#back when I first got back into octonauts this was one of the first things I drew

[urautismdiagnosis]

"And that's why I started the octonauts, the loss of homes, safety, culture and so on in the Arctic made me realize the extent of loss and destruction all of the seas and their inhabitants experience-

"damn how many kelpcakes he be eating?"

i cant believe y'all actually voted to see this cursed meme but ok

[wholesomepotato]

Hey guys! I know I went to go get milk and I finally came back, couldn't find it.

Ok so what's this about? You may be asking and well- long story, that i'll cut short. I kinda wanna rebrand in a way, I'll keep all my art and things so no worry I'm not deleting anything. Though things will change. First off: My Art Style

I certainly don't draw like I used to, I draw more detailed and more rendered things compared my prior goofy silliness. Not saying I won't draw goofy things but it might be sparse. The "Ask The Octonauts"

I just want to apologize for not answering so many of these, I will 100% get to them that's a promise, once I'm done with them I may or may not launch it again, aka the asks will be closed for now. If you already asked something it will be responded. Octonauts Art

I still love the Octonauts and have many plans but art of them won't be as much as before. I'm currently like designing like... counts holy shi- A lot, I got a lot to catch up to which leads to my next point...

The Circus Au MAP

This is still on going, though due to my life crashing down on me so quickly and causing me to have to shift my focus on myself I put a lot of projects including this one on hold. Though I believe I'm mentally ok enough to start working on this again and I'm still looking for more people to help with animation. That's all for now, I'm sorry I disappeared, I do want to be here but with major life changes going on it wasn't entirely possible for me to be more active (mostly mental health things I physically and mentally did not have the energy to create art for my accounts.) So when I drew Frosty the Snowman it was a nice break and I could freely figure out what I wanted but I'm done taking time for myself and will be posting more hopefully. I do have more Frosty the Snowman art to post but that'll be more towards Christmas. That's my big announcement woohoo yahoo! Also my comms are still open but I will be working on another sheet cause like I said, don't draw the same. and the payment is still Venmo. Please respond to what's highlighted in purple ^^ Thanks for being awesome sauce stars!

[starsurfacemortalkombat]

hello!! first i love ur writing!! these are very adorable :3 i was thinking if you could do uh regressor johnny and CG kenshi? (MK1)

Hello!! And thank you! :D

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

CG Kenshi w/ Regressor Johnny Mk1 Hcs

❤️ Really good CG and Little duo!!

⭐️ To restate (becuase it's been some time since I've touched Regrssor MK1 Johnny) very flexible headspace!! From 2-7, most times a big kid, sometimes more tinier

❤️ I think Kenshi's really good at changing how Johnny needs depending on Johnnys headspace, he's also just decent with different headapaces in general

⭐️ A lot of back and forth bickering still, especially when It comes to rules or silly petty things

❤️ “Time to take a nap Johnny.”

⭐️ “Nuh-uh! It's YOUR turn for a nap!! :D”

❤️ “. . . That is not how this works and you know it.”

⭐️ A lot of the fights have to do with Johnny's screen time (IPad/phone baby)

❤️ Kenshi doesn't like that he's on it for hours at a time, and usually tries to limit certain times (like no screen time an hour or so before bed, or no videos while eating unless certain circumstances)

⭐️ ^ Which is so totally unfair, because what else is Johnny supposed to do during snack time? Eat?! Crazy talk, Kenshi 😒

❤️ Johnny is a BLABBER, and I'll die on this hill.

⭐️ And I don't mean just like, babbles (which he'll totally does when he's feeling younger), I mean pointing to something and telling Kenshi the entire history about it or some random little fun fact (he can go hours if no one stops him)

❤️ Kenshi doesn't have the heart to stop him, nor does he mind learning about 12 different shark facts (I love Octonauts so Johnny does too)

⭐️ Johnny still likes doing little fashion shows, and Kenshi, even with his limited sight, loves ‘judging’ them (10/10 every time, he gave a 9/10 once and Johnny cried)

❤️ Johnny play pretend, especially when his wears costumes based from his old movies!!

⭐️ Like his Indiana Jones one!! Kenshi will hide some things around the house and claim that they're old lost artifacts that must be found!!

❤️ And obviously, only someone as smart as Johnny can find them 💪

⭐️ Johnny tries getting treats as much as he can

❤️ Found all the ‘artifacts’? M&M's please! Ate all his dinner? Ice cream! Didn't talk back to Kenshi once after doing it all day? Hes literally such a good listener, wont you hand him a candy bar? 🥺

⭐️ Usually Kenshi can put his foot down one too many times, he doesn't want Johnny to have an upset tummy or anything

❤️ . . . . Sento, on the other hand, cannot

⭐️ ^ Johnny also uses this to his advantage, much to Kenshi's dismay

❤️ Floating candy? Every day experience Kenshi, your crazy. Freezer randomly got proper open? How'd that happen!! Must be ghosts! (Quite literally too)

⭐️ Speaking of Sento, they adore small Johnny!! 

❤️ Big Johnny knows all they're history and gave them the best view in the house, he already gets a bonus on the ‘Kenshi's important people’ list

⭐️ But little Johnny? Top tier, Kenshi should totally allow Johnny to unsheath them and play ninja either them

❤️ ^ Unfortunately that will NEVER happen on Kenshi’s watch, Sento stays CLOSED and preferably out of Johnny's reach, much to Johnny' dismay

⭐️ Kenshi's usual nickname is either Bubba or Dada, depends on Johnnys headspace (if Johnny's tethering between or they're in public, it's just Ken’)

❤️ Johnnys nicknames are usually things like Sweetheart, ‘Hun, Little One, or just his name

⭐️ … And the obvious-

❤️ “Johnny Johnny?”

⭐️ “Yes Dada?”

❤️ “Why are all your goldfish on the floor?”

⭐️ “. . . . DADA IT WAS LITERALLY SENTO-”

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[autistic-writer-angel]

OCtober Day 16

Prompt: Lament

Words: 665

Canon to my other stories: Yes

Additional notes: Another scene I've had in my head for a while. Context? Don't know her.

@mooshie-blue I think I told you I was going to post this one.

TW: Slight self-harm and quite a bit of self-loathing.

Credit to @apromptingwewillgo for the prompts.

Lament

“Angel?” Captain Barnacles called. He could hear her on the other side of the bushes. It wasn’t like her to just run away, though. Something must have been wrong. “Angel?!”

He pushed the bushes aside and was shocked by what he saw: Angel had grabbed a long, thick tree branch and was hitting herself with it! She whacked her arms over and over again.

“Angel! What are you doing?! Don’t do that!” The polar bear took the branch off of her and tossed it as far as he could without fear of hurting any creatures. “You could hurt yourself!”

“That was the whole point!” the girl countered, beginning to cry.

The Captain was alarmed. Angel got upset very easily, but she rarely cried. He knelt down beside her. “Angel. Why are you crying?”

Angel let out a sob. “Because I keep screwing up!”

“Angel-”

“It’s my fault we’re stuck here! And I just keep making things worse! You could have gotten back to the Octopod ages ago if it weren’t for me, but we’ve been stuck here for three days! Your big day is completely ruined! And it’s all my fault! I’m sorry!”

“Everyone makes mistakes, Angel”, Barnacles pointed out gently.

“NOT AS MUCH AS I DO!” she exploded. “All I do is screw up! I just can’t do anything right! Here!” She slipped her Octo-watch off her wrist and threw it not at him, but towards him. “I don’t want this anymore! I’m never going to be good enough!”

Captain Barnacles knew that Angel struggled with self-esteem. He knew every Octonaut and Octo-Agent had their areas to work on and this was Angel’s main one. Still, it was hard to listen to the rant that followed. She bawled her eyes out, describing herself as completely useless and the worst thing ever. At first, he said nothing. He just allowed her to lament. Maybe all of this just needed to come out.

Eventually, when she was crying too hard to keep going, he decided to intervene.

“Angel. Take a deep breath.”

The thirteen-year-old drew in a deep breath and let it out slowly. Then she did it again and again.

She sniffled and wiped away a tear. “I’m sorry. You should have told me to shut up.”

“No”, he told her gently. “Angel, everyone feels the way you’re feeling sometimes. Everyone feels like they’re not good enough, but it’s not true. Any of it.”

“Yes it is!”

“You’re so hard on yourself. You have done so much more than you give yourself credit for… Do you remember when you and I first met?”

Despite herself, Angel had to smile a little. “I wish I didn’t.”

“You were so scared of me, but look at you now.” He smiled at her. “And you saved the life of a little penguin. You’ve helped me in the Caves of Sac Actun and helped save creatures in the Ring of Fire. You’re kind, you’re funny and you brighten up every day on the Octopod. And I'm very proud of you.”

Angel let out another sniffle. “Really?”

“Of course.” Seeing as she wasn’t convinced, he held out his arms. “Come here.”

The girl collapsed into his hug, resting her head on his chest as she sobbed. Captain Barnacles stroked her hair and talked to her gently.

When her sobs slowed, the Captain let her go. “Come on.” He stood up and pulled her up to her feet as well. “We’d better keep moving.”

Angel let out another sniff and shook her head. “Go on without me. You don’t need me getting in your way. You should just get back to the Octopod.”

