#your mileage may vary and all that

[eye-of-enigmatic-thought]

Posting this on my art blog as it kinda fits

I'm not sure what I can really explain or what context I can give for this scene, as Kill It and Leave This Town is a very surreal film that's entirely based on the director's, Mariusz Wilczyński, grief and loss and was a way to give farewells to his passed on loved ones, but this scene of the film still has stuck with me. The cat's nihilistic speech on annihilation and the destruction of all things created is something I look back on when Grief is too much to bear, and I wish that any experiences I had never happened so I never had to deal with the grief.

Kill It and Leave This Town is still a film I think about a lot...

#kill it and leave this town #infodump #tara's text #gore #grief #kill it is a very fascinating film but its not reccommended if you are expecting conventional cinema and storytelling #i love it for those reasons but i know some people who found it to be a drag and too depressing #but then again i am a depressed mentally ill dude who has been grieving for over a year and finds connection in odd places #your mileage may vary and all that #Mariusz Wilczyński

[anipgarden]

Things to Do that Aren't Related to Growing Plants

This is my second post in a series I’ll be making on how to increase biodiversity on a budget! I’m not an expert--just an enthusiast--but I hope something you find here helps! 

Some of us just don’t have much luck when it comes to growing plants. Some of us simply want to aim for other ways to help that don’t involve putting on gardening gloves. Maybe you've already got a garden, but you want to do more. No problem! There’s a couple of options you can look into that’ll help attract wildlife in your area without even having to bring out any shovels!

Provide a Water Source

Oftentimes when I see ‘add a water source’ in informational articles about improving your backyard for wildlife, it’s almost always followed by an image of a gorgeous backyard pond with a waterfall and rock lining that looks expensive to set up, difficult to maintain, and overall just… not feasible for me. Arguably, not feasible for a lot of people. And that’s okay! There’s still ways to add water in your garden for all kinds of creatures to enjoy!

There’s tons of ways to create watering stations for insects like bees and butterflies. A self refilling dog bowl can work wonders! Add some stones into the receiving tray for insects to land on or use to climb out, and you’ve got a wonderful drinking spot for all kinds of insects! You can also fill a saucer or other dish with small stones and fill it, though it’ll likely need refilling daily or even several times a day during hot times. 

I've seen people online use all kinds of things to make water features. Some go with terra-cotta pots, pebbles, and a cheap pump to get a small and simple fountain. Others use old tires, clay, and a hole in the ground to create an in-ground mini pond system. If all else fails, even a bucket or watertight box with a few plants in it can do the trick--though do be wary of mosquitoes if the water isn’t moving. In situations like these, a solar-powered fountain pump or bubbler are great for keeping the water moving while still making it a drinking option for wildlife (it not even more appealing for some)--and these items can be obtained fairly cheap online!

Bird baths are an option as well--a classic way to provide for birds in your area, they can be easy to find online or in a gardening store! The only downside is that a good, quality bird bath can be pricey up-front. However, a nice stone bird bath should last a long time, be easy to clean and refill, and be enjoyed by many birds! I’ve also seen tutorials on how to make your own with quickcrete! Bird baths will be a welcome sight to birds, as they provide a space for them to drink and bathe to regulate the oils in their feathers for flight and insulation. Putting a stone in the middle will also help insects to escape if they fall in, and provide a place to perch so they can get their own drink. You’ll want to change the water and clean the baths regularly--as often as once a week, if you can manage it.

If possible, it’s highly encouraged to fill and refill water features with rainwater instead of tap water. Tap water is often treated, so instead of using hoses or indoor kitchen water, collecting some rainwater is a great alternative. Collecting rainwater can be as simple as leaving cups, bins, or pots outside for awhile.

Butterflies and other creatures will also drink from mud puddles. If you can maintain an area of damp soil mixed with a small amount of salt or wood ash, this can be fantastic for them! Some plants also excel at storing water within their leaves and flowers (bromeliads come to mind), making them an excellent habitat for amphibians as well as a drinking spot for insects and birds.

