#let this be a lesson

[omg-snakes]

Sorry if you've talked about this before, but what are you breeding for this year? I just got my first corn snake and I'm curious about their genetics

Hey friend!

I've mentioned some of the clutches that were laid this year but I haven't actually announced the pairings yet, nor the anticipated outcomes.

First off, let me say that I done proper goofed this year. My plan was to have 3-4 pairings with 1-2 backups, in case a pairing didn't pan out. But then I didn't see signs of breeding activity from most of those pairs, so I added a few more backups to ensure I had 3-5 clutches. Every time a pairing didn't result in observed breeding behavior, I'd swap them out for a different pair. Then ALL of the snakes I paired ended up fertile and laying, whether or not I saw them mating or even courting. Soooo... whoops.

Here's the list of pairs for 2023 and anticipated offspring:

YR23: Yutu x Ringwood - Lavender, Hypo, and Peach combos

HC23: Hatshepsut x Carl - testing for red enhancing genes and any hets

KJA23: Kitty Junior x Aurelian - Lavender and Peach combos

LA23: Lumi x Apollo II - Ice, Hypo combos

MA23: Mayonnaise x Aurelian - Charcoal and Peach combos

BDJB23: Best Donut x James Baxter - Palmetto

BC23: Brian x Chammers - Amel, testing for hets

PE23: Pepper x Ermengarde - Red Factor, Motley/Stripe, and Anery combos

MV23: Moth x Valentine - Red Factor Strawberry Anery

PCR23: Partycake x Ringwood - Hypo Lavender and Peach combos

SG23: Sinestro x Griswold - Diffused, testing for hets

RF23: Rosepink x Frank - Red Factor, Peach, Amel, and Hypoberry combos

PSD23: Pumpkin Spice x Dextro - Diffused, testing for hets

SM23: Snikki x Meteorite - Tessera, Hypo combos

PR23: Peekaboo x Ringwood - Peach, testing for hets

Fortunately I have the space and financial resources for a big year so I'm not stretching myself too-too thin, but it's definitely not what I had intended and I'm a little worried about selling babies in a recession economy. My overall focus is towards Red Factor and Peach in combination with various melanin-reducing traits, and a better understanding of how the Peach gene works with other genes. This is a deciding year and I'll probably be rehoming a good number of my current breeders this fall or next spring depending on outcomes.

I'm not counting my snakes before they hatch, so I guess I'll channel Neil Gaiman and just tell myself to "wait and see!"

#let this be a lesson #corn snakes are fecund little critters #and they are sneaky!! #answers to questions #text post #sneggwatch 2023 #snake #snakes #reptile #reptiles #reptiblr #corn snake #corn snakes #corn snake breeding #long post

[moonfromearth]

#so i updated my game #and had a heart attack because #my sim shows up without her shirt and hair on the main menu but everything is in the game?? #so i thought the EA app uninstalled my stuff because I heard people had that happen to them?? #aaaaand now none of my stuff is in my library #yup all of my tray files literally got deleted #i am sooo SO GLAD i backed everything up before updating #it could have been so much worse i'm so glad everything's there #let this be a lesson #in backing up your stuff kids #this sounds so dramatic now because it's all fine #but dang i just wanted to play my game!! #😆 #sims 4 #sims 4 memes #ts4 #ts4 meme

[mauvecherie-writes]

This is all ima say about today:

If he had apologised when we asked him to - today may have been different.

Do not ever disrespect the motherland. Intended or not, it never ends well.

#spa gp 2022 #lewis hamilton #let this be a lesson

[ozarkthedog]

I’m sry but anyone wanting Chris to go full silver fox is praying for his downfall😭 he’ll look in his 70s I stg he won’t be a dilf he’ll be a gilf

lmao you’re on the wrong blog

Have you even seen Anson Mount? Timothy Olyphant? Oscar Isaac?

I’d be more than happy to grovel at their feet and then some 😜

Chris Evans as a silver fox will literally be his hottest look ever.

#let this be a lesson #don’t slander aging people on my blog #gray hair is fucking attractive #ozzie responds #asks are always open #won’t be posting anymore slander so don’t fight me on this

[ricky-olson]

queerbaiting is for fictional analysis, not a word to use against real people. a real life person cannot queerbait. Just because someone is “out of the norms”, isn’t fucking queerbaiting. you are NOT owned a stranger’s personal info. ESPECIALLY info that they weren’t ready to share yet. the internet is fucking disgusting and i hope everyone who pressures people into anything just so you can feel better about yourself a very fuck you. you’re not owned anything.

#repeat after me #WE ARENT OWNED SHIT #AND A HUMAN BEING JUST EXISTING CANT QUEERBAIT #forcing someone especially a young kid to come out is so dangerous #and I hope you all who did it are ashamed and so embarrassed #let this be a lesson #in not being an asshole #angel talks 💕

[i-aint-even-bovvered]

Very proud of the people of Kansas who voted to protected the right to choose yesterday.

