#Kim Brook

[meesherbeans]

OLBA Week: Day 1 - Merfolk

“Uncle Cove, Uncle Cove!”

At the excited shout, Cove turned to look at his ‘niece,’ Yukino’s daughter, as she bounded over the sand with long strides. She really could book it, considering she was only seven. He adjusted the glasses on his face and waved calmly.

Her long, thick braid of grey hair swung around to smack her in the neck when she stopped and stared up at him with a reckless smile. “Mama said I can look for shells! But I wanna look for hermit crabs. Can you help me?”

He couldn’t help but chuckle awkwardly at the question. “I, uh, don’t know. Did she say you couldn’t look for hermit crabs?” he asked as he scratched the back of his head. At the imagined sight of Yukino giving him a look after he helped bring yet another sea creature into her life, he quickly added a follow-up question. “Or that you couldn’t bring anything alive back?”

“That one!” Akiko jumped up and cheered, a finger aimed up at his chest. “So, pretty please, can you help me find them? We’ll leave them here!”

Cove sighed, relieved. “Well, I think we can do that. But… could you see if your brother wanted to join?” He glanced up toward the rest of her small family, who were still setting up their umbrellas and towels.

She nodded and turned to run back at a full tilt, arms lifting along with her voice. It seemed, like usual, Akiko was more interested in announcing her plans before she was even within reasonable earshot.

“Did you already agree to something?” His wife’s voice suddenly piped up behind him, making Cove jump in surprise. She laughed and placed a comforting hand on his side as she hooked her chin over his shoulder.

He sighed and tilted his head to gently rest it against hers. “Just some hermit crab searching,” he mumbled.

Kim hummed thoughtfully. “Did you at least tell her that they can’t take the hermit crabs home this time? I’m pretty sure Baxter had an existential crisis when he found it in the car.”

Cove couldn’t help but cough in an attempt to hide his laughter. That was pretty hilarious, even if his brother-in-law didn’t agree. “I… yeah. Aki knows.”

Their son cleared his throat and started to walk toward the Ward family. He gently called, “Dad, I’m going to go sit and help Kaito. He’ll probably want to build some sand castles instead of digging for crabs.”

“Wait, crabs??” Their daughter grabbed her twin’s hand and gently tried to keep him from walking away. “Dylan, you don’t want to miss that!”

Dylan rolled his eyes and sighed, stopping his retreat. He always gave in when Cordelia tried to goad him into something; they were still working with him on that.

Cove cleared his throat and corrected them. “Hermit crabs, not the ones you eat.”

Cordelia quietly acknowledged his point with a soft “Ohhh.”

“Oh! I… sorry, Cordy, but I don’t want to try and dig them up.” Dylan gave his sister an apologetic frown before extracting his hand from hers and continuing his trek up the beach.

Kim leaned over to kiss Cove’s cheek. “I’ll go see what they want to do for lunch,” she murmured in a whisper of breath against his cheek. He could feel his face turning bright red.

Both of them suppressed their laughter when Cordelia squealed in disapproval at the most disgusting sight ever: her parents being romantic! In public! “Ewww. I’ll get started now!” She ran a few dozen feet away and plopped into the damp sand, her long green hair cushioning her fall.

“I’ll handle these two for a bit, but someone else is on for after we eat.” Cove smiled softly at Kim, instinctively reaching to tuck a curl behind her ear.

She nodded and half-skipped after their son, giving Akiko a high five on the way as the vivacious young girl ran back down to the water.

“Aki!! Your mom said you could dig for hermit crabs this time?”

“Yeah, yeah! Just can’t take them in the car… dunno how, but Triton got out of the box and crawled up Daddy’s leg when we were driving back to the hotel.” Far from as repentant as one should be when they almost caused a car crash, Akiko slid into Cordelia and wrapped her arms around her ��cousin.’

Although more energetic than Akiko, Cordelia was also nearly two years older. She blinked and looked appropriately alarmed. “Wait, really? Oh no!! You all were okay, though, right?”

Cove sighed and carefully squatted next to the chatty pair. “Everyone was fine, but we learned our lesson, right, Akiko?” He dug his hand into the sand and began excavating.

“Yeah! Of course, Uncle Cove. Hermit crabs live here, and we don’t want to kidnap them,” Akiko parroted proudly as she joined him in scraping away the sand.

Cordelia smiled and became the third person to sink her fingers into the sand. “I think that hermit crabs are like hamsters for mermaids! They’re about the same size, and they’re super cute.”

Akiko squealed happily at the thought of a mermaid with a little hermit crab pet.

Instantly struck with a memory, Cove couldn’t help his surprised laughter. He and Yukino had had a similar conversation – no, argument – when they were younger.

“What?” Cordelia asked, glancing up at her father curiously.

Cove gave her a gentle smile. “Oh, uh. Just thinking. I… your mom,” he gestured to Akiko with his elbow, “and I got into an argument about mermaid pets one time. As kids.”

Both girls gasped loudly and stopped digging, staring at him with wondrous stars in their eyes. Did they really do something the same as their parents??

“Who won?? Or what was it about?” Akiko lifted her sandy hands and rested them on her cheeks, their hermit crab hunt completely forgotten. She was about to get a story about Mama as a kid!

