#anyways i feel like the quality of this one decreased but im posting it anyways because what ELSE am i gonna do with it

[kaseyskat]

i started this a couple days ago after being struck with the world's worst migraine and decided spontaneously to finish it as a way of Procrastinating on other fics so anyways take this projection fic <3

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while sasha’s headaches are predictable - she can usually feel them coming from a mile away - marcy’s are sporadic and intense, and it’s not very frequently that they’re both knocked out with one at the same time.

not frequently is not never, though, so when sasha wakes from a bad dream to find marcy snuggled into her side and a throbbing pain in her temples, she knows today is going to be a bad day.

anne must already be awake, sasha thinks, as she lifts the blankets to her face, pressing them against her eyes. the pressure relieves some of the pain, but not all of it, and she really should drag herself out of bed to get painkillers- except marcy has all but wrapped herself around sasha like the world’s clingliest octopus. her breathing is pained and she releases little whimpers and whines as she sleeps, and sasha absent-mindedly runs hands through her hair, careful not to disturb her.

the door opens and closes, and then anne is peering at them. between the darkness of the room and the way her sight blurs, sasha can hardly make her out, but there’s only one other person living with them.

“migraine?” anne asks quietly, her voice a mere whisper. “should i bring you the usual?”

“marcy too,” sasha whispers back. “she doesn’t usually cling to me this much.”

anne, sasha knows, enjoys these types of mornings more than she’d like to admit. of course she’s upset that her partners are in pain, but she loves taking care of them, proving her love for them over and over again through every sleepless night and agonizing day. she only lingers to press the lightest of kisses against sasha’s forehead, give marcy’s hair a little ruffle, and then she leaves again.

marcy makes another whimpering sound, and sasha closes her eyes against the throbbing in her temples. she, on the other hand, hates these mornings more than anything. it’s not that she doesn’t love it when her beloveds take care of her, but she doesn’t like the feeling of being useless any more than she did when she was younger. coupled with the way the headaches leave her cooped up in bed unable to do anything… no, she doesn’t like this, and she makes that frustration known with the way she shifts restlessly in bed, digging one hand into her eye while the other continues to pet marcy’s hair.

“...sashy?” marcy croaks, her voice raspy. she’s awake then, sasha realizes. “you ‘kay?”

“just peachy,” sasha whispers, though the way her voice shakes and the way she winces at even the sound of her own voice betrays the true pain she’s in. “what ‘bout you, marsh? you okay?”

marcy makes a bleary sound in the back of her throat, and she curls further into sasha’s chest. “no,” she admits, startlingly sincere. “my everything hurts.”

“i’ll tell your everything to shove off, will that help?” sasha tries to joke, but it falls flat when she winces again. “fuck. ow.”

“you should-” marcy cuts herself off, and she makes a frustrated noise as her voice fails her. “-you, you should take it easy, kay? is anne…?”

“she’s coming back in a bit,” sasha nods, and she shivers when marcy reaches upwards to gently caress her cheek. the action obviously hurts her, though, so after allowing it for a few seconds, sasha bats her hand away.

sure enough, anne slips back into the room a few minutes later. she sits on the edge of the bed, staring down at them with a fond look even as she gently nudges both sasha and marcy into a seated position. only sasha obeys her- marcy looks like she’d rather die than move her body out of a flat position, so she stays firmly rooted to sasha’s lap, laying on her stomach sprawled across sasha’s lower torso and legs as sasha sits upright enough to take the glass of water anne’s offered her.

“what’s the scale?” anne asks, as she hands sasha painkillers. she has a couple of other things in her lap, but sasha can’t make them out with how blurry her eyesight has become.

“four,” sasha answers with a wince. “i can manage it, it’s not that bad yet.”

anne nods very seriously, before she worriedly looks down at marcy. “what about you, marbles?”

marcy lifts herself up on shaky arms before she groans and flops back into sasha's lap. "six, but only if i move around a lot," she says, sniffling. "anna-banana, can I have the bye bye pain stuff?"

