#LETS GET SHRIMPED

[montereybayaquarium]

Get Ready With Us - Shrimp Week edition! 

Join the Aquarium crew for a prawnderful GRWU livestream on Thursday, Mar. 7 at 3 p.m., where we’ll be crafting, chatting, and shrimpin’ around. 🦐

Sea you on Twitch or over on our YouTube channel 💙

[sarahmackattack]

Went to make this into a sticker, then for SOME reason I was like “Wait…is a shrimp smoking a cigarette & drinking a pink cocktail while calling her opposition bastards not “brand aligned" with a science nonprofit that serves children???” Then I made it anyway, because

1) Life is short.

2) Shrimp are cool.

3) Our country is about to be controlled by people who CERTAINLY don’t care about rules, so why should I?!

Get one at the Skype a Scientist shop to get a rad sticker AND support free science education at Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

[iraprince]

been a long time since i last tankposted so boy do i have an update for you guys: after leaving the tank as it was for quite a long time, i've finally added some new residents!! in the form of a dozen blue diamond neocaridinas.

these guys are very difficult to photograph — they are TEENSY and i can't find my macro lens — but so so beautiful. the first two photos in this set are not filtered or edited at all!!

it'll be a while before they start breeding, but i'm very very excited. from what i've read blue diamonds are not a very stable line so they'll prob end up popping out all sorts of color variations — bad news for serious keepers who are trying to breed high grades, good news for gay people who just like to look at shrimp!!! (me)

[aroaceleovaldez]

I think we should headcanon Percy as having more weird powers based on actual marine life and similar, just for fun. he spits bioluminescence as a defense mechanism. and also is bioluminescent himself sometimes. he can see shrimp colors. he can breathe through his skin. sometimes if he punches things underwater he briefly creates a bubble hotter than the surface of the sun (real thing that mantis shrimp do). he can echolocate. he can regrow his teeth. he can be frozen solid and thaw out and be fine. he can hibernate in mud. he’s poisonous.

[toastcryptid]

Continuation of this

[teddybeartoji]

anyway toji sends me pics of shrimp whenever i'm running errands bc he knows i miss him😣😣😣 (sometimes he takes a pic WITH him and i die)(i literally die it's the most adorable thing ever i love them both so fucking much)

[t00thpasteface]

i ain't no thief

we just have the same stuff

[possamble]

Do you have any plan to make some kind of bonus chapter or oneshot about marcille's perspective in little creature? It's not like I'm asking you for it ofc!! it's just that i think it'll be interesting to read, and especially since you had those tags about marcille after her fight/outburst with falin and how you couldn't add it to the fic because the fic is from falin's perspective

Probably not about anything that happens during a little creature, but maybe something before or after? Sometimes I do like to do "the other character thinking back to events while doing stuff in a sequel" oneshot type thing, but we'll see how it shakes out!

[kaisollisto]

“How long have you been here?” She prods, bumping her gently with her foot still keeping the couple of inches of distance between them. The storm had passed 20 minutes ago and Ava had insisted on exploring as much as she could before nightfall.

“Does it matter? There’s no use dwelling on the passage of time.” Beatrice can feel bitterness lingering on her tongue. It feels like rejection, it feels like Ava has peeled back the layers of Beatrice, glanced at her and decided no thanks. They’re sat on a lumpy rock, Beatrice can feel how worn it is and wonders when she started feeling the same.

Ava pauses, before bringing her gaze from the space below them to Beatrice’s eyes. “It does to me.” Ava has a soft look in her eyes that makes Beatrice want to lash out. She looks away, she doesn’t need this, whatever it may be, whatever Ava chooses to wrap under the word ‘care’.

She takes a deep breath, hoping to still her emotions of misplaced anger. It’s not like Beatrice to get emotional, but after years of isolation, she supposes it’s bound to happen. “Days, years, maybe decades, it’s been a long time.” Beatrice gazes deeply into the horizon, how many times had she wished for this, someone to share the sunset with?

Ava hums and Beatrice turns to look at her. Her face turns to the direction of where Beatrice was once looking, admiring the view. Ava’s face is illuminated by the setting sun, she doesn’t have any blemishes or bumps on her skin. Ava is probably what humans would consider perfect. Beatrice doesn’t know what to think of her, doesn’t want to dwell on it either. She knows better than anyone what that could mean for her.

“For a such a shitty planet you’ve got a nice view.” Ava quips, Beatrice isn’t quite sure what she wants her to say. So she breathes, she closes her eyes gripping the rough stone beneath them and exhales.

“Yeah,” she can feel something rise in her. It balloons from the tips of her toes and forces it’s way up her throat. It curdles on her tongue bitter tasting, everything tastes bitter to Beatrice now. She swallows hard, wallowing in the silence procured between them.

“So, you’re like a MILF or something?” Ava jokes, Beatrice misses the uneasy expression on Ava’s face when she chokes and the smile that follows.

She hacks up spit from her lungs and feels the pressure in her throat loosen, “What?” Beatrice breathes raggedly as she clears her airway. “What could have led you to believe that?”

