*whispering this from the corner of my office with the lights off, so nobody knows it's me*
My students' first essay is over social media, so they must cite sources from social media. They don't have to be credible. They just need to be from social media because we have to get through pp. 348- 352 of the APA Manual. One student just asked me about citing a TikTok video that cites a Twitter/X post and a Tumblr post, so the student needs to correct the citation (Tumblr user or Twitter user, year, as cited in TikTok user, year), but y'all . . .
THE TUMBLR POST IS ME! It's a non-BL post, but I'm shook! I'm stressed. I'm pressed. Obviously the student does not know who I am, but how is the world so small? I interrogated them. They do not have a Tumblr. They only saw the video through TikTok. I'm safe.
I've gone on about how tiny fairywasps (aka fairyflies) are before, but I just found out that there are aquatic fairywasps (Caraphractus cinctus) who remain submerged for days.
... they are so tiny they must find a plant stem to exit water: surface tension being a force they cannot overcome!
The surface of a puddle is an impenetrable boundary between worlds. Plant stems are portals.
Somehow their tiny little minds can contain all the responses needed to navigate these challenges.
Target is bringing back the 90s and 2000s. Watch me trying on some clothes I wore/wanted. In the sizes I wore in high school😅 See the full vid on Onlyfans
They are like little sun sprites, motes of joy and determination made animate. I decorated their outworld like a magical desert. Here you see their annex nest (not their main home just an outpost) and the geode and branch they explore. I feed them on the jade dish, they neatly pile trash in the upper right corner for me to pick up. (Dorymyrmex bureni, the light brown cone ant)
Poor girl she bit the paint brush I use to help them to move and can’t seem to let go. I tried to help her by cutting the bristles off. But, I think her sisters should be able to help so I returned her, still clutching the bristles to the colony.
It seemed like a brave thing to do in the moment. Bite the evil paint brush and defend the colony! But it has gone all wrong.
A short video of the little brown ant holding the bristles in her mandibles. I gently lower her on to a sheet of graph paper and she runs away still holding the bristles.
Which one -- or neither!! -- do we like for Cassimir and Sonya's Dad's Family Crest??
here're my initial mock ups!! it looked really sad w just the solitary portcullis alksdjfklsdjf so i thought that either a double portcullis or a portcullis and knot might be better! so lmk what you prefer! i'll feature it both with the crown (as cassimir and sonya would be entitlted to wear it given their royal blood #thanksmom) and without the crown (the og standard, which they're also entitlted to wear and roderick would probs way prefer hahaha but which valentina wouldn't like as much ;D and how it would've been before valentina came around)
KNOT:
DOUBLED:
CROWNED KNOT:
CROWNED DOUBLE:
anyway, lmk what you like!!
EDIT!! actually you know what????? i played around w it a lil made it beigger and smaller and thelone portcullis actually is just fine by itself!! idk why i thought it looked so sad and lonely before!!! i think i just had it too small hahhahahah so here it is!