Bird Feeders and Bird Houses

Some of the fancy, decorated bird feeders are expensive, but others can be pretty low-cost--I got my bird feeder from Lowe’s for around 10 dollars, and a big bag of birdseed was around another 10 dollars and has lasted several refills! If you don’t mind occasionally buying more birdseed, a single birdfeeder can do a lot to attract and support local birds! If you’re handy, have some spare wood, and have or can borrow some tools, you may even be able to find instructions online to make your own feeder. You may not even need wood to do so! Even hummingbird feeders, I’ve found, are quick to attract them, as long as you keep them stocked up on fresh sugar water in the spring and summer!

An important note with bird feeders is that you have to make sure you can clean them regularly. Otherwise, they may become a vector for disease, and we want to avoid causing harm whenever possible. Also keep an ear out and track if there’s known outbreaks of bird diseases in your area. If local birding societies and scientists are advising you take your birdfeeders down for awhile, by all means, do it!

Bird houses are naturally paired with bird feeders as biodiversity promoters for backyard spaces, and it makes sense. Having bird houses suited to birds in your area promotes them to breed, raise their young, disperse seeds, and generally engage in your surrounding environment. Setting them up takes careful selection or construction, preparation, and some patience, but sooner or later you might get some little homemakers! Keep in mind, you will need to clean your birdhouses at least once a year (if not once per brood) to make sure they’re ready and safe for birds year after year--you wouldn’t want to promote disease and parasites, after all. But they could be a valuable option for your landscape, whether you purchase one or construct your own! 

Again, do make sure you're putting up the right kind of boxes for the right kinds of birds. Bluebird boxes are some I see sold most commonly, but in my area I believe they're not even all that common--a nesting box for cardinals or chickadees would be far more likely to see success here! And some birds don't even nest in boxes--robins and some other birds are more likely to use a nesting shelf, instead! Research what birds live in your area, take note of any you see around already, and pick a few target species to make homes for!

Solitary Bee Houses

A bee house or bee hotel is a fantastic way to support the solitary bees in your area! For a few dollars and some annual cleaning, you can buy a solitary bee house from most big box nurseries. Alternatively, you can make one at home, with an array of materials you may already have lying around! You can even make them so that they’ll benefit all kinds of insects, and not necessarily just bees.

Though you don’t even necessarily have to break out the hammer and nails, buy a ton of bricks, or borrow a staple gun. Making homes for tunneling bees can be as simple as drilling holes in a log and erecting it, or drilling holes in stumps and dead trees on your property. You might even attract some woodpeckers by doing this!

Providing Nesting Area

There are tons of different kinds of bees, and they all make different kinds of homes for themselves. Not all of them make big cavity hives like honey bees, or will utilize a solitary bee house. Bumblebees live in social hives underground, particularly in abandoned holes made by rodents--some others nest in abandoned bird nests, or cavities like hollow logs, spaces between rocks, compost piles, or unoccupied birdhouses. Borer, Ground, and Miner bees dig into bare, dry soil to create their nests. Sparsely-vegetated patches of soil in well-drained areas are great places to find them making their nests, so providing a similar habitat somewhere in the garden can encourage them to come! I do talk later in this document about mulching bare soil in a garden--however, leaving soil in sunny areas and south-facing slopes bare provides optimal ground nesting habitat. Some species prefer to nest at the base of plants, or loose sandy soil, or smooth-packed and flat bare ground. They’ve also been known to take advantage of soil piles, knocked over tree roots, wheel ruts in farm roads, baseball diamonds and golf course sand traps. You can create nesting ground by digging ditches or creating nesting mounds in well-drained, open, sunny areas with sandy or silty soil. However, artificially constructed ground nests may only have limited success. 

