some goth with a recorder

She/her, queer, in my 40s. Mostly Friends at the Table and crafts these days. TERFs fuck off. If you are under 18 please don't follow me because that's just going to be awkward for both of us.

[nemfrog]

A record player used to introduce penguins to music. Ice bound in the South polar seas. 1925. Illustration by Olive Lofts.

Internet Archive

[botanyshitposts]

it’s crazy to me that every seed in existence is a little chemical computer taking readings of temperature and moisture and minerals and all that to see if it’s able to grow yet and they’re doing crazy stuff like going into full dormancy and waiting for species-specific conditions etc etc and some seeds will do this in the size of a dust particle (see: orobanche) and some will pack in extra starch and food and do it in the size of a coconut or something… just dissected this flower seed at work that was a woody two-compartment capsule with one embryo per compartment, the whole seed a little smaller than a dime, and I swear to god it had a full soybean’s worth of embryo and food packed in there. it’s just unfathomable to me

[botanyshitposts]

sometimes a seed strikes me as being like a little spaceship with on-board life support and stuff. all that’s inherently certain about a seed’s existence is that its parents survived nearby, presumably, so if all goes well it’ll be set up for some kind of success falling where it falls, but ideally the seed won’t see those exact conditions, because being too close could also hurt the seed’s chances of survival… as could being too far away, like if it ends up in a different habitat or ecosystem and the right conditions never happen. The whole food-on-board strategy was a huge buff when they patched it in after ferns and other spore-bearing plants, but it’s still basically outer space, right? Just deploying a hundred ships to different planets in the same star system, hoping it’s not so different down there that it’s unsurvivable? like every seed is a chance and different plants are putting different amounts of food, effort, and strategy into those chances. so you get a million different seeds from a million different species and they all look and act different from the ground up. you know what I mean, man. you know what I’m sayin

[mikkeneko]

[sailorbrazil]

thursday..... and i bet you wish you were her

[huariqueje]

Blue Plum Branch - Adriana van Zoest

Dutch , b. 1966 -

Pastel on cardboard , 21,5 x 28,5 cm

[bassiter]

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Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler except it’s playing from a radio in your neighbor’s room. Their window is open to let the north country summer air in, and you’re sitting on your roof mouthing along, thinking about how much you secretly love them.The year is 1983 and you’re so fucked.

[antiquedeuce]

milt (man I love tomatoes)

[ijaazat]

summer

1. make a syllabus for yourself - books, media, places, recipes

2. complete 40% of it

3. eat every fruit u can

[ghostinthebathroom]

I had a dream about Columbo at a drag show. This is what came from it.

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

I'm waiting for him to explain to me how his newfound love of drag allowed him to prove I killed my business partner

[maybeasunflower]

:-)

Now, you could tell the ladies were real upset that Miss Buff Curtains had been killed - and they insisted that as she was in her outfit when she died, we had to use that name. And the whole investigation was built on the fact she was in her outfit when she was killed. But there was one thing that bothered me. See, Mrs. Columbo has used the same lipstick for years - Crimson Delight. Every 3 or 4 years, it runs out, and I run out to get more for her. It's a bit expensive, but it keeps her happy. And I figure it's the same with these ladies, always using the exact same shade each night. I see in that photo you have of the two of you that Miss Buff Curtains prefers a lovely pink shade - Magenta Mystery was what we found in her dressing room. But whaddya know, Miss Buff Curtains was wearing Crimson Delight when she died. The same shade you're wearing right now, Miss Freida Passage. So, I wonder - if she was already in her outfit when she was killed, how did she end up with your expensive lipstick on her?

[fucxingcuties]

[importantcatpics]

[lunglizards]

sand spock.. sorry i had to erase you :(

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the doctor down the street who gives me my T shots in a clinic so small that it's just two rooms was excited for me when she said my voice had dropped yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the receptionist who could see that I was a man didn't bat an eyelash when I asked to see the gynecologist and called me sir when he asked how I wanted to pay yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the barber cuts my hair exactly how I want it and never gave me strange looks for being in a men's salon not even back when I didn't pass as one

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I'm here, and I'm alive, and so are you and there are good people, people who care and don't let them make you forget that-- you are not alone.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

[cheaphalloweencostume]

happy birthday devils sacrament. i wish you were never born

[acidtheater]

Most annoying online emotion is "I have a funny personal anacdote to add to this but it doxxes like all of my personal information"

[godkissedme]

yak napping beside qinghai lake

[princesssarisa]

Where did your first name come from?

I was named after one of my parents

I was named after a dead relative or family friend

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Having been named after a character in The Great Gatsby by my English-major dad, I thought I would ask about this.

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

You just teleported to the last movie you watched! how is it going?

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Voting ended onJul 10