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lotlvision · 4 months

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Dora 2024 first(ish) listens!

Alen Đuras - "A tamburitza lullaby" I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'm always biased against songs in English, but I have to admit that it's pretty catchy - I'm also a big fan of the actual backing. It does feel a little bit more special than a pop song, so I'll give it 7/10

Baby Lasagna - "Rim tim tagi dim" I'm immediately taking back my English bias, this is SO fun. I think the staging will be really important to sell this as a winner, but I can hear the Cha Cha Cha influence so I already adore it. 9.5/10

Barbara Munjas - "Nepobjediva" Not a fan of her vocals... I assume they're a stylistic choice? The song feels like a mishmash of several genres and not in a cohesive way. I mostly zoned out of listening to it, so it's not bad background music if nothing else! 4.5/10

Boris Štok - "Can we talk" I'm not sold on this song. Sad white man singing about a break up without the Taylor Swift pizzazz I like in my breakup songs. Useful lyrics to steal for fic titles, but that's about it. 5/10

Damir Kedžo - "Voljena ženo" Song five and FINALLY some Croatian! That said, it's not my personal preferred style. It's definitely got strong vocals, and with the right staging it could do well. I'm not sure how the Dora votes are split, but if it's 50/50 Jury and Public then it'll do well with Juries! 8/10

Erna - "How do you love me" Immediately back to singing in English... I hate the breathy whisper-singing, and the song itself doesn't really have anything special about it. Sorry Erna, but this is not a song for me. 5/10

ET - "Pametnom dosta" Time for the (apparently) mandatory club song! It doesn't really build or climax the same way similar Eurovision songs have (thinking Lights Out), and it doesn't feel like there's anything particularly special about it. 6/10

Eugen - "Tišine" Not my style again, however I am reaching for my phone to turn the light on and wave my arm slowly back and forth. I think it could do well with Juries, and well with the Public too. It's got a nice build toward the end. 8.5/10

James Night - "Nebo plače" This is definitely just a pop song. The vocals don't seem as strong/polished as some of the others so far, however these are all recorded rather than live, so there's no telling how they'll sound on stage. It's not super special, but it's an earworm and I'm enjoying it. 6.5/10

Lana Mandarić - "More" This song is definitely a builder. I'm not a huge fan of the style, but I can understand the appeal behind it. Staging will really make or break this. 7.5/10

Lara Demarin - "Ne vjerujem ti" I was enjoying myself and then some guy started rapping over Lara's lovely singing. I don't feel like that added anything - more it just detracted from what was a nice song. 6.5/10

Let 3 - "Babaroga" Let 3 are already back! This song isn't anywhere near as good as Mama ŠČ!, and having heard them live the autotune stands out even more than it does just listening. They sound more like dolphins than humans. However, I love the weird shit in Eurovision, so this is right up my street. 8/10

Lu Dedić - "Plavi leptir" This is not my vibe for listening to on a regular basis, however as a standalone song for one night it really could be my winner. With the right staging, lighting, costumes, choreography I could want this to win. It gives me the same vibes as I get during the wedding in Miss Saigon (this is an AMAZING thing, it's so soft and beautiful). 9/10

Marcela - "Gasoline" I do really enjoy this song. It is in English, and it is just a pop song, but the vocals are really strong and the lyrics are very catchy. It might not do well, but it'll be going onto my playlists. 7.5/10

Mario Battifiaca feat. Robert Ferlin - "Vodu piti trizan biti" When a song on eurovisionworld has a 1.5 star rating you're either in for a treat, or you're going to listen to something truly awful. This is just boring, and slow, and the longest 3 minutes of my life. 2/10

Misha - "One day" This song isn't very special. It's a pop song, but without the really upbeat and fun nature of a pop song. It's catchy, but that's about it. 5/10

Natalie Balmix - "Dijamanti" This is a fun song! I think the current rating is maybe a little bit high, but there's a lot of potential and I think it could be a contender with the right staging. For now, 8/10

Noelle - "Baby, baby" It's just a pop song. It's nothing special, there's nothing that makes it a real Eurovision entry, but there's nothing overtly bad about it either. 6/10

Pavel - "Do mjeseca" I am SO upset at the low rating for this. Sure, the vocals aren't the best, but the song has such an ABBA vibe to it! It's so fun! This is the guilty pleasure song of the 2024 NF season, I'm calling it now. 7/10 and everyone giving it less can (affectionately and light-heartedly) go fuck themselves! (My vote on the website took the song from 1.6 stars to 1.8 stars my power omfg)

Saša Lozar - "Ne plačem zbog nje" The song isn't very memorable to me, it doesn't really stand out. The only noteworthy thing I can think of saying is that this guy looks like if Fred from KEiiNO got hit by a car. Which is maybe quite rude but oh well. 5.5/10

Stefany Žužić - "Sretnih dana dat' će Bog" Another fairly unremarkable song. A lot of the songs later in the list online seem to be rated quite lowly. Another 5.5/10

The Splitters - "Od kad te sanjam" I'm quite conflicted about how to rank this song. I feel like, even as I continue to listen to it, it's growing on me and I'm wishing I gave it a higher rating on Twitter than I did - but I've already sent the tweet and submitted my vote. The song is, objectively, not the best, but it makes me feel more than the other pop songs I've rated similarly so I feel like I should've ranked it higher? But it's not that good! Argh! I'm conflicted! 6.75/10

