#stella moray

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New Scotland Yard: Evidence of Character (2.4, LWT, 1972)

"Who was with you?"

"No one."

"The girl?"

"No."

"Or was she waiting for you outside?"

"No, I tell you I never saw her except to glance at, once, in the bar."

"Where did you go when you left the pub?"

"I drove straight home."

"Arriving when?"

"I don't know, about eleven."

"Anybody there when you got in?"

"My mother."

"How was she dressed?"

"My mother?"

"The girl."

[arutai]

Yunjo Tak by Stella Morais

[ace-n-mooch-daily]

Today's Ace n' Mooch are finally free

We have ALOT to discuss, Edward

I'm just glad we're finally outta that crushingly small cage...

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Stella Morais photography

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Fine Art Photography - Female Portrait By Stella Morais

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Elise Swain by Stella Morais for Lulu Japan June’22

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Who: Carol Morais (cazevedor),

What: Stella Nova Quilted Vest in Creme Blue Stripes (200.00€) Where: Instagram - October 22, 2024

Worn with: Sabina Somer pants, Bimba Y Lola loafers, Jimmy Fairly sunglasses

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Stella Morais

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'Help! I'm a Fish' x TWST AU

The main roles are filled by Yuu, Ace and Deuce.

They are close friends, with Ace taking on the role of 'Fly' in terms of his actions and mannerisms. Though the role of 'Chuck' is sorta shared by both Yuu and Deuce, and lastly the role of 'Stella' is Yuu's, though it is more so the case when she is with Grim.

Grim can speak, which can be surmised by him getting a small amount of the potion but not enough for him to transform completely.

Story beats:

The three goes out fishing, but are caught in a high tide (Ace being knocked out in the process and falling unconscious), with Deuce and Yuu stumbling across the boathouse of professor Crewel (just thought he fit), a fashionably, eccentric but kind chemistry professor who has a deep interest in marine biology and its uses in chemistry.

He reasons that climate change will melt the polar icecaps to produce marine transgression within the next century (aka BIG FLOODS). But professor Crewel has developed a potion to transform humans into merpeople, along with an antidote to reverse the process.

The professor would tell Yuu and Deuce of the ingredients and how only one ingredient changes the compound to the reverse, and asks them to film him taking the potion to prove its capabilities. They agree, but something, something, water problems, something, something, keeping the place from flooding. Which leaves a now waking Ace in the room with the potion, to which he drinks, believing it to be water or juice.

Ace then turns into a crabmerman, and stumbles in his stupor out the window into the ocean, and is carried away by the current.

Deuce and Yuu returns to find him gone, and looks for him, with Deuce fearing he has fallen out the window. Yuu checks the camera, which was still running and witnesses Ace's transformation and subsequent fall on the recording.

It ends with Yuu, Deuce and Crewel sailing out to find him, but are caught in a storm. Yuu decides to drink the potion and continue the search underwater, though both Deuce and Crewel are heavily against it. But she takes a swig and jumps off the boat, and disappears beneath the waves.

But Deuce soon joins her when the storm becomes much worse, the boat capsizing and Deuce being necessitated to drink. Though before he can do so, Crewel is quick to warn him that he only has 48 hours to turn back to normal or he, Yuu and Ace will stay merfolk forever. Deuce grabs both potions and takes a swig of the other, and jumps in. Leaving professor Crewel behind. Though in the midst of his transformation, his grasp on both bottles slips and they disappear (the human one is gone for good, but not sure how that would happen).

Though the mermaid one lands safely on the seafloor, the cork being loose and leaking the potion. Attracting a octopus which were hiding from two moray eels. They consume it, transforming into three mermen.

While the twin morays are marveling at this and having fun talking with one another, they have completely forgotten the octopus which they were hunting, who reaches out for the bottle and corks it. The merman, now known as Azul succeeds in talking the two moray eels from eating him as he now has bigger plans. That being to create a civilization of merpeople, to which he can overthrow humanity with (I'm not sure how he would come to this, but him wanting power over others is also a good motivation, especially newly turned merfolk who he can easily manipulate).

