#got these pics from the ocean of the sky documentary!

[theused801]

the used, 2002

[ashadowofburnedoutstardust]

I'm just going to apologize for that taking so long to click on, that took me far longer than it should have but my brain can be a bit like wonderland at times

This is how bizarre my thought process can be because of how my brain and memory works

Firstly I never actually thought that was Chris in the video

Then today some Labradors showed up, one male golden, one female black, which tbh was a nice little real world reminder of Yin and Yang representation

Which is what kicked off my brain ticking til it clicked

Yang being Light/Fire/Masculine/Golden Lab got me thinking of Lions, Josh is a Leo

A while back I was watching a documentary that included some of the older original symbology for Aquarius before it was the wavy lines, and the other day I posted my Monthly Horoscopes posts, so I started wondering which ones may have changed over time.

I remembered glancing at the symbol for Leo and thinking it looked a little like a wiry sperm 🤭 but what it also reminded me of is a comet

This reminded me of an old nightmare I had about a comet streaking across the sky and landing in the ocean beside my country, in the dream the Comet landed offshore from a town called Raglan near my hometown, which then reminded me of the podcast where Chris is wearing a Raglan shirt

Comets can be interpreted as a harbinger of doom or a type of messenger, in the dream the tail of the comet was pointing away from Raglan, looking like a sword in the sky, so defending that position in a way

Which reminded me of the Queen of Swords in my recent tarot reading

Who else would defend Christopher no matter what? The Yang to my Yin

That got me thinking about the Halloween video, there was a guy dressed as Wally, like in one of my edits I made a while ago

Because we were talking about New Year's yesterday I was also thinking about when there were people layering images to match up the backyard pics

Then the fake Disney sighting, I was like that's not Chris either

So then who was that in the video? Who else could be at that party?

Golden hair, Leo, who's my baby daddy (I'm Yin in that scenario), a sword defending Christopher, photo editing comparing layers, which I then actually did with actual photos

If it's not Christopher, then who is it?

That's my Josh 🥰

Welcome to my weird brain

🤍🪽✨

[dramaplustautology]

Edgy Fish Dating Sim - Basic premise + Protag Bio

I’m already stressed and it’s only the beginning of Summer so I thought up some ideas for a hypothetical merpeople-themed visual novel for Mermay! 

So I wanted to have 4 routes but I couldn’t think of another sea creature besides crab and a friend suggested Vincent the lost ninja turtle so that’s a no go. We’re down to three because i never want to hear fuck and turtle in the same sentence again.

Anyways! To the actual thing!

Originally just a cool story idea but when i bounced it off a buddy, they asked me when the freaky fish fucking was going to happen. Well, shape of water got Oscars so I don’t have to hide the fact that I’m a horrific scaley though we’re not going to go super super eggville. 

So picture an endless sea where the closest thing to land you’ll get is the arctic. It’s bountiful with endless forests of kelp, huge coral countries, leaving no crevice unfilled. Lives go on forever and if you get tired of that, you throw yourself to one of the Three Eyes of the Storm. 

If there happens to be too many people around to be comfortable, a storm brews around one of three huge sea monsters. You have the Leviathan, a huge serpent who’s movement through the ocean creates the currents. Then there’s the giant octopus guy (i will come up with better names later) who holds the reefs up with his huge arms. Last is the giant shark with teeth that can tear the sea in literal half. He just goes wherever and eats things. When things get too crowded, they choose which places and which people to cull.

Though they aren’t the only super giants, they hold “something” that makes them able to hold sway over the seas like gods. 

But deep below is the Abyssal Plane. The sunlight can’t reach this place and the inhabitants know death. They survive on marine snow (like leftover food that trickles down from the surface which also includes body parts), bones, and each other (meaning mostly that they eat each other but teamwork isn’t out of the question)! 

The closest thing they had to renewable food and resources were undersea vents that pumped out heat from magma flows beneath the bottom of the sea. Those would be quickly populated and quickly stopped working so the Abyssal Plane inhabitants evolved to become these crazy nightmare monsters that fed on each other. It wasn’t fun even though they’re awesome being translucent, multiple eyes, crazy huge teeth, and all that stuff.