Vatra - "Slatke suze, gorka ljubav" This song is like exactly my taste, however I also recognise it's not objectively the best in this line up and that it's not a Eurovision song in the slightest. I'm going to enjoy it, but I'll give it a hopefully unbiased 6/10

Vinko - "Lying eyes" In the least insulting way possible, this sounds like Lin Manuel Miranda trying to cover a Coldplay song: Fix You specifically. Honestly, the guy even looks like a Coldplay/LMM lovechild. I'm not a fan. 5/10

#dora 24 #dora 2024 #esc 24

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the-darkness-does-not-bargain · 1 year

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I'm on a cruise right now so of course I'm thinking about my blorbos going on a cruise too. Idk why maybe there's wraith demons aboard a particular ship and the company is trying to cover it up. The point is: Nuns on a Boat. I'm sure the Vatican forks over the necessary funds, probably for a week-long trip, enough time to investigate, plan, execute, and clean up. The original plan was to send a small team of two or three, but Ava probably pesters the new Pope into paying for the whole gang to go (she definitely plays the Jesus card).

It goes like this: the official OCS sisters enter as a group of 4 (Mother, Camila, Yasmine, and Dora) while the remaining 4 split into 2 pairs, Avatrice undercover as newlyweds on a honeymoon (it's good practice for the real thing, Bea!) and Mary riding as a solo passenger (hiding Lilith in her room). They probably have a contact in the ship's crew that sneaks them keycards and pass codes to restricted areas and makes arrangements for them to be in the right place at the right time for recon purposes. I don't know what the demons are doing, maybe planning some kind of mass possession within an enclosed space, but whatever it is will require asskicking through overpriced shops and probably flinging several pool chairs around to solve.

Assorted ideas:

1. The list of shore excursions has to be pried from Ava's hands by Mary because The Second Coming of Christ canNOT be trusted with them. Not because she doesn't know what she's doing, but because if they let her go unchecked she'll have their days booked 6 ways to the Sabbath with several activities overlapping each other. Baby girl wants to do EVERYTHING, time constraints be damned!

2. Beatrice is a little nervous about their cover story, not because she doesn't love Ava or doesn't see them getting married eventually, but because she's still battling some shame about being affectionate in public. This is, of course, in stark contrast to Ava, who is ecstatic over the chance to be shamelessly close to Bea with the tacit excuse of the mission. She drags them to every couple-y event aboard the ship and has no qualms about basically climbing her girlfriend whenever she can get away with it.

3. The God Squad is properly outfitted for just about every situation that could come up, and that includes swimming. For the actual nuns in the party, this means tasteful one-pieces that still earn respectful wolf whistles from Ava and the requisite number of sexy nun jokes. Ava wears a predictably tiny bikini that drives the boys and girls wild while Bea wears a more modest two-piece that drives Ava wild. Mary draws all the attention in her suit that shows off her killer arms and excellent abs. Lilith has to be coaxed into her suit because she's self-conscious. Jillian has probably come up with some way to either reverse or hide her scales, but the result is probably a lot of burn tissue that is difficult to conceal. Ava buys her a long-sleeve swim shirt with some silly design that Lilith threatens her life over but wears anyway.

4. Circling back to the excursions, an argument breaks out about which they should do, and whether they should stick together or split up. It gets a little heated until Mother shuts it down with "We will be doing the dolphin swim and that's final." "But why that one?" "Because I want to do the dolphin swim."

5. Ava is banned from the ship buffet after the third time she tries to dispense ice cream directly into her mouth

6. Camila gets a lot of attention from the fellas, and she gets permission from a quietly proud Mother to indulge them so long as she gets more information for the mission

7. Yasmine sweeps the trivia contests, winning all manner of silly knickknack prizes that she cherishes.

8. We don’t know much about Dora but I'm going to assume that she’s a prodigy in mini golf and collects a following of children who ooo and aaa every time she hits a hole-in-one. She and Mary clown on the competition in shuffleboard

9. Some guy sees Ava by herself (Bea is probably getting them ice cream since she's not banned) and attempts to shoot his shot. It's Ava, unfairly charming and distressingly cute, so he's practically bewitched two sentences into the conversation, but Ava's just being her normal, puppy self. Bea sees them and starts getting jealous, threatening to crush her ice cream cone to bits, but when Ava sees her coming back, she lights up with a "heeeyyy Boo-Bear, there you are! I missed you!" And immediately abandons the dude to press against her girlfriend. The guy makes brief eye contact with Bea before wisely choosing to walk away. Better luck next time, bro.

10. The tables turn when Beatrice is lounging in the sun while Ava is away (probably pestering Lilith) and an interested lady sits next to her and starts making small talk. Beatrice is extremely polite and doesn't quite pick up on the fact she's being flirted with, but Lilith has to punch Ava in the arm to stop her lighting up like an angry glowstick at the sight. Ava does march over there though and turns the puppy energy up to 11, wrapping her arms around Beatrice, nuzzling their cheeks together and pressing in until she's basically in Bea's lap. Bea is flustered and embarrassed, but the lady catches on to what's what and gracefully makes her exit. Ava drags Bea to their room for some quality time while Lilith does her best to look like she doesn't know them.

