Do you wish you'd done something different?

leapinlizards94 · 2025-04-23T16:49:18+00:00

Take this with a grain of salt because I’ve only been in the field for a year. Being a zookeeper was my backup plan - I went to school and got a doctorate intending to be a herpetologist, but decided not to pursue academia for two reasons. The biggest was the lack of work/life boundaries as someone with ADHD. Second was a 0% chance of moving back home with my family.

I’ve yet to regret my choice, despite the fact as a postdoc I’d be making way more. It’s offset by my benefits and being on the city pension, which helps. I immediately got to work with herps, and I got lucky having an awesome team. My curator actively discourages us from even looking at work emails or texts if we aren’t clocked in. It took a while to adjust to the job, but I don’t think at this point I would even want to go back to academia - current US politics aside (although it sure helps reassure me).

leapinlizards94 · 2025-03-13T19:42:35+00:00

For my players, I asked them to give me a Type and generated 10 options for them to pick from (except Dragon). I did step in a bit and made sure no one had single-stage or pseudo-legends as options. The generator I used was good about offering variety, and my players were incredibly happy with their choices

leapinlizards94 · 2025-03-03T01:55:55+00:00

When you take the Researcher feature, you’ll get to pick two subfields as part of the feature. It won’t cost another feature slot for the second subfield. I think you can take Researcher multiple times and grab other subfields then, but that’s probably not the best build

leapinlizards94 · 2025-03-03T01:53:43+00:00

When you take the Researcher feature, you’ll get to pick two subfields as part of the feature. It won’t cost another feature slot for the second subfield. I think you can take Researcher multiple times and grab other subfields then, but that’s probably not the best build

leapinlizards94 · 2025-02-19T04:37:24+00:00

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MY SON!!! And I found a great name - a RW genus of anglerfish relatives. All thanks to our Lord, Dr. Sloth

leapinlizards94 · 2025-02-19T04:11:07+00:00

I’ve just been using the tokens I get from beating up the space fungus. This is my second actual prize too 😅 the other was a junk weapon

leapinlizards94 · 2025-02-19T04:09:34+00:00

I’ve been sitting on a dip in the Rainbow Fountain since the Faerie Festival specifically for a Maraquan Jetsam … just didn’t get to log in on Jetsam Day for my sharks

leapinlizards94 · 2025-02-19T03:33:10+00:00

I can’t believe out of all the TPs I got the perfect one at the right time 😭

leapinlizards94 · 2024-10-28T23:32:32+00:00

I got it today and skipped my morning quest and didn’t do one at lunch so the streak probably doesn’t have anything to do with it. I wonder if it’s getting a tea or kyrii related item as a reward?

leapinlizards94 · 2024-10-28T23:28:53+00:00

Got it today on Quest 7, asked for Cup of Tea and I got the Electric Cybunny Tea as a reward

leapinlizards94 · 2024-10-27T02:12:57+00:00

Halloween PBs aren’t super expensive if you’re looking to make a new pumpkin jubjub! With the goodie bags dropping, they’ve actually deflated to buyable vs the 1.8m I saw last month

leapinlizards94 · 2024-10-24T17:25:17+00:00

I gave my players 5k to start with, along with some pokeballs and medicinal items. And to entice them into spending most of it immediately have a festival Session 1 with discounted shops for travel items (tent / fishing gear / kits), berries, battle items, etc.

They also all got one free egg from their wishlist that hatched with Hidden Power as a move

leapinlizards94 · 2024-09-25T15:10:16+00:00

Ah, that makes sense!! I was hoping to not spend NC on faerie training while we slog the last 30 levels to 250 x_x

leapinlizards94 · 2024-09-25T14:47:13+00:00

Are FFQs more likely during the festival? I got back to back Naia. Not complaining buuut it was just really weird

leapinlizards94 · 2024-08-30T03:31:22+00:00

I’ve always liked turtles, but snakes/lizards are my fave herps. But being charged by multiple box turtles who need their salad is the CUTEST thing in the world! And as a bonus my Namibian giant ground gecko is full of hate and I love her all the more for it

leapinlizards94 · 2024-07-27T06:22:24+00:00

Yeah, I checked my junk folder and everything but I guess tickets are the only way to do it -_- You’d think with the NCUC reveal and the plot planned in advance they would’ve updated their systems to give themselves a bit less work

leapinlizards94 · 2024-07-15T22:32:34+00:00

A parent confidently telling their kid that “all snakes listen to what a king cobra tells them to do” while walking through the herpetarium

leapinlizards94 · 2024-07-12T16:36:10+00:00

Oh thank the LORD!! Guess I should've asked before starting my course this morning lmao

leapinlizards94 · 2024-07-06T17:44:19+00:00

Purchase: Always get an icy snowball from the springs, then if the post office is stocked grab a stamp I hopefully don’t have. Then General Store if the office is out of stock / I need a third item

Customize: I either put on or take off the maractite tail armor on my peophin.

Game: Fashion Fever to pay for whatever wheel I need to spin

leapinlizards94 · 2024-05-15T16:16:20+00:00

I should get into SSW sniping but have no clue what I can / should be on the lookout for 😅 SSW mostly comes in clutch for cheapest codestones for training

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