#we finally went to the store

[yourknightinshiningplastic]

the second guys did show up eventually btw but they didn't plow it they snow blowed (blew?) it and the other guy shoveled our sidewalk

#they only did like half of it though #they didn't do the roundabout part #cant really blame them tho #we finally went to the store #just dollar general tho #better than nothing #winona has something to say

[hedgehog-moss]

I lost one of my chickens :( she was caught and carried away by a fox... I’ve been growing complacent about my chickens’ safety I think because we’ve only had one other attack before, a goshawk that swooped in abruptly (unsuccessfully), but no fox sightings nearby so I’ve been assuming Pandolf was a great deterrent. Which he is, just not foolproof. I’ve talked to some people in town about this and they were pretty philosophical about foxes stealing chickens, like “it’s the tribute we pay to woodland animals, it’s just a few hens here and there.” I don’t begrudge the fox for being a fox, if anything I have a renewed respect for foxes because everyone I talked to proceeded to give me their best / worst fox stories, and most of them involved foxes outsmarting humans (learning people’s habits / timetables, opening latches, faking a limp...) Still I feel terrible for my hen, she was only three. RIP Cordy :( You’ll be remembered fondly... (except by the cats.) I feel bad for the other hen too, who just lost her pal!

When I said that last thing, one of my neighbours jumped on the opportunity to try and convince me again to accept a rooster from him. He had a rooster baby boom last summer and I’ve been telling him for months that I don’t need a rooster, I don’t want to raise chickens I just want eggs, and his new argument was that a rooster would protect my hen (or if it comes to that, would heroically sacrifice himself rather than let the hen be eaten—I’m sceptical...) I asked around for a young hen but there aren’t any to be had in this season, so my remaining one is going to be alone until the spring, and my neighbour said she’d get stressed and male company is better than no company. (I wish I could ask my hen what she wants! Maybe she’s penning A Coop Of One’s Own as we speak.) I said the rooster was more likely to stress her out and harass her and he said nah they’re free ranging all day, it’ll be fine, and he’s young so your adult hen will boss him around. I was like, but then will he be any good at protecting her? etc. etc. and after a while I caved in.

When I told her about this on the phone my mum sighed “you’re terrible at saying no”—excuse me, I said no so many times and the guy just kept ploughing on until he could foist a rooster upon me. I’m good at saying no, other people are terrible at hearing it! I reassured her that I had only agreed to take the rooster for a short probationary period, and if he bothers my hen too much I’ll drive him back to his native farm. My mum was like “Drive him back? look I’m sorry I raised you as a city kid but there’s no need to waste gas on driving a rooster around, I’ll have no qualms about wringing his neck for dinner if he’s more trouble than he’s worth.” The rooster’s fate is not sealed though, if he is anywhere from vaguely useful to not actively problematic I’ll keep him, so we’ll see...!

#if i return him where he came from he'll end up eaten anyway #prove yourself rooster! escape your fate #to go back to the fox attack; my other chicken went to hide in the barn (which is always open and they were not far from it) #and i thought she'd been eaten too because i couldn't find her anywhere. until i heard her clucking to herself anxiously #i called her and she clucked louder in response but refused to come out of her hiding place #after 10min of playing marco polo with a chicken in the barn i finally found her huddled at the bottom of #the large basket i use to store kindling #and pandolf & i went to look for cordy although i didn't have any hope #and we ended up finding feathers quite far away in the woods #i was very impressed by pandolf's ability to follow the fox's smell ! i've been teaching him 'cherche' but he's not that good at tracking #or not motivated enough when it's just for fun #but since he failed in his duty to protect his flock i guess he was suddenly very determined to be #a good dog in some other way and he was sniffing the ground so seriously #sorry the post was already long and i'm writing another one in the tags!

