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[writings-of-a-hufflepuff]

Prompt List #12 - The Language of Plants (2/?)

All Prompt Lists

Bamboo - Good fortune; Loyalty; LUck; Protection; Rendezvous; Steadfastness; Strength; Wishes

Pompom Rose - Gentility

Mexican Fireweed - I declare against you

Begonia ☠ - A fanciful nature; Balance; Be cordial; Beware; Deformed; Deformity; Fanciful; Forewarn; Goodness; Send a warning

Double-flowered Begonia ☠ - Be careful; Cautiousness; Danger; Peaceful friendship; Twice as good

Moon Daisy ☠ - Beauty; Beauty and innocence; Cheer; Childlike playfulness; Contempt for worldly goods; Creativity; Decisions; Do you love me; Faith; Forever-young attitude; Gentleness; Gentleness on behalf of both giver and recipient; Happy-go-lucky; I partake your sentiments; I share your sentiments; I will think of it; I’ll never tell; Innocence; Loyal love; Purity; Simplicity; Simplify; Strength; You have as many virtues as this daisy has petals

Double daisy ☠ - Enjoyment; Participation

Barberry ☠ - Ill temper; Petulance; Satire; Sharpness; Sharpness of temper; Sourness; Sourness of temper

Brazil Nut Tree - Preparing

Beetroot - Blood; Heart; Love

Birch Tree - Adaptability; Dreams; Elegance; Grace; Gracefulness; Growth; Initiation; Meekness; Pioneer Spirit; Renewal; Stability; Purification

Billardiera - Hope for better days

Borage - Abruptness, Bluntness; Bravery; Rudeness

Frankincense Plant - Sanctity

Moonwort - Forgetfulness; Unfortunate

Paper Flower ☠ - Correspondence

Hummingbird Flower - Enthusiasm

Field Daisy - Beauty; I will think of it

Wild Cabbage - Profit; Self-Willed

Mustard Plant - Charity; Indifference

Quaking Grass - Agitation; Frivolity

Bromeliad - Beauty; Charm; Elegance; Success in life; Success in love; Wealth

Bush Violet - Admiration

Angel’s Trumpet - Fame; Separation

Briony ☠ - Grow luxuriantly

English Mandrake ☠ - Grow luxuriantly; Here then gone

Moss - Ennui; Maternal love

Butterfly Bush - Tenacity

Holy Wood - Cleanliness

Flowering Reed - Confide in heaven; Confidence in heaven; Quietness; Rely on God

Boxwood - Constancy; Constancy in friendship; Indifference; Stoicism

Cactus - Ardent love; Bravery; Burns with love; Chastity; Endurance; Lust; My heart dreams come to fruition; Protection; Sex; Warmth; You left me

Elephant Ear ☠ - Great joy and delight

Zebra Plant - A new beginning; Don’t neglect me; Show-off; Turn over a new leaf

Lady’s Purse - I offer you financial assistance; I offer you my fortune

English Marigold - Affection; Constructive loss; Cruelty; Despair; Fidelity; Grace; Grief; Health; Jealousy; Joy; Longevity; Pain; Sacred affection; Trouble

Basket Plant ☠ - Beauty

Annual Aster - Afterthought; Beautiful crown; Daintiness; Differences; Elegance; Fidelity; Gained wisdom and good fortune; I will think of it; I will think of thee; I will think of you; Jealousy; Love; Love of variety; Magical; Patience; Symbol of love; Talisman of love; True yet

Heath Heather - Admiration; Attraction; Beauty; Good luck; Healing from within; Increases physical beauty; Luck; Protection from danger; Purity; Refinement; Reveals the inner self; Romance; Solitude; wishes will come true

Rubber Tree ☠ - A monstrosity; Inedible; Purposelessness

Marsh Marigold ☠ - Brilliancy; Childishness; Desire of riches; I wish i was rich; Ingratitude; Wishing for wealth

Sweet Shrub ☠ - Benevolence

Bride’s Gown ☠ - Dead hope; Extinguished hopes; Insinuation

Indian Hyacinth - Play

Camellia - Admiration; Deep longing; Delicate and elegant; Desire; Excellence; Good luck gift to a man; Gratitude; Masculine energy; Passion; Perfect loveliness; Perfection; Pity; Refinement; Riches; Steadfastness; Transience of life

Japanese Camellia - Admiration; Deep longing; Desire; Excellence; Good luck gift to a man; Gratitude; Masculine energy; Passion; Perfect loveliness; Perfection; Pity; Refinement; Riches; Unpretending excellence

