#TOAU

[peckforlovingheck]

Annie from toau mention???? :00000

[overlyobsessedfroglord]

a lil drawing i’m working on of the sillies (minus adora lmao)

[fluffysweetnectarine]

Spiky x Coffee (OC) animatic wip i made for my friend @anti-c1ffee :3

(sorry I haven’t been posting in a while, I’ve been busy with life)

[spikyestboi]

Healin’ from a sparrin’ well. Boss gave me a lecture and a bandage :p

[definitionoffernweh]

Trials of Apollo (ToA)

Tales of Arcadia (ToA)

The only time I regret being in both fandoms lol

Edit: think I've figured it out tho 👀

[unboundflame]

How are you guys? ^^

Everybody is fine so far if you don't include the fact that my dad is trying to teach Void how to make bombs...

[peckforlovingheck]

THE SILLIES

Close ups below

[definitionoffernweh]

#Toby really is the Ken to Jim's Barbie

They also did it first, I forgot about that! Lol

Wow cinematic parallels

[thebestb3ar]

This is an OC RP account! If you’re not in on the RP, pls ignore. Do not try to find my main.

ANYTHING said to other people here is in character unless I put /ooc, so do not worry! I’m not being actually mean.

Hello TOAU 2!

[cannedheet]

even though felix seems very abrasive and distant towards lawrence, he really does care for him. he just wishes that arthur was there for him (felix) as a father more than he was for lawrence and cindy.

[peckforlovingheck]

@dazed-moth @alex-supremacy4 danmani core

if i had a wife i would never shut the fuck up about it

[peckforlovingheck]

Btw after the whole Carlos is a ghost thing with John + cafe crew, the group continued to ghost hunt :3

[foxbirdy]

hi!

just saw your pictures of you doing some marine biology fieldwork and i just wondered if you have any stories about the experience that you would like to share. Im in 1st year uni right now and i have no idea what im gonna specialize in other than “science!!” but i work on boats for my job right now (tallships, very cool stuff) and so marine environment work really appeals to me. If you have the time, I would love to get a picture of what the work you’re doing entails.

(What does the day-to day of marine biology research look like? What kind of stuff are you studying/information are you gathering? Whats it like? Is it awesome? feel free to answer none of these also)

thank you!!

OH, I'm jealous - it's a dream of my mine to get to work on a tallship. & I love to talk about this stuff!

In all honesty, the day-to-day changes pretty dramatically depending on what project work is available. Right now, as a student, a lot of what I'm involved in ties into coursework or research that's happening at the university! I volunteer with a couple different labs, and there's a huge variety of stuff to get in on. For example:

Last Saturday, I spent about six hours pulling otoliths and gonads out of eighty invasive roi, taape, and toau caught by local spearfishermen. Otoliths are the ear bones of fish, and similar to the rings of a tree, they have ringed annuli that can give a lot of information about the life history of the individual species. We cast these otoliths in resin, and then cut cross-sections to look at them under the microscope. The hope is that this information will help us understand when these species become reproductive, and how to control their populations.

The last several Fridays, I've been involved with an effort to collect some water quality and plankton data after a lot of heavy rain. This work was out on the boats, and we used deep and shallow drogues, YSI, light meter, secchi disk, and a couple plankton nets, moving out from the swollen rivermouth and into deeper, saltier water.

Last month, I spent a lot of time on invertebrate snorkel surveys, mostly looking for presence/absence in the nearshore. Next Tuesday, I'll be doing fish surveys in the same location. The Wednesday after I'm hopping on a wetlands restoration project & removing invasive bull grass, and a night snorkel afterwards. Next Friday is a lab day, working to process the plankton samples we've collected, and I'll be in the coral nursery afterwards. That's the really fun thing about university - there's so much different work going on, all the time!

In the summers, outside of school, that work is just as varied. I've really enjoyed having jobs that allow me to do a little bit of everything, and thus far, my supervisors have been very supportive of me in that. Here's some other projects I've gotten to work on, all within just one position:

Servicing passive monitoring systems! These are pictures of my replacing a SEABIRD logger, which has been taking a water temperature measurement every thirty seconds for the past 360 days. This helps conservation managers track heatwaves in sensitive ecosystems. We prepped new loggers with batteries and SD cards and waterproof tape to prevent biofouling, and then used snips and zipties to make the switch.

Scientific fishing! This helps get life history and population data for our target species, large pelagic fish. We collected biopsy samples, placed tags, and released primarily ahi, but also ono, and mahi. (Full disclaimer: this picture is from a subsistence fishing trip and not a scientific one, where people generally have too many things in their hands & are moving too quickly to take pictures. He was a very delicious dinner for our crew, though.)

Other marine tagging! I got to assist with bluewater cetacean tagging of several different dolphin and small whale species, and shark tagging for galapagos, blacktip reef, grey reef, and dusky sharks. Cetacean tagging was done with an air rifle, not easy at high speeds on the boat. Shark tagging was more hands-on, as we had to manually apply the tags.

Coral reef monitoring! The mission of these surveys was to track coral health through heat stress events, and to identify harmful species. I'm looking under the coral head in these pictures for crown-of-thorns starfish, one of the most urgent species threats to reefs in the Pacific.

This is the bastard. Notice the dead coral around him.

Oh I'm about to smack into the photo limit, huh. Please hold!

[wyverncult]

zilart-CoP doodles, and fran is here too! mostly from drawpile

ToAU next!! :D edited and also added a gessho!

[definitionoffernweh]

Well deserved!

[flickerenemyhouse]

could one of the characters from enemy house meet themselves but from toau?

well… uh.. technically speaking, the only enemy character in that au (to my knowledge) was Rosalie but she was a scrapped concept or John but he’s in the cafe au and that’s kind of semi canon to TOAU so uh… let’s roll with John. (WAIT LMFAO THAT MAKES ROSALIE AND NIKOLAI BOTH CANON IN THAT TOO FUCKKKH)

CAU!John: Wha.. where am I-

EH!John: AUGH- WHO ARE YOU- *throws a book at him*

CAU!John: OW. Wait... are you me?

EH!John: …holy shit.

CAU!John: ugh. Why am I a twink in the future…

(I have no ideas ok lol)