[ebonytails]

Bittersweet fish 🌏💫

#fish #koi fish #yin and yang #sun and moon #ldr #long distance #long distance relationship #but also it can mean anything you think it means #friendships.. identity.. world dimensions #also um. sorry if theybdont look like koi fish irl #i went off of my soul (vibes and feelings) not a reference pixture #theyre some kind of fish thats for sure … #ebonytailsart #going to turn this into a fish #may even turn the fish into acrylic charms or stickers in the future because i love them #sadly the print will not be as intense as this #but thats bevause neon cyan is impossible to print so far. well. not impossible. but its Very Hard to capture with inks #so the final product IRL would be different #but until i have a physical store you get the pretty intense version #i love you. digital art. but the average printing world is not ready for you as much as we want it to be #this print will be A5..? 5.83 inches squared #god i hope it comes back looking alright #doing test prints rn #the fish. they are in love

[cerbreus]

i need you guys to look at my pretty pretty rocks 👀💕❤❤💕

#went to an annual rock show today!!!!! #so many rocks!!!!! #thankfully i set myself a cash budget or my god we would have been there. a lot longer. #such beautiful stuff though!!!!! i've started collecting slabs #because i like to display them on my wall like a collage #i'm enamored with all these shapes and colors and patterns..... #some of the sellers told me what the rocks were but i have a really REALLy horrible memory so I'll have to look them up again later #but I got so many for me and also some (not pictured) for my partner as well..... #i've been keeping my eye out for some specific things since before we even started dating and finally got my hands on some x))) #and also some that just have like #patterns and colors I think he'll like!!!! it's so much fun...... #ahhHHHHHHHH I LOVE MINERALS AND STONES SO MUCH #they also had a lot of petrified dinosaur poop slabs which were actually. so beautiful. #anyway #heheheheh #literally all of this if i was trying to buy from the rock stores here or online they'd have charged me probably $20-$50 each..... jfc #especially some of the special ones i got like #finding them below $80-$120 for a small stupid tumbled version is REAL hard #my stuff #over half the sellers were just selling tumbled stones though :( saddened by just how many lake superior agates i saw that were tumbled #they look SO cool naturally... why.. tumble them...

[anotherpapercut]

bro what the fuck are they doing with my package

#fun story #i ordered 3 things from hot topic. they shipped but never arrived so a couple weeks later i messaged them abt it #and went back and forth with them for a while bc their customer service agents cant read apparently #before being told i had to call bc one of the things i ordered went out of stock and i was replacing it w smth more expensive #so i call and im on the phone for like a fucking hour missing the 15 minute window i have to eat between jobs #and being on the phone at work for a while lmao #i finally get it done and the guy fucking forgets my apartment number in the shipping address. it's in the billing address tho?? #so i email them AGAIN and im like yo your man forgot my apartment number. they cancel that order and place another #the effect this has is that the $14 payment for the more expensive item is cancelled as well. bc again they don't read #so im like sick i will effectively get these $60 pants for $15 (im very good at sales and also manipulating customer service) #but apparently when they replaced the order they put ny apartment number not in the address‚ but as part of my name????? #so i think its fucking up usps. but it came in 2 packages and 1 has arrived so i still have hope. but thats not the end #yesterday guess who fuckin calls me. its hot topic. my original order arrived to the fuckin store in my local mall #and theyre like i think we fucked up bc we just found this package but it says you picked up your order already. do u want it #and i was like yes? not really sure what package to be expecting and its my ORIGINAL FUCKING ORDER #so once this package arrives i will have gotten 2 of the same shirt‚ 2 kiki sign things‚ a sweater‚ and a pair of pants for $40 #and i figure i can return one of the shirts and one of the signs that i have duplicates of for store credit of their full price #so anyway yeah. thats been the past 3 weeks for me.

