The Bright Side

My name is Andrew. This is my unorganized menagerie of things that interest me. You're more than you believe. You are so much more. Believe in yourself. Do you really need to see my face? tagged #me

[firefox-chronicles]

goodbye cishet 🖕

Haven’t touched this website in years, and this is what I come back to?I’m not even straight anymore thanks to the last few years. Cool.

[wheremyscalesslither]

Introducing: the Bowl Booster hide! This useful tool will lift up your waterbowl and provide a snug hiding space underneath. It’s a great space saver, allowing for more room to furnish and provide other enrichment items for your reptile! They feature: a recessed slot to place the waterbowl so it doesnt move, a smooth interior for easy clean up, and a non-slip bottom edge for perfect placement in your habitat! The small ones are 4-5 inches tall, with an 8-9 inch diameter. The large ones are 6-7 inches tall with an 11-12 inch diamater (they are handmade so they vary slightly).

I’m currently trying to develop them so they are lasting, marketable, and economic for myself as well as the purchaser. It takes 7 hours to make just one. The plastic bowls run at $1 for the hideous small ones and approximately 5-10 dollars for the large bowls. Im having trouble finding nicer small bowls that are uniform and subtle in color. im also having trouble finding affordable larger bowls that look nice. So if anyone has suggestions that would be great.

As of right now I can’t see myself selling them lower than $20 for a small and $30 for a large- that will include the plastic bowls to ensure they fit the hide. It depends on if i can get my hands on cheaper bowls.

What do you think?

[firefox-chronicles]

Cashier: can't scan a broken barcode on a product

Millennial: oh no shall I get a new one??

baby boomer: I guess it's free ha ha ha!!!!

[thethroneofbooks]

“ In August, 1968, the country was still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King four months earlier, and the race riots that followed on its heels. Nightly news showed burning cities, white flight, radicals and reactionaries snarling at each other across the cultural divide.

“A brand new children’s show out of Pittsburgh, which had gone national the previous year, took a different approach. Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood introduced Officer Clemmons, a black police officer who was a kindly, responsible authority figure, kept his neighborhood safe, and was Mr. Roger’s equal, colleague and neighbor.

“Around the first anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death, Mr. Rogers invited Officer Clemmons to join him in soaking their tired feet in a plastic wading pool. And there they were, brown feet and pasty white feet, side by side in the water. Silently, contemplatively, without comment.

“25 years later, when the actor playing Officer Clemmons retired, his last scene on the show revisited that same wading pool, this time reminiscing. Officer Clemmons asked Mr. Rogers what he’d been thinking during their silent interlude a quarter century before. Fred Rogers’ answer was that he’d been thinking of the many ways people say “I love you.”

- Carl Aveni’s FB page

[harrygodzilla]

Mr Rogers was one of the good ones.

[apaullo95]

^^^^^

[knitmeapony]

Considering the fraught and painful history of excluding black people from swimming pools in that era, there is no way this wasn’t a very pointed commentary to the people who were being exclusionary.  This was a specifically chosen visual.

It’s not a fuck-you.  Mr. Rogers didn’t do fuck-yous.  But it was a clear, decisive, pointed statement.  It was more than just showing inclusion; it was a deliberate response to what was going on in the world.  This was him saying “you can do better.  We can all do better.  What you are doing is wrong.”  This was a sweet, simple, and relatable thing to show little kids, to give them a view of a black man as kind and professional and a trusted adult – but also a lovely and strong statement to their parents and to the world.

It could have lost him his show, or at least his national distribution.  It could have gotten him attacked both in the news and personally in person, but he did it anyway.  I wish I knew if he ever talked about this, and how aware he and the show producers were of the statement this made.

Man, do we need more Fred Rogers in the world.

[archbishop-bisharp]

The Rotom Dex makes me uncomfortable.

[firefox-chronicles]

tag game !! Rules: you have to tag 20 followers you want to get to know better.

I was tagged by @glittervial

Gender: male Star Sign: aries but stars dont mean anything Height: 5'6″ Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual, Panromantic Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff (loyal af) Favorite Color: purple... all kinds. lavender, burgundy, violet, etc. Favorite animal: I love red pandas the most, and I have owned and loved many dogs, but I have made friends with reptiles, birds, and cats. I gotta meet more. Average hours of sleep:probably 6-8 Cat or dog person: PUPPIES Favorite Fictional Characters: Lugia, Harry Dresden, Karrin Murphy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, Valentine Wiggin, Aang, Toph, Sunny Baudelaire, Gadzooks Number of blankets I sleep with: I always need a blanket on me to sleep, usually a sheet, but no more than 2 Favorite Singer/Band: Fred LeBlanc/Cowboy Mouth Dream trip: The one wonder I want to see; I want to be in a high altitude place and look out in all directions without anything manmade in sight. Preferably in the cold. Dream job: i dont know yet When was this blog made?: um… 2012sh? Number of followers: 102 What made you decide to create this blog?: @dinneratgrannys

[userboxer]

[jokeboy-deactivated20260221]

ok a giraffe but… horse sized with a mario character extending from the ass

[miedriwesley]

What?!!!

[butt-berry]

[miedriwesley]

Oh

[bkdk]

straight girls who fetishize gay boys and straight boys who fetishize gay girls are ultimately canceled. no take backs.

[bkdk]

due to popular demand, all straights are canceled.

[bkdk]

everyone who keeps reblogging this keeps telling me to “stop kink shaming” like listen the fuck up: my sexuality is not a fucking kink.

[koishis]

“all straights are cancelled” im gonna assume thats a joke

[dummydrum]

its not they are all cancelled for real.

