Just A New Start

small child with hands and face fully pressed up against the glass in front of the indo-pacific reef tank for a solid 5 mins before turning to her mom and asking 'are they real? are they real fish??' and squealing with delight when informed that yes, those are real life fishies and not a video. mom told me that kiddo loves to watch videos of fish on her tablet, but is always disappointed that they're not 'real'

guy who sauntered up to me thinking he was soooo cool and funny in front of his friends and asked how easy it'd be to 'grab a penguin and run'. got visibly disappointed + upset when i responded very matter-of-factly without hesitation and without looking away from the exhibit i was assigned to watch that 'on the off chance the penguin doesn't peck your eyes out first, the aquarists will probably get to you before security does and they'll probably kill you.' he apparently thought he was going to catch me off guard and get a funny reaction out of me but didnt consider that i hear that question or some variation thereof several times a day and am very tired of it.

another guy showed up with a milf shirt. this time it said MILF: MAN I LOVE FROGS. because nobody else complained about him like the first guy and because he was, unlike the other guy, not piss drunk and didn't cause a huge scene of knocking shit over and shouting at people who took issue with his shirt, he did not get kicked out. it's that simple!

several people approached me very upset and very confidently told me that a fish was stuck in the rocks in the giant ocean tank and looked like it couldn't get out. each time, i humored them and rushed over, only to see that each time the object of their concerns was our green moray, who was in fact quite comfortable in his favorite crevice and perfectly capable of moving should he so choose.

ditto of the above, but instead it's people being dead convinced that our elderly halibut is just lying there dead in the middle of the sandy bottom exhibit. i dont exactly blame them because he is very old and has cataracts and is also a rather ugly fish, so to the unfamiliar eye he does definitely look like a rotting corpse. but that's just how he is!

STAR TREK

USS Enterprise NCC 1701

“Someone’s sending all this to Dukat, yeah?” 

Man, this was a blast to draw. With all the negativity in the world right now, just needed something fun to cheer me up. 

Based off @captaincrusher​‘s post.

To sum up, it’s never really touched on that Sisko has Dukat’s old office, and the implications of this. One of the theories thrown in was that a week after settling in, a life-sized bronze statue of Dukat shows up (after being held up in Bolian customs for three weeks), and Sisko has to sign for it. They don’t know what to do with it, so it just does the rounds of the station:

It ends up in the rec room for Julian and Miles to throw things at.

Kira gets back from a week-long mission to Bajor, finds it just inside her bedroom door. Barely misses it with her phaser. 

She places it just so inside the infirmary doors, so it’ll topple onto Julian when he walks in the following morning. 

Nog looses a bet with Jadzia, has to sneak it into Sisko’s office wearing the ‘Everybody loves me’ shirt.

Revenge is enacted.

Quark thinks it’d be a great way to fool Odo. Turns out paper plates sticky-taped on aren’t the answer.

It ends up at Garak’s. No one’s sure exactly how or why, but the results are beautiful. 

Ziyal, my poor baby. Sisko’s given her a cargo bay to decorate. 

At one point, O’Brien has to go on an urgent mission. For some godforsaken reason, the statue has ended up in the runabout and there’s no time to unload it. So he pilots for 54 hours straight while feeling the itch of Dukat’s soulless glare on the back of his head. 

There’s just not enough theories about the implications of Sisko having Dukat’s old office:

Sisko finding Dukat’s hidden stash of bad love poetry.

Sisko accidentally tripping some security measure by leaning on the wall the wrong way. (Dukat is paranoid after all). The whole station has to be evacuated.

Dukat visiting and triggering one of those security measure so he and Sisko gets trapped together in his office for seven hours. So they can “talk”, since they’re “best friends”.

Sisko finding Dukat’s hidden stash of illegally strong kanar. Quark somehow gets a hold of it and 5 people have to be hospitalized.  

Sisko having to remove the mirrors covering the ceiling before he moves in.

Dukat visiting Sisko’s office and intentionally picking up Sisko’s baseball just to irritate him.

Lots of this:

Kira visits Bajor for a week and when she comes back there’s a bronze statue of Dukat in her quarters. 

She gets her revenge by placing it just inside the sick bay doors so Julian is scared half to death when he enters in the morning.

After losing a bet with Jadzia, Nog sneaks the statue into Sisko’s office, wearing a shirt that says “Everybody loves me”.

Quark dresses the statue in his clothes and uses it to try and fool Odo he’s in the bar while he’s not. Odo isn’t fooled, mostly because of the lack of ears.