#nice enclosure too A++

[omg-snakes]

This is my Yellow Ratsnake Sirius. He shed this morning and says now he requires water droplets from the sprayer (his bowl just isn't good enough) and every food item in the freezer.

Goodness, just look at that face. How could anyone say no to that perfect gentleman?

Please give him my fondest regards and every food item within a 100-meter radius.

[tetedurfarm]

noodle hours

[scoriarose]

She heard me doing things so she came up to the side of her baby bin and blelelelele'd at me until I noticed her. She greets me every morning where we spend the first hour of every day together, her just resting in my hand and me holding her, often gently petting her head and tiny scales. If there is a heaven, that first hour we spend together is it.

She is getting a larger enclosure for her birthday in a month and a half. :D Hopefully I can get it done in time, as I haven't sculpted a custom enclosure before and will be trying some new artistic critiques. I do have experience sculpting though. My biggest worry is the paints and sealing them properly! Art I can do- but food safe art that will be in a moist bioactive enclosure is new for me.

[gratuiciel]

no but kisaki Can manipulate/threaten people into staying with him/protecting him/committing crimes for him. he's done this in the past and definitely continues to do it once toman becomes a huge crime organization

the thing about hina is that he could've manipulated her as well, made her see him as a hero like he did during the valhalla fight when he intervened at just the right time to rescue mikey. he could've easily bribed/blackmailed some guys into pretending to harrass her and then kicked their asses to show her how cool he's become and how similar to takemichi he is now

but instead he chooses the long and tedious path of manipulating mikey instead so that he can be reborn (???) as japan's number one bad guy and only Then can he see hina again, and show her how cool he's become

[scribbling-dragon]

i am. holding ranchers gently. rotating them slowly in my mind.

[lightbulb-warning]

you ever feel like actually perceive your standards changing live and morphing into the ungodly combination of both "stupidly higher" and "stupidly unnecessary"??? a little click sound in your brain to indicate "oh yea babey, the internal monologue has learned a whole new dialect to roast ourselves CRISP about some new arbitrary BULLSHIT, buckle up!! <3"

this is ridiculous i did not care about any of this a few months ago--!!!!! where's that graph about the development discrepancies between taste and skill where is it i NEED to stare at it until either it or i catch on fire

[flufflecat]

Another day, another suspiciously yellow and black animal showing up that i have named Bill.

This poor injured swallowtail was in the backyard, so i offered him a variety of flowers then moved him to a safe spot since i cant really do more to help him. He kept trying to climb my arms, but i politely asked him not to try to crawl on my face and i think he agreed.

When I was grabbing some flowers down the road, there was also a flock of goldfinches flitting around the thistles to add to my yellow-animals tally, but i couldn't get any good pics of them.

Between the goldfinches that have shown back up for the first time since june, this butterfly, and Bill the Caterpillar (who has since crawled off somewhere), I'm starting to debate whether spending the past 2 weeks joking about being possessed by bill cipher was a good idea.

Also i came face to face with a deer while out alone last night and i didn't like the way she took a step toward me when i held my hand out. She bowed to me so i bowed back and after about a minute of staring she decided to wander away.

[sysig]

Pepper has started to recognize his feeding enclosure, I'm so proud of him <3 <3

[chiimeramanticore]

breaking regular juno fashion while soliciting asks because I am NOT high this time, I'm on a tolerance break and I'm bored off my ass please send asks and save me

[laughing-thrush]

MY GIRL UMHA finally in her much needed upgrade! That’s how her inclosure started, had to take the sedum out bc aphids hatched out on it :( I’ll need to root it in treated soil and give it a month or two. + Ulu who got upgraded too.

[seariii]

I’m giving you all the hugs 🥺 you are loved and I love you did I mention that I love you a lot? <333

Thank you rose... heh so sweet of you.... I'm sorry for worrying you, but thank you still, it's really soft and warm and your love put a smile on my face. I accept all the hugs.... and I love you a lot too, more than I could express, you are important to me, thank you for everything. I send you many many many hugs back.... and imagine I just stay in the hug for a little while hahaha (seari is really clingy, sorry)

[quietwingsinthesky]

the thing about me is that I have this need to pick up every angel on supernatural by their scruff and place them into an enclosure that will allow them to, if not heal and become better, than at least to be petty and vindictive in a way that causes less death and destruction and is just kind of annoying. which I would argue is also good for them. let angels make choices where the consequences of their actions are non-existent rather than world-ending. teaches them free will in a safe, healthy way.

