#i like ponds ok

[expelliarmus]

[greencarnation]

eleven is fascinating to me because he came right off the back of tens horrible traumatic breakdown after he lost everything and he immediately tried to establish himself as the opposite of that. he is funny and goofy and almost childlike, and he bulldozes on in his adventures with amy like nothing happened at all. but then something happens and his masks slips and it's like oh! the core of this man is still anger. he is so so angry all of the time and this façade is the only thing stopping him from being consumed by it. he isn't over any of it and he hasn't moved on. he is wearing a fez and laughing but under that all that exists is age old anger and grief and it is going to consume him

[spacespore]

Unfished drawings from December or maybe January? I forgot about them lol…. I might finish the one with Amy and 11 though :)

[ivys-garden]

Cockatrice

By feeding a golden goose egg to a Toad and then breeding it, a cocktrice is produced. This mob can be Tamed by the player, it has less health than a horse but can glide short distances and takes no fall damage.

The cockatrice will attack mobs and players the rider attacks while the player rides it, being attacked by the cockatrice inflicts the victim with Anchoring, a new status effect that limits jump height and speed.

If the cockatrice is attacked by the player it will fight back

Kelpies

Kelpies Spawn along river banks

Kelpies will attack any player they see, inflicting them with a status effect called suffocation, which causes them to drown on land, forcing them to say in the water as they do not drown normally while under this effect, while on the water the kelpie is faster and has more hearts

If a player can saddle a kelpie without being seen by it, the kelpie will be Tamed

Kelpies can be used to ride across the surface of water, doing so is faster than a boat, but kelpies can hold no items and can only carry one person

Kelpies are as fast as Horse on land, but get a speed increase over water

Dragonflies

Dragonflies have an exaggerated size and come in the colours blue, green and purple.

Dragonflies drop Dragonfly Carapace when killed:

Dragon fly carapace can be used to graph the elytra to a chestplate, giving both the advantage of flight and and protection

(It can also graph the Unicorn horn onto a helmet)

Loch Lurkers

Loch Lurkers are the rarest mob, spawning in lakes very rarely.

Loch Lurkers act like underwater horses, are able to carry two people and hold inventory space like a Donkey or Mule.

Loch Lurkers cannot survive on land and must remain submerged at all times

Loch Lurkers come in the colours Black, Green, Blue, Grey and Lime

Loch Lurkers look like directions of the Loch Ness Monster

New achievements:

Modern Prometheus - Create a cockatrice

Pure Of Heart - tame a Unicorn

Black Of Heart - tame a kelpie

Duck Season! - kill a duck with a Duck-Fletch Arrow

Rabbit Season! - kill a rabbit with a Duck-Fletch Arrow

An Utter Embarrassment - get eaten by a toad

Cobra-Chicken - die to a goose

Peace Was Never An Option - best a goose in combat

Emergency Frog Situation - Get a frog light of every colour

Cryptozoologist - tame a Loch Lurker

All That Glitters - steal a golden egg

Gone Fishin’ - collect every carp colouration in a bucket

The Art Of De-Escalation - Calm a mob with panpies

Pied Piper - Lead a mob to its death with pan pipes

Wee Bit Loud - play the bagpipes in the deep dark

Looking Stylish - Graph a Unicorn horn to your helmet

Paragon Hero - kill the cockatrice

Dark Bond - Fight alongside a cockatrice

Light Bond - purify water with unicorns grace

This Horse Has Boat - ride a kelpie across water

This Boat Has Fins - ride a Loch lurker

This Horse Has Wings - ride a cocktrice

Wet Tourist Destinations - go to all "wet" biomes (Pond, Lake, River, Swamp, Mangrove Forrest, Oasis, Cold Ocean, Iceberg Biome, Frozen Pond, Warm Ocean, Beech, Coral Reef, Deep Ocean)

Driven Insane - fish up a mending book

….

