inclusive queer system, mostly adults

but apparently this photo is fake which is an enormous burst of relief to my already fragile, suddering psyche.

sadly though THIS photo of a barrel jellfish is real

Some of my favorite jellyfish (sorry if I go on a tanget and vear off jellyfish)

are the Stygiomedusa gigantea, which I believe is also called the blanket jellyfish, but like dude look up a video of it moving it is chilling and fantastic! This thing is 10 meters long, so not the largest here, but ohohoho look at my love

It is a deep sea jellyfish and is one of the largest invertebrate predators known. However, according to Cambridge, it has been consistently recorded in the twilight and sunlight depth zones down south so do with that what you will :)

If we want to keep going down the large and length category of ocean creatures, allow me to introduce the current longest recorded ocean animal. A deep sea siphonophore that clocks in at around 46 meters; my beautiful death halo

Technically siphonophores are hundreds upon hundreds of tinier organisms that grouped together to make a bigger one, but for all intents and purposes, this is one animal. Some of them are incredibly beautiful!

However there is also ones not so pretty, main one was something I saw a month or so ago and it looked like someone had fused like a dozen human limbs together and they were flailing to move and jesus christ yall can go mentally scar yourselves.

Uncoloured version under the cut

Please tell me that other systems have a wall of viscous black liquid in-headspace that represents dormancy

please for all my everyone's out there, please remember to give yourself aftercare if you're someone engaging with kink online. especially if the content you're engaging in usually touches/exacerbates any real-world emotional stuff for you. whether it's cnc or degradation or anything, just because it's content you're consuming online doesn't mean you're immune to needing aftercare once the sexy part is over.

i feel like aftercare is something we often think of as being a thing that happens between partners after sex, and obviously yes that's a big chunk of it, just because you're playing solo doesn't negate the wacky stuff the chemicals in your brain can do, nor that there aren't things you can do for yourself to help ease out of it!

When I noticed it, I stopped what I was doing immediately, mid conversation. Then I spent some time in my bed, cuddling my soft blanket, breathing slow and deep while I had a gentle conversation with the person who was helping me. If you don't have this, you can always put on a podcast or video or some music instead, this is just what I did, but use whatever you have available!

Once I was okay to get up, I had put on my favourite playlist and took a long, warm shower, gently easing my joint pain and cleaning up properly.

Also had some water for hydration and now I will go eat some dinner before cozying up and watching my favourite show!