#fish's-answers

[3584-tropical-fish]

fish can we have a rokc extract pleaseeeeeee i would like to know more

blushing and giggling and kicking my feet IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED!! :D :D :D

Since the disaster report portion is the portion that I write, I will give you one of those! And so you can get kind of an idea of what Nick is like, this is the one where Nick is the person caught out in the disaster. Partway through this, there's a note in the stage directions that Mallory has figured that fact out :)

MALLORY: The day dawns bright and clear, and it feels as though every day has been just as bright and clear, and that never once have you known rain or snow or hail.  It’s a weight off your shoulders, to see the open sky above you and to feel for once as though there is nothing hanging over your head, to feel an openness and an emptiness in the vastness of the sky that can only come with a perfectly clear day such as this. A weight off your shoulders, and a breath of fresh air.  Perhaps you’ll go for a drive today.  Yes, that will clear your head, and you’ll need a clear head if you want to make it through this evening. (this is about when she realizes who this is about) There’s plenty of open roads to the west of town, with no buildings for miles to hem you in. It’ll be nice, you think. (slight pause for timing) And it is nice! For a time, it is only you and the open sky and the fields around you, which, though long dead by this point, have a certain charm to them. Distantly, over the horizon, are broad brushstrokes of pristine white clouds, shifting subtly as the wind blows them across the sky. They’re beautiful, so far above you, and yet you almost feel that if you just stretched enough, you could brush your fingertips against them.  When the wind picks up, taking the clouds with it, you take heed. Changing winds are never good, and out here, where the soil is loose and there is nothing to impede the winds in their course, there is no telling what terrors they will bring in.  The horizon is growing hazy. There are certain concessions to be made in the event of a disaster, when it comes to rules of the road and the laws that you should be abiding, and who would pull you over when the wall of dust torn up from the fallow fields is approaching so rapidly? Who would be so foolish when their life, too, is on the line? So you press down on the gas and you drive as fast as is safe on these roads, and you try to leave the haze over the horizon – which now can’t be more than a minute away – behind you.  When the cloud of dust finally reaches you, blotting out the sun and bathing everything in an awful, yellowish haze, and you know it would be reckless to keep going, you carefully pull over to the side of the road, turn off your lights, and wait. Driving is dangerous, this much you know, and going out into it even more so. (as an instruction) In time it will pass, if you just wait it out. Wait it out, with your lights off and your emergency brake on. (a pause, and then, quietly and tensely) The wind howls around you, shaking your car as it passes by and sending dirt or sand or whatever else is caught up in it all careening into the glass of your windows. The air feels like rattling breaths, and the sky like the bleariness of your eyes upon awaking in the midst of a sickness, and you wonder when it was that the world became so, horribly ill.

also bonus bit of dialogue (a conversation that occurs shortly after ^^this) under the cut

NICK: Hey, sorry I’m late, there was. Well, a disaster, probably. MALLORY: (a little concerned/stressed) Yeah, I’ve gathered! Did you know that if your cohost gets stuck out in one of the horrible disasters that plague your town, you will know about it? In detail? NICK: (not noticing the pun) :O I Always Wanted To Be A Star MALLORY: (:|) Ideally not in whatever show the disaster report is, thank you very much. NICK: Oh, I knew you cared. MALLORY: Considering that there is a 32% chance of the subject of the disaster report dying, and I didn’t know where you were, and I called your roommate and he just said that you’d “left”… yeah, I do care. NICK: (is this? reaching out? caring?) Was it. Bad? I mean, I didn’t love it, but like. Overall? MALLORY: Is it ever good? (checking herself) Admittedly, it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever read. The important thing is that you didn’t die.

any mallory lines were written by me and any nick lines were written by my friend and cohost!! ^^

[ionomycin]

fishbone corset

[nhura]

QUICK NO ONE'S LOOKING

(See readmore for thoughts, cope, bonus, etc.)

