#chlorine-tasting

[faaun]

we sang in the aeroplane over the sea tgth ☆

[sqrkyclean]

There’s a lot of symbolism in that Malibu was raised around freshwater rivers and almost drowned in them bc she was being neglected and now she will only swim in the sea (saltwater) and her pool (chlorine)

[wildwood-faun]

being abroad makes me sooooooo grateful for Swedish tap water

[worldwright]

The Trigun Gang Learns To Swim, AKA I Have Ideas But Do Not Know How To Write Fic

So my sister teaches adults to swim and has some fun stories, and I have wanted to throw these idiots in a pool for months so. here goes

- idk how they got a pool. maybe there's one on the Earth ships. we're not worrying about that

- Meryl sits at the side with her feet on the top step covered in three inches of water for half an hour insisting she's good no she's fine not going in this is good thanks

- Milly loses her footing as she walks in because she didn't expect the water resistance and needs to be rescued by the instructor because she can't figure out how to surface again

- this does not help Meryl's confidence

- Milly gets used to walking around and conspires with Wolfwood to carry Meryl into the water. this ends with Wolfwood being rescued by the instructor because he also did not expect water resistance and did not learn from Milly's mistakes. Meryl is desperately clinging to Milly like a koala

- Vash has at least seen large bodies of water in pictures and has perhaps seen videos of people swimming so he figures he's got this. he is also trying to show off. he slips straight into the deep end and immediately some plant instinct kicks in and he goes limp and just. floats on his back. it takes several minutes to shake him out of this, after which he is extremely embarrassed

- Vash has weirdly neutral buoyancy and can almost just chill upright without treading water. the only reason he doesn't outright float is his prosthetics increasing his density

- Wolfwood sees this and assumes it's learnable, much to the instructor's distress. much flailing ensues

- Milly is still being a ladder and refuses to move close to the walls to let Meryl off. she's slowly crouching lower and lower to try and get her senpai in the water. Meryl is now clinging to her head and shoulders

- Vash does some kicking exercises and picks it up quickly. he's the most at home in the water and is soon doggy paddling around. Wolfwood tries to push him under. they are giving the poor instructor a migraine

- Vash, suddenly underwater, quickly learns that he does Not have the normal human diving reflex of Hold Breath as he instinctually inhales a lungful of oh-shit-this-isn't-plant-tank-soup. Meryl dives straight in to save him. this goes as well as you'd expect

- Vash sits on the side of the pool for a bit after that

- now that Meryl has been fully submerged she insists that she's been fine this whole time and would quite enjoy standing here in the shal--niCHOLAS D WOLFWOOD GET AWAY FROM ME

- Meryl Stryfe Learns About The Deep End™️

- Wolfwood Is Temporarily Banned From The Pool

- Wolfwood Discovers The Snack Bar

- The Gang Discover Chicken Strips

- obligatory 30 minutes after eating before swimming. the instructor does an emergency safety briefing because these idiots are Something Else

- after the snack break, Vash works on consciously holding his breath and discovers he's pretty good at it. he swims back and forth across the pool underwater for a bit

- Milly tries to go upside down underwater and has a bad time. the instructor helpfully informs her that you have to exhale. or hold your nose. Milly develops the novel method of puckering up her face like a pug so that her upper lip blocks her nostrils. Wolfwood is in hysterics. Meryl finds it incredibly endearing

- after they have all sufficiently demonstrated that they are able to not drown under minimal supervision, the instructor cracks open a crate of pool toys and goes to have a fuckin cigarette

- they have an intense watergun shootout all around the pool deck. looney tunes style. do you see my vision

- Vash and Milly pretend to die dramatically at least three times each

- they all manage to fall into the water at once and decide to call it a draw all around. then they just float for like 20 minutes playing lazy bumper boats

- they are eventually kicked out of the pool because the staff are Not staying two hours past closing thank you

- sunscreen and pool water and evening light are washed off in the showers and they have their best sleep in years

[lonely-dog-song]

it would be unsanitary but i want to know if u can cook veggies + spices in a hot tub & if they would taste any good. & would it make u taste good if ur sitting in the water with them

[wewontbesleeping]

genuinely think the unfiltered water at this store is going to be the straw that breaks the camels back for me, bc yeah one of the benefits of working here is that I get free drinks! and I can’t stomach them, they taste sooo disgusting.

[seeminglyseph]

I know everyone hates M Knight Shyamalan's The Village, and "oooh it's modern day all along" seems like a lame twist, but consider:

A) wool cloaks fuck and that's always a cool look and I won't apologize for the fact that I definitely just wanted to wear cloaks instead of coats even though I live somewhere that experiences winters in Hardcore Mode and that was not viable

And B) the concept that your parents decided for you that you had to live in a dangerous and reductive environment and raised you on fear and punishment and secrecy because they hated the way society was developing and didn't want you to have access or choice was like. Extremely real fore as someone raised Catholic with multiple friends raised either Jehovah's Witness or Mormon. Like, obviously, it was extremely exaggerated as a 2000s horror-thriller type movie, but like.