This immediately gets the twins attention, and they agree to assist Azul as his subordinates (as long as they can have some fun).

Back with our trio, now turned merfolk.

Yuu finds herself on the seafloor alone (now a shrimp mermaid), but finds a curious creature known as Grim who she befriends. Ace (crab merman) then finds Yuu, and they play around (very much unaware of the severity of the situation and their time limit), and lastly they swim into Deuce (mackerel merman).

While Ace is over the moon and unconcerned for their current predicament, Deuce is the opposite and points out they they only have 48 hours to turn back or remain like this forever. Ace is still relaxed and unbothered, as he tells that this so so-called professor probably has an antidote at hand, which Deuce says he has, which makes Ace say "see, nothing to worry about. Just put it here". But only now does Deuce find out that he no longer has it, and begins to scour around.

This leads to an argument between the two, on who is more careless. Yuu quickly interjects and states that professor Crewel taught them the recipe to brew the antidote. And pints out that it is the same as the mermaid potion but with one extra ingredient (not sure what).

But Ace is a kill-joy, and points out that it will take 'sooo long..." to gather all the things, and that it isn't even guaranteed that the ingredients are native to the area.

It is at this points that they met a group of other merfolk, who asks them if they are on their way to see Azul? They inquire who this 'Azul' is, and the merfolk begin to laugh like the answer was obvious. Though the laughter soon dies off, and the group takes pity on them and tells of Azul Ashengrotto: the harbinger of merkind, and how he through his miracle potion has granted seakind sentience only comparable with humans.

The three perk up at the word 'potion', and play along, saying they of course know who Azul is, and that thy were just lost on their way to see him.

They tag along with the group of merfolk, though Deuce and Yuu are worried, as they don't know what waits them or how they are even gonna get their hands on the potion. Ace reassures them both, saying it can't be that difficult.

He is very wrong, as they arrive at a sunken oil tanker filled with other merpeople, including many armed guards.

though Ace loses his nerve, they can't turn back as they are forced inside by the excited crowd.

To be continued

Sorry for the sudden stop, but I am still figuring this story out, and hopefully I can soon release the rest.

But what do you think so far?

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Ked's right, I do have book recs that you can find under this tag and also some on my writing blog here. I also have a page here where you can see what's on my bookshelf, but you can't filter it because Tumblr doesn't allow Java anymore >__>

I wouldn't call that page a rec list, though, it's just an inventory of what I own or what's on my list to own. Some of those books are objectively terrible and I will freely admit that, but there was something about them compelling enough that I read them more than once.

I didn't mean for the below to turn into me just reccing you authors but it kind of turned into that, so here are authors I would recommend:

Onley James - I love her so much that I support her Patreon. All of her stuff is good (and loosely connected) but my favorites are, of course, the Necessary Evils series. It has two spin-off series which I also very much enjoy: Jericho's Boys & The Watch. All three series surround the psychopaths in love trope, however Jericho's Boys and the first book in the Watch series do not feature it as a main trope because neither of the main characters fit the bill. Most of them do feature some level of kink, though.

Kiki Clark - Her main series is werewolves (but no Omegaverse) and it's called the Kincaid Pack. The first book is my favorite, but I own them all. It's finished and she's starting a new series in that 'verse, the prequel to which I think is The Mobster's Mate, which is so up my alley it's like someone was spying on me. She also has a MC/kink series called Leather & Chrome that's good, but it's not my favorite kink series. (Kiki also have other contemporary books that I love, I just don't want this to get too long)

SPEAKING of kink. Robin (RJ) Moray - She has a series called His Boy Next Door that gay-awakening, age gap, and BDSM-related. It has a spin-off series about two other characters called A Collar For His Brat, both are excellent. The only thing is in HBND, the main character's name is Channon and that took some getting used to. Robin also has other books which I highly recommend--including a space Omegaverse story called Changed: Mated to the Alien Alpha, which is very good--she is probably my Top 3 favorite authors and the fact that more of her stuff isn't available in paperback is a source of constant misery for me.

