#Deep Trouble

[briabooknerd]

[tlbodine]

Overthinking: Deep Trouble

Deep Trouble, released May of 1994, is Goosebumps #19 and another book I owned and re-read frequently. I have a clear memory of buying this one with my allowance at the mall and having finished it in the car by the time we got home (we lived kind of a ways from town) which instituted a short-lived "no reading in the car" rule from my exasperated mom. Good times.

Anyway. I'll get this out of the way right now: it's not, primarily, a book about an epic shark battle. But if you can get past your disappointment there, you're in for a good time.

First, the Plot:

William Deep III (aka Billy) is a famous deep-sea explorer! Well, no, actually he's an overly imaginative 12-year-old, BUT his uncle is a marine biologist (Dr. D) and he gets to spend the summer out on his research boat, which is cool. He and his little sister Sheena spend their days hanging out with the scientist and his assistant Alexander, snorkeling around the nearby reef, and complaining about Alexander's cooking. But when Dr. D is approached by a zoo about capturing a rare specimen -- a real, live mermaid -- Billy overhears and is super excited to get involved.

The first third of the book is mostly spent with Billy doing stupid things like sneaking off the boat to swim by himself without telling anyone, making up stories about sea monsters, and brushing up against fire coral while exploring. On one misadventure, he encounters a hammerhead shark, but is rescued by none other than the mermaid herself!

He's suddenly not so keen to have her captured and put on display, but too late. His uncle scoops her up and keeps her in a tank on the boat to study her (and ultimately claim the $1 million price the zoo promised him). They're in the process of figuring out what she eats and how to communicate with her when Alexander the assistant double-crosses them! He's gotten a better offer from some other shady guys and is more than happy to knock Dr. D out cold and steal the mermaid. The thieves even leave them all for dead by locking THEM in a tank and throwing it overboard for them to drown!

Luckily they are rescued by the mermaid's friends, who help her escape as well after Billy's group tracks down the thieves and distract them. Later, they go check if she's happy back in her cove...but there's something else down there too...a certain giant tentacled monster....!

Overthinking It:

This one is just pure fun. It's a bit different from some other Goosebumps books in that it's more adventure than horror, but there's some precedent for that. Indeed, this book reminds me quite a bit of The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, right down to the scientist uncle and the "humans are the real monsters" framing.

Listening to it, I was surprised by how willing these Stine villains are to straight-up murder children. This isn't the first time we've seen adult villains putting kids in mortal danger, but it's somehow more shocking when the attack is so brazenly mundane. It's one thing to maneuver kids into being turned into ghouls. It's something different to chuck them into a locked box and throw them into the ocean.

If You Liked This, THESE Will Really Give You Goosebumps:

I think this book pairs off well with several other Goosebumps books -- Welcome to Camp Nightmare, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, and The Werewolf of Fever Swamp. If you like this one, you'll like those, I think -- they all really key into the adventure angle.

If rescuing sapient sea creatures is your jam, of course you'll enjoy The Shape of Water.

For another oceanic adventure story about dirty double-crossers and sea monsters, try Deep Rising.

And if you really wanted sharks, of course you can go scratch that itch with Jaws ;)

[michimonie]

I got the thing

[thedestinysunknown]

Crash Bandicoot 3: N.Sane Trilogy - Deep Trouble:

"Second underwater level and this is not a very linear level. If you want to beat it 100%, then you will need to explore different routes, instead of just focusing on the main one. Definitely one of the harder levels for me."

PS: the gameplay used for this gifset is not mine. The original video belongs to the user: GarlandTheGreat, on Youtube.

