#sydmarch

[doddsmountain]

hi Dodd I'm in the mood to learn some fish things what are your top 5 favorite fish?

OMG!!!!!!!!

SO! Number 1 is OBVIOUSLY Oncorhynchus mykiss... AKA the rainbow trout

These guys are amazing. They are the most farmed fish in the world by weight (not numbers). And they're not a trout! They are a true pacific salmon, like chinooks, cohos, sockeye, etc etc.

These dudes are different than the other pacific salmon though as they can spawn multiple times! That's why they don't undergo quite such extreme transformations during spawning season.

Rainbows are typically landlocked. Steelhead trout (which are Oncorhynchus mykiss mykiss) are the rainbows you see out at sea.

NUMBER 2: Acipenser transmontanus.... WHITE STURGEON!

This photo is a poor image I took of the baby white sturgeon I got to take care of for a year during my fisheries and aquaculture tech program.

White sturgeon are the largest sturgeon species. The largest ever recorded was 20 feet long and roughly 120 years old. The oldest sturgeon I worked with, Tyra, was about 9 feet long and was only 65. They reside along the pacific coast of North America and they are pure muscle. A two year old is about a foot long and the scutes (modified scales) are sharp as hell. You can't wear gloves when you handle them either so your hands get cut up real bad. I loved taking care of them. They're like giant, muscly, slimy dogs.

Females will lay roughly 3 million eggs per spawn and the eggs will hatch after about 6 days. A newly hatched white sturgeon is a few millimeters long. Crazy to think about.

This is my jar of dead babies.

NUMBER 3: Frog fish!

Wish I could remember who took this photo!

Frog fish have specially adapted pectoral fins that they use almost like legs! They're bottom dwellers and "walk" along the sea floor.

I don't know much about them I'm afraid. My brain was almost entirely consumed by rainbow trout and white sturgeon.

These guys look so grumpy! (I like to say my 'fursona' is just a regular ol' frog fish lol)

NUMBER 4: A fish my family had for about 15 years... A bloodred parrot cichlid named Sir Rupert Finklebottom III, Esq. (We learned she was female when she was about 9 years old)

These fish are man made abominations and I do not recommend owning them. They have horrible health issues and they have nasty personalities. We had two of them. Rupert and Regina. Because they're crossbreeds they're essentially infertile. Rupert and Regina both laid thousands of unfertilized eggs when they were roughly 9 years old. They only did this once. They ate all of their eggs within a week.

People say they're good community tank fish. They are not. They're aggressive little assholes. Ours had to live in their own tank and they'd try to bite you if you put your fingers in their tank (it didn't hurt because they can't close their mouths and have no teeth.)

They have malformed swim bladders and are just generally awful fish. But boy do I miss my Rupert and Regina.

And finally

NUMBER 5: All manner of eels. For the purposes of this I'm going to say Rock Gunnels.

These slippery little dudes are sharp as hell. When I did a practicum at an oyster farm these dudes kept getting pulled up in the oyster beds and I ran around scooping them up and tossing them back into the sea. They come in a variety of vibrant colours too!

BONUS FISH:

This abomination. It's a lamprey of some sort. And if I gotta look at this thing so does everyone else.

#ask #Sydmarch #fish #rainbow trout #white sturgeon #frog fish #parrot cichlids #eels #rock gunnels #lamprey #fucking ugly ass ballsack lamprey #long post #all photos are mine except the frog fish and the fucking ugly lamprey and the rock gunnel

[unholyverse]

travis is doing what now???

congrats. or not. you made it to part 2 of my explanation/summary of that. you can find part 1 here.

cw: some (not too graphic but still present) smut written by a guy who is friends with the people in this fic + discussion of religion in a very general metaphor way

this is the part i'm warning you about the smut and general nightmare feeling: chapter 4: brainwashed

in his author's note, travis wishes readers happy pride (if this is pride, i feel wrath) and starts questioning whether he should be continuing the fic (should've questioned that a long time ago) and then admitting he wrote 30 FUCKING PAGES for this chapter.

this chapter takes place over the course of a week, starting with awsten and geoff on a date where they start getting to know each other. geoff starts saying how he's working on a project in this place where he's interviewing people about their relationship to the in universe equivalent to christianity or some abrahamic religion if you add the pokémon knockoffs to them. so they get into a conversation about theology that was like reading the glup shitto post but religious bc seriously i don't know or care about these stupid fantasy names.

