Shaped like a seal friend

i should be allowed to kill alloromantic people. like. ugh.

tagged by @joaniam! let's grab some music. I'll be honest here most of these are on one or another of my D&D characters' playlists

Carry On My Wayward Son - The Arcadian Wild don't look at me it's a good song. also a good acoustic cover.

Flesh & Bone - Sammy Rae real good gravely growly vocals and bright horns on this one

Oh The Places You'll Go - I Fight Dragons this one's just sweet

Midnights in October (Shannon's Song) - Dom Fera ok I will admit this one caught my attention because my name's Shannon but it kinda slaps

Ashes - The Longest Johns tlj is a solid sea shanty band that does a lot of traditional stuff but I also really like a lot of their original work so I'm going to get meta and add their original song about choosing to contribute to the folk music tradition and not just preserve it

Jabberwocky - Erutan you ever just listen to jabberwocky and reflect on how several of the nonsense words caroll made up for his stupid poem are just words now

Mold and the Metals - Charming Disaster should I be concerned that I have added this one to multiple playlists

Transcendental Cha Cha Cha - Tom Cardy void's got style, the void can dance, the void wears tear-away pants

Well This Is Shit - Thomas Benjamin Wild, Esq look I'm living in 2026 like the rest of you

GENDERING TEDDY - the Narcissist Cookbook this might be more accurately classified as spoken word but it's a pretty good example of how Narcissist Cookbook keeps altering my brain chemistry

The Crow - Dessa specifically the version from Castor, the Twin

Where Are We Going (Nowhere) - Small Fools this one's been a real earworm lately

"I'm really sorry that lockdown and the ongoing pandemic interrupted pivotal educational and social/emotional development moments for you. You have an uphill battle towards adjusting to a lot of community based efforts because you experienced a mass trauma during an incredibly important time in your life where you should have physically been around your peers learning to engage in shared community. There is no "but" here, I'm genuinely really sorry. Something many of us consider key points in our interpersonal growth as youths was taken from you, not without reason but without care for its impact on you. I hope you know we are eternally allies in our struggles and if that is something you struggle to know I hope you can learn it someday."

Because so many of the angriest, most disenfranchised people I see on this website are under 24 and I often try to put younger people's behavior in the context of where they might have been 2020. I've seen the impact on my siblings and their peers+friends first hand, all ages 18-24. We've talked about how its impacted them, the isolation, the attachment to the internet, the anxieties and phobias and fears it developed in them due to the pandemic, the political unrest, and the responses to both that we've seen since. I know they're not the only ones and I know how much being marginalized also influences that impact too.

OP: "Grandpa made this for Dad when he was a child, and now it's been passed down to my son."

Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleufagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!