It’s said that the merpeople of the Abyssal Plane are all descended from the first who were born from pearls made by giant clams that lived by the deep sea vents. One of these pearls fell into one of these vents but instead of melting, became tempered by the heat, taking in all of its energy before hatching and splitting the earth. The Merperson that came from this Pearl was the only one who could swim up to the surface, survive in the Sun, and stole from the Eyes of the Storm. They robbed the surface of its bounty in the process, introducing Death to them and taking the Bounty of the surface to the Abyssal Plane. Bringing prosperity and immortality to the bottom of the sea, their attributes were shared among their fellow merpeople who then went on to call them the Progenitor or the God of the Abyssal Plane. 

The Main Character is a direct descendant of the Progenitor, born when their species was on the brink of disappearing. They grew to their late teens in an empty dark city with only their parents and the spectre of the Progenitor hovering over the Abyssal Plane. They have a feeling that the disappearances have something to do with the Progenitor stealing from the surface. Plus, the Progenitor made it clear that they want to keep what they stole despite there being no one left in the Abyssal Plane. Though what they stole keeps the Progenitor immortal, over anything they just want to keep the surface suffering. The Main Character doesn’t feel that it’s right so they decide to take what was stolen back to the surface.

Once they succeed in their quest, the Protagonist knows that they will die. But it’s the right thing to do. 

So the protag is sort of a cross between an Angel Jelly, a Cone Jelly, and some other cute monster traits.

The MC is a real cutie and the sea creature friends they make at the surface had mistaken them for a cloud that had fallen out of the sky when they first met. Then once that misunderstanding’s cleared up, they’re mistaken for a human that had somehow managed to get stuck in the middle of the Ocean.

I have a thing for white hair so they have snow white hair and huge eyes that the fish friends mistake for gold discs. They’re petite in almost all ways. Tiny mouth, tiny nose, and they’re quite short but are wearing a billowing white dress or some other clothing, I dunno, that trails behind then as they swim.

All of this is a cover for what they really look like. See, they’re in disguise because they don’t want the Progenitor or anyone else to recognise that they’re actually a deepsea merperson.

Their mouth actually splits open super wide with tons of sharp teeth they could use to tear, bore, or just splinter bones like they prefer to do. They have a vestigial nose because their skin is extremely sensitive and can feel a shrimp twitch its leg from miles away. Said skin can also turn almost completely translucent like a lot of the things that live in the midnight zone.

As for the eyes, they’re real and can see very well in the dark but hurt a lot when they try to move around in the sunlight. That’s why they keep the rest of their 12 eyes closed. They got 6 eyes on each side of their face. The two topmost are the huge gold discs and the other ten are much smaller. All of them usually turn red in the dark but after one of the fish buddies tells them that unlike the creatures in the deep, most surface fish can see red from really far away, they try to make them blue like their photophores (like biolights/lines on the body that light up). Related to the photophores is the tastefully frilly white dress. It’s used to hide bulk of their body under the skirt.

During the Progenitors time stealing from the surface, there used to be an island sized jellyfish that drifted from place to place. It could trawl entire civilizations and was big enough to swallow whales but since it drifted, everyone could see it coming and avoid it but it was just a huge nuisance. It was only super dangerous when a whirlpool or storm flung it really fast. That was until the Progenitor killed it and stole its body.

Currently, the giant jelly’s body is furled up underneath the MC’s dress. It’s basically grafted to their skin so their poisonous blood, stinging cells, and photophores line the thing. Plus underneath all of that are their own super long tendrils (like in the pics but wow in that documentary, they’re SUPER long). There are only two of them sticking out of the bottom of their spine but they can stretch for miles and the MC can move them at will. At night, the photophores light up in a pretty blue colour that attracts other fish. They bite, get stung, get paralyzed, and then the MC apologizes because they didn’t mean to let it loose. The tendrils are supposed to be wound up tight around the treasures they’re going to return.