[localgardenweed]

When you finally turn the age you always dreamt about/ never thought you’d ever make it to is so weird. Like wdym i turned 17 im still supposed to be 14 going on 15 IM SUPPOSED TO BE DEADDD. And its so weird to think that this is just a sliver of my life man like i can’t fathom the fact one day this will always be a faint memory

Anyway just turned 17 guys you know what this means!!!!! Opening up 17+ Commissions now drawing hardcore sex 😍😍😍 /j im kidding no one more year guys gurl gotta make that dough

#localgardenweed #the weed is rambling #just being a bit silly on my birthday #worse thing is that my birthday always lands on the first day of finals #last year was our first year of em since freshman year we got them excused and like i wanted to do smth special ya kjow #so i went to the store and bought a cookie cake for me and my friends to share at lunch #and like that sparked a tradition cause i did it again this year #and my friends now all love finals day 1 cause ya know cookie cake

[joelletwo]

guh i didnt get to complain abt this at work but while i was in reptiles rearranging stuff someone walked over talking on their phone goofin off and offhandedly said 'oh that geckos dead, how sad.' like not sad at all just like. lackadaisical. while i am two feet away staring at them bc i know the gecko is not dead bc i Just saw it and they dont make eye contact so i cant even like. try to say anything. and they clearly didnt say anything to any other employee when i brought it up after they left they just thought they saw a dead animal in a pet store and like. didnt care? and im so sjdfg irritated and baffled.

#LIKE. this would not be. implausible in many pet stores. but in OURS? get out of our goddamn store then u goof.............................. #what the fuck................................ get away from my reptiles kjdfg also get away from me im in the zone rearranging things #[bravely doesnt make this a new post] TO THIS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am so irritated at the person who #brought me over to show me a fish [on the top row so i couldnt see what she was fucking talking about so first we had two minutes of #whos on first about it] and went LOOK its DYING u should PUT IT OUT OF ITS MISERY instead of LETTING IT SUFFER and when i finally #knew what she was talking abt i was just like. thats an injured fish that we know about and are treating???? let us treat it???? fuck off?? #now im upset bc u want me to kill a treatable fish????? #just kjsdfg i support the sentiment but can u 1st have a little faith that we do in fact not want our animals to die or suffer b4 u #come at us!!! plea to our least favorite customers if u hate pet stores [u should] then stop shopping at pet stores [u should] u fuck.....

[hua-fei-hua]

last week's lab was so incredibly short and simple that i'm, like, staring at my lab notebook notes like, "is this it? is this really it?" because the experimental section of the report is literally 221 words and three paragraphs long.

#we made an ester but my only notes on the scent are 'crude product has rather strong unpleasant smell' #and 'washing glassware with water --> smells like almond jello' #like not even regular almonds it smelled Specifically like the almond jello from the mix you get at the asian grocery store #i'm also sensitive to strong scents so i also was like. deliberately trying not to smell things too closely #it's kind of funny bc i was also like. the first person in the lab to identify the smell they were like 'hey hua smell this' #n i was like 'ohhh that's familiar' n they were like 'i know right??' n we were like. but what could it be. #somehow i unlocked those memories of cooking as a child n i was like 'ohmygod *almond jello*' n they were like 'OMG YOU'RE RIGHT' #花話 #anyway i also found a spectra database that is Not wiley spectrabase #(by which i mean that i went poking around the resources the prof has posted on the canvas n saw he linked to one) #so this means i can finally do those hnmr and cnmr spectra analyses! holy fuck!! #wiley spectrabase is my archest of archenemies because it doesn't!! let me see the spectra!!!!!!!!!!! #n like i Tried to go digging around for others but although i know of Some ways to find obscure but reliable data sites #i just Could Not find any others bc modern search engines are shiet #(but also it's kind of on me for not poking around the canvas a bit more myself lol)

[bighandsforabigheart]

perks of speaking a language not many people use in America is that I can get away with saying things I shouldn't be saying in public but there are occasionally times when people do know and it's super embarrassing

#mother and I went to get gifts and they were very expensive #so the entire time we were like omg we can't afford this isn't there something cheaper #and then when we finally went to the register the cashier was like 'I've been learning Japanese ^^' and it was sooo fucking embarrassing #it was a small store so he definitely heard us the entire time