Camellia Sinensis - Young sons and daughters

Bellflower - Constancy; Gratitude; I will be ever constant; Indiscretion; Thinking of you; Without pretension

Canterbury Bells - Acknowledgement; Constancy; Constancy in adversity; Gratitude; Obligation; Thinking of you; Warning

Chimney Bellflower - Aspiring; Gratitude; Thinking of you

Bluebell - Gratitude; Grief; Humility; Retirement; Submission; Thinking of you

Ash-Leaved Trumpet Flower ☠ - Separation

Cananga Tree - Wilderness flower

Hemp - Fate; Hardiness; Roughness

Caper Bush - Escapade

Monthly Honeysuckle - Bonds of love; Domestic happiness; Inconstancy; I will not answer hastily; Lasting pleasure; Permanence and steadfastness; Sweet disposition

Shepard’s Purse - I offer you my all

Chili Pepper - Spice in your life

Bittercress - Paternal error

Lady’s Smock - Ardor; Sacred to fairies

Heart Pea - Buoyant; Heartfelt; Lightness; Possessive love; Protected love

Common Thistle - Austerity; Harshness; Independence; Nobility; Retaliation; Sternness

Pawpaw ☠ - Bad health; Good health; Inner peace

Vanilla Leaf - Court case good luck; Eloquence; Good luck in making a positive impression on judge and jury; Good luck in promoting love with marriage; Love affair good luck; Pleasing speech

Hornbeam - A treasure; Extravagance; Ornament

Caraway - Faithfulness

Pecan - Nut of wealth; Southern hospitality

Shagbark Hickory - Holding

Sweet Chestnut - Do me justice; Injustice; Justice; Luxury

Cigar Tree - Beware of the coquette

Cupid’s Dart - Compulsion; Spells

Cattleya Orchid - Mature charms

Cattleya Pumila - Matronly grace

Cedar - Goals; I live but for thee; I live for thee; I live for you; Strength; Think of me; Constancy in love

Lebanon Cedar - Incorruptibility

American Bittersweet ☠ - Honesty; Truth

Woolflower - Affection; Foppery; Love; Partnerships; SIlliness; Singularity

Nettletree - Concert

Cornflower - Celibacy; Delicacy; Elegance; Hope; Hope in love; Love; Patience; Refinement; Single blessedness; Single wretchedness

Sweet Sultan -Felicity; Happiness; Widowhood

Greater Knapweed - Mourning

Feverwort - Delicacy

Aasiatic Pennywort - Enlightenment

Red Valerian - Facility

Cerastium - Ingenuous simplicity; Simplicity

Carob Tree - Affection beyond the grave; Elegance; Love after death; Love beyond the grave

Judas Tree - Betrayal; Betrayed; Unbelief

Night Blooming Jasmine - Gift from God

Iceland Moss - Health

Flowering Quince - Excellence; Fairies’ Fire

Wax Flower - Happiness in marriage

Aegean Wallflower - Adversity; Bliss; Bonds of  Affection; Enduring beauty; Everlasting love; Faithfulness in adversity; Fidelity in adversity; Fidelity in misfortune; Friendship; Lasting beauty; Natural beauty; Misfortune; Promptness

Devil’s Milk ☠ - Deceptive hopes

Goosefoot ☠ - Goodness; Insult

Good King Henry ☠ - Goodness

Jerusalem Oak ☠ - Your love is reciprocated

Ground Holly - Break into small pieces

Devil’s Hand Tree - Warning

Spider Plant - Creation; Destination; Renewal

Flame Pea - You have my love

Chrysanthemum - A heart left to desolation; Abundance; Abundance and loveliness; Abundance and wealth; Cheerfulness; Cheerfulness and rest; Cheerfulness in adversity; Fidelity; Happiness; Loveliness; Optimism; Promotes mental health; Wealth; You’re a wonderful friend.

[ghostofafruitmain]

hey hey tumblr, help i'm in a disagrement with my partner. She thinks i'm the weird one, and I think she's the weird one

Have you ever enjoyed a piece of media so much you've wanted to eat it?

Yes...

No...

Remaining time: 1 day 11 hours

please reblog to help me solve this

tagging my mutuals in hopes they'll help me spread this: @trixthemagemain @vvvvvvvvvvv17 @sexy-people-contests-2 and fuck i can't think of any other mutuals damnit

[janmisali]

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

3

4 or 5

6

7, 8, or 9

Remaining time: 2 days 13 hours

[unyieldingsilence]

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[drarry]

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

[drarry]

This is the Pride Month that It will happen. I feel it in my gay bones

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[robotlyra]

Well that day IS my birthday, sooooooo…..

