#sea fish catching

[rozecrest]

hey don’t cry. spiro the bald eagle failing at catching a crab, okay?

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was playing Animal Crossing and I went to catch a fish, my character caught a sea bass and said, "What the fuck," and I got so scared that I woke up.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 278

You know what I’ve gotten obsessed with and inspired by? Dredge. 

You know what is also fun? Merfolk. What’s even better? Lovecraftian corrupted merfolk. Especially if say, one goes with the Lazarus Waters being a form of ectoplasm. So, in this? Lazarus waters are like lakes, while Amity Park, thanks to the Portal, and the barriers? It is an entire sea. 

There are islands, small areas that were once the tips of buildings that have gathered more landmass around them. There are mangroves, trees not like anything on earth or anywhere else stretching up in canopies dark enough to block out the sun, yet lit by the green waters. 

It goes deep. Mariana Trench deep, despite it being impossible. The GIW have explored for caves or tunnels, they’ve tried to find some sort of explanation, but there isn’t one. 

Now all that ecto? That has an effect on people. They mutate, they change, they adapt. Anywhere else would have been a slow death- something the GIW might have even been counting on. But Amity Park? It was founded by witches, it was the hotspot for the supernatural, even before the Fentonwork Portal. They’ve been dealing with this sort of energy in microdoses from the moment they first began to live in the city in any generation. 

But they begin to adapt. Shift into something… other. Some stay contaminated, clinging to human forms as they form homes on the tiny islands, fishing and farming what they can. Others become Liminal, almost seeming to meld with fish, some similar to ones of the Living and others something just to the left. Similar yes, but not quite… right. And then there are those that have truly melded with the energy of the dead, forms torn asunder by it, ripped apart and made anew by it. 

The first sign back when the barrier was activated, when they could no longer leave and were trapped were the fish in the lake. And now they are the same, with gazes of something Else, with gnashing teeth and a hunger gnawing at where hearts once were. 

But they aren’t monsters. They’re still themselves. Just a little… Other now. 

[djdangerlove]

Bobby when the cruise ship starts sinking:

[unsanctitude]

cracks open my coffin lid to show my newest disgusting old person furry

[nightingaleinberkleysquare]

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Common name: Anglerfish (I'm mainly talking about general deep sea angler fish in this post)

Scientific name: Lophiiformes

Habitat: mesopelagic (twilight zone) and bathypelagic (the midnight zone) zones

Diet: crustaceans, small fish - they are carnivorous

Feeding habits: ambush predators

Classification: Ray-finned fish

Genus: Lophius

Conservation status: most species are considered least concern; only one species (the spotted handfish) is critically endangered.

Extra info: there are over 200 species of anglerfish.

What you think of when you typically think of an anglerfish are the females. They experience sexual dimorphism, the females being large and having a rod-like extension on their foreheads, unlike the males who are much smaller and don't have the rods on their heads.

They can swallow prey up to twice their size.

Male anglerfish latch onto the female and are eventually fused to the female, and lose their eyes, and all of their internal organs except their testes. The females tend to have five or more males fused to their bodies.

(I couldn't find many photos sorry)

As this is bioluminescence Monday, I obviously have to mention the bulbs the females have attached to their heads. The light from the bulbs is caused by small glowing bacteria called photobacterium.

[illustratus]

Heimkehr vom Fang by Franz Wilhelm Schiertz

[piratebluebeard]

AND ANOTHER THING. WHERE DOES ED HAPPEN TO PROCURE HIS OLD LEATHERS??? do you think he fished them up...

[belethlegwen]

That giant feeling of wanting to escape constant perception, view, judgement from others, the inescapable pain of being noticed, always, and just trying to find somewhere-- anywhere-- where you can be alone in the quiet. Finding a place where you can just be large and loud and wild and clumsy without constantly having to fear consequences to anything but yourself. To be able to turn off the need for extreme concern, of the necessary micro-managing (heh) that comes with having to exist around people so much smaller than you. They may love you, they may care about you, but in a world built for them and not for you, they can't truly provide you a place to be yourself. How far would you need to go to be unheard if you screamed or yelled? How desolate a place would you need to find where you can be absolutely sure that there'd be no one there for you to upset, scare, or hurt by accident as you try to unwind and remember all of yourself? There are moments you wish it could be the opposite of how it is-- how you wish you could be small enough to hide behind a bookshelf or under a dresser, go completely unnoticed by those around you-- rather than to be this thing that somehow seems to always be in the periphery at the absolute least, and always in the direct gaze of innumerable people at worst. How free are you to truly to be yourself when there are no moments of privacy? Where everyone sees all of you, all the time, and you have to behave accordingly to that? You can't escape their conclusions of you anymore than you can escape their perceptions. The picture they paint of you gets clearer and clearer to them every moment, and you have to suffer through the inescapability of that.

[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.

[lilybug-02]

Aquarium trip :)

[mossmurdock]

MOSSSS!!!!!!!! HIIII! you said your obsessed with the ocean right.......... i wanna know more........... is there anything specific about it? what's the most interesting thing about it? i really like to watch deep sea vids every once in a while i like the weird guys who live down there....... the magnapinna 🤯🤯🤯🤯 so cool..... and i'm kinda scared of the kelp forests i think that's what they're called it's so stupid look i'm scared of kelp touching my leg okay EEEEEEEEEEE but yeah I WANNA KNOW MOORE PLS GO CRAZY luv u<333

- @catchuuu

HELLO HELLO MICKEY i hope you've been well <3

AND URRGHUERHG DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED (im starting) my obsession with it honestly comes from my huge fear of it! i've been scared of the ocean since like ever because like it's so big!! but then i got a bit older and i was like !!!!woah ur scary (but also so beautiful) and then it just developed from there :D (lots of aquariums were visited)

i love deep sea vids and documentaries !!! im shaking ur hand so hard rn, the magnapinna is so beautiful I ACTUALLY LEARNED ABOUT EM FROM THIS VIDEO I WAS WATCHING LAST NIGHT

kelp forests....AGH KELP FORESTS I LOVE THEM SO MUCH IT'S LIKE A WHOLE OTHER WORLD OUT THERE I JEFKFEUHFEHUJEFWHK the way light goes through their little leaves,,,how tall they can get AND the way the stipe in certain kelp is like super long i cant get over it dude (wanna chew it)

and god for the deep sea specifically, i love how funky these guys start to look. they're so beautifully different and just so floaty and eerie and weird. IM ALSO SUPER INTERESTED IN WHALE FALLS THEY'RE SO WONDERFULLLLLL.

i just really like the unknown of it all, it's just so wonderfully mysterious. i kind of think of it as a heaven and hell almost but i dont really know how to explain that part of it very well 😭

ive also lived by the beach for a pretty good portion of my live, so i have both fond and sort of nightmarish memories of it that i hold very close to my heart!

[beannary]

guys ive been playing so much dredge and i only have ten more fish to catch before ive caught all the fish hehehehehe

[gailiag]

HEAVENSWARD FISH COMPLETE

They weren't lying that bobgoblin bass sure can downtime: 11 days.

[pizzazz-party]

ughhhh i just want to play animal crossing :(

[vzajemnik]

been playing acnh the whole day i may be going slightly insane