I think I went a bit overboard

More Minecraft ideas, what part of Minecraft needs improvement?

You're wrong, it's ponds.

Ponds, lakes, lava pools. They all suck in Minecraft, they end up just being big holes in the ground with nothing interesting about them that make the landscape ugly and hole ridden

Now you might say “Ivy, literally no one cares” and to that I say, wheesht and accept my ramblings ya donut

So, how do we fix Ponds? It's simply really: make ponds generated structures.

Ponds would now be generated structures taking up one chunk, with an actual human made design to make them, you know, look good. There would be, say, 100 or so different designs to stop them looking to samey (they'd be so small that something like that would be feasible)

Lakes would be done similarly, only with the key difference, they would be made up of 4 chunk “cells”, each making up a corner of the lake.

ponds and lakes in plains or forest biomes would be made of blocks like mud and dirt.

Ponds and lakes in deserts (or oases if you want) would be made up of grass and sand

Ponds and lakes in tundras would be frozen over on the top layer of the water and with clay spawning around the water

Now, let's see some things that can be found in ponds and lakes:

Frogs

Nothing new here, frogs and frogspawn are most common ponds, pond frogs also only come in the green frog varietie.

Perhaps the oasis can have a desert rain frog variant that gives a purple frog light

Toads

Toads and toad spawn can be found in lakes and ponds in forest and plains biomes. Toads emerge from toad spawn in the same way frogs do. Toads have an exaggerated size, being double the size of the frog

Toads come in several colours (Green, Brown, Yellow, Orange and Lime) but these colours do not harbour any game mechanics (in other words: sorry but there are no toadlights)

Toads will eat all mobs with wings, that being the Parrot, Chicken, Phantom, Bat, Bee and the player if they are wearing an elytra, so watch out.

All the aforementioned mobs are scared of Toads, making them and effective deterrent to phantoms in particular

Cattails, Reeds, Rice, Algae and Papyrus

I'll just do all the plant life stuff at once (these will generate dependent on the pond or lake cell)

Algae is a new decorative blocks that can be placed on water

It will connect to other blocks, creating an unbroken surface across the water

Algae has a bright green hue and can be found in both ponds and lakes with the same frequency

Papyrus is a new plant that spawns naturally in the oasis, it is used as a more efficient way of making paper as it can be bonemealed and only one papyrus is needed to make paper

Rice is a plant that grows in water in lakes and ponds spawning in cherry groves.

Rice can be used in two recipes:

Rice Bowls:Putting rice, a bowl and any meat together will craft a rice bowl

This food source that can be eaten twice, eating the meat and then the rice

Sushi: putting rice, dried kelp and one fish into a crafting table creates Sushi, a foodsoarch that can be eaten instantly without playing the eating animation, not very nutritious but good in a pinch

Cattails are a purely decorative plant found in ponds and swamps

Reeds are more common around rivers and lakes, being a fern like plant that grows two tall.

Reeds can be used to craft a new item: Pan Pipes

Combining 3 reeds and 3 string will create pan pipes, these can be played to draw passive mobs towards you so long as the button to play them is held down.

Pan Pipes can also calm neutral mobs like wolves, iron golems and bees, but doing this instantly focus the Pan pipes into cool down

Pan pipes have a cool down double that of the Goat Horn

Bagpipes

By putting Pan Pipes, 3 iron nuggets, 3 red wool and 3 green wool together you can make Bagpipes.

Bagpipes have durability on top of having the same level of cool down as Pan Pipes. Bagpipes cannot be enchanted.

Bagpipes have the ability to PERMANENTLY pacify all hostile mobs in the chunk the player is in.

Bagpipes will break after 10 or so uses

Willow and Palm

Willow and palm are new wood types, Willow spawns around lakes and ponds and Palm spawns around oases.