"only if you sit up- i don't want you to choke," anne chides, and she carefully drapes a heat pad over sasha's face. sasha makes a muffled noise of surprise, but she reaches up to readjust the pad, sighing in relief.

marcy whimpers, but she drags herself upright. there's a haunted look in her eyes, and she clutches at her chest with a grimace. "okay, o-okay, i'm up, annie-"

anne hands her a glass of water and her own prescribed painkillers, and marcy takes them dutifully. sasha watches her through half-lidded eyes, fighting through the pain to do so- it hurts behind her eyes so badly she can hardly keep them open, but she refuses to give in.

as soon as marcy's finished her water, she's flopping back down into sasha's lap, a sickly dazed look in her eyes. anne carefully places a cold pack on her back, and then pulls the covers up over them both.

“text me when you’re feeling okay enough for food, okay?” she says, so quietly, and she’s brushing over marcy’s hair again. she still looks so worried, but sasha gives her a big thumbs up, and she finally stands, leaving them in peace.

well, relative peace. sasha’s head still hurts, and marcy’s still making little pained noises in the back of her throat even as she seemingly falls into a restless sleep, and it’s going to be a long day.

she doesn’t know how much time has passed in darkness and complete silence, but eventually, the pain ebbs away. there’s a dull pressure in sasha’s head, but it’s not overbearing and she’s able to peel away the now-cool heat pack from her forehead, groaning in exhaustion and frustration. she has a hand threaded through marcy’s hair again, and she gently scratches at her partner’s scalp.

her headaches, after all, go away easily most of the time. marcy’s pain tends to last much longer, stretching for the waking hours even with the use of painkillers.

“hey, marshmallow,” sasha whispers, and the sound of her own voice isn’t grating to her ears anymore, which is a plus. “how are you feeling?”

there’s silence for a few moments, and sasha very nearly assumes that her beloved is asleep– except that marcy shifts a bit, curls her arms a little bit tighter from where they’re now tucked around sasha’s middle, and she buries her nose a bit further into sasha’s chest. “...still hurts,” she admits, her voice nearly breaking on each syllable, “too much to sleep. i’m bored.”

“my headache’s all but gone,” sasha says, raising her voice a little to test that. sure enough, she doesn’t feel the ache as heavy, and she can keep her eyes open for longer without throbbing pain behind them. “wanna turn the tv on? i can text anne for food, it might help.”

“okay,” marcy whispers, and her voice dips into a whine. “but i gotta get up and do homework soon.”

“you do your work so quickly, it won’t hurt to take a day off for once and just relax, marce,” sasha says, and she carefully readjusts them so she can reach for the tv remote. marcy snuggled into her side is a bliss, and once the remote is in her grasp, she settles back down, loosely wrapping an arm around her. “now, what should we watch?”

“something silly,” marcy mumbles, “and animated.”

“wow, so descriptive,” sasha teases, and yet she scrolls through netflix anyways, settling on some animated movie she’s sure they’ve both seen at least five times now. neither one of them are really watching it, but it captures marcy’s attention enough so that she’s not super bored anymore, and as the last of the pain ebbs away, sasha’s breathing much easier now.

she doesn’t text anne, but anne must hear the sounds of the tv, because she’s peeking her head in after a little while, her hair tied back in a messy bun and eyes wide with concern. “feeling better?” she asks amusedly, glancing between sasha and the tv.

“my head doesn’t hurt so bad anymore,” sasha explains, “and marcy’s bored. care to join us, sugar cube?”

anne huffs, but she’s slipping inside the bedroom anyways, hesitantly taking a seat in the bed next to sasha. marcy immediately reaches one arm out to her - despite the way her face screws up in pain at the motion - and anne takes it, bringing it up to her cheek in an intimately sweet gesture.

“how’s my darling marmalade doing?” anne asks, nuzzling marcy’s hand still. it’s enough to make marcy giggle a little, and sasha would be jealous if she weren’t so happy seeing marcy perk up finally.

“better now that you’re both here,” marcy answers, shyly, and she yawns, her hand flopping bonelessly out of anne’s grip. “i’ll-i’ll be okay. you know me.”

“that’s our princess,” sasha nods, and she curls her own arm around marcy almost protectively, “always bouncing back. get some rest, sweetheart- anne and i will still be here later.”

anne is giving sasha the most incredulous of looks - probably due to sasha’s own migraine and suffering - but sasha ignores her to comb through marcy’s hair, guiding her back into a more restful slumber. the movie they’ve put on is now rendered pointless, but as anne sighs and scoots closer so that she can cuddle with them both, sasha figures it might not be so bad to have something to watch while she’s stuck in bed.

