#shark thoughts this night

[cerastes]

I’m thinking of how, in OpRec 2, Laurentina knows she has very limited time as herself before her brain deteriorates and she loses her reason again and becomes the “Specter” again. She has few precious hours as herself after years of being trapped in her own mind due to the experiments and the insane amount of pure liquid Originium Amaia and Quintus injected directly into her spinal cord.

She uses a bit of this time to spend it fighting a battle alongside Misery (who insisted she doesn’t need to help him but definitely welcomed the aid since apparently the situation was pretty bad), because in fighting, she can remain useful, in her own words. Skadi insists she hurry back to Rhodes Island, to which Specter says it’s pointless, because equipment on the surface simply cannot help her, only keep her alive, so she takes her sweet time fighting alongside Misery, and Skadi and Gladiia (the latter reluctantly) join.

She allots some more of her time to having a proper talk with Closure, answering as many questions as she can, both about herself and about Closure, but mainly, what she wanted to say was “do not change the way I’m treated. You know me as Specter, you have protocols around the Operator Specter. Retain them. I have to go.”

She talks with a very concerned Skadi and an unflinching but still upset Gladiia, but she already had time with them on the way back. The final person she wanted to talk to before her brain gave out again? Doctor. Explicitly because she predicted Closure and Doctor may take more care on her handling, maybe remove her from combat operations in order to more closely monitor her condition. This is exactly what she didn’t want.

Because end of the day, Laurentina is a Hunter. She finds it difficult to speak as surface dwellers do, she finds it almost nonsensical, and so, she demands, “Keep me in the fight, Doctor. We do not need words, we need only you having a clear objective and me, my orders. If you put me in a bed and out of the battlefield, you are denying me the last shred of identity I can cling on”.

Because she couldn’t sculpt, she couldn’t sing, she couldn’t even control her own body, if she was even conscious. The only thing that she could do to cling to being who she was...

...Is to at the very least be pointed towards an enemy to fight them, and pointed towards an ally to protect them.

Skadi believed Laurentina had died prior to the events of the game because this isn’t the first time she had done this: In order for the 3rd Squadron to advance towards Ishar’mla, the 2nd Squadron, Gladiia and Laurentina’s, practically sacrificed themselves covering for the 3rd. 

She never blamed Skadi, and makes sure she knows it. She didn’t mind doing it again now, either. “Point me at the one I have to cut, put the ones I need to keep safe behind me, and give the order. Even if am completely lost in the darkness of my mind and madness of my heart, that, that will never leave me. That’s proof that I am Specter, that I am Shark, and that I am Laurentina. I, namely, I.”

As far as she knew, these were the last words she’d ever get out as herself. She used to make it very clear: “Do not deny me the only bit of purpose and identity I have left, because even if I am but a shell of myself, I’m still me.”

Of course, we now know that this was not to be her final fate, and she did manage to regain control, decisively, eventually, but... As far as she and Skadi and Doctor knew, at this point, this was really, really it. The briefest of encounters with the real Specter, on borrowed time. And her intent? To make sure she’s not left to rot in a medical room where she’s useless, gathering dust: “Put even more danger upon my share”. You know you are dealing with a seriously terrifying and strong person when they can confidently tell you (and have verifiably, so far, done as much) that even if it’s just a shell of her former self out there, she can and will never stop doing exactly what she’s good at, because otherwise, at that point, she truly has left the world.

[panlight]

I wish Emmett had like, friends.

All the people who show up in Breaking Dawn are framed as Carlisle's friends, except Peter and Charlotte who are Jasper's.

I know in the scheme of vampire history that Emmett isn't that old, but he and Rosalie do canonically sometimes live apart from the rest of the family as a married couple, so there's SOME opportunity he could have met some other vampires separate from Carlisle's circle.

That one random vampire Randall could be Emmett's friend? The guide says he's from California, was 18 when he was turned in the 1960s and Carlisle was one of the first vampires he met but like, Emmett was with Carlisle in the 1960s.

PLEASE can Emmett have a California surfer dude vampire bro named Randy? I need this.

[puckpocketed]

12/06/2024 - Macklin Celebrini in Boston University Cinematography Reel 23-24, by Bernie Perisie

[dark-elf-writes]

I feel like along with ADHD and Dyslexia biting people as a child would be another big hint towards demigod status.

[funzige-gedachten]

nu jere (en kä crew) doen 🦈🦈🦈

Heheheh thank you so much for enabling my autism to go on about sharks hhehehdhsh

Jere: blacktip reef shark

These guys are very easily recognisable by their little spots at the end of their fins. They’re relatively smaller sharks and tend to be quite curious about things, but not generally agressive. Sometimes they jump out of the water to get over corals which is very cool.

Häärijä: sicklefin lemon shark

These guys get their name for their yellowy skin!! That is so fun!!!! These are one of the bigger types of reefsharks. Theyre a little shyer than the blacktips are and they prefer to live in a little murkier waters over clear sandy flats.

