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unravelingwires · 2 months

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Demersion

I wake up. I check the time– 6 am, I’m safe– change, and walk outside my tent. I brush my teeth, raising my head to look at the pink, cloud-streaked sky; why was that wrong? I walk along the grass– why can’t I see the blades– and moved to enter the field station– wait, where was the door, and why– oh, I was dreaming, shoot, reach up and up and up through the back of your skull to your body on the ground can you feel it can you press, press, press your eyelids open and–

I wake up, vaguely disoriented. I check the time– 6:30 am, I’m safe– change, and walk outside my tent. I brush my teeth, raising my head to look at the pale blue sky; was that strange? I walk along the grass– don’t look down, don’t look down– and enter the field station, sitting at the table to write in my notebook– when did I get that? I open the pages which aren’t lined, they should be lined, I’m dreaming again, reach up and up and up through the back of your skull to your body on the ground can you feel it can you press, press, press your eyelids open and–

I wake up, calm. I check the time– 8:30, I’m late! I change and jerk outside my tent, don’t look at the sky, don’t look at the ground, and enter the field station to make breakfast. Why are they still cooking? Aren’t I too late? Breakfast starts at 8:00, I know I’m late; I’m sorry. That’s french toast. We’ve never had french toast– I’m dreaming again, what the hell, why does this keep happening, reach up and up and up through the back of your skull to your body on the ground can you feel it can you press, press, press your eyelids open and–

I wake up. I check the time– 7:00, I’m going to be late. I change and jerk outside outside my tent. Why shouldn’t I look at the sky? I don’t have time for this. I enter the field station, 7 minutes late. I apologize, it won’t happen again. I need to cut up tomatoes. Was the knife always red? Alright, I should test if this is a dream. Can I turn the knife purple? The knife is purple. It was always purple. Can I turn it blue? The knife is blue. Wait– the knife was red before? The knife was purple? The knife has always been blue. That’s wrong. This is wrong. This is a dream; this is a dream. Reach up– that didn’t work last time– reach up and up and up through the back of your skull to your body on the ground can you feel it can you press, press, press your eyelids open and–

I wake up. I check the time– 10:00, oh God. The entire camp has left. They left me behind, and the sky is bleeding red-orange-blue, and the blades of grass are curling around each other. I go to the field station. I brush my teeth. I need to be in the field station to brush my teeth; that’s where the sinks are. My notebook’s on the table. Did I leave my notebook in the field station? They left me behind. I find a phone. What’s the number? The number is tapped to the phone. Why is the number tapped to the phone? Why is there a landline phone on the wall? It’s yellow. It’s grey. It’s whatever color I want it to be. I’m dreaming. Tip your head back and look up. Can you feel the ground? Can you hear the bugs chirping? Will you hear the birds singing? An hour in year life can last days in a dream. You will be here forever if you don’t reach up and up and up, press, press, press your eyelids open and–

I wake up. I’m dreaming. The sky is blue, the grass is green. I’m dreaming. I’m never going to wake up. It could be years before my alarm goes off. I’m dreaming. How do I wake up. How have I woken up before? I’m dreaming. Where’s the tent? Where’s the field station? I’m dreaming. Can someone please wake me up? I’m dreaming. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. There’s– my back is pressing against the ground, my feet brushing up against the plastic of my sleeping bag, my eyes are shut, why can’t I open them? Wake up. Open your eyes and wake

I wake up. Everything is dark. Right, it’s still probably nighttime. I check the time on my phone: 4:23 am, which is about typical for the wake-up from a lucid dream. I push myself upright, getting my hair caught on the zipper of my sleeping bag. I hum to myself just to feel the vibrations in my teeth. I reach out for my notebook before changing my mind and finding a real book. I’m not going back to sleep tonight.

#Demersion is the state of being overwhelmed in water #lucid dreaming #altered consciousness #my writing #library of babel #unedited #creative writing #original characters #my ocs #mental health

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oceana-official · 1 year

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emma talks !!

hii!! It has not been a long time since i started working on oceana so, I'm still a beginner in this field but that's aside the point!! since the girls are fairly new in here, I'm gonna follow matty's footsteps and ask for help!! I'm looking for some friends for the girls 🥺 if you're interested, please send me a message and I'd be over the moon to talk about it!! Let's give the girls some friends!! Please let me know!!

taglist : @stealanity ( lmk if you wanna be added!! )

#〔 demersal 〕 ⋮ — emma talks.#please let me know!!

