#wtf are barnacles

[chaolimez]

Chaos is Power

[murkywaterzz]

Sigh, can’t believe bro’s gonna lose his memories 😔😔😔

this is what I imagine that looking like sketched on a manga panel 💀👍

[raenef]

hdfgfghdfg

[hi-people54]

HELP 😭

[ryryisfine]

my taste in women is so ass what do you mean delivered 5 hours

[literallycallmesock]

there's octonauts on my dash fo today

He got too silly goofy😔😔

[urautismdiagnosis-wistie]

LANGUAGE HEADCANONS

including the vegimals, also some pirate culture lore for kwazii ig

@calamaroo

BARNACLES

Barnacles learned basic English as an extracurricular when he was younger, but he only really learned it (and gained the accent) when he went to university in Manitoba (polar bear capital of the world and the university works by, with, and for indigenous people with a lot of foreign people coming to study). he's got a similar thing with the speaking Russian and I'm gonna steal the specific language of inuktuk from you.

Also because the Arctic has so many different countries in it (although everyone in the Arctic considers themselves as just "the Arctic because wtf are u gonna do about borders? come through the snow storm and take me to another snowy white spot that looks exactly the same (to you) as the other snowy white spot I was in? FCK borders in the Arctic no one there gives a sht)

Anyways they do have a common sign language because I LOVE SIGN LANGUAGE AND WILL INSERT IT EVERYWHERE I CAN

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KWAZII:

Kwazii did grow up with a very mixed pirate crew, although A LOT of members were either English speaking or Japanese speaking predominantly , he also watched a lot of old kids anime as a kid in Japanese as well lol. not to mention the native island cultures they often interacted with including my very fictional "meowri" (they're sphinx cats with ttattoes and very loosely inspired by Polynesian cultures)...

Because of the general culture of the pirate crew being diverse (esp cuz of interactions on ports/other crews) there was also a lot slang and terms that was known shared and sort of used as a basic communication system for everyone.

so there'd be random Spanish and Arabic terms from the most niche origin points just being used commonly, and that includes a lot of outdated ones, cultural sayings, or words that just don't exist in a lot of other languages, and etc

not to mention that because of how old the pirate clan he was a part of was (founded in 1920s) and because of the different crews there's genuinely like hundreds and hundreds of them being in these isolated communities and even being born and raised in them. so there's a lot of words that cant even be found anywhere else, so kwazii does get frustrated when he cant express what he wants to say but he just... cant even translate the word

OR the words everyone else uses for it doesn't make any sense! it... it kinda makes him feel stupid sometimes

also because his clan did work with a lot of wild animals as non tech sources of information (you feed them and then they get u good info!! for strategy, spying, whatever! and no one even blinks an eye cuz its just a crow (an extremely intelligent bird)!) but uh... the problem with that is that well alot of animals uhhhh misunderstand stuff

so that means that all the names of locations, descriptions of wild animals, ways of naming ships, and all the information would've have to have been animal comprehension friendly. not to mention be more coded cuz of non-friend pirate clans and G O V E R N M E N T S- so I'd get some wacky name replacements for all sorts of things.... its really a mess XD, a beautiful mess but still

also explained why so many of the pirate tales about *insert scientific name of the episode's animal* was often over exaggerated with strange details... including ones pirates shouldn't even known. Like how could they know about sword fish making the water around them warm?

its because a lot of that info CAME from the animals... animals who... don't understand numbers and say things like "and it was 20 feet tall!" even if it was only 5.... because it FEELS that tall to the small animal yk? also not understanding science on a deeper level so its all explained in a strange way. Ofc the pirates DONT help the issue because they be exaggerating the hell out of their own stories-

yeah sure the snake was "long as the river itself" Cj and SURE it was 20 sharks or whatever and not THREE that chased you kwazii

lying in story telling is just a form of pirate love actually, so is pranks and pickpocketing but kwazii refrains lol... this turned into me yapping about the blorbo

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BASIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

Speaking of the basic communication thing, the octonauts crew was trained on the main words for rescue related communication in more common languages like Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, etc and will take time to learn (or just refresh) before heading to a new location.

