Well, I made it almost 2 weeks before I started Really wanting to upgrade Nova to a 20g tank so I can add more stuff. 😂

I discovered the betta enrichment stuff on etsy, and then someone in one of the fb groups posted this & I flailed -

more and more i become of the opinion my dogs are not reactive to strange dogs but in fact it is unreasonable to expect them to NOT be reactive when the dogs we pass are unwalked, understimulated rural hellions that thrash at the windows of their houses, bark at us and follow us for entire lengths of properties, snarl at us, run at us with tense body language etc.

is this because a neighbor (who does skijor!) moved in half mile down the road from us a half a year ago with the most polite, unreactive dog that my dogs glance calmly at as they walk by? as it is unrestrained (no underground fence) on the property? absolutely is.

is this because a few years ago a neighbor's very nice pitbull mix got out and when it walked up to us with polite calm body language my dogs reacted just as calm and we were able to walk this dog home? absolutely is.

like i am a human woman and have lived in areas with much larger populations than i do now. i remember being followed by strangers, yelled at by strangers in aggressive ways. it made me tense and yes...reactive in those moments to ensure my own safety and needs were met. but was it my fault for having to react that way? To call friends and family and be on the phone any time that i walked alone? to check in when i got to where i was going? to bring pepper spray and iron knuckles to walk less than 10 minutes away from home? I don't think it is. Rather it's the failure that allows that behavior towards me which is at fault. i should not have had to carry those things with me. or call a single soul.

same with my dogs. my dogs aren't reactive, i'm just the only person who walks my damn dogs in my rural neighborhood. even though we can walk for 4+ miles either way on safe dirt roads out of our driveway before we reach pavement. nobody else. walks. their. fucking. dogs. yes i manage my dogs behaviors, it can be embarrassing when they get riled up, but know what? it is not their fault so many other dogs fucking SUCK. and it is not those dogs' fault that they suck either. i encountered more politely behaved dogs when i lived in the suburbs and city than i do now because those dogs at least had some sort of experience with being around other dogs (passing them on the sidewalk even) out of necessity. Rural people truly just throw their dogs outside and expect that to be enough. if you're lucky they install a little underground fence that will maybe keep fido in the yard (like uwu WE don't want to have a look at a fence and we're going to make all our neighbors GUESS if our dog might run into the road at them uwu).

OC Evolution tag: 2024 <- 2018

choose an oc and show the progress of the earliest to latest version of them

tagged by @elderwisp! it took me hours to find the oldest trays i could of theirs but uh... yeah. everyone else i've seen do this had such nice sims in the past but i think my old sims have to be some kind of sin against god.

i’ll tag @stinkrascal, @wldestluv-rs, @spurgees, @veone, and @warmsol <3

I've seen some people expressing concern over being objectum being like, tumblr trendy, and how people are going abandon it and be weird about it when it's not cool or whatever, and I do get it, I've seen some 'ironic eroticism of the machine' posts that have icked me. But also. I think being Objectum is just. more common than is publicly perceived. I also don't think there's any inherent harm with someone identifying in a way that later turns out to not work for them

Anyone else have near-perfect executive function at work; but at home, have literally no energy or motivation to do anything except lie in a dark room, with something in or on your ears for several hours?

post in a Facebook group I’m not a member of but Facebook is putting it on my feed anyway: any advice for organizing this closet better? [photo of a closet with neatly tidied board games on the top shelf, and a cube shelf on the floor surrounded by the entire family’s shoes haphazardly tossed in]

some rando professional organizer: decanting your board games would make a huge difference! [photo of two dozen of identical plastic mesh pouches sitting upright on a floor shelf, presumably containing the pieces and boards for multiple games, except you can no longer tell what games they are at a glance, they no longer have even the meager protection against breakage offered by cardboard and molded plastic inserts, and extra hardware on the shelf is required to keep them standing up. there is no room for shoes in the example storage space.]

barnes and noble has been raising the prices of everything and further pushing for their premium membership option (which they raised the price of by 60 percent this year!) and then when they have big sales events, they're less than what they used to be.

last year at this time you could get one of their leather-bound book annex tomes for $12.50 (without a member discount) because of the 50 percent off all hardcover sales. but they raised the price of those tomes from 25 bucks to 30, and they decreased the sale from 50 percent off all hardcovers to 1/3rd off. so that same book that was $12.50 at last year's end-of-year sale is now 20 bucks. and that's supposed to be savings enough to induce me to walk into one of their stores this week?

i'm sorry but b&n has just gotten so greedy, even though their business has only been doing better and better in previous years. they do not have to be raising prices like they have been, and they can damn well afford to have the same savings events they used to. if you went to one of those hardcover sales a year or two ago, even if you lived in a less populated area like i do, you had never seen a b&n so busy in your life. things were flying off the shelves. they WERE making bank.

and as a company they've only been growing and growing (as much as the publishing industry has been, in recent years). but there are so many other ways to buy books. CHEAPER ways to buy books. MORE SUSTAINABLE ways to buy books. and since books and booksellers are doing really well right now, i don't see why barnes and noble is getting so greedy when they don't have to be. i dont like new shiny books that much. people buy books for the content, ultimately. sometimes we as consumers might make the choice that a new shiny book is worth paying a bit more for, but not that much. barnes and noble has just been demanding more and more of their customers' money for less and less benefit.

jing yuan and yanqing are giving zhongli and xiao if the latter’s canon relationship was Actually fanon’s made up father figure/adopted child dynamic

ive been having a terrible time trying to keep stock in the online shop because its been selling so fast in person and im so bad at figuring out what exactly to make extra of

operation budgies is real

if you follow me on twitter (@/ROKUCHOBATZ btw shameless plug) then sorry not sorry for subjecting you to my unhinged and insane posts bc ratnf returned from the dead and dropped all this ayana content and a brudda is THRIVING

i need to clean the litter box but the cat decided it was cuddle time and im leaving for like a week tomorrow so i wasnt gonna bail on cuddles today and now its been half an hour and he left a while ago but i still havent done the litter oh no

sara.🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️ i also have not and will not listen to the new stuff

could be me being dramatic but idk something weird about albums being a body of work a piece of art and she keeps editing the tracklist as if it’s a playlist and not….. an album……

so true!! she has like five versions of the same album!! at least release the new ones as singles… and let’s not talk about the timing of it all…

YOU CAN HIT A TAG LIMIT??? My ramblings in the tags have been conquered and squashed by the 30 tag limit. How silly!

I've officially finished season 2 of good omens and I don't know what to do with my life now

Man this site is just unusable almost for me on mobile