#warrior nun #save warrior nun #avatrice #sister lilith #sister camila #mother superion

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spellucci · 11 months

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The Ferry

Saturday, June 17, 2023

Tim and Dora walk over the hill and down to the beach first thing in the morning. The place is hopping. Birds are wheeling everywhere. The thunderheads are boiling and reaching higher and higher into the sky, but they are dark gray because the sun has not come up yet. A few dolphins ply the waves well off shore. And near in, two surfers try to find something to ride in the one foot surf. They wait patiently for that perfect 18-in wave.

We have a leisurely coffee and breakfast, and still make the short drive over to the ferry dock in plenty of time to make the 10:15 Cape May / Lewes ferry to Cape May.

Jeanne has been concerned about Dora getting sunburned. Instead of searching for hard-to-find and expensive canine sunscreen, she picks up a package of baby onesies at Walmart. Dora looks fetching in pink, and it protects her back well.

The ferry captain needs to know where the longest and heaviest vehicles are, so of the 25 or so lanes to line up for the ferry, they put those vehicles first in each lane. We qualify. We wind up being fourth on the boat.

Tim climbs the ladder to perch himself on top of the RV and get a good view of the launch. The captains voice comes over the loudspeaker saying, "Keep your feet firmly on the deck, and no climbing on vehicles." Busted, Tim climbs back down.

At precisely 10:15, the horn sounds, and we leave port for the 1 and 1/2 hour trip to Cape May. The thrusters are aft, and we are all the way forward, so we hear very little other than the sound of ocean waves lapping at the hull.

We discuss how soothing it is to the soul to be out on the ocean. In the past we have talked about getting a boat to live on, but that means docking at various marinas, and marina life is not for us. Besides, where would Dora go pee?

As the ferry approaches the New Jersey dock, we see two kitesurfers off Higbee Beach.

Today is a town day. When we land we find an Acme supermarket close by and go grocery shopping. Then we do laundry in a nice air conditioned laundromat nearby.

Tim's cousins are expected between 3:00 and 5:00. It's still early, so we head over to the big grassy field at the Cape May lighthouse to play squeaker in the grass with Dora. She's eager at first, but it's very hot. Soon she starts returning the ball to the shade under a park bench. Eventually, on her own volition, she picks up the squeaker and heads back across the grass to the shade and water in the RV.

Ice cream beckons. We use Google Maps to identify a parlor down by the waterfront. It looks like it has vegan ice cream that Jeanne can eat. Just as we set out, we get word that the cousins arrive. Ice cream or cousins? Ice cream for dinner wins. Yum!

Thus refreshed, we head over to where everyone has collected at the Brookline cousin's house. We have a pleasant reunion under the cool shade of a screen porch. We bring a squeaker to entertain Dora while the grown ups talk. The youngest, a toddler, and Dora vie for who can get to the squeaker first. We break out a second squeaker to maintain the peace.

The Philadelphia cousins head over to their place to put the little ones to bed. There is no on street camping permitted at Cape May, and the Brookline cousins have no driveway. We ask the Philadelphia cousins if we can park in their driveway. They graciously say yes, and welcome us with a tour of the house as we arrive.

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ededoesstuff · 2 years

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imagine ooo covering cry for me by twice

specifically the original choreo. i’ve been thinking about how cool it would have been for them to have covered a girl group choreo for dancing idol, similar to how rocket punch covered a bts song, and while i was rewatching ooo’s don’t start now cover again today i started thinking about their gender nonconformity more in depth.

there’s the phenomenon where women doing masculine things is celebrated and seen as cool and also fairly normal, but men doing anything feminine is weird, and way less common. like how girl groups cover boy group songs pretty often but boy groups rarely cover girl group songs. (excluding casual gg dances) now as a femboy, this saddens me deeply.

one of the things i find so cool about onlyoneof is their androgyny and how unafraid they are to also show femininity in their stuff. (insert rie talking about his name being a girls name in japan and ooo’s gender neutral charm on that leeteuk show) you can really see it in their cover of dolphin, as well as the don’t start now, savage and malamente dance covers. they didnt make the choreos masculine to balance out being female singers’ songs, but kept them very androgynous. the covers really show off onlyoneof’s strenghts and uniqueness. there’s something so incredibly queer about ooo that isn’t only their mlm storylines, but also their effortless, subtle yet strong gender nonconformity.

i really want to see them take their nonconformity a step further. i have yet to see a boy group absolutely slay a gg dance cover, and i really think onlyoneof could be the ones, even the ONLYONEs to do it. i was thinking of possible choreos they could cover, something not aggressively girly or cutesy, something they could do seriously and that wouldn’t stray too far from their own style of dancing. i was thinking of some of the strong and whimsical gg songs (dreamcatcher choreos could probably work really well, i’m not into them so i can’t tell from memory) but ultimately i’m a huge once, so i ended up looking at twice choreos. allow me to convince you on why cry for me would actually be perfect for them to cover tho.

cry for me is sad but sensual, and a little bit mad. thematically it would really fit their style and concept, compare to dora maar and zurui onna for example. the choreo is also feminine in a more subdued, elegant way that i think would really work for them. the song and choreo honestly remind me of their stuff a LOT. especially dora maar. i can see them absolutely slaying it.

cry for me is also a really popular song that a lot of ppl know so it could get more people interested in onlyoneof.

