dancing like a beautiful dance whore

Brazilian, 33, intersectional feminist, plus size, activist, anti-fascist, love strawberries, chocolate, naked people and cinema. ACAB (Occasionally NSFW) She/her/hers

[beautifuldancewhore]

if i were a transformer, i'd be a garbage truck

[myfashionburden]

christian dior autumn/winter 2021-2022 haute couture details

[1900-1960sgifs]

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - 1966

[strathshepard]

Prince by Herb Ritts, 1991

[robotpattinson]

Faye Valentine <3

COWBOY BEBOP I Ep. 3 Honky Tonk Women I Dir Shinichirō Watanabe

[beautifuldancewhore]

Today is one of those days that I wish I could just turn off my computer and sleep through the weekend. If not even the meds are helping, what will?

[just-shower-thoughts]

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

[unclebeanbag]

“Friend”

Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.

[ulysseus]

Plants don’t wage war

[unclebeanbag]

Ever heard of blackberries?

Yes, plants do wage war

[kasaron]

Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else. 

[systlin]

I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint.

[moirakatson]

This post did not go where I expected it to.

[deathbeforednf]

Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursing school. And by overrun I mean it was like a 4 foot tall thicket of wild blackberries. It hadn’t been touched by humans in at least 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later.

Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there.

[norseminuteman]

Yall mother fuckers don’t even talk unless you’ve had to wage war on kudzu (it’s an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesn’t just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. It’s some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed. 

[breadgunner-deactivated20181003]

Can second the comments of Kudzu.

I forget where I read it but there’s this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that’s in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant’s seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. It’s even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.

[booksandwildthings]

I’d like to third the comments on Kudzu. These are the battlefields:

See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu.

[nevercure]

Kudzu is an apocalyptic nightmare

They smother every other living plant to death

Those trees under there are dead, they can’t get sunlight. Kudzu takes over and steals everything from these trees, and becomes them. It’s creepy as hell. These plants are basically straight out of a horror novelist’s wet dream tbh.

The bodies of everything the kudzu has slain.

What used to be a house

Someone attempting to drive a four wheeler through it, to give you scale

It’s an ornamental plant kept in check in china, but was introduced to north america where it immediately went rampant and began to spread incredibly fast like a disease, destroying everything in its wake

The ONLY thing that has stopped this curse from engulfing the united states is goats. Apparently goats love this stuff like no tomorrow. Everywhere we find it now, we just bring a horde of goats to cut it down. Everything is fine…. for now.

[nevercure]

Kudzu is on time magazine’s top 10 invasive species to look out for.

This little buddy doing his part

[nevercure]

Not to keep spamming this post but 

“the growth of kudzu as it became a “structural parasite” of the South,[7] enveloping entire structures when untreated[11] and often referred to as “the vine that ate the South”.[13]”

“It has been spreading rapidly in the southern U.S., “easily outpacing the use of herbicide spraying and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these controls by $6 million annually”.[2]“

yall it’s been estimated this plant consumes 600 kilometers of the united states every year

it’s been suggested that we just start eating it to make it go away

[kiwilemonteanonsense]

Adding to the spam: yes, kudzu IS edible. In fact, all parts of it but the vine are edible. The leaves are supposedly great in salads or baked into quiche. The flowers supposedly are great in jam. The roots… Well, if you know how to cook other root vegetables, you know what to do with kudzu root. Feed this stuff to your livestock and cook it.

Eat it before it eats your house.

[vagaybond]

@solarpunkcast @solarpunkactionweek @solarpunkinspo @enviropunk feels relevant

[crittizen]

In this world it’s eat or be eaten

[gamebird]

Thread starts with the existential angst of building a treehouse. Ends with recipes on how to eat kudzu.

Posts that make you go ‘hm.’

[nemfrog]

Draw some children dressed up as ghosts. The new work-play books. 1939.

How is anybody going to do any better than what’s already there?

Internet Archive

[sartorialadventure]

Hand-beading by Jamie Okuma

[blackqueernotables]

Marsha P. Johnson: Pioneering LGBTQ+ activist. 

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

9/11 never forget

The bombing of La Moneda (seat of the president in Chile) on 11 September 1973 by the Chilean Armed Forces.

On September 11, 1973, the US government helped orchestrate a coup that desposed of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende. The coup lead to dictator Augusto Pinochet's military officers seizing power. The military established a junta that suspended all political activity in Chile and repressed left-wing movements, dissolving congress and outlawing enemy parties. The military government also took control of all media, including the radio broadcasting that Allende attempted to use to give his final speech to the nation. Allende's death occurred in the presidential palace after he gave a final speech. One of the first measures of the dictatorship was to set up a 'national youth office' as a way of mobilizing support for it. Pinochet rose to supreme power within a year of the coup and was formally declared President of Chile in late 1974, leading the Nixon administration to recognize the junta government and support it in consolidating power. In the first months after the coup the military killed thousands of real and 'suspected' Chilean leftists or forced their "disappearance" in which they were tortured or killed. The number of dead and disappeared citizens soon reached thousands. Torture and detention centers were established.

Pictures of people missing after the coup.

The CIA helped justify the coup in propaganda to Chilean citizens, pushing a conspiracy theory that they were in fact anticipating a self-coup (Plan Zeta/Plan Z) that Allende's government or its associates were preparing. The theory was later discredited and officially recognized as political propaganda.

Decades before the coup, the US intervened in Chilean politics pushing anti-communist ideology, which influenced the Chilean Army.

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Grace Jones at the 1985 MTV Awards post party at Palladium nightclub, 1985.

[nevver]

Geometry homework, Lin Yung Cheng

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[farmerzonly]

from the updated intro to fight club by chuck palahniuk:

[winsnap]

Sea | by Konstantinos Brintakis

[fleur-aesthetic]

instagram | fairynuffflowers

[brias-closet-deactivated2021051]

Janelle Monáe for Neu Neu Magazine. Photos by Brandon Bowen