#The California Dreamers

[paintgroove]

Paint Groove Playlist #123 "Dear Beatles Pt. Ⅳ"

1. Tomorrow Never Knows - Junior Parker

2. A Day In The Life - Wes Montgomery

3. カム・トゥゲザー - 猪俣猛，ウエスト・ライナーズ

4. Fool On The Hill - Dorothy Ashby

5. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Gábor Szabó, The California Dreamers

6. She's Leaving Home - Big Jim Sullivan

7. Pnhaeu samnieng - Pan Ron, Korn Phnao

8. Darker Shade of Black - Jackie Mittoo

[snoozebin]

when the gold rays

fell on your skin ; and my hair got caught in

the wind

[remelemmostmaraholdonlaksz]

Azt mondja a Google, hogy kaliforniai kakukkmák!

[the-overgrown-states]

can i get your alaska agre hc's IF YOU SEE THEM DOING AGERE :))

-🕸

yes you may have some

Alaska is usually a caretaker

Will take care of anyone

Has babysat most of the south

is Maine and California’s designated caretaker

Shares custody of California with the Northeast though

Designated Northeast babysitter

has at least one Northeast state a month, usually more

he doesn’t regress unless around a heavily trusted source

i.e. Maine, CDC, Hawai’i, or Canada

yes he is really good friends with Canada

Hawai’i is his designated caretaker

Hawai’i has been trying to convince him to regress more because currently when he regresses he will go MONTHS without regressing

then be regressed for usually a week straight

likes to be wrapped up in big blankets and jackets and soft things when regressed

calm and quiet kid

kinda timid

has had exactly One playdate with non-Northeasteners

California had ended up having a tantrum and Florida kept biting him

he refused to regress for ages afterwards

Hawai’i held onto that grudge for a long time because Alaska STILL refuses playdates with anyone that isn’t the Northeast

most of the Northeast is calm, or chaotic but easily controllable so he likes them

constantly has stuffed animals surrounding him

will go play in the snow for hours

then when Hawai’i finally gets him inside she gives him hot cocoa and puts on Balto and its other movies for him to watch

will not sleep alone

Hawai’i gets trapped in his bed with him constantly

and if it’s a sleepover, someone else will be stuck with him

the one time he regressed by himself he got no sleep, and the house was trashed

he’s calm but when he’s stressed or tired he gets cranky

doesn’t have a lot of his own toys

has a polar bear stuffed animal that NO ONE is allowed to touch

it was a gift from Hawai’i and he will YELL if you touch it

Maine washed it one time and Alaska cried for an hour and sat at the washer and dryer to wait for it to be done

“She’s gotta be so scared :((“

[lacking-hydration]

theme park lesbians

[thedreamparadox]

Picrew credit

Consider this a light teaser for my next chapter of But I Am Not Done Yet. Which has, after like a month and a half, finally been drafted. It still needs an edit pass but it is finally typed!

Meet Shiyo Ubetsu, the next Dreamer that Reala's going to interact with, reworked from an absolutely ancient (circa about 2010/2011) OC of mine. 22 years old, Japanese-American California-based rave gal, though the picrew doesn't do justice to the amount of kandi she's actually wearing. (She genuinely hangs around the rave scene to vibe to the tunes and make friends, her favorite thing to do is trade kandi. She's not a Lucid, but is still a lucid dreamer.)

I genuinely enjoy writing Reala having to deal with Visitors and have to be nice about it. Meeting a new human is not the only thing Reala has happen next chapter, but Shiyo definitely derailed my original draft to show off yet another way that humans are gonna human and include Nightmaren when they can behave and be nice :P

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[a-book-of-creatures]

I think I stumbled upon some kind of ichthyological forbidden knowledge. Opened up a book of names that were never meant to be read.

You've probably heard of "can-opener smoothdream", right? It's practically a meme by now.

But the thing is, it's a deep-sea fish. And deep-sea fish have historically not had English names because nobody drops them into the conversation over a hot cuppa. Sure, there's generic stuff like hatchetfish and barreleye, but when you want to refer to the actual fish you're probably saying such euphonious phrases as Diretmus argenteus, Sternoptyx diaphana, or maybe even Opisthoproctus soleatus.

