#fireyturtle

[onenicebugperday]

Can bugs get fat? I know they can molt, but can a bug eat so much between molts that it gets too big for its exoskeleton and its too soon to molt again? Also is it possible for a bug to over eat and make themselves ill or get a tummy ache?

I don't know about making them feel ill (you'd have to ask them), but some can eat too much or store too much fat, especially those in captivity that are fed too frequently or fed an improper diet. In the wild, most bugs wouldn't have the opportunity to eat enough to get overly fat, but sometimes due to parasites or genetics, they can retain too much fat. The exoskeleton of adult bugs allows for some expansion between molts, but there is a limit. Too much fat would mostly mean it's just packed tighter into the same area inside the exoskeleton. This can be dangerous - pet spiders come to mind. If they're fed too frequently and their abdomen gets too distended, they are much more prone to fall injuries that may rupture the abdomen. I also read an article some time ago about wild dragonflies that were infected with a specific parasite that made them retain too much fat and they then had less success mating. Larvae like caterpillars on the other hand have much more leeway in terms of how much they can grow between molts - their exoskeleton is much stretchier to accommodate the necessary growth, and they store fat/energy mostly for use in pupation or for use in the adult form after pupation, especially if it's one of the species that don't eat as adults so they have to get all their energy as larvae.

[canisalbus]

I see Vasco has a thin tail. My parents have a lab/terrier mix dog that also has a thin tail except I think she's numb on it cause she whacks it on absolutely everything and doesn't react at all. Like she hits it on every surface imaginable but still keeps on wagging. Does Vasco ever whack his tail really concerningly hard against things but acts like nothing happened?

As a dog man person who grew up with the tail he has, he probably has enough spatial awareness to be mindful of it. Even if he's bound to hit it on things occasionally, you'd have to be wagging pretty vigorously for it to bother you in any meaningful way. Hitting your funny bone hurts more.

[popfizzles]

What about a pattern? Like stripes or checkers? Doesn't gotta be white/black, it can be a different color too, like pink

Fizzy's already got stripes on their shirt and leg warmers, I think putting a pattern on their jacket would just be overwhelming!! <:)

[klanced]

Me: Allura you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. they’ll kill you

Allura:

[fireyturtle]

Idk how to type this out and explain this any better other than: I am a trans man. I live in Florida. My family doesn't understand my concern over the recent bills that have been passed. I'm scared for how I'm going to continue living here.

My rights are being stripped away and now I'm faced with the real possibility of being sent to jail because I used the bathroom I identify with. Insurance companies will no longer cover Testosterone after SB 254 passes. I'm considering fleeing the state but I don't want to abandon my family.

My dad has stage 4 lung cancer. He was diagnosed January 2021. He's been undergoing immunotherapy for over a year. It was radiation and chemo before that. I don't want to leave my dad's side. I wish I could stay here with him. But I'm also genuinely scared about what will happen to me if I do stay through it all.

HB 1421, before it became SB 254, threatened to remove the ability to change the marker on your birth certificate. It's possible they can still add that clause back in to SB 254 or even create a whole other bill that includes it. My marker is already changed, but I fear they will reverse the change because I haven't had any surgeries yet.

I've worked hard for years to progress my transition to this point. I'm not going to give it up. But that doesn't mean I'm not terrified about what will happen to me for being openly trans.

My voice is soft and doesn't fit as a normal guy's voice. I wear a binder and sometimes it's visible. I try to pass but I usually fail. I'm 25 turning 26 in July, and DeSantis is trying to strip away my rights for my birthday. Any bill that passes takes effect July 1st, 2023.

If anyone could please help me figure out what to do I would greatly appreciate it. If you wish to donate to help me get by or even escape this state when it becomes time, I have a paypal: paypal.me/fireyturtle

If you wish to talk with me, my DMs are open.

[marusagorjup]

What size canvas do you normally draw on? And what kind of tablet do you use to draw? I just found your art today and I'm in love!

Thank you^^ I normally paint on a big canvas, such as A3 or poster size (18x24 in) always at 300dpi, so that I can make a print if i wanted to.

For the tablet I used the Wacom One Display until about a week ago, but I just upgraded to the Huion Kamvas 22+.