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crabsnfush · 10 months

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Demersal fish

Posting fish until I get a girlfriend

Day 6

#fish #wlw #love fish #lgbtqia #demersal fish #day 6

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cosmicoryx · 1 year

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White Australian fishers when you ask them to make literally any compromise to protect the delicate ecology of the rivers and ocean

#niche ass post but commercial and recreational fishers have been throwing so many tantrums lately #the abalone sanctuaries and demersal fishing ban in WA come to mind in particular

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cerezzzita · 2 years

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— aesthetic words to fill up your vocabulary ♡

✦ if you're tired of using the same repetitive words to describe feelings or actions on your writing, here are some aesthetic words that are not frequently used to help you evolve your vocabulary better and also maybe help you with creative titles <3

ABENDROT: the color of the sky while the sun is setting.

ABIENCE: the strong urge to avoid someone or something.

ACHROOUS: colourless.

AEQUOREAL: marine, oceanic.

AESTHETE: someone with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature.

ALIFEROUS: having wings.

AMITY: warmth and heartfelt friendliness in a friendship; mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship.

AMORIST: someone who is in love; someone who writes about love.

AMBROSIAL: fragrant, delicious.

ANTHOMANIA: great love for flowers.

AQUAPHILE: someone who is an enthusiast of all things related to the water.

ARENOCOLOUS: living or burrowing in sand.

ASPERSE: change falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone.

ASTERISM: agroup of stars; a constellation; a cluster of stars.

ATTAR: essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.

AUREATE: golden or gilded; brilliant, splendid.

AURICOMUS: with golden or yellow colored foliage.

AVIOTHIC: the strong desire to be up in the air or to fly.

BALTER: to dance artlessly, without particular grace and/or skill but usually with enjoyment.

BATHIC: pertaining to depths, especially of sea.

BELAMOUR: the one who is loved; a beloved person.

BELLICOSTIC: aggressive, belligerent, warlike.

BENEFICENCE: the quality of being kind or helpful or generous.

BERCEUSE: a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep.

BLÁFAR: indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health; attractive and possessing charm.

BRONTIDE: the low rumble of a distant thunder.

BURBLE: to speak in an excited manner.

CAELITIS: the divinities who dwell within the celestial planes.

CATHARSIS: the release of emotional tension, especially through kinds of art or music.

CELERITOUS: swift, speedy, fast.

CERAUNOPHILIA: loving thunder and lightning and finding them intensely beautiful.

CHEVELURE: the nebulous tail of a comet.

CINGULOMANIA: a strong desire to hold a person in your arms.

COCCINEOUS: bright red; scarlet.

COCKAIGNE: an imaginary land of luxury and idleness.

CONSTELLATE: to eluster; to compel by stellar influence.

COSMOGYRAL: whirling around the universe.

CORDOLIUM: heartache; heartfelt sorrow.

CORUSCATE: to reflect brillantly, to sparkle.

CRAMOISY: of a crimson color.

CREATURELY: a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else.

CRYSTALLOMANIA: an obsession with crystals and other crystalline objects.

CHRYSALISM: the amnotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

CLINQUANT: glittering with gold and silver.

CLYSMIC: cleaning, washing.

CUPIDITY: greed for money or possessions.

CYANEOUS: a sky-blue color.

CYNOSURE: guiding star; a object of common interest.

DARKLING: of or related to darkness.

DÉCLASSÉ: having fallen in social status.

DEIFORM: god-like or divine in nature.

DEMERSAL: that lives near the bottom or a body of water.

DESIDERIUM: an ardent longing, as for something lost.

DISPITEOUS: cruel and without mercy.

DOUX: sweet, soft, mild, gentle.

DRACONTINE: belonging to a dragon.

DYSANIA: the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.

ECCEDENTESIAST: someone who fakes a smile.

EFFLORESCENCE: a period or state of blooming, blossoming.

ELEGY: a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

ELEUTHEROPHILIST: someone who advocates free love.

ELYSIAN: beautiful or creative, divinely inspired; peaceful and perfect.

EMACITY: desire or fondness for buying things.

EMPYREAL: pertaining to the sky; celestial.

EPHIALTES: a nightmare; the demon Incubus that supposedly causes a nightmare.

EPICARICACY: the joy that results from others misfortune.

EREMOPHOBIA: the deep fear of stillness, solitude, or deserted places.

ETHEREAL: extremely delicate, light, not of this world.

EUMOIRIETY: happiness due to state of innocence and purity.

FLORENTIS: abounding in flowers; being in bloom and adorned with plentiful flowers.

FREICEADAN: guard, garrison, watch, sentinal.

FULMINATE: cause to explode violently and with loud noise.

FURCIFEROUS: brat; rascally, scandalous.

GLOAMING: twilight, dusk.

GRAME: anger, wrath, scorn; sorrow, grief, misery.