Providing Alternative Pollinator Foods

Nectar and pollen aren’t the only foods sought out by some pollinators! Some species of butterflies are known to flock to overripe fruit or honey water, so setting these out can be an excellent way to provide food to wildlife. You may want to be cautious about how you set these out, otherwise it can help other wildlife, like ants or raccoons. Butterflies may also drop by to visit a sponge in a dish of lightly salted water. 

Bat Houses and Boxes

Big or small, whether they support five bats or five hundred, making bat boxes and supporting local bats is a great way to boost biodiversity! Not only will they eat mosquitoes and other pest species, but you may also be able to use the guano (bat droppings) as fertilizer! Do be careful if you choose to do that though--I’ve never had the opportunity to, so do some research into how strong it is and use it accordingly.

Provide Passageway Points

If you want your area to be more accessible for creatures that can’t fly or climb fences, allowing or creating access points can be an excellent way to give them a way in and out. Holes in the bottom of walls or fences can be sheltered with plants to allow animals through. 

In a somewhat similar manner, if you’re adding a water fixture, it’s important to provide animals a way to get into and out of the pond--no way in, and they can’t use the water. No way out, and they may drown. Creating a naturalistic ramp out of wood beams or sticks, or stepped platforms out of bricks, stones, or logs can do the trick. 

Get or Keep Logs and Brush Piles

I’ve already mentioned logs a good handful of times so far in this post. To be used as access ramps, or as nesting areas for solitary bees. But they have value as much more than that! Logs on the ground provide shelter for all kinds of animals, especially depending on size--anything from mice, reptiles, and amphibians to things like turkey vultures and bears will use fallen logs as shelter. Inside of a decaying log, there’s a lot of humidity, so amphibians are big fans of them--meanwhile, the upper sides of them can be used as sunning platforms by things like lizards. Other animals can also use the insides of logs as nest sites and hiding places from predators too big to fit inside. Fungi, spiders, beetles, termites, ants, grubs, worms, snails, slugs, and likely much more can be found inside rotting logs, using the rotting wood as food sources or nesting places. They can then provide food for mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds. They can also be regarded as a landmark or territory marker as wildlife get more familiar with your space.

So how do you get logs for cheap? Try Chip Drop! I talk about them more in a future post, but you can mark saying that you’d like logs in your drop, so they’ll give you any they have! In fact, you may even get a drop faster if you're willing to accept some logs. You may also be able to approach arborists you see working in your area and ask for logs. There may also be local online listings for people selling logs for cheap, or just trying to get rid of them. If there’s land development going on near you, you may be able to snag logs from trees they cut down to make space. Do keep in mind, you don’t need to have huge gigantic logs laying around your property to make an impact--even small logs can help a lot.

If possible, creating and leaving brush piles on the edge of your property can be a great boost to biodiversity--even if you may not see the wildlife using it. They’ll provide shelter from weather and predators, and lower portions are cool and shady for creatures to avoid the hot sun. The upper layers can be used as perch sites and nest sites for song birds, while lower layers are resting sites for amphibians and reptiles, and escape sites for many mammals. As the material decays, they also attract insects, and as such they’ll attract insect-eating animals too. As more small animals find refuse in your brush pile, their predators will be attracted to them as well. Owls, hawks, foxes, and coyotes are known to visit brush piles to hunt. Making a brush pile can be as simple as piling branches and leaves into a mound, as big or as small as you want. You can even use tree stumps or old fence posts near the base, and keep stacking on plant trimmings and fallen branches. Do note that you don’t want to do this near anything like a fire pit.

Don't forget, with all of these, your mileage may vary for any variation of reasons, so don't worry if you can't take all of even any of these actions! Even just talking about them with other people may inspire someone else to put out a bat box, or leave a few logs out for wildlife!

That's the end of this post! My next post is gonna be about ways to get seeds and plants as cheaply as possible. For now, I hope this advice helps! Feel free to reply with any questions, success stories, or anything you think I may have forgotten to add in!