so then after all this they go to geoff's apartment to have fade to black sex that's only implied in the second day section.

unfortunately some of the smut is not fade to black from this point forward.

awstens horny wants more dick and geoff's just trying to get breakfast for them which prompts this scene.

is this a good time to remind you that travis is writing this about the friends he has in real life. he knows these people. personally.

thank you travis for restoring my faith in my smut writing abilities 🙏 because now i know at least i'm not writing scenes like these about my irls.

ok back to the fic they have SHOWER SEX after that and we also have to read that for some reason.

so after that they watch some old show together and awsten asks if geoff has any pets and this is the part where i find out there’s normal animals and pokémon ripoffs in this universe which is weird.

geoff summons a recreation of his dog for a bit (that’s a thing i forgot to mention that mostly bc i do not care) and the day ends with him musing on that saying he misses his dog.

the third day section is a literal paragraph about them having fade to black sex. that’s it for that.

the fourth day section finds awsten going home for an hour to pick up new clothes to stay at geoff’s more and after that him and geoff go on a date outside.

it’s this point when geoff asks awsten if he can interview him for his project about people’s relationships with religion. awsten says yes, but pretty reluctantly.

so they get on with the interview which gradually gets awsten more uncomfortable with the personal questions.

this entire part is travis’ heavy handed way of approaching religious themes that are supposed to be in the album and my god does the allegory feel as heavy handed as the sparse religious references in intellectual property. considering this is a universe where travis tends to ignore things he’s not comfortable with writing for whatever reason (cough cough otto), i think considering this is a universe where all his friends are gay and yknow. the general relationship between gay people and religious can be pretty complex it just makes me wonder the implications of leaving that out too. if the topic got too real.

anyways.

awsten cuts off the interview and geoff starts opening up about his life which just means travis airs out the shit geoff has been going through for the past couple years minus the polycule.

is this a good time to note that geoff’s dog irl is named eevee (renamed here for obvious reasons) and said dog is still actually with his ex and kid. travis why are you airing this out and at what point in writing this chapter did it dawn upon you that this was a bad idea.

this section just ends in awsten wondering what else he doesn’t know about and then they make out.

the fifth day section starts with geoff trying to cook them food after the umpteenth time of them fucking. geoff makes a light joke that his cooking is only world famous to his daughter which makes the lines after that 10x worse

everything about this is actually terrible. the fact that geoff was trying to cook naked. “giving Geoff’s penis a light tap”. MANHOOD????

so anyways they cook a grilled cheese together and they talk and geoff ends up dropping that he’s seeing a pokemon knockoff tournament with a guy named pulo, another travis oc. geoff says they’re not exclusive or anything but awsten still feels like shit bc he probably thought him and geoff were at least. ouch.

the sixth day section is awsten musing about the new geoff revelations but then ending up having fade to black sex with him anyways.

the final section (of this chapter but. god that was long) is awsten finally leaving geoff’s apartment after a week there. meaning they make out for a long time at the door before awsten has to leave.

i can’t believe someone who knows both of them wrote this entire thing about them and posted it online. it genuinely baffles me how travis didn’t cancel writing the fic here before he could post it. but if you know what happened before next chapter posted, you’d know why he went on with this.

so travis lives in austin, texas (it’s the only way he can say he’s in awsten and it’s true). and so for the austin show, him, jawn, and zakk all got onstage for war crimes wearing something awsten had and travis was reveling this especially towards the end when he was hugging awsten and taking his damn time presumably whiffing him as much as he could under his mask.

and then this happens.

travis just gets to shake awstens ass in front of this audience twice 😭😭😭 might i remind you this is a show that rivers cuomo attended without anyone knowing until the day after.

so yeah that happens and then travis gets brought up again for awsten to hold him like a doll while he plays cherry red for travis to horribly sing.

so after this, i was like travis is either going to go home and jack off to this or he’s going to write the next fic chapter and i was definitely right about one of those things but still probably right about the other.

so now we’re here to the most recent part of this which is chapter 5: 2 best friends.

awstens all bummed about geoff hanging out with pulo so he goes out with travis and jawn to take his mind off things. the entire chapter is essentially travis being a very ooc party boy drunk (bc i think travis realizes how lame and nerdy his actual personality is) while him, awsten, and jawn all hang out and do dumb shit.