#onlyoneof

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queen-erika-the-songful · 2 years

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Okay so Mermaid Power leaked early so here are my initial thoughts (7/18/22) SPOILERS AHEAD!

The video I saw is chopped up a bit so I missed a couple details but here are all my very first thoughts from seeing the movie for the first time.

- ISLA IS BACK - YAY! But she barely gets to do anything - BOO! The Gemstone Dolphins aren’t back - sort of yay because I hate IRL dolphins, but also boo because they were admittedly cute, and I just wanted to know where they were.

- Marlo is back and wow her motivation is expanded upon in a pretty cool way - she was drawn to the sea because her grandmother told stories of mermaids, and I guess maybe she was one too? That part of the video was cut out, but I think Marlo may actually be a mermaid descendant! That’s cool. But I do wish she had gotten more proper screen time; it kind of felt like she was tacked on because she was in DM. But still, I like that she got a redemption.

- Aquaria is a disabled mermaid!! She has a prosthetic tail!! That’s great. Her brother goes through the typical “has to learn his disabled sibling isn’t helpless” arc, but I like that at the end she thanks Chelsea for not treating her different. Aquaria’s arc is just about wanting to develop her powers, not feeling bad for not being a “normal” mermaid or something like that.

- Malibu not having a mermaid power was an interesting choice, not sure how I feel about it yet.

- Brooklyn is a Mermaid of Fire, Skipper is Air, Stacie is Earth, and Chelsea is Water. I must now proceed to overthink the implications of this.

- The songs were short and honestly not very memorable.

- So many new and great designs for the mermaids; I really liked that. I don’t quite like that some of the mermaids have multicolor skintones while other had human skintones, because it just seemed inconsistent and weird.

- The Mermaid Moon thing gave me H20 vibes.

- The fight against piles of trash gave me Dora Saves the Mermaid vibes...which was weird.

- Speaking of the trash thing, I like that the movie talks a bit about ocean pollution. I just wish they had given more time to it.

- I guess my biggest criticsm at the time of writing this that too much was going on and not a lot got properly developed. The Mermaid Moon, the challenge to find the Power Keeper, plus have to bring Marlo back in and make her cause trouble for about 5 minutes, and then Isla is here but not very much, oh, and don’t pollute. I think they needed to trim out the edges of their story tree a bit.

Overall, I actually enjoyed it more than BPA & BCBD (and TLB of course). Very messy and too short but cute and fun.

#barbie spoilers #barbie movies #barbie: mermaid power

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halcyonterror · 2 years

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HEY how's it going hola you are well HOLA soy Dora

I've been wondering - do words deserve weight? Does anything, really?

Haha joking

ThoughtS on dolphins?

Hola! Soy Ze.

I'm alright, hope you are too.

Words deserve weight when they- oh, you were joking.

*pompous windbag mode deactivated *

Minecraft dolphins: cute, useful

Real Dolphins? Gross Bastards

#thanks for the ask!

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duckmumbo · 2 years

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For the get-to-know you ask game, how about nutmeg?

nutmeg ⇢ how’s your room/home decorated? do you have a specific theme or style going on?

Oh there is absolutely zero cohesive style in here it is essentially “do I like this thing? If yes, it is getting a space in my room” and honestly I wouldn’t have it any other way I am way too indecisive to have a specific theme. Like literally even when I was a kid it had Dora, dolphin, and horse stuff all over my room so I don’t really think I’ve ever had a theme? Kinda fits me as a person ngl lol

Get to know me ask game thingy

#I was gonna say more things here like I usually do #but my brain is so empty rn #roy talks #answered #ask game #angst my beloved

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champagneprobllems · 2 months

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Frustrated at her parents, it wasn’t difficult to talk Ingvi into helping her. She offers one of the maids her size a not-insignificant sum for a dress, and leaves all the trappings of her position behind on their trek into the darker side of London. Still, Dora keeps tight to Ingvi’s side, uncertain. She can handle the vipers of society and the viciousness of her father’s pirates, but this is a different beast.

“What’s a pretty thing like you doing in these parts?” a man leers, grabbing her arm.

Ingvi’s hand closes around his wrist as she snarls, “She’s with me.” She audibly snaps her teeth together, and the man pales, releasing Dora and stuttering apologies. Ingvi slings an arm around Dora’s shoulders and guides her on, asking with a grin, “I ever tell you of the time I bit a man’s finger off?”

“Multiple times,” Dora answers dryly.

Ingvi laughs, then sobers. “I ever tell you what happened after?”

Dora shakes her head. “Not in detail. Papa and Oom Kees don’t like talking about it.”

“No, I imagine not. It was violent and bloody, and Kees and I almost didn’t walk away from it.” They’re silent in navigating narrow alleys for a few moments. “Do you remember that time we showed up, not long after the Duke died?”

“I was… was I four or five?”

