u say ur into sci-fi in regards to books, but as well as what ur fave sci-fi book is, do u have any fave sci-fi movies? sci-fi covers a fair range of genres within it, so do u have any preferences to what kinda sci-fi u enjoy the most? also - does sci-fi influence ur stories and OCs?
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i found out abt HS back when i was around 13ish? like 2012 i suppose! my two best friends talked abt it a lot (which i thought was funny bc they didn't know each other and lived like 3hrs apart so coincidental? idk) so i thought i'd check it out - tho my interest in it didn't last too long (ok, a few years but not long compared to most ppl) and i kinda stopped having anything to do w/ it around like... 2015/16ish? bc i lost interest! believe it or not i don't rly care for it much anymore :0 i still rly like fantrolls A LOT tho (i may be as bold as to say they're one of my fave things) hence why i have so many 😅 insert that marge 'i just think they're neat' meme here
in saying that, nah - i never got into hiveswap bc when all the hype for it was going around/when it was released i'd completely lost interest in HS at that point and couldn't rly care less honestly - i haven't even looked at it to this day
all i know abt it is that not vriska meme but i think that's actually from friendsim? idk it's all the same to me lmao
DON'T GET ME STARTED ON MY BETTAS OMG I COULD RAMBLE FOREVER
i currently only have two atm - being daisy (a wild type female, possibly betta simplex), and peaches (my betta splendens female)! after my last boy phoenicis passed away not long ago i decided to try smthn new instead of getting a new betta, so i got guppies!
my tanks... hm... ok for the big ones i EVENTUALLY wanna have a desert oasis and dense jungle theme, but i'm tryin to work w/ what decorations i have (it's getting there slowly tho) - i rly love buying silk plants and filling the tanks w/ them tho bc they're cool af (expensive tho oof 😥 i swear these fish drain my wallet--)
i took some pics of them so u can have a visual bc i'm rly bad at explaining detail stuff haha (sorry the quality is bad - the lighting is terrible here atm)
and some stories from bettas past and present (some pics here too!):
- phe used to ALWAYS go into his jellyfish like... he'd be in there 80% of the time and if he had trouble getting in he'd chuck a hissy fit and attack the tentacles before trying again
- i picked sammy up from the pet store w/ SBD, so he couldn't swim (his method of transport was slithering around the bottom of the tank like a snake) - he also couldn't flare either and his version of flaring (instead of puffing out ALL his fins and beard) was to simply lift his top fin up and hope u knew he was mad - also a bonus photo of when he was 'climbing' the stairs of his decoration and slipped and fell all the way back down
- sammy was also the most special to me bc he was my first betta... i'm even considering getting a tattoo of him bc he meant the world to me (and still does) even tho he had a condition that made him useless in all things fish and a torn up tail from how he moved around i still think he was handsome ;;w;;
despite his SBD as well, he held his own p damn well. disability who???? he knew how to get around and it didn't seem to trouble him in the slightest
- phe was a dumb idiot who always flared at his reflection or if he managed to catch a glimpse of one of the bettas in a different tank - but other than that u'd think he wasn't a betta bc of how ... polite? he was? can u even describe a fish w/ the word 'polite'? he was v well behaved and also could be handfed
- peaches is the most attentive betta i've ever met? she will just.. watch u... for hours? her tank is positioned so she can see all around from all four sides of the tank so if we're doing the dishes? she'll watch rly closely
if we're watching TV or playing ps4? she'll watch too
just the other day my bf flopped onto the floor and she dove down to the very bottom corner of the tank to watch him as though she was like 'wtf are u doing down there'
it got to the point where i put one of the betta hammock leaves in her tank so that she could sit on it and watch TV so doesn't tire herself out - she makes regular use of it
the only time she swims around the tank like a normal fish is if she hasn't noticed ur in the room yet, bc once she sees u she will not let her gaze wander and will insist on following u around (or following u as much as she can in her tank)
- atticus was rly small when we got him but just... kept... growing... HE WAS HUGE! and he wasn't a king betta or anything, so the fact he got so big was honestly a surprise - he was almost two times the size of our other adult bettas before he eventually passed from old age
- not rly a story but i got this pic of tethys yawning and it's so important that i'm not even gonna put it in a spoiler (also when we bought him he looked AWFUL but he went from white to a rly pretty blue/purple colour and got super healthy ;;w;; his fins never uncurled tho so it earned him the nickname 'curly boy')
i'd honestly give more and more stories (ik some of these weren't rly but listen) but it'd turn this into a 3000 word essay 😭