Because in my own au the communication abilities of the wildlife is a lot more limited based on their level of intelligence. so an orca would technically be bi lingual in their own orca language and be able to speak nearly identical to a humanoid person

also like I said before about sign language, BASIC PIRATE SIGNS THAT ONLY OTHER PIRATES KNOW AYYYYYYYYY

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DASHI:

Australian Dashie my beloved<3 honestly she WOULD have learned several languages and learned more for/from her friends shes so capable and incredible fr. also FCK it MORE sign language! I headcanon shes CODA, which means you're the child of one or two parents who are both either hard of hearing or Deaf! so she actually was learning sign very VERY young from her mom <3 and well the rest of her family cuz they all knew it lol

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PESO:

peso is obviously bilingual and he's the BEST at the basic communications skills thing and most well versed cuz he deals with the most animals one on one, so he actually can communicate with pretty much all the animal creatures, even taking the time to learn some slang terms the animals might have learned so that they'll feel safer and more comfortable around him!

he also picks up on a lot of dialects especially since his cousins are so diverse

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TWEAK:

as for tweak she knows a lot of Spanish actually because hey! Miami has A LOT Spanish speakers, so much that's its actually made an entirely new developing dialect unique to the area!

tweak actually understands a decent amount of Japanese and Russian but.... not for normal conversations, more like because of all the engineering studying she did! research papers, studies, articles, lectures, books etc etc... so she could probably have a full conversation about the physics and math of submarines in those languages but if you wanted to talk about like... how you're feeling today or what you want for dinner she can not answer that LMSO

INKLING:

inkling would absolutely know like SO many languages, I have the headcanon that the reason he actually met barnacles in that university was actually because he studied LAND SPECIES for years (and continues to enjoy observing his crew and doing behavioural experiments on them without anyone noticing, esp since they're so diverse and they're in such a unique social environment on the octopod! but shhhh don't tell the others it would ruin the natural response they have! he does this with love btw)

hes also literally mega brained so I'd be surprised if he didn't at least understand the basics of any language the octonauts knew purely based on his own curiosity....

SHELLINGTON:

hehe Gaelic go brrrrrr

also because I headcanon Shellie as being a a mix of Eurasian otters and small clawed Asian otters, I think he does have some Philippine heritage and knows some Tagalog but not that much and he's a bit sad about that in all honesty. his *ss would also know latin

VEGIMALS:

IVE BEEN PLANNING TO MAKE A VEGIMALESE LANGUAGE POST:

ok so basically their language is entirely unique and not just because of them being the only known vegimals:

the thing is that their vocal cords (or vegetable/fish equivalent) isn't really made for the languages they hear on the octopod... or English.

the thing is they are their own little pod, and during their earliest developmental years they spent the MAJORITY of their time only with eachother or with shellington, what this means is that while some of the verbal and auditorial cues they have is just innate to vegimal understanding- (and also had difficult time replicating sounds shellington made, while it being easier to replicate a word one of the other vegimals made)

they quite literally made their own words for a lot of things while talking with eachother, before shellington had even realized! a lot of their language development did formulate very similarly to english (and Gaelic) because that's what they were hearing from shellington!

as they continue to grow and get older (they're really only about like 11 to me) their English has actually improved a lot, because they've learned how to mimic the others better, that's how they learned that the vegimals still used a lot of the literal baby talk words that shellington used with them while they were growing up, but just in their own original language

not to mention a lot of their language does have a lot of the meaning derived from the enunciation, tone, rhythm, and etc... so that means its a bit harder for those who just.. don't have the built in brain biology to distinguish those sounds to understand them

ofc shellington did literally raise them so its much much easier for him to understand because (whether he realizes it or not) he was actually learning the language AS they developed it! ofc over the years the other octonauts have actually started to subconsciously pick up on the meanings of those more subtle language features of vegimalese, and combined with knowing the vegimals slang/phrases, and the vegimals learning how to replicate more and more English ones, their understanding of the vegimals only keeps increasing

but to anyone else who isn't an octonaut its.... kinda like hearing a lil guy yip yip a bunch of gibberish and then everyone else in the room going "oh yes of course! that's a great idea Tototofrit! and don't worry, well make sure our fish friends aren't scared as we perform your very clever and crafty plan!"

