#may 17 2022

[dogstomp]

Dogstomp #2691 - May 17th

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[dmwrites]

The guppy geyser was one of those places where you just kind of went and you stood there and you went “huh” in kind of a hesitantly neutral way. This was true both when the guppy geyser was working… and when it stopped.

“Huh…” Joe said, stroking his beard. The lack of fish was a surprise, to say the least. He’d just come back one day and his magnificent guppy geyser was just a normal bubble column again. It was kind of sad. He missed that special wet slapping noise of dying fish against the rock already.

He called over Cleo to help discover what was malfunctioning, but since the whole thing had been a malfunction before, it was impossible to figure out what was wrong.

“Sorry Joe.” Cleo had her hands on her hips, looking down at the hole of water in the ground. “I guess it was just a fleeting happiness. Happiness is like that.” She flew off before Joe could get into some kind of thoughtful monologue about the topic.

Joe left it for a few days, hoping the whole thing would reset itself magically. It didn’t, and it left Joe with a a wet hole and nothing else.

Sighing, Joe set aside one evening to clean up the prismarine structure he’d created for the tourist attraction.

“The one time I break nature, and the world takes it away!” Joe lamented. “Is there no way I can fix it?”

No one responded, naturally, because no one else was around him, or, in fact, online at the time. He had expected that; it was a rhetorical question. What he wasn’t expecting was the sound of shattering glass coming from the former guppy geyser. Joe turned to look at the geyser and found a smashed glass bottle on the ground next to the hole. Weirder still was the dry, rolled paper laying amongst the glass shards.

“A message in a bottle?” Joe wondered out loud. He carefully plucked the paper from the glass and unrolled it.

“Please deposit one sacrifice to continue enjoying the fish”

Joe blinked. He took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, and put the glasses back on. No, that’s really what it said in a fun font.

“Hello? Who is trolling me right now?” Joe called. He checked again. No one else was online. But how-

CRASH!

This time he saw it coming out of the corner of his eye. A glass bottle, with a message inside, shot out of the geyser and crashed on the ground, shattering. It was like the geyser itself was communicating with him. Joe was pretty sure, considering his history with all things weird and odd, that that’s exactly what was happening. Joe picked up the second paper and unfurled it.

“Complete a sacrifice within the next fifteen minutes and get a special discount! Twelve months of continuous fish for free! (Some exclusions apply)”

“A special discount! Oh, well I have to get on that!” Joe felt panicked. “Fifteen minutes!” He checked his watch and groaned. “There’s no way I’m gonna be able to get this! Ugh!”

<goodtimewithscar joined the game>

Joe froze. A slow smile slunk across his face.

<joehillssays: howdy scar!>

<joehillssays: would you mine coming over to the guppy geyser real quick? i need your opinion on a build.>

<goodtimewithscar: ye>

Here’s the thing. Joe wasn’t a fighter. Joe wasn’t a killer. He purposely made killing things harder for himself, just for the hell of it. Joe’s hands shook slightly as he pulled out his trident. Scar was clumsy… careless with his hearts… probably, hopefully, would be on half health when he got here… Joe didn’t want this to be painful.

“Now Joe, I am a very busy tree elf, but for a friend I can spare a few moments. Whats up, man?” Scar flew in and crash landed in front of Joe. He chuckled and righted himself, brushing off his shirt.

Joe stood there, trident tight in his hand, staring at Scar.

“You alright Joe? You look a little pale. And sweaty. Nice trident, by the way!” Scar smiled.

“Oh, you know, just, uh, yeah!” Joe let out a super high-pitched laugh and then sunk the trident right into Scar’s chest. It was a wet, awful sound. Scar gasped.

<goodtimewithscar was slain by joehillssays using TriTrident>

<goodtimewithscar: Joe what was that!?>

Joe ignored Scar’s chat, as well as the flurry of calls. It didn’t matter. Nothing mattered, because the guppy geyser was spouting fish once more. At first they were all red, dyed by Scar’s blood. But the water slowly turned clear again, and all that could be heard was the gentle wet slapping of fish dying against rocks. All was right again.

——

And all for a great deal, brought to you by just don’t think about what controls the guppy geyser, don’t do it, it’ll be after you next

[abybweisse]

hello! I was going to ask about why our Ciel has his ears pierced and I found an old post of yours (from 2018ish) and you mention that there is an official art in which sebas pierces our earl's ears but I can't find it, in case you have it, can you show it?

