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@shazdemon
Any new updates for writing? Any suggestions if you don't plan to?
I'm planning on reworking the beginning of lmc entirely but I'm still figuring out the details. I haven't forgotten how much I love my boys or writing, but it's just been hard to find the motivation to continue a story who's start I hate. And it seems pointless to simply edit it as there no real plot then, just fluff.
When will you write again???
I'm working on it, I swear lol
The Legend of Shen Li （与凤行） Xing Zhi + Shen Li textposts 5/?
Been calm for a few days and I thought I was over them but like I'M STILL NOT?! send help
Legend of Shen Li told from Xingzhi's point of view in the style of a thirteen year olds diary:
Day 1: On vacation and have found an injured chicken. Think I will look after it. Should be a smidge of fun.
Day 5: Chicken is in love with me. Oopsie. We parted ways.
Day 20: Got home from vacation. Found my chicken injured (again) and had to spend a couple days healing it. Who will look after my chicken to make sure it doesn't get hurt again?
Day 21: Chicken's fiance showed up. He'll take care of her.
Day 23: Chicken nearly got itself killed again. Fiance told me to my face that he can't take care of my chicken. Fuck. Have officially gotten to attached to my -- the chicken. Leaving now.
Day 24: Distance will make me forget her.
Day 25: News arrived that my chicken is dead. MY CHICKEN IS DEAD.
Day 31: My chicken is not dead! I found my chicken, badly injured. Memories between day 25 and day 31 are blurry. Froze a sea. Got hit by divine lighting. Wandered bleeding on the ice, calling for my dead chicken. Never going back to that. Since no one else will take care of my chicken, I will do it.
Day 33: Everyone, including my chicken, begging me to abandon my chicken because the world might end. Told them I would prefer the world ending than leaving my chicken again. This upset them and they seemed to think that their distress would sway me. Idk why when I literally told them I'd be okay with the end of the world.
Day 34: Chicken has decided to sacrifice itself to save the world. Oh well. Guess I'll die with it.
Day 50: No longer dead, resurrected! Have no powers and my chicken is finally safe. Will spend the rest of my days in pajamas. Bliss.
people in fanfiction are so good at identifying v specific smells. I literally struggle to identify vanilla when I’m sniffing a candle labelled “VANILLA” how are these kids getting woodsmoke, rain, mint, and a whiff of byronic despair from a fuckin tshirt
Once I read a fic where they were like “he tasted like” and I’m expecting the typical formula (1 cooking ingredient + 1 natural phenomenon + “something uniquely [character name]”) but instead they said “he tasted like mouth” and it was one of the greatest fic moments of my life
click and drag to find out what your shitty fanfiction kiss tastes like
*if ur on moble screenshot it
Sugar, soft rain and warmth.
What a kiss that would be 🥹
Sugar, soft rain, and tranquility
Honey, thunderstorms and recklessness.
My kisses are apparently demon-coded.
Cherries, a hurricane, and recklessness
Alexa, play I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry
Coffee, thunderstorms and passion.
Don't think I can ask for more 😋
I'm trying to read about ecological succession in desert ecosystems and its incredibly annoying because most of the studies define "succession" as "how does the vegetation cover increase after we planted a forest on top of it"
this got me scampering off on a tangent about desertification, which led me to a lot of papers talking about how there is no coherent definition of what desertification even is ("What is desertification? We can't even agree and we're the authors of this paper!") and then continuing to talk about how it's important to reverse desertification despite the lack of clarity on whether this is a good idea.
It's really striking how so many papers treat deserts like they aren't even ecosystems in their own right, just land that isn't being as productive as it "should" be.
Then there's this paper which is a quintessential example of "angry scientists who are DONE with your shit" It seems to be machine translated a la Google Translate-esque automation, but it's good and the pictures speak for themselves. basically there was a large scale effort to "reverse deforestation" in the Gobi Desert by planting shrubs, and this was subsidized by policies meant to promote "greening" for broad scale environmental improvement. Here's the summary of how that backfired
According to our survey, personnel who specifically plant trees and engage in afforestation are businessmen, farmers, or others, with most of them being businessmen from abroad, and only a few being local people. All the personnel are more concerned about the subsidies than greening and planting trees itself. According to the policy, they will receive majority of the subsidy if the planted trees live for three years, irrespective of whether the trees survive after that. Therefore, to guarantee the survival of the planted trees for three years, they even use water tankers to carry water to the trees from a great distance. However, after three years, the people stop watering the trees planted in the Gobi region, thereby leading to the death of trees after a few years as they cannot survive only on natural precipitation and groundwater. In pursuit of maximum profits, these businessmen will pursue larger areas for planting trees, which will cause further damage to the ecological environment in the Gobi region
What else is there to say
furthermore, the planting disturbed the natural soil layers and disrupted the "black vegetation" (I'm guessing this is translated from a term that refers to the gravel layer in combination with the biocrusts holding it in place- I want to learn more about biocrusts they're so cool) which caused dust and sand underneath to become airborne.
I found many more papers that are disappointingly uncritical of the afforestation in deserts thing even though they try to take an ecological outlook, like this one, which acknowledges it takes extensive inputs from other places to maintain the trees (if you have to add 5% wood chips to the sand to improve it, wouldn't that necessity significantly offset the increase in tree biomass and the benefit in increase productivity on site, since the wood chips come from trees???) and that past efforts to plant forests on desert lands have gone poorly.