ok with that out of the way lemme just say it does not feel like i’m reading three different characters it just feels like i’m reading travis, travis, and drunk travis.

so anyways they all do shit but it doesn’t keep awsten from thinking about geoff in the end.

oh but that’s not everything nope not at all bc the ending is awsten and jawn. HOOKING UP.

oh my god. considering how awsten has slept with most of the male population in this fic except travis, i feel like travis writing this is just fueling some cuck fetish of his bc WHAT THE HELL IS ANY OF THIS SERIOUSLY.

anyways that’s all i have :) this fandom and the people involved with parx are actually insane on so many different levels i didn’t know were possible. i just want to interrogate travis for everything about this fic (with a knife in my hand)

#travis fic post #sydmarch #confessionals

[unlicensed-un-proffesional]

24 skills, tutorial agent, ancient reptilian brain, & limbic system!

Right! I was tired and forgot there were 6 skills per stat, not 5.

But that would actually make it 28 if you get The Horrific Necktie to speak to you, and 29 if you count the other mysterious female voice that you’ll sometimes hear in Shiver’s moments. I think she’s called the voice of Revachol, La Revacholiere. And if you really want to stretch it, the generic non-skill narrator that reads things to you may make it 30. It’s a party in Harry’s Head.

And you know what? There’s evidence to suggest Harry could hear The Horrific Necktie pre-oblivion, putting it up on the ceiling fan as a drunken act of punishment to it, and also said “That bird’s been giving me shit since I got here.” After breaking the skua. So maybe he had a high Inland Empire, and just heard voices everywhere. Like with The Hanged Man and Insulindian Phasmid, but to the extreme. Also like with the mailbox moment. Harry’s probably both semi-psychic and schizophrenic, which is probably a terrifying combination of experiences to have, one that probably helped him out in his line of work more often than not, but definitely didn’t help his overall mental state, easily leading to a kind of overstimulation by being a little “Too” connected to his inner self and the outer world. His stats were maybe really high pre-oblivion, and that lead to his insanity and spiral.

I really like how as a detective game, all of these stats help in detecting things. Multiple play through’s have entirely different narrations depending on passive stat bonuses, and maybe pre-oblivion Harry just had all of them coming in. So connected, he became disco-nnected, and wanted to disco-nnect even further. Even after what is supposed to be total memory loss, feelings about things, towards things, opinions, and highly detailed facts about the world come through. How much did Harry know before his self inflicted total personal annihilation and alcohol induced brain damage? How much did he actually hear in the world, in everything. It must’ve been extra bad for someone like him, with the ruins, neon, radio, multitudes, and people, wired directly into the world and it’s strife and stuggle. Just pushed flat against it, totally, by everything. His extreme reaction to the world was because he was experiencing the world in an extreme way, one that he was mostly alone to deal with, probably running real low on morale at this point, which cost him most of his volition.

Wow I am sorry for making this so long and going off topic like that. Just got me really thinking.

#de #disco elysium #tequila sunset #raphael ambrosius costeau #hdb #harry dubois #harry du bois #harrier du bois #de skills #la revacholiere #horrific necktie #ask #ask answered #sydmarch #long post #hexacles.txt #pentacles talks

[radio-volta]

the secret to hand painting lettering onto fabric is getting a cheap little projector & projecting text you make in photoshop onto the fabric as a template then going back in & cleaning it up after that

Immediately broadcasting your secret to the world because this is genius. I've been meaning to make stencils for printing on fabric but cutting letters is a pain in the ass

#we need a projector anyway for such important purposes as looping the x files intro on a hallway wall in some future party #we were going to do it for our housewarming but we didn't end up getting the projector we meant to borrow #ask #sydmarch

[triple--a--threat]

bestie that is dean 😭

AND IM SUPPOSED TO KEEP TRACK OF THEM?!!?? HOW THE FYCK AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHICH WHITE BOY IS WHICH????? DO YOU THINK I CARE

THIS IS LITERALLY HOW THEY APPEAR TO ME

#wheres the post that was like “we need an accessibility feature which tells the name of white boy with brown hair who's on screen” #look i have face blindness and am brown. i can't differentiate between them. you must understand how hard it is #aur bc tum safed log apne aap ko kya smajhte ho. lmao. lagta hai mereko matlal hai. lagta hai mene aaj tak ek bhi pal sochne me bitaya ki #-kis safed haramkhor ka kya naam hai. lagta hai. sach me chulu bhar pani me doob jao. mere se umeed laga rhe hai. MERE SE #hai katha sangram ki. duna dun duna dun. vishv ke kalyand ki #god just kill them #sydmarch #also wait isnt there a third one of them #like the brother of dean right. from wincest. we need a brother so they can incest. his name is sam right #i have absolutely no idea how he looks like. i have never seen that one

