#rip current

Anakin growing up had only responded to moving meditation, but he had discovered different methods of quieting his mind as he entered adulthood. Obi-Wan is always willing to oblige.

obi-wan kenobi/anakin skywalker. 8.2k words. rated e.

"Do you have games on your phone?"

ARRIVAL DAY:

I am very smart and put Zim in an unorthodox pocket of my backpack for some reason(must have been in a rush and was just shoving him wherever) then thought I lost him for a minute before I checked the other pockets of my bag

We went to Dick’s Last Resort and they put this hat on my head

Very true very true

DAY 1:

Autism is hard when your kinned character can’t touch water so you gotta make more stuff up a little bit

Because of the shaded sunglasses and the fact that I was in full clothing, when i walked back my mom told me I looked like I was blind and was just Mr. Magoo-ing my way into the ocean like I didn’t know how I ended up there

I then made the mistake of going back out there. time for the that's when i ask myself the scary question part

Cue me frantically swimming diagonally(out of the current but also towards shore) on my back while calling out for help

My stepdad(who grew up in Virginia and has needed to get people out of rip currents before) recognized what was happening immediately and started rushing towards the beach

My mom didn't recognize what was happening at all, she was motioning me back cuz she thought i swam that far out on my own volition😭😭

Luckily before my stepdad had gotten to the beach, some angel of a father saw me struggling, told his kids to stay where they were, and went to help me on a boogie board. My mom then watched this guy swim out towards me and thought to herself "wait is he heading towards my kid??" and only then did she really realize that I in fact did NOT purposely swim out that far.

Originally, Zuma, Chase, and the gang's mounts weren't going to have personalities. They were just going to be background horses. However, my ongoing conversations with @self-indulgent-paw-patrol gave me the idea to give Zuma's mount a personality and a role that would add a fun element to the pair.

With Lary's help, I ended up designing Rip Current. Horses have a complex physique that I wouldn't mind recreating in static images, but in a comic I'm sketching, I can't afford to draw it in full detail as it would waste a lot of time I don't have, so I decided to go for a more "Disney" style, simplifying his physique as much as possible and giving him a slightly more human face so he'd be easy to identify and draw, and also to resemble the Paw Patrol style a bit more.

Rip is a secondary character who will appear from time to time, and he's going to be a real pain for Chase. You can see him in action on @wild-west-way.

This picture is a picture of very dangerous waters.

*points to the smooth, waveless areas*

Those are rip currents where the water says “nope!” and rushes back out to the ocean. If you go in the smooth areas, the ocean will “nope!” you right along with it.

So, if you’re going to play in arguably the most hostile environment on the planet, play where the waves break, and avoid weird random flat spots.

If you do get caught in a rip current, you will not win. 180lbs human against a fckton of lbs of water. It’s physics. You will go with the ocean, and you can exhaust to death fighting.

(River & Flood fact: 6in of water can pull a person off their feet, or drag a car off the road)

So when the big water takes you with it, be like “this is my life now,” drift till it lets you go, then swim parallel to shore and find waves to gently guide you back in.

If you are on the beach, and you are uncertain about the currents: look around. If everyone who looks like a local is NOT in the water, there’s probably a good reason.

*points to the picture again*

Look how few people there are on the sand, and even less in the water. That says something right there!

When in doubt, don’t go out.

🚩 Rip Current Awareness 🚩