amazingpetenclosures:

A ten gallon makes for the perfect betta tank, if you’re liking the idea of fish!  I don’t think it’d be big enough for hermit crabs, or at least not after a while. But you could probably do some sort of aquatic crab, there’s several species that stay small, though I don’t know them off the top of my head and I’m unsure what kind of specific care/space requirements they have. You could potentially keep a male kenyan sand boa, since they tend to stay so much smaller than females. Or a single male mouse could be comfortable in a ten gallon as long as you’re willing to spruce it up a bit and give him lots of climbing things and whatnot. There’s a few types of small frogs you could look into, or house geckos. Or something like snails or a tarantula or other inverts would be good too. And of course you could always use it as a grow-out tank for a number of baby animals with the idea of upgrading them as they grow.

African dwarf frogs. They’re a fully aquatic frog species with a body length of about an inch, and their care is almost identical to fish. The only difference is you have to be sure they can access the surface of the water to breathe air. You could keep several in a tank that size, and they’re cute little guys. Just be sure you get an african DWARF frog and not a clawed frog, clawed frogs get big. 

wetwareproblem:

queerenbian:

typehere452:

vassraptor:

snarp:

Don’t buy them if you plan on reading them on a PC or Mac! Or, like, probably at all.

Though this isn’t mentioned anywhere public on B&N’s website, they killed their desktop app and their read-in-browser function a while back, and no longer permit any form of downloading of ebooks off of mobile apps or Nook devices.

Also, “nook” is a dirty word now, so there’s that.

And since they’re in their death spiral, this also means that the app might disappear and take your books with you when they go under. So if you’ve bought books from them in the past and don’t have access in another format, now might be the time to think about how you’re gonna read those books when B&N suddenly closes the way Borders did.

It would be terribly wrong for me to advise B&N/Nook users to do a search on how to extract those files from your phone or ereader and convert them to an open format so you can continue to use them, since by the terms of your agreement with B&N you don’t own those files, you’re just temporarily licensed to use them. I’ll leave you to ponder the potential legal consequences of that, and the likelihood that anyone would enforce them.

(side note: aren’t they the ones who did a s&r in all their ebook files, converting the word “kindle” to “nook”? with very strange consequences for novels in which people started fires? which is fucking ridiculous but still not as bad as the times Amazon repossessed people’s copies of 1984 when there turned out to be a licensing problem with them, and also censored LGBT content on their website?)

And here is the reason why, ladies gents and everyone inbetween, why I still prefer physical books over ebooks.

@peculiar-persephone

Under no circumstances should you use a program like, say, Calibre to manage your ereader’s content, including downloading to and from the reader and converting between standard formats. That would be wrong.

Just mutters “…oh dear” and waits for someone to come and help him get the trailer out without smashing it up entirely. Ratchet probably yells at him later.

sabertoothwalrus:

faranae:

jarofloosescrews:

smutprincedio:

So over the past 10-15 years, as I’ve been trying to branch out, grow a following and sell commissions, there’s one phrase I’ve heard more than any other.

“I’d love to support you, but I have no money.”

And you know, I get that. I understand. I don’t have any either. But here’s the secret. The most powerful and useful thing you can do to support an artist? It doesn’t cost a penny. Reblog their posts, signal boost their commissions, advertise their patreon./
If you have commissioned them, or do support their patreon? Write a review, tell your friends, share their links. Keep circulating the tapes.

Every post is an artist laying themselves bare before you. You have the power to make them into somebody. You can make them into a big name, you can help bring them an income. All you have to do is share.

Here’s a handy infographic.

If artists get only likes, they never get any exposure. They find no followers, they make no money, and feel worthless.

But with reblogs, who knows how far they could reach? New people could see their work and follow them, and maybe one person will spot that commissions post or patreon promo, and maybe offer to help support them. And it didn’t even cost those followers a penny to reblog the post.

So please, anyone out there. If you enjoy an artist’s work and can’t afford to give any monetary support, you can give them something more powerful. A voice.

And authors, too. Please reblog and share author commissions!

To use the first 200 reblogs of this post as an example: 

That orange dot is OP! Look at how far those first few reblogs spread this post! 

Can I also add!!!!!!

This doesn’t work if you repost art.

Especially when you remove the credit, you break the web of connections. Only only only ever repost an artist’s context if you have ALREADY asked them and they have ALREADY given EXPLICIT permission

deathlistenstoher:

cetaceanxneeded:

chesed-universe-180:

cluelessbutch:

-hearing tiny beautiful sounds like water droplets and leaves crunching
-knowing lots of fun trivia from special interests over the years
-brightly colored things that make ur eyes happy
-that feeling when someone asks you to tell them about sth you know a lot about and it’s infodump time !!!!!!
-the Good Foods™
-when ur logical and rational thinking helps you solve a problem or think of something other people wouldn’t
-nice textures are So Nice: cats, very soft blankets, smooth and cold stones, the inside of a brand new sweatshirt

(we could all use some autism positivity. pls reblog and add ur own! it’s ok if they contradict each other or if u don’t relate to all of them; we’re all different)

-finding out you share echolalia with someone, and echoing it back and forth!

-when someone shares something because it’s related to a special interest of yours!

-when someone shares that your special interest thing consistently and specifically reminds them of you!!!

-helping other people explore their autistic experiences, and inevitably learning something about your autism from them too!

-friend is stimming, I stim too, echo stims ad infinitum~

-hey, that stim toy you just got looks cool, wanna switch stim toys for a bit? Cool? Yeah, awesome – oh, this is really good! Okay, let’s switch back now.

-seeing other people stimming, especially in public!!! what a joy!!

-sharing info about a special interest with someone, and seeing them get interested too – esp. when they get long term or really deeply into it!!

-getting excited pictures from friends of their new stim toys, or precious objects

-long distance autie connections – “I wish you could have been here, it was sooooo soft!!!”

– how vibrantly happy you can get!

– realizing something you do is an Autistic Thing and suddenly it’s not weird and there are other people who do the same!

– relating to animals!

– scented candle stores!

– unique happy stim dances!

– having plushie collections ❤ ❤

– that moment when you find out someone shares a special interest and it’s Special Interest Collision Supernova!

– epic reference retention capacity!

– the sheer amount of love and positivity in our community!

@cerulean-shark

tilthat:

TIL Obsidian can be made into a scalpel with a cutting edge of 3 nanometers. A strand of DNA is 2.5 nm, a sheet of paper 100,000 nm

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