Day: August 28, 2017

clatterbane:

I think I’ve crashed from the adrenaline bullshit enough to get some sleep soon.

In slightly better news, I’m hoping to finally get out later to one local fish store, and try to bring home some more cory cats to keep the existing ones company. After they get out of quarantine, at least.

The bedroom tank should be good to go for that, after a water change and adding a heater earlier. Just need to put some more biomedia in the filter, to handle the fish load. It’s plants and snails only right now, so I don’t trust the filter to keep up without that. Better not to do that much in advance, though.

I did consider earlier that maybe I should hold off on getting more corys (or fish at all), after that bit of news. But, these really do need the company, and they’ve already had to wait too long. Whatever may end up happening there, it won’t be soon. And I can deal with it then.

Update: I didn’t make it out yesterday, but just got home from one LFS with some (tiny) corys and impulse-bought Endlers 👌

Which are probably guppy hybrids, but most Endlers in captivity are by now. Very cute regardless, and I’d been thinking about trying some for a while. Should also make good, low maintenance dither fish for the nervous corys. Hoping getting the existing ones more to shoal with again will help, though.

It’s a bank holiday, so Mr. C tagged along. Not his idea of a thrilling trip out, but I asked anyway. Glad for the company, and he volunteered to help carry them home since I had a cane.

Reblog if you’ve ever felt impostor syndrome with your gender and/or sexuality

notanothermultiblog:

closet-keys:

I know it took me a while after realizing I was gay to not have some weekly panic of “What if I’m not a Real Lesbian™???” Sometimes I’d think no one would believe me if I came out to them, or even that I wasn’t “allowed” to be gay. 

I want LGBT folks to know that it’s 100% normal to struggle with those feelings. You can talk to other LGBT folks about those feelings and still have acceptance.  And also I want you to know that the impostor syndrome doesn’t last forever; eventually you will feel comfortable with yourself. 

I’m transgender and have been in a homosexual relationship for 8 years, and I still feel like I’m not queer enough for queer spaces.
There’s nothing rational about imposter syndrome, it’s just another way for your mind to compulsively self-loathe because you were taught that your identity should make you a pariah no matter what.

homeosapphic:

tonight in vermont news:

  • the police department in our state capital was called because a skunk was wandering down main street with its head stuck in a yogurt cup
  • not wanting to risk getting sprayed, and unsure of how to remove a skunk from a yogurt cup anyway, the police googled “how to get a skunk’s head out of a yogurt cup”
  • this led them to an article, published by Arizona police in 2015, titled How to Take a Yogurt Cup Off a Skunk’s Head Without Getting Sprayed
  • using the method outlined in that article, vermont police safely caught the skunk, removed the yogurt cup, and sent the animal on its way
  • they did this without anybody getting sprayed in the process
  • “and then we recycled the cup,” vermont police wrote on their department’s facebook page, “so a win all around.”