Anyone else up thinking about Ratio's big, strong, secure arms and how warm and all-consuming they could be in a hug or embrace. :/ Anyway

I just wanted to draw them being cute and seizing a sliver of a moment where they could have some PDA silly time without actually having any eyes on them. They're public figures and working adults with very clear boundaries between public persona and private life (to varying degrees of "in a sad way"), so while it may be in Aventurine's nature to constantly blur lines for various agendas and self-preservation (read: play "the flirt" without an aligned goal), I believe that in an actual relationship they'd be fairly private.

It's kind of fun to break your own rules, though! Ratio would be more upset about the consequences, though. He's a little bit of a hypocrite, which is devastating for someone of such discipline, but nobody's perfect.

I'm of the mentality of, "If you're tired of working on it, then just post it!", so here are some fun peripherals that I didn't feel like adding:

Some staff in the background sweeping up to evoke a blended sense of fragile privacy and liminal time.

A laptop on the aquarium/bar/counter because there's something fascinating about seeing people on their work laptops in public.

The rest of their clothes (casual friday)

[sturgeonposting]

Gingerbread sturgeon

HES BEAUTIFUL AND HE MIMICS THE LIFE CYCLE AND GROWTH OF THE GENUS HUSO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[feyburner]

Damian can of course draw very well, but he’d rather die than let Tim think he put any effort in

Final panel text:

Tim: Got a little sidetracked at the end there huh

Damian: What do you mean?

[hedgehog-moss]

I always underestimate how easy it can be to entertain a teenager. I have this preconception that small kids find everything fun even mundane stuff while teens are jaded and self-conscious and need elaborate or cool activities, but my teen cousins are visiting this week and when they arrived I was in the greenhouse having an issue with the filter in one of the tanks, so I asked them if they could catch all the fish from one tank and move them to the other tank, and they were delighted to be given little dip nets and sit on the edge of the tank to hunt fish for 20min. As I asked them to do it I was thinking, it’s like those duck-fishing fairground games from when they were toddlers, they’ll probably think it’s a bit cringe, and five minutes into it these jaded teenagers were like, hey it’s like duck fishing at the funfair when we were toddlers, I've missed it, it’s fun :D

[14dayswithyou]

This angel has another question! \o

do you have a general idea of what renrens voice would sound like? like a celebrity, singer, or maybe just a general description?

i hope all is going well for you 🫶🫶

✦゜ANSWERED: Ren's singing vc can be found here (I misread the original ask and thought it said "sings like", not "sounds like" sdksdgjs), but it also includes what I think Ren's talking voice would sound like ^^

But!! if I had to give an example, I've always imagined Eve (from Nier) to be very similar to Ren's talking voice!! It's soft, timid, and has that curious lilt to it — but also has dat [REDACTED] edge as well >:3

[feeshu09]

Hi! I found your blog today (like five minutes ago), absolutely feral for your art and not above begging! So, please please please more Happy Beginnings AU please please!!!! I love Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu so much!!! (If you don't want to, no harsh feelings <3)

Yue Qingyuan finally entered the chat bwahahaha

so yqy's qi deviation did happen. But instead of having his soul bound to his sword he somehow ended up in the modern day instead. Poor boi is lost and a bit disoriented at the moment. But he'll find Xiao jiu (and gain a new didi in the process)...eventually 🤭

(more of my happy beginings au: first | previous | next)

[serial-unaliver]

one thing I actually like about reddit is there's enough customer service workers on the site that people won't bitch at you if you say something like "i'm kind of tired of customers getting mad when I don't react positively to every repetitive joke they tell". yeah I guess you can say the customer is trying to be nice but do you think we're actually saying "ugh shut up" to the customer in real life rather than putting on our best performance for a manager? lmfao. I remember the amount of hate I got for my post joking about certain customer interactions with credit cards because people genuinely assumed i'm like, screaming at customers over this.

also why is it exclusively the customer that is supposed to be given the benefit of the doubt and not the person who is being verbally abused and/or sexually harassed for minimum wage full time LOL. "what if the customer has personal problems" I am literally so physically ill at my job i've had to leave in an ambulance that pulled up to the store more than once. sorry though, I forgot this is something only a customer is capable of experiencing in life. obviously if you're working it's a choice and you have no sort of issue whatsoever. not like you need money to live under capitalism or anything right?

