the holidays are coming up, and as someone who works in a pet store there are some things i want everyone who plans on getting animals as gifts to remember:
fish tanks need to be set up and running for at least one week before fish can be put it. all fish need treated water and bacteria supplements.
fish can only survive in a plastic bag for about an hour.
THE ONLY fish that can go in a bowl is a BETTA. all other fish, especially goldfish, will die/be very unhealthy in bowls.
goldfish are supposed to live for up to 20 years. don’t get all high and mighty for keeping one alive for a few months. they have long life spans when taken proper care of.
hamsters cannot live together. when they grow up, they become incredibly territorial and aggressive. they are asocial creatures that do not get along with each other.
guinea pigs can’t go in hamster wheels or balls. they get spinal injuries from being in a curved position and sometimes die.
rats and guinea pigs do better in groups/pairs.
hamsters, mice, rats, guinea pigs, cats, and pretty much every single animal can’t live inside a sealed box. they will die. don’t do it.
puppies get destructive. they break things and make messes and are loud. they need to be trained. don’t get a puppy if you don’t want to deal with training a large animal.
don’t fucking take kittens and puppies away from their mothers prematurely just because they’re cute. it can affect them forever.
cats will scratch your furniture and knock things over. declawing cats is a physically harmful and scarring process that literally permanently mutilates their paws. don’t get a cat if you aren’t willing to be patient with them.
birds are LOUD. SO LOUD. and incredibly messy. and they bite.
most lizards can get up to two feet long. some can live for 20 years. don’t get a baby bearded dragon and expect it to stay that small forever. they reach their full size within a year.
pets are real and they have needs. their needs are not luxuries. don’t treat them like they don’t matter.
hermit crabs are social, don’t get just one
frogs and toads are very low-maintenance but you do need to feed live food, so if touching bugs freaks you out, don’t get amphibians
guppies breed. i have so many guppies now. please take some.
birds are loud and destructive and will destroy everything with their beaks: furniture, jewelry, clothing, etc.
parrots are SMART so if you don’t spend hours with them each day and if you don’t let them out of their cages daily they will get depressed and angry. yes, even the small ones.
Rabbits cannot live full time in the cages you can buy at a pet store. They are happy to have them as a safe place as not as they have a room or obstacle course or free rein of the house. They can use a litter box just like a cat but they need special rabbit safe litter
Rats and hamsters also need more roaming room than the cages sold for them. A pair of rats can be kept in a rabbit cage but they are smart and small and can compress their skeletons to escape if they are feeling bored and like cuddles and can be trained. You might as well give them free roaming rein and set up the cage as a safe hiding place for when they are done with you.
If you are going to keep a dog outside full time do not get a dog. They are social creatures and we have bred them for thousands of years to depend on humans. Dogs bond to their human caretakers more strongly than their own parents or litter-mates. If you want a guard dog get an electronic alarm system.
Just because betas can survive I a bowl does not mean they enjoy it. A well kept beta will live ten or more years in a ten gallon tank. Fish get bored. Scenery and plants and little castles are as much for them as they are for us. Switch up the fish bowl decorations every few months
And please please if you are getting an animal as a gift make sure it’s for someone who is able and willing to properly care for the animal and that all of the adults in the home are equally as invested in the animal’s welfare
Do not buy someone a live animal and make it wait under the tree. Buy them a gift card or model of the animal and put it with the supplies.
DO NOT ASSUME THAT SOMEONE WANTS AN ANIMAL. Unless they really, genuinely want it, can care for it, and will care for it for the next 10 years, do NOT buy them an animal.
The largest cat in NYC, and possibly
the world, is a 28 lb., 4-foot-long
Maine Coon named Samson. He’s
bigger than most bobcats (and most
toddlers), and every day he likes
to sit on his owner’s chest first
thing in the morning. SourceSource 2
this is by no means a comprehensive guide and just covers the most basic structure that i’ve observed. But it was fun to make. Simple styles may look easy but are actually pretty challenging so make it look good xux
MSPA style is really fun to draw, I highly recomend it if you haven’t actually tried it! Papers breakdown is great 😀
so i combined derse and prospit together with painttoolsai using the luminosity feature and…………
look at it…….
that’s so…. pretty… omg let’s all dream here pls
I’ve lived here all my life.
And then everyone lived on Derspit, the end.
soft grunge
headcanon time!: derspit is what happens when one person tries to play Sburb/etc by his or her self. Either through two computers running the program at the same time or through bizarre cheating methods.
It’s an attempt by the game to create both moons despite there being only one bed, forcing the player to go through weird glitchy mixtures of events from both areas.
The Derspitiatites (dersite+prospitian= Ders-pit-ti-a-tites) are at war with themselves and are extremely glitchy and volatile, expressing both Heroic and Just traits. They both wish for the game to be continued and for the game to be lost, and are neither helpful nor harmful towards the player. They are so volatile that they become neutral by default.
It is extremely difficult, if not impossible to win the game, due to the black and white king being the same character. The reckoning, along with all other moon-based events, must be started by the PLAYER in order for them to get farther into the game.
heres a Derspitiatite arch/antiagent (cheap jack edit) to make reading all that worth your while a bit
“…are at war with themselves and are extremely glitchy and volatile”
so baSICALLY THE TRICKSTERS
CAN THIS
BE A THING
CAN THIS BE WHERE THE TRICKSTERS DREAM OMFG
OH MAN EVEN THE COLOUR SCHEME WORKS FOR TRICKSTERS
HEADCANON ACCEPTED OH MY GOD
the pastel called and my hands moved on their own
but then, i figured, the lady most likely to finish a session on her own…
PLEASE DO NOT REPOST OR REDISTRIBUTE ON OTHER WEBSITES
Throughout the years I’ve seen so many headcanons for the eeveelutions, many of which based the Eevees off of just one animal or a mix of them so I decided to play around with some designs to encompass most of these ideas.