Eliot Grayson -- The only person I can think of off the top of my head that writes well-written first person POV. The Mismatched Mates series is her main title iirc. It's a soul-bonding / "mate or die" situation at first and segues eventually into "mating for convenience." Some stories are related and some aren't.

Stella Starling -- if you like high fluff and low angst, this is the author for you. All of her stuff is contemporary and very cute. My favorite series is the Semper Fi one but I like & own them all.

Sam Burns (and Sam Burns w/ W.M. Fawkes) - They do anything fantasy/magic-related. Werewolves, urban fantasy, there's a series about the Greek Gods, etc. I haven't read ALL of their works, but the stuff I have read, I like. My favorites / the ones I own: Wolves of Kismet (Omegaverse), the Star-Marked Warrior series (sci-fi/aliens), & Wolf Moon Rising (Omegaverse).

Ella Frank (and Ella Frank w/ Brooke Blaine) - Contemporary writer(s) that specialize in writing multiple books for the same couple. There's a lot of gay/bi-awakening. The Temptation series is a fantastic audiobook journey that I cannot recommend enough, that narrator was amazing. I also really liked the first three Fallen Angel books are about the same couple and I love them, the fourth FA book is about a different couple and I DNFed it. Couldn't say why, it just didn't hold my interest.

...I have more, but I should probably work at some point this morning. So if you want more / want a specific rec for a specific trope or genre, lemme know!

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Anthro Mecha Universe in a nutshell because I am very far from having the first arc plotted out but I want to talk about it.

At some point Kaiju happen for some reason, probably science related. The first one to arrive is an eldritch abomination that creates portals, and a few of that flavour still occur, but most are either pollution-mutants, demons, angels, science-mutants or rogue AIs.

Everyone is anthropomorphic animals, except invertebrates, which fill the roles taken by regular non-anthropomorphic animals (with one exception that I'll get into later).

There's also a fascist government who are slowly invading and taking over independent regions, kinda like a more evil version of the NCR from New Vegas. They're called the New Argent Federation, and their president is Luther Blake (he/him, 65, saltwater crocodile). He has an underling who is basically a cross between Darth Vader, the Auditor from Brigador, and Pyro from TF2, piloting a mech that looks a bit like Necrozma.

Mech pilots are usually sorted into teams, kinda inspired by Sonic. Each team has a minimum of three pilots, though the number of mechs can be lower since some require multiple pilots (which is taken to extremes by Ironclad, a gigantic warship-themed mech piloted by 50 people). Mechs have different classes, but I won't be talking about them in this post because I can't be bothered.

The main team is Burst Team, composed of people who lack formal training, but still know how to do mech stuff mostly. The members are Stella Fawkes (she/her, 24, goblin shark), pilot of the Stygia, which is made partially out of old boats, submarines and diving mechs; Jim Autumn (he/him, 22, potoo), pilot of the Crimson Star, which he inherited from his mother after she retired; and Sue Simons (she/they, 23, moray eel), pilot of a mech I haven't named yet, which is designed for kaiju research but has had a giant rifle haphazardly bolted to the front.

Their rivals are Rage Team, who are all nepo-babies who pilot advanced mechs equipped with powerful but impractical weapons. The members are Harry Valero (he/him, 23, ocelot), pilot of the Valero Veloce MKIII Concept, an experimental high-speed mech; Miranda Jensen (she/her, 26, fox), pilot of the Starlet, a more humanoid mech with giant wings; and Brad Octavius (he/him, 25, rhinoceros), pilot of a mech I haven't named yet, which is a combat mech using parts from sports mechs.

