#aquarium basics

[fishproblem]

being a god is so hard like I fully understand why they've all abandoned us. yesterday i changed the water in my nano tank and the weather there is pretty much always 80°F and sunny but the replacement water was cool and it had been a couple weeks so it replicated a rainfall after a drought and so then my little civilization of ember tetras all thought it was Time To Fuck but my stocking somehow skews aggressively male so this morning I turned on the sun to see they all had raggedy little tails after beating the shit out of each other over the One Woman on Earth.

[mandukkul]

My sister: i cannot give you good criticism on your writing because my writing is not on the same level as yours

Me: this is fanfiction

[salamispots]

drew some creatures at the amnh :0

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

Eddie definitely has like a stack of books he got from the library when he was like 14 and just never returned. The books are on fish and the underwater world because Eddie is a huge marine biology nerd

[kalashnikovlobotomy]

btw historically russia has greatly opposed the union of romania and bulgaria. this is just something really funny to keep in mind for me.

[mooshofish]

Guys I’m cooking up something fierce…

Bastard München Ocean Universe

PXG is absolutely next

Edit: PXG, Barcha, and Manshine are all complete!

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Deep Sky

scifi mystery thriller

on a deep space mission traveling from an environmentally devastated earth with hope to restart humanity elsewhere

when they’re halfway, an explosion kills 3 crew and pushes them off course

the only witness is the Alternate who has no specific role, and she has to figure out who caused it & if they might continue to sabotage, while they're figuring out a way to get back on course with limited resources

flips between present and the past: of her childhood and training for the mission, her identity struggles, and relationship with her mother

questions the ethics of ‘restarting’ humanity elsewhere vs putting resources into fixing earth

[chuluoyi]

gojo loves chewing his baby’s soft cheeks—i have featured it in the baby going to aquarium drabble too!🤭

!!!!

this is so, so, so cute !!!!! <3333

right?!?😭😭 omg i don’t even have a kid (and if i do, it still a loooong way ahead) but i love seeing babies that’s why i love featuring them in my stories :’)

just imagine gojo carrying his mini him in a baby carrier and then chews his cheeks out of cuteness aggression😫

[prince-liest]

shrimp often arch their backs and use their hind legs to clean their swimmerets, which they normally use to swim! pregnant shrimp like the larger female in the back also carry their eggs in their abdomen and use their swimmerets to fan water through the eggs, thus oxygenating them. these two will not stop breeding, even though amano shrimp are not actually able to successfully reproduce in fresh water. I suppose it means they're happy and healthy in their environment!

[katyspersonal]

1 Insight: Djura's third companion is Josef

15 Insight: Josef is just a cooperator variant of the NPC type 'Izzy's Successor', Djura's third companion is that corpse you pick Charred Set from

40 Insight: 'Djura's companion' might not even necessarily mean Powder Kegs. For example, Djura's Ally doesn't have any Powder Kegs weapons but is clearly included! Even then, there were multiple Powder Kegs, why just three specific ones? Maybe 'companions' refers to his polycule divorces closest friends or whatever. Could that mean Bestial Hunter who is from Oto Workshop (beta Powder Kegs workshop)? Could that mean Valtr since his weapon was made in Powder Kegs? Could that mean Izzy? Who knows!

60 Insight: Djura's third companion is an OC spot because developers forgor/had no time and we've been doing blue curtains effect this whole time

99 Insight: Djura's third companion is a Blood-Starved Beast that Djura's Apprentice fights with, they left Old Yharnam together and this one was poisoned with Ashen Blood all along and eventually turned

0 Insight: You've been fighting Brainsucker in Upper Cathedral Ward's corridor for too long lol

[fereldanwench]

ughhhh i hate the first day starting a new medication

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

Hi wifi! 🥺 I loved your Sea Monster Foul Legacy. And just wanted to continue a bit coz it's so good?

I imagine that reader is a marine biologist, particularly interested in rare and dangerous deep sea abyssal creatures. Childe might have humanoid features, especially his face. What if during certain periods - let's say once a month - he sheds his mask as a way of regenerating new tissue or something. Reader comes to visit his exhibit after a very tiring day. Childe has been swimming around his tank, showing his new moves to his most dedicated visitor. But he noticed that your eyes were closing. He chirped in inquiry, the equivalent of his hands against the thick glass. No - your head was flopping to the side. He wanted to be there with you to make sure you don't hit your head. Soon though, you've fallen asleep. And since it's so dark and people were usually terrified of Childe, the aquarium staff didn't bother checking his exhibit for lost patrons. They just locked up for the night.

You opened your eyes and winced at the discomfort and pain radiating from your neck. You've fallen asleep on the hard bench in the exhibit. You checked the time in panic and sure enough, it was midnight. A few feet in front of you, Childe did a flip, his massive wings stretching. Chirps of joy followed soon after. But there's something different with him. There were jagged cracks across his red face, like scars that didn't heal. You rushed up to the glass, held out your hand close to him in concern. On the other side, Childe mimicked you, his hand aligned with yours but much more bigger and violet. You were saying something, lips moving fast. He can't quite catch all of them but he knew there was concern. He wanted to tell you it's okay, demonstrating it instead with a flip. Just as he finished the movement, the red mask on his face broke away from his flesh. In its place was a humanoid face with piercing deep blue eyes, reminiscent of the ocean.