Otherwise, unlike other merpeople or humans even, the MC just has stubs. No tail or legs, just stubs. The dress is also hiding the fact that they got no tail. They use the finials on the Jelly’s body or their tendrils to move. With it all furled up, they have to flap their arms to get around.

Ok but as for a name to refer to them to make this easier for later, I’m going with Lariat.

[imagines-joesugg]

Joe Sugg Imagine || Photograph ||

Anonymous said:

Yow! I love your writings so much 💖 I was wondering maybe you could do one with either Joe or Caspar (whoever you want!) where you two are really close friends and you go to VidCon together like on the plane or something and you two did something really cute and fluffy and some viewers took pics and after that rumors spread that you're dating and your social media sites went crazy. Sorry if it's too specific. Depends on you if you'd do it or not! Cheers, thanks love 💕

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“I hate flying so much.” You nervously played with your seatbelt in attempts not to bite your nails. It wasn't that you hadn't flown much before, because you had for VidCon, PlayList and of course random holidays, you just got incredibly nervous flying over the large Atlantic Ocean... But then again, you had the bad habit of watching plane crash documentaries on YouTube. So in reality you brought it on yourself.

“Oh calm down you nervous butt!” Joe said seeing you being twitchy as the plane continued to load passengers. “I'm calm!” You said sharply, looking at him, watching him shove his bag into the overhead bin. “Uh huh and I'm the King of England.” He rolled his eyes, his tone dripping of sarcasm. “Your Highness.” You said in a swift and equally sarcasm tone, giving him a little bow from your seat.

“Jerk.” Joe sat down beside you, clicking his belt together. “Made you stop thinking about flying for a minute though, didn't I?” He raised an eyebrow and grinned.

“I might have...” You nodded, “you're welcome.” Joe winked at you.

Having been the best of friends for years, you were glad of all people to be sitting next to you on this flight, that it was Joe.

“VidCon!!” Caspar said walking down the aisle of the plane and several other YouTubers in the cabin cheered. You couldn't help but roll your eyes, trying not to laugh at this foolishness. “Look at him, he's growing up so quick.” Joe remarked, “I know, one minute you're adopting them from South Africa... Next time you blink ... They're all grown.” You sniffed, pretending to wipe a tear away.

Joe shaking his head, was laughing.

The plane finished loading, and you took off, watching as the ground got farther and farther away, you turned your attention to the monitor on the back of the seat in front of you.

“Good old stop over in Atlanta.” Joe said as he put his headphones on, putting down his tray table and dragging out his MacBook, opening it up. “I love Atlanta.” You admitted, your iPad resting on your lap, as you listened to a  SourceFed Podcast...

The flight was a good few hours in, you left early in the morning from Heathrow and the sky was still dark, you were okay for the longest time but then you started feeling your nervousness creeping back up on you, you looked to Joe who was in a half daze, falling asleep.

You tried to look away before he noticed you were staring at him, but he noticed. “You okay?” He asked, you just shook your head a little bit, “come on... You're okay.” He assured, sitting up in his seat, he wrapped his arms around you and pulled you close into him, rubbing his hand up and down your arm slowly. “Just sleep... Sleep, like I am and the next time you know we'll be preparing for landing in America.” He kissed the top of your head.

“I don't think I'm gonna fall asleep.” You said leaning your head against him, closing your eyes none the less. “I wont let anything happen to you, you're alright.” He promised, still rubbing your arm gently, you held your eyes closed, zoning out that you were on a very large flying piece of metal over the ocean.

Eventually you did drift off into a sleep... As did Joe, still holding you, he rested his head atop yours and drifted off to sleep.

Caspar peaking over the seats, noticed the two of you snuggled up to each other, holding up his phone he snapped a few pictures, feeling the need to have some fun on the long flight, he turned back around in his seat.

Opening Twitter, he attached the picture and wrote '#CoupleGoals' before sending it off into the world wide web.

“So glad I paid for the WiFi.” He grinned to himself.

