Kin Without Rules @dollykins - Tumblr Blog

Welcome.

This is a kin blog and completely unconnected sideblog, so activity may be rare. Main has been removed for security.

Our host and main poster is:

Sebastian

Base: fictive of Sebastian Michaelis from Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler

Kins: bjd, weirdcore persona, wolf, fox, kitsune, porcelain doll, neko/cat

Tag: #sebastian ⛧

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Other posters may include: Toby (#toby 🪓🔥), Mangle (#mangle 🤍🦊), and Ciel (#ciel 💜💎).

Others will have similar signoff tags if they post.

spibder

me after whacking my old college friend in the head wit a pipe

ackee

someone rbing a post from me: #oh my goddd this is just like my ocs zapa and trunky

me on their blog now looking for pics of zapa and trunky:

strawberyz

Happy pride to them <3 ( soft jam save e me soft jam )

They're so cringefailures I love them ...

raviolbowl

I wish they were happy 😢

cicadasmoth

Im mentally unwell about them

byjove

One thing that pisses me off is people seeing fish in aquariums (the establishments, not home aquariums) and being like “It’s so sad because the ocean is so big and the tank is so small and they’ll never know freedom blah blah blah-“ I’m not talking about sharks and marine mammals here but the majority of fish are not at all bothered by being in an aquarium instead of the open ocean. Like, I personally would love to be a little clown fish in one of those big reef tanks. Fed regularly. Whole team of people monitoring my health and well-being. No predators. Medicated if I show signs of illness. Aquarium fish have cushy gigs in comparison to their wild companions.

byjove

I saw someone say this about a blue lobster that was wild caught and brought to an aquarium. Like dude. It’s a lobster. They’re solitary sedentary creatures. They live in little crevices and they don’t move from them often. They abhor other creatures. Also, this lobster is distinctly bad at being a lobster because it is bright neon blue. I don’t think he’s yearning for the open sea. He’s probably yearning for his next mussel. Which is, coincidentally, the same thing he’d be doing if he wasn’t in an aquarium.

queerscout

Once when I worked at an aquarium in the Pacific North West a visitor stopped me to talk about how sad she was to see all these animals in tanks. (This is surprisingly common from visitors.) She mentioned the sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) in particular. They were her favorite, and she used to see them all the time while diving locally and suddenly there were none, but we had them and that just didn't seem right.

We ended up having a lengthy conversation about how a disease, sea star wasting syndrome (SSWS), decimated the wild populations of that species and many sea stars a few years prior and how that aquarium was actually one of the few in the country exhibiting Pycnopodia that didn't lose their entire population to the disease. We talked about some of the research that was happening to help protect them and she started to feel a little better. She wanted to feel like it was okay for her to visit the aquarium and that she wasn't just staring at caged animals.

Pycnopodia are now listed as critically endangered. They are a keystone species in their environment and SSWS is estimated to have killed 90% of the wild population. Without them, the shores of the entire west coast have changed. Now, ten years later, that same aquarium was the first to establish a successful treatment for the disease. Before that, most aquariums had the protocol to remove symptomatic animal and generally had to euthanize them because nothing could be done. Within a matter of days, they were completely melted. Now, there is a treatment. It's not a cure, but there's hope that something can be done. That same aquarium is also part of efforts to work towards reintroducing Pycnopodia to the wild to help restore the ecosystems.

People have started to understand that zoos work in conservation and education, but aquariums do, too. We talk about the California condor and black footed ferret as success stories and Panamanian golden frogs and rhinos as works in progress, but aquariums are doing that same kind of work! There are coral conservation labs, efforts to reintroduce wild animals and remove invasives (looking at you, Florida), housing of non-releasable marine mammals, research into new medical procedures and treatments, and breeding of endangered species. The fish (and inverts!) in aquariums have an easy life, and might even be part of something so much bigger.

This is your permission to feel good about visiting reputable aquariums! Enjoy looking at the pretty, and not so pretty, fish (and inverts! please give the little sea bugs some love), and know that your admission is helping to keep them healthy and well cared for, and might even lead to something that can change the world.

abandonedpoolz

People here bang on the walls late at night People here, their smiles are all growing teeth People here, they're here to die Can you help me get out of the city?

starbreak

Piece I made for @theslenderversezine back in 2023

mudwisard

my trick for getting through grad school is learning to navigate the quadrants with all their nuances

gogogoat495

[Image ID: A graph with four quadrants:

(you can do it x don't give up): you will prevail. you have all the necessary skills to pull this off.

(you can do it x give up): you don't have to prove anything to anyone. let yourself rest.

(you can't do it x don't give up): the only way to learn is by failing. you will get the hang of it, but for now just push through.

(you can't do it x give up): know your limits. not everything is your burden to bear. walk out. /End ID]

conspiracyofcrazy

elisamaza

Pizza delivery drivers of Reddit, what are some of the craziest reasons people have ended up on the “no delivery list”?

gameryamen

I worked for a pizza place that was near a very large software company. Deliveries to the neighborhoods or offices where all the tech workers lived was usually pretty awesome because they'd tip rather well. But there was one apartment that started to become a concern for us drivers. The man ordering was always polite, always paid, always tipped $4, and he would have been a perfect customer. He'd order breadsticks and a salad twice a week, and sometimes he'd include a bottle of root beer. Except when he opened his door, you could see an alarming amount of our breadsticks boxes stacked everywhere inside. Not like a few on the counter and a couple by the trash, stacks and stacks of them. Even worse, it was only our boxes in there. He wasn't just ordering from us often, we were the only place he was getting food outside of work. Now, I've worked in some of those tech offices myself, I know that there's enough decent food options just hanging out in the break rooms that this guy was probably not malnourished, but the way his living space was a shrine of greasy cardboard was a clear sign that this guy didn't have a healthy relationship with our food. Our manager was a really cool dude though, and he heard the drivers joking about the boxes and asked a couple of us "Is this like a messy guy or a guy who needs help?" We agreed it was probably the latter. So on his day off, the manager went to the guys apartment with an envelope that had gift cards for several other restaurants that delivered in that area and chatted with him. Manager found out that the guy was an immigrant on a Visa who was struggling to find American food he liked, and too socially awkward to ask anyone. So he talked with him through a few menus and helped him with some recommendations. Then he helped the guy load all the old boxes into his truck to take to the dump, in exchange for a promise not to order from us more than once a week. For a little while, the manager had a note on the calendar showing the last time the guy had ordered, and a couple times he had to hold his ground and refuse the guy's order. But after that chat, I never saw the stacks of boxes again, and the guy would boast about the different meals he'd had.

what the fuck dude, this is so sweet.