HALCYON: calm and peaceful; happy, prosperous.

HELLION: a rowdy or mischievous person.

HELIOPHILIA: desire to stay in the sun; love of sunlight.

HEAVENIZE: to render like heaven or fit for heaven, to purify and make a holy place or a person.

HENOTIC: promoting harmony or peace.

HIRAETH: a homesickness for a home you can't return to, or that never was.

HOLILY: belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power.

HYPNAGOGIC: the state immediately before falling asleep.

IGNICOLIST: a worshiper of fire.

ILLECEBROUS: attractive and alluring.

IMPLUVIOUS: soaked with rain.

INCANDESCENCE: light produced by high temperatures.

INCALESCENCE: the property of being warming.

INCENDIARY: designed for the purpose of causing a fire, likely to cause anger or violence.

INEFFABLE: too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.

INSOUCIANT: free from worry, concern or anxiety.

IRENIC: aiming or aimed at peace, promoting peace.

IRIDESCENT: producing a display of rainbow-like colors.

INVIDIARE: to envy.

ISOLOPHILIA: a strong preference and affection for solitude.

KALOPSIA: the delusion of things being more beautiful than they really are.

KALON: beauty that is more than skin deep.

LACONIC: expressing much in a few words.

LACUNA: a blank space; a missing part.

LATIBULE: a hiding place, a place of safety and comfort.

LAMBENT: to glow or flicker softly. Luminous, light or brilliant.

LIMERENCE: the state of being infatuated with another person.

LONGANIMITY: still suffering while planning revenge.

LOUCHE: disreputable; morally dubious.

LUCELENCE: the state of being fine and beautiful; shining, brilliant.

LUCIFORM: resembling light in appearance; having, in some respects; the nature of qualities of light.

LUMINESCENCE: light produced by chemical, electrical or physiological means.

MALTALENT: the negative emotions of wanting injury or harm to befall someone; a hostile behavior or attitude towards someone considered an enemy.

MARMORIS: the shining surface of the ocean.

MAZARINE: a dark blue color; rich blue or reddish-blue color.

MELIORISM: the belief that the world gets better; the belief that humans can improve the world.

MÉLOMANIE: an excessive and abnormal love and deep attraction to music and melody.

MERCURIAL: subject to sudden or unpredictable changes.

MESMERIC: appealing; drawing attention.

MORDACIOUS: biting or given to biting; biting or sharp in manner; caustic; capable of wounding.

MORPHEAN: of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep.

MOXIE: courage, nerve, determination.

NEBULOCHAOTIC: a state of being hazy and confused.

NEFARIOUS: wicked, villainous, despicable.

NEMESISM: frustration, anger or aggression directed inward, toward oneself and one's way of living.

NERITIC: pertaining to shallow coastal waters.

NOETIC: of or associated with or requiring the use of mind.

NOIRCEUR: the state of being pitch black in color; a state of lacking illumination.

NUBIVAGANT: wandering in the air, moving through the air.

NUMINOUS: spiritual or supernatural; surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious.

ONEIRODYNIA: restless, disturbed sleep, characterized by nightmares and sleepwalking.

OPHIOMORMOUS: snake-like.

ORPHIC: mysterious and entrancing, beyond ordinary understanding.

PAVONINE: characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock; as in colors; iridescent.

PETRICHOR: the scent of rain on dry earth.

POIESIS: creation; creative power or ability.

PORPHYROUS: purple; of purple hue.

PLAXONDRY: the mix of introspective nostalgia, sadness, and calmness felt when listening vaporwave and its related genres.

PRATE: to talk excessively and pointlessly.

PROCELLOUS: tempestuous, stormy.

QUIDDITY: the essence of something.

QUIXOTIC: extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical or impracticable.

RANTIPOLE: a wild, reckless young person; to be wild and reckless.

REDAMANCY: the act of loving the one who loves you; a love returned in full.

REDOLENT: having a strong distinctive fragrance; serving to bring to mind.

REMEANT: coming back, returning.

RESPLENDENT: having brilliant or glowing appearance; dazzling and impressive in appearance through being richly colorful or sumptuous.

REVERIE: a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream.

RODOMEL: juice of roses mixed with honey.

ROSEATE: rose-like; overly optimistic.

RUTILANT: glowing or glittering with red or gold light.

SANGUINEOUS: accompanied by bloodshed.

SASHAY: to strut or move about in an ostentatious or conspicuous manner.

SCIAMACHY: a battle against imaginary enemies; fighting your shadow.

SEQUACIOUS: lacking independence of originality of thought.

