#runawayalters

[plantanarchy]

runawayalters replied to your post “I am knocking out water changes today hot damn. I’ve returned to my...”

i just gravel vac and siphon 25-50%

Yeah I’m talking more my method of doing water changes quickly with the number of small tanks I have lol

[plantanarchy]

runawayalters replied to your post “why are there always so many alligators being rehomed on my local...”

i owned an alligator when i lived in PA, they're totally legal there. and actually good pets for the first 2-3 years or so of their lives if you handle them regularly. the problem is that not everyone knows what to do with them when they get bigger

Yeah, I’ve seen only one or two people who actually gave their alligators cool setups or kept them longer than a few years... like one guy I remember seeing had a practically full-sized swimming pool plus a big basking enclosure in his basement for a male alligator that was less than half the size it would be as a fully grown adult. He lived in a warmer area and had plans to build an outdoor pen once it outgrew the pool.

Honestly, your average person just is not going to have the space for a grown alligator, let alone the amount of food they need, the fact that at a certain size you basically can’t handle them or do maintenance without a level of danger, etc. Power to anyone who would be willing to put in that effort for an animal, but most of the time, I see one and a half foot long alligators living in 55 gallon tanks with a basking rock being advertised for sale when they’re only about one or two years old... if you can’t commit to an animal throughout its lifetime (barring unforeseen circumstances), it’s not an animal that should be considered as a pet.

[fromfiction]

What frustrates me is that whenever I make a post that contains an absolute such as  “kin are never X” “fictives are always Y”: then I inevitably get a flood of messages and reblogs from edge cases in a bizarre set of circumstances  where their “fictive is not Y” or “kin is X”. 

These edge cases feel invalidated that my statement has excluded them and basically make a big piss and stink about how their existence as an exception proves whatever statement I have made wrong.

Now of course, when I make a ‘soft’ statement allowing for unusual edge-cases, somebody wings out of the sidelines to tell me I’m wrong for stating it this way too.

I think I made it pretty clear with ‘fictives are almost never singlets’ that fictives=/= singlets. There will ALWAYS be bizarre edge cases who are fictive singlets, or kin with no awakening experience, or whatever. These people are the exception, not the norm. But kinship, multiplicity and related topics are not an exact science. 

We can either accept that edge-cases exist, and be more permissive and inclusive in our definitions (a stance that tumblr has seemed to favor recently), or we can be more exclusive and rigid, and say ‘this is the definition, edge cases are edge cases’. Personally I’ve always erred on the side of rigid definition, but I can only take so many verbal punches to the chin before I start getting softer on my stance.

(as an aside, the original poster is diagnosed with DID professionally, and therefore uses the term ‘alters’. Please do not use the term ‘alter’ for headmates/people in a multiple system unless you are diagnosed DID. Almost all the non-DID multiples I have known including myself consider this term offensive and dismissive/invalidating of their headmates’ personhood.)

[nerdfighterwhatevernumbers]

runawayalters said: this is gonna be the spoopiest skeleton war yet and no one can stop me

the spoopy scary skeleton war is gonna be super creppy

[harmonysangels-blog]

chck ur email -quinn

oh. okay.. thank you. sorry I didn't see it sooner :/ hopefully all is well now....

[harmonysangels-blog]

harmony did u c th thing I sent u cus u nvr responded -quinn

no I didn't see anything? what was it?

[jaspell]

“IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME”

[nerdfighterwhatevernumbers]

runawayalters said: I hope you feel better soon ❤️

Thanks <3