Ava has the nerve to look sheepishly as she shrugs her shoulders to her ears, “I mean DSP9 is basically your child? And you’re, uh,” Ava flushes as she frantically waves her arms between the two of them. “Yanno, um, h- attractive for your, um species? Race? You’re just pleasing to the eye, at least my eye. But not just pleasing! You’re like plenty smart! Living here on this desolate planet with so little you must be very fit, and survival-y.” Ava trails off blushing a profuse red.

Beatrice would be more concerned if her translator wasn’t struggling to decipher the speed of her words.

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

alright chat . it's time for "dissecting the inherent tragedy of transformers: botbots and the relationships in them":

toxic doomed yuri edition ( referring to these two ↑ )

(yes, i made this picmix myself 4 this. i have no regrets. also no tl;dr because you guys NEED to read this)

something i want y'all to understand is that it is Not about the idea that spud wasn't loved. he was VERY much loved by everyone, ESPECIALLY burgertron.

the whole point is that he sabotaged himself in the process of ruining someone else's life, someone who valued him and his word above others. he and burgertron BOTH let their ego get in the way of their personal lives, the only difference is that burgertron at least had the dignity to swallow his pride and apologise when it mattered most.

He gave spud a second chance because he loved him. because he recognised that he does deserve redemption, and above all else, he wants spud to know he cares, even if that means he'll never see him again, or they'll never be friends. (Even in light of the "sidekick" comment, i genuinely don't think he held any inherent malice in that statement. even if burgs was an egotist, he still loved him.)

the worst thing burgertron did in their relationship was be unaware, and im sure that despite his ego, he never meant for spud to get hurt. that's why he went out of his way to protect him, when he couldve just stood there and let spud get put on the back of a truck to never be seen again. it would have been easy.

but he didn't. he did the hard thing. the Right thing. he stood up for someone who never did the same for him.

Spud Was Loved. Spud Is loved. and sometimes love isn't going to look pretty, or manifest in holding hands and cuddling, and it isn't all rainbows and sunshine. it can hurt. it can be letting go of someone who you hurt by accident, who you never meant to harm, but it happened anyways because you made the fatal mistake of being oblivious.

And that's what Burgertron did. he let Spud go, because he understood they both needed time to heal on their own terms. regardless of if he's mad at him or not, he does still harbor positive feelings for him, and he stood up for him during times he probably shouldn't have. If he ACTUALLY hated spud, he wouldn't have stuck his neck out for him at bot prom. or believe spud when he was lying through his teeth in the games.

And that's what makes them so tragic. perhaps in another world, another life, they'd have been Actual good friends, who truly stuck by each other. maybe things would have been different.

But we'll never know that now, will we?

[fisherrprince]

the problem is I’m such a staunch believer in the slow buildup, the earnest enjoyment of meandering through terrible story decisions and weird nothing subplots to build up into a conclusion that explodes out from all that as fantastic storytelling and intrigue based on all that buildup, such that it makes it necessary to get through all that or you’re missing something essential, that I’m also a terrible person to talk to about what makes a story good. I can tell you plenty of what actually makes something tight and well-written and all that technical speak but how could anyone take my advice when I so so so love excruciatingly long unnecessarily complex fumbling and weird nonsense that spirals into, inexplicably, weird nonsense that makes you cry your lungs sore

[chainsmokerzz]

woaa who ordered shrimp?

[mrgladstonegander]

dont get me wrong my hatred for Phantom and the Sorceress (PATS) is exaggerated for the Bit but i genuinely don't understand how people can like it for Lena OR Gladstone.

Like Gladstone's character in House of the Lucky Gander (HOTLG) is just. SOOO much better and more nuanced and interesting and he got Downgraded. Gladstone characterization where gets frustrated easily is already different and fun and established. but like whatever hes not THAT important to the show and i Know that (slapstick wasn't funny enough for me. crush him with a rock or something (Going Quackers :) )

and then Lena... lena..... they made her weaker.. downgraded her........... just so that they could make her interact with Magica............. why does her magic suddenly not work?? her magic is tied to her emotions but the reason she's upset is because her magic isn't working but why did her magic stop working after she's been in Moonvasion that she can control it better??? but like yknow. its a Kids Show they want plot to happen. its easy to do it like that. but then why does Webby, her best friend, and Violet, her sister, suggest going to MAGICA. when they know what MAGICA DID TO HER it just doesn't make sense i dont understand it. they killed her so they could do nightmotor on killmotor hill but WORSE ;_; i dont understand. lena fans that like PATS please explain because i just dont understand. i cant comprehend it. after ending an episode with her cutting magica off ... i just dont get it

and then the magicstone bait 👊👊🔥💥💥👊👊👊👊 idk maybe my standards are too high and i have extremely different taste in magicstone compared to other shippers but like........... why do they get shipped together if not for the fact that magicstone is constantly trying to use him. llol/. lmao.

anyways watch Dime Enough for Luck

[oooohno]

…Langris if I see you in the streets it’s over for you

[zarovich]

*voice of a guy who is one year older* im one year older

[turtlecat1440]

Shrimp Played Drums

What if a shrimp line cook (who specialized in fried rice, of course) lost his job during a strike to a scab chicken, and ended up joining a band.

And his name in the band was "Shrimp Played Drums," and all of his songs were about workers rights and he was super pro union.

They really let anyone play drums these days