#our hellsite

[ourtalechara]

Tumblr staff every few months

[icarus-suraki]

[ttyls]

i've been here since 2013 or 2014 (it's been so long that i can't even remember) this is the first time i'm a little nervous this site will fall apart 🥹

[magpiedminx]

Today's cardio:

Take two gerbils and put them in their travel carrier. Fortunately, they're very good-natured about being picked up.

Take their travel carrier and put it in the bathtub .. so I don't have to listen to their scritching on the plastic if they get impatient to be let out. (Typically about three minutes after confinement.) The sound has a remarkably similar effect as metal scraping along metal to me. The bathtub because if they somehow escape the carrier, they're not going far.

Back to the dining room and take out about 25L of fluff from the condo and dump it into a box on the ground. Most of it makes it inside.

Remove all toys / tools / hidey / wheel for cleaning.

Shake the 15lb cage to get rid of 98% of the remaining fluff. Then brush out the rest with a paper towel.

Clean down the wires/shelves/ramps with dawn/water solution. (They complain about that scent the least.)

Go clean the toys / tools / hidey / wheel and re-oil the wheel with olive oil.

Put about 20L of fluff back into the condo, re-add the toys / tools / hidey / wheel.

Put towel over top so they feel safer on the top floor.

Clean water bottle and food bowl, refill food bowl, add pumpkin seed bribes to the mix.

Release the kraken, er, release John and Smith back into their nice clean condo.

Two gerbils declare they're running away and they're leaving a one-star yelp review after talking to my manager.. and.. Oh, wait.. are those pumpkin seeds? Well, maybe later then. Dump all the fluff into a garbage bag, much bending and brushing up the bits that didn't make it to the box for easy transfer. Easy, of course, is a relative term.

Turn on the kitchen extractor fan and start the floor washing with a bleach solution. Surprisingly, they don't care about the stench of this, it bothers ME far far more. Do I post this as an excuse to support my favourite hellsite via a Blaze? Yes. Absolutely.

[elnerdo19v2]

Leave me alone, tumblr bots!!!!! 🤖

[the-frozen-city]

Tumblr staff is like my sibling. Sometimes they’re my mortal enemy, but they’re MY mortal enemy. Also sometimes we are not mortal enemies, but simply homies who are just chilling.

[fantastic-nonsense]