#but now he's a Kraken!

[squidsquadlove]

the people in the replies to the Yams post saying they like my excitement 🥹🥹🥹

y'all! when my squidlet gets back from the annual Midwest trip he takes with Just Daddy, I can tell him there is a Kraken who is Japanese-American, like him and like Mama 😭😭😭

[bbyteach]

Uhhh sooooo NYC 80’s punk scene AU where ed used to play in bands when younger but not anymore & runs a popular venue and is totally burned out on the scene. Until a blonde weirdo wearing pastels started coming to shows there and he had to understand what is going on with this guy?? And the guy wants to learn more about this world and Ed confused but ends up having more fun than he has in ages??

[blueberry-blast]

the most popular guy in my lair + the weird old fae who follows him around

and their army of child soldier grandchildren.

[cryinginthedeep]

andromeda - weyes blood

(x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x)

[octoberspirit]

Inspired by the story of people holding up a huge "How am I going to be an octopus about this?" sign during a Bastille concert and getting the lead singer to sing it by accident. XD

He is the Kraken 🐙

[punktkachuk]

“everything happens for a reason; i was meant to be a kraken.” -jm19

[tanevcolton28]

Yamo and Turbo are now besties we love it

[redbean-nom]

tactical droid vs clone culture

I was thinking about how General Kalani is one of the only droids with an actual (non-serial number-related) name, and I looked up the super tactical droid wookiepedia page:

and huh! of the four known ST droids, three of them have obviously individual names, and given that their serials would be ST-something, Aut-0 is probably a name too!

(Aut-0's name also seems to demonstrate that he has some sort of sense of humor, and Kraken's paint is suspiciously kraken-looking.)

a bit of further delving found pictures for Kalani, Kraken, and Aut-0 (Linwodo doesn't seem to appear in any visual media).

not only do they all have individual names, they also seem to have unique paint!

now, basic tactical droids do have some distinguishing symbols, but these tend to be simple central lines or logos - just enough to be distinguished.

since ST droids are pretty easily distinguishable from tactical droids (and there'd only really be one on the battlefield anyways), and none of their units have anything similar design-wise, we can conclude that the ST droids' paint is an individual choice.

I doubt Dooku would be busy painting and naming his tactical droids either, so they most likely named and painted each other and themselves...

...much like a certain other batch of beings-not-formally-recognized-as-sentient.

[arsenicflame]

getting real worried about this one lads

[lavellane]

cant stop thinking abt my theory that the qunari fled their homeland because of a blight. that theres actually been 6 blights instead of 5 . and if ghilan'nain really does have an arch demon and its not just another corypheus fake-out situation and its Real??? then this is the last archdemon. and the chances of us finding out what happens when all the archdemons die is strongly Not at zero.

[miketownsends]

Ron Francis look at me. look at me Ron. give Jordan Eberle whatever he wants because if you trade him i will never forgive you

[aka-indulgence]

Love your work! This ask is about kraken sans.

How would sans react if another person (maybe another au or smthing) started to give mc affection and mc was equally in love?

(Just looking for a jelly boi tbh)

Oh noo….. don’t hurt him poor baby ToT

He’s going to be heartbroken. When he first finds out someone’s in love with you and starts making moves on you he’ll be territorial, taking you out to the sea for longer periods of time, physically blocking their path to stop them from coming closer (Sans sees them climb up to the cliff. He puts a tentacle in the path. Now they’re at a safe distance and you don’t even see them :]). But eventually when you see how often Sans tries to get them to bug off, you tell him that it’s fine because you like them! And Sans… doesn’t know how to react at the moment.

As soon as he finds out that you’re in love with them, all attempts to stop the two of you getting close recedes and he lets it happen, though at first it’d be hard to hide his disappointment.

In this case you’ll probably see Sans as your very good/best friend. You still visit him and he can still cuddle you, but he’ll always watch you leave with a little more melancholy.

He wails at night…

He’ll make less appearances to the shore- he wouldn’t want you to see how destructively envious he can be. When he really can’t think rationally, he takes it out on shipwrecks, wrecking them further. Ships sailing around the area will report more kraken sightings than usual and steer clear.

He’ll settle on pining for you, because as much as he wants you, he won’t stop you from loving someone else. Whenever you visit him he’ll hold you closer for longer, bring you to sea more. Even though you don’t love him that way, you’re still here, he still gets to keep you, and he can handle that.