So whence "can-opener smoothdream"? Certainly no non-ichthyologist has ever used that name. It's not even a direct translation of the scientific name Chaenophryne longiceps - that would be "long-headed gape-toad". Which to me is even cooler than "can-opener smoothdream".

But I digress. The "dream" bit comes from the anglerfish family Oneirodidae, from oneiros, "dream", because those marvelous fishes look like they came out of a dream (Pietsch, 2009).

Note that Pietsch (2009), more or less the anglerfish bible, uses English names at the genus level only. So Chaenophryne is the smoothhead dreamers genus but no mention is made of "can-opener smoothdreams". So no luck there.

Wikipedia, root cause of a lot of misinformation, has this to say.

"Longhead dreamer" is a far more accurate name. And in fact, despite Wikipedia prioritizing "can-opener smoothdream" (because it's funny?), the links listed use "longhead dreamer" and "smoothhead dreamer" as the name and "can-opener smoothdream" as an alternative.

So. Again. Where did "can-opener smoothdream" come from?

The answer, as it turns out, lies with McAllister (1990).

In the book A List of the Fishes of Canada, ichthyologist D. E. McAllister sought out to list every single fish known to Canadian waters, providing both an English and a French name.

And when there wasn't an English name, like for most deep-sea fishes, he arbitrarily gave them a name. And his names "differ in many instances from the widely accepted names" (Holm, 1998)

This had varying results. This is his name for one of the netdevil anglerfishes.

The humpback anglerfish or blackdevil anglerfish becomes a werewolf (????).

This one is just confusing.

The white-spotted lanternfish or Rafinesque's lanternfish instead becomes...

And most embarrassingly, the Mediterranean spiderfish gets saddled with something that "violates the tenet of good taste" (Holm, 1998).

This then is the original source of "can-opener smoothdream". It was invented by an ichthyologist in 1990, and has seen little to no use outside of how bizarre the name is.

Maybe McAllister's goofier names will catch on. Who knows? They certainly aren't very popular in the scientific community though.

References

Holm, E. (1998) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes (review). The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 112, p. 174-175.

McAllister, D. E. (1990) A List of the Fishes of Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa.

Pietsch, T. W. (2009) Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. University of California Press, Berkeley.

[fuckendreamer]

[betterbooksandthings]

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[samantabrzozowska]

“Jesus Christ, I’m in the middle of paradise!”

~ Sam

[kissagii]

omg that sounds so pretty, are you on vacation rn??

yeah haha, it’s the very end of spring break. my family went a college tour road trip and did all the touristy things along the way :))

[zvaigzdelasas]

If she's elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project she once opposed and called "un-American" during the Trump administration.[...]

Harris is embracing a more hawkish immigration policy as Donald Trump's campaign spends tens of millions of dollars attacking her about the border.[...]

President Biden — then the presumed Democratic nominee — lambasted Trump for demanding Republicans kill the compromise, calling it pure politics. "He feels it would be a political win for me, and a political loser for him," Biden said in his State of the Union address.

But some Democrats also criticized Biden for embracing conservative and restrictive policies on immigration that were included in the bill.

Sen. Alex Padilla, a Democrat from Harris' home state of California, opposed the bill and said it "fails to provide relief for a single Dreamer, a single farmworker, a single essential worker or long-term resident."[...]

Beyond embracing the bipartisan bill, Harris' campaign has portrayed her as an immigration hardliner in ads.[...]

Like the wall itself, Harris' changes on border policy reflect how Trump has shifted the political debate on immigration during the past decade.

27 Aug 24

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Tags:@that-fruitier-emo and anyone else who wants to do it

literally nobody tagged me to post five songs that have been on repeat lately but ykw i wanna do it anyway bc i'm bored SO:

the bolter - taylor swift

risk - gracie abrams

black box warning - leanna firestone

everywhere - fleetwood mac

pink pony club - chappell roan

tagging: @stood-onthecliffside @stars-over-ice-cream @londonsolong @florencewellch @anervousmirrorball