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What’s wrong with bettas?

Annnd as promised, here’s that write-up on betta genetics and what’s wrong with all those pretty genes. We’ve got pictures and everything. This is a full, comprehensive list of the various problems with domestic betta traits. If you’re in the market for a new angry pal, then there’s a list of “good” things to look for in a betta at the end.

Just a quick intro before we begin: I’ve been into fishkeeping for over a decade, I currently have 16 running tanks ranging from 5 to 440 gallons, I’ve got about 200 fish at the moment, and I’ve had a good 20 to 25 bettas of my own over the years. When I was younger, I even bred a pair of pet store veiltails together, and reared some of the fry into adulthood. So, this is information coming from someone has both seen these things firsthand and talked with many, many other betta keepers who have done the same.

This is my new betta, Embezzlement. He looks great, right? He really does! But he’s also quickly going blind as a result of his thickened scales growing over his eyes, his fins will end up dragging him down to the point of immobility as he ages, and he’s at high-risk for developing visible tumors all over his body. I’ll get into that under the cut!

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I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-Nazi ones, which is great, but I felt like we needed one to show our support for the Jewish community.  

I'm just wondering here

obligatory please reblog for sample size, I really want to know who is the most popular

hi can we normalize the idea of choosing not to drink

Please. White people. PARTICUARLY those with large blogs with large followings.

Stop perpetuating blood quantum for native people. None of these bullshit 1/64th native jokes. None.

Native people have been saying for ages— BEGGING EVEN— for you to stop. It hurts us. It is not your job to make decisions on who is native and who isn’t.

Native people view being native as a relation of how we are connected with our people and tribe. Not “how native” we are.

Stop stop STOP perpetuating this bullshit.

To my younger (American) followers:

Even if the polls are ridiculous you still have to vote Even if the experts say it’s over you still have to vote Even if the newscasters have called your state you still have to vote

Elections are decided by the people who show up on election day. All the polls in the world don’t mater if you don’t go into the booth and make a choice. All the experts can be (and frequently are) wrong if you don’t go into the booth and make a choice. News media tend to call stats at 5% of votes tallied. If your polls are still open, you can still change things.

Don’t let a strong summer showing in the media dissuade you. You still have to show up in November. It does matter. If people see their candidate winning and decide that they don’t have to show up and be heard, there is a chance the other side will rally. You have to participate. No matter what.

Batfam be like

The Nightmare King learning of a universe where a band of adventurers "destroy" them, and just grabbing the party's counter parts in their universe while they are smaller. Their The Nightmare King's kids now, at least Kalina and Baron like the goblin, even if maybe one of the kids is happy and it's the wood elf who clearly thinks this is a dream.

ficlet frenzy note: i really didn't intend to write this originally, cause the scope was really big, and it felt like i wouldn't be able to encapsulate everything. but also, i love bad endings. and kristen applebees. so... hey! (written during @d20ficoff)

“C’mon, Kris! Let’s go play!”

She can’t help but flinch at the sound of that merry voice, filled with such boundless happiness. Shifting slightly, Kristen manoeuvres her body around in the tiny alcove she’s tucked herself away into. At the young age of eight, Kristen’s still small enough that she can squeeze her body into the dip of the tree, curling up into a ball and hugging her limbs close.

It’s the closest thing to comfort that she can get in this forest, to hold herself close. If she closes her eyes and sinks into her own mind, maybe she can trick herself into believing she’s back in her home with her mom and her dad and her little brothers — curled up in her bed, warm and cosy and safe.

But she’s not back home anymore. She hasn’t been for a while.

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No matter what a post on tumblr tries to tell you, your moral and ethical stances will never be determined by what you reblog and what you scroll past. Don’t let manipulation tactics force you into doing anything you don’t want to do.

does bruce go to extreme lengths to continue the “bruce is dating batman” charade (like changing between bruce and batman several times during a dinner bc the kids prepared it as a father’s day gift or do the batkids just continue to assume things (like bruce comes out of a shower (is there a shower? lol) in the batcave and dick is just like “why did u shower here bru—oh god. ew! i can never use that shower ever again”) and bruce just rolls with it? lmao i love your manor-dad fic so much

Anon: I love Manor-Dad lets me drive the batmobile! On “date nights”, is Bruce ever forced to change multiple times between “Bruce Wayne” and Batman for his kids’ sakes when they check to see how the romantic evening is going?

Short answer? Because the long answer is still in the works just haven’t had time to write properly because of exam times

No because Bruce is resigned to his fate but he’s not going this far to keep up his kids’ make believe once he wanted them to know

But that’s fine cause his kids don’t need to see him together with his alter ego, they know they don’t have much time together and everything runs on a strict schedule

Stuff like father’s day? Bruce gets the late mornings, moons and afternoons. Batman gets the evenings and nights and early mornings

Father’s day presents are wild. Bruce gets arts ‘n’ crafts. It’s “””forbidden””” to buy something for him

Actually Dick just set the gift bar way to high in his first year by making a cake from the recipe book of Bruce’s mother

Jason, 12 years old: “What the hell, Dick? Couldn’t you have just bought a tie? Isn’t that what you regularly do?”

Dick, 17: “You habe no idea what to get him, do you.”

Jason: “No, I’ve never done Father’s day before, but I’ll outdo you.”

Jason recited Shakespeare.

The following kids all found their own niche of gifts to give Bruce

Batman also gets handmade stuff but more along the lines of

Dick & Barbara, age 14 and 16 respectively: “We solves your case for you, Old man.”

Bruce, 28, thinking off the high profile gruesome child murders he hadn’t even told them about: “You dID WHAT?!”

Dick and Babs meant the stolen cars on Main Street case

Ever since there is a “safe case” filing system for the kids to pick cases from

Other gifts include: new gadgets, cleaning up safe houses, outshining all the other JL side kicks and making Bruce very smug.

Also dinner. They get dinner in the Batcave.

They sat on the floor in the first year because there wasn’t a table yet. The only table Bruce needed were his desk and the one to cut up bodies on

Alfred threw a fit and ever since there’s a table

That keeps getting bigger

Jason starts calling it The Round Table by the once Cass joins. He also additionally makes Batman a glittery crown together with Cass that year. It’s pink and has plastic diamonds and it usually sits on the first Batman outfit in one of the cases

Romantic evenings Bruce spends by himself sleeping or working

Bruce: “Where exactly would we go for a romantic evening? It’s Batman.”

Dick, 10 and dedicated to his new parents and also 10/10 convinced Clark should be the best man at the #BatWayne wedding: “Fortress of Solitude”

So whenever the kids make time for Bruce and Batman, Bruce goes over to Clark’s or one of the safe houses the kids don’t monitor and relaxes for a few hours

Clark: “What are you working on?”

Bruce, without looking up: “Jack the Ripper copy cat case.”

Or works the cases he doesn’t want the kids to see

And yes, the older Dick gets, the less uuuh personally invested he gets in Bruce’s and Batman’s relationship

Batman’s nocturnal. He knows that because he could always sneak into Bruce’s bed as a kid and nobody was there

But honestly? Nowadays he doesn’t want to know why Bruce looks like he ran a marathon after Batman and Robin came back from patrol

Or what he was doing in the showers

Nay, nope. No interest.

It’s gross enough when Batman smiles whenever he sees the Wayne name on some project in the city

How can two people be so in love with each other?

Barbara: “Relationship goals right there.”

Super happy to hear you like this story! Updates will have two wait a few weeks rn because I have exams coming up in the next two weeks. Joy.