“you sure you’re okay?” anne asks, quietly.

“i’m good, promise- the pain’s pretty much gone now,” sasha smiles, and she nudges anne very carefully. “what- you worried about me?”

“always,” anne murmurs, and it’s painfully sincere, enough to have sasha’s chest ache. she swallows past it, and extends her free hand outwards to curl around anne, tucking her into her side.

“we’ll be okay,” sasha promises, and she means it. “we always will.”

[locallixie]

hi love. you don’t have to answer this ask publicly or anything, and i’m not trying to cause harm or upset you, but you write like you’re on a time limit. because of it, little things that could’ve been caught and fixed fall through, and while t doesn’t actively impact your writing, it’s something that (this is gonna sound so rude and im sorry) improved on.

i’m just trying to send advice as a writer as well as a reader, yeah? again, i don’t mean to offended you or hurt your feelings in anyway. your ideas are great! they really, really are. i’m literally reading one of your seonghwa pieces rn.

Thank you, finally someone point me out on that. I know that I've been posting more frequent, and many of my work have been decreasing in quality. Yes, I am very overloaded at the moment so I might have to delay requests and projects, and post in a more comfortable pace.

I've been treating myself badly, therefore impacting my writing. I keep setting deadlines that I know I can't meet. I'll be posting less frequent and actually take my time to create something that I and hopefully my readers enjoy. Thank you again xx

[setsfiretohistory]

ORIGINAL → EDITED

gif making process

thank you so so much to the lovely and talented @pridesobright and @supportivehusbands for tagging me :’) reading about your processes was so interesting!!

LEFT: cropped, resized (height 300px; width 540px), unedited, unsharpened, frame delay set to 0.05

RIGHT: cropped, resized (height 300px; width 540px), edited, sharpened, frame delay set to 0.05

ideally, 1080p is what i’d use for everything, but sometimes you just have to settle for what you can get (and if you’re cursed…………. you have to battle with less than 480p……….. im looking at you, miss ‘now kiss me you fool’ footage). for this post, i made gifs from ten separate videos to illustrate how even though your source materials are wildly different from each other, the resulting gifs can still be stylistically similar. this is why it’s so upsetting to see people steal gifs like it’s nothing. we put so much thought and care and time into our posts and i can’t even put into words how discouraging it is to see people act like crediting gif makers is a hardship.

i have a note filled with ideas for lyric sets, parallels, etc etc that i work from, but sometimes i’ll just sit down and pick a random video and play around with whatever idea i have in the moment. (that’s how this set came to be!)

after i’ve imported the footage to photoshop (i use cc 2019, although i first started out using cs5 and it’ll always have a soft spot in my heart), removed any redundant frames, and cropped it, i’ll resize it (to 540px more often than not), and set the frame delay to 0.05. when all that’s done, i can colour.

i colour every gifset from scratch — i’ve never had much success with using the same psd on other gifs. it totally works for gifs from the same source, but when you’re using like six different videos for the one gifset, you have to take much more care in making them all correspond to the aesthetic you’re planning for the post. i tend to choose a dominant theme or colour to work from, like blue, green, magenta, pastels, rainbow, etc.

