help 😀

a 2010s tumblr bitch is back

[captainlilo]

Some good descriptions from the icelandic phallological museum

[captainlilo]

I'm here to kick ass and eat ass - and I'm actually not super hungry right now 👊

[redstonedust]

this sucks im going to kill (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) the president of the United States. (end statement)

[twinkhole-destroyer]

“nobody wants to work anymore” yeah because everyone wants to kill themselves

[captainlilo]

Pre-antidepressants, I thought the trope of going off your meds because you were fine was a silly silly thing bc obviously the reason you're fine is the meds. But I get it now.

For some reason it reminds me of that old post about the old anorexia/body dysmorphia PSA where a girl is looking in the mirror body checking herself and the camera flips the angle and she's just skin and bones. And one poster on here talked about how a teacher showed them that video and asked what they saw and one kid says something like "she's sad cause she thinks she's fat but really she's dangerously skinny" and the teacher corrects him to say shes sad because she thinks she looks like **a normal girl**

I feel bad. I take antidepressants to feel good. Antidepressants don't make you feel good. They make you feel normal - or at least what was normal before the depression got bad enough that you needed antidepressants. And because the feeling registers as normal, it doesn't feel like anything is happening. So you go off your meds because you must be in a natural upswing. Or you're feeling so normal you just forget you need to take them.

It turns out they were working. You just don't recognize normal anymore.

[ifelloffthebed]

fixed it

[strawberry-fairy-girl]

I spent an hour making none pizza with left beef in tomodachi life

[chryza]

Debating silently showing this to one of the flight attendants while boarding

[chryza]

I SHOWED IT TO MY FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHEN HE GAVE ME MY COOKIES AND HE LAUGHED SO HARD HE TOOK MY PHONE TO SHOW IT TO THE OTHER FLIGHT ATTENDANT

[cheacegirl]

I made a bad comic and now you have to look at it

[quiddie]

*deep breath* If the antifascist (esp. American-centered) art you make or consume refuses to acknowledge the truth that framing this time period as the "sudden rise of fascism" along with its supposed volatility (i.e. "it can't last; that's not how its built") is just a comforting construct to keep white Americans from reckoning with their literal centuries of active and passive participation in this country's fascist, genocidal violence against Indigenous and Black people, your art isn't just wrong...it's worthless. How can you imagine dismantling unjust systems without seeing the blood on your own hands? How do you comprehend the size of the fight for mutual liberation without seeing that the scale of the threat is exponentially larger than your personal experience of the danger of state violence; or is your envisioned win condition only as shallow as the return to your previous sense of safety?

Ignoring the complexities and well-established enmeshment of fascism in Western culture for the sake of simpler stories to inspire rising to this moment in history only builds fair-weather fighters ill-prepared for the rigors of revolutionary action. It also widens the rift between those newly awakened to the struggle and their neighbors that have lived it for generations (and have built and maintained systems of community support and resistance that have protected them for just as long).

If antifascist art doesn't first demand you turn the eye inward, it is only escapist fluff.

[charl0ttan]

[captainlilo]

My partner uses microsoft rewards to get free game pass. This generally involves a bunch of optional tasks like using bing to search stuff, answering random questions and polls, etc. RECENTLY they've been trying to push a "try our ai image generator" task.

Today's was so fucked they sent it to me.

Use AI to generate FEEL-GOOD EARTH DAY IMAGES??

Like everything else that happens in corporate america, this is so stupidly ironic it would have immediately been considered heavy-handed satire in a dramatized version of our current situation.

[loverofpokemon]

Ohh this made me feel things 😢

[captainlilo]

One of the astronauts on this mission immortalizing his own lost love in a bright spot on the moon hits that much harder

[ellewantsrevenge]

[captainlilo]

oof

[theatsymbol-deactivated20210220]

Its such a rip off that flowers don’t taste good

Spoken like a woman who’s never used garlic blossom in a stirfry, had an elderflower fritter or used Calendula and Nasturtium in a salad.

