Underneath the Ivy

Vegan. Introvert. Lesbian Hufflepuff English Lit graduate trying to work out how best to make the world a better place. Really likes cats. Really doesn't like injustice.

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Biggest fucking mood.

[sinnahsaint]

They’re also meant for hiltops, not small rooms. Cant get the right reverb with all that echo.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

they’re also meant to make you fight the english. don’t forget that part.

[fool-errant]

My fav bagpipe player was a dude who would go out to the middle of a soccer field near my college apartment on Sunday. No one was using the field and he’d just be out there playing his heart out and the sound were just spread out over the plains. I’d be working on art for class so I’d open the window and listen. I still have fond memories of the day a kid biked up to the edge of the field, ran over to the bagpiper and the music stopped for a moment and as they talked. I couldn’t hear it but I had assumed the worst, that someone had decided to tell him to stop playing. Instead after the pause the musician seemed to nod, readjusted his bagpipes and started belting out the Star Wars theme. 

[matchgirl42]

Fun fact: Scottish bagpipes and Lamberg drums have been used as weapons of psychological warfare by the Scots during time of war.

Imagine you’re the English, and you’re lining up for battle, and then you hear it.  Faint at first, then getting closer and louder, you hear the bagpipes, and then the drums kick in, as an army of Scots march, line up and then charge towards you:

https://youtu.be/ZRVS4XxSn9Q

https://youtu.be/d17zL7rNlNs

Also see: this BBC documentary of the 2,500 bagpipers who served in the British Armed forces during World War One, who unarmed, led their regiments up out of the trenches to face the enemy: 

https://youtu.be/toy7A8rbZZU

And did you know?  Until 1996, the bagpipes were classified as a weapon of war.  Because of an English judge’s decision in the mid-1700s.  One piper, James Reid, was hung, drawn and quartered for playing the bagpipe in the Battle of Culloden.  And William “Bill” Millin played the bagpipes during the D-Day landing at Normandy in WW2, dressed in full kilt and armed only with the traditional knife tucked in this sock; and captured Germans told him later that they didn’t shoot at him because they thought he was crazy.

https://www.scotclans.com/bagpipes-a-weapon-of-war/

Scottish bagpipes.  Fucking hardcore, my friends.  Fucking HARDCORE.

[deadpresidents]

It’s also worth noting that nobody in their 90s will ever master Twitter better than John Dingell

[mothersofmyheart-deactivated202]

“I try to teach clients that suppressing what you want is not the way to go. You have to radically accept that you want something, you don’t have it, and it’s not a catastrophe.”

— Marsha Linehan on Radical Acceptance 

[makingqueerhistory]

Remember that beyond our rush to make sure everything that comes out of our community is perfect that young people make mistakes. Young queer people are no different. Let them make those mistakes, confront them gently, do your best to teach them better. But don’t expect them to come out of the gate perfect.  

[dankmemeuniversity]

[thetrashiestoftrash]

Please, I am begging you, visit the official Captain Marvel website

[thetrashiestoftrash]

I would post screenshots but they cannot possibly capture it.

[kittyknowsthings]

oh dear

[systlin]

Well it can’t be that bad. 

“Clicks”

…..

Oh well that is distressing. 

[thehoneybeewitch]

ooooohhhhhh, because it’s fucking time travel 😂

[systlin]

I feel like I was forcibly just thrown back into my 10 year old body. 

[thebellwitchblog]

Do you ever have moments where you completely forget what year it is? Maybe if you blink you’ll be 10 again sitting in front of a clunky off white desktop that weighs as much as you and internet so slow you had downloads that lasted longer than the average human lifespan.

[systlin]

I swear to fuck I heard dial-up sounds for a second there. 

[architeuthis-rex]

I fucking love it.

[thebrisklad]

This is good songwriting

[bob-belcher]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[transheadcrab]

why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh

[khamingbird-blog]

You’ve never heard of The Bog?

[transheadcrab]

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the what

[transheadcrab]

EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD

[punkrorschach]

This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.

[transheadcrab]

thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,

[taraljc]

not that kinda bog. less peat, for one thing, and 300% fewer mummified Celts.

[muirin007]

Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice: Now with 300% fewer mummified Celts!

[honeylemony]

Highland cattle calves are shorter than most, but still rock the show!

[otherwindow]

Visually impaired tabletop merch!

[probablyjustfairyrpgideas]

SIGNAL BOOST

[acti-veg]

Ok so what’s the deal with almonds? Are they more sustainable than dairy? I hear a lot of anti-vegans happily bring up how almond farms require a lot of water. And I never know exactly where to find a source that says even despite the current almond system, dairy and meat is still much more harmful and unsustainable and require more crops and water than almonds do.

Yes, by any reasonable measurement almonds are more sustainable than dairy. The “almonds water intensive” argument is always based on stats from california, which is completely biased because that’s where most of the world’s almonds come from, so it’s hardly fair to use that state as the example, as if the water footprint of the biggest almond producer in the world is somehow representative of standard water use. However, while California grows 80% of the world’s almonds, even here, the average person uses 1500 gallons of water per person per day, but close to half of that is associated with meat and dairy products.

The issue is that almonds are quite water intensive compared to some other crops, but that argument fails to account for what almond milk is acually replacing, which is dairy milk. Dairy is significantly more water intensive than even the most water intensive plant milk is, as can be seen here:

[cutenessradar]

Kid - Ohh no my balloon Cat - Don’t worry I got this just give me a moment Cat - Here’s your balloon kid Kid - Thank you kitty, Now follow me

[gloamling-deactivated20190203]

On the moors

[catchymemes]

Instagram: @pet_foolery

[dragonwitchlibrary]

“A meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being perfect… It is about being real, being humble, being strong and being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full happy and contented life.”

— Unknown