#learn to catch fish

[troutpaws]

decided i will be continuing fishtober with small ink & crayon drawings & later on will be rendering them in higher quality at my own pace. i bit off wayyyy more than i can chew with trying to fit in a whole digital painting a day haha

[marinerainbow]

Alright.

I h a v e to know what Padak is about XD

Oh... Oh you sweet summer child, you don't know?

Well I'm glad I can tell you instead of you like, stumbling on this movie and having all of it jump out at you XD

Ok ok, I genuinely love this film and I'll admit, I really want to take a moment to geek out about it. But that would involve in me getting into spoiler territory. So, in case you decide to look for this film yourself, I'll just give you the generalized story here.

The movie is about a lone mackerel, later in the film named Padak for trying to 'padak padak her way to her death' (she jumped out of the tank and was flip flopping on the ground. I'm guessing Padak is Korean for Flip-Flop? It's a good thing this film wasn't Australian, or else she'd be named Thong. I'm sorry) is fished out of the sea and dropped into a tank at a local restaurant, and has to escape back to home, all while trying to convince her new tank-mates to escape with her. Simple plot, right? Well... Here's a quote from the YouTube review that introduced me to Padak that pretty much sums up the whole movie perfectly.

"Imagine if you took the fish tank setting from Finding Nemo and mixed it with the graphic violence from Watership Down, drizzled it in the depressing tone of Plague Dogs, and gave it a garnish of that sushi scene from The Isle of Dogs. That's basically this film on a plate."

Steve Reveiws, Padak

Now, why is the sushi scene prevalent? Because this film takes place in a Korean restaurant where their food is as fresh as possible. Meaning that the fish are prepared and even eaten while still alive. And this film pulls zero punches in showing the horrors of this kind of delicacy (no, I'm serious. A fish is literally cut up and dissected on screen. This movie takes off the kid gloves and throws them in the God damn incinerator). So yeah, there are a lot of images in this film that will be upsetting to veiwers. But this film isn't gorey just for the sake of gore. It tells a genuinely very sad story and will wring out emotions from your heart, and can also be breathtaking with its musical and 2D animated segments.

I'd recommend checking out this reveiw before trying to find the film, though. Even if watching a reveiw is not at all like watching the movie, this guy does censor some of the more extreme gore (like the scene I mentioned above). He doesn't censor all of it, but I think this video is still the best introduction to this movie.

However, if you want to check out the movie, I could only find it on this website https://online.potlockermovies.com/full-movie/padak/ it's free, and it does have English subtitles (the movie doesn't have an English dub), but there are a lot if pop up adds and it's probably going to get frustrating clicking off of them, but this site was still the best I could find to watch Padak.

It's interesting to note that this film does not go in the direction you might expect it to. If it weren't for the fact that I had watched the video above before the movie itself, I would have been just as shocked with how it ended and what happened to our characters as Steve was. But at the same time, the film does establish right away that it's going for more... For lack of a better term, realistic approach. So although the film goes in an unexpected direction, it's also hard to say that it cheated you out of your time to view it.

Again, to try to keep this as spoiler free as possible, I'm only going to sum up the third act in lyrics from the last song of the movie that speaks mountains once you realize it.

Destiny tricks us like fools.

He also gives off a kind of viscious cunning vibe in the movie? Like he's the second in command character that's a bit of a bastard. I think you might like him if you watch this movie. And the old Flatfish who is 'The Master' of the tank.

Oh yeah also, there's this eel (who I think is named Anago? Or Jooldom? His name is never mentioned in the film, however the video above calls him Jooldom, and I've seen people on this site argue his name is meant to be Anago. There isn't much information for this movie online, unfortunately.) who everyone wants to become the next tumblr sexyman. All because of his voice. To be fair, it is a nice voice.

