#the roadtrip part one

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[yourtipsygrandma]

I saw the Northern Lights and I’m having an extreme emotional reaction excuse me

[stabbyfoxandrew]

AHHH no cause im so excited for the mer AU im loving it so far!!! so this is me requesting more of it!! :)))♡

WIP Wednesday (5/22)| Mer Roadtrip AU (Part 18)

After sucking in another deep breath, Nathaniel ducks back down into the murky water out of view. He can’t risk being seen by the humans up on the bridge, not when he’s about to change. The idea of transforming without his mother is nauseating. It was never allowed. And he’s never swam without her.

After her death, he couldn’t bring himself to use her gift. But it’s his only option now. So Nathaniel tucks all his grief into the back of his mind. Then he crosses his ankles and concentrates hard. All at once, gills open on the sides of his neck and his legs start to fuse together, bringing both relief and pain. His knee protests strongly against the transformation, but his tail forms regardless.

It’s a bit stiff. Whether from his injury or disuse, he doesn’t know. What he does know is changing back to human is going to be much, much worse. But Nathaniel will just have to cross that bridge when he comes to it.

The irony of that phrase has him giggling bubbles against his will. At last he comes to his senses— if he has them at all— and wipes the insanity off his face, along with a layer of slime he’d rather not identify. As he shakes the goop off, the appearance of his fingers takes him by surprise. Of course, the reddish-orange webbing between them is familiar but it’s still strange to see after a month without it. 

[pointninezero1]

thinking about a wishbaby natejo series where after jo re-signs with the avs they spend the night together walking around denver like they did in juniors and the next morning they both wake up to babies on their doorstep and the first thing they think to do is call each other

[mokeonn]

if you dont mind sharing, what are some of your favorite ska songs/bands?

I will admit I am not a huge band person I tend to be more of a "pick whatever random songs sound good" person, so I can't recommend any good bands. I also listen to Ska Punk, which is a subgenre of Ska... and Punk. So I am not a good authority on Ska songs to listen to I am just someone who is banned from being passed the aux cord...

But some of my favorite songs include:

No Children - Ska (cover)

Quinto Patio Ska

Everything Went Numb

S F D D

And songs by Reel Big Fish tbh. I know I just said I don't listen to specific bands but Reel Big Fish has some pretty good songs like...

Sell Out

And their Take on Me cover

Here's my disclaimer, though: I am not into music subcultures I just listen to whatever sounds good (and jazzy punk with horns sounds good), so I could be giving absolutely awful music recommendations that anyone who is especially into Ska (and more specifically Ska Punk) might find egregious. I personally just grab whatever song sounds good and add them to my forever long playlist.

Also the Jabberjaw (Running Underwater) song from Pain used for the Cartoon Network Boomerang Groovies is probably the reason I enjoy Ska punk so much, and it has been in my playlist for years now:

If nothing else in this list interests you, I require everyone by law to listen to Jabberjaw Running Under Water by pain and watch the Cartoon Network Boomerang Groovie video of it. I used to watch Boomerang a million times, and this was probably the only Groovie I really enjoyed watching and didn't go to the bathroom during.

[cerbreus]

🚣‍♂️

[eorzeashan]

Eight has two Odux mounts whomst he received as gifts from Zakuulan locals on his travels; these two beasts produce milk and cheese, so he regularly makes those products and occasionally sells them to fund his wanderings around the countryside of Wild Space.

That is not their only purpose; given the necessity of a spy to travel abroad without raising suspicion, Eight was tasked with gathering espionage for the Alliance and scouting potential allied villages/difficult-to-reach enclaves while under the guise of an oddjobs nomadic mercenary for hire. Due to the Eternal Empire's aggressive advancement in tech, it was a unanimous decision for him to go with relatively little technology in order to avoid surveillance, save for the occasional radio and report. As a result, Eight spent most of his time living on the back of his animals and caravan-ing to parts most remote while adapting to life on the move.

Being from a semi-nomadic culture himself, Eight took to never staying in one place and gathering reconnaissance from the locals like a fish to water--even building a mobile house-like structure atop his beasts so he could sleep in the saddle while the Odux' were on the move. Lana's mobile Intelligence did come into fruition...though not in the way she expected. No one could deny the efficacy of an operative permanently out in the field however, and it was approved for Eight to carry out his work like so and as he saw fit, becoming one of the most vital pieces of Alliance intelligence due to being largely invisible to a high-tech Empire.

[sibyl-of-space]

it's christmas which means i finished editing and scoring the last video in a trilogy of award-winning films i made out of MiniDV camcorder footage of a roadtrip me and my roommate went on. i will post it here once it finishes uploading to youtube which is taking forever because it's like 15 minutes long

[tamagotchikgs]

i try my best not to think of it and i havent in years but the fact the only people who were ever supposed to be my friends irl would always dump their love on me and then to leave me & say they dont like me over and over and over again only so they could watch my reaction n make fun of me together maybe did affect me huh

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: April 15

"Something in the Way She Moves" by James Taylor

[griffther]

listen i will bring back the nurseydex maine roadtrip au if it will help spread the good word enough to get us canon nurseydex in an omgcp tv show

[vitrines]

i love Situations. and Times. and the likes

[passionatememes]

yknow i was like huh my red dead hyperfixation didn't last long whatever that's fine and then i went on a hike listening to orville peck on the ride there and back and somehow that's what's giving me brainworms again

[ronance-rat]

i want boney m in season 5.

[thistransient]

Alright...I can’t resist a good fill-in-the-map demonstrating the result of spending many years being itinerant as a coping mechanism instead of studying the blade/going to therapy/doing something useful/what have you, hah. I feel like the parameters are a little vague though (at least in English, interestingly the Chinese option is slightly more specific). I decided “lived” = “lived for at least one month in a fixed location for a purpose other than traveling/sightseeing”, “stayed” = “stayed at least one night”, “visited” = “visited on a day trip”, “stopped” = “at least stopped to get gas/at a road stop”, and “passed here” = “had a layover/drove through without stopping for gas”. For the record, do I still want to go to all the places I haven’t been (though I’d probably only go to Nebraska just to tick the box, unless someone wants to make a passionate case for it).

[softwaluigi]

oh my fucking god I need squeaky cheese Right Now