#if I were crocheting this lot I would have made a snail that was SO effervescent

[m0ose-idiot]

The US version of Ghosts is generally (mumble mumble mumble) but credit where credit is due, introducing a ghost snail and calling it "escarghost" was a good call 🐌👻🤍🐌

[bathtub4rats]

Tagged by the fantastic @finniestoncrane

1) Are you named after anyone?

Yea, my mom worked at a post office and while she was sorting mail she saw my name on a package and said yea I’ll name my kid that.

2) When was the last time you cried?

Last week cause I got nervous about talking to someone

3) Do you have kids?

Does my numerous stuffed animals count?

4) Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Yea but I try not to use it too much online bc I’m terrified of people misinterpreting me and think I’m being mean

5) What’s the first thing you notice about people?

Their walk, then their clothes (the color so I can identify them without my glasses), then their speech patterns

6) What’s your eye color?

Grey maybe??? I’m not sure what’s going on in that eyeball of mine

7) Scary movie or happy ending?

A good ending, whatever that may be. I want to feel satisfied that all the loose ends of the story were tied up in a nice bow

8) Any special talents?

Idk drawing? All I do is draw. Cooking? Im a good cook when I have the energy for it

9) Where were you born?

[REDACTED]

10) What are your hobbies?

Getting into new crafts to make mediocre results then never picking up that craft again. Example: the shirt I sewed for my Crane outfit, and the clay riddler figures I made, and the sweater I crocheted, and the-

11) Do you have any pets?

No 😔

12) What sports do you/have you played?

I played tennis for the longest time. Really fucked up my knee. It’s a fun sport to play but so boring to watch

13) How tall are you?

5’6” I think

14) Favorite subject in school?

Chemistry, or any science class I love science any science there’s so much to learn and if I had a psychology class I Would Eat That UP, and oh marine biology my beloved little creatures in the sand at the ocean floor I loveee you sea stars and those big ass predatory snails that eat literally any living thing in its path

15) Dream job?

I wish to study things, anything. I want to look and observe without consequence. And no phone calls or video calls.

Uhh idk who to tag so if you’re a mutual just assume I’ve tagged you here

@ [your username here]

[seb-reads31]

Why hello Seb!

Why not try out some headcanons about Aster finding love again after escaping? It'll probably take him a while, but I'd love to see him happy again :D

(PS: I suggest linking the actual videos that these characters come from, hehe!)

😰Aster, your darling😰

Type - Fluff, Angst

Tw's - Spoilers, hair pulling as punishment, nightmares, someone being unalived, stalking(?), mention(s) of obsession, mention of kidnapping, someone breaking into a house

Comments - You right- I've probably already fixed it by the time this is posted, if not let me know so I can actually fix it- But absolutely adorable suggestion!! I already have thoughts flowing through my noodle

Aster finding love again:

😰 100% goes to therapy afterwards

😰 How you two met is tricky

😰 I would like to say that you two met at school, but that is tricky, cause of the yandere that took him

😰 But we're gonna skip that and leave things to the imagination

😰 He would more than likely make sure he's okay mentally and be careful of who he hangs out with

😰 You would have to be super gentle with showing your affection, and be patient with him, and go slower than a snail

😰 He did go through a lot, but I think small gestures like remembering his order down to the T in places you both frequent

😰 I like to think he's really good at like sewing or crochet

😰 So if you wanted to learn how to sew stuff or how to crochet, and you wanted to learn from him, then he'd be so touched

😰 ESPECIALLY, if you made something from the things you learned from him

😰 He would treasure it forever

😰 He doesn't really care for material things, and likes hand made gifts, so using his skills, he makes something for you in return

😰 If both of you continuously do this, then I feel like he'll become more comfortable around you, not too much, just a little

😰 He does need reassurance though

😰 So you need to make sure you can give him the reassurance he needs, without touching him

😰 Does not like being touched whatsoever at the beginning of your friendship, so you knew before the relationship, if you become friends after the incident, and would be a little more comfortable around you if you were friends before it, but still kinda antsy about it

😰 You have to let him initiate stuff though

😰 If you two were good friends before the incident, then he would initiate holding hands with you around the... 6 - 8 month mark perhaps

😰 But if you become friends after the incident, then he would initiate it on the 1 year mark, or the 1 year and 3 months mark

😰 He needs time to realize that you genuinely love him, and don't have this weird obsession over him like that person

😰 Whether you were good friends before the incident, or met after it, he would be incredibly hesitant about opening up to you what exactly he went through

😰 He's more than likely going to therapy while you're going out, and you might go with him as moral support, but never in the room with him and his therapist