[crowsyart]

Some of these have way more meaning than others some are just vibe based I’m a bird guy I gotta birdify the soul eaters

Maka - Carolina Wren

Soul - Osprey

Black☆Star - Common Kingfisher

Tsubaki - Black Heron

Kid - Black Vulture

Liz - Red Tailed Hawk

Patty - Rough Legged Buzzard

Crona -Kauai o’o’

Ragnarok - Loggerhead Shrike

Medusa - Crested Serpent Eagle

Marie - Buff Orpington Chicken

Spirit - Red Crested Cardinal

Stein - Harpy Eagle

Death - Andean Condor

Justin - Turtle Dove

Giriko - Hoatzin

Eruka - Potoo

Mifune - Snowy Owl

Sid - Ostrich

Hero - Grey Catbird

Asura -Magnificent Frigatebird

Naigus - Groove Billed Aini

Asuza - Western Jackdaw

[sacreblugh]

god help me im going fishing on tuesday

i haven't been fishing since i was a kid

im a former gifted fisher pls bro i don't remember how to set a reel up or fucking cast for the life of me

[yoylechess]

hiiii idk if your still doing this/have to many to do but you could draw 2 of my ocs if you want. this is connie and selina and they are in a cute just romantic-ish/platonic-ish relationship :]

Haiii orangggeee i really like these guys im particularly fond of connie's design ^_^* i added the bands because their hands were in front of their hair but wawa :3 these designs are a lil' outside of my wheelhouse so i dont think these are particularly good... sorry.. but i hope you like anyway

[lightningbig]

where is the tender sdv cutscene of willy teaching the farmer how to fillet a fish.

[negrowhat]

Kinn storing all these survival skills Porsche is teaching him like, “Wait till I get lost in the woods again! I’ll make those woods my bitch!”

[soldier-poet-king]

Idk if it was growing up working class or being raised primarily by first gen immigrants or both but I'm listening to shmanners while at work (and enjoying it) but like hot damn I was unaware of 90% of this shit, and the stuff I did know was from reading period lit

[cheusburger]

i did the stone vigil dungeon for the first time today and immediately died which was so freaking embarrassing 😭😭😭 (and like 2 more times after that) luckily everyone was so nice but man was i nervous. sorry to my party if u ever see this LOL

tank is hard!!!!! but its fun so i like it (i played as WAR)

[adamparrishdyke]

can tell i'm getting older becayse i am enjoying conversations with my grandparents about geoducking and crabbing

[chadsuke]

Books Read in 2023:

I Don’t Want to be the Duke’s Adopted Daughter-in-Law by Chae Yoohwa (2022)

Knights of the Old Republic Vol. 8 by John Jackson Miller (2010)

Knights of the Old Republic Vol. 9 by John Jackson Miller (2010)

Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You Vol. 1 by Karuho Shiina (2006)

Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You Vol. 2 by Karuho Shiina (2006)

Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You Vol. 3 Karuho Shiina (2007)

Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You Vol. 4 by Karuho Shiina (2007)

A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow Vol. 2 by Makoto Hagino (2018)

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill (2010)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned books. End ID.]

[rhetoricalrogue]

I caved and got RDR2 for my PC and I’m trying to remember how to use the controls for this game vs my muscle memory from Days Gone. I keep using the same ones I would for my bike and wondering why my horse won’t go.

Game: so, here’s some tips on how to play.

Me, who has a billion hours logged in on my PS4:

[wanderingnork]

Look. When I started this 151-horror movie journey (unintentionally), I went out of my way to watch “good” horror movies. Yknow, the ones that Stand The Test Of Time or have A Deep Message or are Works Of Art. And yeah those are all good and some of them are truly close to my heart!

These days I just pick whatever looks reasonably interesting, put on some mood lighting and get cozy, and let myself get carried away. Most of the time, I end up enjoying myself as much doing that as I used to watching the “good” stuff. Highly recommend trying that if you’re feeling bored of horror.

[iridescentis]

losing my mind a little

[skitskatdacat63]

And what if I said I agreed with Plato about philosopher kings? What if I think he was right!?

[aplpaca]

I got a fish book from the library and I just think everyone should know that archerfish aka the guys that spit jets of water at bugs to knock them off plants and eat them aka these guys-

-are a social species (like a lot of fish), and that the jet spitting is actually a learned behavior rather than one they just do instinctually. They have to watch older members of their social groups do it a bunch of times (like up to thousands) before they're able to successfully do it themselves. If you take a young one and isolate it from its species, they just never get good at it (they also catch prey like "normal" fish tho, so an archerfish that can't archer won't starve just bc of that)

When they do learn to do it tho, they can compensate for light refraction, vary how much water they spit based on the size of the insect they're aiming for, and will learn to shoot insects that are midflight by spitting in the bug's flight path rather than where the bug actually is