i usually begin with curves and levels until im happy with the brightness. then i’ll move on to either selective colour or colour balance or vibrance, depending on the original colours of the footage. i almost always skew my gifs towards blues and cyans and magentas rather than yellows and greens (i lean more towards coolness or neutrals rather than warmth). and im just really fond of blue, which is apparent if you’ve ever seen anything i’ve made lmao especially if louis’ eyes are involved. this is definitely where i spend the most time messing around with different settings (like increasing cyans and blues and blacks in general / increasing cyans in whites if i want the sky to look more blue / decreasing the blacks in whites for contrast / decreasing the cyans in reds to make them really red / decreasing the yellows across the board, but most definitely in blues and cyans / decreasing magentas in greens if i want Very Bright greens). sometimes i lose my mind a little and i end up with like twelve selective colour layers and im like This Is Fine . skdjfskjf anyways, when everything looks as vibrant and colourful as i want it, i’ll go back to curves or levels or add a contrast layer to make everything look stronger. i also might go back to selective colour or vibrance with incremental changes at the end, just as a final touch. [tl;dr: curves > levels > colour balance > vibrance > selective colour > contrast > go back for any little amendments] for black and white gifs, i’ll start with a gradient map and then continue with curves, levels, etc. after all that’s done, i’ll convert to video timeline > select all layers > filter for smart objects > either sharpen with this action or use these smart sharpen settings > add text if the post calls for it (if it’s a concept/lyric gifset, i like to play around with the settings — although century gothic is my favourite font for this — and if it’s a captioned gifset my standard is arial bold italic / drop shadow to 140 degrees / grey stroke / adjust font pt according to the size of the gif) > export > save for web. et voilà!! one gif down, probably nine to go sdkfksjdfhsjdf

the double edged sword of making gifs for one direction fandom is the sheer volume of footage available to you: on the one hand, you have a whole decade’s worth of moments to gif (and that’s incredible!!!), and on the other, it’s so difficult and time consuming to colour all of these separate moments in a cohesive way that hopefully expresses your own unique creative style. so sometimes it’s frankly impossible to make certain things look the way you want them to. maybe you can’t find high quality footage (the absolute BANES of my existence are the rtl footage where they reacted to themselves playing football at boston common and the louis is loud……loud……….and……..loud footage where you can see harry’s face close up. it’s a TRAVESTY that they don’t exist in 1080p and i WILL scream it from the rooftops), or the moments you want to gif simply refuse to look good next to each other because they’re so wildly dissimilar in hue that no matter what you do, they look strange and disjointed when juxtaposed (in those moments i do tend to either give up or choose to make them black and white). but honestly? the obstacles i’ve come across while making gifs for this fandom have been amazing learning opportunities for me. i’ve grown into and experimented with my style way more than i ever did anywhere else, and i continue to feel inspired by this fandom every day, so thank you to every single creator for your ingenuity and hard work!! 💖💖💖💖

i think y’all have been tagged or done this already, so im just going to tag everyone i admire to say you’re legends and i love your content very much a lot!! @caparius @sunflowrsix @jimmytfallon @stylex @tmlnsn @cuddlerlouis @2tiedships2 @moonshinelouis @ltpolari @itsastorm @finelinee @ltwalls2020 @half-lightl @fallenwalls @tomlinsun @louisbravado @tattooedlovers@lordtomlinson @livehabit @halosboat @thepeacering @alinok

[queenharumiura]

|･ω･｀) sixthscorpse

Send me |･ω･｀) + a URL and I’ll talk about this blog! ||Accepting||

Alrighties then, I think, we first met like roughly 6-8 months ago. It was around the time when I decided to actually open the blog for interactions. I did make the blog on a spur of the moment thing, but then I decided to reread the manga before actually starting. 

It... it took a while;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Essentially... there are certain arcs in the series that irk me and thus it takes me a while to get through it. Especially the final arc. That probably took me the longest because I just---- my heart wasn’t in it, y’all. Just knowing that Gokudera, Yamamoto, and Ryohei will have such a small window of screentime-- just... //fist clench. 

By that time, you knew me as ‘An-chan’. I don’t think you followed me on Haru until AFTER the alternate mun name reveal. I’m pretty sure when we met, Cady and Pocky were around. I do remember that you did disappear for a while after that. 

Will admit that I did my usual panicky: Ah, did I mess up. Did I make people mad? Ahhhhhhh... I probably did. Wonder what I did. 

Skip forward months later and it was like oh-- suddenly a lot of KHR blogs are back. What happened? You came back and talked to me and I was like ‘okay--- so--- maybe I didn’t do something wrong... //squint squints’. [Paranoia decrease by 25%]

So I do recall we did send a few memes to and fro, which was fun. Uhhhh--- you followed me on Haru... and you followed me with other blogs---

-- and then you confused me that one time with Giotto, which now gave me a new random habit(?). There wasn’t a rules page that I could find so I sent a message like where is your rules page and it was basically like, don’t worry about it. 

Me: //WORRIES ABOUT IT. 

“You know who I am.” 

Me: //STARTS TO SWEAT HARDER BC I DON’T RECALL EVER INTERACTING WITH A GIOTTO OTHER THAN SHARR. 

You in discord: It’s me. 

I cannot forgib this transgression of tomfoolery (i’m jk). Anyways, from thereafter, any time I find a blog that suddenly follows me and I can’t find their rules page easily-- “Is this Rikku”. 

#tru story. 

Idk, it makes me happy that when you make new blogs you’ll follow me with said blogs. Like omgosh, i’m valued enough to be followed with multiple blogs. The fact that you were willing to follow and interact with Haru was very !!!!!!!! to me. Pretty sure I talked to you about it via discord before, but I have a lot of emotional baggage when it comes to the KHR fandom. I don’t have high expectations for the fandom and honestly don’t expect many blogs to interact or pay attention to Haru. 

So it’s always a pleasant surprise to be proven wrong. We’ve talked a number of times on discord and we do have some similar points of views on things.

I don’t want to call them arguments, since they weren’t really arguments? We did have a few moments of tension though. Primarily just emotionally charged things caused by misunderstandings or just words being confused. 

After that, there was a period of silence for a while, and I was a lil nervous. I also just had a lot going on with life in general so there was a time when I was really everywhere in regards to my schedule. So, I hope you don’t think I was avoiding you during that time. I was just-- everywhere. 

Anyways, I think after a while, we kinda started talking more again. Primarily through dash or im. 

I’ll say this for just in case it is a worry: I’m not angry, nor do I hate you. I know that you didn’t mean to hurt me and I moved past that. So hopefully, if this is a worry, will help you know that I’m over it, and you can approach me more if you want. I do remember saying it before, but I am sorry. 

I can be sensitive at times, and I take things very literally. So I take words very seriously, so when they are written in a certain way, I’ll interpret it a certain way. So sometimes, I may end up misunderstanding what you meant to say because of it. I am aware that you have trouble conveying your thoughts, and so I try really hard to understand, but sometimes I can’t-- and so I ask. 

I honestly feel so bad any time I have to do that, because it’s not your fault. I just am dumb, and can’t understand. I try not to ask too much because I worry that I’ll hurt your feelings, or make you feel inadequate, which you aren’t. 

I say this sincerely, but I truly do value you as a friend. Whenever you can, you have sent in memes, or you’ve replied/liked my ooc posts. It goes to show that even if we left off on a rough/sad patch, you still care. It’s the little things like that, that show that you care. 

You have moments of feeling down (from what I see in your ooc posts) and because of that, I want to take this moment: 

You are a very well-intentioned person. Maybe sometimes it may not come out the correct way, but the good intention doesn’t disappear. It can be scary to continue to try, and it may seem hopeless, but I can promise you that it isn’t. 

You are very caring towards others, and you’re open-minded. Open to try out things, and to have fun. You enjoy to make jokes and have fun with others. It’s easy to see that you care a lot for other people, and that’s a GOOD thing. Sometimes, it seems that you care for other people more than yourself. I say that, because I can be the same way. If the option was between me being happy and making another person happy, I’d choose to make the other person happy. 

I get the feel that you and I may share that quality in ourselves. It’s always nice to see how generally caring you are towards those that you like-- ie your friends. You are mindful of other people and their feelings, and you do your best to keep people around you happy. Even if it may hurt you in the process. That’s how it looks to me, and I can relate to that to a degree, which is why I say this. 

You deserve to be happy too, and you should remember that you too are a good person. Your worth is not determined by the times you’ve hurt people by accident. A worth is determined by what you do with that. I know people who KNOW that they normally hurt people because of misunderstandings. They actively choose not to do something about it. 

You don’t do that. You do try to fix things, or from what I’ve seen in some ooc posts, you try to hold back because you’re worried you’ll hurt someone again. Ultimately though, I do believe you’ll ask about it because you do worry about people a lot. I think, that is the quality that should be focused on. 

Now, I don’t say this just to be like ‘I’m trying to cheer you up.’ No, these sorts of memes are a time for me to be honest and talk about myself. 

I’m a very insecure kind of person and I’m very lonely, even if it may not seem that way. I can come off as detached, because I’m just wary of being hurt again. I’m just tired. Still, it’s been comforting to know that there is a person who still cares. 

Even if they are a bit scared, they still care. Perhaps you may not realize how much that can mean to a person, but it means so much to me. To know that occasionally if i’m upset, or even if i’m not, you do still look at my ooc posts and will interact with it (reply/like). If we talk via im at random, you do ask about how me or my family is doing, because you’re concerned. 

You remember i’ve been concerned about it, so you worry. It’s not a very common thing to find someone who actively worries and cares for other people. It’s normal for people to care in the moment, but not a lot of people (from personal experience) continue to care outside of that moment. Like, even if we hadn’t talked for a while, you still cared enough to worry about me. It’s clear with the way you asked me ‘are you okay?’. 

I didn’t post an ooc post saying that I was upset, so I was confused initially, but you did say you were worried bc the last we talked, I was worried about my family. That’s telling to how much you care for other people. I hope you don’t feel ashamed or anything about that quality of yours. It’s a good one. 

I tend to worry a lot for other people to, but I’m very worried about boundaries and over-stepping, so I don’t often brave asking outright if people are okay. It does take bravery to do such a thing. 

Pretty much, I just want to say thank you for being a friend, and for caring. It really means a lot to me. It helps me remember that there are people who care about me, for some reason. Even though I personally don’t think that I’m worth much, or that I personally do not believe i’m a good person (bc quite frankly, i’m not), but it’s so comforting to know that someone cares. 

Will openly admit that I cried a bit while writing this lol. Just hope that this helps somehow. Sorry, and thanks. 

[broodsys]

ik i said i wasnt gonna post it if i couldnt put it under a cut but im...... disproportionately proud of this essay lmao. we still imagine we’re gonna end up pursuing smth like being an essayist/article writer down the line cuz our voice is so our weapon, so it was nice to kinda use this to get a feel for what that process might look like

anyway, no pressure to read, but it’s abt dead zones & we found the content overall p interesting. death of marine life is discussed, and the random Personal Impact paragraph was an assignment requirement

Lake Toba is located in North Sumatra, Indonesia, and is the largest volcanic lake in the world(1). Yet its remarkable ecological history has not spared it from modern pollution, and as recently as 2016 the dead zone within the lake, described by photographer and essayist Binsar Bakkara as "meaning it has excessive nutrients [...] with low oxygen levels,"(2) led to a sudden, massive death of the aquatic animal life in the lake, the fish farmers waking to find their nets full of dead tilapia and carp. The waters of Lake Toba were teeming with aquatic plants - plants such as water hyacinth, milfoil, and algae - whose growth depleted the water of its oxygen, asphyxiating the fish overnight, and leading to 15,000 tons (or 30,000,000 pounds) of dead fish who locals had to remove over the course of days(1). Devastating both environmentally and culturally, the massive loss of fish and the high levels of pollutants have rendered the lake unreliable as both a water source and a source of income for the fish farmers.

Limited oxygen in a body of water is referred to as hypoxia(8), with anoxia being the total loss of oxygen, and both states do occur naturally, including with seasonal variance as increased light allows the algae to thrive, and areas of hypoxia or anoxia are referred to as the "dead zones" that Bakkara described. Despite their natural occurrence  the rising global levels of hypoxia and anoxia are being connected with human activities, such as "agriculture, [...] land transformation, groundwater drainage, urban stormwater runoff, sewage treatment, or atmospheric emissions through fossil fuel burning and volatilization of agricultural waste"(3) Among these pollutants are fertilizers or other nitrogen-rich substances, which lead to the expansive growth of aquatic plants that - as in Lake Toba - lead to massive, sudden loss of the aquatic animal life. The oxygen that aquatic life needs to survive is not the oxygen that is bonded with water to form H2O, but rather gaseous, water-soluble oxygen which form DO, or dissolved oxygen. Yet this dissolved oxygen is still subject to the surrounding waters saturation; decomposing organic matter contributes to the nutritional and chemical saturation, which necessitates a displacement of the dissolved oxygen. But all plants and animals require oxygen to breathe, even aquatic plants and animals, and if they cannot escape these areas of nutritional-saturation and oxygen-depletion, they end up asphyxiating as in the case of Lake Toba.(7) The nutrients and chemicals from both the fish's waste and the fish food decomposition would each have contributed to the saturation of the water content and the dispersal of the dissolved oxygen.

