#the fish baby is unnamed btw

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

Drew this scene based on a dream I had last week that involved tonio and a weird little fish baby

[orderforbrian]

About Sea Glass Promise (which i love btw <3):

In what ways does Martin (half Selkie) differ from full ones?

And subsequently how is it with the quarter Selkie twins?

hiiii!!! first thank you so much for reading our fic <3 secondly, i love lore questions! from the research i've done about selkies i realized there was a lot of different interpretations, so some of the selkie lore in our fic is a mish-mash of those as well as pieces of our own interpretation

i think it would come down to the relationship with the sea, their pelt, and funnily enough, seal likeness 🦭 as a half selkie martin is able to live further away from the sea and has a longer threshold he can go without wearing his pelt in the ocean - if you remember in the fic he mentions how awful he feels the longer he is not able to do so. with the twins being quarter selkie, the duration can be even longer (probably they could go a month or two without swimming as seals). in our lore, if a selkie goes too long without the ocean, especially without their pelt, it's psychologically taxing and borderline torturous - and if your pelt is stolen with no way of getting it back 😬 thinking about those stories where the selkie mother must abandon her children the second she finds her pelt again

the relationship with the pelt would be similar, i think any type of selkie would have a pelt but maybe the effects of not having access to the pelt are stronger/weaker depending? i think the twins could maybe be okay if they were away from their pelts for a prolonged period but martin doesn't like to be away from his for reasons that'll show up later in the fic >:)

seal likeness is just too plain funny not to include, same rules apply there - martin likes raw fish, he has bad eyesight above water so he wears readers, sometimes he exhibits seal behaviors (like smacking the air when jon gets too close in the kitchen or the courting behavior in the latest chapter) and if he were a full selkie those would be ever the more present

anyway thanks for letting me ramble :3 here's a doodle of the twins to show my gratitude

[Start ID: Greyscale drawing of Jon and Martin's unnamed selkie twins from a TMA selkie au. Both babies are cuddled together, their faces are smushed together and they form a vague heart shape together. They are wrapped in their selkie pelts, light grey with dark grey and white spots, and wearing onesies underneath. Both twins have black hair with a few curls, one twin has a beauty mark under the lip and the other has a beauty mark under the right eye. End ID.]

[juno-valentine]

OCC POST/ WRITING alirghtly gang here's more rambling for Juno but this time its the half assed version of her Gotham backstory (different from her normal one)

WARNING: Death, pregnancy, loss of children, and mitski coded Juno??? ALSO THIS IS REALLY UNORGANIZED AND IS NOT CANON TO HER MAIN STORY LINE I JUST THOUGHT WRITING AND POSTING ABOUT HER GOTHAM ALTERNATIVE WOULD BE FUN!!!! and as always shes a very Mary Sue character

Juno valentine in this universe is a veteran, having fought in the army from the time she was 18 to 24, she had join as soon as she graduated highschool to escape her abusive household. she was discharged from the military for behavioral issues, seeing as she had on more than one occasion lashed out at her fellow soldiers.

during her first year away from her job she ended up getting pregnant from a hook up with a old mate from the army. she decided to keep the baby. nine months later giving birth to uhhhhh idk yet actually unnamed valentine boy…… yeahhhhh…… her son grew up with a bit of an obsession with old western movies, always wanting to watch them during movie night and play cowboys with his mother, hed always play the sheriff of course and juno would always play as the bandit ( WINK WINK NUG NUG).

during this time juno had begun taking up odd jobs around gotham ( she moved there to try and keep her son away from her family as possible) shed do bodyguard work here and there, some transporter stuff a few times, but she was best known for taking people out. she was a surprisingly good killing machine, even if she didn't like being called that. soon people out of the city and the state of jersey were interested in her services, and at this point she had enough money for a nanny to watch over her son while she was out of town.

shed try to make up for any lost time with souvenirs shed pick up while on the job, mostly getting cowboy adjacent things. Juno would also try her best to take her son to do things she never got to do, like swimming, going to the fair, and even going to disneyland. skip forward a few years and her sons all grown up, hes a smart boy, even graduated high school early at 17.

