#giant tube worms my beloved

[emeraldwoman]

me and the girlies!!! love them so much💕💕💕

[noitsbecky127]

rebecca watches ds9: the nagus

hello ferengi, what shenanigans are you getting up to today

shoes are important jake!

sisko i think jake has plans already

noticing a recurring theme of “jake is growing up and sisko doesn’t like that” so it’s good to know some things stay the same in the future lmao

quark: ROM WHY DIDN’T YOU ROB THIS LADY

i wonder how many rules of acquisition there are

c’mon rom don’t pass your chores onto your teenage son

grand nagus? sounds important

old wrinkled ferengi with giant fucking ears

five holoprograms is a lot

keiko’s school is bustling!!! happy for her

ah miles is the substitute teacher for now

keiko’s been on earth for a while! guess that’s reasonable for a hundredth birthday

wait hang on, i just thought a little harder about the fact that keiko’s mother is a hundred. keiko’s not that old. i just looked rosalind chao up and she was in her mid-thirties at this point. how fucking old was keiko’s mom when she had her daughter

i’m thinking too hard about this aren’t i. i’m probably thinking harder about it than the writers did

ANYWAYS. time to go over homework

i don’t think vulcans make a habit of stealing

why would the grand nagus bother to buy this bar in the middle of nowhere

actually why is he at this bar in the middle of nowhere anyway

glad to see sisko is at least not gonna force jake and nog apart

are they eating gagh or do multiple alien species make a habit of eating live worms

tube grubs. the latter, then

ferengi logic is a hell of a thing

poor nog

oh god the station’s about to be overrun by ferengi

“see if i care” jake definitely cares

ferengi are definitely not to be trusted

congratulations quark! ahem, GRAND NAGUS quark

nog can’t read? guess that’s why he didn’t write the ethics essay

school must be pretty hard if you can’t READ

quark has a new friend to protect him from assassins

ah nope the new friend probably is the assassin

85 years??? how old is this guy? how long do ferengi live?

ah. about five more minutes after that statement apparently

that’s not gonna look good for quark!

ferengi do WHAT with corpses

ah jake and nog are still friends at least

the attempts on quark’s life have already begun

sisko please let your son have secrets he’s fourteen not four

what the fuck is quark holding

rom why do you want to kill quark. that’s your brother. you stand to benefit from him being grand nagus the way i see it

jadzia my beloved

i love how, left unattended, jadzia immediately begins stealing food. granted if she asked sisko for a bowl of stew he would certainly say yes and she knows it so ig it doesn’t really count as stealing

i think sisko going after jake is a bad idea, but i’m closer in age to jake than to him so what do i know

HE’S TEACHING NOG TO READ 😭🥺

doors mean nothing to odo

airlock’s gotta be an unpleasant way to die

ZEK???

ah yes, the secret test of character

wait so who was the discs

ferengi love betrayal i see

i want parental hugs now. my parents are coming to visit next weekend though so i’ll get lots of hugs then!!!

[kedreeva]

Just personal life updates.

I had a neighbor watching the baby birds while I was in NC visiting my little sister, and I just got them back today and I was kind of afraid they would forget me, but although Artemis was hesitant to come out while I was over there, once they were back here, she hopped right into my hands as soon as I opened the cage door again. I’m so pleased!!

The rest of the babies and most of the chickens are going to their actual or new homes on Saturday. I’ve been raising babies for a friend and I also decided to cut back majorly on the chickens I have, both because I want to focus on peas and because I only really have a couple chickens that I actually LIKE as opposed to having them for eggs for other people. So, I will be keeping the marans (my beloved children), Sour (the best chicken in the world), Eagle (the worst chicken in the world), and the 2 d’uccles Dottie and Spottie (the smallest and best). Everyone else has either found a new home or will be going to friends that wanted chickens, and they will get far more attention there.

I have one more out of state trip this weekend, and once things settle down from that, I will be putting in my Low Boy(tm) aquarium order for the axolotls. It provides the floor space of a 120g tank but is only 10 inches tall, which means they can get to the surface easier and the overall setup is only 50 gallons so it will still be fairly light and easy to cool. I’ve still got to locate someplace that can drill and seal the tubing inserts for the chiller. It’s going to be a process.

Next weekend will hopefully be the weekend we get the roofing and final walls up on the last 2 pens, and maybe cut the doors/windows out. After that it will be a matter of locating about 8 people (including me, sark, and my brother in law) to come to a fence raising. Putting in the fencing for the final pen will take about that many people to hold and stretch and staple the fencing into place, especially the roof fencing since it has to be held aloft and stretched 8 feet in the air. That, and we have to dig a 32 foot long trench that is a foot deep before we do any of that. I will probably start the digging myself over the course of the next 2 weeks.

I’ve got the 3g nano tank set up and running for the first of the dwarf shrimps. It’s just got snails in it right now, and a TON of java moss. I will hopefully be adding a couple of shrimps within the week- I’m thinking cherry shrimps first, since they are so bright and easy to find. The quarantine tank is nearly done with its cycle, it’s been about 3 weeks since i brought the new mollies home and I haven’t seen any ich spots in over a week now. It’s a super small, bare-bottom tank and we’ve been doing daily 50% water changes with a vacuum and salting/treating the water daily, so if I don’t see any spots for another week, they’ll be ready to join the big tank!! That male is really something else, I can’t wait to introduce him to ladies!!

The superworm breeding project is going super well (*wink*). I set up separation containers for about 50-60 worms, expecting some loss, but so far I’ve only lost 3 of the worms to transformation issues and almost all of them are beetles now (just a few left that are worms or pupa). The rest have become adorable giant black beetles. It’s been a few weeks since the first ones went into the breeder cage, so it’s gotta be getting close to the time when I need to remove them to the next one. Hopefully they will have laid some eggs and I will start seeing baby superworms by next month. That is the dream right?

I finished my submission for the apocalypse anthology. It’s pretty good, I think, and came out approximately how I wanted it to. I’ve been over it several times, I had 2 beta readers go over it, and I’ve had 2 people who know nothing about it read it and understand it, so that makes me feel better. There are still 3 people in real life that have copies that are reading for coherency, and as soon as I hear back from them I’ll submit it. That, or I’ll do it monday. Whichever comes first!