😰 He does eventually open up about it a little, but not much

😰 He definitely gets nightmares about it, and reliving through it again through those are enough

😰 The first time you actually hug him would probably be after a sleepover at his place at the 2 1/2 year mark, or 3 year mark, when he's been a tad bit more open to physical affection, but nothing more than hand holding and standing/sitting closer to each other

😰 The reason you two hug is cause he's having a nightmare about the incident, and you're not quite sure what to do

😰 You're both sleeping in a living room, either at his place or your place, he would prefer his place though, and you're on your own little pallets

😰 Once he wakes up, either by himself or you waking him up, he either A. Latches onto you and you go from there, or B. You kinda panic but try to be his rock and calm him down without you touching him cause he screams don't touch me when he wakes up, but you do offer for him to hug you, if he wants it

😰If he does take you up on your offer, then he nuzzles into your neck or chest

😰 Don't touch his hair though, he doesn't like that WHATSOEVER cause whoever took him would pull his hair if he was "misbehaving" to punish him

😰 He opens up a bit about what the nightmare is, but in quick and unsteady mumbles cause he was just full blown panicking, but he reveals that the nightmare was about the person escaping wherever they were sent to to keep them contained

😰 Or if they escaped then they hunted him down

😰 Once they found him though, they stalked him and figured out you two were dating

😰 The second they found out they wanted you dead

😰 So they broke in while you two were watching a movie, and they ended up hurting you to the point that you needed to be hospitalized and on the verge of dying

😰 Or they ended up actually unaliving you and taking him back to wherever they please

😰 It scared him half to death, and it scared you due to the shiver inducing yell he gave out

😰 Once he calms down though, he asks if you two can sleep in the same bed, no touching still, but in the same bed so he knows you're there and safe

😰 In the morning after, he probably woke up a lot later than you cause he was so mentally exhausted after the nightmare

😰 I feel like he likes pancakes, or the classic breakfast of eggs, bacon, hash browns, and a nice glass of orange juice

😰 So if you made him his favorite breakfast in bed, he will hug you (again if he accepted your offer), and squeeze the day lights out of you

😰 He'd probably be crying but with good tears

😰 Your first kiss would be 4 - 5 years in

😰 By then, he's opened up to you quite a bit

😰 He's been feeling much better mentally, he's still struggling with nightmares but they've gotten better

😰 Several times a year, but he's not waking up yelling and kicking

😰 Mostly just waking up in a cold sweat, making sure all his doors and windows are locked, and he calls you to make sure you're okay and everything is locked over at your place

😰 Such a worry wart but he has good intentions

😰 He might ask if he can come over or if you can come over if the nightmare was bad enough

😰 If he does, depending on how you've been together, you might cuddle during the night

Notes - This ended up being super long but I'm happy about it- hopefully you enjoy this Nyan-

[my-messy-melody]

Here were the top ten songs I enjoyed that I discovered this year! In no order

• Dorothy- Her’s. This song makes me want to dance and swim in a creek, but it also makes me want to sit in my car at night and cry. Knowing someone so intimately that you want to run away with them, but feeling so lonely in that relationship at the same time.

• c. et al.- Snail Mail. I listened to this song.. God, maybe every other day during winter. There was something so miserable and quiet about that time. The repetition of life. Of snow. Of waking up and hating who I was, knowing there were months until the sun would come back. Waking up without why or how. Most days, just wanting to lie down.

• Harvey- Alex G. Honestly, I love so much Alex G music that I couldnt possibly list all of them. I especially liked the House of Sugar album and Rocket. They inspired me so much with my book. Harvey makes me want to dance, and I love the line “run my hands through his short black hair, I love you Harvey I don’t care” Whenever I’d hear a new Alex G song, I’d get depressed for like a week before I recovered. There are so many layers to his songs and every time I hear them, I find something new that either breaks my heart or makes me cry with joy.

• the entire Folklore album by T Swift. I especially liked the songs Exile and Cardigan. The album also inspired me a lot when writing. Her lyricism really steps up with this album. So sad, but so beautiful. This album gives me winter vibes, but for me, since I listened to it in summer, it felt like looking out the window and realizing the blue May flowers have started to die, but the creek water is still icy. Morning drives through the canyon.

• Futile Devices- Sufjan Stevens (and a lot of others by him). Sufjan Stevens was something I listened to mostly at the beginning of the summer, and it was perfect for that time in my life. I remember listening to his music while crocheting on the mountainside, and the entire field was covered in sunflowers. It was whimsical but melancholic.