Ingvi shrugs. “Somewhere in there. That’s when it happened.” She jerks her head at a door, seeming jammed between two genuine houses. “Here’s our stop.” She raps sharply on the door, pulls it open at the shout.

“Wait-” Dora gathers her skirts to follow Ingvi through the spindly hall. “Is that all you’re gonna say?”

Ingvi tosses her a crooked smile. “You wanna hear about how I died and my god brought me back?”

Dora stumbles. She wants to accuse Ingvi of lying, but her lies are better crafted than that. “Ingvild-”

“This one is too soft for your usual fare,” the tattooist says, interrupting them. She squints at Dora. “She has a bit of de Hoek about her.”

“There’s a reason for that,” Ingvi says dryly. “She’s here for Vlinder ink.” Ingvi taps the butterfly on her forearm.

“You have what I want?”

Ingvi pulls a leather pouch from the bag on her hip, offering it out. The tattooist takes it, opening it and examining its contents before nodding decisively. “Where are we putting it, hm?”

Ingvi gestures Dora forward. Dora takes the seat the tattooist gestures to. “Inside of my ankle,” she answers decisively.

“Smart,” Ingvi murmurs approvingly. “It’s gonna hurt to put your boots on for a while, though.”

“Then I shall wear slippers wherever possible,” Dora responds as she unlaces her left boot and rolls off her stocking. She has a high pain tolerance, but Ingvi still has to remind her to breathe as the tattooist got to work. “Are you going to finish your story?” Dora demands, voice tight.

“Are you sure you want me to? It involves your sister-in-law’s father and yours, as well as the rest of the crew.”

“Ingvild. Distract me.”

The tattooist snorts.

Ingvi shrugs. “Stop me whenever,” she warns, then goes into the tale – of Holcroft ambushing de Vlinder off the coast of Ula, of the way the Dolphin’s crew provoked them in Havnvertshrus and how one of the Dolphin lost his finger. How she was thrown into the brig of the Dolphin for it, how Kees joined her and August, and of how she was keelhauled.

“Details go a little fuzzy after that,” Ingvi admits, watching the tattooist. “I don’t recommend bleeding to death. It was slow and… cold. Course, it meant when I started losing blood with Lucas’s birth, I knew how far I had to go before the point of no return.”

“I wondered why you only had the one brat,” the tattooist muses.

“What, you think I can’t keep my hands off my dear husband?”

“Why would you want to? He’s French.”

Ingvi gives a crooked grin. “You are not wrong.”

“Okay, I don’t want to hear this part of the story,” Dora interrupts.

Ingvi laughs. “Well, when I was brought back, August had broken free of his shackles and Kees was trying to remember how to breathe. Apparently my beloved threatened Freyr with a butcher’s knife when he came for me, luckily Freyr didn’t strike him down for it.” She laughs, a touch of fondness in it.

“Pascal?” The tattooist asks. “He threatened a god?”

Ingvi hums in assent. “Why do you think I married him?”

“He’s French.”

Ingvi cackles, laughing harder at Dora’s disapproving glare. “I’m sure you can figure the rest of the bloody tale. Freyr gave me my sword, we subdued the Dolphin’s crew, August ended the issue with Holcroft, and when we went back to Ula to stock up, Edda was furious with me.”

“With you?” Dora asks, incredulous. “Thank you,” she says to the tattooist, as she bandages the finished tattoo.

“Happy Birthday, Dottie,” Ingvi says indulgently, handing over some more coins.

“Thanks for the story,” the tattooist says with a grin.

Ingvi leads Dora back out, the younger walking gingerly. “I mean, I died, Dora,” Ingvi continues. “Edda knew as soon as Freyr let the storm blow in. Knew I was back when the storm blew out again.”

“Still, that’s not like it’s your fault,” Dora says sensibly. “Besides, what did she expect? You’re a pirate.”

Ingvi barks out a laugh. “Oh, I wish you could meet Edda now,” She sighs. “I hope you cut her down to size. She could use it.”

“No offense, Ingvi,” Dora says, “But I am terrified of your witch grandmother.”

Ingvi’s laughter echoes down the narrow alleys as they return to Mazie’s townhouse.

#* writing #( did not mean for this to get as long as it did lmao )#ingvi * writing * still i guard you like a dog #ingvi * still i guard you like a dog #dora * stars in your eyes shined brighter #dora * writing * stars in your eyes shined brighter

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jxst-jada · 2 years

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Total Drama Girls Fancast 🏃🏾‍♀️🏕

Angourie Rice as Bridgette

Elizabeth Yu as Heather

Dara Reneé as LeShawna

Belissa Escobedo as Sadie

Kavitha Anandasivam as Katie

Dora Dolphin as Lindsay

Millie Innes as Beth

Mia McKenna-Bruce as Eva

Landry Bender as Gwen

Annalise Basso as Izzy

Mohana Krishnan as Courtney

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lotlvision · 4 months

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i'll do a full reaction when all the songs are uploaded to a platform like youtube but i'm listening to the dora songs as they're played on the radio right now and all i can think is that let 3 have been replaced by dolphins

#esc 24 #dora 24 #dora 2024

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lovelycatdraws · 3 years

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Thinking about... pillow pets....