#biodiversity #solarpunk #environmental stewardship #gardening #outdoor gardening #(i know this is literally the Dont Gotta Garden post but these could also be excellent additions to a preexisting garden so) #ani rambles #out of queue #the biodiversity saga #here in the tags to once again emphasize your mileage may vary with all of these #my mom is scared of bats theres no way in hell shes gonna let me put up a bat box #but I have been able to put out a shallow bird bath and a little solarpowered hummingbird bath fountain #do what you can! every bit counts! You may be able to do something that I or your neighbors can't! #for example my nextdoor neighbors have literally no trees in their backyard where the hell would they put a bat box #meanwhile i have trees in my backyard but still can't put up a bat box. maybe the neighbors next to me could! #similarly brush piles are a no go for my family but someone somewhere else could set one up! #i am rambling in the tags now uh long story short do what you can don't stress about what you can't

[atissi]

if you are 1) currently in a university where your student healthcare covers hormone therapy, and 2) in a good financial, emotional, and social position to start hormone therapy, i would recommend pursuing it. because in my experience, it's a huge pain in the ass to get an endocrinologist once you're on your own

#unless you live near a planned parenthood or another equivalent to that #but in general you might as well take advantage of the mandatory student health insurance while you have it #it's also cheaper than you might expect. my vials cost $40 CAD for 4 months and then the injection materials are like a couple dollars each #for me i got a therapist with the university and asked them to recommend me to one of the uni's doctors #so i got to skip some of the waitlisting process yay #and then even after getting access to hormones i went to the clinic maybe 5 or 6 times because i needed a nurse to help me with injections #all of which was 'free' because it was with the university #now that i'm graduated though i need to find a new endocrinologist and it turns out the process is WAY more complicated on your own 🤡 #of course your mileage may vary depending on how based your school is but it's definitely worth checking imo 🤷 #beepbeep.txt #wanted to say this because i basically didn't use the uni health services until my last year and i was like 'wow #'i'm actually getting so much shit for free right now' #like i was seeing a therapist and a dietician and the endocrinologist and a nurse simultaneously at one point #and i might've missed out on all that if i didn't have someone tell me how easy it was to get help if you ask the right questions #so there's my word of wisdom for anyone who might benefit from it....... #also going to post tips about injections later because i think that would also help people out 👍

[quetzalpapalotl]

Also it kinda bothers me when people say Barber's writing is edgy grimdark because people die and Optimus does bad stuff. Like the whole thing isn't about moving on towards the future and trying to get along, and how most people really just want to be safe. Like Arcee literally spells it out with her "Love who we can and understand who we can't". Hope is at the core of it all.

#like it's true that Barber writes a lot of jerks but that's part of it??? #like the narrative is sympathetic to mostly everyone and tries to show they all have their reasons to be how they are #which feels more meaningful than if everyone was a saint #like your mileage may vary but i don't consider this a dark story just darker by tf standars #quetzal rambles tf

[toainatreehouse]

Finally built all the 2006 combiners:

Botar - 11/10. This made me realize *why* Axonn was built so weird while Brutaka was a killer solo set; it's in order to meld them both fully into Botar. If you only have time/budget for a single combiner in your collection, this is the one you want to get. How small the pile of unused pieces is when your done is *shocking,* it might be the smallest ratio ever amongst combiners. I don't want to spoil it too much, but it's great.

Kardas - 3/10. Points mainly come from an interesting chest and wing build, but *all* the limbs feel wrong. Wrong to look at, purposeless and spindly vibes as you build it, squandered use of the piston pieces. I've table scrapped better arms and legs. The neck barely stays upright, and falls over from a stiff breeze. Loses points because of: how annoying it is to need to rebuild Vezon from the waist up and the Fenrakk skull; I lost a 3Long pin in the Kardas skull when rebuilding it into Fenrakk, truly bad design there; it doesn't conserve pieces in order to provide pins for Vezon to stand on, he's just hanging off the chain in the promo pictures even.