“I’m not going anywhere without you”, the polar bear countered. “Oh! One more thing.” He picked up her Octo-watch. “You’re going to need this.”

Still not believing she deserved it, Angel put the Octo-watch back on her wrist. Then the Captain took her hand again.

“Junior Octo-Agent Angel. Let’s do this!”

[soupsysoup]

Kwazii Head canons!! Not the best drawing, but the one I was gonna use originally looked like a fucking cheeto and did not look like Kwazii, sooo-, yeah.

Headcanons!!

-Trans Aro/Ace

-He/him

-Has ADHD and Dyslexia. I mean, look at him, I doubt I need to say more

-The hole in his ear is a ripped piercing

-Him and Inkling like to place random bets during their ping pong matches. Like trading out chores or taking over the other's chore as well as their own.

-Gup B is his comfort gup and misses it quite a bit when he's out and about with his Grand-dad

-Like Cali, his eye has a light sensitivity. It's genetic. It's not bc of the eye patch. Other than that, his eye works fine, however, his vision is getting worse in that eye, so-

-Sings sea shanties with Captain Barnacles. Him and Barnacles listen to Fish in a Birdcage. One album in particular that I haven't rlly bothered to find the name of, lol

-Has tried to learn an instrument, but fails every time, and gives up too easily

-Him and Barnacles actually bumped heads a few times when he was training to be an Octonaut (Yes, there's training to be one, and he just barely passed, it's a fucking miracle)

-In his Pirate days, the only he was widely known for was that he was Calico's grandson, so that put a huge target on his back.

-His parents died, but he was raised by Calico Jack when he was just a kitten, but after Cali left, the crew raised him.

-the crew that raised him told him so many stories abt Calico's daring feats and what not. As well as "monster" stories

-Very active imagination. Gives him anxiety

-Amazing artist. Him and Shellington draw together and Barnacles joins sometimes. It's just a quiet thing that they all do together. Tweak also joins in on occasion. They're just sitting in silence, drawing, maybe listening to music. It's one of the only times you'll ever see Kwazii focus so hard for so long

-If he's ever focused on something and you disrupt him, he isn't rlly happy abt it bc him focusing on something is abt as rare as a blue moon

-Bounces his leg and swishes his tail when fidgeting

-Is never truly still, even when he's asleep, he's always moving around.

-Boops the crew on occasion for no real reason (Especially Peso, Barnacles, and Shellington. Emphasis on Peso and Barnacles. Extra emphasis on Peso)

-Protective over Peso

-Yeow is 100% a vocal stim that he's been using since he was just a kitten. He got it from his grand dad

-Prior to adventuring to the Amazon, he was 99% sure his granddad was dead, but he somehow felt, deep in his bones, that Cali was still alive somewhere.

-Cried while holding a picture of Calico Jack after the Amazon episode. He actually started writing to him as much as he could.

-Got his sword skills (and possibly drawing skills) from his grand dad

-Used to follow Cali around, mimicking everything he did/said. Annoyed him at first, but grew to actually love him for it bc he realized that he was this kid's role model and I think that's sweet as hell

-After he decided to get his own ship, he realized how lonely he was. He discovered that Cali's old crew disbanded after he left, and would love to find them, but there's no traces of them left...maybe they're dead...or alive...we may never know...

-Gold tooth, like his grand dad. He probably got into a fight with someone and got the tooth punched right out of his mouth.

-Didn't get a proper gold tooth, till Peso gave him one, when he first joined.

-Last one to join the Octonauts

-Like his grand dad, he likes to curl up into a ball when sleeping

-Cuddle bug for life

-Has an older brother bond to Peso and uses the stories to scare him

-Him and Peso occasionally fight like actual siblings, but get along most of the time

-Was not the most cooperative person when he first joined. In fact, he was a little on edge and hostile to the group, but now, they're literally his family

-He cusses like crazy, but stopped bc Peso doesn't like cussing and Barnacles says it's kind of important to stay at least somewhat professional at all times

-Cannot handle any type of cold, what so ever. His room is a fucking Sauna, it's crazy

-Calico Jack was his ultimate transition goal when he was first transitioning.

-He's actually quite strong and it is totally bc of all the swimming he does on the job

-Part Carribean and Part Asian, but he grew up all over the place

[buggaboizz]

Kwazii Ref Sheet +Character Details and Backstory!

Character Details!

Headshot:

He has a gold tooth, lol

Also, though he does wear an eye patch and has a scar there, he does in fact still have that eye. He wears it cause Calico Jack wore one.

Earrings:

I once read in someone else's headcannon that pirates would have a gold earring that said their home (like, in case they died away or smth) and I thought that was SO cool, so his say "Octopod" (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

Fish Biscuit

I just needed something to fill the space, he does love fish biscuits tho

Bandana

It's a red bandana with gold stitching that once belonged to Calico Jack. It was given to Kwazii before Calico Jack left for the Amazon River. Ever since he has worn it on his tail as a piece of his long lost Grandfather.

Knife

It's the knife from his pirate days. It doesn't get much use nowdays, but he loves using it whenever he can.

Kwazii's Backstory

Kwazii's father left as soon as he was told she was pregnant. Luckily, Kwazii's mom wasn't alone in this as she had her dad, Calico Jack. Unfortunately, she didn't make it through child birth, so Calico Jack had to face this on his own.

Kwazii was raised mostly out on the sea, being a pirate and learning the ways of the water.

Kwazii was only 14 when Calico Jack set off for the Amazon River. He didn't want Kwazii coming as he knew it would be dangerous, but he promised he would come back to him. He left Kwazii with his bandanna, the only surviving piece of his grandfather.

Kwazii spent years searching for Calico Jack. Sailing across the seas, searching every dock and town, but he never found him. He did sometimes find Calico Jack's old crew, but they all said the same thing. They didn't know where he was or what happened to him, or even worse, that he was dead.

Kwazii was at a dock town when he got into a fight with some sailors. He was sitting in an alleyway, beaten and bruised, when someone walked up to him. Barnacles was in the Navy when his ship came to this place. He was just having a night on the town when he found Kwazii. Kwazii was just some beat up kid in an alley with no parents or family, so he took him in and fixed him up. Of course he couldn't stay long as he was in the Navy, but for that short moment in time, he was the family Kwazii needed.

Why did Kwazii Join The Octonauts?

Kwazii continued searching for Calico Jack, and continued getting the same results. Years past until at the age of 22 he found himself at a dock. He overheard some Seagulls talking about this group of people that went around the world's oceans and helped creatures in need. He learned more about these people, they were called The Octonauts.

He had decided that he had done enough searching, that he needed to make something of his life. He was wasting himself and his life just searching, so he decided to join. But, deep down inside, he still had hopes that maybe he'd find Calico Jack on his journeys with them.

When he had his interview, Captain Barnacles was out, so Dashi was doing it. They decided it would be good to have a pirate on the team. Who knows the sea better than a pirate? Plus, he was very passionate about it. So he was made a member of the team.

Later when Barnacles returned he went to meet their new recruit. They recognized each other as soon as they laid eyes on one another. It was a very happy reunion. Kwazii finally had the permanent family he needed.

Headcannons and Bits

-Kwazii plays the fiddle

-Him and Barnacles like to groom together

-Kwazii was named after his mother

-He LOVES getting pets and scratchies

-He sleeps in a hammock

-His fur coloring is based off a local stray cat named Pickles (they are very sweet)

-Kwazii uses A LOT of pirate slang

-Kwazii transitioned after Calico Jack had left, so he didn't know Kwazii was now a boy. But once he was back they did have a heart to heart talk about it (CJ loves and supports Kwazii no matter what) that was also the first time the team learned he was trans (only Peso knew, cause doctor things)

-You can point to ANY of his scars and he'll tell this crazy story of how he got it

-He LOVES snuggling

-He HATES licorice (but that's cannon)

[grape-icing]

hi!! could you write a short story thingy between cg! roxy and regressor! dave? platonic ofc!!! i think roxy would act as a mother figure to dave!!! maybe dave comes over to roxys for a playdate for the first time, and he’s a little nervous to be so vulnerable around someone for the first time!! idk, you can take whatever creative liberty you want with it!! :)) thank you!!

HAIIII IM SO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG!!! IVE HAD TESTING ALL WEEK AND I HAD NO IDEAS!!! SORRY IN ADVANCE IF ITS BAD!!! I'll also post this on ao3 :33333

Actual story!!

Dave was pretty nervous about John's doctor's appointment because he knew John would call a babysitter. Which was fine he supposed due to the fact he already told everyone about his regression but he hadn't been watched by anyone else before. Bluh!!! Even the thought of it made him anxious. Dave curled up next to John, filled with worry.

“Something worry bud?” John questioned the sudden movement of the younger boy.

“Uh no” Dave replied which was a lie because he didn't want John to get worried and potentially miss his appointment. Although now that Dave thought about it….

Well never mind, the mystery babysitter was here. Dave really hoped it wasn't someone in his family.

“Oh! That must be her.” John got up and raced towards the door.

“Hiya Roxy!” Dave was doomed, why did it have to be his mom? Sister? thing of all people, well at least it's not Dirk.

