#posts from the ocean

[clamsjams]

this has been stuck in my head for days i needed to bring it into existence. might make another version with pac or smth but daughter comes first

[the-real-gmail]

Blip bloop blub

[vor-leser]

i love that in the book poseidons sole motivation for hunting ody for A FULL DECADE is just because of his son polyphemus,, like,,, hes not even trying to teach him a lesson like in the muscial,,, just a very passionate dad!!!

also close-up under the cut cause the face rendering kind of slays

[future-crab]

So basically what happened was this. A songwriter got high and sat on the beach and wrote a song about the ocean, and the interconnectedness of everything. It’s five minutes long and there’s no chorus and none of it rhymes, and it slaps so hard I can’t even put it into words.

And it starts out talking about the biggest concepts possible - first God, then the ocean, the continents. Things that are so huge it’s hard to hold them in your head. And it moves - from the ocean to inlets, to estuaries, down through limestone into the aquifer - narrowing its focus more and more until these enormous concepts are distilled down into a single object - a glass of water for a child.

Then the second verse repeats the process on a more personal scale. Another idea that's almost overwhelming in its scope. “If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman.” And again, the lyrics narrow it down to a single perfect detail. “My mother once told me she would have named me Laura.” Suddenly it’s not a nebulous concept - gender, in all its infinite complexity - it’s a real life. It’s not just a question of being a woman, but of being Laura. And you can hold Laura in your head. The song goes on, builds out that life - “one day I’d find an honest man to make my husband, we would have two children, build our home on the Gulf of Mexico” - but it almost doesn’t need to. It already said everything it needed to say in that one, perfect line.

And then five years later the songwriter comes out as trans, and that one perfect line takes on new layers of meaning. Suddenly you know that the person singing "If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman; my mother once told me she would have named me Laura," is a woman named Laura Jane Grace. You know that, but she - the version of her recording New Wave in 2007, trapped in soundwaves like a bug caught in amber - doesn't. And that secret, that you know and she doesn't, is another thing so big you almost can't hold it in your head.

so anyway yeah what I’m getting at is I really like the song I think it’s pretty neat 👍

[bizarrelovetriangel]

Hirohiko Araki unveils his first public art, The Fountain Boy, located at Osaka Station.

[tinfoil-jones]

Jerk Ford AU: From the Trenches

One night on the deck of the Stan O'War-II

Stan: Sure is a nice night, huh Poindexter?

Stanford: I buried myself once.

Stan: —...

Stanford: Another version of me. He was already long dead when his distress signal pinged me, and I buried him after looting his corpse. *Thousand yard stare*

Stan: Stanford—

Stanford: And I kept thinking; is that going to be me?

Stan: Stanford—

Stanford: *crying* Am I going to die out here? Am I never going to get home and get buried in some random dimension where no one I know or love is—?

Stan: Stanford! Hey, hey— look at me. You're here now. You made it home. You made it.

[friendlyneighbourhoodelf]

obi-wan as the moon but in the way that the moon influences the ocean. powerful and serene and dangerous and beautiful. do you see??

[mylifeinpixels]

[you-know-cchio]

in light of a chinese book being used in the newest book game video, i need an audience member to bring in a book that's entirely in french for aj or spanish for luke. please.

[blenselche]

some post-comic wip while i work on the next page

n e way here's a chicken sneeze if u need it

[astraeajackson]

what i think happened in Storm:

eurylochus, genuinely fearing for his life and literally about to fly off the ship: CAPTAIN THESE WAVES ARE GONNA FLIP THE FUCKING SHIP OVER OUR FLEET IS GONNA FAIL HEEELLLLPPPPPP

odysseus, busy harmonising with the crew and raising group morale: JUST TELL THEM TO FOLLOW OUR SHIP DUDE WE GOT THIS!!! oh wait shit i missed the chorus STOOOORRMMMM STOOORRMMMM

[micamicster]

Until then, I remain, Long John Silver.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville, chapter CXXXIV The Chase - Second Day

[mtsodie]

oh no !!!! spills all of my horsies on the floor oh fuck !! oh no aw man

( pt one )

[daily-odile]

Happy birthday Isabeau!!!!

and a bonus small gift from a certain someone...

[lgbtlunaverse]

Anyway. Isn't it fun how every single fusion jasper is in results in her being hurt both physically and mentally?

[maclanahan--mermaid-comics]

“Ms. Crustacean’s Zoom background is so realistic, it’s almost like she is joining the meeting from an actual seaside cave.”

Featuring @wishyroses