I imagined him to be quite sleepy after all that, poor tired guy
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Today in fish nonsense! 🐟🐠- Tank is good to go! Cool wood piece is cleaned and time to spend way too long on a plan painting.
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Tank has been set up, leak tested so it's good to go (after I overhauled the layout of my office ... still dealing with the fallout of that though lol) and the piece of jarrah/mirra? wood that my Dad grabbed from the tree he cut down on a farm (noting this specifically because it's actually now illegal to commercially harvest Jarrah in my state - this was on private property so it's legal) has had the absolute crap scrubbed out of it - I mean literally, in the process I found yet another interesting hole in it so that's cool, then high-pressure blasted with water so I am finally ready to think about scaping.
Which apparently means spending longer than I should drawing a plan lol. This piece is super awkward to work with I think - while functionally interesting it has a silhouette that makes me oscillate between 'boring' and 'awkward'. After talking to some artist friends, generally it was agreed I'd need to put more stuff in there to actually make it look better, right now naked glass is super harsh. Problem is, rocks and wood? Well in the aquarium hobby that shit is expensive. We're talking 60 AUD+ for pieces of wood. I mean they are fully cleaned and treated (?) and selected for being interesting, but I have a budget and I'd like to save as much of it as I can for more than just harscape sooooo planning is just the right idea here.
Thinking seiryu stone because I looooove the white veining through it, and then for the branches to break up the shape it's probably going to be spiderwood or something (as much as I love mopani wood I don't think it usually sells branched like this - but I will watch out for it) but the good part is these pieces are all probably going to be on the smaller side since I have my huge hunk of feature wood for free.
I don't know how this piece of wood will interact with inhabitants, I've soaked it for probably a month at this point to get a large amount of the tannins out (and I know it waterlogs, which is great because I won't have to play 'how long will this take to sink') but also to help the looser material come off so all I'm left with now is the hard stuff. It's also now sitting in the sun (and I mean sun - it is going to be 40C today and the next few days so that shit is gonna bake 💀) but prior to that has been sitting in the sun either here or the farm for a total of about idk ... at least a month? Maybe more?
I've struggled to find information on whether Jarrah or Mirra wood is safe beyond one post on a forum where someone-who-knew-someone at a local fish shop had put a piece of this in his store tank and all the fish died. Beyond that? no more context. According to my freshwater ecologist friend I caught up with, she thinks it's probably going to be okay given the amount of time/work put in. I have not done a bleach soak and I don't think I really need to given the amount of time it's been soaking in regular tap water (so already contains chlorine) and sun exposure. There will still probably be tannin leakage into the water but I'm okay with having a mild blackwater tank after seeing one in my LFS, I actually like the slight tannin tint of water and how it makes everything a little 'softer'. But I do ACTUALLY want to be able to see though lmao. I've also seen Jarrah seed pods sold locally specifically for blackwater tank setups so it might be fine?
Either way the plan is going to be: Scape, plant, cycle and then introduction of some cheap shrimp as my poor guinea pigs to see if that wood actually is awful.
Right now I'll just have to painstakingly go through plant choices and placement and making sure it lines up with the planned parameters for the community. I absolutely will take suggestions btw.
More soon. Fish nonsense will contain fish ... at some point. I swear lmao.
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Soooo I ended up cutting a bit of my hair last night (a bit more than I meant to while trimming it whoops) and while I'm chill with how it looks now, I'm still not sure if I should leave it or not. So! I'm taking the decision out of my hands lol (or rather more likely, I'll see if the results make me feel one way or the other). The first 2 pics are my hair rn. The 3rd is how I'd hope to get it if I cut it shorter. 4th is a long buzz, and 5th is a short buzz. I know I def don't wanna go full headshave atm but I'd be willing to a short buzz, maybe lol. So, help me make up my damn mind plz! Note, I'm trying to look a lil more masc/androgynous, but don't entirely mind if my hair reads a bit more femme. Also I know I have this set to a day but I'll prob only be looking at the results in the next few hours. Tumblr, give us more time options on the polls plz.
[Image description: Five photos of OP (they/he), a young, chubby, white enby, showing off different hairstyles. The first two photos show me with jaw length shaggy brown hair with shaved sides, the first showing it with a middle part and the second showing a deep side part, with a shaved side showing. The third photo shows me with much shorter hair, probably a couple inches long, with the hair brushed back out of my face. The last two photos show me with a buzzcut, the first is maybe about an inch long, while the second is about half an inch. End description.]
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so instead of trying to get everyone together to play dnd and commit to a night per month or something, i’m going to have my sister and nephew create characters and then design them a short, casual adventure. i never really intended to be dm, but i’m a writer and also i have the most time and energy to do the harder bit of the setup. it’s also nice and low-pressure with just the three of us playing, so i’m not stressed. i’m having ideas! it actually sounds really fun to create the game for them to explore and keep it balanced and fun for them. now i just have to do everything and wait for the right timing to play, which shouldn’t take long
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Btw, just letting people know that I'm leaning more towards shorter threads atm. It's just that my brain seems to have a finite amount of muse, where long replies seem to wear out my muse super fast and it means I can only get one or maybe two big replies done and then can't much manage much else. 😂
I will get to them, but when I feel more able to. 😊
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//digging around my bag of info i have on lambda but never share
outside of the use of his translation bracelet, he does know a few words in other languages! some he picked up from his dad, who also used to those words (albeit rarely and was mostly to joke around). however, they’re mostly just swear words.
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