#bright colors #saturated colors #my art #lovelycatdraws #digital art #pink background #pillow pet #strawberry cow #cosmic kitty #dolphin pillow pet #Dora the explorer pillow pet #(yes that exists)#fox pillow pet #panda pillow pet

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spellucci · 9 months

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The CAT Ferry

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Today we are taking the CAT ferry from Yarmouth, NS to Bar Harbor, ME. The morning ferry leaves at 9:00 am. The email from the ferry company says to arrive between 7:00 and 8:30, with a warning that arrivals after 8:30 are not guaranteed to be able to board. We shoot for arriving between 7:00 and 7:30.

We had set our alarms the night before for 6:00 am. Margaret is extremely efficient about packing up her tent, and we are on the road by 7:00 for the 10-minute drive from the campground through the thick fog to the ferry.

The ferry email message links to a very detailed page of what fruits and vegetables we are and are not permitted to carry into the U.S. Jeanne makes a detailed list with the provenance of each item. Our plan is to make breakfast in the parking lot, pack what we need for lunch in our backpacks, and be ready to declare or discard any remaining produce at Customs in Bar Harbor.

Our plans are dashed by the CAT Ferry employee who proceeds to discard all of our produce, allowed or not, including the eggs we were going to have for breakfast. None of this was mentioned in the email. We suspect this is to facilitate U.S. customs on the other side so that the vehicles get through customs quicker. Sigh.

We park, have cereal for breakfast, and walk Dora. We will not be permitted to remain with the vehicle during the crossing so we pack our backpacks and watch as other vehicles fill the parking lot.

Soon it is time to board. We drive into the ferry, park, grab our backpacks and puppy, and exit the vehicle only to find that Dora, cute as she is, is not allowed on deck. We have never left her alone for 3 hours before, but we have no choice. Sigh.

We climb to the passenger deck. Comfy seats abound by the huge picture windows at the bow of the boat.

We settle in, and notice a small music stage right in the middle of the row of windows. We expect it will not be quiet for long. We find out from the staff that indeed the bow end of the deck will host a band, the large middle part will host a movie, and the aft end will host a trivia contest. We go outside to escape the enforced "entertainment." On a nicer day it might be good to get away from the crowd, but it is drizzling, cold, and the engines are loud. We go back inside and listen in on the trivia contest. Sigh.

An announcement comes over the loudspeaker that the crew is hosting a tour of the boat. Jeanne and Tim join in. The tour guide provides some interesting facts and information about the ferry and the class of boats she is part of. It is a real catamaran, crossing the ocean at high speed on two pontoons. We learn that the bridge crew is trained in spotting, avoiding, and especially identifying the marine mammals of the Gulf of Maine. They provide local authorities a reliable source of the animals' movement. Orcas do not generally live in this gulf, but an orca named Old Thom has been seen swimming with the dolphins here and in the Bay of Fundy in the last two weeks.

Then the captain shows up. Bearded and uniformed, young and handsome, he is as salty as one could want in a captain. He hosts a Q&A about the boat. Q:"How fast does it go?" A: “51 MPH”. Q:"What happens when the engines ingest a lobster trap?" A: “It makes the engine cavitate, and you have to run the engine slowly in reverse to push it back out.” Q:"How fast can the boat stop?" A: “In one and a half boat lengths. The bridge crew are all wearing seatbelts, but all the passengers wind up in the bar.” Q:"Oh, you trained at Mass Maritime? I lived near there," says Jeanne. A: “I apologize for the vandalism to your house at Halloween.”

Then, a wonderful surprise: he takes the entire tour group, maybe 20 in all, up to the bridge. It is a hushed environment, with huge radar screens and other displays at each of several consoles. We get introduced to most of the 8 crew on watch. There is an engineering watch and a navigation watch. The intensity of the work and the mutual respect is palpable. The captain introduces himself last. "I'm the email pusher."

Tour over, we go outside again to find the Porcupine island chain announcing the approach to Bar Harbor. Jeanne bought Tim a So'wester hat on board, just like the one Libby let him try on at her house.

When the boat docks, we go back down to the vehicle deck and reunite with Dora. The deck hands help us do a three point turn inside the vehicle deck so we are going in the right direction to go up the ramp onto the shore. The 24' motorhome next to us is not so lucky and has to back off the boat. Customs is efficient, but it takes the better part of two hours for all the vehicles to get through.

It is good to have done the ferry once to find out about it. Counting the loading time, transit time, and customs wait on the other end, taking the ferry only cuts about an hour off the trip from Libby's to Bar Harbor. Given the cost and the hassles, it is unlikely we will take the CAT ferry again.

Suddenly we are in Bar Harbor. It is a new experience to pop out in the middle of town without any driving. We head immediately for the campground 3 miles away. Dora is happy to relieve herself. We pick ourselves a shady spot near where we had camped last year. Then a trip to Hannafords to replenish our food supplies.

And finally a discussion about lobster, and especially which is better Maine or Nova Scotia lobster. Only one way to find out. We pick up three lobster bake meals (lobster, mussels, corn, and butter) from C-Rays down the street and feast. Welcome back to the U.S. of A.

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the stardust crusaders' hogwarts adventure: HCs

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dora's note: is this dora posting? what the hell? yes it is, i'm finally working. hopefully. i promise i'm doing by best yes ^^ i felt like doing this today, so... finally got to finish a draft that has been there for quite a while.

