Merrill Before and Sometimes After Dark

@merrillotter.com

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35. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️. SF Bay Area. North American river otter. Find me in a river. Or in bed. A riverbed. Could be 🔞 featured custom beanie: @brushfeather.art banner: @goatuna.bsky.social

A still from the opening scene of Parasite (2019), showing the Kim family seated amongst some pizza boxes. The caption reads, "What? Fumigation?"
A picture of a calendar. Every day is unmarked except for the 21st (the day of this post!), upon which is written "The dog day of summer".
A text exhange: > Tiny fridge buried in the woods > Sapping electricity from a nearby military training complex < Or solar powered and hope for the best > There is a delicious irony in a solar-powered cooling device. > That's what we can name the brand > "Delicious Irony brand Solar-Powered Refrigerators" < Thats gonna make history
Merrill sits at a keyboard in a bedroom, wearing underwear. She is playing a snippet of a lamentful sort of tune.
A pair of mourning doves perched upon a half-wall, looking sidelong at the camera.
An open journal under dappled sunlight with a leather cord strewn down the center. On the two visible pages, a poem is written: The Old Spell You may wonder What the moon Might make of the sun If ever they should meet For they're the sides of a thing A dichotomous pair Ubiquitous in their respective spheres Only during And only because of Each other's absence Just like the drought Cannot know the flood And the crunch of leaves underfoot Cannot know when Spring has sprung While we, onlookers, may know both in our time And may love them both beside Each must be an affront to its foil If they were to meet Yet there are sometimes dusks Or Winter dawns Or early mid-afternoons When the sky is a stage For both of the two When the sun does indeed meet the moon And I promise you this which has made itself plain: These two These decidedly different two They know They know they are the same They know they are strong Where the other needs rest They know when they're weak The other is best They know they fulfill The very same role And fill the same hearts And touch the same souls And I promise you this Which must have been true Since this cycle first had begun: I promise you this That I have learned: I know now the moon loves the sun
A wrist wearing a leather bracelet, decorated with paint drips in the colors of the trans pride flag.
A cutting board, upon which rest six sizeable cloves of garlic.
Outgoing chat messages that read: > Being a person is hard > Capitalism is a fuck > All that > I'm just trying to enjoy myself some > See some beautiful sunrises > Swim in some rivers and oceans > Kiss some cute boys > Eat crabcakes.
A selfie of Merrill wearing warm-hued sunglasses.
Merrill otter giving a smart salute, tail up, tits out.
A leather bracelet strapped on a wrist. The leather is a dark brown, but drips and drops decorate its length in the colors of the trans pride flag.
The breast pocket of a black denim jacket, adorned with a pin. The pin is in the shape of a featger, and is colored in the stripes of a trans pride flag. In its center is a small opalescent heart.
A bathroom mirror selfie of Merrill wearing cream pants, a brown top, an eternity collar, a trans pride bracelet, and a black denim jacket with two butterfly pins and a trans pride feather pin.
A ttrpg battle map on paper printouts, featuring colorful glass tokens and wooden markers affixed with paper character icons.
A worn and stained journal has fallen to the floor, spine up, with some loose papers spilling from the amongst the pages. The surrounding lighting casts dramatic shadows.
A selfie of Merrill standing in a walk-in freezer, hand to her mouth with an expression of amazement. Behind her is a stockpile of several truly massive massive bowls of macaroni.
A text exchange with the above photo > Social media age > holy shit i got tits, wait > I'm gonna have to address that at work lmao < I WAS ABOUT TO SAY < not gonna be able to stay in the closet much longer with those puppies out
A selfie of Merrill taken below while she holds an iced coffee. The way her clothing is pulled across get body notably accentuates her breasts.
Merrill in the same position, but now a to-go box with a massive, decadent croffle tuna melt fully drizzled in aioli is sitting upon her chest. She looks reasonably alarmed. The fork resting on the melt will not suffice.
Merrill taking a selfie, reclined on a couch and smiling at the camera, hand held to her chin.
A hand supporting a wrapped pin in the shape of a feather, branded with "Brushfeather Creations: Birds, Beasts, & Beyond" and "Flaunt Your Feathers!" The feather is in the colors of the trans flag, with a white heart in the center. The hand also holds a sticker of a bird waving and saying, "HENLO!"
Merrill, nestled into the cushions on a couch, a bowl of fried rice perched on her upper chest. She is smiling dopily, contendedly.
A Telegram sticker of Merrill, sobbing and prostrate and partially submerged in a puddle of her own tears. A caption reads, "Smooches deficiency..."
A The Onion headline: "Relationship At Point Where Woman Has To Learn Boyfriend’s Family’s Weird Card Games." An accompanying photo shows some people seated at a table with warm beverages and playing cards.
