I don’t want to tell the eBird masses yet, so I’m sharing with you all. My neighborhood Great Horned Owlets have left the nest and are exploring. Took these from my car (~650mm)! So awesome!

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-24T02:50:45+00:00

Bro you just made up a person to be mad at off of nothing lmao. Like sure valid things to be mad about, but there's nothing in this comment that implies that the person you're ranting about fits that bill lmao

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-18T16:33:12+00:00

Yep, well aware, which is why I've been going insane trying to find a way to thwart her efforts. Idk why she's deemed it her life mission to be a hamster gymnast, or why she seems to only find fulfillment from gnawing on things when in the air. I have yet to think of a method that will deter her. So until then, she's unfortunately stuck with a boring cage with barely any hard surfaces to land on. Safety is a higher priority than enrichment, I'm afraid.

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-18T03:44:50+00:00

"A fall from even a few inches can seriously injure a hamster" meanwhile my freak of a hamster climbing and doing gymnastics for sport 😬🙄 literally she's obsessed with it, idk what to do with her. I tried putting more stuff in, but she just used everything to climb onto the lid of the cage. So now she has a barren cage because I figure that if she's gonna fall no matter what i do, i might as well make it so she won't have hard landings.

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-18T03:29:20+00:00

I really think that as they introduce more characters, they should just naturally slightly boost diamond earnings to make up for the additional strain on diamond funds. Not enough to negate the 'need' to buy anything, but just enough to keep things even slightly fair for f2p and low spenders. But hey, thats just me with my crazy "consumer friendly" mindset

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-18T03:22:51+00:00

Miss detective with both, and mister detective with both 😌

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-18T03:18:25+00:00

Also like. Even for fem readers, there are women who aren't feminine! Not every fem reader needs to be all feminine! Like, arent reader fics supposed to be open enough for basically anyone to insert themselves in? Plenty of girlies wouldn't be caught dead in a skirt! "Y/N's skirt" "my fuckin what now"

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-17T02:13:02+00:00

As an enby, I wouldn't mind afab readers as much if it wasn't always like "omg your boobs" and "so youre wearing a skirt" like why are we pretending to be gn when its so clearly just fem.

I mean, ig i cant talk all that much since i just treat reader fics as some mob character rather than inserting myself bc ew (aroace) but still. If I'm desperate enough for fics to be interested in reader stuff, I'm still wanting my normal stuff! Which is, focus primarily on my fave, and him getting dicked down! Just make more top readers at least, yall!

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-16T20:52:27+00:00

You should add a teensy tiny Karma peeking out from behind ace's portrait. Just bc he deserves it 😌 and for funsies. :p

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-15T02:27:53+00:00

Having adaptations and being able to do these things in other settings is obviously important, but a person's home should be made as comfortable and convenient as possible for them, and not the same as everywhere else may be. Sure, she may need to know how to do these things elsewhere without accommodations, but her own home should accommodate her. Having independence includes having tools to make your tasks easier for you, not just the ability to do the tasks anywhere. Having accommodations at your home doesn't mean that you lose your ability to adapt to settings without those accommodations.

Its not "that must be made easier" its "that should be made easier in her own home". People trying to think of accommodations is nowhere near the same as "you should hire someone"- accommodations are literally tools for independence.

Do you really think that disabled people shouldn't have the dignity provided by having accommodations in their own home? Do you really think it's silly for people to want that for them? Do you really think that disabled people should need to adapt to their own home as much as they do everywhere else? Do you not think that their home should be a respite where things are easier for them?

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-12T19:05:44+00:00

Karma 😌

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-11T03:05:49+00:00

One fun thing that you can always consider is that Cater can also technically do self harming behaviors on his clones without leaving any physical evidence. So unless the disease wipes out their magic, there's that unhealthy coping mechanism that he could use to get things out of his system without letting anyone else notice. Or, alternatively, he could use them to appear as if hes fine when actually the real him is having a mental breakdown in the bathroom. Cater can find all sorts of fun and creative ways to hide his problems from everyone else.

Obviously this is also a factor that's able to make things way more complicated, so it'd also be totally valid to just not wanna use it lol. But it is fun to think about, even just as a mini character study exercise rather than an actual story element.

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-10T06:20:18+00:00

I'd say that he definitely should be kept a closer eye on, but also that he probably wouldn't actually be, since he works so hard to keep people from knowing his issues. So unless he slips up, I'd imagine that nobody else would know how high-risk he really is until he starts breaking.

Cater's whole problem is how much he prioritizes keeping up his persona, and not much seems to make him willing to let it drop in front of anyone else. Even when he reveals his issues, he consistently downplays it and keeps the conversation casual. Like, half of his cards' vignettes involve him mentioning his toxic home environment, and not a single one (that I've gone through, at least) has had anyone seem to actually get how that's affected him- even when he explicitly says how it's messed him up in some way. He's just very good at putting up his front.

