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Here are the projects I have going on right now! I'm going to start posting my progress on them :)

Edward Elric cosplay

Sewing a jacket from scraps of my old clothes

10 gal aquarium

Snapcube shadow fandub animation

Animation to Trainwreck by Alex Unknown

5 gallon aquarium

xxscrabiesxx-deactivated2025062

hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

Provides safety features for Android devices.

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

unexpectedyarns

And several others as well. Clear data, disable, uninstall if you can.

emlikesbugs

I looked at the 5 star reviews of this and they're very clearly chat GPT or some other nonsense. Delete and leave one star review.

journey-sidestop

Thats it. Thats the episode

CHAPTER 38 OF THE SILT VERSES... TRANS FAULKNER CONFIRMED BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY .. HIS DAD.. SO KIND AND SUPPORTIVE OF HIM (in this way, other places in the episode we learn he hasn't always been a good father). And the church of the trawler man helped faulkner get gender affirming care .. this damn podcast.

This same episode had me scared to get out of my car and go out into the night and now I'm gonna fucking cry.

#the silt verses #spoilers

emlikesbugs

Ok! Here are progress pics on my aquarium! It's inhabitants are 3 nerite snails, 10 ish green jade shrimp and 3 assassin snails (for the bladder and ramshorn snails that got in) I am planning on adding gold ring danios to the system to complete it. It is in the walstad style, so all the filtering is done by the plants. Speaking of, I've been struggling with keeping plants alive in the aquarium. I recently got a new aquarium light that has already done wonders. I'm experimenting with adding fertilizer, then I'll experiment with how long the light stays on.

This is it right now. Stay tuned for progress and whatever bullshit I do next. If you have tips, let me know :)

emlikesbugs

10 gal aquarium update!

I'm really happy with how the val is growing. I added 20 new green jade shrimp to the tank, but lost at least 5 due to a shitty acclimation job and one got stuck in the circulation pump. I added a very small internal filter to get the floating detritus out of the water column. I left it for a while because I was hoping my various clean up crews would take care of it, but there's so much at this point that it's hindering my enjoyment of the tank. The substrate is supposed to be white sand, black gravel and fluval stratum. In other news: I started putting more leaf zone (it's a liquid fertilizer) in with my weekly top-ups and the plants are not melting anymore. I haven't gotten any algae blooms. I'm also going to try amping up the amount of time the light stays on. If this causes a bloom, at least my shrimpies and snails will have plenty to eat. (Originally posted: sep 27 2022)

emlikesbugs

Another update!

I have been dealing with a hydra problem, so I've dosed the tank with Panacur-C (it's a canine dewormer) that is supposed to take care of not only hydra, but a whole host of other pests. First dose took care of most of them, but I did a second dose to get rid of any remaining hydra. If you use this medication, remove your nerite snails! It will hurt them :(. I moved mine to my nano tank while the treatment goes on. I also ordered some gold ring danios! Those should arrive next week. I'm super excited :)

emlikesbugs

Massive update today. I redid the aquarium substrate bc I had a problem with scuds, which are small white shrimp-like creatures (they look like a shrimp with their tail tucked underneath them), which I found out could be bad for my shrimp and I had a pretty massive infestation so I cleaned everything out.

Heres how it turned out. I just bought some pea pebbles to cap off the aquasoil, but I kinda hate how it looks. Almost immediately I planned to redo it again. I haven't yet, but that's because some shit has been happening lol. I received my fish in the mail, and two had died in transit. Sad but not really surprising. Then they kept dying. And kept dying, until I had none left. I was (and am) pretty upset about this, not only bc they were expensive, but because I really loved them. Turns out the pH had dipped too low, I'm still not sure exactly why but I have a few theories. The pH dip also affected my nerite snails, so I moved them back into the nano tank (they had gone back into the 10 gal after I got rid of the hydra) for some TLC. They have recovered now, but before they didn't move. and when they did, they ended up flipped upside down. I'm so relieved they're ok. I have been tinkering a bit with the tanks to make sure the pH stays where it should be (comes out of my tap ~7). Okay back to the fish, turns out I wasnt even sent gold ring danios. They sent celestial pearl. Still pretty, but literally inverse coloration and not what I wanted. So that's kinda fucking wild (I wouldn't recommend buying fish from Arizona aquatic gardens). But I went to my local fish store and they happened to have actual gold rings! I was super shocked since I've reached out to bigger places and they haven't been able to get any. I'm planning on redoing the tank again tmrw, putting in more plants and changing substrates again (it'll look more like it did originally) then going to buy those gold rings! If they happened to have sold them, they have a lot of other beautiful danio varieties. Quick things: having a bit of an issue with hair algae, but my shrimp look good!