[emuchipmunk]

22 | Oliver Bjorkstrand x Never Learned To Dance - Medium Build

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

YES HIGH-SEA ADVENTURES!!! I love the idea of them coming across a kraken or something of that nature

Sally's at the front of the line like "FOR GLORY" meanwhile others are freaking out or trying to keep the ship(and themselves, but mostly Eddie) stable

Also the bit with Eddie and Frank😭<3 so good

Sally, Julie, Frank: throwing themselves at the kraken

Eddie: attempting to back them up, failing <3

Wally: getting snatched by said kraken

Barnaby: holding onto Wally's ankle with one paw & holding onto the ship w/ the other

Poppy: dragging Howdy's deliriously sick self into a corner for "safety" & screaming

[tanevcolton28]

Someone call @turbos-ghosts and @oeldeservesthenorris CAUSE GF IS OUT HERE SHIRTLESS AGAIN

[puckpocketed]

18/01/2024 - SEA @ EDM

Tuna and his soft hands -> Dumo - clipped all the way back in January before I even knew how to make gifs. a bit of a season obit + thoughts about Tuna under the cut.

ooough this is gonna be very off the cuff and unedited so here goes!

this clip is from the oilers match that ended the kraken point streak. it was a strange, tense match. filled with penalties and scrums. this is where we lost Yanni to a charging major and 2 game suspension. as an aside: I don't think about players and their hits the same anymore after this. at the time, I was pretty much on the train of "well, he didn't hurt the guy", but since then I've done a lot of thinking. every player has thrown a questionable hit, or has the potential to - including all of my favourites. on principle: if a bad hit delivered by a random opposing player is wrong, that standard has to apply to my faves too. anyway. everyone was getting sick around this time, and if i remember correctly we lost a bunch of guys to illness during the pens match just days before this one. the vibes were high up until then, and it feels like we never really recovered. I know the season hasn't panned out the way we wanted since, but I still look back on those times so fondly.

a little breakdown of the clip:

there are two people bearing down on Tuna here. Darnell Nurse (#25) gives a pretty half-hearted effort after he realises Tuna isn't going to rim the puck along the boards. Tuna cuts into the middle - I wonder if he's looking for a cross ice pass to Ebs (#7) here? he stops pulls the puck in so so quickly - avoids the sweeping stick check from Evander Kane (#91), and shovels a backhand pass to Dumo from such an awkward angle that I'm baffled as to how he even did it. he opens himself up for a pass on the blue line after, which I'd have liked to see. but oh well!

thoughts on tuna which have been rolling around in my head like those lint balls in the dryer:

i'm always thinking about Tuna and the little things he does. he's one of the most interesting kraken (to ME). i don't like to play favourites but i have to admit that games just don't have the same shine when he's not in </3 I like that he holds on to the puck a little, I like that he's got good hands in tight spaces, I like that he shoots with accuracy over explosive power. I like that he has a tiny bit of grit to him. I like that he's opportunistic - what I noticed most about him was his habit of just... being in the right place at the right time. he'll probably never be one of those guys who can generate chances on his own unless he miraculously makes a late leap in development, but if there's a chance then he'll be there to finish on it.

he's a quiet player in terms of hype around the league. a journeyman, a depth acquisition. hot on the market when his contract is up, but rarely spoken of otherwise. I felt some kinda way when I saw him answer that question about staying with the kraken. he's been shuttled from team to team, seemingly unable to find a home for so long - and I know this is common, I know that's how this league works for the vast majority of players who aren't franchise altering superstars. whatever. it still hit me that he could simply leave, and this team would just be another team where he couldn't put roots down. there's an article from the 2010s naming him a 'core' player of the red wings, did you know? and since then, he's just bounced and bounced around. i know this league is a business, i know teams just need to do what they have to in order to win. I don't care. let him rest. let him find a home. god.

i've said this about my other teams too, but 23-24 kraken will always be special to me. my lovely losers who fought and stumbled and failed. my first wagon. my little cobbled together family of leftovers. this team won't ever be the same again and I'm trying to be okay with that - but to contradict myself... I hope Tuna stays with the kraken. yeah, okay he's just some guy, but to quote that one tumblr post: hes MY just some guy. i am woefully attached, and it's such a long shot but I hope he can be a part of this team growing and blossoming into something strong for the next couple of years. hockey gods if you are listening - I hope he retires a kraken.

failing that, maybe he goes to one of my other beloved teams in need of a solid middle 6 winger. shark girl summer? haha? <3