• Let Down- Radiohead. It feels so longing and futile, like a bug with its wings torn off and desperate to fly again. I found this song when I was on a walk near the middle of the summer, at the peak of the heat and storms. I’ve loved it ever since, and it’s my favorite Radiohead song.

• Jolene- Dolly Parton. This song was a banger. Like a bunch of the other songs, I listened to it in the summer. It kind of made me feel like I was back in Alabama again, and it felt good to listen to some classic country. It made me feel like a main character. The song sounds almost like an incantation, or a main character training song, as weird as the comparison is. Dolly Parton is a queen.

• Picture Me Better- Weyes Blood. I found this song during the summer, but I really started listening to it once sophomore fall semester started. It reminds me of bright, hot September days and walking to class. I love the lyrics “waiting for the call from beyond, waiting for something with meaning to come through”. That’s kind of what I was doing at that point. Waiting for something more. More experiences, more friends, more love, more adventure

• Bust- Lomelda. I’ve like lomelda since my senior year of highschool, but I only recently discovered how many good songs she has. This song is incredible. It has such a disorienting rhythm. “I thought of so many things to say to you— but what were they? What were they to you?” Ugh. So good. This song makes me feel like I’m running through a field of flowers— but running after someone who’s leaving me slowly. Like they’re moving at a walking pace, but no matter how fast I run and how much ground I cover, I can never catch them.

• Dreamcore- Pathetic. This song both samples and reminds me of Neon Genesis, which I love, so I obviously love that song too. It makes me feel like I’m in some depressing sci-fi world, where it’s raining and blue and grey and black. And like I’m screaming. It makes me vibe while I’m walking to and from campus in the winter.

[bubblesandpages]

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for the crafting ask meme!

🌈 Do you have certain colours you gravitate towards when creating?

DO I? Probably this blue and pink. If you could take on colors as an identity these would be mine. Also tumblr stop killing the quality of my photos!

I use a lot of whites and creams as a base and tend to blow through those at a significantly faster rate than my other colors. Lots of pastels, which leave my darker jewel tones by the wayside 😞 *whispers* jewel tones I still love yoooou

🐻 What is the cutest thing you have ever created?

That's hard to say. I really love this ice cream snail from furlscrochet. The fact I've held on to him this long speaks volumes since I give most of what I make away.

Also love the things I added to the pattern, like the pink icing, and pistachio scoop in the middle. I feel like the colors worked out really well with him (his name's Scoops by the way, he has a sister called Cereal, on account of her looking like a bowl of Lucky Charms, who now lives with a second cousin).

I also think this turtle girl pattern from ludaorlova_toys is super cute! Definitely one pf my mum's favorites, I don't seem to have any photos of my version so you get one of the originals instead!

🍓 Do you have a dream project? What would you craft if you had infinite time and money?

I originally started crocheting in the first half of 2018 when we'd just made the move to Macedonia. I was really bored, we were in a tiny town of sixteen thousand people at best, I'd read everything I'd managed to bring with me, and we didn't have all that much wifi. My mum had been crocheting for the last couple of years, and scrolling her pinterest feed I'd see so many cute things that I thought were adorable, that she wasn't too gung ho about making (her speciality is blankets).

So out of sheer boredom, and a great deal of angry stubbornness at my current situation, I managed to push out one very lopsided, very drunk looking bee. It wasn't great, but it was the first step in crocheting the ideas I had in my head. From there I just kept making, when we visited Turkey I discovered Alize's Diva line of yarn – which I love and adore and credit with at least 40% of the success of the final product.

I think it was about two years from when I started that I felt confident enough to try and make my own patterns, and that's when I started working on my dream projects. All the corchet projects I've previously posted have been original designs or dream projects. Right now I'm working on my Yako pattern from Hanako-kun, and I have a half made lavender colored flutter pony that I am absolutely in love with <3

I have a few others in mind, I'd already planned a series of Technoblade inspired projects before the news had come out. I'm still going to do them, it just might take longer than originally planned.

Anyways thank you so much for the ask 😊

[faustonastring]

Could I get headcanons for the main six with mc who is obsessed with stuffed animals?

Thanks for requesting I hope you like it :)

Request are open! :))

Main six with an mc who is obsessed with stuffed animals

Asra

He thinks it’s the cutest thing in the world

Every time he travels away from you, he always brings you one back that represents where he traveled (a modern day example would be a teddy bear with a sombrero to represent Mexico, (just so you get the picture)) he also gets to them as presents for birthdays and holidays anniversaries

In a modern au, you both more or likely have a beanie baby collection hiding somewhere in the shop, you both probably brought another beanie baby snail so you could recreate the “snesbian”(snail lesbian) wedding you saw on tiktok

Early in you’re relationship (pre-upright) before he can take you on trips with him he finds it really comforting to know that you have a cuddle buddy or two to keep you company while he’s away, but after you’ve been together for a while (post-upright) don’t be surprised when you wake up and all your stuffed animals are on the floor (that is if you sleep with them of course!)

