#jolly rogers

[nocternalrandomness]

Warbird Video: Corsair Peel Off

1945 Goodyear FG-1D Corsair in US Navy YF-17 "Jolly Rogers" colors breaks from the photo ship.

[ghosttigersims]

[floridaboiler]

[anotherscrappile]

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned my super long sea shanty playlist (almost 16 hours!)

If your favorite sea shanty or shanty band isn’t on here, please recommend it to me!

[a-4skyhawk]

F-14D Tomcats of VF-103 'Jolly Rogers'

[luvincpl611]

Romain Hugault artwork

[zz-chikorita]

Oh no! Guzma, Leon, Plumeria, and the grunts discover an abandoned pokemon daycare FULL of baby pokemon! How do they handle the situation and the dozens of high-needs baby pokemon?

Well, you might think that Guzma would panic because this whole situation is so far out of his realm, but ye'd be wrong on both aspects! He essentially worked part-time for most of his youth in a pokécenter. Yes, DJ was a sort of black-market doctor when it came to human medicine, but she ran an entirely legit and operational pokécenter first and foremost. As such, Guzma picked up a lot about pokémon husbandry, care, and medicine. This included rearing young pokémon as I imagine people would bring orphaned and injured baby pokémon to pokécenters and daycares.

As such, Guzma would definitely take the lead in instructing everyone what supplies to gather, what to do, and how to handle the pokémon. It's actually rather difficult (but not impossible) for him to demonstrate some of the more delicate procedures, like syringe feeding the smaller babies, simply because his hands and fingers are so large compared to the little creatures.

(Not to break the fourth wall, but I've had coworkers in the past where that's a legit problem, because they're big dudes and baby animals, especially, like songbirds are just so fragile and delicate. Again, it's not impossible, but they faced challenges I and others didn't.)

In contrast, Plumeria is actually very uncomfortable and very stressed out by all of this. Part of it is to blame on her stark lack of maternal instinct, but the majority is just the terrible anxiety of what if she does something wrong? What if she hurts them by accident? What if, what if, what if!? With time and Guzma's guidance, her anxiety lessens. Eventually, she's able to mostly relax and enjoy the process.

With the grunts' help, they are easily able to create a schedule rotating everyone around to make sure everyone gets cleaned, fed, and any other daily care they may need. Guzma and Plumeria didn't create the most powerful gang in the region simply by "winging it," after all. When push comes to shove, they are fierce and effective leaders.

Oh, Leon's there too, right? He definitely has experience hand rearing baby pokémon from growing up on a wooloo farm. He's definitely able to offer advice and ideas, filling in the gaps to Guzma's fragmented knowledge. He probably encourages Guzma to do some of the care himself because. Although he doesn't want to admit it, he really wants to help, despite it being more difficult for him. Leon definitely picks up on this.

I have now created a scenario in my head where it's late at night and Leon is feeding some itty bitty neonates. Guzma is there hanging out with him since he would feel bad leaving him there by himself....

"Dae ye wanty help?"

"Huh?" Guzma looked up, having been zoned out.

"There's a couple left," he repeats, "dae ye wanty help?"

"Nah... those guys are way too tiny. It's too difficult to do anything." In a half-hearted, joking manner, he added, "Wouldn't wanna get frustrated and crush 'em by accident."

"Why're ye making excuses?"

"I ain't making excuses-"

"Yes ye are. There's nae way ye'd crush them. Even if ye wanted too, ye widnae dae it."

"What makes you so sure?"

"They say if ye give most quadrepedal pokémon an egg tae hold, they'll take it gently between their teeth. It's believed they have an innate sense that the egg is fragile and tae handle with care."

"And... what does that have to do with me?"

"Ah'm saying it's no in yer nature tae cause harm tae somthing so innocent."

After a moment of silence, Guzma grumbled, "You don't know me well enough..."

Leon placed the tiny, blind yungoos back in the bin with its siblings to sleep and digest.

He walked over to where Guzma was sitting.

"Give meh yer hands."

Guzma raised a brow but complied.

Leon brought the other's hands up to his throat. "Wrap yer hands around ma throat."

"What?"

"Dae it."

Guzma did as he was told.

"Choke meh."

"I'm not gonna-" He tried to pull his hands away, but Leon held him in place by his wrists. Leon gave him an imposing look, daring him to choke the life out of the smug champion.

They stayed like that for a few agonizing moments. Guzma could feel Leon's steady pulse under his fingers. It was far calmer than his own pounding heart.

"Ah knaw ye're mair than physically capable of hurting meh if ye wanted tae. But ye daenae wanty. So... ye won't. Ah knaw this fer a fact." Leon released Guzma's wrists and offered him a warm smile

Guzma's hands lingered for just a moment, before finally relaxing and dropping back down to his sides.

"Come on," says Leon, gesturing back to the counter where the cup of formula and bin of babies sat, "there's two left. Give meh a hand."

Silently, Guzma sits at the station next to him and Leon hands him one of the tiny creatures.

They feed the remaining two babies in comfortable silence.

Eventually, Guzma mumbles, "Thanks..." without looking up.

Leon smiles gently. "O' course."

[onepieceanimals]

Two creachers...

[opelman]

1956 Grumman F9F-8 Cougar VF-61 "Jolly Rogers" by David G. Schultz Via Flickr: Radio Controlled Model

[bookishnewt]

I have an urge to draw up jolly rogers for the life series. Doodling mock-ups right now.

[nocternalrandomness]

F-4 Phantoms from VF-84 - 1964

[ghosttigersims]

[floridaboiler]

[franeridart]

someone else might call it faith

[redinthesea]

"The Unlucky Groom" or "Have You Fulfilled Your Dream Yet?" or "Back Where You Started" or "Why Is He Cinderella Though" or "I Still Think He Needs to Be Put Down" or "Smoking is Bad"