[ink-asunder]

I am so feeling the consequences of my actions

#i finally ponied up and went to the grocery store in person to get all of that 'unavailable to ship' shit #took a friend so we could body double and he helped me put groceries away <33 #then i hung at his place for a few hours #and i got home 2 hours ago and i did reheat food to eat #but i ate and was then in too much pain to move and take my meds #i finally moved like 15 minutes ago and All of My Vertebrae Crackled. #chronic pain #chronic illness

[keii]

So weird how the days don’t feel real for me at the moment. Probably because I’m in the middle of going through some major life changes, so I feel like I’m floating by until I’m finally settled into my new place.

#it’s like I’m observing everything at a distance lol #I took an edible this past weekend and nothing felt real LOL #I finally understood the chaos of people going ‘are u real… what is real… who am i’ #also this is why I should stick to casual drinking bc why did my ass… high af started thinking about the smile movie #while I was going out to grab some banana pudding at wegmans #why did my ass did that to myself??? I swear I hate myself like #I’m just standing there and my mind said ‘they’re looking at u and smiling.’ 🧍 bitch shut the fuck up LMFAOO #I was in the parking lot and I was telling hun to be careful bc there was an unreasonable large hunched over woman walking across #the parking lot and he said he didn’t know what I was talking about 🧍 #I was standing there w my banana pudding in the store and was like ‘why are we here for over an hour.’ … was only 5 mins #like I get it now… my vision went all wobbly I finally get it #also there was a green tint to everything and I was like ‘woah… vintage filter…’ dumb ass bitch LOL #anyway I took my ass to bed and then woke up to watch the spiderverse movie #x #shrekeii

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 328

Adjective: Violent

Noun: Teeth

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Violent: using or involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something; (especially of an emotion or unpleasant or destructive natural force) very strong or powerful; (of a color) vivid; (law) involving an unlawful exercise or exhibition of force

Teeth: a set of hard, bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of most vertebrates, used for biting and chewing; hard, pointed structures in invertebrate animals, typically functioning in the mechanical breakdown of food; genuine force or effectiveness of a body or in a law or agreement; the projecting parts on a tool or other instrument, especially a series that functions or engages together, such as cogs on a gearwheel or points on a saw or comb; the projecting parts on an animal or plant, especially jagged or dentate rows on the margin of a leaf or shell; an appetite or liking for a particular thing; roughness given to a surface to allow color or glue to adhere

#so im back to being rather late #oops #i chose to just go to bed this time #as i was tired and it was very late when we went to bed #my girlfriend and i stayed up for a while playing magic the gathering #we also watched the rest of whats available of the newest season of the great british baking show #(and now we have to wait until friday for the finale) #we also did a bit of holiday shopping (cos black friday) and we went to our local gaming store and got a tonne of magic cards (for 20% off) #so it was a very good but very busy day #as for the prompt it feels a bit straightforward but i think there is still plenty of ambiguity with it #which i think is cool and i like #i think im going to go with the more obvious route of 'violent' meaning hurt/damage/kill and 'teeth' meaning human or animal chompers #it just makes me think of the hunt from the magnus archives #and how anyone can be turned into predator or prey in the right (or wrong) circumstances #the magnus archives #tma #the hunt #the hunt tma #thanks for reading #writing #writer #creative writing #writing prompt #writeblr #trying to be a writeblr at least

[homestuck--edits]

hey!! i feel bad coming in and requesting so much stuff, so if you dont want to do it, its fine! could i possibly get a talksprite of my oc aontwi with a damara base? she is a limeblood if that helps! thank you so much for all your hard work!

her :))