“Ok, so he knows where everything is and stuff. Uh, am I missing anything? Oh, his favorite juice is in the fridge. Shoot I'm already late! Okay got to go, bye Dave I love ya!” John quickly left.

“Hai Davey!” Roxy announced. Dave turned away.

“Oh um okay. Do you want to watch a movie or play or….uhm…do something?” Roxy questioned, trying to get him to do anything.

“No,” Dave said quick and bluntly.

“You don't wanna do…anything like at all? Not even a movie?” Roxy walked over and sat right beside him.

“I- uhm sure, I guess,” Dave replied not trying to hurt his mother's feelings. Dave didn't actually know if Roxy considered herself his mother but she didn't mind being called “Mom” so maybe.

“Good!! So whatcha wanna watch honey?” Roxy reached over to grab the remote.

“Uhm I'm not sure, maybe Octonauts? You can pick if you want though.” Dave said in a softer voice than earlier.

“Nah, Octonauts work!” Roxy quickly put the show on and wrapped an arm around Dave, which he wiggled and squirmed his way out of.

After around 20 minutes Roxy suggested they go outside and get some fresh air which Dave very nervously said yes to.

“Need any help getting your shoes on, baby?” Roxy asked while bending down to him.

“no” Dave stated. Roxy saw right through the lie and helped him tie his shoes.

“Uh m-mom,” Dave muttered.

“Hm? What is it pumpkin?” Roxy questioned as she finished trying the younger one's shoes.

“Nothing much. I was just wondering if it was hot outside.” Dave asked while standing up.

“Oh yeah, it's going to be very hot, perfect for playing!” Roxy said cheerfully while grabbing her purse to leave.

“Oh” whined Dave.

“Is something wrong muffin?” Roxy asked due to the tone of his voice. “If you don't want to play that's okay, we can get ice cream if you want!”

“I want um ice cream, please” Dave followed Roxy onto the front steps.

“Alrighty! We can totes do that, I think there's an ice cream place right around here.”

Roxy carefully held his hand the entire walk home, which Dave thought was nice. After about five minutes of walking, they made it to the ice cream parlor.

“Look! We're here!” Roxy bumped Dave on the shoulder to draw his attention.

“Mhm,” Dave quietly followed his mother over to the counter to order their ice creams.

“Okay I'll have one strawberry ice cream and, what do you want Dave?”

“Uhh cookies and cream please.”

After the two got their ice cream they started to walk back home.

“Hey Rox, do ya know um when dad is going to be home?”

“Yeah, he has to run some errands so it might be another hour or two. Don't worry though! Me and you will have loads of fun.” Roxy reassured him that the time would fly by and she'd be out in no time.

“It's okay if you don't want me to stay. I'm not mad I promise.” Roxy gently stoked his hair.

“N-no I don't want you to leave I just don't want you to uhmm never mind.” Dave quickly cut himself off before starting to try and speed-walk home.

“Dave baby slow down. You can tell me anything! I wouldn't say a peep to anybody, not even John!” Dave hit a full stop when she said that.

“Uhm well that was kinda it, I don't want you to go and talk about me to like, I don't know, Rose or Dirk?” Roxy turned to Dave and pulled him into a hug.

“I would never do that, but I can understand why you would think that. Hehe, I talk a bunch so it's reasonable.”

Dave and Roxy stood, embraced in that hug for at least a minute straight before going back to walking again.

Once the two of them returned to the house Roxy decided it would be best just to stay home due to the heat instead of playing outside. Roxy put Dave’s show back on before realizing he was probably still hungry.

“Hey sweet pea, you hungry?” Dave silently nodded. While Roxy went to cook him something, Dave slowly moved over to where he kept all of his little items but started to hesitate, finally, he picked up his bottle.

“Whatcha messing with Dave?” Roxy asked, coming into the room to check on him.

“Uh n-nothing?” Dave squealed out as he quickly shoved what he was holding behind his back.

“Are you sure? Because that didn't seem like nothing?” Roxy questioned as she got closer. “What’s behind your back, Dave?”

“Nothing like I said!” Dave said in an elevated tone, leaning away from her, trying to conceal what was behind him.

“Dude, I need to see what's behind you so I can make sure it’s nothing dangerous.” Roxy pulled his arms away from his back, which was surprisingly easy.

“Pumpkin if you wanted a drink you could have just asked. I'll bring it when I bring your food. I'll be right back!” Roxy placed a small kiss on his forehead and went back to the kitchen.

While Roxy was in the kitchen she quickly filled up his bottle with the apple juice in the fridge, Grabbed his food, and made her way back into the living room. When she got there she handed him the plate.

“Um, thanks” Dave muttered while eating a big spoonful.

“Of course!” Roxy answered.

“Oh, wait! Here’s your bottle, sweetie.” Roxy handed him his cup and sat down beside him. Dave mumbled something inaudible and shoved it where it couldn’t be seen due to him being embarrassed by it. Which obviously confused Roxy.

“You okay little dude? I saw you hiding your drink, any reason for it? if it’s because of me, you don't gotta worry, I don't care whatcha do as long as you’re not getting hurt or making a mess.” Roxy moved closer so she was basically right against Dave’s back, She gave him a small hug from behind. Dave leaned into her warm embrace and cautiously reached for his bottle, looking over at Roxy to make sure she wouldn't judge him or anything like that. Roxy planted a small kiss on his head as he finally started to drink his juice. After around twenty minutes Roxy pulled a blanket over him as soon as she realized he was asleep.

“Hey! I'm back!” John announced, getting cut off by a loud “shhh!!” from Roxy.

[kavehpilled]

ALL of them.

OK SO YIU HATE ME

1. how many followers do you have?

somewhere around 1.7k i lost track a long time ago

2. whens the last time you went on a date?

june? its been so long ☹️

3. how many posts have you made?

WELL over 20k this account is 3 years old

4. what type of shoes do you wear?

white avia elevates or my blue converse

5. what color are the walls of your room?

cream at my moms, brown at my dads

6. where are you right now?

in english im about to pull the trigger

7. would you consider yourself good at art?

perchance…. i know im alright enough at it that people like my art and make it their pfp sometimes. i even have a mutual that printed a drawing i did of atsushi and put it on their wall💀

8. who was your first kiss?

you😛

9. do you still sleep with stuffed animals?

YEA LIKE 5 LMFAO

10. whats your favorite piece of clothing you own?

i have a really nice red cardigan that i basically live in at home

11. do you live in an urban, suburban, or rural area?

suburban all around i think i dont remember

12. whats your favorite store to shop at?

goodwill🫶

13. if you had to choose one POSITIVE word to describe yourself, what would it be?

gentle i think

14. do you collect anything?

classic novels! im restarting my collection of tiny bear figurines and friendship bracelets tho

15. whats the last thing you ate?

i had a banana applesauce like an hour ago :)

16. if you go to therapy, do you like your therapist?

i go once a month and shes nice! got me referrals for diagnoses so that was chill

17. whats one thing you want to buy, but dont have the money or resources to get it?

WRIOTHESLEY DOLL.

18. whos the first person you can think of?

you

19. how old were you when you found out santa wasnt real?

i think ~5? my cousin told me :(

20. if you could revive one tv show that has been cancelled, what would it be?

jjk bro pls revive and continue for me. i need satosugu to be happy

21. do you consider yourself a part of any alternative subculture?

i dont think so!

22. who was your childhood favorite music artist?

taylor swift or sir mix a lot

23. cds or record players?

despite my extensive cd collection i would say records

24. do you believe in any conspiracy theories?

i wish but i think too rationally for any of that

25. would you get back together with an ex if given the opportunity?

i think people always deserve a second chance and we are legitimate living proof of that, even if that concept like translates into relationships. im nowhere near ready for anything right now but if i ever got back together with ANYONE they would have to change a lot. i have hope in everyone tho

26. favorite kids show character?

kwazii from octonauts :)

27. is the person you call your best friend actually your best friend?

yeah!

28. when youre sad, do you prefer to listen to music to match your mood, or listen to happy music?

sad music all the way. i rarely cry so when im genuinely upset its nice to get it out to sad songs yk

29. whats the last outfit you wore?

im a chronic outfit repeater so. white turtleneck under a dark green sweater that has pumpkins all over it and dark brown cargo pants. ive worn this like 10 times

30. do you have any online friends?

YES alice ezra and skylia are the ones i talk to the most!! but i have a lot of mutuals i love interacting with ppl

31. least favorite clothing style that is currently popular?

those white fox hoodies make me carnally angry

32. how often do you do your laundry?

once a week at my dads, twice a week at my moms. its a weird system but i have more clothes at my moms currently

33. do you prefer silver or gold jewelry?

gold, silver makes me look sad and grungy

34. whats your book/movie/tv guilty pleasure?

i like reading cherry crush on webtoon when im bored💀🙏

35. if you could change your hair however you want, how would you change it?

id probably dye it to calico colors but im scared ill look like a goof

36. do you paint your nails?

sometimes! i did them blue like for a day and then i got bored. i pick at them too much so its like a little treat

37. whats an uncommon/specific/ obscure topic youre interested in?

vampire burial practices and eastern european rituals

38. whats the name of your first pet?