emlikesbugs

Ooooooooooo-kay. It's been a long time. Lots of things have happened.

Quick summary: shrimp did not do well, good rings also did not do well. Bought some beautiful blue longfin zebra danios, they also ended up not doing well (maybe due to bullying), and also tried oto catfish and they did well until they didn't.

I started a new 5 gallon that has gone a lot better (will maybe make separate post about it) and have fallen in love with mystery snails.

And, of course, I have redone the tank completely.

Here's the progression of the tank before I overhauled it.

And the redo.

It's been super discouraging, failing almost every aspect of the hobby. I was so so close to just cleaning it all up and putting it away to gather dust until I "felt better." I still feel so helpless when it comes to why I can't raise these fish properly. I really do want to give up most of the time. Part of that is my mental health, which has not been great, and part of that is generally I don't believe I'm good at anything at all.

But my fear is just paralyzing me, preventing me from moving forward in either direction (towards quitting or towards learning) so in this case... What I don't touch and care for literally rots. Which makes the problem worse.

I call myself lazy, stupid, careless, heartless, anything that hurts. Thus the barrier to entry is stronger and higher. I have to surmount that guilt over all the little fish, shrimp, and snails that have died under my care to try again. And sometimes it's too much. I tell myself that no one else has this much trouble keeping some fish alive, that I must be the worst fishkeeper in history.

I'm putting this in a public forum because if there's someone else who feels hopeless about a hobby they love.. me too. And it's ok. You're not morally wrong for failing. Try to learn and be kind to yourself.

I'm also typing this out for my future self. For next time I'm lying in bed wishing it would all just go away. Remember that the sand in the water settles, it just takes a few days. Remember that the little extra effort really isn't anything at all, and is totally worth it.

Love yourself and love your hobby, as best you can

maningning-deactivated20250527

what if i *remembers that making suicide jokes is not conducive with my goal of improving the wellbeing of myself and everyone around me* transform into an oyster

ex-riddlecats

theres so much happening here

ex-riddlecats

nightlifemingus

this is probably the only sex gif i will every reblog, because for some reason i feel like it’s more than just sex. i don’t know if it’s how they’re actually looking at one another or the way they can’t get close enough. he’s actually looking at her like a person and not just a sex object.

but then again, it could be all in my head. i mean, this is how i would want it to be. but that’s just me.

matt-murderock-deactivated20210

I’m about 97% sure we’re not seeing the same gif

duckdotcom

you have to dig a hole in your living room, for easy access to the labyrinthine cave systems below rich with valuable minerals and skeletons who hate you. minecraft has taught me this much

changelingsrule

I thought this was about living in Paris.

duckdotcom

same thing basically

peanutsandbitterstep

The juxtaposition of "surround yourself only with people who inspire you! you're a leader! you're god's specialist boy!"

and

"not everyone can become the 3rd Highest Salesman for 2 Non-Consecutive months in a calendar year"

tiniestmousegirl

khancrackers

batsandboba

is anyone else in ohio satanic and chained up or is it just me and this guy who keeps howling

guooey

thinking about the 81 year old man who came into the shop today with a shirt that read "BIKESEXUAL [insert raw skeleton on a motorcycle] I'LL RIDE JUST ABOUT ANYTHING"