Within minutes of him posting that photograph, viewers went wild, retweeting and at replying Caspar, tweeting both you and Joe about it.

There had always been massive speculations Joe and you were secretly dating and keeping it hidden from everyone, so Caspar decided to add some fuel to the fire...

Standing at your gate for your next plane in Atlanta you connected to the WiFi and watched your Twitter notifications go insane. “Whoa.” You were surprised, they usually weren't that bad.

“I know.” Joe said confused, noticing the same thing about his own profile.

“Oh my god.” You seen all these people freaking out about Joe and you being together, that you guys were finally coming out as a couple, people squealing in excitement via written text.

“What did I miss?” You asked seriously, looking at Joe who looked equally confused.

“Hi love birds.” Caspar joined them, giving a little wave, holding back a smirk.

“Caspar!” You exclaimed, “what did you do?!” You asked quickly.

“Nothing, just maybe... Posted a picture or two of you guys cuddling on the plane.” He said innocently.

“Caspar!” Joe exclaimed now, “are you insane? (Y/N) and I aren't dating!” He ran his fingers quickly through his hair.

“Hashtag couple goals?!” You snapped at Caspar.

“Well....” Caspar said still pulling the innocent tone, but the look on his face was evil.

“I mean, at least now you'll have something to talk about in your panel, right?” He pointed out, “see I made you interesting. You're welcome!” He clapped.

“I'm going to kill you.” You said quickly, taking off your backpack...

[papersandkeyboards]

4/11-17: The Spring Break Series; Part 4: Dam It! (maafkan kerecehan saya)

THURSDAY, APR 14, 2016.

We said goodbye to the city of Las Vegas by having breakfast in the outskirt of town (while almost accidentally eating pork LOL), then taking a mandatory family picture in front of the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign.

And it was the weirdest of coincidence that we were in line before this big family, and they turned out to be Indonesian.

However, it seems to be a bit ethically weird to come up to them and announce that I happen to come from the same country, and I understand all the trash-talking they did, which is what just about everyone would do if they’re in a country where no one speaks their mother tongue, isn’t it?

(the right answer is yes. you probably have no idea how fun it is to curse at people—although under your breath—or gossip about other people more openly in a language they don’t understand.) (p.s: happened with me and Raya once) (p.p.s: happened with me and Livia too)

(but it’s not quite the right thing to do and i advise you not to drown in such behavior :-) keeping it PG-rated)

Anyway, I was gonna ask them to take a picture of me and Karen and Eric, but I didn’t realize there was an officiated person to take pictures of happy tourists by the welcome sign, so I didn’t talk to them and my nationality remained hidden.

Then we left the godforsaken Sin City for another tourist attraction in the desert: Hoover Dam.

I’m not the best at US Geography. I’ve heard of Hoover Dam, and they said it was indeed famous, but that was about as far as I knew about the dam. The rest I wasn’t interested to know about since, well, a dam simply didn’t interest me.

Well, that was me before spring break. I trusted the Americans (read: Eric and Karen) when they say they were gonna take me there. Another educational tour wouldn’t do anyone harm.

Hoover Dam was located in Colorado River, on the border between Nevada and Arizona. Supposedly this dam was the biggest in the world at the time it was completed (1935), it took a lot of money and resources and lives, but at the end it served a lot more people around much bigger area for a greater good. It is no secret that the surrounding desert states like California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico suffer water shortage more than other states, because of their geographical position, with the desert and all. Plus, most of these states are land-locked, so they don’t have water from the ocean to help them with the drought (not that it helps much, since it’s undrinkable sea water). The Hoover Dam was their beacon of hope or some sort.

We took the tour that took us down underground to where the engines and thick walls were. Before that, we also watched a short documentary about the dam itself. The tour explained about the mechanism of the water way and stuff, among other things.

It’s probably not the best idea to take the underground tour if you’re extremely claustrophobic.