Willow has a dark Bluish-green colour, complementing mangrove, where as Palm is a desaturated pale white

(These will generate depending on the pond or lake cell)

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[soapywankenopy]

I really do hate when people ship the doctor with his/their companions

Ik the literal writers do it all the time so it's baked in

Doesn't mean I hate it any less

Especially when it's 12 and Clara

It's so icky I hate it

Honestly my only major exception is 12 and River, I feel like there was still a major power imbalance and the Doctor's relationship with River was super messed up anyway but 12 and River were actually really cute and had good chemistry.

Sorry for the mini rant but you should expect this of me by now

[johnnycrass]

obsessed with my argentina jersey 😎 going to collect ornaments and make garlands for the tree today <3

[drawfee-quot3s]

around the age of like... thirty, i became a big baby because i learned what mortality was

at thirTy you learnt what mortality was??????

- julia + jacob

[anodymalion]

all of the GLaDOS final battle voice lines are so so so good but this one is my very favorite

[notasapleasure]

I guess some days you're just fated to stand in a field for two hours watching a tractor sink into the mud. Never thought it would be my field, mind.

[corvid-canidae-art]

Hey guys how do we feel about a mermaid malevolent AU 👀 I am cooking up a fanfic with a friend and once I edit the first chapter I’ll post it on here :]

[ottisbuns]

haiii octaviaa ^_^ i am here to bring you an another old botanical garden photo of mine that i found except it's Fishe that i named david in my head. everybody say hi to david !!

OH MY GOD MINE HAS THIS KIND OF FISH TOO THAT’S SO COOL ACTUALLY. HI DAVID!!!!!

[victimized-martyr]

Hey, have you played Snow Day, or are you going to? What do you think about it?

in short: 5/10 game. 6/10 if you’re with friends— and honestly, it’s a game MEANT to be played with friends, solo brings out the tedious, repetitive experience that’s Snow Day.

it’s an okay game, some concepts are nice but for the most part there’s not much to write home abt if you’re not a fan of south park. And even then…. I hesitate to recommend the game to sp fans. I’d advise to wait until it goes on sale (at an already cheap 30$).

The story takes place within a day so it’s short, to the point, and wraps up the way an episode would. Characters I didn’t expect to come back surprised me, but the story around them and the mechanics tied to them muddied the story for me halfway through (if you play it, you’ll know what i mean haha). I’m noticing a pattern in sp games and kinda hope they stop at snow day. The town of South Park is Turned By A Substance, the boys have to stop it. Last minute betrayal. This is the third game now…. I hope the next game they realize this and do something different…..

I’m not a fan of the art direction for the game, I don’t know if the smooth gummy-like textures work for south park. Some models don’t appear polished (some women models feel off. there’s a curve in the shoulders to rib area that don’t feel right to the proportions of the show, esp compared to the male models who don’t have that issue) there’s a lot of clipping either through clothes or in the models themselves 😬 I hope those get patched. for certain animation, bones are broken (crawling/ low health animation always ticks me off bc of it) and it stretches the skin mesh thin…. stuff that shouldn’t be happening in a launched game 🥲 But sometimes the models n anim look rly cute.

[clueless1995]

ok so i just woke up and i have to tell you all about the dream i had before i forget it because the vibes were So Strange i know people love to be like “nobody cares about other people’s dreams” but personally i think this was FUNNY. in hindsight. in the dream i was kind of annoyed

anyway i was like. the fairy queen or something and it was this big fairy party (not like a royal ball more like a house party but the house is Fancy with plants and glitter and satin everywhere. and fountains of wine and whatnot) and i’m sat on my party throne (one of those big martini glass bathtubs with a round mattress in it) (i’m filling in the gaps okay let me have my fun but it was like a big round bed but Tall so i could enjoy watching people dance. the martini tub would be on brand though i just don’t know what the underneath looked like because i never got off it. i’ll get to Why

and i’m lounging i’m gossiping with the girls drinking fairy wine and honestly. i’ll say it. serving absolute Cunt. when one of my loyal subjects sadly flies over and he lands next to me and i (Awake Ana) Recognise him. it’s timmy chalamet (who is apparently a fairy. also i don’t know how to spell his full first name so i will be calling him timmy throughout i’m sorry i’m usually a big proponent of getting people’s names right but i just woke up and i know i’ll forget the dream in like five minutes).

