and tonight I'll ache with undefined longing for no reason at all
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Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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if i look back, i am lost
$LAYYYTER
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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and tonight I'll ache with undefined longing for no reason at all
Me: *types 'a'*
Browser: Did you mean "Archive of Our Own"?
Me: No!
Me: I do other things, you know? I am a complex, multi-facetted person with a variety of interests! It's not all fanfic!
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Me: Yes, I meant AO3.
I think realizing that canon is fake is very freeing actually
Like genuinely all fiction is equally fake and real simultaneously. The author is dead and I'm getting my inheritance
The author is dead and I'm getting my inheritance.
reposting bc op was flagged by shinigami eyes and this is important
You know when the leftovers have become a science experiment in the back of the fridge to the extent that you just throw the whole pyrex out?
That's Wednesdays.
the phrase daddy issues makes me so mad like no this isnt some âissueâ we have its a system of neglect and emotional incompetence thats excused and encouraged in men and then somehow reflects badly on young girls for being lost and im so mad
The man fails as a father and we laugh at the neglected girl
Actually life is beautiful because the sound I make while trying to breathe around hot food sounds like my dog trying to eat an apple. When I yawn my cat tries to put his face in my mouth like a little dentist man and when he yawns I put my finger in his obligate-carnivore trapzone and we both know he will not hurt me. When I do not fold my clothes, they do not hold it against me.
I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said "look! It's snowing!" so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn't the first snow and it won't be the last but wasn't it lovely, like that?
How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.
This is the process of getting better. With wonderful people and wonderful strangers and wonderful friends: I am getting better, slowly. Thank you, whoever you are. In some way, you've been wonderful, and left a wonderful place in the world to ripple out to me. In some small way - isn't it beautiful - I promise, you've been helping.
Oh hello. I'm back.
Tagged by @filteredred to post my lockscreen, homescreen, and the last song I listened to.
My lockscreen is a watercolor of one of my favorite places on Earth, Enchanted Rock.
My home screen is a prophetic painting about knowing/claiming your identity and purpose. Artist is: Janet Hyun
I have a mix playlist that I update pretty frequently of all my current likes. This is the song I last listened to/am listening to right now.
Ok, I'm gunna tag some people who l've loved interacting with on here. @bipolarronanlynchevangelist @autumnalpalmetto @alex-glasses Bless.
Andrew starts giving advice to the baby foxes solely because it gets Neil hott.
Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. âI killed your friend, here hold him.â
âFriendâ
Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.
Plants donât wage war
Ever heard of blackberries?
Yes, plants do wage war
Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else.Â
I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.
Itâs 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.
This post did not go where I expected it to.
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 hadnât 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.
Yall mother fuckers donât even talk unless youâve had to wage war on kudzu (itâs an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesnât just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. Itâs some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed.Â
Can second the comments of Kudzu.
I forget where I read it but thereâs this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance thatâs in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plantâs seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. Itâs even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.
Iâd 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.
Near my parentsâ house in Oregon thereâs an old WWII army training camp thatâs long been abandoned, and itâs full of concrete remnants of buildings that are completely overrun with blackberries. Itâs a really great spot to go berry picking, and it has an eerie, post-apocalyptic feel.
Thatâs 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 Discourseâą because each particular toxins only works on specific plants, which vary; therefore itâs 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 Pesticidesâą would be really rad yo
So yeah you go plants go poison that waterhole
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
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. Â The ivy won.)
Nature, red in tooth, claw, and rhizome.
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
@disgustingplants
And not a single mention of mugwort or garlic mustard.
How about Scotchbroome?
So⊠can we have treehouses, or�
Man this post was a fucking rollercoaster
It was.
Honestly the gentle giant trope is like⊠my shitâŠ. like I know itâs cliche or whatever butâŠ. idgafâŠâŠ big gentle boysâŠ. I love all of youâŠ
sauropod emojis, as rated by a palaeontology student
apple:
not a bad start here overall! this is recognisably intended as a brachiosaurid, and the skull shape and overall profile are pretty good (though they look a bit juvenile-ish). points off, though, for the inaccurate hands - rather than elephantine columns, they were more shaped like lima beans in cross-section. yes, really. they also only had one claw per hand (it was on the thumb). also points off for having the external fleshy nostril located on the dome of the skull; while this is the position of the bony external nostril, there is evidence that the fleshy nostril was probably located at the tip of the snout. its dead eye haunts me
score: 7/10 solid attempt
google:
google clearly went for a cartoonier approach, and to my view it served them well. still recognisably a brachiosaur - the shape of the skull and overall proportions make it resemble Europasaurus, a type of dwarf sauropod that lived on an island in what is now eastern europe. which immediately ups its score in my book. however, it falls victim to the same issues with elephantine hands as did the apple one, and as such i canât give it a perfect score.
score: 9/10 friendly!
microsoft:
this emoji cleverly avoids any scientific inaccuracies by being extremely cartoony. i like the use of single colours rather than gradients. a little too simple for my tastes though. i canât tell what find of sauropod, if any, it was intended to be - a brachiosaur, because of the upright neck? a mamenchisaur, maybe? i have little to work with.