[catbritta]

it is a very important holiday 🌳🌞

[tlirsgender]

Being critical of your interests is sooooo fun when you have the critic gene & then you sound kind of insane to the average tv watcher when you're like "this is my favorite show, It's Racist" & then you try to clarify what you mean & get that [Speech (legendary) - FAILURE] "the racism is really interesting though"

[tlirsgender]

[Speech (legendary) - SUCCESS] I find the sociopolitical context of pulpy old sci-fi born circa the civil rights movement really fascinating to analyze especially when it was progressive for its time but still reveals the writers' unexamined biases in the subtext

[sqbr]

Them: So you're saying its bad and I shouldn't watch it?

Me: I mean depends on your tolerance for this type of racism, but like I said it's my favourite show, it def has some great parts if you're up for it.

Them: Oh so it's not racist.

Me: It absolutely is.

Them: So you're saying racism is ok??

Me: No.

[mikkeneko]

[robotlyra]

At some point you have to accept that human progress is a nuanced experience in which the obvious moral failings of the past are things you cannot retroactively punish, but also HAVE to be recognized as having occurred so as not to repeat them, or you're just going to spend your life apologizing forever in a desperate attempt to never screw up.

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[huffylemon]

get ready everyone

[thealphapigeon]

[keresacheron]

Dinosaur cartoon.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Important reminder

[geeky-fuckery]

This reminds me of the fact that "Ancient Egypt" goes back so many thousands of years, that the most recent "Ancient Egyptians" were already studying (even more) Ancient Egypt.

[charlesoberonn]

Not even the most recent ones. It was an Egyptian prince from the 13th century BCE studying and restoring artifacts from the 26th century BCE.

[charlesoberonn]

For context, the last Pharaoh, Cleopatra VII, lived in the 1st century BCE. Prince Khaemweset, known as "the first egyptologist", was as ancient to her as the pyramids and tombs he was studying were ancient to him.

[theaudientvoid]

I remember having me mind completely blown when I learned that the "New Kingdom" was pre-Bronze Age Collapse.

[oxeanic]

This has totally be mentioned in another fork of this post, but it reminds me quite a bit of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, a museum in Ur, c. 530 BC, which housed mesopotamian artifacts dating back in some cases to the 20th century BC

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[beardedmrbean]

[seaturtlesayshuh]

Casting spells over long range: I use my amulet

Casting spells with high quality and fidelity: I use my fmulet

[ellienamored]

casting spells: i use my amulet

casting spells that are a lot alike the other spells dignity-wise but CANNOT be combined with them: i use my omtague

[wonder-womans-ex]

casting spells in the present tense: I use my amulet

casting spells in the past tense: i use my wasulet

[problemnyatic]

casting spells: i use my amulet

casting spells on myself: i use my ammelet

[briannyssey]

casting spells: i use my amulet

casting spells in the kitchen: i use my omelette

[dragon-in-a-fez]

casting spells: I use my amulet

casting spells while sporting a distinctive long hair style: I use my amullet

[twitblr]

I’ve waited a while year to post this. (x)

[weevil-mastermind]

Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.

[vintar]

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

hello! i am crumb cat!

socials

twitter youtube twitch

[fatimafares123]

Now YouTube has a habit of recommending me the weirdest stuff recently, but today i got this on my recommendations

And about halfway through listening to this, I went and read the comments, literally I could not stop reading I was there for hours, here are some of my favorites

[moonlit-grimoire]

First off, Oliviaalee’s channel is a godsend for writing. My favorites right now are:

Give them a try here

Also…honorable mention

[safetytank]

[hipeerpressure]

@perditious

[ratretro]

My personal favorite

[the-malevolent-platypus]

Since the first second I was struggling to resist the urge to put a Phineas and Ferb reference at the end.

I’m happy to see that I didn’t need to.

[phineas-and-ferb-heritage-posts]

phineas and ferb heritage post

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[robotlyra]

This guy taking the string motif of Danse Macabre where it overlaps with "Hens and Roosters" from Carnival of the Animals and just running with it

[bijoux-et-mineraux]

Polished Malachite Stalactite - Copper Crescent, Congo

[xekstrin]

*looks around*

Is

Is anyone gonna say it

[brambledboneyards]

malachite is a poisonous mineral. please do not fuck the malachite stalactite

[zdravomilla-deactivated20220114]

@lizaleigh do you know any rock people that can confirm/deny because I am very curious and really don’t feel like getting into a conversation with my geophysicist brother that MAY somehow get back to the fact I saw a malachite that looked like a weird dildo.

