Growing in Darkness

Let's plant things and be weird.

[unthrash-deactivated20151110]

rocky horror is the worst and is also transmisogynistic can we please finally get over this shit movie

[fagtrender]

ok but like the writer is transgender nonbinary and the language used in the play was the preferred language by trans people of that time can we not deny parts of our history because we’ve evolved since then thanks

[minim-calibre]

So fucking much this.

PS, youth of today: you’ll be saying the same damn thing about art from this time before too long, for good or for ill. Terminology will, in fact, change. Definitions will, in fact, shift. It always does, they always do. 

PPS, it is pretty much impossible to overstate how life-alteringly important this movie was to kids who didn’t conform to standard expectations of gender and sexuality, back in the day. Especially when back in the day was the mid-to-late 1980s, when the only queers you saw on TV were neutered AIDS tragedies, Bowie was playing straight, and even Elton John was married to a woman, and midnight showing of RHPS were pretty much the only place that felt like home. It was mental life raft for a lot of people.

I was one of them.

[counttwinkula]

#the queer youth of today has forgotten all its history and is spitting on its ancestors and i hate it (via @gaythreats​)

beautifully phrased

[cobra-creampuff]

ALSO IT’S A SATIRE IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE AN “OFFENSIVE” PORTRAYAL IT’S MAKING FUN OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID OF US IT’S EXAGGERATING THEIR IDEAS OF US TO THE POINT OF LUDICROUSNESS THAT’S THE ACTUAL POINT

[earhartsease]

also you fail to understand just how many, many people were allowed to be queer for Tim Curry and how many doors that began to open

we say this as someone who was in several closets and first saw the film when we were 18 and that was 1981 ffs this film MATTERED

[vaspider]

Rocky Horror kept me alive.

[thenatsdorf]

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

[immaplatypus]

MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck.  Not bad luck.  I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!

[official-mugi]

“See him face”

I sure fucking do see him face

[just-things-i-enjoy]

Him face

[luccorvus]

Reblog him face for good luck in 2021

[beshnav]

[pinkcheesecoolarrows]

Food is a right only if it is your private property. You have no right to food that does not belong to you; you have no right to food that you have not purchased or produced.

[beshnav]

Yo shut up

[sophisticatedfangirling]

[punk-bitch-michael]

Food isn’t scarce though, at least not everywhere. American grocery stores throw out tons of food every fucking day and aren’t even allowed to give it to the poor

[exclusive-cowboy-deactivated201]

Restaurants and Grocery stores throw out tons of food DAILY and are not allowed to donate it or even take it for themselves.

The amount of food America throws out is actually fucking horrendous. Another reason why I dont have the will to work anywhere near food is because I actually have fucking compassion and would give away what went unused at the end of the day, that action could get me FIRED.

[shigarakinniee]

us : people should be able to eat

these clowns: UM ACTUALLY

[pumpernickel-simswood]

As someone who has worked in 2 restaurants and currently work in a grocery store in the US, I can attest to this. SO much food just gets fucking tossed.

The only exception I’ve seen is like once a week, maybe less often, our bakery is allowed to donate bread to some charity and usually the bakery tries to give away more than the one person from the charity has room in their car for.

And we have so much food go bad because there’s so much of it, no one buys it. It’s infuriating.

[daggers-drawn]

Food Not Bombs literally takes excess food from various sources and uses it to give away free meals and meal kits.

It’s not just an empty statement.

[scottishwobbly]

the whole point of Food Not Bombs is to use the food that’s wasted under capitalism because it can’t be sold for a profit to feed the people who need it, it’s literally designed to draw attention to the fact that scarcity under 21st century capitalism is manufactured. We produce enough food globally to feed 10 billion people a year; nobody should be hungry.

[hornyonprivate]

I literally almost got fired from Tim Hortons (call out) for giving homeless people stale doughnuts we had to throw out

[sobadpink]

The United States is the global leader in food waste, with Americans discarding nearly 40 million tons of food every year. That’s 80 billion pounds of food and equates to more than $161 billion, approximately 219 lbs of waste per person and 40% of the total US food supply.

We have enough food thrown out in North America to feed much of the developing world - and more if we stopped using 70% of the planet’s arable surface (most of it located in countries and communities where the people are suffering food insecurity) to raise and feed livestock used for said western consumers; of which the majority ends up in that landfill statistic, as these products are highly perishable.

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[socialistexan]

[potorch]

I wonder what we’re meant to think about Biden’s consistent position of don’t vote for Biden.

[socialistexan]

It just keeps happening, almost like he wants to lose.

[closet-keys]

Two things: 

I think at this point it’s pretty clear he cared more about preventing Bernie from winning than he actually wanted to win himself. 

Him saying he doesn’t remember Reade is not the defense he thinks it is. That is actually entirely consistent with her account in which he told her that she was “nothing” to him. 

[5-and-a-half-acres]

Deep purple, almost black hellebore which has been very photogenic this spring. 

[kihaku-gato]

😍

[botanyshitposts]

Have some funky irish lads (submitted by @ash-n-fire)

this is, and i cannot stress this enough, the wildest configuration of the famous common thalloid liverwort species marchantia polymorpha (at least im like….85% sure that’s what it is) ive ever seen. the little weird umbrella-looking things are…..yes, indeed……The Sexy. there are male and female sex umbrellas, with each plant producing only one kind (you won’t find male and female organs on the same plant):

it looks like this one’s a female. girls’ night 

[botanyshitposts]

my botany professor: cork is harvested from the tree Quercus suber, most commonly in spain and portugal. the cork comes from the thick outer bark the tree produces; harvests are very technical and have to be done by hand, because removing all the bark without harming the tree is very intuition-based and can’t be accomplished via machine. instead, teams of highly skilled workers are tasked with using axes to carefully harvest the bark. it grows back completely in 10-15 years, whereupon the next harvest can take place. the trees can live up to 200 years and can undergo over 10 harvests in their lifetimes 

me: hehee,,,…..the trees are nakey

[botanyshitposts]

nakey

[shiftythrifting]

Sexy plant book. Oxfam, Banbury, UK

[5-and-a-half-acres]

Various hellebores part 2.

[catchingtearsinrain]

Bleeding Heart Flowers.

[crypto-botanist]

Nepenthes bicalcarata x ampullaria

Some of these pitchers are soooo small that a housefly wouldn’t even be able to squeeze inside 🔎🔎🔎

[myorchidvicissitudes]

Catasetum in bloom

My catasetum has opened all her buds. Here it is!

If you want to know more about this orchid, please check my catasetum tag and/or my List of orchids link under the header. 

[retrogamingblog]

3D Printed Pokemon Planters made by Jessica Geale

[cactanna]

Cynanchum marnierianum is a drought resistant plant endemic to Madagascar. It has very tiny green flowers that form a whorl from an adapted sepal. It looks like dry dead sticks when not in bloom.

[plantanarchy]

It’s H I M

[botanyshitposts]

T H E   O R B

[plantanarchy]

@your tags, I work with someone who worked there and this is something they do frequently and have all over. It’s basically a large lightweight circular cage form that is covered in sphagnum moss so the dudes have something to attach to and absorb water from.

I’m not sure if this one is very old and spread all around the form itself or relatively young and was positioned that way with each fern initially tied in place and them left to attach and do its own thing. Its actually more a chandelier type thing than an orb. Phipps attaches most of their epiphytes to stuff with pantyhose before their air roots cling on.

More ORBs for your enjoyment, including Kalanchoe orbs.

[knight-blooming]

A video of the awesome mutated Cyclamen!