The National Academy of Sciences' Council for Agricultural Science and Technology issued a report in 1999 that said that hypoxic zones "are now one of the most widespread, accelerating, human-induced deleterious impacts in the world's marine environments."(3) The exact cause of Lake Toba's dead zones and the overnight death of so many fish is still contested; residents blame companies for run-off and for uneaten fish food pellets, which were used to feed their floating fish cages.(5) One floating cage fishery, PT Aquafarm Nusantara, "acknowledged the food pellets they scattered in a number of keramba [floating net cages] in Lake Toba had caused a decrease in water quality, but not significantly."(5) Professor Krismono was cited in Ayat S. Karokaro's article as saying the floating net "cages should only have 3,000-5,000 fish, but these cages had 10,000 fish,"(6) drawing attention to how overfishing could combine with overfeeding to fuel a hypoxic environment. Dead zones have seen some improvement, however, with concentrated efforts stopping the ongoing hypoxic processes. Certain localities have even seen improvements in non-algal aquatic life following these efforts. The 1987 campaign to clean the Chesapeake Bay, for instance, has seen improvements in biodiversity in the bay's contributing rivers.(3)

This subject is important to me as a fish-keeper, as problems with excess nitrate and nitrite production from uncleaned fish waste (or uneaten fish food!) can lead to something that, within the hobby, is called "toxic tank syndrome." This is when nitrate, nitrite, and eventually ammonia levels all reach toxic levels and is the source of the fish often seen gasping for air at the surface a few days or hours before dying. Obviously, the situation in Lake Toba was much more extreme and with much farther-reaching consequences than the loss of a pet fish, but the basic elements of it were familiar to me as warning signs of possible issues with my tanks. Despite that familiarity, the issues of a hypoxic or anoxic zone are much more difficult to solve and require a much more concerted and deliberate effort than, again, anything I will experience as a hobbyist.

Lake Toba's dead zone's overnight depletion of remaining dissolved oxygen, whether caused by industrial runoff, sewage, fish food, fish waste, overfishing, or a combination of the above factors, had significant financial and cultural impacts in 2016, but will likely have future complications for the residents, even if a complete overhaul of the contributing factors was implemented immediately. As demonstrated by the Chesapeake Bay efforts, halting the progress of hypoxia into anoxia is a difficult and time-consuming feat in and of itself, but restoring these dead zones to become oxygenated environments that are capable of supporting a diverse ecosystem is even more challenging. Yet restoration of these areas is important to the survival of any group of people who are dependent on their water, and globally the restoration of these dead zones - including many coastal areas - will undoubtedly have significant effects on global marine biodiversity.

1 = LakeNet - Lakes, www.worldlakes.org/lakedetails.asp?lakeid=8367. 2 = “How Pollution is Devastating an Indonesian Lake.” Yale E360, e360.yale.edu/features/how-pollution-is-devastating-an-indonesian-lake. 3 =  Joyce, S. "The Dead Zones: Oxygen-Starved Coastal Waters." Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 108, no. 3, Mar. 2000, pp. A120-A125. EBSCOhost 4 = Web.archive.org. (2017). Water on the Web | Understanding | Water Quality | Parameters, https://web.archive.org/web/20121213101908/http://www.waterontheweb.org/under/waterquality/oxygen.html 5 = Gunawan, Apriadi (2015, May) The Jakarta Posthttp://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/05/22/jokowi-asked-handle-pollution-lake-toba.html 6 = Jacobson, P. (2017). Millions of fish die suddenly in Indonesia's giant Lake Toba. Conservation News, https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/millions-fish-die-suddenly-indonesias-giant-lake-toba/ 7 = Lenntech.com. (2017). Oxygen (O) and water, https://www.lenntech.com/periodic/water/oxygen/oxygen-and-water.htm 8 = Eopugetsound.org. (2017). Section 4. Dissolved Oxygen (Hypoxia) | Encyclopedia of Puget Sound, https://www.eopugetsound.org/science-review/section-4-dissolved-oxygen-hypoxia

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