#Politics #pro choice #let this be a lesson #And a sign of things to come

[high-queen-of-the-court]

never forget that day i was talking about how the name ‘kevin’ was just so much fun to say, and the girl i was talking to went “my dad’s name is kevin”

yeah, i died a little bit on the inside of embarrassment

#let this be a lesson #that you should always make sure their dads name isn’t kevin before crackin a good ol kevin joke #kevin day #on the other hand would take the kevin joke with forced grace

[scurriers]

#revan #kotor #Star Wars #drawing #could not for the life of me figure out this pose #let this be a lesson #use references

[daydadahlias]

Every time I get a Snapchat memory and it’s just a thirty second video of me singing terribly I die a little bit inside

#stop jess #let this be a lesson

[josiebelladonna]

if daveigh/greendruidess/whatever she goes by now is discouraged from writing in the wake of the infamous incident... i want every single one of you to know that i am fully responsible for

my own little world over here because the fact she couldn’t sort out her own shit before she got to writing three years ago has absolutely nothing to do with me and never did, either. i’ve said this before but the only reason i ever bring her up in the last year or so anymore is to make fun of the whole thing. when you’ve been through enough bullshit in life, you learn to laugh at things (and it’s even better if you find the right people to laugh along with).

i mention this because, just out of morbid curiosity just now, i checked her ao3 profile: aside from like loving the dead, she hasn’t updated any of her other wips since february. and my first thought was “wow, that’s... horribly depressing.” shit, i feel bad that i haven’t touched xenon dreams since january and to be frank, i can’t believe it’s been that long, especially with my love of sci-fi and whatnot.

i’ve said this before, too: i do feel bad for her and when this whole thing started, i genuinely didn’t want to go through with it. i think i always will, too (i have too much of a heart, hating is not in my nature, contrary to what she might tell you) and it always kills me to hear about someone giving up something they loved doing because someone else gave them hell of a tongue-lashing. it’s a fear that’s way too common and all too real in the art world, in particular. so many people have given up or will give up because of criticism and it’s something that so many artists fear as well: including me! that was a big fear of mine for years, and in fact, i still feel it. i always clam up whenever i get any comments on anything, not just a piece of art. but at the same time, i also think, wow. your ego was far more fragile than i realized. especially when i remember just how out-of-touch she is.

(and just for some perspective, i consider myself way out-of-touch because yesterday was the first time in... jeez, i don’t even know how long, since i last wandered over to the type o tag just to see what’s going on over there. i’ve been laying low on ao3 lately, aside from the updates and the odd kudos here and there. i haven’t scoured a tag in weeks: writing several thousand words in an afternoon takes a lot out of you and i’ve been focusing on moving lately, so i just haven’t been able to). apparently, she has it in her head that i’m calling people out left and right for stealing, and moreover, she’s addressing me in quite literally the most passive-aggressive way possible.

well... first of all, obviously not. i have way better things to do and it’s really something you have to be on guard for: you don’t go out of your way to scold someone for that, no one does unless they’re actually the victim of it. i’ve lamented how it seems totally bass-ackwards now, that the thieves are the ones to defend and the artist/writer/creator is the one to receive bullshit, and tumblr is an utter bastion for that behavior (why do you think so many artists on here add “do not repost” to their art?), but i’m just sitting here scratching my head at that.

i do remember that chapter of like loving the dead she posted back on my birthday in april, and i have no doubt it was in response to me trying to talk to her last summer to cool things down a bit. the whole vibe of that was she thinks i’m a hater because she’s got a popular fic.

look, there’s a lot of things i don’t like, but i cannot bring myself to hate another person, no matter shitty or toxic they are (and i couldn’t be bothered with things like hits or likes, either, i stopped caring about that during my hiatus and wattpad completely killed it for me).

i actually don’t even hate her at all. i hate that she condones horrible behavior like plagiarism and shameless copying/taking and doesn’t see anything wrong with it. i hate her attitude and how it’s apparently too much to ask of her to throw her weight around (the way she sits in my memory is she looks like regina george in about 30 years but with red hair). i hate how she brags all the time and also her sense of entitlement that’s apparently only gotten worse with time, and i couldn’t help but react to it in the past, either. but as a person, though? no way. you couldn’t pay me money to hate her as a person.

if you ask me, she’s the real hater here. she’s still thinking about that incident and talking about it two years later when there was absolutely no reason to (hell, there was no reason for it six months afterwards). yeah, dead man walking is my side of the story, no doubt about that, but it’s got way more purpose than that: it’s a story that i’ve wanted to write for a long time now and i finally found the opportunity to do so with the events that happened between me and her - i needed a moral or an underlying theme of some sort (it is rated teen and up, after all 😉). she’s just vitriolic and browbeating and projecting onto me, and all i can say is is grudges are fucking stupid.