Jesse: nurse shark

Nurse sharks are really cute and really sweet guys. They are nocturnal so in the day they tend to sleep in safe spots with their friends. If you have ever watched a documentary about sharks, these are the guys that always show up before any of the other sharks, since they’re so curious to find out what is going on.

The daltons: grey reef sharks

These sharks, like many reef sharks, live in big families! Theyre quite similar to the blacktips but without the black tip on their dorsal(the big top one) fin. Theyre very fast and agile and very social!! Like many other sharks, they carry their eggs in something similar to a womb.

Mr bodyguard: bullshark

These are often characterized as one of the more aggressive species of shark, the majority of shark attacks are caused by this guy sadly. They can live in both sweet and salt waters! They sometimes swim into things like a bull like a bull in a bull fight. I really enjoy their smooth shape and silly face :)

[quibbs126]

Last night my brain came up with the idea again that Megatron’s fusion cannon is like a Minicon that attaches to him (or at least makes his cannon stronger), but instead of it being a small person, it’s an animal Minocon like Laserbeak or Ravage

It’s just like his cool pet he has that is also very useful in a fight. Probably bites people outside of the cannon usage too

[hellaverse-critical-confessions]

(from this video)

[punk-sharkz-zero]

okay night court fandom, specifically the dan x harry shippers, I've found another parallel and I almost spat my coffee at the realization.

so, in s3 ep 5, "Halloween Too" Harry says this to a woman he flirts with at the beginning of the episode:

He says this right after she starts flirting back with him.

The premise of this episode is that he falls madly in love with this woman but there's some night court shenanigans on how they can't be together, blah blah, blah blah.

Now, in s6, he says this to Dan:

thank you for coming to my Ted talk

(gif by @nightcourtcaps)

[134340jinsvocals]

I feel like since Jotaro is a marine biologist he would work with arctic animals.

Therefore, there could be a penguin named Peng-yoin. pronounced (pang-yo-een).

We also have Avdol as either a polar bear or tiger shark.

[manasurge]

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[ur-gay-shark-dad]

I only have 17.36 hours my new stardew valley save so I couldn't possibly have a problem

[mvnces]

do we think that werewolves would have a prey drive like actual predator animals do

[neoflames]

3 and 8 for violence. also, wildcard where you get to pick one you'd really been hoping someone would ask you because you have so many thoughts on it

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

No screenshots but I did see someone once say that everyone saying flower husbands wasn’t a healthy relationship was ‘insane 🥺🥺’ and they were just ‘fluffy adorable lovers okay???? 🥺🥺🥺’ and then they proceeded to shit on everyone who didn’t ship flower husbands

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

I see a concerning amount of people kind of portray Cleo as some sort of sassy bitch who just. Doesn’t really care about anyone else? I guess she might seem that way to some people who don’t watch her? But I see it a concerning amount </3 I don’t know if this applies but I’m tired so this might be a little incoherent

13. worst blorboficiation

Jimmy. Just… Jimmy. See him portrayed so often as some kind of helpless, bad at everything, needs a big strong man to come help him otherwise he can’t do anything kind of guy who needs someone to come and save him and I just- don’t get it??? Like. Do those people watch Jimmy? At all?

And sometimes Grian gets a similar treatment oddly enough

[rainbow-beanie]

Late night thoughts be upon ye.

So apparently I just found out/remembered how sharks, while having lived during the times of the dinosaurs, perhaps have lived far before them, which would make them far older than dinosaurs. This had originally started with me thinking about the possibility that not all dinosaurs could have been reptilian-like, but some could have possibly been like mammals like mammoths and giraffes

[punk-sharkz-zero]

so I finally started watching the new night court and lemme tell you-

I LOVE IT SO MUCH. ABBY I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU. I love her so much, if you can't tell lol. She's so much like her dad and it makes me so happy.

I also really like how it's modeled so closely after the original with the banter and character dynamics already set in place in the first episode (I have only seen the first episode thus far lol)

I love how they used the same set too!!! I got all giggly and excited seeing how familiar yet how different the setting was.

Also, OLD MAN DAN makes me smile so much. He still has his signature charm and mannerisms, but you can also see and understand how he's mellowed out overtime but isn't a whole different character either. Also- that navy suit goddamn.

what BROKE ME though was the fucking pool ball, man. Before we even got to the part where Abby explained it, I told my mom, who I was watching it with, that it had to be a call back to when Dan got Harry to come back to his job, and how Abby was going to use it to get Dan to come back.

When it turned out I was right I screamed "IM PSYCHIC!!!!"

ough, very good pilot episode. very excited to see where it goes.

[devoti]

anyways arranged marriage!au with naoya zenin who's always spitting out empty threats, so when you finally tell him to start acting on them or you'll leave, this is how he feels