I also really like the idea of asra trying to make you a stuffed animal for your birthday or anniversary, or any other celerbration (something a like his Faust trinket you can get from the wheel, just a little more improved, )

Apologies in advance for the angst BUT If you’ve had this obsession pre-memory lost, when you’re,,,, y’know (trying to keep this as spoiler free as I can for some of the new guys!) he clutches on to it every night while he’s trying to sleep, crying out you’re name, (and probably uses it in his studies to try to get you back,) and post-y’know, he brings it with him during all his trips because of how much he hates being away from you, and if you’ve grown fond of that one, he’ll bring another one you like a lot, he feels bad but he can’t help it, he just misses you so much

Also some of you are gonna hate me for this but piggy backing off of that angst I just wrote, imagine Julian and asra in the shop, doing...their....studies..(if you know you know) and Julian just sees the stuffed animal in the bed and asks why asra has it (and being himself try’s to make a joke about asra needing to sleep with a stuffed animal, when he can just sleep with him instead-) and asra just kicks him out, and they never talk about it again.

Nadia

She’s on it. She’ll ask you a million questions, “what kind do you like, do you need to sleep with any, do you want a custom one, or a spefic kind?”

Her room is so cluttered with stuffed animals by the end of the week, that she makes you pick out you’re favorite one (which quickly turns into ten or twenty) and the rest go to their own separate room in the palace, where they’re put on display, and easily accessible for you to switch out with any of the ones In you’re too, that you’re bored with

In a modern au I feel like Nadia would also be on bored for collecting beanie babies, but unlike asra who’s only in it for the snesbian wedding she wants all of the rare ones doesn’t matter how much they cost, she has them, it’s not even about you at this point, when Nadia gets a kick you just gotta let her ride it out.

I think it’s canon (or atleast close to canon) that Nadia loves to design clothes, I mean we all know she loves to tinker, but I think she’ll find it really relaxing destining new stuffed animals with you and clothes for some of the ones you already have if you’d want (and yes. She makes matching ones for you and you’re favorites)

If you do sleep with them, Nadia might find it a little hard to sleep with all the clutter around the bed so she’ll thoss the ones your not cuddling off the bed (or if she’s having a real sleepless night, she’ll throw them across the room) but nonetheless if you’re happy she’s happy, she’ll never get agitated at you for having your own interest (despite tripping over like three of them while trying to start her day)

Also I feel like atleast one of Nadias sisters had that stuffed animal phase as a kid, if you know baby....then you know so I feel like it’s really refreshing for her to be able to keep stuffed animals around without having to hear someone scream and whine because they couldn’t get the one they wanted

Julian

The day after you tell him he brings you a doctor teddy bear, wearing a hand-sewn eye patch witch Portia more or likely helped him make (note that I said helped he wanted to try to make it on his own... but surgical stitches are a lot diffrent from things such as cross stitches,,,, and the fabric is just a lot more flimsy then human flesh)

He likes to bring you ‘fun’ ones as he calls them, teddy bears dressed as pirates, doctors, flappers, any kind that matches you’re faveroite animal, pigs decked out in fancy clothes (the vesuvia verson of Miss piggy) espically if he knows you like them, he would do anything to see you laugh and smile, especially if it’s from one of his gifts, it makes his heart jump

In a modern au, you could spend your quality time making fun of the ridiculous beanie baby prices, but for the love of god please don’t say you find a beanie baby who’s highest bidding price is over one hundred dollars cute, because HE WILL bid on it and the price DOESNT MATTER (also- self indulgent but If you have a furby espically the older ones, it will freak Julian the hell out, and he will quickly turn it so it’s not looking at him every time he enters a room)

Every time you travel together he checks all the touristy gift shops for a stuffed animal you like, and will happily buy you any type you like, and it doesn’t matter how big it is. He WILL make it fit in his suit case, even if it means he has to leave a couple pairs of shoes behind.....