also my friend said I can pull off a decent vegimal accent so if anyone wants any tips lmk (I would stim in vegimalese in middle school btw LMSO but I did learn a decent amount on how they pronounce things and their speech patterns... still working on perfecting it but I got some starter tips LOL)

also the reasons halibeet and pikato don't show up as much as the other vegimals is because they're just genuinely more introverted, halibeet and pikato do enjoy each other's quiet company tho (as well as the other vegimals, but they're really more homebodies who just aren't as into the whole adventure stuff)

[kittycatfite]

Symbiote Stobotnik AU!

All these eldritch horror!stone fanfics got me thinking. What if I wrote a fanfic where Stone is Venom and Robotnik is Eddie? (I thought about it as the other way round and I like this more, I think)

Ideas under the cut but this is going to be a multi-chapter fic and it will take me a month to write this but holy shit I think this is a Great Idea. i do hope there is overlap in these fandoms! PLS ask me questions but this AU, I need to talk about it!

It’s called Trusty Barnacle

All Stone text is in bold like venom in fanfics but it’s still Stone’s actual voice not Robotnik with a filter like Tom Hardy in the movies :P

Dr. Robotnik has a job as the guy studying aliens, they bring in this alien goop they found on a crash sight

Goop Stone gets attached to Robotnik and decides yes this pathetic man who hasn’t slept in almost a week will be my host. I lub him sm. He will be mine forever and ever. He is my precious. 

In this AU Robotnik is still S1 Rob with the neat hair and mustache but as it progresses and he gets a parasite bf he gets increasingly Eggman like

Symbiote Stone breaks his glass case, bonds with Robotnik and forces him to go home and take care of himself (Stone has no idea how to take care of a human, but neither does Robotnik but they are going to make this work! Even if that involves stealing pizza from a street cart and climbing a building) Robotnik is having the time of his life unlike Eddie who Was Going Through It in the first movie

Which causes Robotnik to lose his job

Cause he did just accidentally steal the alien goop he was supposed to be studying

Monsterfucker!Robotnik stays thriving

Stone still has to eat people’s brains/chocolate etc to be happy and healthy but Robotnik is willing. Stone gets to eat imbeciles in back alley ways as long as Robotnik doesn’t have to taste them.

They live in a little one studio apartment in LA like symbrock (not in great condition but then again Robotnik has an alien latched on to his heart like an angy cat 

Maybe fully symbioted name is Agent Stone or Dr Stone or something

The government keeps coming after them because again they think Robotnik stole the alien, not the other way around. Stone is very possessive of his human.

Maddie and Tom are Anne and Dan (Robotnik didn’t date either of them, they were just friends in college) Idk what to do about the hedgehog children

Mrs. Chen is still Mrs. Chen because I love her too much and I think she would be the only person (besides Alien Goop Stone) to love Robotnik and actually try to look after him.

Robotnik is still an orphan in this so Mrs. Chen is the one who raised him, maybe?

She still has her convenience store and is absolutely delighted that Robotnik found someone. Doesn’t matter that he's an alien parasite, he’s an absolute treat to be around. They have tea together every Thursday with Robotnik as a reluctant participant because Stone can't leave his body or he will die (he enjoys it and Stone knows cause he is in his head)

Maybe instead of the lobster scene that Eddie has, Robotnik is overly nice and friendly because Stone is in charge now and everyone is like WTF is WRONG WITH HIM. he said my dress looked nice? Is he dying? But no goop Stone just wanted to make friends with humanity because Robotnik is so awesome that he thinks everyone must be this awesome. (some of that naivety that Stone used to have back when we only had S1 Stone to go by but it's because he is an alien and not because he had no character development)

Poor Stone is severely disappointed that their all imbeciles besides Robotnik, Mrs. Chen, and maaaybe Maddie and Tom

But hey, people are still tasty, at least.

I am imagining the full transformation to be all black with the purple but with Rob’s body type (no tits for Stone I am sorry guys.

And also more light blue or red tech lines as Robotnik integrates some of his robot-y ideas to give them extra protection just to be on the safe side.

