most books are made of the same 26 letters

so how is it the lessons they teach and the journeys they take us on are so different?

[gaydestown]

nobody:

mitski: :-(

[sixpenceee]

Dude decorates entire room with sharpies. (Source)

[sixpenceee]

Sweeping a laser over a blown out candle. (Source)

[crowdnine]

Directed by Tim Burton

[desert-rat-sms]

I watched this for way to long

[sixpenceee]

Time lapse of a lightning storm on Maui. Via u/dickfromaccounting

[supersonicart]

Douglas P. Lobo, Paintings.

Darkly fascinating paintings from Montevideo, Uruguay-based artist Douglas P. Lobo.

Don’t miss Supersonic Art on Instagram!

[coriolane-deactivated20180307]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

[unclebeanbag]

“Friend”

Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.

[ulysseus]

Plants don’t wage war

[unclebeanbag]

Ever heard of blackberries?

Yes, plants do wage war

[kasaron]

Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else. 

[systlin]

I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint.

[moirakatson]

This post did not go where I expected it to.

[deathbeforednf]

Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursing school. And by overrun I mean it was like a 4 foot tall thicket of wild blackberries. It hadn’t been touched by humans in at least 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later.

Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there.

[norseminuteman]

Yall mother fuckers don’t even talk unless you’ve had to wage war on kudzu (it’s an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesn’t just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. It’s some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed. 

[breadgunner-deactivated20181003]

Can second the comments of Kudzu.

I forget where I read it but there’s this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that’s in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant’s seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. It’s even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.

[booksandwildthings]

I’d like to third the comments on Kudzu. These are the battlefields:

See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu.

[ehyde]

Near my parents’ house in Oregon there’s an old WWII army training camp that’s long been abandoned, and it’s full of concrete remnants of buildings that are completely overrun with blackberries. It’s a really great spot to go berry picking, and it has an eerie, post-apocalyptic feel.

[momomorp]

That’s not even considering allelopathic interactions between plants-look up the black walnut tree (its toxin, juglone, is the most famous example)- basically, it wages chemical warfare on nearby plants through the root system (though the nutshells also contain juglone too). Juglone discourages germination rates and even inhibits root growth of already existing plants! Allelopathy in general is a new field-theres Discourse™ because each particular toxins only works on specific plants, which vary; therefore it’s really fucking hard to regulate & compile enough data to test out the effects of such chemicals compared to other factors (pests, soil depletion, etc), but theres a little community still because Targeted Pesticides™ would be really rad yo

[momomorp]

So yeah you go plants go poison that waterhole

[momomorp]

Um i was skimming the post and saw PLANT WARS so,,, I may have dumped a little too much,,, Suffice to say that plants are super versatile and should be feared Bow before them

[squeeful]

Phragmites australisa invades and conquers new territory by squirting acid on other plants so strong it dissolves roots in under half an hour.

(I watched a mint vs ivy showdown.  The ivy won.)

[philosopherking1887]

Nature, red in tooth, claw, and rhizome.

[the-seedling-witch]

This thread made my day so much better.

Also, I did have a mint plant a few years back, and I moved out and nobody in my family bothered to care for it, so it got BEYOND OVERGROWN and had taken over the entire plot I had for the mini garden. Mint needs to be restrained to a pot for the good of all gardens

[tei-mei]

「骸骨の生活図 : 其の弐」

　河鍋暁斎

「Life illustrations of the skeleton」

　KYOUSAI KWANABE

[postingwhileblack]

All we need is optimistic dance from Chance The Rapper right now. Nothing can bring us down if we stay together. Cheer up!

[sixpenceee]

Moving graffiti art made by artist Blu

[pankurios-templeovarts]

Denis Forkas Kostromitin.  

[saltrat88]

[hecallsmebelovedx-deactivated20]

this is …. wow

[sexwitsockson]

LMFAO

[natural--lighting]

Wow

[naturalneeshia]

Had to watch this multiple times to understand wtf

[fineapplemango]

Chaotics canceling each other out

[semiotickitten]

WILD

[jheselbraum]

Beginning of the video: A simple but effective con, one person distracts the cashier (who’s usually alone) while the other grabs what they can from the stock (more effective in convenience stores since the smaller salesfloor gives the cashier an extra sense of security). Generally nonviolent, they likely don’t realize they’re in perfect view of the camera (the only real flaw in this con– what aisles the cashier can’t see are in full view of the camera, which is actually pretty decent considering that this is probably a dollar store given the placement of the cashier and the lack of windows facing outwards, though with their neutral clothing they won’t be standing out any time soon and the skateboard is easy enough to ditch if they have to) and they’re only taking chips, which, yes, that cashier is probably going to get blamed for the incident but they’re not going to get physically injured.

2nd half of the video: An actual fucking armed robbery, doesn’t look staged (unless they’ve got a friend that’s ride or die enough to get tackled and have a display rack fall on them, those shits HURT), the two con artists conspire to thwart the third intruder, but still make off with their stolen chips

Conclusion: This video looks like how Gravity Falls feels

[babyanimalgifs]

the best thing you will see all year

[haisies-deactivated20190915]

mvps

[lez-bruh]

I hate feeling stupid and annoying and unwanted

[gif87a-com]

[mgabrielb]

When people say nice things about me:

[otherwindow]

Bards are just mages who don’t shut up.

[otherwindow]

Rogues are just slutty knights.

[infininoodle]

What about alchemists?

[otherwindow]

Chefs without boundaries.