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witchoria

Don’t. Fuck. This. Up.

amartworks

had a fun experience on the subway the other day

disgustinggf

aijoskobi

My Human is Not

Written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly

Art by Sonny Liew

Star Trek: Waypoint Special #1

channel-three

Well tonight is for crying I guess

holygeist

completely obsessed with this. partially inspired my slavic breakfasts. i’m planning a vampire dinner where everything i cook is going to be red.

forgottengenres

Fiction: 'La Belle et L’Etrange' | Kalairn Keaton

Biographies do not generally open at the beginning of the subject’s life. They nearly always begin with an introduction of the subject including their most impressive and recognizable accomplishments and accolades. Marshall certainly hoped that one day his own biography or autobiography would not begin at the beginning of his dull life but at the first exhilarating moment he laid eyes upon Rio Belle Langston.

Marshall Pond sat alone in the black office chair behind the Denton County Public Library circulation desk. He volunteered there every day during the summer because his overprotective parents forbade their autistic baby boy from holding a “real job.” One extraordinarily fateful day that should have been like any other, he found himself in the “Collected Biography” section where his soul collided with mocha brown eyes while his shoulder collided with a biography of Nikola Tesla.

“I always esteemed Tesla over Edison.” She did not seem even remotely startled, which unnerved Marshall quite a bit. She strained to keep her eyes glued to her book. “Edison reeked of dweebness. You know he didn’t even INVENT the light bulb? He stole the idea from this English chap, Sir Something-or-Other in the eighteen hundreds and freakin’ improved upon it! Tesla invented. Tesla CREATED. So what if he harbored an unholy obsession with pigeons? Edison harbored an unholy obsession with stealing other people’s work!”

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

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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.

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I have not but im going to now

Add pics of the tasty flowers plz

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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.

3gallopingdogs

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.

blackwoolncrown

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.

cluegrrl

Violets are also delicious – people dust them with sugar and put them on cakes.

And don’t forget that squash blossoms – like any edible squash blossom – are often filled with cheese, dipped in batter, and deep fried for utter deliciousness too.

animatedamerican

The flowers of basil, thyme, and rosemary are all edible and all taste like an only slightly milder version of the herb! I’ve made herbed butter using them.

There are so so many delicious flowers in the world, you guys.

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fuck disappearing under mysterious circumstances i want to start APPEARING under mysterious circumstances. walking through a deserted eerie forest? im there. exploring an abandoned 1930s mine that no human has set foot in for 55 years? there too. touching down on mars? guess whose annoying face you see poking out from behind a rover

concerningwolves

why are we here? just to suffer? every day my brain is like "let's invent fake people" and then gives me Big Feelings about them

kifferfag

multiple mental health professionals: that was a traumatic event for you

me: ok but that’s a stupid thing to be traumatized by so

brainstatic

Speaking of punching nazis, in 1937 a judge asked Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky to rough up meetings of the German-American Bund, a Nazi-affiliated group. Lansky wouldn’t accept the money offered, and turned down help from Lucky Luciano, saying it had to be a Jewish thing. Here’s his recollection of the events:

“We got there that evening and found several hundred people dressed in brown shirts. The stage was decorated with a swastika and pictures of Hitler. The speaker started ranting. There were only about fifteen of us, but we went into action.”

“We attacked them in the hall and threw some of them out the windows. There were fistfights all over the place. Most of the Nazis panicked and ran out. We chased them and beat them up, and some of them were out of action for months. Yes, it was violence. We wanted to teach them a lesson. We wanted to show them that Jews would not always sit back and accept insults.”

… “The Nazi scumbags were meeting one night on the second floor. Nat Arno and I went upstairs and threw stink bombs into the room where the creeps were. As they came out of the room, running from the horrible odor of the stink bombs and running down the steps to go into the street to escape, our boys were waiting with bats and iron bars. It was like running a gauntlet. Our boys were lined up on both sides and we started hitting, aiming for their heads or any other part of their bodies, with our bats and irons. The Nazis were screaming blue murder. This was one of the most happy moments of my life.”

geniusoflove

at level 20 of adhd you can read a book and listen to a podcast at the same time

geniusoflove

at level 40 you can read a transcript of a podcast while listening to an audiobook

grimeygruel

And you don't process any of it

geniusoflove

well of course not im thinking about something someone said to me 3 years ago that triggered my rejection sensitive dysphoria

blurchur

First day of life up until 6th grade

Jumped all the way to Freshman year of High School

Then I cut my hair Junior year, why did I do that

Slowly it started growing back and then….

I finally felt comfortable to express myself (the picture on the left was my debut)

At this point in my transition I am 6 months into HRT

A year on HRT

Over a year and a half on hormones. My transition hasn’t been the clearest path but I am so happy that I am on it.

blurchur

Update:

2 years since my coming out

2 years on hrt

2.3 years on hrt

2 and a half years on hormones

blurchur

Its been a while since I’ve done an update so here it goes

At this point I am 3 years into my Hormone Replacement Therapy. I’m thriving.

These pictures were taken days apart and I am 3 and a half years into my medical transition (The picture on the right was also posted by Instagram on all their major social media handles attached with an interview I did with them for International Women’s Month)

During this time I was 4 years into HRT. Clearly living for it.

I am currently 4 and a half years into HRT, 5 years into socially transitioning, 6 years into when i first came out to my community around me and I’m loving life more than I ever thought I would.

blurchur

Lil mini update!! It’s my 5 years on hormones and I think that’s quite the milestone to be proud of so here’s some pics since the last update.

Can’t wait to see how the next 5 years go!

blurchur

New Update!!

Today is my 6 years on HRT! Half a dozen years seems like it went by a lot faster than i thought it would but I’m so grateful for the place that I’m in both with my appearance and my perception of myself. I feel a confidence I never thought I could achieve.