Whereas Brutaka and Axonn combine beautifully, Kardas needs another draft to incorporate V&F. I think an opportunity to make the axes the hands of the dragon exists, but serious work would need to be done on the legs and neck. Not worth your time, unless you're the kind of mad lad who wants to rebuild it better AND you have the budget to buy three titan sets, or already have some of them. (Tangentially, I have a vague memory of OnuaNut doing this on BZP with the Mata Nui titan set but I don't know how to find it again, anyone seen that thread?)

Lava Hawk - 9/10. Similar to Botar, I now get that the matoran looked That Way to accomodate this satisfying build. Also just a great looking bird. If your combiner budget isn't super high, this one is an easy second to Botar.

Dagger Spider - 7/10. Body build is neat, but another spider? After all that visorak stuff? C'mon man. The Matoran look That Way for this again. Solid little build, slap it together if you have the sets but you don't need to seek out another four legged spider, there's already a dozen of those.

Jovan - 5.5/10. It's... Nuparu but bristling with metal. Totally devoid of the blue or yellow from Hewkii and Hahli. Iunno. Maybe this'll be good for people who buy the Batman or evil Star Wars sets made of only black and grey. It's not doing anything for me. Neat use of Hewkii's chain but it is, truly, just another Inika build, if slightly wider. Bonus half point for staying upright, unlike Kardas. But it's also unsalvageable, unlike Kardas - I don't see a way to nullify the problems here. Skip this one, even if he's the only non-Takanuva Toa set to control an element that's not one of the main six.

Irnakk - 8.5/10. Honestly, this is as good as the Lava Hawk, but I'm docking half a point because you can't build it with just the sets, you technically need five extra pieces. Still looks *really* good without them, and the build is even fun unlike some on this list. Next to Zaktan, it does look like something that would fuck him up. Give it a whirl.

Protodax - 7.5/10. Bahahaha. This one was made for me specifically. It's goofy and silly AND it looks better than most of the 2005 rahi combiners. YMMV but I loved it. Good use of a piraka spine. The build isn't anything to write home about, but I looks like a blorbo, if a blorbo had three heads. Adding a half point purely because of the out-of-the-box design that may be the most unhinged *while-still-cohesive* build I've seen simultaneously. This is the anti-Jovan in a lot of ways. Look, just build it for me so you can have a good laugh as well, okay? Great.

#what all do I tag this #Bionicle #Brutaka #Axonn #Vezon #Botar #bionicle combiners #Irnakk #open to debate on this because again Your Mileage May Vary with any of these #but I feel confident I got the numbers in the right ballpark

[hag-lad]

RRR-induced mania is so real, you guys. I’ve fuckin lost 17 pounds* since seeing this movie! It makes me want to hike and run and engage more mindfully with food. It gives me so much energy and happiness! I don’t know what kind of healing magic Rajamouli wove into this movie, but it is SO POWERFUL.

All I want is to do squats with my wife on my shoulders tbqh.

#*I’ve been obese for years and 17 pounds is not a large fraction of my body weight #my doctor and all my loved ones have observed my weight loss and agree it is improving my health #I have no history of restricting food or over-dieting so this kind of weight loss is safe for me. your mileage may vary #rrr my beloved #hag life #Indian cinema fanboy things

[do-you-have-a-flag]

don't remember who said to take flash photo selfies in a hotel room but they were correct

#looketh at my face #the outtakes for this were all terrible tho so your mileage may vary

[yourplasticpal]

So, in Good Omens, if we see food as an allegory for sex, and food is Aziraphale's Thing while Crowley isn't really into it (unless you count drinking, though he does love watching his angel experience pleasure), my ace ass really wants to see The Kiss as a romantic asexual who finally found their Person, against all odds, but now, faced with a breakup and the return of unimaginable loneliness, is desperately trying to make their beloved allosexual "happy", by any means necessary.

Words didn't work, and my love language is gifts and acts of service anyway, and I know you love ... let's shorthand it to earthly pleasures, so here, here's an earthly pleasure, I'm offering, whatever you want, just please, please don't leave me.

