My Heart Is A Fish Hiding In The Water Grass

Relic from the twentieth century | Abuser of exclamation points!!!!! | Might have written a fic | They/them

[bowelfly]

Brother Alonzo you rascal get DOWN from there

(commission)

[angelicguy]

me and the boys have a couple of chains wrapped around the sword in the stone hooked up to mikes toyota tundra gonna pull that fucker out like a tooth.

[seaweed-station]

Me and the boys misunderstood the arcane nature of the stone and now the Toyota is king of England

[thejusticethatissocial]

flesh flesh flesh flesh flesh flesh flESH FLESH FLESH FLESHFLESHFLESH

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Your partner came back from the dead after being missing for decades. Every one of their friends who they went with ended up dying a horrible death.

Now, somehow, their entire mental health is based on the continued life and happiness of this fairground goldfish that they picked up.

Neither of you know the first thing about how to care for even a healthy fish. This fish has been poorly cared for, has multiple diseases and the person who handed it over explicitly didn't expect it to live nearly as long as it already has.

You're frantically googling how to set up a fish tank, where to buy fish food, can you even take a fish to the vet? Your partner wants you to know that they're happy they made it home and survived their horrific ordeal, but also that if anything happens to the fish then they're going to kill everyone on this planet and then themself.

You're honestly wondering if you're even helping the fish, or just prolonging its suffering, but your partner will only accept medical help for their many injuries or engage in basic self-care once they're confident that the fish is being looked after.

So you get a tank. You set up a filter and all that stuff. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about water temperature and ph and nitrate levels. The fish is safe. You start to develop some affection for the little guy. Your partner begins to recover. The fish begins to recover.

Which is when you learn that in its 'healthy' state, the fish regularly refuses to sleep when tired, keeps begging for food that is obviously unhealthy for it (and struggling to eat the food that you do provide because “it tastes gross”), and continually tries to persuade your partner to take it out of its nice safe tank so it can go explore the wonderful world of Outside, where the slightest mishap will kill it instantly.

Your name is Adrian, and you kind of wants to strangle this fucking fish, statement.

[circusheart]

No death cab for ugly? Ugly has to walk?

[eliza-styx]

[tsundernova]

Domestic dispute in public

[sufjansjoy]

does anybody know how to get out of bed. or be a better person

[sufjansjoy]

wow

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Bedtime should work like in computer games where I lie down and click "yes" on a menu and then there's an eight hour timeskip and I can get up again all refreshed.

[oilpalette]

Where I Spend My Days, 2026 by Kate Lewis (American, b. 1977); Acrylic on canvas, 25 × 19

[animentality]

[ahedderick]

[tehfanglyfish]

Continuing to feel immense cat stress 😭😭😭

[tehfanglyfish]

AND SHE ATE! Not as much as I would have liked but it had been getting close to an entire day so I say it's better than nothing. Hopefully she'll keep it up. (And also please please please not throw up what she ate. IBD in kitties is a beast of a thing. Or so it seems.)

[tehfanglyfish]

Continuing to feel immense cat stress 😭😭😭

[nudityandnerdery]

Just posting polls to satisfy my own curiosity now.

If you lived in America as a child, answer this poll. If you didn't, you answer the poll in the reblog.

How many homes did you live in before you turned 18 years-old?

1

2

3

4

5

6

7 or more

I don't/haven't lived in America/results/etc.

Remaining time: 6 days 12 minutes

[nudityandnerdery]

Part two.

If you didn't live in America as a child, answer this poll. If you did, you answer the previous poll.

How many homes did you live in before you turned 18 years-old?

1

2

3

4

5

6

7 or more

I lived in America/results/etc.

Remaining time: 6 days 12 minutes

[finelythreadedsky]

in re conversations that thankfully seem to be occurring only on other sites, i actually love when the fiction i'm reading uses words i don't know and have to look up! admittedly it does not happen often, because i am an adult who read a lot as a kid and has since done what is frankly maybe a bit too much education, but please do casually drop words like phalanstery in your book so i have to look it up and then find myself reading wikipedia pages about 19th century socialist utopianism! please do throw around rare plants and birds whose names i don't know because they're not native/common anywhere i've ever been! then i get to look at pictures of things that i've never seen before!

[maul-of-shame]

I actually recommend everyone write for a rarepair once because it completely changes your relationship with fandom. Engagement stops being numbers and starts being names. You know who's going to show up. You recognize usernames. Someone disappears for a while and then comes back and you're like “OH MY GOD WELCOME HOME.” It's incredibly wholesome. It is also deeply inconvenient when all six of you simultaneously get writer's block-

[ominous-signs]

Do you believe in ghosts?

No, and I don’t get why others do

I can see why others would, but I don’t

In theory yes, in actuality no

Neutral/I have no actual opinion on the matter

In theory no, in actuality yes

I can see why others wouldn’t, but I do

Yes and I don’t get why others don’t

Bald ghost

Remaining time: 5 days 3 hours