KITTY💀 he was an orange cat that got eaten by coyotes

39. whats one feature you would change on tumblr?

im not active enough to notice anything…

40. whats the most interesting item you own?

i think a tiny glass giraffe i love him

41. would you rather go on a date at a museum or a concert?

museum all the way i love intimacy with that kinda thing

42. whats one regret you have?

i could go into extensive detail about what i seriously regret in my life but i think my main one is not telling you enough before we split apart

[octoagentmiles]

Any thoughts on what could have possibly happened during the time between the Octopod crashing in A&B, and it being repaired and the Octoray being added in?

Like what would the crew have been doing during that time. Their home was just destroyed and they had no way of continuing their job while it was repaired.

So what would have been doing? (Fully just headcanon what you want for this)

👀 Okay so as for the Octoray, I headcanon that Tweak and Barnacles were already working on it long before the events of The Skeleton Coast. The way Barnacles brought up "working together" with Paani, makes me feel like the Octo-Agent program was something that had been in the back of his mind for a while. He just needed an excuse to put it into action, and meeting Paani inspired him to finally do that.

(Dashi probably helped with the Octoray's construction, but I like to imagine her being made the Captain of it was a surprise.)

Tweak being able to get the Octopod standing in order to bring all that water to the elephants was impressive as heck—but it was done very rushed, and she was probably still running on pure adrenaline at that point after the crash. So unless we're about to see the Octopod fall apart or break down in a future ep as a result of the rushjob, it's safe to assume she took a MUCH longer time making it sea-worthy again.

Now what the heck were they doing in all that time?? 👇

They could've been living in the unfinished Octoray, but I feel like they'd have the same problem as when they lived in the OctoLab (much smaller space, no privacy, etc.)...

BUT the Octoray was being built in the Repair Station, so depending on how much damage was left from the ROF incident, they could've been living there. This makes the most sense to me, because it would mean they would still all be together, and they would've had access to at least some of the GUPs.

They also could've been living with their families; or at least, Kwazii, Shellington, Peso, and maybe Inkling—since the others were fixing the Octopod. For them, it would've been like a real, uninterrupted vacation, instead of what they got in The Arctic Adventure, or Kwazii's coconut crisis ordeal. Just plain relaxation. (or as well as they could relax knowing their home is destroyed, but ✨ yeah ✨)

Barnacles specifically was probably having a Really Bad Time™. You can imagine why, I'm sure. No matter what they were doing, it was not fun for him. He's either missing his crew, or stressed about the Octopod/crash. He definitely blamed himself for it, and didn't feel better until everything got back to normal.

👀 Then there's also the question of the Octowatches, because all the agents were given them upon recruitment, and they're brought up a couple times in a "Hey Look At My Cool Octowatch™ It's So Useful" way (Tracker using Shellington's creature collection, CJ's first Octo-Alert; talking about how much Pete loves it, etc.) but the Octonauts themselves aren't given them until the 2nd episode, and that part is never explained.

Tweak probably built 8 watches, knowing who Barnacles was considering for the Agent program. Paani's was originally going to be given to Bianca, but Barnacles was on the fence about asking her in the first place, so he gave it to him instead. It wasn't until after the whole thing finally got set in motion, that they realized it would be a good idea for all the Octonauts to have them too. Tweak offered to make Barnacles' Octocompass into a watch for him, but he declined. Inkling just didn't want one.

I don't know how to end this post non-abruptly but those are my headcanons okay byeeeeeee— ✨👋💞 xD

[clover-midori]

CALM BEFORE THE STORM

When Captain Barnacles first woke up on October 4, 2023, the last thing he expected was a hurricane on the radar.

Of course, this was not the first time for him. He’d have been through many, as did the rest of his team. In fact, it had been only a year and a month since Hurricane Iris, the biggest one he’d have been in since this whole Octonauts thing began.

"That was a low-end Category 4, captain." Peso sighed a little. "This storm looks even worse, and we’ve only got tonight to finish preparations!"

Barnacles nodded rapidly. He’d have been looking at this storm for a while now. In fact, it was all that had been on his mind. In fact, Peso had noted how Barnacles would keep vocalizing the storm’s name—Selma—in his sleep.

Poor Barnacles only got a few hours of sleep last night trying to find a good area to stop in. And he still wasn’t there yet.

Those two weren’t the only ones preparing for this hurricane. Tweak had been doing routine inspections on the Gups, in the event that they could be needed for evacuation, or if they were damaged, and Dashi was insanely busy checking satellite imagery of Selma, which was not looking very good. If anything, the eye of the storm was just looking back. At least, that’s how it felt. Eerie, it was. And it was coming towards her, and the other Octonauts.

~~~~

However, Shellington and Kwazii were not as bothered. If anything, the latter was confident that this wouldn’t be a migraine for anyone. Maybe too confident, but Kwazii knew the Octopod super well, and he knew what to do if things went rotten.

As the seas grew darker and darker, the cat sat in the otter’s laboratory, looking at The Weather Channel on his BlackBerry Bold 9900. He seemed a bit mesmerized. When Iris struck, this was much more sudden. But now, here was Selma.

"Jumping jellyfish… it’s not looking good out there, is it?" Shellington looked at him, curious as he was. "I’ll have to close all this in a moment… Dashi’s told me all about how strong this storm really is and the captain’s going to be sick."

Kwazii didn’t respond. He kept sitting there with a smile on his face. Again, he wasn’t too bothered.

"I oughta head out and check if we’re anchored. Can’t go without a double check… maybe a triple check!" The cat looked back, blinking slowly. "Up to join?”

Shellington went quiet for a second, tilting his head a bit. A little sorrow in his eyes, too. A look that said yes, but also no.

"I have work to do, but thank you…"

Those words made Kwazii’s ears droop a little. But the otter had a point. This could be an awful storm for real. They knew this was no laughing matter.

Like that, the two walked out of the lab, off to get their things done. The sea was getting dark much earlier than normal, and that meant one thing and one thing only: Selma was closing in.

"Of course. We’re running out of time." The otter groaned.

~~~~

While Shellington and Dashi were busy getting data on the hurricane, Kwazii was below the Octopod. Staying in communication with Barnacles, he kept scanning the seabed for any debris. They both knew they were getting somewhere safe, but they’d have to act fast.

"Last time we were here, there were definitely less rocks… WAY LESS THAN what my grandad had to dodge, back in HIS pirate days, ya-har! Ye know that? It was wild!" Kwazii laughed, followed by a gasp. "Avast! We’ve got a clearing nearby. Captain, check you maps! We’re headed for our spot!"

Just as he was about to do so, Barnacles was interrupted by Dashi tapping his shoulder. She looked like she had never seen anything, quite so horrible, in all her life.

And yes, that’s a Michael Rosen reference.

"We’ve got a Category 5 behind us." She huskily groaned, looking at the screen. "Found a safe space?"

"You bet I did!" Kwazii showed up on the screen above, waving to her and Barnacles.