and Fairy Queen me obviously knows him and is like oh poor timmy what’s happened. and he’s absolutely out of his tree on fairy wine but he’s a Sad drunk and he starts crying about how not enough people think he’s hot anymore and how everyone used to want him and now he’s willy wonka and nobody wants him what’s WRONG with him what HAPPENED he used to have it ALL. all explained through sobbing.

and so as a kind fairy queen i say oh poor timmy it’s okay i’m sure someone somewhere still thinks you’re hot. and i let him put his head on my lap and continue to cry while i make eye contact with my fairy girlies and roll my eyes while taking a bitchy sip of my wine. and you would think that’s like a solid narrative end that’s where i would wake up right? no.

the dream continues but all i can do is halfheartedly pat timmy’s head and every now and then i try to gently hint that i would like him to go somewhere else now because he’s really bringing down the vibe like they’re playing bangers and i can’t even get up and dance with the girlies buffy-and-faith style because i have this sad little guy crying on me.

it felt like it went on forever and i was like. ugh this isnt even worth crying about let alone for a whole party but i knew he was fragile because my friend warned me that one of his stan accounts quit after they changed their hair conditioner and realised the old one was sinking into their brain and making them attracted to mr chalamet (i’m assuming because i was looking at a compilations of stan accounts coming to reason after finding black mould in their room or getting on mood stabilisers before i went to bed). and so i couldn’t bring myself to just push him off me or get the fairy bouncers (??) to kick him out so the rest of my dream was like. well i guess i’m stuck here with this guy crying all over my spider silk dress while everyone else dances to lush life by zara larsson

[bibleofficial]

after i picked up the weed i was walking back home & found a 5gal aquarium that someone was just ?? throwing away ????? so now it’s mine & i need to figure out what to do w it

[asclexe]

after school cereal and doctor who time yahoo

[peach-jam-on-toast]

Ok tangentially related to Neverafter, I saw this post last night at 3/4 in the morning and the idea gripped me like a madness so I have to explain the final product of my thought process from last night to you

Gerard and Gilear are equals, but in different categories; Gilear is pathetic, and Gerard is cringe and there's a difference, lemme explain sksjskd

Gilear's life has just been a normal level and type of sad for most of Fantasy High. He found out his wife cheated on him, they got divorced, he moved out, got fired, was really down on his luck, etc. That's a real thing that real people in the real world experience all the time. So while it is really sad to look at, that very pity for his lack of agency in his life that just keeps getting worse is what makes him pathetic instead of cringe.

Gerard, however, looked down the barrel of the worst choice he could possibly make in any given situation, went "yup, that's good!" and then got a one way ticket to Rock Bottom shoved up his ass because of HIS OWN CHOISES he CHOSE to make. Yes everything is bad because of the Neverafter and yes Murph rolled poorly, but there were a hundred other ways to try and get Elody to see where he was coming from. Murph chose to do that, you can see the same cackling horror of watching a train about to crash on his face that Lou had during Fabian's bad day.

(memes stop)

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(character essay starts)

His agency in doing the exact wrong thing is what makes him so cringe that it circles back around to endearing, and I think him being cringe is part of what makes him such a compelling character.

Gilear's life is funny as a bit because he keeps experiencing Looney Tunes levels of misfortune but Gerard's life is interesting because he keeps making these huge, UNWATCHABLE mistakes but every time he does he genuinely learns from it in some way. This isn't someone coming to terms with the fact that everything X person said about why they're bad is true, this is a dude learning to grow up in that slow and painful way adults do. It's messy, and it's bad, and it's frustrating, but it's organic, and fulfilling, and honest, and that's why it's so special to me.