If mpreg does happen their kid is Sage and she is all red and techy like her arms and symbiotes with a cat at first like Sleeper does in the comics. 

OOH OOH Robotnik overworks himself and Stone makes himself like a onesie around Rob so he can be comfortable

Y'all I really like Stobotnik and Symbrock, can you tell? This was no way influenced by the fact that these are the two squishmallows that sit on my bed (ignore the vibrant pink blankets, my quilt broke and I had to use my old one)

[before-the-black-pearl]

Since around this time will be 19 years since the YJS series first started (fuck I’m geriatric), I wanna share a little bit more about that YJS fanfic I wrote for a school project in fourth grade.

Storytime! So basically my school did a “Young Authors Fair” every year where we wrote and illustrated our own books and they’d get published in hard bound covers and put on a showcase for the whole school to see. In my class, the theme of our books was freestyle so we got to write whatever we wanted. See I was too young to be a part of fandom culture (which was very lonely 😪) and I was barely even online at all so I had no clue what fan fiction was. What ran through my head was that I wanted to write my own volume of the YJS series. So that resulted in me accidentally writing my very first ever fanfic, and drawing possibly my first fan art of YJS, and it got showcased in the Young Authors Fair for my family and all my classmates to read 💀💀

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I’ve posted a small part of the cover art a few times, and that is still all I’m gonna show bc it’s so bad. Jack here is probably the only somewhat good thing about it lmao.

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I think this one is safe to share. So I drew the whole crew here (including Tim who’s just peaking out from the bottom lol).

Random hyperfixation fact: I mixed Jean and Tumen up for a while, which I know I am NOT the only one who had that misunderstanding, so that’s why Constance is with Tumen and not Jean. Also when I first got into the books, my brain misread Fitzy’s name as “FRitzwilliam” for the longest time and I spelled his name like that through this whole book 😫

Also for context, the Young Authors Fair was either between the releases of Silver and City of Gold or right after City of Gold was released. Parts of my drawings suggest this was before City of Gold came out and some of my drawings suggest this was after it came out, so I may never know!

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I’m gonna say fuck it and share this one too. First thought would wtf is going on here. So that’s actually Jack and “Fritzwilliam” at the helm of the Barnacle. Hope that helps!

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No, I am never sharing the rest of the art and nor am I ever sharing the fanfic. I haven’t even fully read the whole story since I wrote it 🫠

I’m embarrassed by the fact pple even read it in my school

Bonus art! This one’s more recent but still old as I drew this like 9 years ago. I’m 90% sure this art style was heavily influenced by the manga adaptation.

[kupofdoodles]

cool octonauts dubbing fact 4

WTF!!! 4 DUBS?!?!?!??!?!

fun fact: dubbing wiki is my sources for the other non-korean dubs but i actually learned abt kwazii's role bc @batbitesthebat posted a thingy abt it in the octocommunity a while ago

wel teknicaly korean tawog had a redub so barnacles doesnt voice tobias anymore

here’s barnacles as tobias btw and i saw a comment saying they found tobias’s voice attractive until the redub which is funny XDD

im always srsly paranoid that the info i show off is inaccurate T_T so sry if it is btw

[calamaroo]

You know what never ceases to amaze me about Octonauts? It's that Captain Barnacles, a polar bear, is my all time favorite character.

Hi, my name is calamaroo, and I am DEATHLY AFRAID OF BEARS, to the point I'd personally consider it nearly a phobia (teddy bears/stuffed animals are fine, but just the sound or pictures of a bear of any kind gives me chills)

Lemme trauma dump for a second:

I have had two traumatic experiences with bears.

1. When I was little, I watched a Little Einsteins movie/special where the main antagonist was a polar bear. IT. WAS. AWFUL. The music that accompanied that bear has SCARRED ME SO BAD, I STILL REFUSE TO WATCH IT TO THIS DAY.

