#giant comb

[imagine-mokey]

Paul and George. Great picture!

The Beatles

[samimarkart]

i love these wacky guys

[jaewritesfic]

Everlasting Trio DP x DC Nobody Knows AU Part 8

Part 7

Shockingly, it turns out Danny knows how to cook. He's good at it, even, and when Tucker expresses his disbelief at the practiced way Danny moves in the kitchen Danny snorts.

“You know what the Fenton kitchen was like. When I got out of there and had access to food and kitchens that weren't biohazards, I learned eventually. I have a very distinct appreciation for good food nowadays, and I like being able to make it myself.”

He puts music on through a little Bluetooth speaker on the counter, invites them to participate, and they cook.

It's fun. They dance, they drink, they sample ingredients as they put their pizzas together. There's a minor flour war that sets off rounds of giggling and shrieking - more importantly it makes Danny cackle in a way she used to love and hasn't gotten to hear since they were teens.

It's exactly the same, and she missed it. Pure impish delight and mischief.

For as many things that are the same, there are ones that have changed.

Danny has a grace to him now that he didn't used to, and he moves near silently. He sways easily and elegantly to the music without thinking about it as they talk and make mischief with each other.

The oven and the adjusted thermostat make it much more comfortable in the apartment after a while, but Danny doesn't shed the pullover sweater he wears at any point. He didn't even roll the sleeves up to cook.

Come to think of it, when they entered high school he started doing that too. He wore long sleeves even in the summer - Sam tries not to think about abusive households or self harm. She hopes it's not that, but…

She puts the thoughts aside as well as she can.

Tucker had mentioned it before to her, but with all the grinning and laughing tonight Sam can see that he was right and Danny's teeth are sharper than she remembers. All four canine teeth are almost startlingly pointy.

She doesn't mention it. What she does mention is the apartment.

“This is a really nice place, Danny. You got a secret sugar daddy you haven't told us about?”

Tucker gapes at her and smacks her arm. Danny bluescreens for a moment before he snorts an ugly laugh and descends into near hysterics.

“Oh my God! Ancients, no! No, no sugar daddy. Just a well paying engineering gig lately, and some money I saved up before I left Amity. Holy shit, Sam.”

She shrugs, some tension she didn't know she was carrying leaving her shoulders. “Had to ask. Would have had a shovel talk to deliver.”

Danny starts laughing again, and Tucker groans and puts his head in his hands.

“I cannot believe you actually just asked him that,” Tucker moans.

“I can,” Danny responds with a chipper grin, Tucker's answering snort overlaid by the ding of the oven timer.

Danny knocks back the rest of his drink and waves in the vague direction of the living room area.

“I'll take this out and cut it. Go sit and we can eat it around the coffee table in case we want to watch a movie or something?”

The sitting area is spacious and comfortable, couches black leather. There's a heavy, fluffy white throw over the back of one that looks soft as all get out, but she and Tuck quickly decide to settle on the floor.

The coffee table is low enough that it's more convenient for reaching food and drinks set on it.

Tucker whistles appreciatively at the TV, so it must be a cutting edge new model. Fucking nerd.

Danny trots over not long after with two serving boards balanced precariously on one arm, his refilled sangria in one hand, the pitcher of sangria in the other and another beer held against his side by an awkward elbow.

Tucker and Sam both shoot to their feet to try and mitigate a disaster, but miraculously it all makes it to the table unharmed.

“It's almost like you guys don't trust me,” Danny pouts, his grin ruining it. “Careful, it's hot.”

“You are a perpetual accident waiting to happen,” Sam tells him scathingly, and he snorts with a peculiar look on his face.

“You don't know the half of it.”

As they all reach for slices of pizza, Danny takes them by surprise by taking a piece of Sam's, not Tucker's.

Tucker gapes at him. “Dude. Tell me you haven't betrayed me like that.”

Danny snorts, shoulders shaking with quiet chuckles. “Nah, I still eat meat. It's just sometimes I have spells where it kind of bothers me and I feel a little sick about it? I'm in one of those lately, but usually I'm still a huge burger and steak guy. Don't worry.”

“Huh. That's weird.”

Danny shrugs, taking a bite of his pizza despite his own warnings and cringing when it burns his mouth.

“Been like that since high school, actually. Used to be worse then,” he mumbles through his attempts to cool a mouthful of molten cheese.

Sam doesn't remember him ever having issues with it in middle school. She wonders what happened to change his outlook, but puts it aside. They're here to hang out and catch up. Have a good time. Not interrogate Danny.

They end up spending hours watching trashy TV and heckling the screen, making small talk and letting each other in on bits of their lives all the while. Everyone's well on their way to tipsy by the time they're done eating, though Danny a little more than Sam and Tuck.

He's loose-limbed and happy, sprawled across both of them in the haphazard pile they've ended up in. He seems incredibly content, and it does Sam's heart good to see him so relaxed.