I have not but im going to now

Add pics of the tasty flowers plz

garlic blossoms (allium) balls of tiny flowers, may be white to deep purple. literally just the flowering head of the garlic you use in food. it tastes like garlic. but colorful.

elderflower, the blossom of the elderberry bush. can be battered and fried. excellent with elderberry syrup or honey. tastes fruity with a tiny hint of anise. also good in teas and sweets.

Calendula, also known as pot marigold. (please, verify you’re using pot marigold, not regular marigold. calendula is actually a daisy.) tastes similarish to bell pepper, sans crunch. leaves are also edible. should be grown with broadleaf plantain:

as a poultices of calendula and plantain can be used to rapidly heal small cuts and scrapes, and are also helpful for other dermatitis. don’t use it on deep wounds though, as it can and will cause the surface skin to heal before the underlying tissues. all of broadleaf plantain is also edible. if bitter.

Nasturtium ranges in color from bright yellow to deep red. it’s peppery and very slightly spicy.

[glumshoe]

Personally I love squash blossoms stuffed with ricotta and fried in a pan. Not ideal if you also want to harvest squash, though.

Elderflowers also make great wine or cordial! I concur with the squash blossoms, can always just use the male ones so the female flowers can still form fruit.

Finally a thread for the REAL folks: those who eat flowers

[therestlesswitch]

Borage! Looks like blue stars and tastes a like lightly sweet cucumber. The young leaves tase like cucumber too!

The flowers that come from any brassica (cabbage, radishes, broccoli, kale, etc) are all excellent and taste like the rest of the plant.

Queen Anne’s lace blossoms, (daucus carota, just like our domestic carrots) super common wild plant, and the flowers make a jelly that tastes kind of like pink lemonade?? It’s /delicious./ but make 100% sure you have a correct identification as water hemlock and other toxic species look similar.

Rose!!! Rose flavoured things taste exactly as they smell. So scrumptious!

Same with lavender and lilac, and violets! The list goes on! 🤩✨🌱

[heatherwitch]

Here are some of my local (PNW) favorites:

[X] Big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) blossoms are excellent in fritters.

[X] Dandelion (Taraxacum offinale) is also excellent in fritters, or my favorite is separating the petals and mixing them into pancake batter.

[X] Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia sibirica) flowers have a delicate, lettuce-like taste.

[X] Oregon grape (Berberis/Mahonia aquafolium) flowers are delightfully sour. I like to pick off a few small flowers from the cluster!

[X] Wood sorrel (Oxalis sp.) also sour (from oxalic acid).

[X] Red clover (Trifolium pratense) is mildly sweet.

When eating wild plants, you should be completely certain in your identification and aware of any lookalikes. Be sure you are allowed to harvest and that the area has not been sprayed by any chemicals. Many of these plants are also medicine, so you should be sure that you can safely ingest them (do your research before putting things in your face pls). This was just intended to get them on your radar!

Resources for plant identification.

[unseelie-witch]

Roses are delicious. Lavender is delicious.

[dinosaurrainbowstarfish]

Chive flowers are also edible, and bonus points because chives can be invasive if they go to seed, so by eating the flowers you contain the plant to only where you want it to grow!

[greater-than-the-sword]

Elder flower has toxic lookalikes, so watch out for that.

[mbilmey]

My favorite flower of all flowers to eat that I eat every spring when I see it. Those weird shapes purple flowers, but the ones with the round leaves. It’s got kind of a walnutty flavor. Look alikes include dead nettle which is also edible and ground ivy which is also edible. I think the only bad look alike is stinging nettle, but it has very different leaves (and is also edible, but you have to process it first not to get stung)….i think these are all mints btws

[greater-than-the-sword]

My friends and I used to eat deadnettle out of the yard! My friends taught me it was edible but my parents always looked askance and my mom was convinced it was making me allergic. I’m convinced it probably had the opposite effect

[infectiouspiss]

a tiny heist went down to rescue Rise and now he's being taken everywhere by Reid Wiseman because he's extremely important (he was supposed to be left on the craft, he has instead been adopted)

[radiobarf]

An Artemis plush being in the NASA Mission Control Room during Artemis II's journey is the sweetest thing and it makes me very weepy 💖