#my pretty seahorse

[spongebobsoundtrack]

John Fox - The Homeward Trail

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42b. "My Pretty Seahorse"

[chudenko-art]

Mermay drawing I forgot to post, thanks to my terrible memory :')

[wulvercazz]

🍭And So, It Begins🦇

~ October 3rd - Candy, Pole Dancing/Stripping ( Ichigo x Grimmjow ) ~ Extra tags; food play, food insertion/unsafe insertion

The Prompt List

(fic part 1 under the cut)

Ichigo has to have been staring at the rundown lot for about an hour. Or perhaps a minute.

All he's wanted as a young adult looking to get away from his homereef and out from under his father's fin - claw - is to find a decent enough job. This was supposed to be his bout of good luck- not,,, the beginning of a bad horror story.

The secretary who contacted him was real, he gave him accurate and detailed information, he heard his voice. And for what? The carcass of a school who in no reality would have ever been looking to "urgently fill a teaching position". And there was no mistaking the address he was given either. There was no other school in all of Aquacity.

He should've never come here. It's almost dark, the seabus back to Karaura reef is another six hours of travel and not even available again til morning. He feels played with, obviously  frustrated, and so incredibly tired.

And the small apartment he made arrangements for prior to his travel is so lackluster and just plain sad-looking he simply doesn't feel like going there to sleep this horrible night off either.

His feet drage little clouds of sand with every step. He doesn't want to think about it, about how much of a loser he is, about how come morning he'll have to go back home with his tail between his legs and say "hey dad, missed me on the single day I was gone?"

What he could do, is get ahold of a drink, sit on a crowded bar, and perhaps find a warm body to flirt his depression away to.

He doesn't expect to find himself lost to the view of this place. People had looked at him weird at the bus central whenever they heard where he was moving; but no one ever said much of anything about the place. It looked... well, like a city. With a good few large coral buildings towering above, fancy looking roads and lots of businesses; all dark and mostly quiet as night settled above the water. The curious sight of it was all the orange and plack and purple dressing it all. The jack-o-lanterns and the star-like decorations on the doors. Everything set for Halloween like he's never seen anyone do back home, or anywhere ever. It might've looked even cheery and bright earlier... except- where's everybody?

He's not really one for holidays, barely celebrates his birthday at all even, but he knows for a fact that Halloween is supposed to happen.. at night. It's late, but not quite midnight, not so late that a place so meticulously decorated like this would be barren before the ring o the bell. Where is everybody?

As he walks, what little people had been walking by in the distance have all scurried away into their homes or simply out of sight, and more than a little mystifying,,, he's started to get a little freaked.

Ichigo quickens his steps, his one claw clicking anxiously and creating little air bubbles amidst the water, his antenna jittery as he turns about for any sign of life. And... and suddenly there is. Muffled and uninteligible, but it's the sound of music; that must be it surely... everyone's celebrating indoors and here he is... worrying over nothing.

He really hopes it is a bar, he really needs that drink now.

The light trembling of the soundspeakers reaches his body when he finds the place. "Las Noches" it reads and now he's positive it's got to be at least something like a bar. The sound grows louder with each step, and finally the last of his worries start to ease into quiet sort of defeat. He came here to forget his troubles, right? Not to investigate some sort of ghosttown mystery bullshit, even made up by his own sleep-deprived mind.

The bouncer, because there is a bouncer — a blowfish that looks just about ready to get pointier at any wrong look, asks him for a rather outrageous cover charge (like he hasn't lost enough by coming to this city in the first place) that he reluctantly pays anyway. Because anything is better than walking back through that cold street back to his sad apartment right now, if he has to do it, at least he wants to do it with a couple drinks on him. And it all looks normal, with music just loud enough to sort of drown the laughter of a few other fish, here and there, but not enough to deafen, and dim colorful lights giving more of a nightclub ambiance to the establishment, right until someone shoves a bag of halloween decorated candy in his hands and looks at him with tired disappoinment when he meets the second bouncer's face with utter confusion.

"Keep it moving," the guy says tiredly and rushes him in to move on to someone else coming in behind him.

A truly odd fucking city.

But he gets his drink, and a second drink, and he stares at the odd bag of candy from the little table he settled onto somewhere in the middle of the place. Truly, truly, odd.

He's nursing his drink, sadly staring at the funny candy inside his bag and wondering weird things about this city and whether studying medicine like his father had encouraged him to do instead of literature like he wanted would've made any difference, when a sudden burst of light and an excited disenbodied voice announces it's finally midnight.

