#or a fish pond maybe

[mspoodle1]

Moving on...Winter activities at the Festival lot.

[guinevereslancelot]

a koi pond for your dash:

❀ 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 ༄ ❀ 𓆝 𓆟 ༄ ❀ 𓆞 𓆝 ❀ ༄ ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads / storygraph

Translation State

space opera, standalone companion to the Ancillary Justice trilogy that follows three characters:

a reluctant diplomat whose dead grandparent left hir an impossible task as inheritance, to track down a fugitive from 200 years ago

an adopted mechanic who wants to learn about the culture he came from

and a young Presger learning to act human and become an intermediary between cultures who realises e might not want the life that’s been laid out for em

their lives collide and they become entangled in interplanetary politics

[cordeliawhohung]

"thanks for taking care of her"

i saw a ghost on my way home from work the other night. she didn't realize she was dead yet, sitting on the edge of the road with mangled hind legs, but she was still beautiful. sleek brown fur, expressive ears and dark eyes, she used her front legs to crawl away from me when i approached her. her fear was so potent i could smell it on her; it seeped out of her wounds. she tried to run, like she didn't understand she was already dead.

she reminded me a lot of myself. pavement and a fast moving object is just as unforgiving to deer as it is to humans. i wondered if i would have turned out like her had the person who hit me not stopped to help. i wondered if the person who hit her thought she was less worthy of comfort than me. maybe they called her stupid for being too scared to run. maybe they thought she deserved it. so i stayed with her. watched her as she dragged herself off of the road and into the ditch where she exhausted herself to the point where she laid her head on the ground and refused to raise it again.

i wondered if i had seen her before. out in the fields i always walked in during the summer. maybe she had a growing fawn out in the barley field. maybe she never got the chance to love something. and i felt ashamed for caring for something already dead when i am guilty of caring for killers. trembling hands comforting a gutted bird does not change the fact that i fed the claws that ripped a life apart.

eventually, someone came for her. when you're hunting for food, a .308 is sufficient for most game. when you're killing a ghost, a .44 gets the job done alright. i wasn't there when the shot rang out. i was long down the road, driving by a small herd of deer grazing in someone's field. i wondered if they knew she was gone. i wondered if they cared at all. i wondered if they would return next year and feed on the grass that was nourished by their sisters blood. maybe they could taste her memories if they did. i wondered if they would see me through her eyes. i wondered if she thought i was kind, or saw me as just another creature with sharp teeth.

but she was already dead. she had been for quite some time. and the last words her ghost heard were me thanking the deputy for taking care of her.

[mossymenagerieart]

Hey guys how do we feel about a mermaid malevolent AU 👀 I am cooking up a fanfic with a friend and once I edit the first chapter I’ll post it on here :]

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: February 26

“Diamonds in the Mud” by Gerry Cinnamon

[geraskier]

read all about it! very shy snail hides all day, contemplates and declines to take outdoor expedition next day

[image description: a white mystery snail with a brown striped shell in a pineapple house aquarium decoration. in the first image, the snail hangs upside down in the doorway with its long antennae curled up by its eyestalks. in the second, the snail has moved further into the decoration. in the third image, one of the snail's antenna is sticking out of an upper window of the house.]

[toytulini]

dont get mad at me this is a subjective opinion but like. like i enjoy stardew a lot and this is by no means a criticism, more of like. just a Wish.

I want a game very similar to stardew valley in terms of play and "difficulty" but animated/artstyle like, botw.

[darksouls2yuri]

if the tanks ARE okay to hold water instead of selling them i talked to danno about setting them up in his office. hes iffy about it but he likes fish and i know i could make him a cool guppy tank. boomer dads love guppies i know this in my heart.

[phantaloon]

i be so surprised when i do things i enjoy and find joy in them what is wrong with me

[deivorous]

..

[threnodians]

i'm trying to catch ornamental fish in genshin and i've legitimately gone to every goddamn fishing spot and NONE of them are spawning ornamental fish

[littlefoxgw2]

[personal rambles, feel free to skip:]

so in the last six months:

struggled to find a place to live before my lease expired, thought i might have to move back with toxic family or relatives i don't know in a city i don't like

found a place and moved two weeks before deadline with lots of stress

couldn't connect internet for two months & missed entire GW2 LNY festival (my favourite festival)

troubles with details about moving & feel my new landlord already doesn't like me and feel i shouldn't let her know my heater-a/c system isn't heating properly, which is bad because it's winter now

struggling to de-stress after moving hell ≧ ﹏ ≦

15 y.o. cat is sick and needs vet or possibly to be put out of her misery, but cat is my best friend and i haven't been able to make the appointment yet (┬┬﹏┬┬)

anxiety is at all-time high making sleeping through the night impossible and anxiety/sleep-deprivation is causing weight loss that is hard to manage & trichotillomania (sp?) is horrendous right now

thinking of making a cat side blog to share pics of my beloved kitties and maybe be less stressed a little ಥ_ಥ

trying to do more gw2 & post screenshots to beat back depression apathy with a stick

so, me rn:

i will post cat updates if anyone wants after the vet appt. i will post more screenshots as i take them and reblog what i see. (i am not following a lot of gw2 people so i will look for more to follow & reblog.) i am almost finished aurene's fang which will make me happy, also working on story returns & other semi-abandoned legendary projects, including spear collection because land spears??👀

[sameteeth]

koyo and hirotsu hang out and smoke weed together and talk shit i just know it. koyo tells chuuya not to smoke but he steals her weed to smoke w dazai for a month before she notices

[happynewyear-99]

figured i'd share this eventually

[makeroomforthejolyghost]

have been realizing that the work ethic current scrollege encourages is kinda. poisonous to the way my brain works and that that's probably why i've rarely enjoyed intellectual tasks and have felt like garbage about myself as a creative entity ever since i transferred here

and also that this is my penultimate quarter here and that after i graduate in the spring i actually get to leave

as in, am not actually stuck here forever???

that whne i complain about feeling like this place disincentivizes actually engaging w/ the material we study by giving us so many assignments so fast that for someone w/ crap executive function like me, the main intellectual activity involved in school work is "sorting out which readings and assignments i actually Need to do and which ones it would be more prudent to skip for the sake of time." and other people respond like "haha yeah it sucks but you just gotta learn to bullshit! it's an important life skill"

i don't have to take for granted that they're right and i'm being an immature idealist

i can just fucking ignore them!!!!!