2. The bear monster from the movie Annihilation WAS THE WORST THING IVE EVER SEEN. WTF WAS THAT???? WHO'S TWISTED MIND THOUGHT OF THAT AWFUL CREATION???? BEARS ARE ALREADY TERRIFYING, BUT THEY ARE DEFINITELY NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE NO FACE AND MIMIC THE LAST WORDS OF THEIR VICTIMS!!!!! I will never watch that movie again (the whole movie was an existential and eerie mess, but that was the worst part personally)

IVE NEVER MET A BEAR IRL. THE NEAREST BEAR IS AT THE ZOO 5 HOURS AWAY. BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT LITERALLY KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT?? THE DEBILITATING FEAR THAT A HORRIBLE, TEN FOOT TALL, 800 POUND MONSTER WILL MATERIALIZE IN MY LIVING ROOM AND MURDER ME.

FREAKING POLAR BEARS TOO??? WHO SAID THEY SHOULD BE 12 FEET TALL??? AND ACTIVELY HUNT HUMANS IN THE WILD??? They are massive, horrible, yet amazing monsters built to withstand one of the harshest climates to exist, and they are so morbidly fascination

AND, bears are so deceptive!! Why be so friend shaped and look so lovable and be so fluffy and have cute ears when can eat me?? CAN RIP ME TO SHREDS??

Anyway. Barnacles is my pookie and I wanna give him kisses

Thank you for coming to ted talk

[jax--man]

fuck. gay people. gay people are in my head again cAPTAIN BARNACLES WTF ARE YOU DOUING HERE

[ch-aegius]

WTF

What?

Is this is regards to my last mention of Lyle?

Well I could talk on various members of the Illyrian staff and their inadequacies.

If I’m to go down, I’ll be the barnacles fastened onto the hull of the ship.

[pamithebunterfly2007]

Actually I don’t feel bad for what I did on DA. And there’s a good reason for that.

Well I may be controversial for causing drama for everyone to hate one me, And they blame me for a certain user they making a certain user leave this site which they know and Miss her and I know her too, SIKE!!!!! WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?!! DO I MISS HER?!?! HELL NO!!! Because there’s a good reason why I made her leave, what, does that make me the hero? Or still the villian today?

I honestly wanted to vomit after reading this, I can’t believe this is the WORST FAKE FRIEND I EVER ENCOUNTERED!!!!!!!! LIKE WTF, I STARTED A FUCKING DRAMA WHICH MADE HER LEAVE AND NOW EVERYONE HATES HER (even I do) FOR MAKING A NSFW ROLEPLAY!?!?!? And to make things worse, literally everyone saw and me the whole thing by LA scrapping one of her OC’s Moon the Bunny just to avoid criticism, LIKE WTF GIRL!!!! We See It, I see It, Even the roaches on my cabinet see it. And by saying this, I am the reason I made LACollie Leave Deviantart, Which Honestly I find it pretty funny now everyone hates her and let’s be a little honest here everyone, We all know that the best user of DA is a true villian and by saying this, I think I may have warned everyone about this by making my death hoax, but still I’m ain’t no saint and I’m pretty surprised and somewhat proud for what I did, I’ve never felt THIS evil before, or better, Super Evil! You can call me the Evil Queen Bitch or The Demon Child. because I feel like calling everyone a bunch of swear words from my dirty mouth, Also I think I need some outfits for everyone, Since I’m felling super evil after what I did and proud of what I’ve done, And if @momswapped was there . . . . . . OH get a load of ass and barnacles because IM SUPER EVIL!!!! LIKE IM SO EVIL NOW!!!!!

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[thegrimreaperisanerd]

@acapricorncreature wtf how'd you unlock BIG emojis... Anyway:

A dockworker reads the paper on the bar, and an old man seems to be growing barnacles in the corner, but besides that the only movement comes from a grumpy-looking waitress.

[dogboy-br4in]

was binge watching spongebob the other night, the earlier seasons, and like yk people aren't lying when they say random fish in bikini bottom are rude to spongebob for like NO reason.

Like, this episode mermaid man and barnacle boy react to the conch signal whenever spongebob blows it, but the first time he does it mermaid man shows up and calls his face disfigured and they're too late before he recognized spongebob like HUH?????? IMAGINE the 2 heroes you look up to show up at your house and call you disfigured like wtf???? I was flabbergasted 😭