[danielstalter]

Deep Trouble II was a story about scientist being really bad at science. There were so many holes in the logic of the villain that he ended up being the only part of the book I enjoyed. If you think about him a non sequitur joke instead of the primary driver of the plot, then this book works as a self parody if you squint just right. Because evil plans are hard when you’re a villain who is bad at planning things, and they can go very poorly if you’re a marine biologist who doesn’t understand basic math. This wasn’t a good book, but I genuinely enjoyed the faulty logic of it all. Stine does really well when he leans into the weird, but he does even better when he matches that with context and good characters. Deep Trouble II felt rushed and uninspired, but it managed to eek out just enough charm to occasionally feel like a self aware B-movie.

Score: 2

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[nicksbloggingadventures]

Just like when Robotnik gets beaten by Team Sonic! :-D

Kinda sorta endlessly preoccupied with the death egg???

[babylon38ad]

Deep Trouble

[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

[bittersweet-mojo]

old people should be shot

[wuntrum]

2025 horror pin up calendar!!

print version | digital (/print it yourself) version

a labor of love, truly <3 prepare for the new year with 12 suggestive (and silly) horror characters :) featuring characters from: american psycho, bride of re-animator, the evil dead, hannibal, jason x, frankenhooker, alien, an american werewolf in london, jennifer's body, saw, the thing, and scream! to see the full specs of the calendar, check out the pages above!

[samwisesuu]

This scene from chapter 12 of From The Shadows of The Deep by @nebrasska-alasska had me in a chokehold so I might have spent my work from home days "working" on this oopsies... (˵ ¬ᴗ¬˵)

but we ballllll (my wrist hurts)

This was my first time ever trying to make a comic so I hope you guys like it hehe

🦔 ᯓ★ I'm gonna be in so much trouble next week lmao

[hollis-art]

rewatched trials and tribble-ations, and they should've let Jadzia flirt with these two !! but they knew she would be too powerful and she would change the timeline for good smh

[borgialucrezia]

"i'm clean, man. the dragon's fucking gone. thanks to you. fucking thanks to you."

peaky blinders — 6x06 created by steven knight

[thedestinysunknown]

Crash Bandicoot: Warped - Deep Trouble:

"Second underwater level in the game and it's pretty much the same as the previous one but with more nitro boxes and dangerous traps. It's a decent one."

PS: the gameplay used for this gifset is not mine. The original video belongs to the user: Thegamerwalkthroughs, on Youtube.

[dangerousconnoisseurdonut]

You know what, I'm just going to say it; there were two reasons Jim did not interact with Julian in the beloved episode Troubles and Tribble-ations - he interacted with Miles after the fight in the bar when he demanded to know who threw the first punch, to which Miles replied he didn't know.

He technically interacted with Jadzia when he almost sat on the Tribble that was sitting in his command chair while they were trying to find the bomb Tribble (and she did unknowingly throw a Tribble at his head).

And we got that lovely scene where Jim interacted with Ben.

Why didn't he interact with Julian? Two simple reasons:

If Kirk was able to get a good look at a doe-eyed officer in blue of Julian's calibre for more than 30 seconds, the DS9 crew would have lost Julian for a few vital hours they needed him in locating the bomb (though Jim might have missed it entirely if he and Julian found enough engaging material to debate in).

If those two idiots were left alone together for five minutes, they would have either gotten themselves killed without Darvin's bomb or they would have imploded the universe in such a way that even the temporal agents would have been left dumb-founded.

The universe could only handle one dumbass of that magnitude once per century - for the 23rd century it was Jim Kirk with Bones and Spock to try and reign him in. For the 24th century it was Julian Bashir, and he needed Miles, Jadzia, Ben, and Garak to replace Bones and Spock.

[self-made-purgatories]

Canonically, Spock is drawn to small fuzzy creatures.

Jim is a Short King / small guy (in comparison to long tall Spock and his Vulcan bone density anyway).

Spock was in control of his emotionsTM about Jim until Jim grew out his chest and arm hair. Spock notices the change in Jim's body hair and before he knows it he finds himself doing Vulcan hand stuff sloppy style with fuzzy Jim right in front of Chapel and McCoy's salads in the sickbay

Coincidence? I think not.