She and Tucker are sitting with their backs against the couch, Danny's legs slung across Tucker's lap and head in Sam's. It's probably why he notices her shiver a little - it's still a little chilly in the apartment.

Lazily, he points up at the back of the couch. “You can pull that down and cover us if you want. It's really warm.”

Sam offers him a quiet thanks and reaches up to do just that, though she's startled to find that though the top is fluffy, the underside of what she'd thought was a throw is velvety and smooth. Like hide.

It's a real fur - hopefully ethically sourced. Decorated too, there are ornaments threaded into the corners and dangling that she can't pin the origin of. They're very pretty, shells and claws and beads.

As she pulls it down, she flips the edge up to peek at the underside and is startled to find the skin a distinct, familiar ectoplasmic green.

“Um. Danny. What kind of fur is this…?”

“Yeti,” Danny replies offhandedly, sipping his drink before freezing like the question and his own answer just caught up to him. “Uh.”

Masterpost

[bangs-coffee-fandoms-unite]

I saw someone saying how Cody would comb the deserts of Tatooine to find Obi-Wan after going AWOL in The Bad Batch. Somehow, this was the first image that popped into my head:

Please, someone with artistic talent (not me) make fanart of this.

[cryptidwithacopiccollection]

[kply-industries]

[hanzajesthanza]

hold up actually. wait a second. i always loved this passage and even referenced it recently on here, but...

it occurred to me (a straight hair-haver) that... while this routine to brush through your hair thoroughly at night would be a good care habit for someone with straight hair, wouldn't it be a bad idea for someone with naturally curly hair to do this? wouldn't brushing her hair dry with a comb (she later puts away the comb in a box), nightly, mess up her hair?

[noncompliantcyborg]

Some critters from Nightlighting 12/16/2023

From left to right, top to bottom:

Enteroctopus dolfeini (Giant Pacific Octopus) paralarvae

Feather Boa Cydippid (not official name, and not yet officially described species of ctenophore, CE Mills is currently working on describing it).

Nanomia bijuga

Mitrocoma cellularia

[just-some-guy-joust]

Deep Sea Fish Tourney Round 1 Brackets!

THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING!!!!!! Side A's polls have concluded, and side B polls are now up!

Both sides have concluded!

Masterlist under the cut

Side A (concluded):

Bigfin Squid (Magnapinna) vs Frilled Shark

Giant Isopod vs Osedax (Boneworm/Zombieworm)

Compleat Anglerfish vs Bloody Belly Comb Jelly

Hagfish vs Japanese Spider Crab

Tomopteris Worm vs Harp Sponge

Goblin Shark vs Telescope Fish

Cookie Cutter Shark vs Barreleye (Spookfish)

Coelacanth vs Vampire Squid

Side B:

Stoplight Loosejaw vs Oarfish

Yeti Crab vs Googly-Eyed Stubby Squid

Glass Octopus vs Longnose Lancetfish

Scale Worm vs Pacific Footballfish

Venus Girdle vs Strawberry Squid (Jewel Squid)

Giant Phantom Jelly vs Triplewart Seadevil Anglerfish

Giant Tube Worm vs Gulper Eel (Pelican Eel)

Blobfish vs Siphonophore

[velvet-games]

I think for a while I was kind of sad that my content doesn't get a lot of attention? social media has never been a priority so I can't always put a ton of effort in, and I get so much anxiety about it that my posting schedule is nonexistent lol. but what I've realized recently is that what I really crave is just being able to share interests with a few people?

I yap to my friends about fandom all the time, but we're just never interested in the same stuff. being in the hazbin fandom and working up the courage to interact with creators I love, having my own work be seen,,, it's so cheesy to say, but it's really magical! like I love that I don't have to worry about boring people with the stuff I'm interested in and knowing that what brings me joy and what I'm proud of is also making someone else happy :)

[general-george-washington]

gotta get a video of it but when chicks stop peeping, they go through a faze where they Honk. Like chicks peep and adult chickens bock but between they honk. I think of it as a voice crack you'd have during puberty

Gertrude is Honking now and it's such a silly noise to come from chickens. Esp bc Hazel is still going peep peep peep then there's a Honk from Gert

[obwjam]

hear me out… borrower dana

stop she would be SO sassy... going to the firehouse all by herself and walking in being like HELLOOOOO DOWN HERE!!! I HAVE A GHOST PROBLEM and she's explaining her problem and is like WHAT YOU DONT BELIEVE ME BECAUSE I'M TINY??? she would be so perfect

[samimarkart]

new stickers just landed in my shop! remember to use code LABORDAY at checkout this weekend to get 15% off :)

[maretriarch]

I always avoid buying porcelain dolls at work even though we always have so many and theyre always so cute bcs I have like. so little shelf space and they're so fucking big but ugh I saw these girls today and I just could not help myself. god knows where I'm going to put them. but these surely won't be the last i buy without a plan lol

[arch-dieangelo]

nico needs to get weirder

[weedpicnic]

Yesterday was such a solid day actually. Love is real