#dwindling

[ardent-reflections]

All I have left is a flicker of desire.

Clarice Lispector

[nsemkekanews]

Experts call for stronger enforcement to protect dwindling fish stocks

Experts call for stronger enforcement to protect dwindling fish stocks By Juliet Aguiar DUGBARTEY, Takoradi The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is urging authorities to step up enforcement and ensure effective prosecution of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing activities in Ghana. According to the organisation, successful prosecution of offenders will serve as a deterrent…

[j-august]

Gently prized up a peppermint cream from the dwindling stock in his pocket. It induced that faraway look in his eye which Mrs Watts mistook for profound cerebration, but which in reality was connected with his solvency in terms of that important commodity… though Starmouth was pretty good peppermint cream country at most hours of the day and night.

Alan Hunter, Gently By The Shore

[tenth-sentence]

First, his hatred for Tanis – a hatred he'd nurtured righteously for years – was starting to dwindle away, replaced by admiration, even affection.

"DragonLance Chronicles: Dragons of Winter Night" - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[preyingmantits]

Arun who tried to starve himself into a quiet and merciful death & Amadeo who was tortured with starvation until he was nothing but knawing hunger & Armand who says after 500 years he doesn't need to eat as much as one young in the blood.

Arun who can't remember his own language or the cadence of his father's laugh & Amadeo who can't forget his brothers' screaming ringing in his head or the red velvet cocoon of his master's bed & Armand who can smooth over a painful memory as easily as wiping away a tear from his lover's cheek.

Arun who couldn't run fast enough to escape & Amadeo who wasn't strong enough to fight back & Armand who was all of those things and more but wasn't brave enough to change the story.

[starry-bi-sky]

the moment im able, Danny and Bruce are going to be annoying each other On Purpose SO much in WTNS. I have an arsenal of non-bat related nicknames for Bruce on standby (that is steadily collecting more as i come across them) and ready for my disposal

Danny: Batman. Batman. Bruce: oh we’re going full name now. Danny: Batman. Bruce: hm. Danny: lean down for me Bruce, doing just that indulgently: hm? Danny, grabbing him by the shirt collar: dont start throwing stones in glass houses, batboy [Bruce was teasing him about wearing flannels]

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Danny: mind you, i have unmitigated access to your closet Bruce: ah. i see. of course

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Danny: sir, you are dressed as a bat, choose your next words carefully Bruce: 🤨 Danny: trust me i have nothing but respect for your commitment to the bit, but Danny: you are still dressed as a bat Danny: and i am not above taking potshots

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Danny makes a point to thwap Bruce on the ankles with his cane when he's being annoying/a dumbass/because it's funny. Sometimes it lands, sometimes Bruce hops out of the way before that. Bruce hopping away leads to Danny continuing to try and thwap him until he succeeds

Playfighting is also a thing. And by playfighting i mean Danny is trying to bop Bruce, and Bruce is blocking him via batting his hands away. Danny will not stop until he's successfully poked Bruce in the ribs

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bruce:…what are you doing danny, faux-punching bruce in the side. and by that i mean he is poking him the side/arm with his fists and quietly making "pow-pow-pow" noises. it doesnt even do any damage he's pr much just tapping him: danny, still faux-hitting him: bothering you danny, pausing: is it working bruce, trying not to smile:…no danny: damn danny: [goes back to faux-hitting him]

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Danny: [playfully putting his hands up defensively] Bruce: thats not how you do that Danny: you think im going for accuracy? [one-sided slap fight ensues]

[cr4yolaas]

my new big pet peeve is ppl writing nanami like a bland, formal old man. like no he isn’t exactly cheery but he isn’t super monotone either imo. i don’t think he’d bother excessively w the whole elegant or “floral” speech, nor do i think he’d be slower when it comes to things like gen z-esque convo or online trends. do i think he cares less abt these things and employs them less in regular convos?? yeah. do i think he IS gentlemanly and romantic to an extent?? absolutely. but i’m soo tired of the same “Darling, I’ve prepared you XYZ. Please be so kind as to…” script. don’t reduce my man to this </3

[serennes-art]

couple weeks ago i deep-dived a star trek tng au for jayvik so here is almost everything i've done for that

one borgmillion sketches + drafts under the cut for the interested viewer

[axoqiii]

🎀 miscellaneous sumire doodles

[bruhstation]

*Breaks into your house to stare wistfully out the window* Do you ever think that CTHenry is, at least by some perceptions, a corpse being kept alive by gold dust and the whimsy of a goddess whose motives are unknown? I do. *Puffs on bubble pipe* Anyway. I'm still holding out hope for a happy ending for our Miserable Train Gays. Iram gentlemen. Have a good day 💗

out of sight, out of mind

[leaderincrows]

Failed combat test

Manifesting cyborg Caleb 🫶

[tenth-sentence]

Shadows were dwindling as noon approached.

"DragonLance Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight" - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[laughing-taffy]

[missriyochuchi]

The clones really are a fascinating contrast to stormtroopers. And I don’t mean Finn and the First Order because they follow in the wake of The Clone Wars; I mean Imperial stormtroopers who dominated the Star Wars imagination first and the longest.

For decades, stormtroopers basically functioned like clones: they looked and sounded the same, even though we knew there were different people underneath the helmets they never took off; different faces, same personality.

Then actual clones basically inverted the model: genetically identical men used every opportunity to differentiate themselves, from their armor to their body modifications to their behavior; same face, different personalities.

The one place where the Venn diagram intersected was loyalty, but even then, they still inverted each other’s models. Clones designed to be unwaveringly loyal and obedient consistently questioned orders and their place in the galaxy. Meanwhile, stormtroopers from disparate planets and cultures unfailingly followed the orders of an impersonal Empire.

For all of Star Wars’s faults, for all the ways in which they dumb down or gloss over traditional scifi modes and themes, I can’t think of a more thorough exploration of cloning, the attendant questions of identity and free will, and the sociopolitical and metaphysical implications of a race of genetically identical men, of sameness in difference and difference in sameness, than the clone troopers.

[avoidmint]

The Light of his life~ (Animation)

[constructreese]

I don't want to make another ebegging post but it's looking like I'm going to have to