Which is all incredibly unhealthy (take it from someone who has been there, and looks back now through the lens of SO MUCH THERAPY), and frames the subsequent "breakup" in a much more positive light because, babes, that would have been the wobbliest, crumbliest, crappiest foundation for a relationship in the history of ever. That gambit needed to fail. For both your sakes.

We'll get you to that South Downs cottage yet, but there's a lot of hard work on yourselves between there and here.

#we all bring ourselves to the media we consume #your mileage may vary #no disrespect #no exclusion #your head canon is as valid as mine #and vice versa #good omens #ineffable husbands #ineffable partners #ineffable us #aziracrow

[finn0la]

a quick law inspired by this abbott handerson thayer painting!

#one piece #trafalgar law #one piece art #trafalgardwaterlaw #injury tw #gore tw #for people who have either of those tags filtered & don't want to risk it his right arm is severed! #it's not super in frame though so your mileage may vary on how you take it #my art! #one piece law #cw injury #cw gore #if anything else should be tagged please let me know!! <3 love you all mwah

[antifa-furry-soldier]

Went to a lesbian bar with my girlfriend and it was such a wonderful experience. Ended up talking most of the night with this cute 70 year old lesbian couple about life, love, and all the good shit while drinking and smoking weed.

I finally got to see what I might be like if I make it to that age. And honestly, it makes me want to make it. Shout out to Wendy

#trans #transgender #lesbian #transbian #your mileage may vary but if youre transfem i recommending going to a local dyke bar #just getting to be in an environment with such a mix of ages but all queer is a heartening experience

[fuck-em-up-your-grace]

Nah fuck this I’m adding Foe Yay back to the Four Swords TV Tropes YMMV page

#somebody took it off one day and. come on #it’s the Your Mileage May Vary page!!! literally the fandom opinion on the book is all that matters on that page #vidow

[sukimas]

if your program for microsoft windows does not have a way to update itself without my manually redownloading the whole program i will turn you into fine dust

#this is the one thing i really can't deal with on a windows machine as opposed to a linux machine #i love updates all being in ONE menu. thankyou #*note: only distros of linux i have used have been ubuntu forks your mileage may vary

[the-amber-raven]

"Yes, having Chris to focus on and hang out with did somewhat work to cheer Buck up. But it didn't fully meet his needs at the time, which is how we get to Buck feeling isolated and misunderstood enough that he triggers the lawsuit. And its not just Eddie - compare Buck in 3a and 5b. He isn't quite able to provide what Eddie needs in 3a because he doesn't realise how badly Eddie is struggling after Shannon's death and the tsunami" what did they need during this time?

They needed what they ultimately gave each other in S5 and S6.

Buck needed validation - someone (Eddie) to listen to his feelings and say "wow that is really hard. I'm here for you and it will get better, but I know that doesn't always help right now."

Eddie needed a different type of validation - someone (Buck) to call him out on his suppression tactics, someone to say "hey, you've been through a lot, its okay not to be okay; I'm here for you and it will get better but I know you need support."

Would it have helped fix everything that went wrong in that season for them? I don't know; they were both in such different places then than they are now. But I do think it would have stopped them from spiralling quite as badly as they did and would have stopped them from making those truly terrible decisions (the lawsuit and the fight club).

#911 #q&a #character introspection #i usually try and answer qs in order and i have several i haven't gotten to yet #but since this is related to the one i posted a bit ago i decided to answer anyway #obligatory your mileage may vary and all #delving into buck and eddies journey tonight! #buddie

[veterveter]

Happiest of birthdays to the most dearly beloved @sorrydearie !!!

I have written for the occasion, yet again ill-advisedly. For being lovely & being my friend, you get the *checks notes* angst you pitched to me. There is fluff there though, if you make it to the end. (It's like a reward.)