[lesbian-toddhoward]

We really feelin dancing red spore monkey huh

groovin spore creature for tonight

[mageyalook]

You are reviving my soul with the soroku art you've been posting lately. (I really love your art ❤❤ I wanna say thank you for drawing them? Cause I never see people draw the ship anymore and it's one of my faves ghdhdjhsvi)

u know what they say, be the change u wanna see!! also it didnt really occur to me that outside my circle soroku is hardly touched on, despite being fully aware of it before i found my circle JKHAJKSDHKA

[tmitransitioning]

My pharmacy gives me 1ml bottles and my dose is .25ml so that's supposed to last me 4 weeks. Yet I've already used up the vial and it's been 3 weeks. I just put a request in at the pharmacy so I'll be a couple days late on my dose no biggie, but is there anything I can do to avoid this in the future? I'm very confident I've been doing .25ml so this came as a big surprise I'm short a week

you can draw up the dose and pull it all the way back into the syringe, measuring it against the side of the wall from air bubble , including air, to make sure that you’re not over-drawing it including what is measured up in the plastic part of the base of the needle (the hub).  0.25ml is quite a lot to accommodate in a needle hub (even accounting for the drip stuck inside the vial that is nearly impossible to draw up).  It can help to have smaller sized syringes (1ml for example instead of 3ml, if you’ll be sticking with doses under 1ml while you’re on T), so you have less hub waste.  

Hope this helps. 

Mod mayhem

attached below the cut (CW) are some photos and captions of what i mean about hub loss and using air space to measure. 

(4 photos of 1ml syringes: 

the first is captioned “0.25ml measured to the mark, more in the hub” with a red bracket showing the level of testosterone in the barrel of the syringe and the hub.  The second is the same syringe, with the barrel pulled back, with air showing the full level of T, captioned “0.3ml when measured from air bubble to plunger. (ignore the nipple on my plunger- most don’t have a low loss plunger).”  the red bracket now shows the same volume in the original photo is actually 0.3ml.  The reference to the low loss plunger shows a plunger with a hump in the center, which is a non-standard design. 

The third photo is a different syringe, with two red brackets, with a caption that says “looks like 0.2ml from hub to plunger”

the final photo is the same syringe with air pulled into the barrel, with the red bracket showing that it’s actually the proper 0.25ml dose. “0.25ml measured from air bubble to plunger.”

[all-or-nothing-baby]

For your trans post, as a transman myself, honestly just try it out! You seem to already be unsure about your gender so just try he/him pronouns and maybe presenting that way and see if it fits. It might and it might not. Everybody has a different relationship with gender so I cant exactly say whether youd like it or not, but there is zero harm in testing it and finding a new side of yourself. If you end up liking it, great! You may be trans! If you dont, well you tried it and now you know!

I think the post just made me really think, as one of the rebloggers said "if you don't wanna be your gender, you're trans," or something to that effect.

It's weird. I don't feel like a woman. But I don't know if I feel like a man either...? I just know that if was told I could wake up a man tomorrow, I'd say hell yeah because I feel it'd maybe sit better with me. But would I want to transition? I don't know.

It doesn't even make sense to me really.

Thing is, I used to dress/appear much more masculine as it was just me to be that way.

The last proper relationship I had with a girl (I've had kisses in clubs and a few one-night stands) was in my late teens as since then all my partners have just happened to be males (I'm pansexual), in the form of three very long-term relationships (I'm now 38).

I have Borderline Personality Disorder so struggle with my sense of self. Therefore, being with someone romantically, I tend to bend to whatever I think they want (which I fucking hate but can't seem to help as I think if I don't they'll leave me--issues!). So, for the last fuck-knows-how-long, my hair/clothes/make-up have been chosen to try and make me look 'pretty' in a stereotypically girly way (because it's what my ex's liked) but GODAMMIT IT'S JUST NOT ME. It's like I've become kinda stuck wearing somebody else's image AND I'M DONE WITH IT. Now I'm single again, I think I'm s l o w l y finding who I am again (without sounding like a fucking clichè). And me is definitely not some pretty little girly-girl type.

So, I think I'll start here: I'm gonna cut my hair short again, change my wardrobe back to comfortable-as-fuck baggy jeans instead of skinny drainpipes and stop crossing my legs 'like a girl' because it really doesn't come naturally to me.

Then, who knows after that? Think I'll just go with the flow and see where the tide takes me....

@fireyturtle Thank you sooooo much for your lovely and emmensly helpful reply, you've got me to think out my ever-jumbled thoughts a little and set me off on the track to (once again) Finding Lucy--'s kinda like finding Nemo, except I'm part Dory. Let's call it Finding Nemy XD .

