Books and Lavender

[caats]

[theburialofstrawberries]

I do. God help me I do

[happyheidi]

𝖠𝗋𝗍 𝖻𝗒 𝖠𝗇𝗇𝖺-𝖫𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺 𝖲𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇 | 𝖨𝖦: 𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖺𝗅𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺_𝖺𝗋𝗍

[rosalarian]

PSA as we go into spooky season and people start using activated charcoal to make foods look spooky.

[rosalarian]

Rebloggin' for this year's spooky season.

[virtuallyinsane]

Photo by Anita Austvika

[blue--folder]

Weavers of Life, me, embroidery, 2021.

[detrout]

what the FUCK

[umutrblg-deactivated20250626]

[tiny-librarian]

“Kazul’s not my dragon.“ Cimorene said sharply. “I’m her princess. You’ll never have any luck dealing with dragons if you don’t get these things straight.”

Dealing With Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede

[himekokosu]

Roses

[everythingfox]

“My harp session turned into a Disney movie”

(Source)

[jadesdumbstuff]

[headspace-hotel]

Farmer family friend has an out of control mint problem around one of his greenhouses because he had a potted mint plant that he set on the ground and it grew a tendril out of the pot which touched the soil and grew roots.

It had never occurred to me before that a potted plant could escape.

[justsomeectoplasm]

Friendly reminder that mint is incredibly invasive when planted in the ground and it will crawl out from potted hell when it's just 1 cm near soil like the gremlin it is.

It's roots are fast growing and aggressive, leaving no space for other plants and basically taking over your entire garden. It's both fascinating and terrifying.

[fleur-aesthetic]

instagram | permillion44

[lacarolita]

[maureen2musings]

…

valokuvaustuulian

[meridionalis]

the decrease in costuming quality over the last 20 years has been soooo precipitous & nauseating. i’m not even talking abt marvel’s cg supersuits or anything this time, look at the fabric quality, structure, layering, character, and craftsmanship of older costumes in 102 dalmations (2000) vs cruella (2021)

ever after (1998) vs cinderella (2021)

lord of the rings (2001-2003) vs the rings of power (2022)

this trend should upset you not just because it looks cheap, but because it suggests a strong anti-art and anti-labor movement in film and tv making. don’t forget costumers are unionized

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Ah so this is why all of the costumes in the new spate of post-GoT fantasy/sci-fi shows all look like they're from Party City

[xenosagaepisodeone]

in retrospect, video rental stores *would* probably still exist today in some capacity had it not been for blockbuster. the nostalgia for the blockbuster browsing experience undermines the reality of how aggressively the chain snuffed out smaller video rental stores and would eventually become notorious for its abusive late fee collection policy once there were no significant competitors standing. the rise of streaming is often attributed to blockbusters demise, but what’s not often recognized is how netflix’ earliest (and most successful) marketing tactics were in fact advertising the absence of the aforementioned terrible late fees as opposed to the convenience of not having to go to the store. I was actually surprised to find out how much of blockbuster’s demise can be attributed to spiraling out of control as it attempted to manage viacom’s ever increasing debts than to the fact that people just naturally gravitated towards streaming (which is not to say that it wouldn’t have happened eventually, but).

[quoms]

see also: borders / barnes & noble with bookstores. amazon’s original pitch was probably more “look how convenient!” than it was “look, you can avoid the awful sterility of the inside of a barnes & noble!” but it’s interesting that with its aggressive tracking and tailoring of recommendations amazon is having machines do (in an impersonal and invasive way) what the staff at a local, non-chain bookstore would do, which is match their selection to your preferences

[lew-basnight]

Barnes & nobles and Borders raced against each other, across the country, to oversaturate the bookstore market. This isn’t paranoia or conspiracy — it’s the same fucking model Starbucks used. Oh, your community supports three bookstores? We’re going to open five, until the little indies go under. Then we’ll close four of our own (sorry not sorry staff, enjoy competing with each other for a handful of positions!) and now you have no other choice. Movie rental chains did the same thing.

And then all these huge chain retailers have the fucking gall to weep and whine as amazon proceeds to wipe them out, and now I live in a small city where you just… can’t get stuff. If you don’t want to use amazon, if you don’t have a car to drive out to the big box on the highway, you literally can’t buy a pair of socks or an ice pack. No more pharmacies, no more bookstores, no more video or music stores… if this was plants and not retailers you’d call it monoculture, and you’d raise an alarm about how prone to catastrophic collapse monocultures are.

[lynati]

Ohhh that last line.

[fandomsandfeminism]

... so, I read a lot of books as a kid. Goosebumps, Hank the Cowdog, the Cricket in Times Square, all kinds of books. And I remember one year getting this box set of books that I *loved* about a litter of kittens who are inexplicably born with wings and go on some little adventures.

So, I look it up to see if it's still in print.

Ursula K Le Guin.

Wizard of Earthsea Le Guin. Left Hand of Darkness Le Guin. "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings" LE GUIN wrote *Catwings*

I, my friends, had incredible taste as a child.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Found a copy on ebay. It's even shorter than I remember. Lol 40 whole pages.

With these beautiful illustrations.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Great news!

Books 2 and 3 came in! A sweet 48 pages each.

(Book 4 has been ordered, but used books are inconsistent with their shipping times, so it is not here yet )