but his dreams didn't lie in the academic field, no he wanted to be a police officer, just like the sheriffs in the old western movies he loved as a child! This worried juno, being a officer in gotham was a dangerous job, even if this was before all the freaks showed up. but she didn't want to stop her boy from following his dreams, no not like her father did to her, so she let him go to the gotham police academy, even paid for any additional fees to get in.

about 2 years into being in the academy, new captain, Nathaniel Barnes and officer jim gordon promoted her son to Unit alpha. she was out of town when this happened, and her son decided it would be best to wait to see her again to reveal the good news. he never got to do that though. a few weeks into being on the unit he was burned to death by a masked arsonist, the "Fire fly" ( BTW BEFORE YOU WONDER HE JUST REPLACES LUKE AS THE FIRST KID TO DIE ON THE TASK FORCE,LUKE STILL DIES THOUGH) Juno doesn't even receive the news her son is dead until the day before the funeral.

the one person she'd ever loved with her whole heart, her own blood, someone that had known her for there entire life, her baby, her son, her little cowboy… gone. forever. the one thing left she cared about. slipping away. She cried for the first time in years that night, letting it all out, that same night she went to the bar to drink her sorrows away, some place she didn't quite recognize, this place called the iceberg lounge she believes? she remembered it belonging to that fish lady, mooney or something but that didn't matter to her. all she wanted to do was forget. forget her regret of letting her son be a officer, the regret of not being there, the regret of not being there in the hospital during his last moments.

[s0lar-ch3ri]

even more! (this one probably has the major spoiler in it so beware!)

"congratulations the gift of life" did that baby ever get back to its mom btw?? MARSHAL JON DO YOU KNOW PLEASE-

"i am not the father"

"you should give them all babies so their distracted" one of my favorite lines of the campaign

"well its not good but i think itd be funny" wow chip i wonder if this thinking will have any affect on the future /j

"your gonna liberate these people" GILL YOU SHOULD NOT BE TALKING CAUSE IN A COUPLE EPISODES- (i do appreciate his work as a hero i just had to say it-)

"why do the guards have tails?"

"ah…you speak of A S S T U B E S"

"what im gonna do is pretty dumb" charlie this campaign is just basically getting into situations and having a competition of stupidity

"chip what are you doing with my people?"

"i was just roleplaying how he might have failed that"

"i wanna grab the fish and i wanna sell the fish" god i wonder how my friend will react to that info cause we both overthinking with adhd

"cause as you are running, a flock of PIGEONS-" dex save for pigeons LMAO

"i got a ten" "WHAT ARE THOSE?" the moods here

just imagining starry eyed gill look at a flock of pigeons and go "theyre beautiful" makes me happy i csnnot explain in a stable way im-

"jay can we keep them?" (oh yeah funny thing but alfir on the yt video has titled the part where condi got a ten for the roll "Jay’s hair is canonically bread btw" so ye)

"i love each and everyone unequivocally" to my fellow gillion lovers, you are now pigeons <3

"a fine way to die" gill jay isnt gonna be killed by pigeons

"the birds transition they start following gill" bro bouta be super happy lol

"i put my glasses down and kinda wink at jay" ok before i was a kinda hard fish and chips shipper but now i think im getting into more poly pirates (not just from this idk why i added this note)

"i would like to make a speech" oh god

"i dont know what they are but i love em"

i love how gill is just getting smothered by these crows and pigeons and seagulls and hes just not stopping it BIRD LOVER GILL FOR THE WIN!

"did you flip a coin to see if you were gonna love em or hate em?" "i already knew i was gonna love em" MY HEART HE LIKES BIRDS EVERYONE

"yes indeed roost there forever" (originally wrote roast so that made it funnier)

"people of zero i am gillion tidestrider and with my companions chip and jay we have toppled the tower of your oppressors now is the time to take your destiny into your own hands! also look at all these what are these i love them" that wonderful switch tho (i needed some serious quotes to ground this lol)

"this is a beautiful place and you must preserve it! im sorry jon but the people must rise!" GO GILL GO START AN UPRISING DISMANTLE THE GOVERNMENT POGGIES

"can i get advantage from the birds?" "go ahead and roll with advantage" THIS IS WHY GRIZZLY IS AN AWESOME DM BECAUSE CHARLIE CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS SHIT NOW WOOOOOOOO

"oh your a fucking hero" indeed he is, THANKS GRIZZLY!