The main idea being that: Because Eevee’s DNA is so wacky and it can evolve into so many diverse evolutions, its species can also vary from evolution to evolution, region to region, bloodline to bloodline.
Many being domestically bred for specific traits whether it be for battling, contests, companionship, or to be put to work, many others are found that way in wild populations where little human interaction has occurred.
All of the standard Eeveelutions shown are supposed to be more or less ambiguous, not based around just one animal but instead, designed to fit their official artwork as close as possible. Basically, standards are mutts as far as what species they are is concerned, hence people calling them catfoxrabbit things. As for the variations, all bets are off and many have been bred and narrowed down to one species.
The three-to-four variation examples I drew at the top of each picture are not exclusive to which species expresses it in the examples below. These variation types whether it be coat pattern, jewels, leaves, skin type, can appear in most any strain of each respective eeveelution.
Likewise, the species variations beside the standard eeveelution are not the only available species per that pokemon as the possibilities of other species and mixes are endless. It’s even possible for your eevee to change species upon evolution, much like the quilava line already does [shrew to weasel to badger].
It took me about three days to finish this and loads of references. In the end I’m quite happy with how it all came out and I hope you all enjoy. And if you want to draw character inspiration from this post please be my guest!!
You can get to the point where you can express yourself in a language by learning basic grammar and just 200 words.
My test for being able to express myself is: Can I keep a diary in this language? Can I talk about what I did today and my opinions on just about any subject?
Too often, people who have been learning a language for months or even years say “no.” However, in my experience, it’s possible after learning just basic grammar and the 200 most useful words. If you wanted to go fast and learn 20 words a day (the default rate of Anki), then you could learn 200 words in a week and a half. (In my experience, learning basic grammar doesn’t take as long as learning the words, so the total time could be three weeks. However, I didn’t teach myself my first foreign language, so I can’t speak to that case — if you’re teaching yourself your first, kudos, and let me know how long the grammar takes!)
The key is that you have to learn the right 200 words. When I was teaching myself languages before, I could never find a good answer to the question: What words should I learn first? If you use Duolingo, they’ll start by teaching you words like “apple”, which aren’t very useful. I spent a lot of time writing and talking in order to determine which 200 words would let you express the most. I think I finally got it. But don’t take my word for it — see this demonstration.
I personally tested this method out with Esperanto and French and I’m now able to keep a diary in both languages, writing about anything that happened in my day and any thought that crosses my mind.
To be clear: 200 words won’t make you fluent, but they’ll allow you to express yourself, and it’s a lot easier to keep improving from there. Feel free to adapt the method based on what works for you. Here are the steps:
If your language uses a non-Latin alphabet, learn the alphabet.
Practice writing (This method is introvert friendly! You don’t have to talk to strangers if you don’t want to. But at this stage you can also practice by speaking, if you prefer.)
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Also, please send me your feedback! I’d love to know if this works for you or if it doesn’t. I welcome all comments, criticism, and suggestions for improvement. And if you think this guide could help other people, please consider reblogging it. 🙂
Additional notes:
To be able to express yourself with 200 words, you’ll need to be able to rephrase things: e.g. “she comforted him” = “she caused that he felt better”. Even if it’s hard for you to rephrase things this way, the 200 basic words are a great starting vocabulary list.
This is the order in which I usually learn an alphabetic language: basic writing and speaking, reading, listening, advanced writing and speaking. Being able to express yourself doesn’t mean that you’ll immediately be able to listen to the language and understand it, because native speakers may speak fast and use a wider vocabulary (though hopefully they’ll slow down and simplify for you in a conversation). But it’s a lot easier to keep improving from a point where you have basic writing and speaking skills than from one where you don’t.
a person: i’m autistic. i don’t have a professional diagnosis.
a neurotypical: you can’t! self diagnose! autism!!! onLy a dOctor can do that!!!
most doctors: don’t know what autism looks like in people other than nonverbal white cis boys
most doctors: recommend abusive therapies for autistic kids and teens
most doctors who specialize in diagnosing autism: refuse to evaluate adults
an autism evaluation for a minor teen who wants one: requires having supportive parents who understand that autism is not a tragedy and looks different for every autistic person, and that many autistic people can talk, have friends, do okay in school, and otherwise fake looking neurotypical
an autism evaluation for an adult: very expensive and often not covered by insurance in the U.S., also extremely difficult to get in France
an on-record autism diagnosis: can be used to deny you custody of children, to have your kids taken away, to forcibly institutionalize you
autism advocacy orgs that actually help autistic ppl like ASAN, AWN, AANE: Here are some resources for figuring out if you could be autistic. Professional diagnosis is a very personal decision and is not required for knowing that you’re one of us. We support you as an autistic person even if you don’t have a paper diagnosis.
a sincere autism self diagnosis: harms no one even if it’s incorrect, enables the person to feel part of a community of people with similar issues and learn more about autism, a gateway to learning about autism acceptance movements, often the first step toward self acceptance and self esteem
queerhomestuck and I are going to pelt you with popcorn. 🙂
I don’t mind. I’m just gonna eat all that popcorn
i was looking for a gif of someone throwing popcorn at people but i found this instead and holy fuck would you look at this @polestardean@shotinthekidney
the fight is still scheduled i’m just amazed by computers
queerhomestuck 