[firefox-chronicles]

Well it was nice knowing you all but I’ve been cancelled I apologise for being cishet goodbye forever everybody

[inprogresspokemon]

Someone requested a masterpost of all my Dual Type/Hybrid Eeveelutions, which I thought was a great idea! You can also find them on the Extras page of my Pokemon Index.

Soluneon Dark/Psychic

Tundreon Grass/Ice 

Lureon Water/Dark

Kindleon Grass/Fire

??????? Dark/Fairy

Floeon Ice/Water

Plasmeon Fire/Electric

Thermeon Ice/Fire

??????? Water/Grass

[bob-belcher]

[catwithbenefits]

Animal Crossing GET OUT

[artemuscain-gamingandbs]

Legend of Zelda GET A FAKE IDENTITY

[werewolfviking]

Donkey Kong IT’S BEHIND YOU

[eronthebender]

Metroid FLEE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE

[pastrygeckos]

Good job Donut, nobody can see you there

[akumanorobin]

VinnyLaugh.mp4

[nocontextvinesauce]

vinny fucking dies

[ask-me-about-loom]

he sounds like he’s physically receding into his body

[micdotcom]

Samantha Bee offers an empowering message for all the “nasty women” out there after Trump’s win

[libraford]

Remember that time when Pence made a last minute decision to not sign an application for a grant that would have made preschool in Indiana more accessible and help fix our crumbling infrastructure?

[libraford]

Remember that stern letter that a bunch of big businesses in Indiana wrote to Pence because he signed a law that was discouraging business from both within and without the state of Indiana?

[libraford]

Oh, and that time that Pence caused an HIV outbreak in rural Indiana because the only clinic that did HIV testing was a Planned Parenthood and his fixation on defunding reproductive rights caused it to close- even though that particular clinic didn’t even offer abortion services?

[libraford]

And then there’s the “Pence Must Go” signs all over central Indiana…

[libraford]

And who could forget the time that he planned on using taxpayer dollars to fund a news outlet because he couldn’t control the negative image surrounding him from the press.

[libraford]

What about the time that the FEC had to rewrite laws to prevent challenging candidates from using campaign funds for personal use because Mike Pence used 30% of his campaign funds on mortgage payments and golf tournaments?

[libraford]

And who else remembers when they were giving states a chance to individually tailor their Clean Energy laws to fit the needs of the state and Pence just said ‘no’ and didn’t offer any alternative?

[libraford]

Hey, what about that time that Pence stated that condoms were ‘too modern’ of a solution to HIV and STI prevention and that abstinence was the best choice?

Remember also that 49% of pregnancies in Indiana are unintended, and that out of 1000 teenagers, an average of 49 will become pregnant before they age of 19. And that STI cases have reached record rates for the state of Indiana.

[libraford]

Oh! Remember when Pence went against the advice of legal professionals and signed a good number of laws that mean that you are classified as a drug dealer (whether proven or not) if you are found with a certain quantity of drugs in your possession, and increased the minimum sentence to ten years- even when it was argued by many legal sources that the best way to combat drug use is rehabilitation and not incarceration?

[libraford]

How about the time that he campaigned heavily against raising the minimum wage to match neighboring states, even though an overwhelming majority of Hoosiers polled said that they support a $9/hr wage and approximately 93000 residents of the state bring home less than $300 a week?

[lillivati]

Or that time he stripped the office of state superintended of all its meaningful power because he didn’t like who won.  (More.)

That person being Glenda Ritz, who by the way, received more votes than Pence.

[libraford]

Of course, I thought that it needed no mention, but who could ever forget the national embarrassment that was the RFRA laws, which allowed business-owners to refuse service to people if they felt ‘religiously burdened,’ which essentially boiled down to discriminating people who are part of the LGBTQ community. 

[libraford]

And you know I’d love to rant about Mike Pence all day long, but for those of you who want a more comprehensive list of how incompetent he’s been as our governor, this one sums it up pretty nicely and has sources! 

[libraford]

Oh, but don’t take my word for it: here’s another masterpost of all this and more. 

[libraford]

And just in case you thought he was done being awful- how about the time that Pence and Trump made a visit to Louisiana despite the fact that politicians were asked NOT to visit the flooded areas for essentially photo ops because its a further strain on resources? Meanwhile, South Bend IN is currently experiencing a flood where a visit would not be a negative impact the resources, but a photo op in Baton Rouge is more important somehow. 

[libraford]

Also seemingly less important than an unwelcome photo op is the soil in East Chicago, IN- which has a lead content 30 times what is considered unsafe levels for children to be in contact with. This comes from a man whose initial decision not to run for President was based on his ‘need to focus on his home state.’ 

[libraford]

Of course, everyone remembers how the RFRA, a law that was written in the spirit of LGBTQ discrimination, was strongly protested but signed anyway. No one could have possibly guessed that people would try to use it to justify child abuse- except for literally every person who protested. 

[libraford]

But to put a little more levity in this post, Purvi Patel’s sentence of feticide has been reduced to ‘child neglect’ and she’s out of jail. So that’s good news! 

Of course, injustices like these haven’t stopped radical anti-choice laws from being signed in during the entire run of the controversy. 

[soul-angelos-deactivated2023102]

Dark times all around but there are still people out there who love you

Do not hurt yourself, do not hurt others, get help, talk to someone, anyone. Humanity has survived before and we can do it now if we all just support each other. My country and my people let me down and endangered my life but there’s nothing I or anyone else can do about that so let’s try to spread the love that is so clearly lacking.