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Guys, I finally worked on something for the ygoadvent!

It's a Keyshipping one-shot for Day 4 and Day 8.

Story under the cut.

Enjoy!

“Yuma? What is that strange... white substance raining from the sky?” Astral curiously peered out the attic window.  

“Shush, Astral. I’m sleeping.” Yuma said, turning in the hammock. 

Today was a Saturday, and that meant extra sleep! 

“You are not. Otherwise you wouldn’t be talking. Wait, you do talk in your sleep, so maybe it is logical to think that you really are sleeping. But that would mean--”  

“Astral, please! I’m awake, okay? Now quit your rambling!” Yuma hopped out of the hammock. It was quite obvious that he hadn’t been asleep given that he did such a maneuver with ease.  

As Yuma made his way down to his bedroom, Astral smiled. It was endearing that Yuma always slept in. And waking him up was also a treat, since he it made him feel like he was a part of his daily routine, something that he desperately wanted. After all, even though they spent almost all of their time together, Astral wanted more, as any lover would.  

Yuma hurried down the stairs to the smell of... hot chocolate?  

“Hello, Yuma dear,” Haru said, motioning for her grandson to sit in the chair in front of her. 

“Hey, Grandma.” Yuma said, sitting in the aforementioned chair. He waited a second before addressing what was on his mind. “Hey, what’s that smell?”  

“I made hot chocolate.” Haru said, setting a mug in front of Yuma, confirming his suspicion to be true. 

‘Huh,’ Yuma thought. ‘She only makes hot chocolate when it snows out.’  he grabbed the mug and took a long sip. 

Astral put his hand to his chin in deep thought. Since he could hear Yuma when he was speaking, he came to the conclusion that, since Haru only makes hot chocolate when it snows, and a strange weather occurrence was happening outside, it must’ve meant that the ‘white substance’ outside was snow. But what was it’s purpose? 

“Hey, Astral. Astraaal. Astral!”  

Astral snapped out of his thoughts when he heard Yuma calling his name. 

“What is it, Yuma?” he asked. 

“You looked deep in thought. What’s on your mind?”  

“Well, I heard you thinking about something called a “snow”. What is that?”  

Yuma smiled. “Snow is like... when it’s raining and... uhm... hold on a second,” 

Yuma got up and walked over to his grandmother. He whispered something, had something whispered to him, then came back. “So snow is when the temperature is very cold and it begins to rain, turning the raindrops into snowflakes, because it freezes the water!” he said. 

“So, it is snowing outside?” Astral asked.  

“Ye-- wait, wha?” Yuma turned to Astral with a shocked expression. “It is?”  

Yuma walked over to the door and opened it, followed by a huge gush of cold wind and wetness. He slammed the door closed again. “It is.” 

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Sorry if I left it with a weird cliffhanger. But I hope you enjoyed it!

I really like when Ed is "i'm gonna kill your entire family" while Ling is "heart eyes"

* disappears for another week *

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

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Thank you, I've displayed this somewhere where I can always see it.

Virtual world is an excellent arc argue with the wall

personal space, man!!!!

Remembering Rosa the sea otter

Hello Aquarium family. It’s with great sadness that we share that our beloved sea otter Rosa passed away today. At 24 years old, Rosa was the oldest resident otter at the Aquarium and one of our most experienced surrogate moms, having raised 15 stranded sea otter pups in her time with us. 

While Rosa spent the last few months behind the scenes getting extra special care from our staff, she was the matriarch of the Sea Otters exhibit. Beloved and cherished by millions of visitors and fans of the live Sea Otter Cam, she was instantly recognizable thanks to her blonde head (eclipsed only by Ivy as our most grizzled of kelp grizzlies) and her signature head-all-the-way-back swimming style.

“Rosa was one of our most playful sea otters, and even at 24 years old, she would still be seen frolicking and wrestling with the younger otters when she instigated it,” said Melanie Oerter, curator of mammals. “Rosa was usually found sleeping against the window while on exhibit with her chin tucked tight into her chest and her tail swishing back and forth.”

After being found stranded as a four-week-old pup in September 1999, Rosa became part of the Aquarium family before our sea otter surrogacy program even took shape. Our Sea Otter Program staff raised her by hand for nearly seven months before releasing her to the wild. 

Rosa eventually returned to the Aquarium once again in March 2002 when she didn’t take to life outside of human care, and she immediately became a fixture in the formative years of our sea otter surrogacy program as a caring adoptive mother for rescued pups destined for wild release.

She was a delight to work with, though she certainly had her expectations of our staff according to the many Sea Otter Mammalogists who trained (were trained by?) Rosa over the years. 

"Rosa was an incredibly smart otter! Generally calm and patient with the staff. However, she could be defiant at times and there would be no convincing her to do something she did not want to do," said Oerter. "She would often just look at us or swim away. I believe she was the one who was really training us all of these years. I certainly learned a lot from working with such an incredible otter. It has been a privilege and to say we will miss her is understated."

Rosa relaxed into retirement from surrogacy in 2019, acting as a companion and cornerstone in the ever-changing raft of otters in our care. 

Wild female sea otters live between 15 and 20 years, and reaching the age of 24 is a testament to the exceptional care Rosa received throughout her life from our Veterinary and Animal Care teams. In recent years, she began showing signs of age-related health concerns.  In the last few weeks, her health had been deteriorating. After an exam, the veterinary and animal care teams made the difficult choice to humanely euthanize Rosa because those health conditions were compromising her quality of life. She passed away peacefully, surrounded by her caretakers.

Rosa’s legacy lives on both at the Aquarium with our other resident sea otters Kit, Selka, Ivy, and Ruby, and in the wild, where sea otter pups she raised continue to raise pups of their own, contributing to the recovery of their species and their ecosystems along the California coast. 

Rosa was an inspiration to millions as a charismatic ambassador for her threatened species while playing a leading role in the story of sea otter recovery from near-extinction during the fur trade. Rosa will be greatly missed by all of us who got to know her over the years.

To celebrate Rosa’s long life, please feel free to share photos and stories of your encounters with Rosa at the Aquarium in the comment section on this post, in her memory and for the staff and volunteers grieving her loss. Thank you all for being such a big part of Rosa’s life. 🦦♥️

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Happy out of touch thursday

you’re stuck living with your icon for a month have fun