-mod davesprite

#mod davesprite #homestuck #talksprite edit #talksprite edits heart heart #anyway had comp today #i wasnt allowed to participate but i have a fun story abt finding a place #so last year we hosted at the college which we could do because they had the security guard there on saturdays #this year they didnt meaning wed have to pay his salary for the time he was there #unfortunately we recieve 0 district funding #so we had to find a new spot. tried to go to the ymca #held one comp there (my last one uh. Ever. but we did the best weve ever done !!) #and then this time. six days before competition. they said wed have to pay 50 bucks an hour to compete there again. its a 9 hour competition #so we had to find somewhere else. which i was tasked with #i called: hospital‚ pud‚ civic center‚ city hall‚ local lumber company‚ library‚ tax place‚ senior center‚ fire department‚ and six churches #oh local bus company also #anyway finally person from tax place recommended a coffee shop downtown thatd charge 75 bucks a day for a decent size room #so me n gf went down to check it out. unfortunately theyre only open five hours a day. for a six hour competition. so they couldnt do it #our last options were... visit more churches. the cops ? and... that was all. so we went to get coffee #coffee shop that gave me my cute lemon bracelet :DD! so anyway was complaining to the store owner abt not having a place. and she went #oh would here work? and i went uh. yeah? is it okay if we bring computers? and how long are you open? #she said yeah the computers are fine and we can be open as long as you want ! and i went oh okay. so how much do we have to pay #because wed be occupying the whole place all day. and she said oh no worries :)) free !. and . holy shit. so she called her daughter #who stayed like three hours late today. unpaid. for us to compete #fucking insane this coffee shop has done more for us than the school district has ever. and it was great!! #a lil cramped but cozy and also Coffee. we spent probably 200 bucks on coffee altogether?? hope it was profitable for them they were so nice #gave some of us free stuff fucking insane honestly #also shoutout to the dairy queen for not killing us for walking in with 67 dollars and going give us all the chicken strips this will buy #it was 44 btw. and they gave us a free burger some guy named alex made. i dont know why they did but they wouldnt take no for an answer #anyway im not in a good mood but fuck dude i love local business. i also got a tiny palm reading book to carry around :>

[todayisafridaynight]

YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE PRICELESS IS SO GOOD RIGHT... LOVE THE ENDING FOR THAT... and very much anticipating First Penguin's... which I am DETERMINED to continued today... I feel bad for falling behind because I ended up binging a whole anime yesterday since the secondary protagonist was based on Tsutsumi and lost track of Fucking Everything 😭😭😭he is so cute though😚

OH BUT YEAH I played DQXI's demo [the first ten hours of the game or so]... yeaaahhhh... definitely that kind of game for me too... but I hope whenever you get back to it you have a good time! I may not know a thing about Metroid but I am also happy to hear it was an enjoyable experience overall :] I enjoy the tag rambles very much :]

REGARDLESS... EPIC... I HOPE YOU ENJOY SP... OR AT THE VERY LEAST I HOPE YOU CAN STICK WITH IT UNTIL IT BECOMES ENJOYABLE...

AND YOU'RE JUST NOT GOING TO DROP THE TITLE so mean telling me about all these interesting things to watch and not sharin the title (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)

TEN HOURS FOR THE DEMO ??? long as hell demo... OH BUT NO i love the games a lot !! ive followed the series for a while since. i do have that dragon ball/toriyama fanatic in me unfortunately even if i dont like toriyama himself ☠️☠️ i only really got to actually start one of the games last year when my bro got DQXI for me and ive been loving it so far (*￣▽￣*)ミ|Ю

i've BEEN enjoying it so far !! i'm just about to start episode four tho i AM gonna lose my mind if this hospital arc goes on one more episode bro this half the series already ☠️