[lizaleigh]

…sadly, I am not on good enough terms with any of our partner geologists to just attach this to an email with the subject line: “EXPLAIN.” Although I think @mollisaurus is a mineral person. Thoughts?

[mollisaurus]

oh geeze, i’m kinda rusty on minerals but malachite is just copper carbonate and is really common in both antique and modern jewelry so i think like if you were really gun-ho about it you could go ahead and put it wherever you want?

[vulcanology-geology]

It’s really only a problem if you’re polishing or cutting it. The particles would be bad to breathe. It’s rather porous too, so I would worry about bacteria growing. Well, being literal anyway… Better to leave the poor thing alone. ._.

[thepioden]

I mean it kinda depends on where you stick it because malachite does not like acidic environments very much and the malachite will degrade and also might dye your bits blue-green as the copper dissolves out.

So use a condom when fucking rocks is the takeaway here.

[rosenagldky-deactivated20201223]

Oh my god guys it’s poisonous

It is super poisonous

There is a reason we do not use it in make up any more

Not even with a condom, do not fuck the rock

[nassadii]

Try this one instead. 

[naughtylittledragon]

malachite literally explodes in water does it not?

[rosenagldky-deactivated20201223]

I… no… I think you’re thinking of pure sodium?

Malachite is however water soluble, which really just means it will poison you quicker

[reclusiveandelusive]

This is both hilarious and cool as fuck because you’re getting all this information on minerals and rocks. You’re also watching people argue over wether or not you can fuck this rock

[bijoux-et-mineraux]

I go on hiatus for a week and come back to find tumblr molesting my post, but hey, at least we all learned something so yay tumblr, you just keep on  being you.

[aimee-b-loved]

I’m still not sure if I can fuck this rock.

[adulthoodisokay]

I’m looking into it.

[adulthoodisokay]

UPDATE:

[buzzfeed]

Today in “I’m so sorry, coworkers, it’s for Tumblr,” I brought this post to the attention the science reporters at BuzzFeed. Dan Vergano did a some research and weighed in on the question “Can you use malachite as a dildo or is it toxic?”

The answer is “It’s probably fine, just wash it first and maybe use a bunch of lube.”

[sprigglebearstudios]

Oh man this got so much better than the last time I saw this post

[0hcicero]

This is my favourite. Science side of tumblr: asking the REAL questions

[badscienceshenanigans-deactivat]

*biologist crashes through the underbrush* Ok so here’s the thing though Malachite is not poisonous to YOU. BUT fucking this stalactite will probably wreck your vaginal flora and leave you with a gruesome infection within a couple days. Want details? SO GLAD YOU ASKED, ‘CAUSE HERE THEY ARE. • Malachite is not copper oxide. It’s Cu2CO3(OH)2. Like most carbonates it’s water soluble– that’s how it became a stalactite in the first place! And technically any given chunk of “malachite” isn’t just malachite– it’s a mix of various copper carbonates & oxides. This will become important later.  • When malachite dissolves it makes a bunch of copper (Cu++) ions. Cu++ is GREAT at killing bacteria and fungi– so good at it that sprays with Cu++ get used a lot as a spray in agriculture to stop plant disease. It takes such a large dose to harm larger organisms that copper sprays are used a lot in organic agriculture (like Bordeaux mixture).  So bottom line, yes malachite is technically nontoxic to humans. But it kills bacteria when it dissolves and releases Cu++. • Malachite dissolves somewhat slowly in water– but vaginal secretions aren’t just any water. A healthy human vagina has a pH of 3.8-4.5 and a salinity of about 0.9%. It’s also warmer than your average underground cave at 37°C (or 98.5°F in American meat units). As luck would have it, acidity, salinity, and warmth all make malachite dissolve faster.  • In other words, the human vagina dissolves malachite.  • I have no deeper explanation for why human females can dissolve rocks with our genitals. It simply is.  • Gonna to take a quick moment to point out that sex toys that dissolve when you use them are maybe not the best investment.  • Anyway the key question now is “how fast does the human vagina dissolve malachite?” Are we talking geological timescale, a Nazis-in-Indiana-Jones situation, or something in between? If the reaction kinetics of dissolution are very slow, then there’s nothing to worry about. An encounter with a stalactite would have to last years for enough Cu++ to leach out to cause problems. If it’s quick then we’re in trouble.  • Unfortunately it looks like nobody really knows. One of the best sources on how malachite dissolves & precipitates in water– an EPA document on how to avoid too much Cu++ in municipal drinking water systems– helpfully says “The kinetic constraints on the formation of these solids in water systems are largely unexplored” (p. 42) because end equilibrium points are all you need to run a city water system safely. In other words, the experiments that would tell us how fast malachite dissolves in various types of water just don’t exist because nobody’s ever needed to know before. So we’d better assume it’s going to happen reasonably quickly, #for safety. • So in best scientific fashion, we’re just going to bullshit our way ahead using what facts we DO have on hand: endpoint equlibria.  • Is there any info out there telling us what equilibrium concentration of Cu++ we get in salty acidic water at body temperature? Almost! One J.F. Scaife published some great data on this back in 1957. TAKE IT AWAY, SCAIFE. 

