And Now, Murders

really loves history and design and costuming. has been known to cry about space and characters who deserved better. she/her.

[hypokeimena]

im reading an faq about carnivorous plant cultivation while i wait for the dog to fall asleep and GOD i love people’s weird enthusiasms? i love seeing the shit that people just. LOVE and put their life and time into. god.

[hypokeimena]

Q: It is possible to overfeed a Venus flytrap?

A: I think so. First off, remember you must only feed them bugs and not meat from cows, horses, goats, etc. But even if you restrict yourselves to bugs and insects, you may overfeed your plants.

The bugs should not be too large. Meals much bigger than about 1/3 the length of a trap can be too big, causing the trap to blacken and die. Feed your plants small bugs.

Do not exceed about one bug per week. If you want to get your ghoulish pleasures more often, either buy more plants or eat the bugs yourself.

x

[hypokeimena]

SCREAMS

Q: Can Venus flytraps digest human flesh?

A: OK, I admit it. This is not a “frequently asked question.” But it is one that I am inspired to answer.

AND THEN HE TALKS ABOUT HOW HE DID EXPERIMENTS W/HUNKS OF HIS OWN SKIN/FLESH FROM A BAD CASE OF ATHLETE’S FOOT

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[jewish-joy]

#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty

Behold, Dorothea

(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)

[jewish-joy]

I should also add- I ran into my rabbi and explained the situation. I then asked, earnestly, if there was a remedy. A mikveh of sorts, or a beit din, or something.

He turned to me, sighed, and said in a very deadpan tone-- "Plants don't have covenants, Joy,"

So Theodora's a free agent according to rabbinic opinion. I guess I'll permit her to be Roman Catholic.

[romanceyourdemons]

last night i dreamed acclaimed actor and director kenneth branagh died in a recreation of the battle of agincourt and i happened to be there at the time, so afterwards the investigator for the death (who was an off brand hercule poirot situation) asked me about it and i said “ken was always drawn to spectacle. he loved that feeling of awe” and i remember thinking, in the dream, what the hell am i doing? since when am i on ken terms with real life oscar winner sir kenneth branagh?? being a heartrendingly present bystander at the moment of his bizarre death doesn’t give me the right to ken him

[mollyjames]

Don't worry, she was sure to put it all back

part 1

[onlykenobimatters]

In which the kaminoans make a simple clerical error and hand Prime the wrong clone; Jango spends months doting on and loving his son only for them to come to him and apologize: they confused his unaltered clone with CC-2224. They take his son his Kote the clone from his arms and settle another little bundle there and it pulls loose the thought he’d been so desperate to never think: they’re just babies. Children. If there wasn’t something intrinsically different between them, then Jango had condemned children to death.

Jango can feel a massive headache coming on as he clutches the clone the child his son and wonders where he took a wrong turn in his life.

[milkcioccolato]

Bystander dads

Plus bonus!

Mace does not fuck around when it comes to his boy😤

[dimsunstuff]

Maul had to be a Sith because if the Council had two Jedi sitting there Like That nobody would take them seriously

pspsps @milkcioccolato your tabi boots design choice for Maul is v cool I'm borrowing it

[achillesinhighheels]

choosing to ignore my weirdly symbolic dream because i have a lot going on rn already

[zephyrine-gale]

consume | expel

[sayuupi]

Sketching some bears from the bear cam! 🐻🐟

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

[tanoraqui]

extremely funny that Kel’s primary assessment of Baron George Cooper of Pirate’s Swoop is “not hot enough for the Lioness.” I disagree with her, but I do respect the opinion.

[tanoraqui]

she meets him a second time and has 0 further takes on him. When The Gang is sneaking into Scanra and Neal explains that he knew the smugglers because, “You meet the most interesting people, riding with the Lioness. They’re usually friends with her husband,” usually-astute Kel asks, “What does Lady Alanna know of spies?” and completely ignores his second sentence, despite someone else pointing it out to her and repeated allusions to “the Whisper Man.” Kel pov of the Lord & Lady of Pirate’s Swoop is truly like,

✨🦁🗡️!ALANNA THE LIONESS!🗡️🦁✨

and some guy

[commonplacefolklore]

best part about having cats is conversationally pretending you dislike all of the trappings of having cats as you put in zero effort to disincentivize the behavior you're complaining about

"You know, going to the bathroom doesn't have to be a group activity. I can pee on my own. Both of you must stand vigil? Oh, okay."

"You know, it'd be way easier for me to see my computer screen if you didn't choose to nap directly in front of it. You're too busy napping and purring to care? Oh, okay."

"You're yelling at me like I don't have your dinner directly in my hand. When do I ever bring in your dinner and not give it to you? I'm just too slow? Oh, okay."

I love every second of this but pretending its annoying is so enriching

[toastbutteregg]

[haltraveler]

The sinister old woman arriving at the birth of my firstborn to foretell his doom

[liberalsarecool]

Trump built a $10 billion trap and walked right into it himself. #BBC #discovery

[animentality]

[leebrontide]

One time my dad came to family dinner all excited “you know that show Sherlock? I hear fans are writing whole new stories for it online”

And in perfect unison my sister and I yelled “DAD NO!” So vehemently he stopped in his tracks.

Then a look of dawning comprehension on his face.

“Oh, this is like Kirk and Spock, isn’t it”

And I died right then and there.

[xanaxfarts]

A tiny insect clinging to the head of a horned viper

[nattousan]

#ratatouille