"i, gillion tidestrider, PIGEON LORD" god i wish he added it to his titles (fuck it ill make a list of titles that gill didnt use in his name)

"and that is what sparks the excitement in this crowd" WOOOOOOOOOOO UPRISING HOORAY!

"and they start pelting it at the large group of soldiers" GOOOO UNNAMED GROUP OF NPCS FUCK IT UP!!!

"BE YOUR OWN HEROES PEOPLE OF ZERO BIRD YOU LATER!" i must add bird you later to my vocabulary now

"whatever. im over them" ok i saw a meme about how gill would leave chip for big j (which ngl true) but adding to that GILL WOULD DITCH MARSHAL JONS AS FOR THOSE FUCKING BIRDS

"do you wanna know what alpha move i wanna do?"

"i was gonna blow up the dock but never mind" when you cant murder the government:

"marshal jon stops and he gives you a wink gill" GRIZZ KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING

"and he says 'GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'" THE SERATONIN CAME IN THE SERATONIN ARRIVED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

"I KNEW I SAW THAT SPARK IN YOU JON LIVE FOR YOURSELF" god my head is going to fluff HELP MEEEEEEE

"oh chip you hero and jokester" stop im crying the foreshadowing

"i managed to get this single pigeon" THE FORGOTTEN PET OF JRWI APPLE (by forgotten i mean i dont see much thing with him)!!!!

"its a little blue bird" he is my favorite boy grizzly you dont understand HE CAN BE A PIGEON IF HE WANTS (also we wouldnt have had him if charlie didnt get that 19 SO THANK YOU CHARLIE)

"that is not a pigeon" "why" god he just kept saying why huh

"it is an ocean pigeon" ok i wont get the idea out my head, if you need me ill probs be doing bird research to make one of these real

"you should give it some of that gunpowder" oh right cause chip must ruin all holy and sacred things ok great hooray (no hate, love chip, but this is just cruel and uncalled for) (also i didnt try to directly quote this one wow im that annoyed huh LMAO)

"its a gun bird" adds to notes on what to add to sea pigeon

"hello little gun bird"

"if he can eat it so can i" then gill is told he cant eat fire now

"im gonna hold random things out in front of my new bird and see what it eats"

"jay you dont need that" when you steal your friends food to feed this random ass bird you found

"what if you just dont explain the plan to the bad guys"

"i would hate to betray the enemy as well" ok ik this is meant to be a silly line BUT IT WORKS TOO WELL WITH TRAITOR GILLION

"i wish i could ask you to roll a deception check"

"and who knows how many evil has wrapped its claws around like our bright little boy jon" uh gill you got it wrong, hes your bright burly chest of a very tan man with hair and tattoos covering his arms man jon

"ah, a beautiful fire illuminated against the sea"

"what do those of the oversea do in this case? down below we have squirties" we love gill and his undersea traditions!

"what are your oversea squirties"

"what is wheat" "an evil plant" didnt go exactly like that, hilarious either way, the only evil there though is the alcoholism about to happen because sinning /j

"'die blood of wheat' i try to chug the whole thing" if thats how it went down it would have been extra crazy (also now having flashbacks cause in my campaign my friend is drunk and im hungover)

"sounds like a sizable squirtie"

"if it is to defeat the evil plant it shall be done" did gill ever learn that he technically gave into evil because of sins and lies? this info would destroy the amazing fish man!

"i just look over at jay and kinda wink" oh chip your going down a loooooong road buddy.

