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[spoilers for chapter 7 of the unchanging polaris]

Somewhere during it all, Rumi is caught sitting on the vanity. She sits there while Mira traps her by kissing her breathless on the mouth, hands on either side of her to keep her where she is. Rumi can feel Zoey’s kiss-swollen lips against her shoulders, kissing up and down her patterns and over her muscles.

polytrixsapphic

gimme that candyfloss...!!!! another fanart for gimme that candyfloss by arsonide! mainly based on scenes from chapter 3 LMAO + last one is just a doodle to sum up this type of polytrix i am eating it up...!!! ...i am perfectly normal about this fanfic, ok!!!

dremenec

Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by jamie arsonide

('gimme that candy floss' - arsonide)

Link to the fic in comments

unicyclehippo

tired: zoey makes powerpoints about turtles & other creatures & her girls sit down & watch lovingly

wired: rumi & mira fight (not metaphorically. bloodily) over who gets to make the turtle powerpoint for this weeks powerpoint session & they get sooooo smug about winning. insufferable

unicyclehippo

inspired: celine PowerPoint edition where she sits her daughters in law down & takes them through baby rumi photos & experiences

celine: here is Rumi teething feat. Photo of a chair leg gnawed to shit

mira: lmaoooo lemme put my leg up there real quick zoey take a pic ! rumi got a TYPE

rumi & celine: politely do not make eye contact

celine: anyway. this is king teddy—

zoey: DOTH MINE EYES DECEIVE ME? A BABE? A BABE CRADLED IN MINE LOVERS ARMS? HE HATH THE BEARING OF A NOBLE AND THE LINEAMENT OF MY LOVE! HIS IS A FORM THAT DEMANDS RICHES BESTOWED UPON HIM, AFFECTION, FROM SUN RISE TO SET. DOES HE YET LIVE? WHEREFORE HAST THOU KEPT HIM FROM ME?

mira: probably that’s why?

zoey: true true true. Is he here can I behold him

rumi: yeah lol but if u touch him i’ll die

celine: THATS NOT FUNNY YET

unicyclehippo

celine wakes up to a message from Zoey at like. 3am like: wait. did rumi have demon teeth or…

celine: No. She was simply dedicated.

zoey: lmao yeah that’s rumi . cool 👍 which of the flavours of wood did she like best?

celine: Rosewood

zoey: big oof. expensive

celine: Indeed.

unicyclehippo

zoey, 2 hours later: haha hard wood

unicyclehippo

rumi powerpoint: Why Celine Shouldn’t Get To Give Baby Rumi Presentations Anymore slide 1 of 313

slide one: i called your families and asked for baby photos & stories

slide two: sit here & fucking suffer

unicyclehippo

mira powerpoint the next week: Reasons Why Rumi Should Become a Private Investigator

slide one: hot.

slide two: tracked down literally everyone i have ever been in contact with for “baby stories”. insane breach of trust & probably several laws

slide three: still hot, unfortunately

unicyclehippo

celine powerpoint two: Etiquette Of Mothers In Law slide count 4000

celine: it is considered in many circles to be inappropriate to message your mother in law sexual innuendos

Rumi: oh my god. zoey

zoey: YOU DONT KNOW THAT WAS ME

celine: at 3:14 am, on the 1st of August 2022, mira messaged: “gimme one chance” along with the following photo of me. thank you, mira

mira: welcome

celine: deeply inappropriate

mira; yep

Rumi; kill me

celine: STILL NOT FUNNY. (slight pause for a cheeky menty b) the following sixty three messages were from zoey. on a single night.

zoey: OH WE DONT NEED TO SHARE THESE

celine, blank faced, monotone, clicking through the slides: beggin for it. gagging for it. did you know what this would to do the world when you wore it. please. please please please. please, extended with fourteen e’s and eight s’s. literally what. rumis mom has got it going on—

Rumi: im summoning my sword

unicyclehippo

zoey & mira joint presentation: Incomplete List of Lies Rumi Told Us Instead of That She Has Patterns

mira: let’s get the normal ones out of the way first. im modest. im cold today. i like this shirt (we know this was a lie. it’s ugly)

celine: i bought you that shirt

rumi: yes and i like it (zoey & mira turn around to show off the backs of their matching jackets : LYING . NO MORE) girls i think u are standing in the wrong order

toodrunktofindaurl

apple trend but with them

jammatown919

When fans notice their demon hunting injuries

jawlipops

spamming lowkey they make me go lalalala

clar-a-m

Cozy huntr/x

jadequarze

Contributing to more demon Rumi appreciation

toskarin

I'll always talk up internet radio stations because I don't think the average person is aware that they're free, can run in your browser (or in any program that can connect to them), work on your phone, run better than a youtube tab, and give you a much better selection of music than you could get from a general algorithmic playlist

