What

Little fish eats his foods 

Surf? A giant wave of water that your pokemon can ride. A thunderous tide. Invokes the ocean.

Thunderbolt? Arcing flashes of electricity zap you.

Flamethrower? Fire breath, fire throwing, an arc of propelled flame is classic.

so now every time she burps she looks to me hopefully for a rating and bc she has delicate little baby burps i now have to create an entirely new Burp Rating System unique to her bc i rate anything below a 5 and she looks at me like this

This was the crossword puzzle in the New York Times yesterday. 

Tausig’s crossword is a so-called Schrödinger puzzle, named for the physicist’s hypothetical cat that is at once both alive and dead. In a Schrödinger puzzle, select squares have more than one correct letter answer: They exist in two states at once. “Black Halloween animal,” for example, could be both BAT or CAT, yielding two different but perfectly correct puzzles. Only 10 such puzzles have now been published in Times history.

It’s the theme of Tausig’s puzzle, though, that makes it special. Four entries in Thursday’s crossword can include either an “F” or an “M.” Both are correct; neither is wrong. For example, “Part of a house” can be either ROOF or ROOM. The long “revealer” answer, tying those select entries together and spanning 11 squares smack-dab in the middle of the puzzle, is GENDER FLUID.

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So every time I go to look for him, I see this:

Fish Tank Update!!

The 40 Gallon is stocked!! (Except the shrimp, those come tomorrow) Some of its residents:

- The Two Festivums, Silver and Stripey, who I thought were two different colors, only now I've realized are actually just capable of changing how dark their stripes are :P

- Two of the Black Stroopwaffel Corydoras. They're actually Schultzei Corys, but my phone autocorrected it to "Stroopwaffel" and now they're Stroopwaffels to me.

- Male (right) and Female (left) Nego D'Agua Tetras. That's my most dominant male, Chunky Duncan.

- The Xingu Black Neons, which are like regular black neons, but from the Xingu river and like three times as big, and one of my Albino Emperor Tetras

- The Cory that likes to sit on the left rock and Silver the Festivum (maybe)

- The Cory that likes the beach and Stripey the Festivum (maybe)

1. SHRIMP

I got snowball amanos (above) and snowball Neocardinias/cherry shrimp because it's a black-and-white tank, and the Neocardinias will need to camouflage until they reach full size so transparent is working for them. The amanos are also still pretty baby, but big enough to be safe.

...From being eaten at least. One of the Albino Emperors has decided to court the amanos, but this is working out because he is keeping the Chiclids at bay.

2. Burgermeister* has learned how to sit on the pennywort like a frog on a lilypad: