B.A.B.B.

I Want To Be A Better Bitch. Wish Me Luck.

[csny]

[csny]

[drchucktingle]

trotting into the next year, lets try to treat the buckaroos we find to be strange and unique a little less like this. autistic buckaroos do not owe you an explanation for their existence. before you write something like this please consider whether you would say it to someone you met face to face

also would be great to stop approaching queer erotica authors to tell them 'ive never read your books' as if everything they create is actually some massive ironic joke we are both in on. i do not want to CALL OUT buds, you are proving love in your own way, but something to consider this year

[testiklephysiscs]

I'm trying to imagine how I would rephrase this ask, because it's a mistake I could easily have made.

I think I would instead say that @drchucktingle is a person I immensely respect, and for that I'm grateful to live in a time where I can know even a bit of the complex person they are and want to share. Sometimes, trying to get through my workday, I feel more like a bit than a person, a joke that's gone on way longer than I wanted it too and hasn't been funny in forever. But that's not who I am, it's not who any of us are. There is a world where we don't have to pretend, and I want to live in it. Love is real. We can prove it.

[drchucktingle]

this is a very kind and thoughtful comment thank you buckaroo. as far as how to rephrase i think an important point would be that not everything needs to be asked of someone else. maybe it does not need to be rephrased but maybe REEVALUATED ALL TOGETHER?

'how are you a real person. that actually exists?' is the first part.

i would say the first thing is to consider what it feels like to be denied your personhood in general. the subtext of this comment is 'the way you simply ARE defies my idea of existence.' feels a little dang weird, but then consider that you are saying this to an autistic person and a queer person. are there ANY marginalized groups of people that you would trot up to and say 'how are you a real person' to?

but the thing is, it is not HOW you are asking that, its WHY? take the scenario we just had of trotting up to any marginalized person and saying 'how are you a real person?' why is it on us to explain our existence to you just because... you feel like knowing? is that what queer or autistic people signed up for just by waking up in the morning? are we here to answer your questions about our fundamental humanity?

'i love you chuck tingle i have never read any of your books' is the next one.

WHY do people feel the need to assert some kind of rude 'i like you but i do not really like you' to artists? to people? to QUEER people? does it really need to be rephrased?

fundamentally what you are saying is 'i am a fan of yours but not enough to take the time to engage in anything you have published or support you financially i just like to look at you from afar.' another common read is 'i like you but i am not gay' or 'i like you but ironically because this is all a little joke right?

as a creator that is fine with me. i am TOTALLY fine with however buckaroos want to react to my work. THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF ART. but i will also speak on these things and posit the question out of promoting kindness and intention: do you REALLY need to tell someone that?

honestly this has been my entire career. there is a very common arc of people making fun of me and then becoming fans, and i am not upset about that. so really i am not taking the time to talk on this way FOR ME, i am doing it for the smaller artists or creators or queer or autistic or marginalized people who ALSO have to hear this vomit of irony and detachment every day. it takes very little effort to just take a moment and NOT say something unkind. together we can work to prove love in small ways that ultimately amount to something big.

[theweirdwideweb]

[naturalafricangoddess]

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[naturalafricangoddess]

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[naomiforpresident-deactivated20]

[zafojones]

Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.

[gwydtheunusual]

Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together.  Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.  You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits. Frankentrees.

[beautifuloutlier]

As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.

On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.

[reallifescomedyrelief]

But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:

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[sashiscorner]

I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be

[jadedsoggy]

I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.

[rooksandravens]

I need to be more like tree

[azzandra]

I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.

[fuckyeahwomenprotesting]

what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?

[sailorofships]

Sounds like y’all’ve never heard about the Tree of 40 Fruits. Well, it’s exactly as it sounds. Sam Van Aken, an artist based in New York, decided to try his hand at grafting (e.g. the process by which you attach the branches of a different tree to a host tree).

As artists are inclined to do he decided to push some limits and over the course of a few years he grafted over 40 different fruit onto the host “ including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.”

It has a fruiting period lasting from July to October and this is what it looks like when blossoming.

Shit’s tight yo.

Also we have a group called the Guerrilla Grafters. A group who started in San Fransisco with the goal of grafting fruiting branches onto non-fruiting trees of the same type.