SERAPHIC: beautiful and pure; having a sweet nature befitting an angel or a cherub; of or relating to an angel of the first order.

SERENDIPITY: finding something good without looking for it.

SKINT: having little or no money avaliable.

SOLIVAGANT: someone who wanders or travels the world alone; a solitary adventurer.

SOMNIATE: to dream, to make sleepy.

SORTIGER: delivering prophecies of the future; having the qualities of being oracular.

STELLIFEROUS: having or abonding with stars.

STELLIFY: to transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such.

SUCCIDUOUS: ready to fall, falling.

SPUME: a white mass of bubbles or froth on the top of a wave.

SYNODIC: relating to or involving the conjunction of stars, planets or other celestial objects.

TARANTISM: the uncontrollable urge to dance.

TEMENOS: a sacred circle where no one can be oneself without fear.

THANATOPHOBIA: fear of death.

TYYNEYS: the state of peacefulness; absent of worry or fear, being composed and at ease.

ULTRAMARINE: beyond the sea; greenish-blue color.

VELLEITY: a wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action.

VENERATION: a profound emotion inspired by a deity.

VESPERTINE: in or of the evening; setting at the same time as, or just after, the sun.

VERDANT: with plants and flowers in abundance.

VERMEIL: a liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.

VERTICORDIOUS: to turn the heart from evil.

VIOLESCENT: tending toward violet color.

VORFREUDE: the joyful anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures.

WANDERLUST: a strong desire to travel and explore the world.

WHIST: to hush or silence; to still, to become still.

#writing prompts #writing #writeblr #writers on tumblr #writing prompt list #writing help #writing tips #creative writing #aesthetic words #dictionary #synonyms list #writing list #writing study #writing on tumblr #aesthetic words list #synonyms #helpful writing

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life-on-our-planet · 3 months

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Flounders are demersal fish, meaning they live and feed on or near the bottom of bodies of water. Their distinctive shape is an obvious benefit for this lifestyle. ©Nature Footage

#fish #flounder #flatfish #underwater #actinopterygii #pleuronectiformes #request

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shadewood45 · 3 months

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I cannot remember if Demersal Heart got his name, very likely he has and I just wasn't there sjfjsk. He belongs to @pathos-p! Fantastic guy

#shady art #chonny jash #c4chatroom #cjverse chatroom #shade’s friends’ characters #@pathos-p #cj:heart #he swears like every four words and i support him for it #pathos fucking designs are always godtier i love the wild patterns with DH so much theyre so fun

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dougdimmadodo · 1 year

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Mbu Puffer (Tetraodon mbu)

Family: Pufferfish Family (Tetraodontidae)

IUCN Conservation: Least Concern

While most of the over 190 species of pufferfish are found only in marine environments, the Mbu Puffer is a rare example of a freshwater pufferfish, inhabiting much of the lower Congo River system as well as several of the estuaries, large lakes and smaller rivers that it connects to. It is also unusual among its relatives in terms of its size; while members of the pufferfish family rarely reach large sizes, Mbu Puffers can grow to be up to 67cm (2.2ft) in length, dwarfing most of their relatives. Members of this species are demersal (meaning they typically remain close to the riverbed) and, like most pufferfishes, are durophagous (meaning they are carnivores that specialize in feeding on hard-shelled invertebrates such as snails, mussels and crabs, with their four enlarged front teeth forming a beak-like structure that aids them in breaking through shells), although they may also take softer prey such as worms and small fishes. The Mbu Puffer’s size means that adults face very little predation, but like other pufferfishes they still possesses the ability to inflate themselves into a large, spherical shape by filling their stomachs with water when threatened, making them difficult to bite.

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#Mbu Puffer #Pufferfish #puffer #fish #zoology #biology #icthyology #freshwater fishes #freshwater fish #animal #animals #wildlife #African wildlife #fishes

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mbari-blog · 1 year

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That Monday morning feeling #notmovinguntilfriday

The shortspine thornyhead rockfish, Sebastolobus alascanus, is found throughout the northeastern Pacific Ocean from the Bering Sea to Baja California to depths up to about 1,500 meters (about 4,900 feet). Like other rockfishes, this species grows slowly and may live as long as 80 to 100 years! It can reach lengths of up to 80 centimeters (2.62 feet).

Thornyheads are demersal, which means they live on or near the seafloor. We usually find them patiently waiting for their next prey item to appear—which can include shrimp, crabs, zooplankton, amphipods, and other benthic invertebrates.⁠

#MBARI #DeepSea #SeaLife #ocean #nature #MondayMood #MondayMorning #MondayMotivation

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oceana-official · 11 months

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ok i originally didn't wanna do it but I'm genuinely struggling who do you guys think sage's back up fc should be? send me an ask pl <3

#〔 demersal 〕 ⋮ — emma talks.