[silverislander]

my butch "it can't be that hard" gene is kicking in again (impulsively decided i'm making myself some armour for the ren faire)

[knightelf]

also I think I keep getting trapped in my mind palace cuz I swear I've dreamt of the same made-up building several times now I just keep ending up in there...this time I saw the roofs pool/jacuzzi floor which I had to leave cuz a couple wouldn't stop making out next to me so I wandered into Another area and found a room entirely made with pillow furniture, like a pillow lamp a pillow dresser etc and 2 people lived in it but they were fighting and 1 left which apparently meant I lived there now. so I pointed to the giant bed and said "can I lie down there" and the other person very nervously said they have to strip it first and that "our beds are really onky here to hide something" so I was like "wtf does that mean" and they replied "massive stain. impossible to clean out. in the floors. on the walls" and That's when my body said ok. time to wake tf up

[thyandrawrites]

Dabi after the end finds one of his siblings coffee mugs, stares them dead in the eyes, then knocks it over before pulling out one he sto- I mean bought as gift. It’s become a rather annoying habit of his on their birthdays XD

counterpoint: post-canon Touya enters his dad's office, clears his throat. Enji doesn't look up from his laptop. Touya clears his throat again. Enji is too absorbed into his work to pay attention to him. The feline urge to cause problems on purpose rears its head within Touya, and he knocks over everything on his father's desk, then sits on his keyboard and types a string of nonsense with his butt. Enji is finally paying attention. Touya grins and walks away

[safyresky]

So we've been doing this really cool project at work that I HAVE to gush about for you all because it's really, really, really cool!

I work at a Rare Books and Special Collections library, and we have a LOT of very cool collections! One of the COOLEST ones has to be the Gothic Fantasy collection. Gothic Fantasy is, I believe, 60-80 boxes of pulp sci-fi/fantasy magazines that range from the 1920s all the way through to the 1960s/70s. Titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Sci-Fi Stories (which has changed it's title like, 20 times over the last century, I have learnt) are contained in this collection, in near full runs! We have had this collection for 50-60 years, and it is not catalogued.

(^Some of my favourite covers that I've seen so far while doing this project! I really, really, really love that string bean tin can man from Mercury lmao).

Sure, we have a finding aid for it; but given the nature of the storage (in a spare room that's not even a proper VAULT SPACE, in a set of banker's boxes), the finding aid is not the most reliable. It does the trick! but every time we have a class using the GF collection, we always end up being either A) unable to locate a few titles or, B) we find them in the wrong box.

There are, of course, many reasons for it not being catalogued yet: lack of manpower/staff, lack of space, time (hearkening back to the staff issue), and, of course, the BIG ONE: the condition of the magazines.

They're made with pulp paper, and that shit does NOT slap. It basically collapses in on itself bc of the high acid, and makes the magazines very brittle and delicate. We technicians fear having to grab titles from Gothic Fantasy because the titles LITERALLY crumble in your hands. See for yourselves:

That's just one of the boxes. They all look like that, with the edges of the magazines brittle and frayed, and, as you can see in the bottom of the box, pieces falling off and pooling underneath it all.

I don't know how long the department has been in talks about rehousing the GF Collection in a way that helps preserve it better, but in the two years and a bit that I've been there, it's been on the front burner. The conservation staff, along with our curator, worked together to get this project ready to go, after a TON of meetings and conservation reassessing each box and marking some as higher priority than others. FINALLY, for our FIRST EVER two week closure for projects like this, we were able to start rehousing GF and that's what I've been doing ALL WEEK! And it's been so fucking cool, guys.

We've been sliding most of them into magazine sleeves (approved by the con. staff) with appropriate backings. As we go along, we've numbered each box (in which we will be storing them flat, on top of one another) and given each item in the box an item number. A very simple numbering system that will make finding the specific titles SO MUCH EASIER.

There's a set outside of the box. We've been trying to order them by date (if possible lmao. we ran into an issue (pun intended) with the British editions: they don't actually have volume and issue numbers, nor do they have dates! They have copyright dates and that's what we've been going off lmao), that way when we rehouse them they're all close to if not in the same run (so the 40s together to the best of our abilities, then the 50s, and so on). We're also going title by title! We've started with Amazing Stories, as it's one of the larger ones in bad enough condition it's up there in priority, and it has taken us ALL WEEK to (nearly) finish them up!

Anyway, once we organize them we grab a group (we fit roughly 6-8 of the large, long ones in one box; 12-14 of the slightly smaller ones in one box, and nearly 30 of the tiniest ones in one box), and we find them in our spreadsheet, update info.make sure the info provided is correct, number them on the backboard, slide them into the pouch with the backboard, and then voila! Into the fancy new box they go! I don't have a decent picture of the box, but the bottom portion, one of the edges slides out which will make things SO MUCH EASIER to find. It also will keep the magazines from deteriorating even FASTER because now, when we search for an issue, we won't be touching them directly; they'll be safely enclosed, and should we need to slide them out for a class, the board will offer extra support for movement purposes :)

Look at how happy they look in their new magazine houses! 🤩🤩🤩

And there they are resting together in their new homes!!

Tomorrow we should be finishing the last boxes of Amazing Stories! The final two are these HUGE quarterly editions, were they mushed a bunch of issues together in one, and they are in VERY BAD SHAPE (see: big ass tealish greenish aquaish one in the photo above on the left). They don't fit in any of our bag sizes, so Conservation may have to make custom enclosures for them. However, the Conservator actually thought of a potential workaround that I'm gonna experiment with tomorrow to see if we can use our colibri stuff in tandem with the backings to perhaps give them a bit more support/happy homes :)

Long post is long, but this is really cool and I've been DYING to gush about it, and I know a couple of mutuals will really appreciate stuff like this!

You can follow the library on Instagram, as an aside! I don't run the insta, lmao, but the person who does is HELLA active and always sharing really cool stuff! We even have a spotlight on the Gothic Fantasy collection!