DISCLAIMER !! y/n is NOT a student in joseph's HCs, they're a GROWN ADULT with a JOB. !!

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kujo jotaro

♥︎ when he first sat down under the sorting hat, he didn't know what to expect and did not care in which house he would have ended up. everyone in his family, though, always had been one of two precise houses: slytherin or hufflepuff. so, very deep down, he hoped in one of them. but a different one would have been cool with him too, he would have been the first in his family with a different house sorting. he waited for a time that seemed neverending, but earlier than expected, the sorting hat said: "slytherin."

♥︎ the two of you met for the first time during a quidditch tournament. jotaro was a seeker, one of the most precise ones hogwarts had ever had. you caused him an accident, running over him with your broom, causing the two of you to fall to the ground. needless to say, he held a grudge on you for several days, until you had to get along to train for quidditch again.

♥︎ you wouldn't expect it from a wizard like him, but his favourite subjects are care of magical creatures, to study them, protect them, and get on an empathetic level with them, and muggle studies, to get to know more about muggles, in honor of his father, kujo sadao, who's not a wizard.

♥︎ it didn't take long for jotaro to manage to manifest his patronus. he had tried to practice that spell, since before the arrival of the dementors at the school. the two of you used to practice together after quidditch trainings, making you the first person - apart from him, of course - to witness the awaking of his patronus: a beautiful dolphin, a symbol of intelligence and protection.

♥︎ you will probably have to be the one to ask him first out on a date. he's not the best one when it comes to grades, and he spends quite a lot of time with his friends, trying not to think about it. no, he doesn't really care about having the best marks. you should ask one of his best friends, kakyoin noriaki, about what to do to convince him to go out on a date with you. most likely, he'll say yes because he trusts you enough to feel safe.

♥︎ jotaro does not underestimate your powers and doesn't feel the need to constantly protect you, but he must admit that as soon as the teachers of defense against the dark arts start disappearing every year or try to attack the students themselves, he's a little bit worried about you. he starts showing up outside your classroom at the end of every lesson, to check on you and keep you company until you get to you next lesson's classroom.

kakyoin noriaki

♥︎ when he sat down under the sorting hat, he was really nervous. what if it said that he wasn't even a wizard? what if he ended up in a house that would have disappointed his family? the redhead was shaking like a leaf, even at the point that the sorting hat itself asked him to calm down to allow it to examinate him better. noriaki's terror soon disappeared, as soon as the hat spoke. "okay, okay, my guy. you can calm down. ravenclaw!"

♥︎ the two of you met for the first time in the library of the school. you were looking for a specific book, the one about the fantastic beasts of the wizarding world and where to find them, when a guy who wasn't looking where he was going, hit the ladder you were standing on, making you fall, right... in his arms. ugh, that sounded like a pathetic love story beginning. until you heard a giggle from the corner of the room. the guy that was making fun of that scene was kakyoin.

♥︎ noriaki's favourite subjects are transfiguration, since he always says he has a talent in transforming objects in what he wants, and defence against the dark arts, since he wishes to become a professor one day. why is it related to that? well, since the professors of defence against the dark arts seem to change every year for some reason, his turn will come sooner or later, or not?

♥︎ for kakyoin, it was a little bit more complicated to manifest his patronus. he kept on focusing on the technique and the way he had to move his wand, instead of focusing on his inner power and mind. but after many efforts, it finally showed up: a beautiful fox, symbol of wisdom and guidance. he told you first thing.

♥︎ noriaki will probably be the one to ask you out for a date first. but he would do it through a letter. he's smart enough to write one that will convince you that he's worth it and that he's perfect for you. the redhead can't imagine you already think of him as such. either way, the letter will be very sweer and heartfelt, even if a little bit awkward sometimes. but you'll say yes regardless, he put a lot of effort in it, and has always been respectful towards you.

♥︎ he wouldn't be much worried about you at first, hogwarts is a safe place for the students, after all, right? right? oh, what? in a bathroom the little hermione granger almost got killed by a troll? you know what, nevermind? the guy is gonna be glued to you the whole time, he'll even skip lessons for it, despite how much they mean for him. you're not gonna get attacked by anything, with him by your side.

muhammad avdol

♥︎ everyone envied him when he sat down under the sorting hat, because despite the young age at the time, he looked absolutely calm and collected. he had no anxiety, and his eyes were closed, in complete relaxation, as if him and the sorting hat had some sort of mental communication going on. his smile was endearing, his fingers intertwined in front of his chest. but the hat seemed to take a lot of time sorting him. "your heart said gryffindor, my dear boy. but your soul spoke hufflepuff to me." the hat declared. but then... "hufflepuff!"

♥︎ the two of you met for the first time on the stairs. yes, the ones that like to change. your books had fallen from your arms on the stairs, and since he was passing by, he decided to lend a helping hand. what you didn't notice, was that you were standing right between the stairs and the floor. when the stairs changed, hadn't it been for muhammad's quick reflex of pulling you on his side, you would have probably fallen down several floors.