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toskarin · 3 months

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new demersal album looking promising from the teaser tracks👍

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agent-8449 · 7 months

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Agent Logos CJverse chatroom summary.... REAL!!!!

Clears throat. This may be a long post, be warned. Actually, yeah. Bwoink.

The OG AU: Voice of Reason

Whole: Dead as fuck. Sort of. Way before the events of the comic, their Whole 'died'. We refer to not-dead Whole OOCly as 'Hope', but he also sort of exists afterwards as a figment of himself-- the 'shadow' called Cast. Cast can only speak in song lyrics, and currently resides in... the TMAverse, as a cursed item. Woaw.

Heart: Would kill you if you called him Heart. Ozzy/Oz/Ozymandias is a real piece of work. Sourceless guilt incarnate, magically influenced by a cursed mirror to eat it, in a symbolic attempt to erase himself. He's so chill. So fine. So cool. Definitely not so close to collapsing at all times. Got glasses though.

Mind: Tinker/Ulysses. So violently soggy, but hides it under his inexplicable British accent and polite demeanour. Made the transmitters that allow Thirds to traverse between their Surrealities. He half-regrets this. The only one of the three fully aware that Cast is an actual sentient guy. Hid his Soul's trident in his hand after the comic, and so that hole is very much still there <he's 'fixing' it atm...>

Soul: Coda. Coba. Coba Cola. What a disaster. After the comic, it <he/it> was kept in his room as much as possible. Then Oz left, and he completely lost it. It was a big storyline, so feel free to ask about it. Coda is really fun because he's not sane

Me-only AU 2: The Negatives

Whole: Eris... also known as Chase. The Negatives are a sort of "reversal of personality". Eris is a shitty content farm-making YouTuber, and generally hates this too. He also has to deal with the Cold War he sort of constructed with his own Thirds. He remembers what his Thirds do, which is good because he split <past tense> often... like. Every day. They called it 'shifts'. Yeah.

Heart: Phobos, ahhhhh my horrible boy Phobos. Personification of egoism, self-aggrandization, imagination, and intrusive thoughts. Green. Mean. A bitch and a half. Generally sadistic. The de-facto leader of the Negative Thirds. Wears crocs. Idolises Whole.

Mind: Deimos. That is all. Personification of logic, reasoning, and thinking ahead. He is also an absolute goon and pushover. All too happy to be Phobos' lackey.

Soul: Nemesis, though he hates that nickname. Personification of 'cringe culture', self-doubt, second-hand embarassment, and critical thinking. Basically ignored by the other two. Does all the work in the Vessel. Clinically annoyed by everything all the time. Very spiteful.

ASSORTED GUYS <from co-op AUs>:

Allen: Soul from Voib, Andy, Shade and I's AI AU, also known as Reification Initiative: Apotheosis. Yeah I came up with that. My bad. Allen is shitty. So very shitty. Ran away. That's all I can say for now.

Valentine: Heart from WAAAILSSSSSS IT'S ONLY ME BUT HIS COUNTERPARTS ARE ALL DEAAAAD. The Bachelor AU, a 'Lonely' AU. He is trying to live his life now that he fucked up and he's alone. He committed arson. He has to go to government-mandated therapy. He is beloved.

Nyx: Whole from Xanadu AU. Haven't done much with him, but he's in space, and he's an idiot.

Vlinder: :>

Thyme: Mind from the Aonaran/Apocalypse AU. The world ended. It be like that sometimes. And the stress got to their Whole. Thyme killed multiple people.

Pursuit: Heart (2) from Voib's Labyrinths AU. He is big kitty cat lad. Does eat people. Tries to maintain the status quo. Genuinely satisfied with the state of things.

Magna: Mind from Demersal AU. Basically, he got pitted instead of Heart for being a delusional little shit. He did not get any less delusional. Conspiracy nut, drowning 1/4th of the time, and generally horrible person.

Brevity: Soul from Voib and I's Syncopation AU. Olde Mann. No legs, they froze off. He is not mentally well at all, but he's got to keep it together if he wants to continue being 'him'.

Crawl: Heart from the Asides AU. Fourth-wall breaking eldritch horror. Collector of things. Collector of extinct things. Full name 'Crawl of the Horizon'.

"Quinn": Soul from Good Day. Very new AU with me, Voib, Q-ott, and Ledge <@/nitroish>. Meant to be close to album guys. He's denying his halves exist and matter atm.

There you go! Not including the alternate timelines because jesus christ

#GASPS FOR BREATH #cjverse chatroom #voice of reason

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