-Macchiato

MACCHI MACCHI HIIIII I MISSED YOU HOW ARE YOUUUUU :D this is SO yummy and tasty omnomnomnm

you cry out in alarm when Childe's mask- his face- cracks and breaks away, but the sound quickly dies in your throat when two vibrantly azure eyes blink back at you, and Childe tilts his head when you suddenly dart towards the stairwell that leads to the top of his exhibit. he follows you of course, surfacing with a delighted chirp and immediately laying his head on your lap, his fin-like ears fluttering in excitement- this is the first time he's been this close to you, because although you're by far his favorite person, you were never permitted to actually touch Childe much to both of your dismay. the water he splashed up completely soaked your shoes and pants, but you don't mind at all in this moment, gently stroking his damp hair and thumbing the little scales on his new cheeks

when you press your palm against his skin, you can see Childe's pupils dilate as he leans heavily against your hand- no one, not even the people who usually handle him, have ever treated him this gently, especially not when he sheds. the other employees tend to leave him alone during this time for fear of him being more irritable, but the sensation of you cupping his cheek, delicately holding his new, soft skin has him melting and never wanting to let you go. and if you scratch behind his horns (they don't shed)? he's in HEAVEN, his tail blissfully smacking the water and quiet trills slipping from his mouth. of course, the plating on his face begins to grow back after a day or two, but now he looks forward to shedding his mask just to feel you gently hold him again (even if technically you're not supposed to be interacting with him that closely)

[queerstudiesnatural]

between reesateesa's insane husband and charlotte the stingray having miracle babies it's been an eventful couple of weeks on tiktok. i feel like the tiktok population really came together as a community this week. and we're still waiting on an update from charlotte's caretakers <3

[dyrewrites]

Pale Blood -- welcome to the aquarium

Open and drooling, with twinkling strings of light and thin rivulets of shimmering blue water—it was not a real colossal clam, but similar enough to the gaping maw it was meant to convey—the building’s wide circular door and glowing elevator pad welcomed them into the lower lower Mer District.

Regarding the fun emphasis on lower, the official term—coined by some ancient fang who insisted she’d been around when the discs were erected—was ‘Subterranean’ but Upper Dolor stood thousands of miles straight off the ground...so it was a stupid name that everyone chose to ignore.

As the elevator descended—so smooth, so quiet, one could hardly tell they had moved at all—they were greeted by cooler air, salty-sweet perfume, lights that veered ever-more toward a deep, dark cyan and...glass. Thick panes of glass, everywhere, on everything; it glistened in the mists of the ever-flowing falls that poured down the tunnels of the clam’s throat—again, not a real clam—and forced every step they took to splash more water along its already wet, dripping surface.

A surface too tall for the space allotted, the space defined by the skycab trip to it, too stretched and sunk and altogether big to be floating above the smog they left behind. Yet it stretched all the same, the tunnels wide enough to accommodate as many as five ogres shoulder to shoulder, tall enough that they could stack just as high. It made no sense, logically, mechanically—spatially.

And yet it was.

Coupled with the confusion of its size—and where all that water went, as it never rose above the inches they walked in—came the distinct lack of other bodies wandering it, or curves in its halls, or any visual guide for where to go or what things were.

But none of that was what worried the only one of them who had never been down there before, oh no, what stuttered Den’s steps and bent him over in a terrified shuffle...were the shadows.

Colossal shadows of undersea creatures slithered and bumped on the other side of the glass; left, right and below. Above offered bright blue-green lights swirling and blinking in various configurations, none of which Den recognized and so he did not care—he should have, as those were the signs which expressed the where and the what.

The shadows he recognized though and, as they edged closer to the glass, to the light, and he spied the gargantuan eyes and shimmering black scales he whimpered, “Th, those aren’t...real, right?”

“Mer need some of the sea around or they get screwy,” Odea said, as if that explained anything.

“And that includes leviathans?” He had not stopped moving, but he did delight in the squeak as he latched onto Delmas.

“They can’t touch you,” the squeak assured, “but yeah, they’re real,” the grip on his side tightened and he chuckled, “I mean it, they can’t hurt no one,” to demonstrate, Delmas walked up to one of the walls—losing Den in the process—and knocked on it. Without a sound he knocked, and knocked again before returning to Den, welcoming him back to his side, “Ain’t just glass.”

That helped, ever so little, but it helped and Den breathed.

Odea screamed, wordless and fuming, from much further down the hall than she had been last either of them bothered to notice her.

So, eyes yet glued to the shadows, Den chased quicker steps and tried to keep up with the safe arms that led him.

[redgemwink]

new yoharuby fic is up :33

[unfortunate--moth]

I think part of why im struggling with this chapter is because of how little ive got planned for it... like only one major thing and nothing else. And even then i dont know how i'll write it or if i even stick to it. Help