i got my anger out immediately after it happened through my st. anger drawings, the dead trilogy, and the remainder of my at land’s end series. aside from the odd outburst along the way, i said everything i needed to say and i put it to bed, especially when alex entered my life. i don’t hold grudges, and i’ve never been able to, either.

it literally blows my mind how way too many people on here are like “i have a grudge against this person/i resent this person” and don’t see anything wrong with it. grudges are, at their core, completely petty and pointless and they only end up destroying you, the bearer of the grudge, in the end. really, imagine yourself 5/10/15 years from now, still feeling angry at the other person over something stupid that they let go of right away. you’re going to look so ridiculous and you’re going to wish for that time back, as well. grudges are not just stupid and pointless: they’re sad. like, this is going to be your legacy, man. forget everything else, this is how i’m always going to remember you. was it really worth it in the end? you can’t help but feel bad for the person with the grudge... but you also can’t, because hey, you were the one who stayed angry all this time, not me. i was just trying to live my life, unlike you, letting your anger cloud your vision and swell up your ego to the size of the earth.

when that incident happened (if you don’t know: i was just trying to be friendly with her during anthrax’s livestream from wacken during quarantine - you know. fellow fangirl to another. innocuous fun stuff in a world gone horribly wrong - and over here, she was getting all up in arms about someone annoying and obnoxious, and when she blocked me on here and on wattpad was when i realized she was referring to me), and i looked back on her behavior (which is how i found out her plagiarism in the first place), i saw right away that she’s all-talk and no-walk, but it’s being magnified big time now because she refuses to let go of anger and she’s made it her persona, too. she can go as dark and gothic as she wants: i’m always going to look at her name and think “angry, bitter person.”

i clearly don’t even give a shit about any of this anymore, and i haven’t since the end of 2020, either. i can barely be bothered to go through the type o tag anymore, or any fic tag for that matter because fandom as a whole has followed her lead. aside from things happening on my end, it’s hard to find fic (particularly band fic) on ao3 anymore that feels like it was written from a good place. it’s all clique-y and snide and hard to understand and gives me a headache and i don’t know if tiktokification of everything in existence now is to blame or not.

like i said, if she (or anyone else) throws in the towel, it’s not my call to make and it never was, either. you’re the one driving the ship: i’m just the madwoman in the attic.

#saying this on the heels of the latest couple of chapters of dead man walking #daveighmustaine #xxgreendruidessxx #fanfic woes #fic woes #ao3 authors #text #grudges are dumb #let this be a lesson

[selfhealingmoments]

#mental health #self reflection #be yourself #self improvement #self help #new life #letting go #inspirational quotes #new beginnings #positivity #therapy #self therapy #survival #emotional support #life lessons

[peculiary]

New Mutants #8 February 26, 2020

#let this be a lesson #a lesson #lesson #weasel #insignificant

[briefsoulsuit]

I never wanted this.

I never wanted to see the other side of 36.

Now here I sit looking pretty at 39 and yeah my life is still shit, but I have /plans/.

Like I see the chess pieces moving and somehow I'm still in the game. It's not checkmate but a stall.

Only g-d can count me out and that bitch left the chat decades ago....

Fuck me I'm goddamn trying to see the other side of 40.

#we muses #sorry kid #let this be a lesson #read the fine print #left turns at yellow lights #witness me

[elainiisms]

y'all are always complaining about how gay rep has to be perfect and unproblematic like speak for yourself i personally love it when they try to murder each other

#like.... look i recognise that these things can be harmful BUT I DESERVE SOME FUN TOO #like im so sorry but i have the most intense love hate relationship with the death trope i could never let it go #i love tragedy #hannigram #villaneve #catradora #tamber #tryst six venom #a lesson in vengeance #the handmaiden #evervale #rhaenicent #gallavich #fuffy #hizzie #wlw #mlm #loustat #iwtv

[netrixaswell]

i feel like more random people should have unlimited power. like i feel like Tess from Colorado should have a day to do whatever she wants. Who knows, maybe shell require everyone gets the black plague. Maybe she decides the rich go broke. Maybe she makes the world all awful. Lets play a game and give her power. What can go wrong.

#trust me #im for tess from colorado #unlimited power #random people in charge #make this happen #i believe in them #why dont you #just one day #maybe you will like it #who knows #you dont get it #please #let this be a lesson #make the world a better place

[raekuu]

me: man i haven't been on tumblr, i wonder if my boyfriend has se-

me, seeing so many posts in our dms that i literally can't scroll to the top: oh

#let this be a lesson #never leave tumblr #ever #you are stuck here forever :) #but seriously i am going to try and be more active on here #twitter and tiktok is starting to piss me off so i'm coming back to my roots #rambles #.txt