"i shall bare this burden and fight this foe for you" again the foreshadowing to (spoiler, big one) niklaus saying the whole

"whats one more burden? (forgot if it was him but ik it happened while gill was working out the details of the deal) but now its through becoming an alcohol drinker! (also sorry about the alcoholic jokes, ik drinking alcohol once doesnt make you an alcoholic thats just what my brain is doing at 12 in the morning)

"im like furiously doing it too like this needs to die"

"i want to cast protection from good and evil on myself while i do it" gill getting prepared to not deal with sinning (alternativly, all the beer just starts flowing back out his mouth cause sinning is evil and alcoholism is a sin, like bro just starts floating eyes full on white posed like hes ascending and all the beer heads back into the keg stand only for gill to try again to defeat it)

"you do this keg stand for the first time, this feels honorable-" "do i die" "you know what actually make a con save" i feel like this line is up there with giggle roll death save right?

im not gonna do mid roll quotes or the patreon reading if i do continue this, tbh this took me DAYS to complete and i probs wont do a series for my sanity (sea pigeon still happening) but maybe once im caught up more we'll see. anyways enjoy the chaos ive made!

making this a series ig (spoilers, mostly minor, idk well just have to ROLL WITH IT AND SEE)

episode is starting from zero, episode 1 (quick note: i love how excited everyone is aty the beggining for this camoain, so heartwarming) "'for all you audio listeners your about to hear what a man catching on fire sounds like' 'and also a house catching on fire'" "so its like 3 belts? yeah" "this character sucks not enough belts" ok chip hasnt been described and hes already drawn blood "how much trouble does this woman have keeping her pants up holy shit" "anything that looks valueable, take it" "whats a barrel" instant love with this campaine from here "ill carry this" "ok" "but w h y" “this is the fastest I've ever committed arson in a campaign” "ok as soon as we light this ill let them know so they die an honorable death" "but the barrel is terrified of fire" "so this is a barrel" "lets blow up this popcicle place" hes trying guys "grab a barrel as well i need to study" "in you multitude of belts" when did i forget jay had so many and got bullied for it "i hope she didnt find any more belts in there" ok but whenever i hear marshal jon being described the dopamine just floods out "oh! that wasnt the bathroom!" "no it was not, it was the room where we got the explosives" "WHAT ARE YOU GRABBING THE EXPLOSIVES FOR" "to blow up your ship" bro i loved how gill interacted with people before what an idiot /pos "gill make a-dont make anything you told the truth" gotta love grizzly doing a save "and jay you go to kick this man in the back of the knee and you do you realise that his calf muscles are literally built like boulders" "i want to put my hand on his shoulder" and so it begins the convincing! yes gill go!! "hang on let me see that...big j" "JON, ITS YOUR CHOIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE" "as the door is blown off-" "did somebody fart?" ah yes gill you lit the explosive that makes people fart" "BACHOW!" please dont stop this man from making random noises its great "is your skin always wet or is it dry?" GRIZZ ASKING THE REAL QUESTIONS!! "you are to learn a lesson from the moisture master!" remember when gill made his title canon now, its 6 seconds to 20 minutes in "THOSE PIRATES!" man knowing him now its kinda strange to hear him hunting them down "i just occasonally grab people and im like 'you can be better'" cant believe gill went from telling people to be better to just immedately trying to solve their problems (like not even 2 episodes later if im remembering right) "excellent jay you are a fog frog" "im gonna steal somebody's hat then run out the door" jay stealing chips job now "im passing the barrel out the window" i remember when hed just be a problem for any stealth kind of movements "MY FRIEND SAID HE DOESNT WANT YOU TO HAVE AN ADVANTAGE" "there is still time" ITS STARTING WOW "you get the sense this guy cannot see very well" i forgot he had sight problems "YOU BLEW A HOLE IN OUR TOWER" "and you blew a hole in my heart" ACCIDENTAL FORESHADOWING AND A GREAT MOMENT FOR SHIPPERS?? HOW MUCH IS CHARLIE FEEDING US WITH GILLION TIDESTRIDER!?!!? (spoiler: a lot) "can i make a persuasion check?" "sure" if charlie never said this we would never have the future pirate jon, IF HE NEVER GOT A 16 THINK WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED "you cant tell if i cry a single tear or if im usually that moist" the fact that he is can make for an angsty hc that nobody really would notice gill crying "jon didnt make it" oh this better not be another accidental foreshadow "you see, a pink frogtupus" everyone being excited for the preztal reveal was also all of us huh dont lie! "i look like a big flounder" fanartists canon gill description /j "god damn it big j" friendly reminder that (from what ive seen) marshal jon is the only character gill gave a nickname, and he had met him like 20+ minutes ago "YA BOY GILL ABOUTA BE FRIED" "ima just grab them both and jump" ngl i cant put my finger on it but calmer gillion probs the chaos control thats needed because of him being feral "jon this is for you" *proceeds to get an 8* (would have been epic if he suceeded that charisma tho) "jon, the power is- eyeh" "i look over wistfully (?) 'but w h y?'"