So it takes Andrés a month before he cracks, all because it becomes tiresome, in the end. To tell Martín a story, and repeat it, and repeat it, and repeat it. To watch their plan turn from a near-complete masterpiece to a work still in progress, to witness their greatest discoveries become undone.

#Happy 🎉 birthday 🎉 I hope you have a wonderful one!! #favourite girl - the girl - 🍀💖✨ #look I may go ahead and be the first to admit that this story was above my skill level and resources / w.e. but I still wrote some stuff #berlermo #lcdp #the 'strange stylistic choice informed by the themes' of this one is the immediate repetition of certain phrases - like an echo #yes that was indeed a choice I made and I stuck to it #also mileage may vary on whether my incredible disinterest in all side character etc. is a choice or a flaw #to me it's just how I like it ✨ yolo thankfully there's other people in the fandom who'll write that stuff because I likely won't #I'll eternally be nostalgic for that time you taught me to tell a story in 600 words it seems a skill I lost and now I just #[música romántica] is my cause of death would you believe I actually rewatched parts of S3 for this too wow #also - since this is my blorbo show and tell - at the start it's mostly evenings and at the end it's mornings yish thematic choices #this one has a title so short I might actually be bothered to type it out and idk how I feel about that #I tried to stick to the timeline and then I gave up don't mind me it's not my fault that parts of it mismatch and others don't spark joy #technically I should've probably edited this more heavy-handedly - at least 3 or 4 k could stand to go - but I didn't have the resources #it's all yolo in this house tonight okay #my fics #I am actually so honoured that I can write something for your birthday do not even look at me but it means a lot to me basically

[fruitgoat]

We've officially entered the month of so many shitty takes on College/University (or High School or School In General) and I'm already SO OVER IT. I mean, I had a really shit time in College and sometimes in High School. Sometimes both were so extra great. Most Hot Takes didn't apply to me then and extra don't work for me now. It's been twenty years, but I feel I can relate a bit to those going through it now because my nibllings actually talk to me sometimes. (I'm the Cool Aunt most of the time.)

So here's my Shout Out to those stuck in the cycle. HOLLA! And here's my Cool Aunt advice:

Make friends. (This is something I really sucked at, so I extra know you should actually do it. Even if you suck at it.) Don't worry about if it's only for this this project or for the rest of your life. That shit all happens later.

Take a couple classes you didn't expect to like. If you really don't like them, you can always drop them. (I HATED every business course I took. I LOVED my Anthropology courses and most of my Geology courses.)

Depending on what you want to do.... majors don't actually matter. Minors REALLY don't matter. Grades mostly don't matter. Study what actually interests you. I ended up unofficially majoring in Folklore (actually Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology). Because I was interested. Those were the classes I kept showing up for term after term.

#your mileage may vary #i know i was lucky #but also knew where to look for jobs that were less obvious #my current bosses biggest wonderment about my college years is mostly 'how were we not best friends?' #yes we all went to the same school at mostly the same time #we never met #it's a huge state school #and i did two years mostly at the community college before dropping out for a year #my bosses know their names might be on the door/wall but i'm in charge #so much in charge that two of my last three offices mostly close when i go vacation

[kits-shrine]

“Would something like that count as a courtship gift?” he asked, ears tilting along with his head, “how do kitsunes court?”

Kit let out a little giggle "My dear charmer there's so few of us and I was on my own for so long I wouldn't even know if there were any particular courting techniques for our kind or not." she paused a little more soberly "Kuko might know a little more but... I'm not sure we should ask him."

She turned her gaze back to Ingall's, warm smile returning "I can tell you I like what you've done so far though if that helps." Kit leaned in a little closer "I know you're not an elf any more but is there any particular courting for you I should be doing for you?"

#aizawasluckylady #kitsune facts #Kit don't really know it but #the scent marking thing is a big one #'I am yours and you are mine' type of thing #gifts are good too #beautiful things #especially nature #ability to have fun #but take care of their own #touch is big too #of course with all #mileage may vary person to person #lore building #in the tags