The walls underground were rocky and, at some places, slimy and wet, and the halls were dimly lit. Not that it meant the underground was underfacilitated, in fact, I kinda like the vibe of it, like a cave... that was deocrated with cables and railings and high-tech engines and elevators.

The overall view from outside looked pretty... monochromatic, I suppose, since the whole scenery was dominated with beige rock, haha. I noticed the rocks alongside the lake had some sort of tan line or something. As if the color line marks the height of the water when the lake was full, but now it wasn’t as full as usual, I guess.

Another cool thing about Hoover Dam was that the dam stood right on the border of Nevada and Arizona. The thing about Arizona is that it is the only state that doesn’t go along with the Daylight Savings Time policy. So, when spring comes, AZ doesn’t set its clock an hour forward like other states do. When it happens, what you get is two different states—Nevada and Arizona—with the same time zone but different number display on their clocks. Imagine standing on top of Hoover Dam in, say, January. Nevada is in Pacific Time Zone, and Arizona is in Mountain Time Zone, which is an hour ahead of Pacific Time Zone. So if you are in the Nevada side of the Hoover Dam and it says 1.30pm, you walk across the bridge and you shall touch the Arizona side of the dam, and where you stand will be 2.30pm. Talk about some serious time travel.

However, in April, Nevada is in Daylight Savings Time, meanwhile Arizona isn’t. So, despite Nevada and Arizona being in two different time zones, clocks from both towers at either end of the bridge will say 1.30pm, like in this picture:

(I took the pics 5 minutes apart btw)

Time really is relative, isn’t it? Huh.

The architectural style of the dam is called Art Deco, which was popular in around the 1930s, which makes the designs all over the dam look like patterns out of The Great Gatsby movie.

There was this piece of art in the Nevada side of the dam, that, from afar, looked like black stone block with two statues sitting on either end of the block. And a tall black flagpole in the middle. This whole piece of art was designed by a Norwegian-born sculptor, Oskar J. W. Hansen.

The two angel statues that looked real fit in their sitting yoga poses were called the Winged Figures of the Republic. The statues were made of bronze, and tourists rub their toes for good luck. Being a totally non-superstitious, completely faith-in-God kind of person, I am also a tacky tourist, so I did rub one of the angels’ toes.

Plus, I didn’t know this at the time, but according to author Rick Riordan, the statues were made by the goddess of wisdom Athena and were given to the king of the gods Zeus as a gift. So I don’t see why these things don’t bring good luck.

(these two guys gotta be the only thing, living or dead, on the face of the Earth with the shiniest toes)

Aside from that, the entire area floor was engraved with a big star chart. In the center of the floor are the important stars and features of the Polar region of the sky as they would appeared at 8:56pm 2.25 secs local apparent time on September 30, 1935 when the structure was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [source]

From there, we could see a long and high arch bridge across the Colorado River, right in front of the dam. The bridge was officially named Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. We parked somewhere before the bridge at the Nevada end, then we hiked up the steps and ramps leading up to the bridge while being fed information about the bridge and bridge architecture in general.

The view from the bridge pedestrian sidewalk was breathtaking, but maybe not really if you’re afraid of heights, because I’m not gonna lie, it was obvious that it was some serious height from where I stood to the water below.

We crossed the Nevada—Arizona border and drove to a city called Flagstaff, where we would spend the night. Now, Flagstaff was a place high enough from sea level already, so it was a little chilly. And by a little chilly, I mean the whole town was snowed heavily right after we got dinner at this Thai place.

Snow in April, what do you know? The last time I saw snow this much was high in the mountains back in the state of Washington, and I had to endure around 2 hours of travel with a lot of preparation beforehand. This time, I got out of the restaurant and falling snow slapped my face, and I found our car was thickly coated with the light white cold thing.

As a person from the tropics, a slight sight of snow got me excited, as usual.

But it wasn’t such a big city anyway, so there wasn’t a lot we could do (not a lot of time and space for moi to play snow :c ). Plus, we had to get some rest for upcoming big pit stop of the spring break road trip—no other than the grand Grand Canyon.

Ciao for now.

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-continues