[criticaldrivearchived]

Are you nutting over trinity trio

I just wanna let you know that was a mobile technical error and I didn’t mean to add that image

[kidkytes]

Tagged by @zelos-wilders to post 8 characters I relate to and a picture of me. Thanks Dakota this took some serious though, also you are so handsome in your picture! From the top middle clockwise we have Marco Diaz from Star vs the Forces of Evil, Nei from Phantasy Star, Son Gohan from Dragon Ball Z, Roxas from Kingdom Hearts, Steven Quartz Universe from Steven Universe, Sora from Kingdom Hearts, Beast Boy from Teen Titans and Milla Maxwell from Tales of Xillia.

I feel these ones best represent my personality and different areas of it. Naturally I feel more in touch with Steven to all sides of myself, he's very much me at my most free. But there's also the serious side of Nei's want to be accepted and freedom, Roxas' want to have an identity, Sora's joy for life and friendship, Gohan's nerdiness, Beast Boy's silly personality and Milla Maxwell's drive and want for justice. Maybe I'm looking too deep into it but I think this goes well.

I'm gonna tag the following nerds:

@swordingering / @radiantgarden / @fireyturtle / @gaygaryoak / @soras-majestic-butt / @bvnne / @punkroxas / @talysalankil / @kettsuper / @keybaes / @simpleandkai19 / @waywardgohan / @axel-kh / @firewindmill / @memefajitas / @thetwilightroadtonightfall

[onenicebugperday]

@fireyturtle submitted: Found this cool moth while I was on a delivery! They looked so much like leaves I actually didnt think they were real. I had to leave for my next delivery otherwise I wouldve gotten more pics of different angles. They sat super still and didnt move an inch. Found in South Florida

Not surprising they didn't move at all in the middle of the day. That's normally when they rest to prepare to go do moth stuff at dusk. And yes, their camouflage is incredible! If I were a bird I don't think I'd see them at all hidden among leaves. Anyhoo they're a tersa sphinx moth. Caterpillars can be green or brown:

:) Photo by seaheart88

[dirkxcaliborn]

I just wanted to let you know that the post you reblogged about wearing your binder on an airplane is actually wrong. It is safe to wear your binder on a plane because the cabin is pressurized to a normal atmosphere. They also make specialized swimming binders that should not at all be as tight as normal binders, but enough to help dysphoria. The plane one is heavily debunked but I couldnt find more info about the swimming one

o thank you for the updated info! 

[gayskalle]

I was tagged by @zerotounfinity

RULES: Bold the statements that apply to you, italicise your aspirations, and tag nine people.

AIR: I have small hands • I love the night sky • I watch small animals and birds when I pass them by • I drink herbal tea • I wake to see dawn • The smell of dust is comforting • I’m valued for being wise • I prefer books to music • I meditate • I find joy in learning new truths from the world around me

FIRE: I don’t have straight hair • I like to wear ripped jeans and overalls • I play an organized sport • I love dogs • I am not afraid of adventure • I love to talk to strangers • I always try new foods • I enjoy road trips • Summer is my favorite season • My radio is always playing

WATER: I wear bracelets on my wrists • I love the bustle of the city • I have more than one set of piercings • I read poetry • I love the sound of a thunderstorm • I want to travel the world • I sleep past midnight most days • I love dimly lit diners and fluorescent signs • I rewatch kids’ shows out of nostalgia • I see emotions in colors, not words

EARTH: I wear glasses • I enjoy doing the laundry • I am a vegetarian or vegan • I have an excellent sense of time • My humour is very cheerful • I am a valued advisor to my friends • I believe in true love • I love the chill of mountain air • I’m always listening to music • I am highly trusted by the people in my life

AETHER: I go without makeup in my daily life • I make my own artwork • I keep on track of my tasks and time • I always know true north • I see beauty in everything • I can always smell flowers • I smile at everyone I pass by • I always fear history repeating itself • I have recovered from a mental disorder • I can love unconditionally

Tagging: @fireyturtle @inquiries-of-an-intj @lisa-kitty @drlaserface @whatisgrammaranyway @moonlit-pinetrees @kosher-salt @luddefluff @darthbiscuits You guys don’t have to do it if you don’t want to

[fireyturtle]

Just help a guy out

I'm gay, trans, and live in Florida. My dad has stage 4 lung cancer.

Any help is appreciated

Paypal : @fireyturtle

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