u/all0saurus_fragilis

I'm absolutely heartbroken and gutted that I keep getting into shows that keep getting cancelled, makes me not want to watch anything new anymore. First Kaos on Netflix and now this?!?!? Anyways....

A lot of people are saying that viewership sharply declined and season 2 is bad... What? I got into the show because of how WILD season 2 is!! I grew up with House MD, one of my favorite shows of all time, and nothing else, no other medical show hooked me in so strongly until I came across my mom watching Brilliant Minds one day. I tried watching the first episode of The Pitt after finding out about the cancellation and just couldn't do it, way too fast paced and anxiety inducing, I like having calmer and more funny bits in between the drama, y'know? Brilliant Minds is basically like a modern House MD but less douchebaggery lmao, got the same exact formula basically and I love it. I like getting to know the characters. Maybe I'll need to give The Pitt more of a chance because I don't know what to do with my life anymore.

I don't want Brilliant Minds to end. Really makes me feel like if House came out today, it would've been cancelled at the beginning too. People just aren't giving new shows a chance anymore. We don't have cable TV so it pisses me off that Brilliant Minds has such low ratings, does streaming even matter to corporate or what?? We had no idea the show existed until my mom came across it on Peacock. Was NBC just not advertising it or something? Like what made such a genuinely good show flop so damn hard? It makes me so sad. I haven't felt this connected with a show in a long time and I don't understand why everyone hates the 2nd season so much because that's what got me into it.

Seriously, the wasted potential makes me so damn depressed. Imagine if Brilliant Minds got to have eight seasons... There was so much GOLD and now it's gone. Imagine if House only got two seasons and was cancelled!!! Come on!!!

What do we do now??? Is it really hopeless? Absolutely ZERO chance of it getting picked up on streaming? I'm so tired of this shit. Genuinely good and relatable queer and neurodivergent rep that's out there, direct, instead of hiding under several layers of coding and subtext. It's so refreshing, and then it gets cancelled. Exactly like what happened to Kaos, and that show had GOOD numbers and ratings! Just wasn't good enough for Netflix apparently... and now NBC and Peacock shoved Brilliant Minds under the rug. Queer media is being hidden and it really hurts. It's so exhausting, getting attached to characters, getting into a show, and then boom, right after I get caught up, it gets cancelled. This has happened to me several times now. Wtf do we do???

My mom has been getting more involved with the church again, much to my dismay, and then yesterday I found a note on my door with my deadname, from a neighbor we've never met, saying they read our records at sacrament meeting. I freaked out and confronted my mom and she didn't understand me at all and didn't get why it was a big deal. Then she tells me she's trying to get financial assistance from the church.

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A few years ago, at a place we used to live, they kept showing up and trying to get me to go to young womens (I'm a trans man) and my sister, who lived with us at the time, chewed them out and they stopped coming. Then the next house we lived at, my mom made friends with the elderly neighbors, and slowly but surely started getting back into church stuff... And now we're here.

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So now the local ward knows my deadname and where I live and I feel sick. I haven't gone by that name in almost 10 years now. And now I'm too afraid to start the process to get my records taken off (I'm an expert procrastinator unfortunately 💀) because I'm worried they won't give my mom money. I don't know what to do but now I don't even want to leave my house.

I moved houses a while back and I was in the midst of a very deep depression so I didn't really pack my own stuff, my family did. Eventually, as I started to feel more like myself again, I took my Breyers out to put them back on display, I was infuriated to find the saddle to my 65th Anniversary model was missing and I have absolutely 0 clue what could've happened to it or where it might be. If anyone has a spare, one that they're willing to part with, PLEASE let me know! I don't know what to do lol. My Glitterati is naked now!! :(

There's a local foster-based exotic and farm rescue in my state. I've been considering adopting or fostering from them someday, but noticed this on all of their mouse listings.

They claim to be housing all of the male littermates together in a big enclosure and adopt out only in pairs or groups. They also say a 50 gallon bin or tank MINIMUM. Feels a bit overkill to me, especially if you're a rescue trying to find adopters... I've noticed they've had these mice up on their page for nearly a year now. A couple of the mice pictured seem to be missing fur around their whiskers, eyes and ears from overgrooming and they all seem to have small ears too. But I also know it's a natural mutation too, I've seen a random mouse with ears like that once at a PetCo, so I'm not entirely sure if these rescue mice were born with small ears or not.

When I had a mouse, a single male I got from a breeder, I kept him in a smaller bin cage (probably similar in size to a 15 gallon tank?) so I could tame him easier, then when he starting showing signs of boredom after about the first 5 or 6 months, I got him a 40 gallon breeder tank and he was perfectly happy for the rest of his life.

What should I do? Should I reach out to the rescue and ask more questions? I'm really concerned about the wellbeing of their male mice, especially with how long they've been waiting for homes...