"Righty, captain… WEIGH ANCHOR!"

~~~~

Shellington just stood in the back of the HQ, watching this unfold. As the anchor dropped, he looked down and sighed. Remembering that he was in the path of a hurricane, stronger than ever.

And not just him, but the rest of the Octonauts. In the Octopod. Nowhere to swim. Nowhere to hide. Just wait out the storm.

Ever since Hurricane Iris, Shellington knew something like it was bound to happen again. After all, he was working a LOT underwater.

And now here he was. Standing behind the satellite imagery of Selma. Hoping she would weaken a little before hitting the Octopod.

The thoughts were combating. Whether things would go well or not, was something Shellington couldn’t figure out. Either way, it was better to be safe than sorry.

Between those thoughts, thoughts of the Vegimals, and of Kwazii, the sea otter was deep in thought. Like, seriously. The sounds of outside were drowned out completely by his worries, and his… feelings.

"Shellington! You’ve been spacing out for 4 minutes now. I need you. It’s about Tunip and the others." Peso stood in front of him.

The simple mention of a Vegimal voiced by no other than the dormant half of Meomi immediately got the sea otter’s attention.

"Jumping jellyfish! How could I forget?" The sea otter shook his head. "I can’t, that’s what! Please don’t be anything I’d fear…!" He immediately ran for the Sick Bay, worried about what could’ve happened. Did there have to be another incident just before a hurricane?

Shellington, in panic, rapidly went in, to find nothing wild. It was just the Vegimals standing around, still seeming happy, especially when the otter came in.

"Peso? What’s going on? Why’d you sound so urgent, if…" the sea otter turned to face the penguin, an awkward look in his eyes. "Your mind isn’t existing everywhere in Cyberia again, is it?"

The penguin realized how stupid he went. "Guess you could say I’m a sewer slut." He sighed, now in peace. "Must be my fucked up head… which it’s not…"

You, like Shellington, would think someone was dying a slow death, but it’s just an overreaction. Ultradespair? Hopelessness? Restlessness? Psychosis? Lexapro delirium? Maybe. But hey, things don’t have to leave you in inertia status when Jvnko loves you, even when things have gone down the drain.

Those weren’t good Sewerslvt jokes, were they? Whatever, I figured. Something of value less than that would work way better. I AM Mr. Kill Myself anyways. I might as well die alone.

"I need to think my tone of voice better, if anything… Right. I just wanted to tell you that we’ve moved the Vegimals to the Sick Bay for the time being. Nothing big, sorry… How are the preparations going?"

Shellington shook his head, still a bit unnerved from the false alarm. "Well, I do suppose we’ve reached our stop. We’re gonna be here for a little while, so get cozy."

Peso was still happy to hear this news. "Right-o! The Gups have all been parked, the Octopod has been anchored… We’re getting an idea of just how strong Selma is… I think Phase 1 of this protocol is complete! Now what?"

It already seemed obvious, of course. Shellington knew. Peso knew. Kwazii knew. Dashi knew. Tweak knew.

Everyone knew.

Wait it out.

Wait it out.

Wait it out.

This was the calm, before the storm.

[spacefinch]

Octonauts Star Trek AU (part 2)

(Author’s note: this takes place some time after part one)

“Kwazii, Peso, and I are going on an expedition,” Captain Barnacles announced. “We’ll be back in time for dinner. Shellington, you’re in charge until I return.”

“Me? In charge?” the otter asked. “I’m not exactly the right person to be acting captain!”

“You’re the second officer of the Octonauts. You’re more than suited to take my place for a few hours,” Barnacles assured him.

“Aye, but I’ve never had to do that before!”

“Don’t ye worry, lad.” Scotty put a paw on Shellington’s shoulder. “I’ll help you out. I know a thing or two about bein’ actin’ captain.”

“Well, I’ll be on my way then.” And with that, Barnacles headed down to the launch bay to meet Kwazii (first officer) and Peso (chief medical officer).

…

Being acting captain wasn’t very exciting. It mostly just consisted of standing in HQ, scanning the surrounding area, and asking the other crew members to check in every few minutes.

Still, it had its perks. As soon as the actual captain had left, Shellington had assigned Dashi to be his first officer and Tweak to be second officer. Tunip would be assistant medical officer. (Shellington trusted the Vegimal, but Tunip was too young to be chief medical officer— or CMO—in Peso’s stead.)

“Let me get this straight,” said Dashi. “You’re acting captain, acting CMO, and chief scientist? All at once?”

“Yes.” Shellington answered. “It shouldn’t be too hard.”

Scotty seemed to disagree. “Well, what if you get hurt? Or if there’s some emergency your basic first aid skills can’t take care of?” He asked.

“Not to worry, I’ll be fine!”

The gray-and-brown tomcat still wasn’t convinced. As far as he was concerned, the Octopod needed a proper physician.

A few minutes later, a third visitor beamed aboard the ship.

“Name’s Dr. Leonard McCoy,” the river otter said. “But call me Bones.”

“My name’s Shellington. I’m acting captain of this vessel.”

“Something happen to Barnacles?”

“No, he’s just on an away mission— wait, how do you know the captain’s name?”

“Well, we have a mutual friend.” Bones gestures toward Tweak.

“Yep!” the green bunny said, as she bit into a carrot. “Dr. McCoy’s an old family friend. My pa used to take me to visit him in Georgia when I was a kit.”

“Anyway— sorry for calling you here,” Shellington said. “Our medic is also on an away mission, and Scotty insisted on having another one aboard the ship.”

“And a good thing, too,” said Bones. “You’re a biologist, not a doctor.”

…

Three crewmen of the Enterprise aboard the Octopod! Three!

First there was Scotty, a gray-striped Scottish wildcat with a knack for engineering. Right now, he was having a drink with Shellington and Professor Inkling. He’d given them an old recipe for a drink he’d found on a faraway moon. Nobody knew what the drink was called, or whether it was meant to be served warm or cold. The only thing Scotty knew for sure was that it was green.

Then there was Chekov, the young navigator of the Enterprise. He was a pine marten— long, lanky body like an otter, but with pointed, catlike ears that were always pricked up. And boy, did he have a lot of energy. Most of it was spent talking about Russia’s greatest inventions or about the many adventures he had aboard the Enterprise. Once you got him talking, you had better be prepared to listen for a while.

And lastly, there was Bones. He was rather snarky for an otter, but he meant well. At this moment, he was in sick bay. There weren’t any medical emergencies— thank the sea gods— but he figured he might as well get used to this place.

…

“Attention, everyone,” Dashi said over the intercom. “This is your first officer speaking. There is a giant storm rapidly approaching. Please secure all loose items and find a sheltered place.”

Well, so much for a quiet afternoon, Scotty thought as he downed the last of the green stuff.

“I’ll head up to HQ,” said Shellington. “Want to come?”

Scotty nodded, and followed the sea otter through the hallway and up to HQ.

Outside the dome, it was very stormy outside. Pieces of seaweed and underwater debris pelted the glass. All of the creatures outside had taken shelter in their burrows or other hidey-holes.

Suddenly, there was a lot of shaking. Dashi, Shellington, Scotty, and Chekov were thrown from one end of the bridge to the other. They landed in a heap next to the hot cocoa machine.

“You okay?” Shellington asked the other two.

“I’m good,” said Dashi.

“Never better!” said Scotty.

“Same,” said Chekov. “Reminds me of—“

Please for the love of the sea gods do not say “Russia.” Shellington thought.

“— being on the Enterprise,” the pine marten finished.

“McCoy to bridge, come in,” the doctor’s voice spoke over the intercom. “What in tarnation is going on up there?”

“Bridge here, Doctor,” Shellington answered. “We are trying to figure that out right now.”

“Well, please figure it out quickly. There is entirely too much shaking and jostling about for my liking!”

A few minutes later, they figured it out.

“Keptin, look at this!” Chekov said.

“What is it?” Shellington got up and headed over to the navigation console. Then he saw.

The Octopod should have been securely parked on the seabed next to a kelp forest. Instead, it was drifting out to sea.

“Oh no. The storm must have knocked it loose! Dashi, set a course for the kelp forest!” Shellington said in his best “giving an official order” voice.

“The currents are too strong there. I recommend we move the Octopod to calmer waters,” said Dashi.

“Very well. Set course for calmer waters.”

“I’m afraid I can’t do that either.”

“Why not?”

Dashi pointed at the storm tracker. “We are caught in one of the currents.”

Hmmmm… what would Captain Barnacles do? Shellington thought.

He knew the answer, of course. But he didn’t know if he could pilot the Octopod half as well as the captain.

Fortunately, he did know someone who could pilot the Octopod.

“Dashi, do you think you can pilot the ship yourself?” he asked.

“Already on it!” said the dachshund. “Mr. Chekov, activate manual steering!”

“Aye-aye. Activating manual…” Chekov looked at all the flashing buttons. “What do I press?”

Shellington showed him the correct buttons.

With that, the ship’s steering wheel was activated.

[urautismdiagnosis]

Kwazii design Take 1 (plus Kobb!)

sorry if my info seems wack I'm only now just starting to catch up to above and beyond lol

{ LONG POST BUT IT DOES INCLUDE SOME HEADCANONS ABOUT KWAZII AND HOW HE JOINS THE OCTONAUTS}

Ok so I'm gonna be honest this is from like 2 weeks ago when I was first getting back into the octonauts hyper fixation and the way I've drawn kwazii Has Changed since then but its still pretty close lol

Btw, that's Kobb, someone from his "mysterious pirate past" loll. His name is Kobb because its inspired from Japanese Kobolds, Hes a doberman.

He comes off as a guy with very quiet and threatening aura full of silent intense states, but really he's a sweetheart. He's not very talkative, but he adores children (knew kwazii since he was a kitten) and is the type to take the blame to keep others safe. He's really a shantyman, (I'll have to dump all my pirate lore and how it works in the octonauts universe in another post, I'll link it when I do) and that doesn't just mean like singing songs, but also communication of ship orders via long distance with flags, whistles, howls, and such.

He also knows how to work a canon :)

INFODUMP ON KWAZII HERE:

I would give kwazii some sick pirate earrings and all that jazz, but honestly dude lets be real there be BARACUDAS and YEAH.

He switches his eye patch between his eyes because apparently pirates mightve used em to effectively train their eyes to see in the dark better? Very cool to me, so for below deck and night raids which makes sense. The smudged eyeliner is also just Kohl, which is an old thing that alot people still use because they believe it improves the health and vision of the eyes. Makes extra sense when I remember cats see in the dark lol.