It's no Lady in the Water. I honestly haven't seen The Village in a bit, but in concept, I think it does make sense as a cult movie. It's just that too much is like... "oooo it's a twist!" Rather than, like... "damn, the adults of this movie have a cult compound that they have used to isolate, indoctrinate, and control their children, literally creating and becoming monsters that haunt and torment them to keep them in line to maintain a way of life in line with their own moral values"

And like. If you look at it through the lens of like. The emotional impact of how much betrayal goes on within the film in the families and the cult and for the children who had no choice to be there and no information, like. That's much more impactful than simply "it was modern day all along"

It's "your parents have been lying to you all along, and all of your pain and fear has served no greater purpose. Half of these rules were not to keep you safe. They were to make you obey, and you have no way of knowing which are which. The people you trust have deeply and intentionally fractured your relationship with reality as a way to keep you contained and docile and under control. You have been betrayed on the most fundamental level by the people who were supposed to raise you and guard you and keep you safe."

And that's like. That's good horror that sticks in the back of your brain forever? Idk. Maybe my imaginary Village is better than the real Village but like. I think it's a better movie than it gets credit for.

And I want more excuses to wear wool cloaks, like damn.

[crepuscularqueens]

the good thing about spending a week in florida (aside from getting to spend time with family) was not having pollen related allergies for a week. the bad part was everything else.

[endreal]

Oh! Oh! Happy end-of-6-week-water-treatment-system-sanitation-and-flushout-period day to everyone who lives in my city! The city water utility stops the hard chlorine stuff today and goes back to the normal treatment method so tap water is no longer gonna taste gross for the rest of the year!

[indigo-flightly-falls]

👽, 🦾, and ❤️‍🔥 for Etho maybe?

-@10piecechickenmcnugget

SAGE YOU ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE PEOPLE RIGHT NOW THANK YOU SO MUCH

👽 A headcanon about a weird quirk of (theirs)there (i hate the typo so fucking much I am fixing it in every post I make with it)

Simultaneously terrified of fires and adores them. Has the exact same react to TNT. Both of these are Grian's fault because of the life games. EDIT because I am forgetful: shows affection via biting. If he trusts someone enough to not wear his mask expect to be bitten on the arm. (no this is not projection what are you talking about)

🦾 A disability headcanon

Probably has slightly messed up vision after 3L and DL due to any burn scars on the face from that (one does not die from lava/being set on fire without scars), combined with the scar over his eye. Also probably has/had some form of PTSD due to the events in 3rd/Last Life. and also being kidnaped by the Watchers before he ever met another player. and almost getting consumed by a jungle. and honestly everything he dealt with while trying to save Helscraft.

❤️‍🔥 A romantic headcanon

Identified as aroace but somehow found his way into getting married to one of his closest friends from the death game they both take part in and is heavily questioning the aro part. Either way he gets flustered very easily unless someone's earned his trust, then he can bounce right off them with ease

[plokoonsdisapprovingeyebrows]

exciting news! the kel dor conlang lexicon is at almost 1000 words apparently!

some fav recent additions:

gadinai — (vb.) // — to celebrate uproariously; to riot; [colloquial] to really lose one’s shit

kayamassi — (vb.) // — to persist, to keep going; largely used for encouragement, esp. cheering for a favourite sports team: kayamassi ge!

kolmagel — (n.) // — atmospheric pressure-sense, housed in the sensory horns (kolmi); air pressure

kyaogheran — (n.) // — warm outer garment similar to a poncho or a greatkilt, often woven with symbolic patterns or embroidered to show clan or village loyalties

nolna — (n.) // — heat-inducing spices as a class; a plant which produces chemicals kel dor perceive as spicy (and other species perceive as disgusting)

tsipangiri — (vb.) // — to have faith in a person; to be emotionally intimate with someone, to trust them with the details of your life (compare angiri, to simply trust someone to do their damn job)

tvaoruni — (vb.) // — to be at a standstill, to stagnate; [colloquial] to be bored comatose

uani karaak — (n.) // — a spirit of the sea mist said to appear in the guise of one’s loved ones to lead unwary travellers into the sea

zaygeli — (vb.) // — to make sweet, to cover with sugar; [colloquial] to sweeten a deal, to bribe, to entice with rewards, to go out of one’s way to be nice (in hope of reward, it is implied)

zikulikan — (n.) // — ceremonial dances performed on festival days; different dances are performed by different groups, and those performed by the Baran Dao can last for hours or even days.

[oars]

ate too much chees e now my inner thigh swollen was it worth it. mm no

[spitblaze]

dont know about sea slugs, but sea snails at least are very common to eat around the area where my grandparents live (basque country)

Oh, cool! Most of my concern about eating sea slugs really comes down to the size. It's hard to tell in a lot of footage and pictures, but nudibranchs tend to be...pretty small. Like, 3cm small. I just do not know if it's practical or worth it to catch and eat them at that point but I guess if people are willing to break open sea urchins and put their 'nads on sushi then people would try just about anything, huh?

[miserye]

Also I finally finished my case of 40 water bottles everyone tell me you’re proud of me

[witchblade]

everyones mad at me because they suck at their jobs and i have to fire them. as if it’s my fault

[noiivvern]

Eating an otter pop. This shit tastes like the ice in an industrial freezer