That orange box is how many moles of dissolved Cu++ Scaife got from sticking malachite in some water that had 0.171 moles NaCl/L (body salinity is about 0.154 moles NaCl/L so this is slightly more salty than people) at 30°C. He’s got no acidity in there, and again the salinity and temperature are slightly off from the vaginal standard. But this is probably the closest we’re going to get to data on how malachite behaves in vaginas anytime soon, folks. From this we can take away that if you leave malachite alone in a vagina you’ll get AT LEAST 9.12 x 10^-4 moles/L, or 5.8 ppm, of Cu++ at equilibrium.  • Recall from above that most “malachite” isn’t actually pure malachite, it’s a mix of various copper carbonates & oxides. The EPA document elaborates: “[T]raditional ‘eyeball’ identification of malachite by its blue-green color is extremely unreliable, because almost all cupric hydroxysulfates, hydroxycarbonates, hydroxychlorides, and even fresh cupric hydroxide can be some shade of blue-green. … Thus, the uncertainty in the computed copper concentration in equilibrium with malachite is at least about a factor of 2 … until further experimental data focusing on this problem is generated.” In other words, “do your math and then double how much Cu++ you think is going to be in the water, just in case.” So that gives us 11.6ppm Cu++, at equilibrium, with malachite in a (til now!) healthy vagina.  • Next step: do we have any idea what happens to bacteria in acid conditions with copper? OH MY GOD WE TOTALLY DO. Gyawali et al 2011 checked this out in the context of “so what if we rinsed tomatoes with a solution of lactic acid and copper, because that would be a safe & organic way to get rid of E. coli?” So now this post has officially ruined stalactites, vaginas, and tomatoes.

^This would happen. These are the counts of 4 E. coli strains exposed to various levels of lactic acid & Cu++ for 8 hours. This table only shows the end counts but it represents the death of 99.7% of bacteria*. • Losing 99.7% of your vaginal flora is seriously bad news. You’re looking at really good odds of a yeast infection, bacterial vaginosis, and/or other infection issues. And that’s if you’re lucky enough to not be in the 4% of the population or so that’s sensitive to skin contact with copper.  • The good news? Biochemically speaking, you’re probably ok to put it in your butt. It’s not as acidic or salty in there, plus there’s a huuuuuge stockpile of gut microbes right upstream that can quickly repopulate the colon after spelunking is complete. However this stalactite is not flared at the base so it is the wrong shape for putting in your butt. Do not put this stalactite in your butt.  • This all looks like fun and games, but I think it’s really interesting that the internet’s mistake in concluding that this stalactite is fuckable is very similar to the mistake made by the Flint water management system. Hear me out.  • Central to the Flint lead poisoning crisis is that authorities only looked at & tested Flint’s water in its central treatment plant before it went out through the pipes. Not after it went through the pipes. They did not consider what would happen biochemically as it went through the pipes and metals started dissolving.  • Similarly, in concluding that the stalactite is fuckable, the internet only considered the stalactite itself. Not the biochemical processes that would happen to it as it, welp, went through the pipes.  • Media frequently reports that the Flint River’s water is “corrosive,” leading many to believe the river is full of industrial waste. This ain’t the case. You’d need industry to fill a river with industrial waste, and industry left decades ago. That’s why Flint’s so poor. So what IS in the water? Road salt. Plain old stupid road salt. The old Detroit-based source didn’t have salt because it came from Lake Huron which has a large, mostly rural watershed. Meanwhile the Flint River runs through a lot of towns, making it slightly salty as everything melts down in spring. And as we recall from the stalactite experience, a little salt is all it takes to get metals to dissolve.  • Information on this engineering problem was not coming through clearly from the engineering or chemistry sides. It took a biologist, pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha, to document the real-time results and provide the data to kick-start a high-level investigation.  • Morals of the story: when dealing with a biological system pls consider asking a biologist, your vagina and/or city could depend on this • Pls use a condom when fucking any water-soluble material • Still don’t put the stalactite in your butt -3/10 do not recommend

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post