Most cities have fruit trees that simply don’t produce fruit because having all these would be a mess and inadvertently providing unregulated food to people comes with a lot of legal risks I suppose. These grafters seem to think otherwise and have taken it upon themselves to try and bring fruit trees back to urban areas.

[dangerbooze]

HOLY SHIT

[okapiandpaste]

THE LAST ONE

[solarpunkcast]

Solarpunk as fuck!!

[fancynewaddress]

Reblogging for “I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.”

[teaboot]

I was sifting through a burn pile the other day and found a dried-out log that was growing bright green baby leaves. Upside-down. Without roots. After being cut into pieces over a year ago

[veryfunnymemes]

[aromoji]

Won’t that only solve 75% of your problems?

[queenophydea]

[aromoji]

The book solves half of your problems, not all of them

Say you have 8 problems. You read the book, and you have 4 problems. You read the book again gets rid of HALF, of those 4 problems. So you’re left with two. Out of the 8 problems, 6 were resolved and 6/8 is 75%.

[augie279-deactivated20191219]

Finally Tumblr can do math

[avatar-of-the-vast]

So, what you’re saying, is that if I buy infinite books, I will solve all of my problems, because the sum as n approaches infinity starting at 1 of (½)^n equals 1, which would be 100% of my problems.

[acesian]

No, you will only ever be able to become infinitely close to solving all of your problems, like this:

[queenophydea]

Please stop explaining math to me im gay

[yorksilk]

[quecksilvereyes]

that’s why radioactive material is such a bitch! it only ever deteriorates relative to its mass so it will never completely vanish

[the-dracologist]

This post is pushing me to the limit

[msauset]

Tumblr doesn’t buss like it used to

[99runway]

[sanj-ra]

Killin shit!

[club7196-deactivated20181024]

😎👯‍♀️

[phantomthread2017]

[thatdiva]

If you do not look at anything else today, WATCH THIS.

This is how you ally.

[fuckmountain2-deactivated202204]

[honeyslim]

I thought he was just going in on a burrito….bro

[awesomesaucetod]

[charlestephen-deactivated202001]

[jo-heart]

Me

[livelifegoldennn]

why…. why was he fucking his mouth with her foot ….. so….. so aggressively

[jo-heart]

If you love your girl you gotta deep throat them toes

[amagicalpeople]

[catchymemes]

NO SURVIVORS

[rapgamejonahhill]

[catchymemes]

“My mom painted this and said no one would like it. It’s her 2nd painting.”

“I painted somebody’s mom”

“Took a while and not perfect, but i painted the guy who painted the other guy’s mom”

“I painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the other guy’s mom who painted an egret”

“I painted the guy who painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the mom who painted a bird”

“When it sinks in that I stayed up most of the night to paint a meme for internet points…”

[yetimati]

…And nobody thought to post other “branchs” of this chain? Yes, it’s ‘branchS’, plural, because apparently we also have these:

Bit wonky, but I painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan.

Bit shitty, but I painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan

I painted u/Shitty_WaterColour who painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan

I painted u/color_on_a_page who painted u/Shitty_WaterColour who painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted someone’s mom who painted a swan

Oh well, here’s yet another layer

Another branch, starting from the girl with the white background:

Took an hour or so but I painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom

I didn’t like how reddit treated the iPad guy so I painted the guy that painted the girl that who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom on my iPad.

Continue from OP’s branch:

I haven’t painted in two years and I’m glad for the inspiration!!

A painting of the guy who hasn’t painted in years painting the guy who painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the girl who painted the other girl who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom

Same ‘level’ as the one above:

Usually lurking but not today…plaid was a great challenge!

Continue! With a cat!

We painted the guy that painted the other guy who hadn’t painted in 2 years who painted the other guy who painted the girl that painted the guy who painted the girl that painted the guy that painted some guy’s mother who painted a swan whilst making them all an NPC in the process

Honorary mentioned:

Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep!!!

And finally, The Great Family Tree (some branch is not in the picture, pls click the link below for the full list:

This seems necessary…

https://nubleh.github.io/i_painted/