#same with fish tanks

[agentsquirrelsgotrobots]

Amazon.com : Prevue Pet Products Parakeet Manor Bird Cage with Handle for Home or Travel : Pet Supplies

I am so tempted to buy this just for the seekers-are-small-birbs joke.

But, I will get it second hand so I don't support bird abuse.

(I might end up building my own)

[mod2amaryllis]

sad to go to work tomorrow cuz it's my second to last day :(

[thatskindarough]

Aziraphale and Crowley ❤️❤️

[sodaquail]

you could not comprehend my level of toxic yaoi right about now

[here-there-be-drag0ns]

the devil couldn't reach me so he infected me with a temporary obsession with the most toxic yaoi crackship the jrwi fandom has ever seen. oh gods above its latched onto my brain and injected me with venom and i know not when it will wear off.

[abyssalzones]

saw your gravity falls post a while ago and thought of this.

tldr, fiddleford got ford a pet axolotl because its frills reminded him of his sideburns (and named it frilliam), but since bill detested it so much he set it free. probably fucked up an ecosystem but that’s not important

anyway.

posted about this here already. one of the biggest highlights of the website's extra pages for sure

I hate that triangle.

[starstruckseance]

i think about the satosugu beta fish far more than is healthy like damn they really was foreshadowing that one would be the others demise

[carefulfears]

how do you see mulder leaving in season 9? scully giving up william? how do they deal with these things? (their guilt, resentment, futility, etc)

i know i have a realllllllly unpopular opinion on all of this but as i've said recently, i just don't think there's anything easier on earth to convince mulder of than "things are safer if you're not here."

i usually come back to doggett's confusion in the beginning, the way he keeps asking and arguing and scully just keeps saying "he's gone" and shutting it down, until the end of the premiere when he realizes: "oh my god. it was scully. scully made him go."

god, it's sad. it's hard to talk about. i teared up trying to write this, as much as i am fonder of the storyline than most. i don't find it unrealistic or out of character or unfitting of the narrative. it doesn't mean i don't feel it's heartbreaking. i have such a hard time thinking of mulder missing that baby. not even having the chance to put up a fight, walking back into empty rooms. the show as a tragedy, finding your burden again, etc. the x-files as the gap between teary smiles at baby kicks to screams in a jail cell. as what it was in the beginning: unknowable answers to insurmountable grief.

and i just think about mulder's dramatic emails, writing that he doesn't think he can survive being away from them. spender looking at the baby and telling scully he's heard "so much" about him. mulder being tortured by soldiers, saying he's just thinking about his son. keeping 1 baby photo for 15 years. "i just missed both of you so much."

scully's fertility treatments and her prayers and her tears and her "last chance" and her miracle. and how deeply unfair it is, what happened to her. i don't think a single one of us could say what we could do if people kept breaking into our homes to suffocate a child we were still nursing. she didn't ever want to do it alone, that was never the plan.

but scully desperately wants to keep everybody safe. she thinks she’s keeping everybody safe. it’s hard to be starbuck. it's this conflict i keep talking about recently where you really start to notice how controlled she is by fear, how difficult it is for her to balance it all. my favorite visual on this is the gate at the house in i want to believe: every day the way she pulls up to it, gets out, opens it, pulls through, stops, gets out, closes it. repeat in reverse. and then she comes home and she says "the truth is, i worry about you." and that he's too isolated. turns around and shuts the door, leaves the house and locks the gate.

i wrote a bit a few weeks ago about scully's protectiveness and it made me think about what a trap it can be, how defending lends to fear and fear lends to defeat. to standing in a church 25-years deep and saying "i failed." in the tags of that post i asked "could they ever recover from her exiling him from being with their child because she was afraid it would kill him?" and said i don't know. and i don't, i don't know.

but i think there's something so brave in saying: i did the best i could, and maybe that wasn't right. it's why ghouli is one of my favorite episodes. scully sobbing to her son that she's sorry. she's sorry he doesn't know them. she wanted him, they loved him. "i was trying to keep you safe. i hope you know that." and she thought she was being strong, but maybe she was wrong.

things don't always shake out the way you want them to. it was always mulder that called their son a miracle, and mulder doesn't believe in miracles. mulder believes in the world, and the search, and the after.

[phobiaexists]

*points* fellow fish enjoyer (and Albedo enjoyer lmao)

YIPPEE YIPPEE YIPPEE POINTING AT YOU AS WELL (also fellow Boothill enjoyer even if I don’t know much about Honkai lore EEEE)

Got done cleaning out some of the duckweed and feeding him earlier so he’s just following the phone curious and probably thinking I’m sticking around to feed him more lmao

He’s technically not my betta but I’m the only one in the family who actually knows more on keeping fish so yeah mine at this point SJHXEJDJE

[caesarsaladinn]

in other aquarium news, I think the saltwater tank at work grew a second tunicate while I was away. fucking strange--I didn't know they could get that big in a week, and where did it come from in the first place? did the original tunicate breed with something? does this mean there were tiny tunicate larvae* in the tank??

*the creepiest things in nature, to me

[clown-astronaut]

shin soukoku

[attractthecrows]

entertaining myself by inflicting bastard children on my faves

[sga-owns-my-soul]

anyways this is your friendly seasonal reminder that pets are not fun toys and they are living beings that require A LOT of work and even more money to care for and to make absolutely sure everyone involved is ready for the commitment this holiday season if you're getting pets as a gift

shelters are already overrun because people can't afford to care for their pets and it always gets worse in the new year when all the christmas pets get surrendered so please please please think things through before getting a pet

[maple-writes]

At work right now and keep hearing the distinct sound of pebbles hitting each other from where the fish in the work aquarium are busy pushing the pebbles around.

[joelletwo]

crying and sobbing when i have to talk to first-time fish owners and gently corral them into the least murdery setup i can while an experienced fish regular waits for me to be done so i can help them and is hearing every word i tell the first customer

[thenarrativefoil]

WHY ARE MY AQUARIUM PLANTS DYING (⁠ ⁠⚈̥̥̥̥̥́⁠⌢⁠⚈̥̥̥̥̥̀⁠)