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i saw a post about this nd i rlyy didn’t like the way the post looked so here u go !! comment if u don’t like to be tagged or if u prefer to be tagged (it’s not weird if someone who wasn’t tagged comments pls i’d like that!!) .. i love tag games ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

1. height

2. age

3. shoe size

4. do you smoke?

5. do you drink?

6. do you take drugs?

7. age you get mistaken for

8. has tattoos?

9. want tattoos?

10. has any piercings?

11. want any piercings?

12. best friend?

13. relationship status

14. biggest turn-on’s

15. biggest turn-off’s

16. favorite movie

17. i’ll love you if…

18. someone you miss

19. most traumatic experience

20. a fact about your personality

21. what i hate most about myself

22. what i love most about myself

23. what i want to do when i get older

24. my relationship with my sibling(s)

25. my relationship with my parent(s)

26. my idea of a perfect date

27. my biggest pet peeve

28. description of someone i fancy

29. description of the person i dislike the most

30. a reason i’ve lied to a friend

31. what i hate most about school/work

32. what my most recent text message says

33. what words upset me the most

34. what words make me feel the best about myself

35. what i find attractive in women

36. what i find attractive in men

37. where i would like to live

38. one of my insecurities

39. my childhood career choice

40. favorite ice cream flavor

41. who i wish i could be

42. where i want to be right now

43. the last thing i ate

44. random fact about anything

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// Nell.

Most specifically, I'm an upside-down jellyfish! Jellyfish actually lack a central nervous system, and brain, so they don't have many mannerisms. Rather, they exist to survive and reproduce.

I resonate very deeply with how an upside-down jellyfish looks, honestly. Their oral arms look almost like teeth, especially on the more red-blue ones like this, which I coincidentally resonate the most with:

I like how their patterns are formatted, and I think if I could see my soul, this kind of pattern is what would be carved into it. Their bells are also flat, and while it has a genuine reason (it helps them settle onto surfaces), it just feels damaged to me, and I also resonate with that aspect.

One of their defense mechanisms is to release their venom into the water, so you only have to really be around them to get stung. It's an oddly isolatory factor despite their blooms (which are groups of jellyfish). Their blooms also allow them a lot of stillness, because they pulse their bells and circulate water around them, and that draws in food. The idea of isolation despite company is something very entwined into my personality, because I don't enjoy my company most of the time, they're just useful to me, similarly to how these jellyfish are basically just using each other.

I will provide some unsolicited thoughts regarding the differences in the behavioral predispositions of an upside-down jellyfish ( Cassiopea ) and a sea nettle jellyfish ( Chrysaora ; I am a Japanese sea nettle, but I will not explicate as to not ramble on ).

Upside-down jellyfishes are cute, and a bit nonconforming, for instead of drifting through the open ocean, they drop to the seafloor of shallow, sunlit lagoons, flips onto their backs, and stay put. An upside-down jellyfish also has a symbiotic relationship with algae living in its tentacles ( how adorable . . . )

And instead of directly attacking threats, upside-down jellies release invisible clouds of stinging mucus ( cassiosomes ) into the water around them. . An aversion towards direct, singular confrontation, perhaps, preferring to set wide boundaries.

Sea nettle jellyfishes are voracious and carnivorous predators with quite a striking appearance: pulsating bells and long, lacy tentacles that trail behind them. Predisposed to hunting. . . They are in motion, experiencing the world, and going with the flow of the currents. And are they not graceful, compelling attention from onlookers ?