[jordm]

Heartland 12x02 - Hearts Run Free review

Previously on Heartland:

Mitch: I’m dating again

Me: I know. You’re in two hallmark movies in the span of a month (Winter Castle & Winter Love Story - btw)

OK, jokes aside, I’ve already seen Winter Castle but if anyone is actually interested in me recapping Winter Love Story, out later this month, I can try to do a live blog type thing.

ANYWAYS, onto the episode!

Tim

Anyone else kind of upset there was no ‘we know something they don’t?” thing where we see the whole convo that went down and then him coming to the house to move in, even though the family doesn't? That way we can truly appreciate why each party is acting said way. Gosh, for such an important event we don’t even SEE Casey.

Anyways, Team Jack. He def should have consulted Jack first - plus  begs the question - how temporary is temporary in Heartland world?

So in the end Tim tells Lou the truth BUT ASDJHASJDKH we don’t hear it!!!! what the heck Heartland?! All we really get is that timing is a funny thing. And here’s the funny thing, Timing is a funny thing. Especially when Music overlaps with what the speaking.

Amy & Ty

Amy & Ty are starting to work together - and it’s coming together thanks to Dean’s approval and pleasant surprise over Amy’s work with Bandit - and after hearing that they are now starting to work together as the ‘dream team.’ 

Anyways when said mare and foal (currently unnamed) escape again, Amy and Ty find them in another situation (when will they learn?!), but this time it’s the mare whose in trouble. long story short, this is when they come to the conclusion that Will’s herd at Pike River is the perfect place for them - and I agree. it really does seem pretty perfect. 

Speaking of reminiscing:

“The wedding that never happened” - Ty

“And thank goodness it never happened; could you imagine Lou?” - Amy

Jack

I honestly just feel bad for Jack the entire episode. First Lisa ditches her husband on their romantic long awaited weekend for Aunt Evelyn, then Tim without warning moves in. I mean, i’m still a lil upset it ruined Amy/Ty’s weekend alone time but ehhhh I guess it’s okay. ANYWAYS, Pike River.

Pike River (Amy, Jack & Ty)

So I know that it was billed as - or in my head as a romantic weekend but... as I watch it play out, even if it was just the two of them, I am coming to terms that it probably wouldn’t be very romantic as the head of the herd seems to be causing problems and having trouble accepting the mare and foal. Plus, they did get plenty of alone time when Will was with Jack.

“And now we’re married. Have our own beautiful baby girl. I’d say we’re doing pretty good” - Ty

Amy and her horse whisperer sense talks to the head of the herd and gets through - convinces the head to accept the mare/foal. Seems like the solution - although it probably took a few days - was somewhat straight forward. True in miracle girl fashion, Will now has two more mouths to feed and Amy has solved another horse issue (PS I’d LOVE to see a horse issue last more than a few episodes - a la Phoenix or Spartan. It would really show Amy testing her skills)

“You’re a cowboy Jack. You always have been, always gonna be and Lisa loves you for that and don’t go changing into someone else- especially when that someone else sounds like the idiot I used to be” - Will

God bless Will for cheering up Jack about Lisa - for suggesting a guys day fishing trip. I'm a little... skeptical because we see Lisa crying in stills with Jack later on in the season right? So I’m guessing that either something major happens during this fishing trip or it never even happens. And I just don’t want to think about that. Please let this fishing trip happen because I want to hear more stories from the past!