Fish around him cheer and suddenly he's more and more lost than he was before he came into the nightclub. That is, until the music goes from contented ambiance to sultry and the colored lights reflect on what are very clearly dancing poles arranged along the front of the dark stage he'd somewhat noticed when he first sat. Oh... so it's that kind of place,,, right— huh, he's... never been good in this sort of place.

He's been to strip clubs before, back in college and only when Keigo insisted; but he's not sure he'll ever enjoy it. Not when all he ever does is give the dancers awkward half-stares and wish for sudden death when they make eye contact.

So he's not at all excited when a single dancer makes their appearance on-stage, swaying their hips up to the stage to the beat of the music and the excited cheering of everyone in the club; some dog-whistling earning other fish in the crowd a flirty wink or suggestive little shake of a pretty curled tail.

Fuck, fuck, it's not that he's a prude. Keigo teases him about his supposed virginity enough to know he thinks he is; it's just that... well, pretty people showing off their pretty bits... it gets him all flustered and weird.

Ok, perhaps he is a bit of a prude. But can you judge him? Can anyone in this weird city judge him when those wide hips in those frilly clothes sway and twist so nice along that pole? When that pretty face smiles and bites his lip so cute when perking his ass so lewd?

Pieces of the outfit start to fly and at the first peek of a rosy plush slit he starts to wish he could flee without calling too much attention to himself. But everyone around him just keeps cheering, clearly enjoying the night's entertainment; some even shout of the dancer's name, "Grimmjow~!" to call his attention, or perhaps to encourage him and his perfectly studied dance moves.

It's a rather small city in the end, everyone's bound to know each other.

And just as expected, the shouts and the cheering only bring more confident little grins to the seahorse's face; put a little more oomf to his twists, more curl to his tail. The music still sultry but somewhat more intense as he's bared himself almost fully exposed to his welcoming public. Long legs opening wide for his audience, tail wrapping sinfuly around the pole to balance himself a little more teasingly; and then people are scooching closer, leaning in to playfuly tuck...

Huh —

Fucking candy on his underwear's frilly elastic, and no one seems to mind when it falls onto the stage under its own weight.

What the fuck?

And, oh, oh shit, oh fuck. The newbie look of bewilderment in his face must be so clear from up there, that "Grimmjow" can't hide his cheeky grin when he makes his way right over to the pole standing right in front of his table.

He does as best as he can not to tremble like a little teen when he teasingly curls around the pole, and dances pretty much for him. The audience hooting and whistling for him to do something about it. And then Grimmjow slinks down the pole, all pretty teal skin and curled tail and pretty pink slit, his legs falling open in a flexible squat, back curled and grin just as much, and reaches out with his bare foot to keep teasing him further. And the sight and the foot on his neck, send shivers down his neck and right up his tail; disheveling his clothes and heating him up from his very core until he feels the water around him boil.

"Gimme a treat~" he speaks like hot velvet, voice much deeper than he expected, and that alone startles him with a hot spark right down to his crotch. Everything about him so distracting, that he doesn't quite notice when he went and curled his tail right around his claw, pulling him in right to the edge of his chair, "won't you, stranger?💕"

The only other option would've been to struggle and run like a little coward, and he wanted to, fuck he really wanted to... but somehow, the ache to see more, touch more, had him shily pulling a lollipop out the troublesome little candy bag. Grimmjow's darkened blue eyes following his every move, a quietly amused noice leaving his lips before he pulled again on his arm.

He wishes he could've stopped the scaredy little jolt of his hand when Grimmjow let go of the pole only to reach in too; unwrapping the little jack-o-lantern lollipop and canting his hips with a rather obvious request.

Fuck. Oh, fuck. Fuckfuckfuck.

And his soft hand only guided his when it was obvious he'd need the push; guiding the candy to his puffy pink lips. Making him slick the hard caramel along his entrance and encouraging Ichigo to push it inside.

He might have blacked out for a second there. Quite possibly. When he felt his body give and suck the lollipop in, only the little white stick poking out of him.

And just like that, his tail maneuvered his claw and dumped it half across his lap, making a fool of him while he made a fool of himself; watching entranced as he crossed his leg over and showed off his filled slit. Everyone's hoots and screams suddenly registering back to his brain as they laughed and cheered both of them on; more dog whistles about when Grimmjow reached for the candy and fucked himself with it a couple cheeky strokes. Only to pull it out and bring it up to his lips, to suck his own slick off the treat.

