trepidation of the spheres

General reblogger with comments. I like Mass Effect, Pacific Rim, Dragon Age, Fallen London, WTNV, spiders (I will tag spiders); scaley things of every description; trying not to be a dick to people. My blog title comes from a John Donne poem, my icon is an owl in a (Extraordinary) top hat. What more can you ask for?  (f / USA / bi / chronically ill / gamer/ secretly a peacock spider).             If you're curious, the original art for my icon can be found here.

[herpsandbirds]

[pietruszko]

Lamassu and Apsasu family ^^

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

These are my aquariums, the gold rimmed one is 100l and the black rimmed is a 64l corner tank (so like... 23 gal and 16 gal if ive done the conversions right) they are 2 and 1 years old respectively, and have more or less the same plants. Lots of stems in the back, mainly limnophilia, ludwigia palustris super red, altheranea reiinikki, a bunch of anubias and an assortment of crypts and mosses. Floaters are red root floaters and salvinia minima, i also have some amazon frog bits but my tetras keep the roots very short. I started with just one anubias and some limnophilia, and then have accumulated more and more through different swaps and sales at my local shop :)

The 16 gal used to house my betta but I can't manage to keep them alive for long so for now it's just a growout tank for shrimp and one juvenile bristlenose pleco.

I'd like to upgrade my big tank to 150l exclusively to fit more plants lol

Jesus Christ what a flex I’m so jealous. I assume these are CO2? I want to shrink down real small and go snorkeling in them.

Someday I want a huge tank that’s just jungle vals. I love giant grass tanks.

[rhyperographer]

My tank isn't a pretty as Nienn's but I do have a lot of val! Val Nana and Val Erecta as it's a native Australian walstad tank. It's 283L, I admire Nienn's ability to manage water quality in such small tanks.

I am currently learning with my quarantine tank and god it is so much more difficult than a large tank!

[niennasapprentice]

That tank is so cool! Very overgrown riverbed :) I wish had space for a proper big tank. For now i just have a bunch of small ones.

This is my little 7l filterless bowl with 2 male cherry shrimp and a couple ramshorn snails

And this is my 7 week old 10l waterfall shrimpbowl. It's been almost a year of planning and collecting tech, anubias cuttings and glueing rocks and wood together. I'm super happy with how it's growing in!

[tongue-twists]

if you're bored and want to do something simple but fulfilling I recommend wikisource's proofread of the month. you can help public domain works be transcribed to be more accessible for everyone! even just validating a few pages helps a lot and there's a bunch of simple guides on the site.

[onlytiktoks]

[clonerightsagenda]

I think this is just a trend everywhere but I've been very frustrated this week by how much admin work is being outsourced to me as the patient/customer.

My orthodontist tells me I can make an appointment with the surgeon. I call the surgeon. They tell me I need a new referral. I call the orthodontist. They do a referral. I call the surgeon. Referral didn't come through. They tell me about their special unique system we have to use. I call the ortho again and walk them through the referral. I call the surgeon. They say the referral was missing some details so they have to do it again. I call the ortho.

The insurance company calls me about repair shops. I give them the name of the repair shop which I already gave them yesterday. They say they're not in their system but I can use them, but I have to call the repair shop to ask them to contact the insurance company. I call the repair shop and they say the insurance company is supposed to email them.

I feel like at a certain point these constant fetch quests become unreasonable?? Is it too much to expect these groups to communicate with each other instead of making me run back and forth between them???

[clonerightsagenda]

Made this post and then the new property manager (who started on Monday and only finally emailed us today because I sent a vaguely professionally hostile email to her boss because I hadn't heard anything and was not convinced she existed) asked for a list of open action items which her predecessor should have had but apparently wasn't keeping track of, which I learned when I met her boss and provided her with the list of open action items, which I guess tragically died in a fire in the last 2 weeks since she was sitting at my kitchen table, being menaced by the skull. How many people's jobs am I doing now

[hlahlahlahlahly]

Executive Function Theft

The phrase arrived in my head so completely formed and concrete that I couldn’t believe it wasn’t already established in the lexicon, but at

[clonerightsagenda]

It has a name!!!

[dappermouth]

And then you had that dream again.

[autumnsneedle]

nobody does Black Dogs (TM) like Dappermouth i cannot overstate how much an impact your art has had on my personal visual language

tags via @gallusrostromegalus

SO true, I have been inspired for so many Cool DnD Dreamscapes as a DM by Dappermouth's art.

[pangur-and-grim]

I love you sidewalk pigeon. I will make you heir to my estate

[samimarkart]

Pigeon stack!

[myspace]

[rneowth]

hey, don't cry. superb dog-day cicada, ok?

[daftpatience]

this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this, which i have only tested at a small scale and not this final version exactly (where i have done such things as further widening the cheeks and finalizing the leg shapes.) i bestow it upon you nice folks now 👐

go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!

[daftpatience]

woah this got big!! and after another try i have another untested tweak for yall. this should help the weird pinchy side seams out. yey

[calltainn]

My first attempt! I made the pattern a bit smaller as I wanted it to be able to fit in a pocket, but then (accidentally but perhaps unavoidably) sewed it with a wider seam allowance than the resized pattern indicated, so the face is proportionally a bit too big and I lost some detail in the ear shape. I'm pleased with it though! It was fun to make something and to do some handsewing.

[daftpatience]

SOO CUTE AND TINIE 😭

[chthonink]

I tried this pattern a while back to try out some minky and I get no points for making the pattern well but looook at my boyyy

His name is Tofu. Thank you for sharing the pattern I will love him forever

[heartpeacenquiet]

art: Mac Baconai

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[blogofpointydog]

I made a ton of ceramic earth worms and this was the most pleasing way to arrange them.

[badassdemonsword]

Heated rivalry shouldve been about 2 ugly old guys that play mahjong then maybe id consider watching it

[krownest]

i don't remember them playing mahjong but they do other old man things like going to the wet market together and drinking soup and taking walks. anyway go watch suk suk / twilight's kiss

[krownest]

"ok but where's the old chinese lesbians" go watch all shall be well. it's by the same director and the old chinese lesbians are also at the market

[lizardsfromspace]

In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.

[saintofpride201]

Sesame Street's official YouTube channel is uploading the episodes for free, btw. A lot of creators are rebelling against this bullshit.

[amy-vic]

Sesame Street on PBS KIDS. Play games with Elmo, Big Bird, Abby and all of your Sesame Street friends. Watch videos and print coloring pages

As always, America, PBS has you and your kids' backs.

[scifigrl47]

I also want to put in a plug for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, spearheaded by GBH in Boston to preserve and make available public funded programming from around the country.  More than 7000 public television and radio programs are available to stream through the website, with more than 40000 hours of programming archived and available to researchers and educators through the Library of Congress and GBH itself.

https://americanarchive.org/