Kwazii was a bit of a lookout in his preteen years and such.

Ive got a lot of ideas and like genuine plot for the octonauts in general so I'll have to make a list and post em one by one.

Basic timeline for kwazii though (Im explaining how pirates work in this universe on another post) so kwaziis born into a pirate clan and well his grandad was the captain and all that jazz. He's raised with em and gets the Pirate Education of reading, math, navigation, Pirate Battle Tactics, Pirate Politics, how to bribe sea life, how to stab and no be stabbed, steering boats, water currents and maps, How To Survive If ShipWrecked, and etc.

All cool, all silly pirate times for our ADHD kitty, around age 10 is when calico jack left in my timeline, (also y'all I'm just now getting to watching above and beyond so if I mess stuff up gimme some grace please :'> ), and they expected the guy to come back a year or two after satisfying the treasure itch but he just... didn't.

3 or so years later, some drama happens in the crew happens and eventually kwazii ends up going solo at the age of 13, (he wants to get treasure and adventure just like his grandad,maybe even find him!) its pretty rough at first and the most social interaction he gets is sea life or just people at ports he visits lol. He does successfully hunt out treasure (and bully unethical fishermen, he and the dolphin pod are still great friends) and etc. He even found an abandoned lighthouse on an island (weird, but hey! free pirate hideout) and he was just living like that till he ended up meeting none other than captain barnacles!

The thing is the octonauts were like like getting a crew together at all, and the only one that was really there (other than tweak and the prof) was shellington and well. Needless to say they're understaffed lmso.

So barnacles has been chasing this dolphin pod, well he tried to nicely ask if he could tag some of em for scientific purposes but well, they thought it was a game and now they're convinced they're playing tag. Of course the captain still isn't experienced in Being An Octonaut, and well gup A might end up getting wrecked by some rocks he crashes into. And then he's just stranded on the rocks above the waves and oh wow did you know that the land above the water is even hotter than the water?

Anyways he's just melting and questioning his life choices because, like what's he supposed to do wait for tweak to pedal to him on the gup f 😫🙏like be for real man that must've suuuuccked

anyways he just sees this tiny boat with this even tinier guy on it??? sailing to him???

(sorry if they sound outta character lol)

"Oh... H-HhhIiiii"

"Y'know them phins told me some big furry thing crashed but I didn't expect it to be- You alright big fella?"

"mM nO I think.. YeAhp, Im ALL GO ooOD."

"Ive got shade and water?"

Oh sh- fr? " Thank you tiny man"

"Awh man ya don't even got a wallet on ya, oh well."

--------------

"So are you still a beached whale or ah?"

"I-I'm fine, thank you I simply, well I'm feeling better I just need you to drop me off at this location."

"Y'sure you're not still about t' feed the fish? On accounta all o the uh, squiffy looks ye have?"

At this point barnacles is just doubly wondering what his life is, because either he's still under the effects of overheating or this guy has said "me clipper" in reference to his boat 3 times already. He was actually very grateful but honestly was this guy even real???

"I... don't think so?"

"M yeah yeah, so what's a walkin Nothern whale even doin out here?"

Was that an insult or- No he seems far too friendly- If a bit rough, maybe scraggly looking-

After a very lengthy, educated explanation of his goal and dreams of the octonauts and all they would accomplish- He'd realized the cat had been stared at him with the biggest blankest eyes he'd ever seen-

And then in a second they snapped to clarity-

"OHHHHHHHH- so yer like, some sorta ah, sciency type... a nerd ha! Well alright that's nice for ya"

The ginger cat didn't even have an ounce of mocking in his tone either- He was really just stating a fact. He really hoped he seemed like a strong dependable nerd at least. ᴹᵃʸᵇᵉ ᵉᵛᵉⁿ ᵃ ˡᶦᵗᵗˡᵉ ʰᵉʳᵒᶦᶜ⁻

They'd bid farewell. A stranger helped a stranger and that was the end.

Or it wouldve been until he'd been struggling to find some little sea creatures in a reef and he'd just so happened to come across a certain cocky cat. Of course, the guy was happy to help, he was friends with the little critters after all!

Silly fun little coincidence and wow kwazii sure is decently good with this haha well good bye (again)-

They meet again and this time Kwaziis boat has been absolutely wrecked. And wow captain you're not really gonna wreck a poor pirates boat (one who helped ya plenty) to just suffer when your whole motto is explore RESCUE protect are ya?

So until Kwazii could get to his safe spot, (an abandoned lighthouse he turned into his own 'secret pirate base') to repair the thing, he was... kinda just stuck in the octopod.

And well- He was grateful, and very very curious, being cat and all that.

He'd never dove so deep into the water before! And he certainly hadn't ever seen such cute curious creatures as the (admittedly very young at the time) vegimals, and well of course he'd help Tweak try out the new speedy gup she was makin, anythin to help around-

By the time they get there well.... Barnacles has realized that Kwazii is well, Kwazii is kind of the exact person he'd been struggling to find.

Quick to learn, quicker to act, understood navigation and sea currents, gifted at diving, capable of steering subs well, crafty when dealing with the unique challenges of dealing with sea life and-

Well, he was also possibly a very good and kind friend. A strange one, but well, a very very good one.

They were about to say good bye, but well, the captain lamented on how he hoped kwazii would have good luck with treasure hunting, and he well maybe he kinda hoped he'd find someone at least half as good as him to help.

And well, who said he couldn't be a pirate AND an octonaut? Since the captain, you know, really needed the help- BESIDES, he probably had a way better of finding treasure when going UNDER the water- AND WELL, what pirate could say no to adventure and-

And kwazii was not a legally recognized citizen of any country so he couldn't legally become an octonaut.

Getting legal documentation for a lone pirate cat he'd met in the middle of the ocean wasn't on the captains bingo card. At least he... sort of knew what taxes were....

"Well what's your place of birth at least?!"

"Uhhh I dunno, a boat?"

"Okay- But, But w he r e ?"

"The ocean, matie???"

"In what waters though? Like- Like near what country???"

"... I dunno just like, the middle 'o it?"

"Kwazii I cant put "the middle of the ocean" as your place of birth!"

"Why not? its true-"

A very fun process for everyone that didn't include long wait times or long explanations of why on earth aren't you legal anywhere- or even shorter "explanations" of thats what makes a mysterious pirate past mysterious me heartie

anyways my brain is broken have fun lol

also I finally finished captain barnacles drawing today lol I'll post later

[tulipkitties]

Little Einsteins review

Welcome back to more “nostalgic reviews!” Today, I’m talking bout the 2005 playhouse Disney show, little einsteins.

“What is little einsteins?”

To introduce this show, we first need to discuss why the show is called little einsteins. “This show is bout music and art. How does Albert Einstein play into this?” U prob asked urself. Well, you see, there used to be a direct to home video (dvd/vhs) series called baby einstein, created by Julie Aigner-Clark as a way to entertain/educate her baby with classical music, (her baby also appeared in the videos up until 2002) in 1997, the first vhs of BE (later called language nursery) was released. And instantly, it was a success, that caught the attention of one Mickey Mouse (aka Disney) who in 2001/2002, bought up the rights of BE from FHE (family home entertainment) and julie, Disney decided to make a spin off of BE for preschool aged kids, and thus, little Einstein was born!….then they changed the name to little Einsteins, (later on disney attempted to create another spin-off, Einstein pals…it never released.) starting as 2 pitch pilots in 2003 and 2004, and in august of 2005, a direct to dvd/vhs movie (which later got split into 2 episodes, “A brand new outfit” and “The missing invitation”) our big huge adventure, then getting its own season later in october of the same year as the movie, much the thing it spun off from, it was a success from day 1.

Animation:

being done by curious pictures (yee, that codename: kids next door curious pictures.) this cartoon was rather unique for its time, as it combined 2d animation with cgi, real-life stock footage and real art. Format of the show:

After the (very very catchy, no wonder why som1 made a trap remix of it,) theme song, the title for the episode, and the art and music of the day gets called out. We get introduced to a member of the team and the set-up for the mission (in the first tv episode “Ring around the planet” one of Saturn’s rings falls down and befriends June, and in “Annie’s solo mission” after leo teaches annie how to pilot rocket, Leo, June and quincy accidentally get trapped inside a super bubble.) Once leo waves his baton…it’s mission time! If they are near rocket, they walk to rocket, but if they are somewhere else, they walk to the tree that serves as a entrance to the HQ. this also has a song, (which is a mix of the Leo’s mobile song and the theme song.) Leo welcomes you aboard rocket, next, they have to charge rocket up. “How?” you may ask, viewer interaction! by patting on their lap, the team (and you) charge rocket up, and then.. “blast off!” (In season one, this part was longer, “June’s patting, Quincy’s patting, Annie’s patting, but we need. more. power!” - Leo, season 2 shortened it by removing leo commenting on the member’s patting.) rocket zooms off. The show also has running gags, which happen usually once (or twice) in a episode, such as…

Running gags:

quincy exclaiming “I can-not believe it!” When somthing crazy/surprising happens.

Annie making up lyrics for the song of the day,

Quincy playing a instrument for a certain obstacle in the way,

June’s incredible dancing skills.

Leo’s conducting (as seen in the pilot movie, where he’s able to conduct a group of cows to sing ode of joy.)

June saying a “great big fancy word” (yee, I made a pinky dinky doo ref) lik anemone or hieroglyphs, and annie (or someone else) asking what it means, and june telling what it means.

Leo asking you to tell rocket to go slower or faster, by using music terms,

June’s “dancey dance dance” song playing as a instrumental whenever she dances,

Once the mission is done, Leo waves his baton, says “Mission…Completion!” And we get the curtain call, where the team claps for themselves, rocket, a character they met, you, the music of the day, and the art of the day, (in season 1 it was all dialogue, season 2 changed it into a song, which Ngl, it reminds me of the octonauts creature report song.) cue credits!