#snap chats #joking of course.... haha unless-- #if this is the chara you mean then he seems like a nice fellow :) i trust his vibes already..... he seems like a chara i'd like... #OH BUT PRICELESS WAS SOOOO GOOD AND SO LOVELY TYSM AGAIN FOR RECCING IT... i hope you enjoy the rest of first penguin !!!!! #NO WORRIES BOUT RUSHIN IT fair nuff theres no deadline !!!! id rather you take your time and enjoy it on your own terms anyhow :) #but SPEEEAAKING of DQ im actually playing it rn LMAO. i only stopped last year cause i just had an awful exp with a boss #and then i got busy with Life but itd been bothering me that i just stopped so i finally decide to get back into it #the boss wasnt even that hard this time around... tho i think thats just cause i went in Prepared this time ☠️ #i dont remember why my bro got me DQXI.. i think he was just using some gamestop deal he had and got himself something too.. #NOOO UGH i dont know if its in the demo but the boss was arachtagon and he's who i thought of while making that ichi and masato comic LMAO #of course i couldnt reference that fight since.... that wasnt the DQ game of the time... but still we get the point i think... #nono i love dragon quest and playing it's something i'm happy i finally get to do #it definitely requires you to think a lot more and be more careful with what you do #i mean itd PRRROOBBBABLY be easier if i did sidequests but i have a terrible tendency to wanna finish the game first... #in any case. i am playing it while watching SP because i was thinking of the next part of the game and was stuck on it #and when i looked up where to go i was like 'no i already checked that spot' and i was just gonna leave it at that but now i cant stop #but i ALSO really wanted to watch SP today but fortunately i can multitask #not like i need to pay a LOT of attention to dq rn.. im just grinding. cause im broke ☠️ #oh but im glad you enjoy the tag rambles :) i have too many thoughts for my own good #like how when i was at the game store i saw DQ treasures AND metroid dread AND the megaman battlenetwork collection.. #i was fighting real demons that day not to empty my wallet.... #luckily my bro was with me so i felt like him being there was a way to keep me in check. even if he prob wouldnt have opposed (￣▽￣;;) #IN ANY CASE. i have multiple medias to consume lest i let The Thoughts take over my brain again for even a second ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶ #inoue's chara is so funny like He's Super Human um doc... i think he's just autistic lowkey..... he still a baller regardless tho

[batemanofficial]

got hit with several large personal news bombshells today and. none of them are bad (they're all fairly good or at least neutral) but i am currently kendall roy posing on the couch w my headphones trying to process

#speak friend and enter #so first thing one of my roommates moved out so i get the whole room to myself now which is unbelievably swag #(i went to the art supply store and got an easel and some new paint to celebrate since i can actually paint in there now) #and my mom just called to say that we might be moving states or alternatively she might be moving alone #unclear what this means for the state of my parents' relationship but fuck it we ball ig #and my roommates for next semester contacted me to arrange a meetup #and the prompt for my history final got released and it's on the jfk assassination. which i will struggle to stay under the word limit for #but! all exciting and ive already started rearranging my room which is very fun

[poptartmochi]

i was jesting earlier, in that one post Abt habits you got from your parents... but your honor my upper back and shoulder blades sound and feel like glow sticks rn 😨

#if i roll my shoulders it's just snap crackle pop.. im an asian w skin problems call me rice krispy 😩 #but on the bright side! i cleaned these racks we had from my childhood home (girl.. they NEEDED a wash that's all i will say.. ww3 w a #sponge i tell u 😨) so now my mom can put them in our lanai + we will have a place to store the fryer! #and then we can organize some of her gardening stuff too 😃‼️ besides that i handwashed most of the final stuff from this round of storage #stuff 🙏🏼 what else.. i realized we have pinesol so i was able to clean most of the wooden picture frames ive been ❓❓ about + now those #can leave the garage :] and i ''cleaned'' these.. jade-accented dragon murals?? my mom has 😁 they were so dusty and i wasn't sure what to #hit them with so i dry dusted them as best as i could and then went over the wood w the pinesol.. they are still dusty in the crevices so #i have to figure out how to get in there bc QTips don't really work :( i might have to spritz them w water or handwash them but idk #progress! the garage is slightly less claustrophobic now #sriracha.txt