[3584-tropical-fish]

11 n 29 for the oc ask game!

11) What was your inspiration for your OC?

When we (my cohost and I) were first drafting ideas for the ROKC, i was at the time also taking a course on Earth’s hazards, which was all about natural disasters and climate change, etc etc, so I pitched natural disasters as being the focus of our show. Since I’m the one who had knowledge about natural hazards, it became my role to write that portion of the script, which is the main inspiration for Mallory being the way she is.

Otherwise, she’s essentially a more pretentious version of me (which is difficult sometimes because I am already. Quite pretentious. I write lines for her sometimes and realize “yeah no that’s just something I would say”). The rest was inspired by looking at how my friend was writing Nick, and writing Mallory in contrast with him :)

29) Imagine a mood board for your OC! What's on it? (Make it if you want!)

I’ve never made a mood board before, but I’m going to give it a go!

Most of these are photos I’ve taken, otherwise they were stock photos I took from pexels

[hinamie]

Your face in profile, with a look I'd never seen

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[fishsticksloser]

First of all, LOVE ur blog

Second, can you do rise boys x reader, but reader just randomly calls them by their full Name when their in trouble-

Thank you!

-stars

Full Name

RotTMNT x gn!reader

Warnings: full name = trouble, swearing, short

A/N: Time is moving so weirdly... Posting today cause I was just so busy and out of it yesterday

Donnie

"Donatello Hamato!"

His full name?

You must be angry

He's sweating bullets

He keeps a pretty good poker face, just nervousness showing in his eyes

He smiles nervously when you come into his lab

Oh yeah... You're mad

Leo

"Leonardo!"

Oh shit...

What did he do?

He racks his brain trying to remember if he did anything bad

He grins anxiously, remembering what he did as you walk in

He'll act like he has no clue what you're talking about

Mikey

"Michelangelo!"

You never call him that!

He immediately comes to find you

Seeing you upset about something he did

Immediately apologizing

He feels so bad

Raph

"Raphael Hamato!"

You used his whole name?

He is worried

He goes to find you

When he sees why you're upset he's on his knees apologizing

He'll tell you "Raph didn't mean to" or "sorry, baby"

He hates upsetting you even by accident

[glassshine]

thread of all fish jewellery I made

thank you for your time

[tinystepsforward]

Okay, so this is a wild hypothetical and begging baseless speculation... but would Matt getting the boot be better for Tumblr specifically? Have unintentional knock-ons? (And thanks for all your commentary and updates!)

this is absolutely a wild hypothetical! the answer is, perhaps predictably, that it depends on who replaces him.

automattic as a whole is rotten from the top down. one of the board members is a perfect example of this: the very first female general in the US military. #girlboss, right? matt was very excited about bringing her onboard.

matt is on the board. toni, who i believe is the interim ceo and know very little about, is on the board. i would assume that any replacement ceo would be less likely to start a complete PR trashfire, but that doesn't mean that they're not still going to be making cynical, profit-based decisions.

in this economy it's very unlikely that tumblr will be staffed well enough or given enough agency to create actual lasting change for the better. but we'd at least have a ceo who isn't prone to using superadmin tools to fuck individual people over when trying to win arguments, i guess? which is not a structural win in any way, it just removes one particular volatile factor.

[akalikestodraw]

could you maaayyyyybbbeeee make a coelacanтh dragon?

i really like your arт and your designs are nice!!!!!

Fishy :3

I like how this guy turned out

(also bonus a song about this species of fish)

[ink-and-dagger]

Fish Silco nooooo 💀💀💀😭😭😭😭

Fortiche: “Nous sommes désolés d'avoir tué votre homme tumblr sexy. Tiens, prends ce poisson à la place.”