Ichigo's been to strip clubs before, but nothing quite like this had ever happened to him at any of them. Not that he'd ever stayed long.

He's so dazed and tingly all over with the experience, drowned in more music and renewed screams as Grimmjow moves on with his show... that he could've sworn those little wings on his costume had no straps at all.

Find the uncensored version, as well as early access and wips to Aquacity as I draw/write it, on SubStar (link on pinned intro post)✨

[a-stars-art-blog]

What if Young!Joseph was a merman?

Hmm. Yeah what if.

Bonus Caesar :]

[isorottatime]

i love making up intertextual references. did you know a streetcar named desire makes allusions to the picture of dorian grey and browning’s my last duchess. like yeah maybe! that technically might be the case! pattern recognition brain goes crazy

[glitching-moon]

Something i love in Genshin even as a more casual player is the bosses designs :3 so have a drawing of Millennial pearl seahorse!

[royalreef]

(( Bonus version of this meme for Bellanda too. No she doesn't believe in either giving anyone any hints out of what her type is, nor letting anyone think about romancing her.

[graveyardrabbit]

got to see a lot of creatures today

[lovinglapislazuli]

I love that the last episode of delicious party brought back MemMem and PamPam's humans forms right as I was working on human designs for the Witch's servants and Kururun, very funny timing 😂I had so much fun with all of them!!

For Kururun specifically I followed the same pattern as the energy fairies, who look like younger siblings of their respective cure, and based her looks on Laura’s hair and the Cure Kururun outfit. For me Kururun is that fun kid you accidentally meet once when you go to the beach as a child and somehow you’re immediately besties :D

Kururun and Elde would run in circles around a midly exasperated Butler who really hopes this human thing is temporary XD

ID under the cut:

Image Description: a lineup of Numeri, Elde, Butler, Chongire and Kururun from Tropical Rouge Precure as humans, standing against a background fading from pink to light blue to pink again. Numeri has vitiligo, Elde has a pinkish skintone and Butler, Chongire and Kururun have varied degrees of tan to dark skin, with Chongire being the darkest and Kururun the warmest in hue. Chongire is wearing his chef uniform and has navy blue wavy hair styled in a mullet and a goatee. Kururun is wearing her Cure Kururun costume (a white, teal and pink outfit) and a red and pink floatie with reddish pink swimming flippers. She has two lines on sunscreen on each cheek and a brown bandaid on her nose.

[robbiedaymonds]

my birthday was so good yesterday! probably the best one i've had in years. 🥰

[silasbug]

went to an aquarium for the first time today! i freaking love seeing creatures you've only read about in the real world (...like familiar-looking bugs, i just want to shake their tiny lil leg hands as if they were famous people).

[spongebobsoundtrack]

Norman John Warren - My Horse and I Plays in:

42b. "My Pretty Seahorse"

[fadingstarfire]

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Erm what if instead of Facing the Dark Dragon it was called Facing the Freak Dragon and it was

freaky ...

Okay man idk I just wanted to draw a Light Dragon because I want good "krill" in the game.

You can ride them and either steer them with their antenna whisker things when sitting in the "saddle" OR you can hold onto the end of an antenna for dear life and zoom around at the speed of sound. You just can't yknow- actually steer it this way.

Extra doodles/notes because they're uglier and I didn't wanna put them up there lol

[chatterbox-juice]

tw: very brief mention of torture

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY UNUSED ALPHAS THERE ARE???

"This list is derived from the named animal statues that are sold alongside the main active Alpha statues. These animals may have multiple den items dedicated to them, but they have not made any active appearances in the game." - TAKEN FROM THE WIKI. BUT THERE ARE 37 UNUSED ALPHAS:

Amelia - Fox Alpha

Andy - Llama Alpha

Atlas - Lion Alpha

Aurora - Arctic Fox Alpha

Barrett - Polar Bear Alpha

Biff - Hyena Alpha

Boomer - Kangaroo Alpha

Calypso - Sea Turtle Alpha

Carmen - Pig Alpha

Cornelius - Crocodile Alpha

Dakota - Cougar Alpha

Drake - Shark Alpha

Edmund - Giraffe Alpha

Fang - Sabertooth Alpha

Faye - Sheep Alpha

Harper - Seal Alpha

Hudson - Otter Alpha

Jade - Snow Leopard Alpha

Jamal - Toucan Alpha

Jarvis - Lemur Alpha

Koko - Flamingo Alpha

LaSalle - Raccoon Alpha

Manni - Sloth Alpha

Marco - Penguin Alpha

Mica - Coyote Alpha

Olive - Cheetah Alpha

Otto - Elephant Alpha

Perry - Falcon Alpha

Ruby - Rhinoceros Alpha

Sigurd - Deer Alpha

Sophia - Horse Alpha

Star - Direwolf Alpha

Valentina - Eagle Alpha

Victor - Octopus Alpha

Star and Fang are no longer shamans in my rewrite (will elaborate on later) so that's 35, but HOLY SHIT. the newer animals (red panda, camel, moose, arabian horse, clydesdale horse, great horned owl, fennec fox, skunk) don't have any known alphas, so that's eight unknown alphas. we're at 43, which is a lot to incorporate into the timeline. i'm not counting the original six in this count

BUT because I want it, I want to include reskins as well, which are the spring bunny, snowflake arctic wolf, polar arctic fox, enchanted eagle, autumn coyote, spooky snow leopard, fearsome falcon, jamaaliday deer, legendary eagle, royal red panda, frolicking fox, and rainbow raccoon. each reskin has seven colors that can be chosen in the customization tab, but legendary eagle is based on elements (?) and has four different patterns respectively that can be chosen from: wood, lava, metal, and crystal. i'm counting it as four different "animals," and wood, lava, metal, and crystal, have four colors that can be chosen instead of the usual seven. including all of the variations, we're at 143 (?) shamans to create characters for

OH FUCK okay so here's what I'm thinking; the reskins can be delegated to their respective shamans. for example, I'm already planning for Jade, the Snow Leopard Shaman, to have the spooky snow leopard reskin part of them, as a curse? this part is still being worked out, but base Jade and s.s.l are the same leopard but in different forms. the ones getting wiped completely are snowflake arctic wolf (no shaman) spring bunny (it's getting changed into a power), autumn coyote (no), and jamaaliday deer (also no).

GOD this is going to be a bit more difficult than I anticipated. I need to come up w lore for 143 (? i forgot) characters within the cohesive timeline. i'm thinking the unused shamans are going to emerge after the Renaissance, in Late-Early History, Late History, and Modern History eras.

i could've sworn it was said somewhere that alphas can't create new alphas for some reason? well if they can't, they can in my AU yeah, it's relevant now. Mira in her haste to save Zios from the phantoms, left behind some of her feathers unintentionally. the six can't create new shamans on their own, but with the use of a feather and an animal heartstone, a new shaman can be created. not as powerful as the six bc they weren't borderline tortured as children (here), and were just given magical abilities, but still. here's what i'm thinking:

Liza, the leader of the shamans after Mira and Zios' disappearance, most likely granted shamanship to the most animals, and we'll go from most to least:

Liza: Andy Biff Boomer Edmund Hudson Jarvis Manni Otto Sigurd Tavie

Sir Gilbert: Atlas Barrett Calypso Cornelius Harper Marco Ruby Sophia

Peck: Amelia Jade Jamal Koko LaSalle Mica Valentina

Graham: Dakota Drake Faye Victor

Cosmo: Carmen Olive Perry

Greely: Aurora

Tavie is an interesting case. In the game, she's the first underwater alpha. Now, since underwater areas in aj don't get much love, it's natural Tavie, the ONLY active underwater alpha in the game, would be left in the dust, but NOT IN MY AU. Here, since she was the first underwater alpha, I imagine that Liza gave Tavie the ability to grant shamanship by proxy.

the phantoms canonically can go underwater, and don't seem to be affected by it, so maybe Liza gave Tavie a task or something (task is not the word I'm looking for). Tavie would scan the oceans for most underwater shamans since the number of ocean animals compared to land animals is, uh, pathetic, to say the least. when Tavie found someone suitable, she'd go to one of the original six and be like "hey I think [name] would be a great shaman" and BAM. so, if you're counting Tavie:

Tavie (by proxy):

Calypso Drake Victor I'm not counting Barrett, Harper, and Hudson towards Tavie's count because they can go on land, and I imagine that one of the original six found them wandering around.

[olddirtybadfic]

This blog is expanding to more than just Pokémon oldfic. I also wrote Yu-Gi-Oh! fic.

One such fic contains a scene that can be described thusly: Kaiba and Bandit Keith duel in bed without cards to Cotton Eye Joe.

It's called "You Got Played" and mpreg occurs.

[the-potato-beeper]

crocheting is hard when you can't read OR count