♥︎ avdol is naturally gifted, when it comes to subjects like astronomy, or his favourite one, divination. he seems to be the only student who doesn't stare at mrs. trelawney as if she were completely crazy. the majority of the ravenclaws, his friend noriaki included, sometimes don't even listen to her. but avdol does, and he's completely in love with the subject.

♥︎ it hadn't been difficult at all for avdol, to manifest his patronus. almost natural, for him. you weren't there to witness it, but you studied and practiced with him for it several times. the last time he tried, a beautiful and graceful phoenix escaped muhammad's wand, symbol of resurrection and life after death, a patronus that the student took as a symbol of hope.

♥︎ none of you two will ask the other out for a date. the love between you and avdol would bloom spontaneously, without the need of dating. you would find yourselves behaving like a couple just naturally. he likes to give you tarot readings and to stargaze with you. the stargazing sessions are the ones that get the two of you closer to each other.

♥︎ avdol would be protective over you since the very beginning. he can sense something's off in the school, and his tarot readings about hogwarts's future keep getting darker and more mysterious everytime. but every single reading hints at an upcoming source of danger, that most likely would be voldemort, he supposes. he has to keep an eye on you. he's scared.

jean pierre polnareff

♥︎ oh boy, this guy was mad nervous when he sat down under the sorting hat. everything but slytherin, everything but slytherin. surely, he knew he wouldn't have ended up in ravenclaw. he wasn't that much of a smart guy, but he did his best. either way, everything would have been cool to him, apart from slytherin. it just didn't sit right to him. but luckily, before jean could ask the sorting hat why was it taking so long, it spoke. "okay, okay, i get it. gryffindor, no doubts!" it said, making the young wizard feel relieved.

♥︎ the two of you met for the first time while he was trying so hard to find his way to the next classroom he had to be in. the school was huge, and polnareff couldn't help but to get confused in the corridors. you offered him your help, but he tried to play it cool, running away and dropping a book. well, you would have brought it to him.

♥︎ polnareff's favourite subjects are charms and flying. they're pretty basic, but he finds them the coolest things about being a wizard. he's a huge fan of quidditch too, but he wouldn't see himself playing. flying lessons give him the same feeling of freedom though, and he loves it so much.

♥︎ it took pretty long for jean pierre to manifest his patronus. he just couldn't focus enough. you've been practising with him, and you manifested it first, so it would have been good to try to help him. until he managed to do it. from his wand, a beautiful horse was freed, a symbol of power, independence, freedom, and nobleness. you could tell jean was satisfied, and grateful to you for helping him in manifesting it.

♥︎ he'll definitely be the one to ask you out first, probably not much time after you helped him to manifest his patronus. that event made him so happy and made him grow so fond of you, that he genuinely wants to improve your relationship, and hopefully, get something more from it. hopefully your heart, hopefully a kiss. but he means it genuinely. he's not trying to exploit you to get your help with assignments. for real.

♥︎ as the years go by, polnareff would start noticing hogwarts isn't the same place that it's always been, or that dumbledore claimed it was. he grows more and more protective of you, every year a worse mess happens, and it's always connected to voldemort. he's not liking it at all. not to mention you're worried, since the gryffindors seem to be pretty involved in it. more than you and jean pierre like to admit. he knows something he's not telling.

joseph joestar

♥︎ in his youth, when he sat down under the sorting hat, he didn't give a shit of what house he would have been sorted in, all he wanted was just start learning magic stuff. joseph was laughing with some handsome boys and pretty girls at the table, and was hoping it wouldn't take long to sort him, his adventure had just started. but the hat actually took really little time to figure out where he was gonna go. "slytherin." it announced, almost immediately.

♥︎ going through the corridors of hogwarts reminds him of many years ago, when you first met. he would never forget the way you told him to go fuck himself, while he was just standing on a chair, reminding everyone that him and his best friend of the time, a young lucius malfoy, were the best kind of wizards because they were purebloods. that was a bunch of bullshit he truly used to believe. luckily, he grew up to understand it wasn't true.

♥︎ now, joseph is a teacher. the last student you would have expected to become one, but he did. a teacher of defense against the dark arts, and he's not planning on leaving anytime soon. he'll keep his eyes open, he heard teachers have been disappearing every year. not to mention a lot of scary stuff is happening at hogwarts. he didn't choose a good time to work.

♥︎ he's always been a quick learner, and he managed to manifest his patronus quicker than many of his classmates. a really cool eagle, a symbol of truth, majesty, strength. despite his attitude, it was clear that joseph was a good wizard, it had to be given to him. and you grew to be into it. to admire it. he secretly liked you, too.

♥︎ joseph took the first step towards you, but he didn't quite ask you out, let's say that to keep his cool, he TOLD you that you and him were gonna date. as if to announce you. you were okay with it, and didn't accept just because you were feeling forced. you accepted because you liked him, and recognized it as a great opportunity to get closer to him. you would have worked on improving the romantic field throughout your relationship.

♥︎ now that he's a teacher, he has to recognize that there's so much going on, that the students do not see. joseph is acknowledged about how dangerous the situation is getting, and more than ever, he reaches out to you, or phones you, no matter the fact that you're working. everyone is talking about voldemort, and he doesn't like the smallest bit of it. he just wants to make sure you're safe.

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