Mc’s:

Leo: Named after Leonardo da Vinci or the composer Leopold Stokowski, 6-year old Leo (short for Leonardo) is the leader of the team, always carrying around his trusty baton for conducting in certain scenarios or when a mission starts/ends. he’s also the one who pilots rocket, (other than in the episode Annie’s solo mission, where Annie has to pilot rocket) in season 2, he gets a pet, melody, introduced in the episode “Melody, the music pet,” melody was from the pet train, which delivers pets to people who’ll take care of them, near the end of the episode, melody and Leo said goodbye, and Leo (who is usually upbeat and cheery) is noticeably upset/saddened by melody’s departure..until the team finds out melody was gonna be delivered to leo as a pet. The writers (and the fans) lik to ship him with June, as in the episode “Ring around the planet” he hugs june, although in the episode “The glass slipper ball,” rocket dances with June, And june kisses rocket at the end…..weird. va; jesse schwartz.

Annie: Named after jazz singer anni Rossi, 4-year old annie is leo’s younger sister, Despite her age, she’s very talented at singing, she usually comes up with lyrics for the song of the day, she’s also very good with animals, befriending a caterpillar/butterfly in the pilot movie, in season 2 her outfit changes, going from green and blue to pastel blue and pink, she also gains a microphone and her va’s singing is improved, in season 2, she and Leo get a spotlight episode, “brothers and sisters to the rescue!” Where they have to save Hansel and gretel, (who in this show’s universe is real, as while they have a book of the story, they somehow manage to go and rescue the storybook characters, LE takes place in the super why universe?!/j) it’s heavily implied the writers ship her with quincy, as Annie’s the one who cheers on Quincy’s instrument playing the most, va; natalia wojcik.

Quincy: Named after quincy jones, 5-year old quincy is a African-American boy who loves to play any instrument he finds, instantly being able to play it very well, in the season 2 episode “Quincy and the magic instruments” annie, Leo, june and rocket get stuck. and quincy finds..well, magic instruments that can shapeshift, he’s also shown to have a fear of the dark, as in our big huge adventure, he’s a bit hesitant on going inside the cave, and in “Northern night light”, he sings a silly song to help him when durning a mission, it gets dark out. va; aiden pompey.

June: Named after the dancer june taylor, 6 year old chinese-american June is the smartest of the team, and a great dancer, in the episode “Ring around the planet” she befriended ring, one of Saturns many rings. which fell off and June was able to tell it to come to her, she’s the one who noticed rocket was missing from the mobile in “How we became the little einsteins: a true story” and was the one who came up with the teams name, after annie commented on how they’re all very smart. va; erica huang.

Rocket: While being unable to talk normally, (only communicating in marimba/xylophone noises) Rocket has a kind heart, and his noises is actually (as coined on the Disney.go website) “rocket-speak.” As the team can understand him, rocket also has the ability to shapeshift, (such as into a sub or a firetruck) in the episode “How we became the little einsteins: a true story.” It’s revealed that he used to be apart of Leo’s old baby mobile, but (velveteen rabbit logic perhaps, aka “if you love somthing enough, it’ll become real”) he grew big and flew off, only returning when the team sings the song the mobile played, in the episode “Hungarian hiccups” rocket is able to have hiccups…huh, the team tries to get rid of rockets hiccups in time for a race, but it’s only when rocket sees a mouse that his hiccups are gone. He also has a grandma, seen in the episode “Rocket soup” why does he have a grandma when we know he was apart of Leo’s mobile? Idk. And in the same episode, it’s shown that he can eat..despite him not having a mouth. (He reminds me of a precure fairy, lik kururun from tropicrouge, with the fact that they both can’t talk normally, LE takes place in the precure universe?, although, that would explain a few things…someone make a Little einsteins precure au!)

A…villain?

Big jet: Yee, a preschool show had a villain, this being big Jet, big jet, much like rocket, is unable to speak, big jet’s hatred for the team started after the team and rocket beat him in a race, (as seen in the episode “The great sky race,”) and and now, he likes to cause despair and mischief wherever he goes, (such as changing the seasons in “oh yes oh yes it’s springtime!” ripping up a sheet music for Annie’s song in the episode “Annie, get your microphone!”) however, in the season 2 episode “Show and tell” big jet…goes through a character arc, and turns good and apologizes for stealing the teams stuff. Although we never see who drives big jet, I imagine him being more self-aware (aka older) than rocket and not needing a driver.

Season 2’s changes:

Much like pinky dinky doo, season 2 changed quite a lot of things, such as in the opening, where certain scenes and transitions were changed, (such as the addition of clapping when the team’s name gets mentioned, annie now having her mic and her season 2 outfit, quincy playing a drum at the end, the locations seen in the intro being different) The animation being better, Annie’s singing being improved, the addition of the “super fast!” Segment, more interactive moments, and leo having a new line for when the mission starts (“let the mission…begin!” -leo)

Mission….Completion!

After 2 seasons, much lik how the show started as a direct to home media movie, the show ended as a direct to dvd movie. Rocket’s firebird rescue. (released in august of 2007) This movie is special, as instead of the usual credits, it’s a different song..almost lik the crew were aware the show was ending, although the episodes of the show officially ended with the episode “Little elephant’s big parade!” I consider the firebird rescue special to be the true finale, the show has a lot of merch, books, (which for the season 1 episode adaptations, has annie in her season 2 outfit,) fisher price toys, plushies, (yee, there’s even a plushie of rocket, if u are wondering. No big jet plushie though.) stickers, a cd, and a whole lot more, as for home media, there’s a lot, the show reran quite a lot after it ended, even after Disney lost the Einstein brand to kids ll, rn the show is on Disney+, and there’s a lot of flash games, such as mission to learn, which is a fun fact viewer/clip viewer, theres even a gba and a vtech v-smile game!

[nerdylittleguy]

OCTONAUTS AND STAR TREK AU

okay so before i go crazy and completely into what now consumes my life (transformers) i would like to show anyone who's out there something i mentioned - my octonauts and star trek crossover! it's basically a story where the crew of the octopod are actually star fleet officers who get stranded, due to some unknown stellar phenomenon, in the gamma quadrant, and very similarly to voyager, they have to make their own way back - it's a much shorter route, but they also end up running into the dominion, have lots of first contacts etc etc. i didn't think up much of the story part - yet?, only some of the beginning, perhaps up to being stranded in the gamma quadrant.

however, i did make some designs for characters etc using picrews! i couldn't be asked to draw much in those days. the maker is https://picrew.me/image_maker/608028 btw :)

i will write more ideas i have about the characters later in this post :)

first, barnacles!

kwazii!

peso: now, i had two designs - my first one ended up looking like a vulcan, but i wanted him to be a human character, so i redesigned it. then i realised that i hadn't designed any non-human characters, and started thinking about which characters could be vulcans, klingons etc, but then transformers snuck up on me... i think.

shellington:

dashi:

tweak: (not particularly fond of this design)

and inkling! he also got two designs.

huh. looks like he was an ex borg at some point... ugh, i do not remember :(

and here are my octonauts style drawings of them :)

but no matter how i reshuffled the crew, i'd always be one man short or in the wrong place! i couldn't have the vegimals running the security department??? they'd probably set the whole ship on fire!

enter my OC, Lotus! head of security :) she's very tired, her job is very demanding, especially when you're stuck in the gamma quadrant, but she loves the crew. my favourite animal is a fennec fox, so she's based off of those!

and now, for a little bit of context! what was going through my head??

there's a page from my diary/ notebook, detailing some of my ideas if you can read my handwriting... the idea was that their ship would still be called 'the explorer', formally, but is known to its crew as the octopod due to the large domes on the saucer section of the ship. as a matter of fact, i'd always plan to say this was the second octopod - the first looked like the iconic one from the series and was a mobile base for scouting aquatic worlds. both were designed by tweak.

and now, a transcript of that page! if you can understand my writing, i'm glad, i struggle to read it sometimes!

the USS Explorer is a vessel designed specifically for exploration and firsts contact situations. nicknamed the Octopod for the additional domes on the saucer section, it was designed by tweak.

the domes (pods) of the USS explorer are; 1 airponics bay (note: as in, what kes had in voyager. basically a garden), 1 extra science lab/ observatory, 2 advanced sensor arrays, 2 extra weapon emplacements, 1 reinforced conference room, 1 reinforced 'bar' area (10 forward) (note: like the one from picard's enterprise)

still from that page:

who the octonauts characters are in the star trek universe:

barnacles - basically picard, a model captain

kwazii - very similar to tom paris. after he and his grandfather adventured around a bit, he joined SF (note: my abbreviation for star fleet) and is well-known as a pilot

peso - always wanted to help people and see new things, so SF was an obvious choice.

tweak - always outdoorsy/ adventurous and had a love for inventing; wanted to explore and work with machines at the same time and loved the idea of joining SF. served with B(arnacles) when they were both ensigns on their first assignments

dashi - loved different communication methods as a child, from sign languages to images to verbal languages. at school, her teachers mentioned she might enjoy she might enjoy working in SF with communications. though it was difficult, dashi stuck with it and became an expert, sent into unknown territories to assist with first contact situations

shellington - always loved exploring and learning about different creatures, phenomenons etc. as he'd consumed much of terran knowledge, he decided to expand his knowledge and join SF

inkling - bit mysterious (note; translation, i had no idea what to do!). he joined SF possibly out of boredom, but is now committed to exploration and helping people.