Found edits online with all the speech bubbles removed, but the original version is still @tobosoofficial. It's from 2013 and was probably originally posted on her old tuna.be blog. Here ya go:

All I recall about the translation is Sebastian saying it's a pity the young master let the piercings heal over.

This was long before we got the chapter that explained how he first got an ear piercing (the price tag when he and real Ciel were up for sale) and how the other ear originally got pierced (right before they were presented to the cultists). We don't see the twins get that second piercing, but when they make their debut at the... party... each of them has both ears pierced.

So, looking back at the cute little sketch years later, it just makes me sad. And Sebastian is such a demon for suggesting the kid should have just kept those piercings. I can't blame the kid for wanting those original piercings to heal over....

[card-of-the-day]

Today's Card Is: Scapeghost

[larrytimelines]

Harry and Tom Skoglund out in Central Park NY today, May 17 2022 (x)

[richardarmitagefanpage]

New selfie of Richard in Marseille, France. (May 17, 2022)

[daisiesonafield-blog]

so cute

[hilaryduffwardrobe]

WHERE: Disney Upfronts

WHEN: May 17, 2022

Christian Louboutin Jenlove 100 mm - €695.00

[artystaroc]

Me, working on a fanfic, specifically a scene of Teru being Teru: ...I can't believe I'm going to make my dad read this hchdudhxujajs

[mermaidinthecity]

cherlloyd: Another beautiful day 🥰

[publishedtoday]

The Days of Bluegrass Love - Edward van de Vendel, Emma Rault (translator) (Tycho Oliver #1)

Tycho Zeling is drifting through his life. Everything in it – school, friends, girls, plans for the future – just kind of . happens. Like a movie he presses play on, but doesn't direct. So Tycho decides to break away from everything. He flies to America to spend his summer as a counselor at a summer camp, for international kids. It is there that Oliver walks in, another counselor, from Norway. And it is there that Tycho feels his life stop, and begin again, finally, as his.

First written in 1999 in Netherlands, this is the first time it’s been translated into English

[1morteveryday]

137/365 👣

[abybweisse]

Is it me or yana did make O!ciel shorter than he is ? (I got confused after re-reading ch 13 )

Our earl's height issue

Early chapters are full of drawn height inconsistencies, but it's made clear in the (licensed) text/dialogue of the series that he hasn't grown in height at all since the contract was formed. The only measurement that canonically went down was his waist, likely due to the corset he wore for a short time.

In the series some people show slight concern that he hasn't grown (like Undertaker and Chlaus), and it obviously bothers him when people mention it or ask about it. Both Sebastian and Undertaker joke about it. The latest joke is when Undertaker presents real Ciel to our earl and says he made sure real Ciel grew at the same pace. Well, dead people don't grow, and Undertaker admits the kid isn't really alive, so real Ciel didn't grow, making this just one more joke that neither did our earl.

I suspect the reason is that forming a demon contract somehow arrested his growth, and neither one of them realizes it yet. Sebastian has never had a master so young, still a growing kid, so he doesn't understand. All his adult masters in the past didn't grow anymore anyway, and their contracts likely didn't last long enough for anyone to notice they weren't aging. That's the biggest going theory on it now, that I know of: demon contracts arrest the development/aging of contractors until the contract is fulfilled.

Of course, whatever the reason given within the story, Yana-san simply needed to keep the twins the same height, so that people could still confuse them, once real Ciel returned. If our earl had kept growing, while real Ciel didn't, Soma would have been very confused when he opened the door at the townhouse and saw a significantly younger/smaller version of the earl he knew. He punches our earl because he thinks our earl is the shooter.

[daisiesonafield-blog]

Lima and Hong Kong listening parties!

Check my IG stories to find the info. I'm posting all listening parties on there as I see them! HERE

[averbaldumpingground]

"Wait in the hallway."

"Why?"

"It's better if I meet with them alone."

Perhaps it is. Raised voices through the paneled door, a clatter and the shattering of glass. Ernesto isn't back yet.

There aren't any clocks to tell the time. Just bitten fingernails, a wooden bench, and pacing as the shouting almost carries.