ratspotting:

As many of y’all know, I live in an extremely abusive household with controlling, manipulative, and cruel parents. My mother is particular is prone to violence, and the constant fear is wearing on my mental health.

Is there anyone in Houston around the Bellaire area that’s willing to let me come hang out / stay nights just to get away for a bit? It’s not urgent right now but I’d like to have people to turn to if things go wrong again. I’m 19 and I don’t drink nor do drugs, and I can drive myself. Feel free to message me. I may make a more elaborate post later.

Please spread this around.

Hello, I’ve been really interested in koi ponds and keeping koi but the only information I have found about the care for koi is from landscaping & koi pond installation sites and I just don’t feel I can trust them- do you know anything about koi or maybe links or something? Sorry to bother you, hope you have a good day!

aquaristlifeforme:

I know nothing about koi ponds. Sorry. I know a lot about water quality. And life support. But keep googling. I’m sure you’ll find some good information. Unless any of my awesome followers know some things. They’re really nice.

You need roughly 1000 gallons of water per koi, they get very large. Keep in mind they’re pretty much just decorative carp. If the pond is well filtered and planted, it’s 1000 gallons for the first koi, then 500 gallons per additional koi. The pond should also be at least 3 feet deep in spots to provide protection from temperature shifts. They aren’t really any different than other fish, aside from that. Make them a large pond, equip a strong filter, put in some aquatic plants, feed them a decent quality food (less in the winter), don’t let the pond ice over completely for too long, keep herons/cats/raccoons/etc away, and that’s about all. 

I can’t believe I only just now thought of this, but you know who else might join Soundwave’s horrible cannibal club on a really, really bad day? Arcee. She’s really the only TFP autobot I could see doing something like that, and even then she would do it hiding in the dumpster of internalized shame and never speak of it again…unless her victim is Airachnid or maybe Starscream or a very nasty functionist. Granted, she’ll probably be puking her guts out later, but worth iiiittt!!

Or if she was starving during a scouting mission on Cybertron. Lots of corpses lying around, and when your options are chewing corpses or going hungry, you usually pick the corpses. Set on fire, first. Gotta cook your food before you eat it!

I’m not sure Cybertronians can cook their food, since energon is kinda explodey.

Probably just about every Cybertronian alive has had to drink energon taken from a corpse. It’s usually filtered and such, though, rather than being ripped straight from a corpse. Ratchet almost definitely has, old-aft practical mech that he is. Wheeljack probably knows how to make high-grade out of vein energon. 

But Arcee? 

Yeah, she’d probably straight-up eat someone. In a literal dumpster for shelter, most likely, she’d fit. 

…now I’m picturing Soundwave somehow finding out and just blasting the lyrics to “Welcome To The Club” at full volume next time he encounters Arcee and the others. He’s a lil slag sometimes and wants to see what happens. 

doktorgirlfriend:

There are plenty of night, probably the majority, where Bruce is 100% committed to the role of Batman. Just living and breathing the pursuit of justice and crashing through the skylight of the latest hideout and just snarling the villain-of-the-night’s name all “RIDDLER!”

But then there are nights where he’s just so fucking done. He’s still out there giving 110% but radiating exhaustion and exasperation the entire time. The villain’s waiting for his inevitable arrival, all the henchmen’s eyes trained on the windows and the roof, but instead Bruce just slams the door open one-handed, casually knocking out a henchman, and glowers wearily. “What the fuck, Ed?”