If you sleep with any of you’re stuffed animals he doesn’t mind, I mean sure he ends up laying on a couple of them, and the do end up getting tangled in his limbs, but he finds it cute and is willing to make a sacrifice, and if he were to come in late from working overtime and caught you sleeping cuddling the doctor teddy bear he gave you....with the eyepatch that he helped make....he wouldn’t want to disturb you... so he pulls up a chair and watches you sleep in the least creepy way possible

If you two are ever trying to do the do and your stuffed animal is In the room... or even better facing towards the bed... I think it would make Julian the slightest bit uncomfortable but would just laugh it off and say something along the lines of “I didn’t know we had and audience” or “looks like we have a guest” which would be terrifying if he were to say that mid-ya know

Portia

You two vibe so hard

Out of everyone I feel like she is definitely the most enthusiastic and chill about having stuffed animals in her cottage, and I mean sure they’re everywhere and she’s tripped on atleast six of them... but as long as pepi doesn’t get too any of them( again) you’re fine

I like to imagine she has something (other than Julian) that survived the ship wreck with her, wether that be a blanket or a stuffed animal (for the sake of this head canon it’s a stuffed animal) that she holds very close to her yes this is very unlikely given, well all the factors but she deserves something, and if your really against that idea, a little stuffed animal Julian gave her when she was a kid before he left

I can’t keep headcanoning that every one has a thing for beanie babies in a modern au, even though she has a snesbian wedding in her garden with a snesbian officiant which she photographs and gets tiktok famous off of.... she’ll be more into anything Sanrio related, like don’t leave this girl alone in round one because she’s already spent 150 trying to win the rilakkuma stuffed animal that’s riiiiight over the edge (after many many try’s, she does win it, and gives it to you)

She is the type to sew, or crochet, or even knit you stuffed animals, and those are usually the ones she ends up giving you, if not? They definitely were handmade from somewhere, probably a small shop or from an old lady selling them at the heart district

If you sleep with stuffed animals....well good news because so does she! Throughout the night not only are you to fighting for the blanket (if it’s during winter) but now you’re fighting over the stuffed animals, and every night as soon as one of you says you’re going to bed, it’s a race to see who can get to bed first and hog all the stuffed animals, (which may lead to a pillow fight if you’re lucky)

One time pepi tore up one of you’re faveroite stuffed animals and Portia felt so bad about it that she not only made pepi her own toys to play with, but sewed up your toes up one, and if it was beyond repair, she would make you an identical one

(Also Portia is the type to spend 100 dollars at a carnival trying to knock the milk bottles down so she can win her s/o a cheap stuffed dog that pepi is gonna claw into anyway...but it’s the thought that counts :’) )

Muriel

Does. Not. Understand. But hey! He’s trying~! A+ for effort right?

He wants to make it clear that it’s NOTHING to do with you, he finds it ADORBALE! He really really does and he’s trying hard to express that but depending where you are in your relationship with him....makes a little bit of a difference, so for the sake of the headcanon muriels headcanon is gonna be soon after his upright endeding so expect some assumptions about his character but I do know that people just don’t change over night so one things for sure....he still doses to fully understands soft nice things

I think Muriel likes to hear you talk, like sure he prefers the quiet, but out of everyone in the world, your the only person he doesn’t mind listening to (how sweet! ) so he probably asks you a lot of questions, but not necessarily like Julian, more questions that ask why you like them, because he wants to like them too, and you want him to like them too, but you do still have some work ahead of you

In a modern au.....build a bear dates @lisa-frank-cave did a headcanon on it a while back that I REALLY liked, it is a little buried so if you’re having trouble finding it lmk and I can reblog it for you, but atleast visits their page and look for it because their stuff is super good! :) so for sure go check out their head canon for it if you want something more in depth but to just elaborate my thoughts on it, it’s just something the two of you could do together (and I feel like Muriel loves spending time with you no matter what activity it is) I also feel like he’d like being able to make something with you, which works out great if you can’t whittle to save you’re life,,,and I dunno,,,it just makes me soft,,,,

I don’t like the head canon that Muriel has bug clumsy hands, he can whittle for gods sake! And used to make masquerade masks for asra to sell pre-plague times, (and made his own in every route but his own) so I feel like Muriel would atleast attempt ONCE to sew or crochet you a stuffed animal, it’s a little tragedy looking, and over time it starts to fall apart at the seams, but he made it for you, and seeing you love it so much let’s him know all his hard work payed off, and he’ll make you another one or two

He doesn’t mind if you sleep with stuffed animals, but he apologizes in advance if they get crushed (the bed is barley big enough for the both of you) and gets a little jealous if you’re cuddling you’re stuffed animal instead of him, he won’t say anything but he’ll for sure get pouty about, and as cute as he is when he’s pouty make sure you don’t cuddle you’re stuffed animals more than him, because if you do it will start to get to him if you know what I mean

Also refuses to have sex if stuffed animals are on the bed or facing the bed, if they’re on the bed, he’ll throw them off, facing the bed, he’ll turn them around, he just doesn’t like the idea of being watching while being intimate with you

Lucio

If I’m being honest will make fun of you a tiny bit at first (he’ll stop he he strikes a nerve) but soon finds the appeal

Mama morga didn’t let him have stuffed animals growing up, for a while there she didn’t even want him sleeping with a blanket, so he’s alllll over this, but yeah you’re stuffed animals are cute, but he wants a spefic type of stuffed animals.... next thing you know Lucio says he got some stuffed animals for you two to share, and it’s just about 30 diffrent variations of goats. But hey! Atleast he offered to share!

