THIS NEEDS TO BE A THING
I have this half-baked Octonauts ?AU?? idea that's been rolling around in my head for too long and I need to write the concept down or I'll explode
Anyway my idea is What if The Octonauts was a The Office style comedy? I've never actually watched the office but stay w/ me Like what if instead of the show focusing on their adventures and conservation efforts it just focuses on life on the octopod as coworkers and friends. It would have some overlap w/ the actual show but it would mainly focus on like their relationship dynamics and the more mundane parts of their work. Like maybe an episode where Dashi and Barnicals go to a corporate meeting and screw it up Or where Shellington tries to beat Inkling at chess Or where the crew goes through increasingly elaborate plans to try and get Barnicals to relax for once Or where Kwazii is sent to get supplies in port and doesn't het anything on the list. And so on. I think it would be fun just to see them like be people. Soo uhh thats my rambling for the day hope yall enjoyed it
guys why does my art style keep changing am i that inconsistent
i just started drawing again too ðŸ˜
aged up kanej btw :33 forgot to mention that cuz i purposely made them look older
I deleted barnacles at Zumba cuz it was awful and I hate it so I’m going to redo it but better
no this is actually  heartbreaking
"You're a good pirate - and a brave Octonaut."
(i am so attached to this episode im going insane)
this is a Shellington sketch that I did in school for what I was going to do, just so you can understand my vision more 
human dashi dancing (was going to draw her with Shellington, but run out of room )
(click in to see better tumblr fucks with the image)
it is also really annoying because Nina is presented as really attractive and desirable  throughout the books when plus size people are far too often presented as ugly and something to be pitied because they don’t attract many if any romantic or sexual interests
when people draw Nina skinny, it really just shows how many people can’t fathom the idea of a proper size person being viewed as attractive 
It makes me genuinely sad when people draw our queen Nina Zenik skinny. We already have so little plussize representation and when we do, it's usually comedic relief. Not Nina. She's a character with depth, she's confident, she's not ashamed to love food, her friends are worried about her when she doesn't eat due to parem, they're happy for her when she finally starts eating again, she's a powerful character. AND PEOPLE DRAW HER SKINNY. Like...to every plussize art there are like 30 skinny arts. Please for the love of Saints, don't do this lol
 Shellington : he is 37 and tunip is his child from a previous relationship (having all the vegemals be his kids wouldn’t make any sense.) he is a marine biologist and is married to dashi.he is still Scottish (cuz y would i change that what would be the point.)He has had his drivers licence revoked and has spent the last couple years taking and falling driving tests.The only reason he passed the first time is because the person who was testing him was quite old and didn’t realise how bad he was at driving.He met his ex (Tunips bio mum) at university they became friends but didn’t start dating for a few year’s . they dated for a couple of years before she became pregnant with Tunip when they were around 27-28 They immediately got engaged however she had a change of heart and called it of (breaking up with shellington) they now share custody and she usual gets tunip on weekends but she travels around a lot for work.Shellington met dashi when he was put on the octonauts research team when he was 30 they quickly started dating and got engaged after 4 years and married after 5. Shellington is a terrible cook and once set of the fire alarm trying to boil an egg (true story about my friends brother)He is usually quite quiet and shy but he has no bother talking to people he is comfortable around.Shellington is very close with professor Inkling who actually used to be one of his professors at university.He’s still allergic to red urchins (because that is fucking hysterical) He uses he/him pronouns and is bisexual and he enjoys jigsaw puzzles.
sorry, if I misspelt anything or punctuation doesn’t make sense, I have dyslexia and voice to text can only do so much. if I think of anything else to add in the future, I’ll just make a part two for him.  and I’ll be making wee posts like this for all the characters. 
am i cooking
Nah i still hate that fucking monkey 
ngl when i first started watching above and beyond i HATED paani on a personal level just because there was so much of him in season one and like barely any of the original Octonauts BUT then I watch season 2 and I’m on season 3 now and I’m starting to understand his appeal.(sidenote. Why is only season 1 and 2 on Netflix and then season three and four is on BBC . Like stop, splitting shows over different streaming platforms)
Post- Near Confetti Death Experience
just a dad helping his kiddo :,]