[tokumusume]

syd for the blorbo bingo

#ask game #ask #sydmarch

[ilikestopwatches]

save yourself. don't listen to fuck about it.

ok i will not <3

imagine the first time i hear it is in concert lmao

#ask #sydmarch #i have heard only bad reviews

[doddsmountain]

🔥 give me a disco elysium opinion

Hmmm... lemme think...

Oh, I know. I see posts all the time on here discussing the posters' general contempt for people giving the characters happy endings/post-canon therapy/getting help/etc etc. I do not like these posts. Yeah, more than likely the reality of the situation (if Revachol were real) is that there'd be a net 0 gain in help for Harry, Cuno, Martinaise, etc etc. But I live that reality in my daily life, I don't need to carry it on into my fantasies about this made up world.

I know I do not have the eastern European POV going into this game. But the writers didn't have a biracial first- or second-gen immigrant POV when writing it (talking about Kim here).

What I DO have is an Indigenous POV while playing the game. My nation and basically all others across Turtle Island faced (and still face) genocide so forgive me if I give a recovering alcoholic a happy goddamn ending (not getting mad at you, Syd, just at the world at large). I grew up with alcoholism directly. I feel its effects to this very day (and I don't even drink, myself!). I grew up low-income. I live the poverty life every day. I don't want to fantasize about it.

So, I'm going to continue to give these fictional characters happy lives in my head and my comics. I'm going to give them the help I am reluctant to give myself. I am going to live vicariously through the imagined ongoings of these funky lil' dudes and no one can stop me. They can make me feel bad for doing this, but at the end of the day fuck 'em.

#ask #sydmarch #disco elysium #unpopular opinion

[unholyverse]

I'm reading travis's fic & is matano supposed to be some kind of weird otto stand in?? they referenced him as being like a serial killer twice now & it seems so random if that's not why

see i don’t think so bc this is travis’ au so it’s either travis’ way of foreshadowing in the fic or a reference to something in his books (which i do not care about)

#like otto. is in the band #why isn’t he here. in the waterparks fic banging awsten too considering half the male population has anyways #unless there’s something really too real about that that travis doesn’t want to acknowledge…? #sydmarch #confessionals

[autisticandroids]

happy birthday!!

kissies!!!!!

#asks #sydmarch

[facelessoldgargoyle]

mahogany was a meme back in the day as a reference to the hunger games, I think one of them damaged a table or something & the capitol lady was like "that is MAHOGANY!" idr the details I only watched that movie once like a decade ago

aahhh I remember that. The pink lady!

#thaaaaanks #sydmarch

[pokemonsunandmoonofficial]

whale nipples op didn't deactivate that's just their url lol. I'm sad I can't rb the update with the response tho 😔

i literally went searching through the notes of the post till i found it immediately after seeing this so thank you beloved mutual <3

#sydmarch

[fatasskitkat]

LOL I didn't realize you changed your url & was on my activity page just now like "ANOTHER feedist with an uni icon???"

if another feedist blog has an uni icon i'll jeff the kill them and then myself (jk do what you want there's more than enough uni to go around)

#askedandanswered #sydmarch

[asittingcanuk]

lmao did you also slam your finger in a door??

nah lmao i just get ingrown nails p bad on occasion and i have to go preeeeetty deep in there to relieve the pressure which then results in the aforereblagged horny fingernail situation (tho like now that i mention it i'll probably fuck up a toenail by stubbing it on some horseshit or doing the same as you w/ a fingernail b/c that's life lololololol)

#askedandanswered #sydmarch

[awstens-vagina]

can I use the travis banner from your pinned to make a travis dni version for my pinned lmao

oh, i actually didnt make them, i got them from this post by @pstumpclub, which includes a travis dni banner :) thanks for asking!

(and sorry for taking a few days to reply :p)

#ask #answered #sydmarch

[kalibrate]

sunshine why

☀️💖

#thank you <3 #i love the way this reads without seeing the ask game #sydmarch #asks