In a modern au I feel like lucio would be overly enthusiastic to go to build a bear that he nearly crushes a kid with his knock off red bottoms trying to get in there, dragging you behind him, then impatiently rushes the whole process not making too enjoyable for you (depending on who you are of course) but lucio just seems to be having fun! (Also goes on a Saturday afternoon and they are like four kids celebrating their birthday and a line that goes out the door, unlike Muriel who goes early Sunday morning or Tuesday night to beat the crowds)

He personally likes anything goat related, but also likes custom made ones made with red velvet and and gold stitching, and will happily buy you or get any kind you want customed made, and on you’re birthday? When you wake up in the morning the room is covered with all diffrent typed of stuffed animals, and lucio is beaming proudly in the middle of it

If you sleep with them then no problem! Lucio would too! But if he catches you cuddling a certain stuffed animal more than him then it might just....disappear for a while...but if he sees you upset or worried that you can’t find it, don’t worry! It will reappear again.... or something very similar to it.....

One time Mercedes and Melchior tore up one of you’re favorite stuffed animals (again) so lucio had them kicked out of his bedroom...or so he said, what really happened is while he was waiting for your replacement to come in, he wanted to act all tuff and kick Mercedes and Melchior our to assert his dominance, but secretly still played with them and let them back in you’re room when you weren’t around. You know. But you pretend that you don’t

Thanks for reading if you would like something more spefic welll.....

My request are open! :)

[wherethebirdsings]

east coast park | intertidal walk

a foreword:

when i was in primary school, i had multiple blogs cause i'd keep one for each interest: animals, travelling, crocheting (the list goes on.) but then arrived the age of instagram and proper journalling just kinda came to a stop :') since then i've been documenting all the things in my life - stuff that feel real big and cool and wonderful - in tiny squares with brief captions & stories that expire in a day. i don't know where the sudden urge to blog again sprung from, but i'm glad to have started on this.

now we begin :D

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23.08.21 - MONDAY

i remember waking up at 2.30am. not a great feeling. but my first intertidal walk was an early one - it started at 4am, and the anticipation was enough to get me going.

the stretch of beach we visited was the one near ECP carpark G. this area has a sandflat, seagrass, and a rocky wall nearby where lots of barnacles (and some crabs) were found. the tide tables had predicted something like 0.5m tides at 4am, which would drop to 0.1m at 5am - the lowest we'd be getting for the day.

i must say, the beach is gorgeous at night :') it's dark, undisturbed, tranquil. intertidal walks at this kind of ungodly timing have their perks - more animals are out and about, and with a UV flashlight you get to see some creatures glow :)

here are some of the stuff we found!

hmm...pink warty sea cucumber?

cake sand dollar

eight-armed luidia sea star (with 6 arms, yes)

painted sand star

(mostly buried) acorn worm processing sand out of its butt ^^

a hermit crab whose shell glowed under UV light :)

carpet anemone, fig snail (the purple covering on its shell is its flesh!), and black-lipped conch snail (this snail hops instead of crawling - woah.)

also saw a mantis shrimp, a baby pufferfish, some kind of burrowing eel, moon crabs, moon snails, sally-light-foots, brittle sea stars (so many), a sea urchin & a garlic bread (no, that's really what it's called) sea cucumber. we were hoping to glimpse some stingrays, stargazers & stonefish, but weren't lucky enough :')

in a blink, the sun was on its way up, and the tides were rolling back in. we washed up and left before 7am.

this was my first intertidal, so naturally i was awed by every single thing, even the sights that were supposedly common. i absolutely can't wait to go again - i've already made plans for my next walk :D

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some valuable things i learned:

- if it's your first time, have someone more experienced (with the geography of the area) / knowledgeable (about the creatures found there) guide you, so you can make the most out of your walk.

- don't wear wellingtons :'D it's game over when you wade into deeper water (or walk into a muddy area & get ur feet stuck.) wear close-fitting water shoes instead! make sure the soles are thick to prevent injury when traversing rocky shores / coral reefs.

