Matt's Fishbowl

They/Them, writer, reader, destroyer of worlds.

[traderoftrouble]

Met my reading goal this year :3

150 books because I am try-hard (dw like 50 are manga/graphic novels) Anyway! Fave books of 2025 :0

Korelov - James Harford.

Book all about Korelov the soviet engineer responsible for a lot of the soviet rocketry around the space race. REALLY good and detailed accounts given the limitations of information from that time

My Friends- Fredrik Backman.

I have never read a book of his that I didn't rate 5 stars tbh. Heartbreaking, honest, harrowing, REALLY good :P

The Dogs of Winter - Bobbie Pyron.

Re-read from when I was a kid, so fucking good. About a young russian boy who is abandoned and links up with a pack of wolves who cares for him and vise versa. Devastating ending

The Woods all Black - Lee Mandelo.

Trans queer small-town horror yesssssssss PLEASE. I ate this up very good.

Undoing Drugs - Maia Szalavitz.

REALLY good non-fiction on the history of harm reduction and how it came about and the challenges it still faces.

Supernova Era - Cixin Liu.

Solar event causes children to inherit the world, featuring kids with access to nuclear bombs and supply lines. Really interesting.

[syscultureis]

Practicing pagan witch system culture is “is that little voice in my head a deity or an alter”

All the time

[traderoftrouble]

GENUINELY and then it's like "am I meditating/being mindful or am I disassociating"

[orestes-is-dead]

[king-incarnadine]

Call me King

(A Dragon Moray Eel and Neptune)

[traderoftrouble]

I AM IN LOVE THE COLOURS THE EELS AAAAAAAA

[traderoftrouble]

Excellent news guys, the fog of evil has lifted and now I am once again able to look at the clouds above me and be grateful they aren't down low scumming it with me.

( I am feeling creative again if it wasn't abundantly clear :P )

[tootietwo2]

let’s play in the eelgrass with mama

[slytherverse]

i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

[looseelectronstudios]

A little animated conger eel I made recently for a project! Based on the lovely conger eel design from Neorice's sea life pack!

[shrimp-propaganda]

let's eat biofilm with mama

[thelizerdwizerd]

Let's swarm mama!

[byvampire]

in my jammies with mama

[mokobond2]

[judas-iscaryot]

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑

[traderoftrouble]

SQUIB!!!!!!!! YAAYAYAYAYAYYA!!!

This is actually so sick as a kiwi my first introduction to a colossal squid was via Te Papa where we have/had a preserved specimen and I always wanted to see one wiggling around in its natural habitat! :D

[traderoftrouble]

YEHA YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH WORLD EEL DAY I FUCKING LOVE EELS YAYA EELS THEY ARE SO CUTE AND AWESOME AND SLIMY AND EPIC YEAH FUCKING EELS YAYAYAYYAYAYAAY

[the-real-nikki19]

a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

[rose-of-pollux]

Reblog if you're a writer who doesn't use AI.

[traderoftrouble]

I am so hungry god please when will the heavens open up and give me a single mackerel for my long gullet. Please. Please. A single mackerel plseae. mackrgla. magcril. mackeral. mack her all.

*the heavens deliver flakes of miscellaneous nutrients*

OOh! HOORAY!

[ill-crawl-home-to-her]

“Hozier is a lesbian” “Hozier is a man written by a woman” “Hozier is like if a man was raised by lesbian mothers” “Hozier is like if a man was a woman” quick give me one reason why a man can’t be soft and gentle and poetic and in love without sounding like a terf or a misogynist

[ill-crawl-home-to-her]

“They’re written by a woman” “they’re written by a man” is just another way gen z has reinvented gender norms but make it cool and edgy and a little queer and hopefully no one will notice that they’ve reinvented gender norms and actually are misogynistic