vegimals - some eggs were discovered by shellington on and unexplored planet in an incubator. shellington, believing them to be normal eggs, hatched them. imagine his shock at them being flora/ fauna hybrids...

end of transcript.

now, i did have many more ideas, but i only remember them vaguely, and this is just about all i wrote down! there is another part of my notebook where i write a start to the story, where the octopod sets out to the gamma quadrant from ds9 - it seems sisko and barnacles used to be friends at SF academy :)

hey, if you like this idea, take it and run! write something, fill in the gaps, go crazy! credit me if you want, but i'm not particularly fussed. and if you've read to here, whether you wanna do something with these little ideas or not, hoped you enjoyed the read :))

live long an prosper!

[autistic-writer-angel]

Asks for Angel 😇

Ribbon 🎀 - Any accessories?

Precious 💎 What’s their most prized possession?

Hobbies ✍️ what do they do in their free time?

What is the weirdest place she has woken up while sleepwalking?

How often does she cry? Have any of the Octonauts seen her cry/has she seen any of them cry?

Thanks for the ask!

🎀 Not really. Angel doesn't really wear jewellery or anything like that because of her sensory issues. Most of the time, she doesn't even wear shoes. (She'll eventually start wearing the same boots the Octonauts wear, when she has to. Otherwise, she'll go around barefoot.) In Above and Beyond, she gets an Octo-watch, but can only wear it for a few hours at a time. If she's too uncomfortable and has to take it off, she'll either hold it or put it around the strap on her backpack or overalls.

I'm not entirely sure if this will happen, but I had a scenario in mind if Angel does go back to other humans for a while (if it does happen, it would be between the original series and Above and Beyond): Angel receives a special medal of courage, but she's ashamed, feeling like she doesn't deserve it. However, Captain Barnacles has said she's out of uniform if she doesn't wear it.

The only other thing I can think of is that she sometimes carries a purple backpack.

💎 Angel's blanket that she can't sleep without and her stim toys (a naked headless, limbless Barbie doll and a balloon stick) are very special to her. Not only does she use them virtually every day, but they're some of the few items she managed to save from the fire.

The rocks she has to remind her of how brave she is means a lot to her as well. One Peso’s cousin, Penny, gave her. She got given that because she rescued Penny from drowning. The other rock is one she found in the Caves of Sac Actun.

✍ Angel loves reading, writing and playing with her stim toys. She has a lot of energy too, so for her birthday, Tweak made her a trampoline, which they keep in the games pod. (Angel’s not the only one who uses it, though. Kwazii and the Vegimals have also been known to use it!) Sometimes, she'll play with Peso’s xylophone too (he lets her); she doesn't know HOW to play; she just messes around.

There are lots of weird places Angel has woken up. The weirdest- just because it's like, how did she get in there?- would have to be the secret room Kwazii has in his room. Somehow, she managed to open it up, get inside and lock herself in. Nobody knows how, least of all, Angel herself. It took the Octonauts the whole day to find her! Tweak installed an Octo-tablet in there after that, so someone could get help if it happened again.

Angel gets upset VERY easily, but she rarely cries. She absolutely bawls her eyes out most of her first day on the Octopod (after all, her entire family had just been killed; her house had just burned down and she'd found out animals could talk, including Captain Barnacles, who absolutely terrified her). The next time she cries is in the Ring of Fire, three and a half years later.

Mostly, she cries if she feels especially worthless or like someone's mad at her- and if it's that time of the month when she feels that way (I have a scenario in my head where she completely breaks down in front of Captain Barnacles) or when she's scared.

That first day, Shellington, Peso and Captain Barnacles all saw her cry. Dashi, Tweak and Professor Inkling all heard her, but they didn't see her. Only Kwazii and the Vegimals didn’t (Kwazii was out most of the day, getting her backpack back and the Vegimals were in the kitchen). The Ring of Fire is the first time Kwazii and Tunip saw her cry. So far, I think the only Octo-Agent to see her cry is Ranger Marsh, after she gets scared during a fire in the Everglades. She has a panic attack.

Angel has seen Shellington cry (he was upset he hurt her after crashing the GUP-E); Tunip (at the end of 'The Mariana Trench Adventure') and Dashi and Peso on several occasions.

[eden-nautabar]

What happened in May

I need to tell someone, but it doesn’t have to be you. In the following audio log I will be explaining a great trauma from much earlier this year, a vague but quite grotesque image, and I will try my best to explain how much pain I was in. I am cutting this post here for the sake of your mental and emotional security. Proceed at your own risk.

I had convinced Bacon to come with me and Dad to a reef trip to show him how not-so-scary the ocean is, we gave him a tablet to record our “findings” with and set him down on solid sand to avoid movement issues…

He was doing a 360 pan and once he got back around to us he startled. I was halfway through asking him what’s wrong when he pointed and it had become clear that something was behind us. I had managed to teleport him back to the GUP-A but because Dad doesn’t have any foresight abilities, he had to turn back to see and didn’t realise that he was trying to grab a wrist that wasn’t there anymore. Bacon sounded the alert in a complete mess having just watched a creature seemingly swallow his… I don’t know what his current standing with Dad is: they get along really well short of a few trauma points and he tends to go along with whatever family dynamics I give him… short and simple Captain would work for now then. Captain and sister.

He went to answer it and I opted to take the compass and point… the gills were guarded, a phenomenon in large scale Inner-Spike predators where as a deterrent of anything holding on there’s a thin porous layer of flesh over the gills and if anything gets past that… I’ve still got the teeth marks on my fingers. The funny thing is we as Octonauts… we’d never recognise it but Bacon immediately knew what happened and let Peso work on more serious injuries by treating it himself.

Evidently we weren’t staying there… the oesophagus was lined with a mucus that Shellington has since found fascinating I’m a bit… biased against it, I suppose you just had to not be there to enjoy it. I’ll explain more later. Relatively speaking, Dad landed okay. I…

This is why I’m making this log, because of the circumstances it only takes a witness and a crew member of any rank (not including sub-ranks like Cadet, Trainee or Junior) to log so we got that done as soon as we could, but we haven’t told anyone yet, unless they actively looked into the “unavoidable deaths” file and I don’t know what to do about it anymore so I’m making this to at least let someone know. Dad’s waiting on me, I’m waiting on Dad, this might just be the only way this gets into conversation… if you’re listening to this Daniel B Verman, I’m sorry.

Where was I… right, Fred… I landed on a dead body, he was dead a week before we even got there and I saw some remnants of flesh clinging to the skull, the rest of him was under a Dark Sea researcher uniform. I freaked out for a minute and ended up backing up into Dad and he picked me up so I said to put me down and to use my phone to answer the alert. I got a better look whilst he was doing that and I realised what the purpose of the mucus was: first it coats the prey, then in the conditions of the stomach which Shellington has failed to replicate even resorting to using one of my previously shed scales to stimulate a digestive reaction, it hardens and suffocates the prey to near if not death, and works from the outside inwards to extract all the nutrients from whatever it’s got… and it hurts. I don’t think he noticed because he’s got less exposed skin you know top to toe uniform and thick Arctic fur but it burned. We didn’t suffocate because we’ve been talking and now it was burning and… I’m sorry, I really am trying to keep this professional I just- I guess I never truly recovered from it.

Anyways I had one of those… visions, I’m sure ‘most everyone else thinks it’s just paranoid anxiety but I saw me leaning over his body, crying as he lay in what I know was agony. I took this as a sign and tried to pry the mucus off myself; I don’t know if we still do it but in Anno Domini when flying and in a crash, humans were advised to help themselves before helping fellow passengers with them. Point is, I was trying to tear off the mucus but it hurt to do so - I could feel my flesh slowly disintegrating and melting away - so I decided to take the easier yet ultimately more fatal route and changed to a larger size and… a form I hadn’t made use of till then to break it up. I then used what magic I could make work to take it off Dad, praying that the instantaneous motion would minimise the initial effects. I then shrunk back to normal and tore off what I could.

I think it had been… a half hour or so after Dad got off the alert that the uncovered burns stopped burning and started itching. I usually soothe it by sucking on the wound but due to a loss of habit, comatosis, and upset penguin issues I’ve been letting my teeth grow naturally which means I ended up biting straight through my arm… he noticed and dubbed it “silly” presumably a child-calming tactic to minimise shock. I was just too upset to see that and “easy for you to say”d the whole thing to him, he immediately focused on Researcher Wilston. Thinking he was mad at me for rambling I apologised and tried to change the subject by saying it’s gonna be alright, and that I had a few rudimentary medical supplies, but he wasn’t having it, he heard there was a dead body… and he needed to see the dead body…

For the sake of the record... I called someone I knew from a time ago. She had experience... After that I sat down, needed a minute to gather my thoughts. He sat next to me. I asked him if, if anything really changed and said that I should really be getting used to this because of the void fish. I mean, I can't- I can't just outrun it forever. I'll- and then I'd- Stop! Stop... breathe...

... I... Dad consoled me, hugs and encouragement.

When we were ready, I was practically immobile - too tired - I think you knew that... if not from seeing me struggling to even float, or from watching me collapse into tears, I heard that I just looked dead... we should've taken that as an omen...

I was given time off on my one condition that he joined me: Next morning I woke Peso up, left a note on the bedside and that's all the captain needed to understand that I was serious... it all hurt... just hurt... I'm sorry that this isn't very proper, but if I do another take I'm going to cry...

[End of Audio Log]