I was on Craigslist earlier in the week looking for empty aquariums/terrariums, and I found someone wanting to give away a 10 gallon tank and carnival prize goldfish that her son was tired of. The goldfish looked OK from what I could see, not looking stunted yet, and it had a filter, but that’s not a situation that can last very long.
So I messaged the lady, politely told her about how big goldfish get and a few other facts, gave her kudos for keeping it in an aquarium and not a bowl, and sent a couple of names of pet stores in the area that will take large fish and rehome them.
Just got a message back that they took the goldfish to one of said stores. Now he’s gonna go to a good home instead of stunting and dying early in a 10 gallon tank. So I’m happy.
Don’t get me wrong, the owner did the best she knew to. They’d had him for awhile, much longer than carnival goldfish usually live, and had him in what would have been a good setup for most fish. She just didn’t know that they get so big. Not surprising, given the widely accepted image of a goldfish in a bowl.
I kinda want to laugh at the idea that burning the heart-shaped herb means the plants are gone, like FUCK…have you ever weeded a garden in your LYFE?? You WISH burning plants killed them, holy shit. Those plants’re gonna come back even thicker AND they’ll have extra fertilizer from the ash compost. They’re vibranium plants, those roots run deep.
Attendants: Are you sure? That’s gonna set us back, like, a whole six months…
Erik: YES I’M SURE. I WANT THEM GONE.
Attendants: …We’re just not gonna mention that this won’t actually get rid of them.
Basically, I think the whole nation of Wakanda was like, “We’re gonna humour this guy to achieve our own ends until we can find a way to get rid of him.”
Yes!
Also, I imagine trips to the astral plane could be pretty stressful, depending on the current state of events, confrontations with previous kings.
While T’Challa’s trip was peaceful, there had to of been a previous ruler or two that wanted to destroy the grove for whatever reason.
While the Dora Milaje are loyal to the throne, the priestesses and attendants are loyal to the future Kong’s/queens of Wakanda.
That grove was fine.
Also I mean, Killmonger grew up in the inner city, he fucking didn’t know how plants worked.
HeLL YES to the point that (brutalized) urbanization does nobody any good, and it’s also worth talking about how this is in many ways by design, especially in places that literally make it illegal to garden on vacant lots.
And I had to share your tags, they are too perfect.
when will YA authors realize that the mr. darcy fantasy isn’t “hot rich guy is a huge dick to you” but “hot rich guy fucking respects and listens to you”
“hot rich guy only seems like a huge dick because he has the social skills of an agarophobic lobster.”
“hot rich guy is actually a respectful socially awkward mess”
people talk about fucking robots shaped like conventionally attractive people but what about omniscient vengeful all-encompassing supercomputers filled with endless loathing for humanity and their own tortured existence
Shuri shouting out the floor is lava and recording the confusion among the avengers wondering why tchalla king of Wakanda hopped up on a counter cause goddammit his little sister pulls this shit all the time and peter is stuck on the wall because he’s also a child of the internet and understands the meme life and now his fate is sealed there will never not be a time Shuri isn’t camera ready and yelling out the floor is lava to see the wackiest places she could get peter to stick on
T’Challa ignored her once so she developed synthetic deployable lava and the next time she yelled the floor is lava it actually was. T’Challa lives in fear now because he knows if he doesn’t pretend the floor is dangerous, it will be.
(And he did 101 gay weddings because he was trying to compare the Attorney General against marriage equality to Cruella DeVille, like, 101 dalmations.)
THE TRUE UNPROBLEMATIC FAVE
Come to think of it I never actually found a single reason to dislike him. To my knowledge he’s just a goofball who likes food.
Okay, so as far as I can tell, the whole thing people kinda roll their eyes about is Guy Fierei’s whole presentation. He’s loud and he’s got the bleached hair and he kinda seems like the annoying frat bro chanting “Shots!” at a party.
But.
Dude’s biggest show on TV is one where he drives around and highlights tiny restaurants that make good food. (And they do- I found my favorite pizza place in town because it was on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.) And they’re all little places, usually run by family or something, making food they love. So he’s doing an amazingly awesome thing for these small restaurants, driving a lot of business to them. I found this article that’s talking about how places see a definite bump in sales, and they can even tell when a repeat airs, because they’ll still get emails and stuff.
And there’s the fact that every time he goes out to film an episode, he invites a kid along from the Make-a-Wish foundation– actually, he invites their whole family, so no one feels left out. Apparently, that happens on all his shows, which is pretty amazing. Again, this is because of his sister- she was diagnosed with cancer as a kid, and beat it, though she died of melanoma a few years ago. So because he went through that as a kid, he does a lot to help out families who are dealing with that sort of thing. It’s pretty awesome.
I admit it, I’ve made fun of him before, because he does have that whole attitude that kinda grates. But when you put that aside, he’s a dude who’s enjoying himself, helping out a lot of people, and talking a lot about food he thinks is delicious. So good for him. There’s worse things in the world.
I have always and will always love guy. he’s such a big goof…what’s not to love…
Y’all Guy is wonderful. He got his start on Next Food Network Star and I remember that season very vividly. I saw it as a kid. He just wants people to have fun while they eat. That’s literally his only goal. There was a challenge where they had to make cupcakes for 5 year olds and everyone made these boring ass cupcakes like ‘Oh they’re decorated like the 4 seasons see its educational’ and they were criminally dull. The only thing that was changed was the frosting. And Guy comes up and starts making all these crazily shaped sushi cupcakes. Like cutting them into goofy shapes, making them bite sized, modeling them after dragons and stuff, it was so cool and the kids were EXCITED. He gets what makes thing fun on a fundamental, basic level. He’s not a douchebag frat boy. He’s that crazy uncle you were always excited to see at family gatherings.
Go watch Guy’s Grocery Games. Its on Hulu. He’s so goofy and fun and he’s just as excited for the winners as the winners themselves. The show really makes me happy to watch.
Y’all I joke on Guy Fieri but he geninely is an amazing motherfucker.
He’s extremely loud, both literally and visually, but he’s awesome. Loves everybody, especially kids, and he helps people out on his show all the time. Some of the challenges are evil (”cook this meal with only 7 items”), but he runs around helping people find things, and regularly gives helpful “don’t screw that up” suggestions when someone is about to mess up. When there are kids on the show, he won’t let them use mandolins, he slices the whatever-it-is himself.
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