Lisa

So here’s a timeline of my thoughts:

7:19 - So Evelyn’s emergency is that she wants Lisa to... be her travel companion? Because... she’s lonely and her boyfriend isn’t the greatest? Call me skeptical but early on i’m Team Jack - she’s about to forgo a long awaiting trip with Jack to be with her aunt - a grown woman with her own friends and who can travel herself. So we’ll see how this plays out.

13:36 - So apparently Evelyn is sick? Lisa seems to believe it but Jack is skeptical. Maybe a compromise that she leaves after said romantic weekend? Did they even discuss how long she’d be going for because Jack seemed against her going all together when we don’t even know for how long or the finite details.

27:15 - Gotta love Will for talking Jack off the ledge and kind of seeing things from a different perspective. Advice once given to Will by Jack himself.

36:58 - So Lisa has decided to go... (boooo) but is also going to be Amy/Ty’s first full time clients? So bittersweet I guess. I’m looking forward to seeing Amy and Ty working together more and more at Fairfield but also sad because Lisa won’t be there. Or in this season at all.

40:04 - okay stop breaking my heart Jisa and please come back soon. please. pretty please? Jack needs you with Tim around.

Georgie

She heard about an opening for a high level training coach - Kim Price. She feels that she should give it a shot since Amy always feels bad for not spending enough time with Georgie. I’m with Georgie - plus this is waaay better for Amy and frees up her time to work on her new business venture. 

Turns out (as we all probably expected) Amy only wants whats best for Georgie, even if Georgie insists that “Amy is best.” (she isn’t) It is nice to see Amy kind of upset that Georgie “fired her” even if she knows she is absolutely in the right and it’s for the best - I truly believe that just because you know something is right, doesn’t mean it can’t hurt; if you really cared in the first place then it SHOULD upset you a little even if you know its right.

Looks like Kim is down to train Georgie, with a caveat - she has to ride of horse of choosing. AKA not Phoenix, but Georgie refuses - she’s a loyal one and something tells me movie magic will make her make the time of 0:56. (alas i am proven right - i mean in the sense Kim agrees even though she was 1 second over)

Lou

Lou’s calling her father, asking how things went with Casey. I get Tim is all cagey and shit but give him some time to tell the family. She doesn’t even know if it went well! And it seems evident that... something went haywire because now he’s moving into the house since he sold Big River (a lil prematurely no?)

It’s nice to see her stepping up to take care of Lyndy after so many seasons of being away so often. It’s also nice to see Lou step up to help Georgie with her training and spending time with her daughter - even giving her valid advice. And to see Lou on a horse. Here’s to more of this Lou please.

Because Lou is fine. She’s fine. How often can she say fine before someone believes it? How much can she talk before she talks herself off the ledge? Because they’re totally “friends”, friends in quotes - because that conversation between her and Mitch was... something. A little combative, with both of them trying to pretend they’re 100% over each other when clearly theres still something there.

(I may have said because a little too much in the latter paragraph. Oops)

End Notes

- I managed to type the majority of this during the commercials... which is actually pretty impressive in itself. 

- Gotta love Lou’s line of “Given the new living circumstances, I’ll move into the loft” - I’m thinking she’s kind of grateful to be away from this mess and the inevitable Jack/Tim arguments. Did anyone else wish we saw Lou actually take care of Lyndy?

- Ty’s “Why?” is all of us; i bet he thought he was coming as a chaperone - when it really is long not necessary. If only they knew the entire story - actually “if only they knew the entire story” seems to be the theme:

x if only they knew why Tim was really acting that way after whatever went down with Casey

x if only they knew what Jack was going through with Lisa and Tim all at once

- I just LOVE all the faces Lyndy makes during this episode.

Songs In This Episode ( @heartlandians )

Game Called Love - Evan Olson

Here With Me - Joe Alexander Ediekn

Remember - Joey Landreth