, meant she got more food.

This started to become an everyday occurrence, whenever I was assigned to feed Red’s tank. She would jump, just enough for her head to pop out, then she’d wait patiently for me to give her the treat she CLEARLY earned. It even got to the point that she’d open her mouth and I’d drop the food right into those massive jaws- this was preferable to her Kenghis Khan-ing her way through a shower of chopped squid like the Tasmanian Devil, as there was less risk of her accidentally (or purposefully) biting a tankmate that got too close. Red became a polite eater for the first time.

It wasn’t until I noticed she followed me around outside of feeding time that I realized Red was playing with me.

I never got splashed by Red even once. My coworkers, however, received quite the dunking whenever it was their turn to feed the kelp tank.

sleepyowlsleeps

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

breya-etherium-shaper

*multiplies you by 1*

Ach im the exact same but a process has occurred

headspace-hotel

I’m thinking about this post and i have decided that it is one of those things that is a poem in some undefinable way

leecheedoodles

Currently obsessed with the Simon Snow trilogy and couldn’t help but doodle a BUNCH of Simons and Bazes. This batch is based on Carry On, the first book in the series :)

sticksandsharks

I am not powerful enough to do hourlies, but I did draw these two comics about walking my dog

gandalfs-mommy-milkers

hey op just real quick whats that first panel in the second comic just real quick

sticksandsharks

dear user gandalfs-mommy-milkers,

I am hard at work thinking about character design for my graphic novel

sticksandsharks

I’m making a graphic novel!

missiemountain-deactivated20230

Underrated IF Game Reccs

Wanted to hop on the bandwagon and share a list of some of my favorite WIP IF games that I don't think get enough credit (and some that get a lot but I just love them too much not to share). This list is a combo of Twine and Dashingdon games.

Please let me know if I missed any tags or if you'd like me to remove your game!