Outgoing chat messages that read: Anyway Thank you for joining me in this I had to be asleep deprived for an EEG this morning and now afterwards I'm letting every wayward thought and feeling tumble out of me onto the sun-dappled patio of this outdoor cafe.
Merrill and Source, sitting outside at night, illuminated by firelight.
Bar seating overlooking the entrance to an establishment. On the bar is an open to-go container containing a breakfast burrito, a to-go coffee cup, and a journal with a pen.
A hand holding a macremé bracelet, seen side-on, decorated with five hefty glass beads colored translucent violet, clear, light blue and dark blue.
A tattoo (photo taken when it was still fresh and a little ruddy) of a stylistic red sailboat, drawn mostly from a single spiraling line.
Merrill standing in front of a pair of watercolor prints of white sailboats on a blue ocean before a pink sky. There is a clock on the wall with a compass rose motif.
Merrill standing on a nighttime pier lit by a series of lamps. She is facing away from the camera, looking into the distance.
A hand holding a can of soda. It is a variety of Sprite, but the only branding visible says, "Zero Chill."
A selfie of Merrill on a gurney, wearing a hospital gown and monitoring equipment, smiling at the camera.
Merrill smiling at the camera goofily from behind four colored rods of glass. She also is wearing glasses.
A selfie of Merrill wearing black denim jacket and an eternity collar, standing outside, over a city street which stretches on behind her.
A screenshot of the Merriam-Webster definition of "tope," which means "to drink liquor to excess."
Fez's protagonist stands in a dark abyss, with only the immediate surroundings visible: unremarkable blue floor. In time with the music, a single pink block appears directly over the character's head. As it vanishes, a set of three pink blocks appear higher still. Then as those fade, a line of five appear higher up, and then a line of seven. It is a glorious pink crescendo. Merrill is visible in the reflection of the screen, holding her phone.
A photo of a screen from a video game, wherein a the walls of a colossal blue and black chamber stretch into the ceiling. A few solid blue blocks hang suspended, as do a couple translucent pink blocks.
A, small, approximately spherical bundle of rubber bands. It sits on a desk among several other loose rubber bands.
A coffee table set a laptop and sundry items, including a beer can on a coaster. The design of the Speakeasy-brand beer features two eyes peeking out from inky blackness , glancing to the side, and somewhat towards the viewer.
Merrill holding up one half of a massive chocolate chip cookie, which she cradles in a paper towel. She is holding the cookie next to her face, and it is the length of her chin to the bottom of her eye.
A countertop laid out with a series of ingredients: eggs, grated cheese, onions, mushrooms, bacon, butter, and scallions.
Merrill and Source sitting at a table on a balcony, overlooking a restaurant. Merrill is wearing a brown spaghetti strap top and white pants.
A hand-drawn phone note in excessively poor imitation of a social media post. In it, "Hours" posts on 6/13/26: "I, me, Hours, will play Outer Wilds 2day"
Stan Kelly's "Sickos" man, peering lewdly through a window with keen intent, saying, "Yes... ha ha ha... YES!"
Merrill sits beside a small white yorkie who wears pet pajamas. Both are looking off frame to their left.
Outgoing Telegram messages. The chat bubbles are a similar color to the previously posted cake, although lighter and brighter. The messages read: >I >kinda want to go see a movie tonight >I don't NEED to >but I am tempted to
A slice of chocolate blackberry cake with brown cake and a dark blueish frosting.
Futurama's Yivo, floating in the abyss of space. He is an unfathomably massive flesh orb with a single giant eye, and numerous sprouting violet tentacles.
A hallway in a house. POV, Merrill holds out a lemon zester, and then proceeds to swing it back and forth wildly, each motion paired with an audible cutting of the air.
A notepad on a desk with a sketchy leonine face drawn in the corner amidst some miscellaneous writing. Two small, neon green sticky notes are overlaid on the notebook, each with a pen doodle. One shows a rabbit looking upwards in disbelief, and the other shows a vague mammalian creature looking askancs in disgust.
A sheet of notebook paper covered in blue and black ink sketches and notes. Several figures appear multiple times in varying styles: a squat, multi-legged creature, a tall, horned creature, and what appears to be a child in an animal onesie. Nonsense text decorates much of the page; the words "machine tongue" are visible several times.
An advertisement on the wall of a train, which reads Token spend higher than your rent? Tame agents with LangSmith
A desktop with a bag of Cracker Jack in the background. In the foreground, a hand holds up a square is paper that reads: Cracker Jack Prize Inside Arcade Lift & Peel
Merrill, wearing a purple t-shirt and white pants, tending a stovetop pan in which are sliced white mushrooms and diced red onions.
Merrill, sitting on a stool in the foreground of a cavernous indoor bocce court. She is spinning around in place whilst looking on forlornly.
An orange and white cat wearing a collar and walking on a sidewalk.
Merrill, not looking so hot, eyes bleary, taking a sip from an iced coffee.