geekandmisandry:

bettalucknexttime:

plant-in-a-box:

bettalucknexttime:

@ anyone who uses betta fish or goldfish as decoration at weddings: what’s it like being the dumbest bitch alive?

Not trying to be rude by hijacking a post but, I work at a pretty common chain pet store and my third or so day there this mom comes in with her mother and her daughter and they’re looking at Bettas. Twenty minutes later they’re still going through them and I see they have a box in their cart so I walk over and asked if they needed anything and they say they’re picking out fish for center pieces and their theme is red. I immediately go through the five stages of dying because I’m about to have to make these people really angry. Long story short, I got into an argument with the grandmother about how she had a fish that lived for two years in just a vase with a plant that it “ate the roots of”. When I pointed out that they have a life span of 5+ years and that we still can’t sell them the fish even if they have “homes” for them (ie more vases), they proceeded to slam down the fish back randomly and slosh water everywhere and told me I was a stupid girl.

Since then I’ve learned that most people who use fish as centerpieces have a very large sense of entitlement and that their case of using the fish is “special”.

not hijacking at all! it’s interesting to see it from a perspective of an employee. that must’ve been tough but the poor fish are way better off not being used as decoration for a single night! i can’t believe people actually do this!! like actually think using a live animal as decoration for a single event is okay

I didn’t know this was a thing, and I googled it and found a forum and I hated everyone there:

“I have heard of it before and I think it sounds cute. If you don’t want to keep the fishes then maybe you could have games and give them away (along with the center piece) as prizes? Like their could be a dancing contest, or the DJ could ask questions about a song or about the two of you and the first person to get it right wins.

If nothing else, post an ad on craigslist or freecycle. Maybe someone will want them.”

“OK…we just got married last week and we actually did use goldfish as our centerpeices. Most of them died during the ceremony. We were planning on giving them away to our guests, which would have been the DJ’s job, but they didn’t make it that far. I think that the beta fish would be alot easier.”

Ugh, I hope you all have ugly divorces.

Some goldfish can live for 25+ years with the right care.  I point out to people that a goldfish dying after less than a year is like a puppy dying and they give me dirty looks.

fuzipenguin:

mikkeneko:

starspangledsteve:

but like who started the idea that fanfiction writers are somehow bothered by enthusiasm for their work???? cause i see posts all the time like “do writers really want to talk with us about their fics? Do writers really want long comments? I dont want to bother them” and i just think its absolutely ridiculous????

ofc i want to talk to you about it, and would love to hear you go on about it. i took time out of my real life to write this stuff down so we could all share these characters!!! the idea that you’re bothering a fanfiction writer, a fellow nerd, is absolutely crazy

Personally I attribute at least part of this to the shift of fandom onto Tumblr platform. Because of the way Tumblr works, multiple replies and reactions can get cluttered and overwhelming really fast, so leaving replies and feedback can be awkward. I have actually seen ‘tumblr etiquette’ posts going around scolding people for adding commentary onto posts when they reblog it! Actually discouraging  people from reacting and adding their own words!  If any of this attitude spills over onto fanfic posts and reblogs, no wonder readers are shy about adding their own words to an author’s posts.

Dear fans on tumblr: 

WE, THE AUTHORS, REALLY WANT TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTS. 

Just wanted to add: I’m all for seeing commentary on my fic if you reblog it. Either in the blog or the tags. Love it. Meticulously hunt down every word.

duskyhuedladysatan:

girlwholovesturtles:

gaymermell:

do you ever feel yourself slowly losing your current hyperfixation but you’re not particularly interested in anything else rn so you have nothing to fill that void and ur just bored and ready for death

This is uncomfortably accurate

i feel so called out rn

fuzipenguin:

rizobact:

fhc-lynn:

ladydragon76:

gokuma:

queerpyracy:

what books were you assigned to read in a class that you still hold a violent and bitter grudge against

for me it’s into the wild and the scarlet letter

Lord Jim! Except I didn’t hate it, it just bored me so much it was making me fall asleep; at some point I started writing a slashfic on the last page to have any motivation to keep going

Fucking catcher in the rye and chocolate wars.  And Fahrenheit 451 just horrified me viscerally so I hate it too, but man I would go ahead and burn catcher in the rye my damn self.  Gods, I LOATHE that book.  

i have mentioned my revulsion for Women In Love before, but lemme add A Separate Peace. I actually like well-done victorious villain plots, but this twit of an author tried to dress this story as a redeemable protagonist. Nope. Not buying it. Also, Great Expectations weren’t. At all.

OMG A Separate Peace. I had to read that book as a freshman twice – freshman in high school, then again as a freshman in college. While I can say that four years made an enormous difference in how I experienced the book, no amount of time will ever make me like it.

And while we’re at it, Heart of Darkness was awful, and to this day is the only book I was assigned to read that I never actually finished. 

*James Joyce* So much James Joyce *shudders*

Eugh, The Giver. 

I can’t even really explain why.  It just felt so self-important to me.