From multiple papers I'm starting to piece together why there has been so much data tentatively suggesting success in desert afforestation even though it seems to not do much good in the long term: the young trees can sometimes draw sufficient water from underground when they're little, but actually the region is fundamentally incapable of supporting the water requirements of a more mature tree. So the trees grow roots down into the deep soil layers, suck the deep soil layers dry, and die, leaving the land drier than it was to begin with.
I'm no expert but it seems to me like maybe we should study the desert ecosystems in depth before trying to change them...
Humility is key in dealing with plants. Everyone wants carbon removal and storage, many are working on fancy technologies, far fewer are learning how carbon is removed and stored by technologies that already exist in other life forms.
Well, that's unfair, many are learning, but there is so much unknown! My plant sciences textbook mentioned that 40% of all carbon emissions from fossil fuels just...disappear into the ecosystems, and what's more, we don't fully know where they're going.
Everyone knows that carbon goes in the trees. We're pretty sure some of it goes in the ocean. Wetlands producing peat also are taking up a lot of the carbon. Most of it is in the living tissue of organisms and will get released again when they die, but some of it goes into more permanent storage. I wonder how we are calculating the global carbon cycle, because it seems like all the time I hear about a new way of carbon storage in an ecosystem that was previously considered negligible.
For example: Deserts! This paper, very recent so I don't know how reliable it is, says that desert soils contain high amounts of inorganic carbon, and that desert plants help its formation.
I'm becoming very fascinated with the realm of microorganisms. When it comes to global nutrient cycles those guys are running the show. I'm often thinking "They have the technology, we just have to learn it..."
when people are like “he’s not even attractive you could find a guy that looks like him at any gas station” i’m like….. well you see there’s beauty everywhere actually
You can also find a sunset at a gas station
Here's the sunset from one <3
(There is beauty when you look for it)
How do they choose which sand to be the glass and which sand to be the sand in an hourglass... Imagine you and your best friend were two grains of sand and you had to be in the hourglass and your bestie had to be the glass. Ur together but youve never been more apart. A Sick and twisted practice hourglassery is...
shower gel label: immerse your self in this new “Me Time” luxury fruity tooty. abandon all sense of identity and dissolve Your memories into this soothing chemical broth One billion melons are in this tube… use them wisely
Hiiii
Sometimes, when I read/see Tom/V being portrayed as emotionless, idk whether to laugh or cry, coz like...this man literally made all his decisions based on the way others made him feel.
Dumbledore made him feel excluded from the very first minute and the purebloods obviously behaved as they did because he was a 'mudblood'.
And so, they are the main subject of his acts of revenge. He never forgets Dumbledore and he never forgets to make the purebloods bow. Like, this shit is ingrained.
Apart from that, when it comes to Harry, this man literally wasted time he could have spent killing Harry to boast??? And for no reason, coz he literally had shit to be done and a BWL to kill, actively? Like, my man needed his validation, right, it had been 13+ years after all...
It's like...you expect him to be a cold, clinical muder-happy guy, but he's not. He's a red-hot, enraged murder happy guy that will spare you if you fawn over him, no matter how imbecilic or annoying you are (wormy and bella disrespectfully).
He runs purely on emotion, and it was these emotions, namely his 'fear' of death that caused him to go after a literal baby of all things, I'm just saying.
Idk, to me he's less psychopath and more borderline, and there's nothing you can say to change that. Even at 80 he was still all emotion. A smart dummy, if you will, which is why you (I) love him.
Anyhow, thanks for coming to my random Tom Riddle Ted talk at 12.32 am! <3
Its very specific, lol
Me stepping onto the balcony to address my followers
This linguistic problem is only going to continue getting worse unless we fuck it in the ass now.
Bwahahahahaha I'm dead lmao
“DON’T write this character like-“
“Stop drawing them with-!”
“I’m so sick of fandom sleeping on-“
My friend, do it yourself then.
Some people don't know how to draw or write dumbass
Then perish.
No but in all seriousness, I have no sympathy for you. I didn’t work for years on my writing voice or artwork skills just to cater to your fandom preferences. No one else in your fandom did either. No one owes you artwork that matches your headcanon.
You have three choices if you want fanworks that match your internal vision;
1) learn how to make fanworks yourself (fic, art, cosplay, gifsets, profile pictures, roleplays)
2) commission someone else to make the fanworks you desire with money or trades, or inspire gifted works by hyping up ideas you like/writing prompts and headcanons
3) eat your lovingly pre-prepared fandom food without being rude to the people keeping your fandom alive
The second chapter of 'Amortentia IS ~true love~' has been posted. I've included the summary below, if you're interested. Please mind the ccntuaw and notes ❤️❤️
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Love...
Tom Riddle has not given it much thought in seventy years.
Once, when he had learned of the truth of his parents' union; a distant time, long forgotten.
And now, once again, in this moment; the intoxicating smell of Harry taking over the room as soon as the boy twists the cap off—
He knows, and still, he holds his cup out as if in an offering.
It is...he is offering himself.
Was this not a sign of the true love he had yearned for once? Someone who would go to the same lengths for him as his mother once had, for another Tom Riddle.
Bringing the cup to his lips, taking a sip that changes nothing at all within—
He only falls deeper...
(A story of a true and real love)
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