Survivor Team are like. Pilots who were injured in the course of being a pilot, but kept doing it regardless. While I won't list all their members (because it would take too long and also the roster is far from complete), I do want to highlight Greg Phoenix (he/him, 53, kiwi), whose wife died during battle with a particularly powerful kaiju; he used parts of her mech to upgrade his own one, and named the result "Barbara" in memory of her. Also one of the characters is a Frogfish called Cora Reeve.

Terror Team are the big scary elite dudes, who are also big celebrities, with merch and sponsorships and stuff.

Advance Team are a bunch of giant neeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrds! Their mechs are more experimental (e.g a perfectly-spherical design with stretchy limbs so it can travel far distances quicker, and the body of a dead kaiju that's piloted by an electric eel who uses his natural electricity to puppet it).

Unity Team are just like a vague concept I have at the moment, but basically they have seven members in colour-coded mechs that can fuse together into a larger robot because Power Rangers (and also like. Sentai and Voltron and stuff) pastiche.

Outlier Team are the most interesting, as their members are all from species who aren't standard anthropomorphic animals, including a dimensionally-displaced human, a genetically-modified crab with full sapience and an inexplicable New York accent, an alien from a eusocial species with hundreds of genders, and an ancient robot that resembles an opabinia.

The Kaiju incident is called "The Intrusion", and started with an interdimensional worm monster emerging through a portal, which caused pollutive chemicals to become a powerful mutagen, alerted the setting's equivalents of Heaven and Hell, caused bioengineered creatures to mutate and escape from a lab that's still producing them, and made all the AIs in charge of various facilities go rogue. The results are Pollution (mutated invertebrates mostly, though sapient beings can also become Pollution Kaiju with prolonged exposure to the mutagen or if they eat the flesh of one), Dimensional (Kaiju from other dimensions or even between dimensions, with impossibly alien appearances and, if this ends up being a webcomic or whatever, different artstyles/mediums), Demonic (self-explanatory; in my document about all the characters, I describe them as having "Lots of flames, magma, mouths, leathery wings, pieces of brutalist architecture, masses of flesh, insect limbs, dangling chains, horns"), Angelic (again, self-explanatory; in my document about all the characters, I describe them as having "Lots of clouds, crystals, eyes, feathery wings, pieces of gothic architecture, intricate stained-glass panels, sea slug tentacles, flowing cloth, halos"), Biotech (biomechanical, in a similar way to the Combine Synths from Half-Life 2), and AI (literally just artificial intelligences that were originally in charge of facilities and stuff, but went rogue during The Intrusion and have built themselves bodies) Kaiju.

There's an ancient civilisation of prehistoric vertebrates who had robots based on prehistoric invertebrates (which also filled the roles of animals), as well as "walking buildings" that are essentially early mechs, consisting of Greco-Roman buildings held up by large, articulated statues.

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Yunjo Tak by Stella Morais

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Last song: STELLA CADENTE by mahmood

Currently watching: nothing. i really am not built for tv series i either lose interest super quick or can never manage to muster the intent to watch it to the end. that being said, the last tv series i attempted was mad men in like. last year june (it is what it is)

Three ships: incredibly difficult answer bc i enjoy ships in a fugue state for like 3 months and then i forgor. gonna go with vera moray/the outsider+ my strong but never forgotten varric/cassandra phase (potentially the only thing i remember fondly about dai) + current orinthara thing

Favorite color: i love cyan <3

Currently consuming: my socially ostracised emotional support cappuccino :3

First Ship: cant remember tbh! memory is what it is but i thinkkkk it was sephiroth/aerith. it was what it was etc

Place of birth: the wretched italian rural countryside

Current location: still the wretched italian rural countryside -_-

Relationship status: singleeeee

Last movie: decision to leave dir. park chan-wook rewatch!! peak of romance as far as im concerned

Currently working on: in case my wretched degree doesn't count, it's my jaheira&durge greek tragedy pastiche!

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Maisie Dickens by Stella Morais