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can you tell us about your aquarium
This is the best ask I have ever received. I hope you know the gates of Heaven have opened for you and only you, Anon.
Short answer: this is it.
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Long answer under the cut. Very long, 'cause it's my birthday weekend and my gift to myself is I'm gonna gush about my stupid tank.
This is the smallest tank I've had in years - a 3.6 gallon Fluval. It absolutely counts as a nano tank, which has been both a challenge and a relief.
(My last tank - which I had to get rid of years ago, the last time I moved - was a 40-gallon that mainly featured very dumb dojo loaches and destructively horny oranda goldfish. I miss them every single day but when I surrendered them to my local fish store, the 90-year-old proprietor told me very approvingly that it's very rare for orandas to breed and dojo loaches usually don't get as big as mine did, so that helped soothe the sting a little.)
This one's technically a betta tank, but I'm still split on if I'm ever gonna put a betta in it. The literature on how much room is humane is split and it's really the luck of the draw if your fish will tolerate the inverts or harass them to death.
For now, it's just neocaridina shrimp (mostly red rilis, although a lovely orange lad and a blue juvenile snuck in there and I'm looking to get a few more color morphs), bladder snails, a ramshorn named Guts, and plants. I did not actually buy any of the snails, which is a quintessential aquarium-owner experience.
I've been working on this tank for a few months now. It's my first heavily-planted one, and it went through a few stages.
First off: I fell for a carpet seed scam.
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Yeah. I know. I should've done more research. On the plus side, I got very, very lucky and wound up with something that can actually grow immersed (some kind of hygrophila, I'm 99% sure). For now, at least, it's eating all my ammonia, so yay, and I'm watching it and my water parameters like a hawk to make sure I can go full teardown at the first sign of melting.
(If I were smart and hard-working, I'd've taken everything out and redone it all soon as I figured out what a colossal fuck-up I'd committed, but I am me, so we're waiting, watching, and taking baby steps towards un-FUBARing the tank.)
But the java moss and tiger lotus, at least, are real plants, and they're doing great.
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Had a few issues with the neos, but they've stabilized.
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And I just recently rescaped the entire tank! Including adding in some more plant variety and tearing out ~60% of the hygrophila (yes, I disposed of it safely, I'm not going to be the reason that shit winds up in the Colorado River).
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The goal is eventually to remove all of it, but for now, what's left can stay; the animals like it and I don't want to stress them out anymore.
They seem to be doing great since the rescape; much more active now that the tank has some different environments for them to explore. They love their cobblestone path.
I've got a good male/female ratio on the neos, lots of wee baby bugs swimming around, and my girls keep getting knocked up!
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Harlot.
(Ignore the tweezers. Long story. And the discoloration on the hygrophila; after rigorous water testing and pinching and poking the leaves a whole bunch, seems like its ugly ass just Looks Like That. So glad my dad bought those stupid seeds.)
And that's my aquarium. I've got a little bit of duckweed in there that's not growing as fast as I'd like, and my tiger lotus does not seem inclined to make lilypads any time soon, so I'm planning on getting some water spangles for aesthetics and also shrimp thrills.
I might post some more photos once the spangles are here and I've picked up a few more shrimp colors from my LFS - I don't want everyone to be brown in a few generations, but. Some more diversity would be cool, I think.
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Did anybody ask for a sequel to A Nightjar Romance?
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Too bad, you're getting one anyway.
Planning on posting the first chapter on May 4 (a week from today), and posting in tandem with another fic (body horror piece that got too long for Halloween).
Just, y'know, to cleanse the palate and keep everybody's teeth from rotting, because this one is gonna be sweet.
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inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.
