Sugar-peach

Could you please tell us the jack barnes story i am on my hands and knees begging you

>be me, jack barnes

>1961

>people are getting a mystery illness in australia

>symptoms include muscle cramps, incredible pain, head and backache, nausea, vomiting, can last anywhere from 4 hours to two weeks

>also causes anxiety and dread so intense that people have begged doctors to kill them and get it over with

>use l33t data analysis skills to figure out time and location of most reported cases

>ocean currents change around the time of these cases

>implying something in the ocean causes lethal mystery agony disease

>sieve ocean trying to identify culprit

>somuchjelly.gif

>give up on sieving

>me and my son arrive at beach in december

>fuck it, go swimming

>what's that up against my dive goggles?

>ohshit.jpeg

>it's him. the little invisible bastard

>grab it

>lifeguard nearby sees a fish swimming unusually

>little bastard holding onto fish with one gangly tentacle

>he grabs it too

>these things won't survive a trip to a lab so i can't prove anything

>"it's okay daddy we'll get it next time"

>look at son

>he looks at me

>an idea dawns

>evilgrin.png

>sting self with jellyfish

>sting son with jellyfish

>lifeguard also stings self with jellyfish

>mfw the agonies begin

>mfw not a mystery illness anymore

>mfw i get a jellyfish named after me for my noble act of attempted murder-suicide

🪻Today's Miku figure is:🪻

Furyu Flower Fairy Cosmos Purple noodle stopper ver.

I have a lot of strange dreams, but this one was particularly weird.

I was at an arcade with my family, and in the back corner I saw a Sailor Moon game. I went over and played it, and it was like nothing I've ever seen before. It was owned by Disney (as shown by the opening trailer) and was about a Sailor guardian named Sailor Sun and Stars. She was about Chibiusa's age, with gold hair. As I played the game, the dream shifted until I was Sailor Sun and Stars. S&S was fully conscious of the fact that she was in a game, and was playing it backwards to try and find a cure for her very sick best friend (sort of a Hotaru stand in).

LIFE IS GOOD AGAIN BOYS

“Nendoroid Doll Hatsune Miku: Loungewear Outfit Ver.” by Good Smile Company

Flopped out bunny :3

He doesn't do this very often, so this was a very nice little treat

world is MINE!

How we weigh an octopus!

too many ppl who know nothing about Filipino folklore n culture r talking shit about my ate. she’s based off of the manananggal, which you can compare to the European vampire, if that helps you understand it better. although, i’m reluctant to mention that becuz some ppl, who choose to be ignorant, currently hold the view that she’s just an Asian-colored vampire mishmash monster. she is not. other than the fact that she manages to exist at all, here are some details i appreciate about her.

first, she has a face that looks like my family’s. that’s my lola’s nose. that’s my mom’s birthmark. shit, those are my uncle’s cheekbones. the headpiece features jasmine, our national flower. the translucent petals are cool.

second, you can display her in two pieces, split by the torso. its not just a “cheap gimmick” you ignorant pos. at nightfall, the manananggal severs itself in two, leaving behind a vulnerable lower half while its upper half hunts for nourishment - blood, raw hearts, livers, fetuses. the red fringe represents her dangling intestines, hanging loose as she flies after ripping her body apart. the string detail is on the skirt for consistency, but also, intestines are long as fuck? why wouldn’t they also hang from the bottom, assuming they also get split in half.

while we’re on the outfit, the top is an extremely traditional (Spanish colonial, ugh) style in both fabric and shape. i have attire that looks exactly like it, minus the monster high red foil pattern. the tiny, “woven” sleeve cuffs are a nice touch. the earrings and bracelets look to be woven palm too, but aren’t as effective in plastic. the bottom half skirt is quite a bit shorter than is traditional, and the heels higher. it’s a monster high doll.

most accurate would be barefoot, tbh. but you guys would riot, and again, its a doll. actually, the shoes reference a lot from Filipino culture. the heel is a coconut tree overlooking a kubo, a one-room stilt hut built with natural materials such as bamboo and palm, and specifically made to be remade as necessary. the sole is “wooden”, also an accessible material of which some shoes were made with. it is attached by braid to what looks to be a straw strap. also not unusual for a shoe.

her fan and wings feature embroidery, and if you look closely at the latter, you will see a thin and delicate flora design in between the spider web pattern. this is extremely reminiscent of calado, a type of traditional hand embroidery akin to lace that is difficult as fuck. a dying art, btw.

i didn’t wake up looking to ride this hard for a plastic woman lmao. but if you’re gonna come for her, it better be because of the fluorescent green in her colorway and not because you don’t know what you’re talking about. honestly, a lot of Filipinos are just happy to be considered and celebrated. “wins” like this mean everything. maybe it’s not good enough for your collection, but now you know more about my culture than you would’ve gone out of your way to. and that’s good enough for me.