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-a very interested fish anon

HIII HIII !!!

I’ll assume you mean Scarus frenatus, The Parrotfish, and not the Parrot Chichlid, which can also be described as a ‘parrot fish’.

My thoughts? THIS FISH RULES!!

These are all Parrotfish of different types, there are about 90 species of Parrotfish and they are all awesome!!

They use their ‘beak’ hence the name, though it’s actually just a bunch of small teeth closely packed together! to scrape micro-algae off of coral! When coral gets bleached due to rising ocean temperatures, they’re one of the only reef dwelling fish that stick around, and that’s because bleached coral are easy for micro-algae to colonize, creating a nutritious layer of ‘scunge’ for the Parrot fish to feed on, which in turn gives the coral reefs they call home a better chance at recovery.

Atleast from like my personal experience with this woke concept, before I start spouting liberal propaganda my prounouns are he/him, I identify as a manly man meaning im a cis straight guy.

And im happy with that I like being a guy, but recently I was thinking about how much I'd care if I hypothetically turned into/was born as a girl and like I don't think I'd care much at all.

In the "turns into" scenario assuming everyone around me just ignores, other than the initial shock after 1 and a half weeks I'd probably be happy with it, not in a "I prefer it like this" way more so I don't think its either improving or getting worse, and being born as a girl changes even less

So yeah this made me question my gender identity a bit, it's weird like I stated before, I wouldn't really want to be non binary that aint me, gender apathetic doesn't really make sense for me either because I care about my gender

We use a mix of plastic poly pellets that we get on Amazon and micro glass beads (also Amazon). The glass beads add weight without adding a bunch of bulk. Using just the pellets makes them too light, but just the micro glass beads makes them feel like they're just full of sand and can be a bit hard, making them less cuddly to me. I find the mix results in a good weight while not feeling like a rock. It ends up feeling soft and a bit stimmy. Just the glass beads works if you just want as much weight as you can get though, and if you don't fill the limb too much, the beads can move and feel less hard. Just feels like they're full of sand.

Oh, and you can buy a box of nylon foot socks (pantyhose socks) for like 5$ for a ton of them, and use them as bags to hold the weighting material. You just fill them up to whatever weight you want and tie them off. Way easier than trying to sew a bag yourself and you don't feel any excess fabric inside the plush since the sock is so thin and stretchy.

For limbs, I tend to be lazy and just pour the weight directly in- I use a funnel and a ladle to scoop the mixture in. I premix my poly pellets and glass beads, but you can also do the pellets first then the micro beads as they'll naturally fall through and mix pretty well. Don't do the micro beads first as they won't mix properly, they'll just stay at the bottom. Anyway, you can use any stick like object (I tend to use paintbrush handles) to push the nylon sock into the leg and foot and then fill and tie it off. That way it's less messy to remove the weight of you ever want to. Putting the sock in first and filling it is way easier than trying to push it into the narrow limbs after it's filled.

It's no problem at all!!!

I'm having a lot of fun, we are playing with female Strahd and some other changes to the module, but I went into this 100% blind knowing absolutely nothing about it besides "there's vampires" so I don't know exactly what has been changed.

Going in blind was really fun though because I had NO idea the character I made was such a.... relevant theme. She ended up connecting with Ireena a lot- I actually debated romancing her before the thing with Shiloh started happening LOL they have a LOT in common and Ethel understands her very complicated feelings on the countess. Ireena was also the one to point out the parallels between Marcus and Strahd and the person Ethel admitted something was very very wrong with Marcus to. Ethel has decided she is Ireena's personal body guard and refuses to let Strahd within 10 ft of her she goes full guard dog LMAO

Vasilka was also our fated companion from the tarroka reading, so she can speak and has a personality. Ethel connected REALLY strongly with her and is trying really hard to save her and convince her that marrying Strahd is not going to work. Unfortunately, Ethel is super jaded and filled with grief over her situation while Vasilka is still filled with hope and the idea that her story will turn out differently from Ethel's. Unfortunately Ethel then self-sabotaged to an INSANE degree by crashing out really hard after taking Vasilka away from the abbey (under the guise is taking her to Strahd) and kinda.... heavily trauma dumped about the medical horror she'd endured in front of everyone. (Unfortunately her crashout let to her feeling DEEPLY ashamed for having such a moment of weakness in front of the whole party but on the upside... nobody yelled at her for fucking everything with Vasilka up so badly because they can tell she is GOING THROUGH IT...)

Note to self, feel free to ignore