- if you own a camera, bring it along. it's easier to snap pictures with your phone but the higher quality results are worth the extra trouble :')

- and if you're going at night, use a headlamp! really frees up your hands when you don't have to carry a torch.

[here-queer-lotsofexistentialfear]

Okay so-

this post is about my ela teacher last year

i hated her.

i am a minor, under 17, and if it hasnt been taught then i most likely wont know something unless it fell under my hyper fixations that i get once in awhile. Ive researched greek mythology because of my obsession with percy jackson, ive hyper fixated on playing the guitar because im really interested in it, as well as loom bracelets, crochet, unprofessional fanfiction writing, stuffies, polaroids, rollar skating, the dream smp, minecraft and whatever else my brain has deemed interesting and fun.

This is all not very important

My first interaction with my ELA teacher was when we were presenting social justice slide shows the ENTIRE class had to do. I did mine on the LGBT community and suicide rates in LGBTQ youth. I poured my heart and soul into this project. Dw tho, the teacher wasnt a homophobic jerk so she liked it but felt the need to comment on the TINIEST of grammatical errors i made. I could brush it off pretty quickly but the fact that she didnt do that to anyone elses who didnt even have correct punctuation simply made me very upset.

If this was a one off thing then I'd be fine with it, however it wasnt.

We got our new ELA teacher a little bit halfway through the year, at this point my school had us going in person on alternating weeks. Cohort A on week 1 and Cohort B on week 2 and just alternating. If we weren't in person then we would be working online but still on zoom.

At the begining of the year i had cleared with all of my teachers that i would work async for the majority of the classes seeing as everything was on canvas and my grades were high (all A's). They were chill with it and my math teacher even created a mini group for me and others who worked ahead of the class and didnt need to attend the meetings.

Once we got this new teacher i made her aware of what i was doing, she said it was alright but "make sure you show up to class" like ma'am did you not hear the part where i work asynchronously and dont do that? While working async i volunteer at a daycare that my mom also works at, they are seriously understaffed and i started working there last april shortly after the world went to shit. (probably shouldve mentioned this sooner but meh-)

Either way, everyone knew what i was doing, this teacher was aware and she still kept marking me absent unless i showed up to her class. At some point i emailed my principal asking about this and we cleared that i would show up long enough for our attendance then i would leave and go back to work. And it worked! great right?

In person it was a bit more complicated. I had to face her and deal with her in real time, face to face (with masks of course), and would have to verbally talk to her. I would be okay with that, i mea, i can keep a level head and remain calm. When she started saying miniscule degrading comments to me was when i got a little bit more upset. She talked down to me, and that is one of my pet peeves. I understand youre my teacher and i am just a student but dont go out of youre way to make me feel lesser then i am. I do that enough on my own-

In top of that she kept trying to make me work with the class (who she also talks to like we're all kindergartners) and work at a snails pace. Im sorry but ma'am- I understand that some people do need that and im glad theyre getting that but by making me work at the same pace im understanding it less. I see what i need to do, learn about it, complete the assignment, and dont linger on every word. The longer i linger the more my brain understands less. Hence why i work async whenever i can and why i work ahead a lot.

She talked to me after class one day, saying she knew i was ahead and independant, yet didnt make any attempts to help with that. This teacher used to work with adults and she has a degree with working with AIG students and people so-

why?

I have no idea where i was going with this whole rant ngl

point was i had a bad ela teacher who made me very frustared and hate myself and brain even more :) and please share youre experiences :D (if you want to)

[courtesansjewelbox]

I feel like beyond the aesthetic, cottagecore mostly operates on nostalgia, but living through that past wasn’t exactly romantic.

In my old homeland, we had a lot of crocheted table runners and dust covers and they were a grandma thing. I grew up with a hand-sewn quilted backpack made by my aunt. (Which I only appreciated as an adult) We had candles everywhere but that was because of periodic blackouts. We had fruit trees in our tiny backyard and grew vegetables in empty lots. The area I lived was more rural/less developed when I was a kid so there were occasional goats roaming the streets, and our neighbours kept doves and pigs. We had fancy china cabinets and elaborate carved wooden furniture because that was a Thing. One of my fave things ever is guava jam which I first tasted as a kid made by some aunt. In school I had to make pineapple jam and mango cream pie.

Both my parents came from rural provinces and moved to bigger cities for school and jobs. My dad/aunt used to have a bakery called Folksy, but competition got steep and they were forced to shut down. My aunt has this mango tree and we would go up to her roof to harvest some. My first ever job was to type up copyright forms, and I had to borrow a manual typewriter from our neighbourhood association. (I was paid in books from our uni press) I also wrote snail mail/sent postcards to my friends in high school, and even in college. People sold things from the streets, from freshly baked bread in the morning, to freshly opened coconut juice and pulp, to a sweet tofu/rice cake dessert. Our neighbourhood mailman was close to my aunt, so I had to send a letter to school for an assignment and it somehow made its way through the system unofficially...

Time, technology and migrating to another country put paid to a lot of things.

it’s disappointing to me that most cottagecore posts i see largely feature cis white women. like where my poc cottagecore/farmcore heauxs at??? you telling me that drying and using herbs, cooking things from scratch, gardening, and wanting to distance yourself from society by living in the woods is a white thing? *squints in afro latina witch*

[quakielein]

My flight to Australia

On tuesday, 17th of february, I flew to Australia. My first time outside of Europe. To accompany me, my best friend made me a crochet snail. I named her Finchen.

I left the airport in Düsseldorf at 14:40. The security in Düsseldorf took away my deodorant. That was going to be a very stinky journey.

After several hours of flying I arrived at Dubai airport at night. The plane (I was flying with Emirates) had cameras that showed the flight from different angels. The lights on the airport during the landing were just stunningly beautiful. The airport itself was nice as well but most of the stuff you could buy was just too expensive.

Before entering the airport I had to go through another security check. This time I had to take my shoes off. I was wearing running shoes the whole time and believe me, taking them off was not a nice experience. On the other hand, I was already stinking, so taking off the shoes didn’t make that much of a difference. As soon as I entered the airport I went to the next toilet to refresh myself with damp cloth but they have their limits as well.

I also wanted to refill my water bottle but the cleaning lady informed me, that the tab water wasn’t drinkable. The women next to me, who were brushing their teeth, looked shocked at the cleaning lady, but she didn’t even look at them.

During the next flight I was able to see the sunrise through the cameras. Also I discovered that I could play video games with the entertainment system. That was a nice change to all the writing and reading I did until then. Also I was getting tired and, even though I wasn’t drinking a lot, had to pee at one point during the flight. I needed full 5 minutes to figure out how I am supposed to open that stupid door. I rarely felt so stupid in my life. Especially all I needed was a little push but I couldn’t figure out where to push. I was just too tired. Still, I didn’t manage to sleep. At all.

When I arrived in Perth I had to go through several security checks to get my case back. The airport in Perth is spread across several buildings and of course I had to change the building to get my last flight. There was a bus driving to the other building but I didn’t know when and where. I asked my way through and noticed how different security people and airport staff are in different countries. In Germany I had the feeling like no one cared about anything. I asked a few questions and either got short answers in a manner that made me feel like I was supposed to know all that by myself already or was told to ask someone else. In Dubai everyone was really strict and had a serious face. Their words weren’t impolite but their strict tone made them fell like that. One woman was ignoring me completely. She just looked at me while I was asking my question, then turned around and just walked way a few meters. Only one person was smiling and made sure my question was really answered. In Australia everyone was just so nice and helpful. No matter how stupid my questions were they were just smiling and patiently answered all of my questions. Sometimes even gave answered to questions that didn’t occur to me yet but would definitely have if they weren’t already answered. The only problem with Australians: They talk sooo fast! But they slow down as soon as they notice you don’t get what they are talking.

When I finally got to the domestic flights part of the airport I saw a self-check-in. I tried to do that but of course I failed. I’m not even sure if I would have succeeded if I hadn’t been that tired. Anyway, I asked a nice lady and she explained to me, that what I was doing was pointless anyways because the guy in Düsseldorf seemed to have checked-in my case already and I just needed to put it on the conveyor. Just as I saw my case disappearing I remembered that it would have been a good idea to change my shirt.

The domestic airport in Perth is really small compared to the others. Just a handful of shops and almost no people at all. I was done visiting everything after half an hour and I had to stay there for another 5 hours.

 Next stop was Brisbane. After spending the whole last flight between sleep and awake I was looking for the lady that was supposed to pick me up here but I couldn’t find her. Since it said I should be at the airport before 9 am and it was only 6 am I thought I should wait. I had a chai tea in front of the airport and noticed all the finches hanging around while there were no pigeons at all.

After the tea out of a cup that told me how great coffee is I strolled around the airport looking for the lady but she was still nowhere to be found. I asked for the bus I was supposed to take at the con-X-ion counter. The lady behind the counter sent me to the bus stop where I found the right bus at my own. The first stop of the bus was the international part of the airport. I later was told that I was supposed to arrive and get the bus here and that the lady of visitoz waited in this part of the airport for me. Well, it doesn’t matter anymore. I arrived save and sound at Halse Lodge thanks to everyone being overly helpful here. :)