score: 6/10 just too vague
samsung:
i donât like her at all. clearly a brachiosaur - sensing a common theme - but something about it is just unpleasant to me. the body seems too fat, the limbs too short, the tail too noodly, the head too pointy. also messes up the hands again.
score:Â 3/10. please leave.
whatsapp:
at last, an emoji that bucks the brachiosaur trend!! this is clearly not a brachiosaur. in fact, it looks like a possible Cetiosaurus-type deal. whatever it is, itâs charming. the nostrils are at the end of the snout as they should be and - is it? - can it be? - it is! the hands are anatomically correct! each clearly has one claw, located on the thumb, and though we canât see well, they donât appear to be elephantine. i love them a lot.
score: 10/10 only shooting stars break the mold - oh god im so sorry i shouldve phrased that differentlyâ
twitter:
a classic. what it lacks in detail it makes up in simplicity. it has pleasant lines and an appealing silhouette. itâs extremely vague and not based off of any real genus, and the tail is far too short, but for some reason this doesnât bother me too much.Â
score: 8/10. exquisite
facebook:
hm. hmm. a lot of anatomical though was clearly put into this; overall the body form looks like a plausible sauropod. the proportions look a little weird, sure, but that seems to be perspective - after all, most sauropods were gigantic beings. beefy boys, if you will. its nostrils, upon close inspection, are correctly placed; however, its hands and feet are all messed up. i guess the real conundrum for me is that it seems to be a mish-mash of sauropods - remove the braciosaur-like domed skull, and it would be a great fit for an Apatosaurus.Â
score: 8/10 iâm conflicted
joypixels
what in the hell is joypixels? and what in the hell is this? i justâŠthe hands and feet are plantigrade, meaning that the ankles touch the ground, when actual sauropods were digitigrade - walking on their toes. the shoulder and hip muscles arenât there, and instead the limbs are just awkwardly connected to the body. it reminds me of a turtle, and not in a good way.
score: 4/10. uninspired and dull
openmoji:
they didnt try. nor will i.
score: 0/10 make an effort
emojidex
every emojidex emoji i have ever seen has just been awful. this is no different. this looks like a stereotypical loser from a meme, but as a dinosaur. the contrast between the decently moderate level of artistic detail put in and the blatant disinterest towards making it look like an animal is staggering. just awful.
score: -3/10 i just cant care enough about it to rate it lower
emojipedia:
excuse me? what the fuck? what the fuck is this? this is the main character from the low-budget ripoff of the good dinosaur. the head looks like a Corythosaurus and the body looks like barney in leapfrog stance. the gradients just make me feel a little sick. itâs awful. look at the hindlimbs and tell me that any love was put into drawing this. itâs like how a dinosaur would be drawn on tom and jerry but like, the bad charmless ones made in the 90s that were trying hard to emulate the originals. the hands look like green snowboots.
score: -500/10 i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate youÂ
like! people always reference pride & prejudice as the archetypal ânormal girl falls for mysterious brooding antiheroâ story but they overlook the part where lizzy drags darcy so fucking hard he leaves town and then apologizes for talking to her the next time they meet even though theyâre at his literal house
Also, she doesnât fall for the mysterious brooding antihero. She thinks that guyâs a twerp. She falls for the guy who loves his sister a lot, is kind to his servants, isnât rude to the Gardiners and who acts completely differently to the brooding antihero before apologising for his past behaviour and acknowledging that her put down of him was extremely well deserved.
People usually leave off the part where he admits her put down was so deserved that he CHANGED HIS BEHAVIOR as a result.Â
Jane Austen knew what she was about.
you can make nearly any object into a good insult if you put âyou absoluteâ in front of it
example: you absolute coat hanger
as well u can just add âedâ to any object and itâs sounds like you were really drunk
example: i was absolutely coat hangered last night
#i was gazeboed mate #i was absolutely baubled
Meanwhile, âutterâ works for the first (e.g., âyou utter floorboardâ) but somehow âutterlyâ doesnât seem to work as well for the second (âI was utterly floorboardedâ).
Utterly doesnât work for drunk because itâs the affix for turning random objects into terms for *shocked*, obviously.
⊠huh.  I thought that might just be the similarity to âflooredâ, and yet âI was utterly coat hangeredâ does seem to convey something similar.
I have to tell you, I am utterly sandwiched at this discovery.
Completely makes the phrase mean âsuper tiredâ.
âGod, itâs been a long week, I am completely coat-hangered.â
Something is
Something is wrong with our language
Is it a glitch or a feature?
Feature
we donât have anything like this in French and it offers a range of expressibility that I wish we could properly translate back. it is a feature, i concur
This is a beautiful example of the contextual nature of communication.Â
youâre in his dms and Iâm picking up his cigarette and putting it in my mouth after he throws it off the side of a building. we are not the same
I feel like the real peril of growing up Christian that no one really talks about is how deeply veggie tales songs get embedded into your fuckin head like a ticking time bomb of inanity
it could be decades later and youâre minding your own business in line at the grocery store or on the bus or trying to fall asleep and from the depths of your brain comes âthe bunny, the bunny, ooh I love the bunnyâ
youâll never be free
feeling cute today. might commit acts of hubris