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How it feels to get back into aquariums after getting rid of my last one ~7 years ago
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aut4aut Hannigram truthing, doing God's work for Him
look ….. we often say will graham autism. will graham autistic. but how about HANNIBAL LECTER AUTISM???!???!?!!!!!!!!! listen. he always wears suits. is very weird about his cooking and food. has little empathy (and if he has he controls it). thinks himself above everyone else. freaks out when som1 actually hurts him. freaked out when will didnt come to his appointment. extremely quick dependence on will. knows like 8 languages. has PERFECT extensive memory. needs everything to be clean and perfect. his hyperfixations are KILLING and MONEY. do you get me
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Do you take requests?
I do not, nope!
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New Short Story Collection
Yeah, that's right. Guess who wrote a stupid, horny book? Meeeeee
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It's a Kindle eBook. A collection of feederism stories, original works, original characters. It's part of the reason why I haven't posted anything for so long.
You can buy it here for $3.50 USD.
I'm much prouder of it than I ought to be. If you give it a read, let me know what you think. ✨
I'm hoping this will be the first of many, including non-kink original stuff that I've been working on, but...we'll see.
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All great literature is one of three stories: a man goes on a journey, a stranger comes to town, and a guy doses his unsuspecting roommate with something weird for kinky purposes.
Tolstoy said that.
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I got big things in the works. Trust me.
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a-deed-without-a-name · 2 months
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Favourite: Pairing Kink Character(s) to write for
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Oh, gosh. Well, currently:
Favorite pairing: Hannigram
Favorite kink: weight gain (duh)
Favorite character to write: Probably Frederick Chilton, who I think I've really made my own. For weird, creepy little personal reasons
Although I've sort of been getting into stuff to do with Hazb - *a sniper shot rings out and kills me instantly, much to the relief of everyone, myself included*
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a-deed-without-a-name · 2 months
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Love "I met a man in black/alien" stories that could be explained entirely by the subject having autism or some other sort of social disorder.
"He talked like he'd never had a conversation before - " Yeah?
"This kid's expression didn't change once while we were - " Uh huh?
"The way she was dressed was completely inappropriate for the weather and her clothes didn't make sense - " You don't say.
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a-deed-without-a-name · 3 months
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You would think people would understand not to be 1. So demanding about things as tho you owe them anything and 2. not to send messages like that bc you have previously stated that it makes you want to write for that thing less?? Like what is this person trying to achieve here? They weren't even really nice about it, all of those uses of "please" just made the message come across even worse, imo. Plus the I NEED IT at the end was just very demanding and unkind, and you don't deserve that kind of treatment!!
I'm so sorry people are being so demanding instead of just enjoying what you've already published and being grateful for that. Keep doing what you're doing tho ❤️ and fuck those other anons!
God, thank you so much for this; it's exactly what I needed. You hit the nail right on the head. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I've tried being nice. I've tried being gentle. But at this point, they've been harassing me for literal years - and, like you said, I made it very clear that getting asks like that just makes me even less likely to write than I already was.
I don't know at this point if they're willfully ignorant, just don't have the self-control to keep themselves from bothering me even when they know it's not going to get them what they "need," or if they're just fucking with me.
(Oddly, that last one somehow pisses me off the least out of all the options? Idk)
But, seriously. What a breath of fresh air to get this anon ask. I appreciate you. ❤️
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a-deed-without-a-name · 3 months
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Can we Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, have another chapter of Butterballs? I NEED IT!
God, I hate you. Go away.
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a-deed-without-a-name · 3 months
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"So what do you write?"
"Oh, y'know. Normal stuff."
The normal stuff:
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a-deed-without-a-name · 3 months
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Parents: You need to bring this up to your sister because if we do it she'll get mad
Me: Okay
Me texting my sister: So Mom said -
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a-deed-without-a-name · 3 months
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Being the Very Thing You Are
Practically since he met him, Frederick has always expected to eventually possess Will Graham in one form or another.
He just had not expected  it to be like this.
AO3
Chapters: 1/1
Word count: 7,900
Written: 2024
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a-deed-without-a-name · 3 months
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Average number of asshole characters named Frederick who meet unfortunate ends in a book series is actually zero. Fredericks Tjomas, whose books contain two such instances, is a statistical outlier adn should not be counted
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