(also lots of them have live shows which you can tune into for free)

toskarin

"oughh I follow this blog for weeb stuff not internet radio promo" here. gensokyo radio.

toskarin

oh and also I have to plug yggdrasil. it's cute.

windcalling

if u like folk and/or roots music: wumb.org !!! it is AD-FREE it has ZERO MORNING TALK SHOWS it is on air at 91.9 FM in the BOSTON AREA but streams WORLDWIDE on the WEB it is perfect.

andmaybegayer

big fan of soma.fm's selection, dozens of themed stations covering ambient, jazz, soul, punk, and a lot of electronica

emmavoid

Also if you search for student radio stations at almost any university you can listen to all sorts of crazy stuff for free!

uisce-portaigh

Maybe niche but for any Irish speakers or learners out there, Radio na Gaeltachta streams online and is a great way to listen to some Gaeilge without YouTube.

kevin-ar-tuathal

All of these resources are fantastic, but I wanna give a specific shoutout to Raidió na Gaeltachta streaming online - and I say this as a person who works in Irish-language visual media - if you wanna gainna better grasp of spoken Irish and how the language is used in casual settings, Raidió na Gaeltachta is the way to go, not visual media 😬📻😁

uncuteartist

I recommend Radio Garden! It has an interactive map of internet radio stations. It's a lot of fun to explore radio stations from all over.

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

jadequarze

A bunch of disasters (affectionate)

bogleech

I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

bogleech

Oh some of you don't know about the squids. I talked about them in another thread that went kinda viral somewhere or other but one of the reasons you should not swim in the open ocean at night in many parts of the world is that the water starts teeming with these:

And as you can see it is not like instant death, they too are just animals and they are often just gently curious about the presence of humans! But people who study and dive with sharks will tell you you're safe as long as you stay calm and know what you're doing. The world's leading professional night divers and experts on these squids, specifically??? Stress in every interview and article and paper they write in that you simply do not fuck around with these squids. They know what they're doing and they still all have at least one story of being attacked, in some cases having to be hospitalized. Considering just how rarely anybody puts themselves in the pitch dark nighttime ocean on purpose, let alone during a squid feeding frenzy, it sounds like they're quite a bit more likely to consider you potential food than other marine predators. We also don't know how many fatal attacks might have ever happened, because what humboldt squid like to do with large prey is just drag it away into the darkness forever. The two worst attacks ever proven involved two or three squid at a time latching on to a diver (in BOTH cases they were professionals and knew the risk!) and jetting straight downward with enough force that both divers suffered injury from the sudden pressure change alone, including burst eardrums, nearly passed out and they probably would have died if they hadn't broken free. In general, people who die drowning in the dark open ocean are either never found, or they're found in pieces picked over by enough scavengers that the precise cause of death can only be narrowed down to "the sea." But now you know ONE of "the sea's" possible murder weapons :)

There's a short section on Humboldt squid in Wikipedia's entry for Cephalopod attacks on humans:

And if you can get past some of Animal Planet's hokey presentation style, this video includes a bit of interview with one of those professional experts who still got nearly squidded from existence:

There is of course some debate about all this, with some arguing that all proven documented attacks occurred on people with reflective diving equipment, which they say the squid must have mistaken for the shine of fish. However, there are lots and lots of people who have to fish around these squids to survive, who do not have access to that kind of equipment, and also have a consensus that if you fall in the water when big squids are out hunting you might disappear without a trace or perhaps just get your head bitten open. With many modern science guys agreeing with this sentiment, this is one case where the "they're just misunderstood sea friends" crowd is kind of outnumbered. The sea at night is theirs and not ours is all. It's not ours during the day either but since we are neither marine nor nocturnal animals we are double fools in the eyes of the squids, which by the way are these eyes:

No for real:

my-ants-are-anxious

Absolutely! Also, the Humboldt squid will hunt in packs, sometimes with one flashing brightly to draw attention while the others approach in near unseeable camoflage!

bogleech

Beautiful footage of the nefarious sea demons also :)

Also because I can't reblog every addition together:

Okay where's the other 1199

spiralshellsreblogs

I absolutely adore Humboldt squid. I saw a doc once where a scientist was cage diving to study them, and one of the squid squeezed it's entire massive body through the cage bars, bit the guy and squeezed right back out.

bogleech

Why isnt this an animal that's already long gone viral like honey badgers once did. This is the animal that actually gives no fucks. People really are just that obsessed with bigger squids I guess? But the bigger ones frankly come across as big softies in comparison. One big sea monster can never be as intimidating as a thousand coordinated man sized sea monsters.

This is why I thought that if mermaids had a cultural equivalent to lycanthropy it'd be weresquids. Fun fact nocturnal marine life increases activity on the brightest nights ie the full moon.