Cove looked at both girls, realizing that he had accidentally volunteered himself for a story. He sighed and smiled, then rocked back to sit in the sand with them. “We were trying to figure out which animal would be closest to a dog for mermaids. I thought that dolphins were the best choice, but she insisted it was a sea lion.”

Akiko and Cordelia turned to stare at each other with wide eyes. They had apparently just been handed a very serious choice.

“Oh, I don’t know! They call sea lions the ‘dogs of the sea,’ but… if I was a mermaid, it seems like dolphins would be way more fun to play with,” Cordelia murmured thoughtfully.

Akiko paused to absorb that fact. “That’s true,” she started, “but sea lions are squishier. That would probably be better to cuddle with!”

His gaze drifted out over the water as the girls began to debate which of those two animals was better suited to be a dog for a mermaid, and he couldn’t help smiling to himself. He wondered what 10-year-old Cove would say if he were told that almost 30 years later, he’d be on the same beach with Yukino and that their kids would be family, debating the same topic of merfolk and pets.

He'd probably just have shrugged and tried to ignore it, certain he wouldn’t ever feel truly at home in Sunset Bird.

Cove felt gratitude swell in his chest, and his eyes started to mist up at the sensation. He was never more glad to have been wrong.

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[meesherbeans]

these are too cute for words, i cannot handle it, look at my precious children

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[rhera]

"Your sister had a feeling about life; that it wasn't worth living unless one could end it." — THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943) dir. Mark Robson

[thecollectibles]

Art by Brooks Kim

[starkidsdaily]

[sesshomeron]

Sketch of Nami and Robin as Kim Possible and Shego!

#onepiece #shego #kimpossible #disney #anime #nami #nicorobin #digitalsketch #halloween #halloweencostume #halloweenideas #spooky #costume #cosplay #sketch #egghead #luffy

[disventurecamptakes]

I think the problem with the All Stars merge is that they don't really let any positive relationships, especially newer ones, linger for too long.

Grett and Gabby defeat Yul and become friends! Gabby is eliminated the next episode.

Jake and Aiden work out their differences and become friends! Aiden is eliminated two episodes later.

Connor and Alec make up and become friends again! Alec is eliminated THAT SAME EPISODE.

Meanwhile, the negative relationships (shoutout Jake and Ally, shoutout Connor and Riya) get milked and dragged out for all they are worth. No wonder the show feels so miserable nowadays.

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[weirdlookindog]

The Seventh Victim (1943)

[alumi-san]

Motel episode let's go!

- Well, great. You ruined a great friendship and turned it into a toxic one. Well done ONC!

- Missed girlfriends and boyfriends!

- Still pissed that Huntessally isn't canon.

Um, when??

No, he's not!

I get that Miriam is older than Connor but it's still funny. Also TOM is in the background.

- The idea is very interesting! Instead of the finalists choosing who is going to help them, THEY choose who are they going to help!

- I liked Gabby Ellie and Grett as a trio!

- Welcome back old Ellie I missed you!

- No! There's no way in hell you make me feel bad for this motherf*cker! First Riya now him?! Wtf???

- James stop empathizing with him! You're better than this!

WTF????!!!!! Nina is a demon?! The hell ONC?! Since when Disventure Camp is a mystic series?! Why did nobody reacted to it?!

- The "huh?" joke was funny.

- Help! Why did James pronounce Riya as Raya??

Was his mom brought up before? I don't remember.

- Wow Derek chose Trevor instead. Well, congrats you don't suk as much now.

Surprisingly no.

- Jake being terrified is gold

Bonus Alec and Fiore my beloveds

See you guys at the horrible finale!

[disneytva]

Mickey, Minnie and the gang brings the holiday spirit alive at Hot Dog Hills with popular carols with "Mickey & Minnie's Christmas Carols" an series of stop-motion shorts by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios and Disney TVA . 🐭🎄☃️🎶

Premieres Nov 29 on Disney Junior, streaming NEXT Day on Disney+.

[fibula-rasa]

The Seventh Victim (1943) 

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Director: Mark Robson

Cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraca

Performers: Jean Brooks, Ben Bard, Evelyn Brent, Mary Newton

[jackwhiteprophetic]

We open for S8 and Amir turns up dressed as Bobby's dead wife as a funny revenge prank!!!

[thecollectibles]

Art by Brooks Kim

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[disventurecamptakes]

Hi mod jake it’s good to have you back

Anyways taking back the take I sent in a few months ago about DCAS being good. Lmao no it’s not. It’s like they’re going the extra mile to give us the absolute worst boot order possible and for some of the shiftiest, most boring plotlines in history. I don’t feel an ounce of sympathy for connor’s gross capitalist union busting ass with the Riya situation, they gave gabby possibly the most unfair elimination in the entire disventure camp series, and it took fucking forever for characters like Aiden and Yul to leave. I’m thankful for grett and gabby’s friendship because it was the only good thing we’ve recently gotten but now that’s gone too. I do have really high faith in DC4 and even auditioned for one of the characters, but honestly with DCAS we should have known this was gonna be hot garbage as soon as Fiore was booted and lost the return challenge. This shit is even worse than season 2 of the TD reboot and that’s really saying something- ONC is shoving shitty romance plots into our faces really hard but unlike s2 of the reboot there’s been like 3 of them this season instead of just one. Can we please, please go back to the high quality plots of season 1 that didn’t revolve around romance? Thanks

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Thank you Cat Anon, also based