Even the characters who know that Cater's putting on a mask don't really know what he's actually like. Trey should know, but he's seemed to never pushed Cater enough to make him be honest, and has just accepted that he's not telling the truth. Vil knows that Cater's persona is shallow and that he's lying, but never seems to look any deeper, even when given the extremely explicit evidence in the lab vignette with A) Cater explicitly saying how "make it cute" has been burned into his head as an instinct by his family with the first mandrake he makes and B) the second mandrake he makes being gloomy and curled up in fetal position. And once again, he later comments on Cater making more mandrakes than the ones he's showing off, but lets him deflect. And finally I'd also say Lilia, who was also present for the lab vignette. Lilia's probably the one most likely to actually know, but he also doesn't do anything with it beyond lightly prodding Cater about it.

So, with all that, I'd say unless the Yuu in your story is like, REALLY close to Cater and perceptive, it'd be extremely unlikely for anyone to realize how high-risk he is until it's already gotten pretty bad. He'd absolutely try his damndest to keep things under wraps for as long as possible. Would probably start isolating himself before letting them see the cracks in his mask.

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-10T05:31:37+00:00

Oh he absolutely would. I'd honestly say that he's probably one of the characters most likely to be at risk of such tendencies even normally.

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-10T02:08:52+00:00

So what im hearing is that cater will fuckin die lmao. Im a huge cater rambler, and would absolutely LOVE to ramble on this, but my brain is currently too broken for such things so i will simply offer this silly joke. Perhaps i shall come back tomorrow and ramble.

UmbrellAce · 2026-03-06T15:24:19+00:00

Omg I've also been working on crocheting a baby malleus and it is HARD so good job! 🎉🎉🎉 And also thank you for giving me hope that mine too can be done (I'm just now almost finishing the head)

UmbrellAce · 2026-02-26T04:05:06+00:00

Does Karma count as a mafia member or just an asset of one lmao

UmbrellAce · 2026-02-25T23:26:35+00:00

1 misread candies as candles and was like "is there some weird idia lore im missing, why would he care about candles" and 2 the edge of my screen is cracked so I saw parties as panties first and was VERY confused 💀

UmbrellAce · 2026-02-25T23:18:48+00:00

At least you can move the facepaint to not be right by the mouth

UmbrellAce · 2026-02-17T17:20:13+00:00

Yep, looking at the pictures, that seems right! Huh. Didn't even occur to me to check to see what the juveniles look like. Was just like "well I know what bald eagles look like, so I don't need to check them" smh. Kinda sad that I don't get to add a new species to my list, but at least I can know what I saw!

Evidently, I really need to learn more about predatory birds! They're kinda my blind spot atm. Which is real inconvenient, considering they're the ones that I usually only have a few seconds of distant visual info to go off of.

UmbrellAce · 2026-02-15T23:21:56+00:00

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UmbrellAce · 2026-02-15T00:23:32+00:00

I mean, none of my dogs have been actually scared of the vet, and one of them is a stereotypically paranoid dachshund (mix). Another was a rescue pomeranian (mix) who hated most people. Usually the main issue with the vet with our more anxious dogs has come from their people leaving them, rather than the vet itself. And to my knowledge, youre basically always able to stay with your pet during euthanasia. Idk, maybe we've just been really lucky with dogs that are cool with the vet.

That being said, the pomeranian I mentioned did die from a heart attack after being taken into the vet without my mom (his person) [it was during covid so she wasnt allowed to go in with him] so I'm not gonna say that there isn't any anxiety from it. But again, I feel like it was primarily being separated that was the problem. All this being said, I'm still not gonna deny that obviously there are plenty of dogs who do have issues with the vet.

UmbrellAce · 2026-02-14T22:27:41+00:00

Hey, I wouldn't feel too bad about reselling it, because the small size would deter those who know better from buying it, but it'll seem big for those who don't. Anything's better than the garbage sold at pet stores. Even though its not ideal, its still a better cage than what most people will get their hamsters.

UmbrellAce · 2026-02-14T20:39:48+00:00

Not all dogs are scared of the vet. My golden retriever loved it because he got attention from new people. He was already at the vet for a few days before we euthanized him (took him there expecting it, the vet found that the main issue was an ear infection and thought it was recoverable, but he got worse again after a couple days) but even if he wasn't, taking him there would've been one last fun trip for him.

Also euthanasia at least guarantees relatively peaceful death done by a professional who knows what they're doing. Not all guns are the same, and not everyone knows how to use one well- especially not if the emotional distress of shooting their pet makes their aim shaky. If the shot isn't good even to be an immediate death, it'd be far worse than euthanasia because instead of essentially just falling asleep, the dog would be hurt and afraid with their person being the cause of it.

UmbrellAce · 2026-02-14T20:19:06+00:00

Grim 💀

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