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This doesn't actually exist.

[anghraine]

I really wish fandom would distinguish more between found family and … y’know, having friends.

[liz-squids]

Venn diagram that’s overlapping circles of “found family”, “having friends” and “oh no this is a cult”.

[eternal-reverie]

[mtomauw]

Commission for Veskasa via twitter ^^

[faustandfurious]

One advantage of not really having a strong sense of gender identity is that you’re very [shrug emoji] about how people gender you. Sometimes people call me by she/her pronouns and sometimes they go with he/him pronouns and on the internet people often default to they/them, and neither option is entirely right but also, fuck if I know what would be right, and I don’t particularly care. Therefore I’m perfectly happy to outsource my gender identity to the people around me who actually need to figure out which box to put me in. I don’t need to talk about myself in third person, so really my pronouns sound like a you problem.

[faustandfurious]

My pronouns are I/me and the rest is for someone else to deal with because I have better things to do.

[faustandfurious]

Very fond of macrolabels, like “queer”, that provide zero extra information. Is it genderqueer? Is it romantic/sexual orientation queer? Is it queer as in “none of your fucking business what’s in my pants and what I do with it and with whom”?

[randomslasher]

This is actually probably the first time I’ve ever read something that accurately describes my relationship with gender–ie, ‘my gender is me and my pronouns are a you problem’–so thank you for that!

[ober-affen-geil]

#you cannot gender me in a way that matters

[elodieunderglass]

I grow our own vegetables. Many hybrid and heirloom varieties are bred for flavor rather than for commercial appeal and travel. There are entire species on the allotment that you can’t easily buy in stores because of this - like salsify, a root vegetable that tastes of fish and shellfish. Our neighbours happily take it to make vegan latkes of alarming similarity to fishcakes. You cannot sell it in stores because - despite looking like a white parsnip - it turns brown when you pick it if you scrape/bruise/cut the white root in any way, or damage the delicate little hairs, for some reason, it BLEEDS RED and is very upsetting to look at.

There are whole classes of foods like this. Foods that just don’t ship well or look good on supermarket shelves. Forbidden fruits. Vegetables that bleed and taste like meat. Sorry about this

[curioscurio]

[disasterscenario]

This website is one of my fav places to find interesting heirloom stuff! I ordered a bunch of seeds to try growing next year I’m really excited about! 

https://www.rareseeds.com/

[ct-7567]

@angelsaxis

[itsdetachable]

I’ve gotten and plants seeds from that site, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, and they grow fantastically well for me.

I’m really looking forward to next season

[incremental-revolution]

Baker Creek Heirloom has good seeds but bad politics. They were going to host Cliven Bundy of the Occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Reserve who’s also pro the Capitol Riots and has made a lot of racist nastiness, although backlash made them cancel their guest list (which included other racist folks) Good sources of heirloom seeds:

Meet the Farmers

Each of the varieties offered through Truelove Seeds was grown by small-scale urban or rural farmers committed to sustainable agriculture, f

Rare Non-GMO Heirloom Seeds | Alliance of Native Seedkeepers

Alliance of Native Seedkeepers is North Americas Top Native American Source for rare heirloom Non-GMO vegetable, flower and herb garden seed

Our Story

Native Seeds/SEARCH (NS/S) is a nonprofit seed conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. Our mission is to conserve and promote th

[elodieunderglass]

^^^

[plum-soup]

Highly recommend Native Seed/Search and Truelove. Baker Creek has an amazingly large catalog and has some very cool and rare stuff, but they are also Mennonites and as you might expect, they do have terrible politics as listed above, although they do some decent work preserving heirloom seeds from threatened communities.

An organization that does really interesting work preserving seed from threatened communities (and larger companies like baker creek often piggyback off of some of the work done by orgs like this and NS/S) is the Experimental Farm Network. They are very explicit about their (left-leaning) political views and you don’t have to worry about them being Problematic. They have lots of interesting and rare varieties and species you really cannot find anywhere else.

Threatened Communities

An important part of our mission involves preserving and sharing seeds from communities under threat, and attempting, wherever possible, to

If you are looking for a wider selection of heirloom seed varieties, these two companies are very good resources as well, and carry many of the same things as Baker Creek. Afaik they are not expressly political beyond their general mission to preserve heirloom seeds (although southern exposure does a good job of preserving some very traditional african-American heirlooms from the Southeast US in particular).

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Saving the Past for the Future

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Saving the Past for the Future

Heirloom seeds from Seed Savers Exchange. Buy rare, organic seeds and support our nonprofit mission to preserve garden diversity. Free catal

[neolithicsheep]

Omg I hadn’t heard of the Experimental Farm Network and I am delighted! I am also completely thrilled to see people other than me remember that Baker Creek is a bunch of lying fash. They claimed they did not know about Cliven Bundy AFTER VISITING HIM IN JAIL. He was literally in jail for his anti-social bullshit when they first talked to him about the watermelons he and his mentor stole from Indigenous people and made their name on. They also take seeds from Indigenous communities globally and profit from them without sharing those profits with the communities they took the seeds from.

…I am blocked by them on Twitter after publicizing the Cliven Bundy crap, full disclosure, I have an actual feud with these people and their unethical practices.

[tkingfisher]

I was trying to get signal in the goddamn Himalayas to argue with them about Bundy. *grumble*

I also second Native Seed/SEARCH as a great org doing great work. Some of their stuff is so desert-adapted it won’t grow for me, but I’ve had great luck with some of their bean varieties.

[ayamccabre]

New Zealand people: have some links.

https://www.sentinelsgroup.co.nz/ Heirloom growers group in Canterbury. Some truly unusual stuff.

https://southernseed.org.nz Another group out of Christchurch. These guys went out of their way to help me find a rare plant that had shown up in their area like five years before I contacted them. They found it for me and shipped tubers to Wellington.

https://www.seedstofeeds.nz/upcoming-events Seed and seedling swaps, all over the country.

https://www.urbanorganics.org.nz/seed-exchange Otago seed exchange

https://kahikateafarm.co.nz/ Live plants, some of them truly hard to find.

https://koanga.org.nz/ These guys had a scandal a while back and never really recovered. Their range is much reduced (unless you’re a member), but they do the work of importing new species into the country, so some of their stuff can’t be found anywhere else.

https://www.sporeshift.co.nz Mushrooms!

kingsseeds.co.nz/ A large commercial grower. Their seeds are clearly labelled if they’re heirloom (older varieties) or open pollinated (you can save seeds for next year). They have some less common things, as well as all the more popular stuff.

[tumblingus]

Celebrities coming to tumblr

[socialmaya]

[thefrostflower]

@adahlenan​

[cosmog]

forever mood

[irish-gothic]

[fidgetspeener-deactivated201804]

This only sounds condescending if you’ve painted this image of yourself that you have this complex mind that not just any person can read cause you’re special.

A lot y’all can be read to filth in a second, you’ve just been lost in this idea that you have a complex mind that would ‘take years’ to understand. Guess again.

[getaroomyoumotherfucker-deactiv]

[fidgetspeener-deactivated201804]

You and every other chuckle are gonna do the same thing to my comment at what point did you prove me wrong on your lack of originality and depth? I knew before I even clicked on the notes that you did this because that’s what y’all do, you use humor as a defense mechanism when your ego’s been attacked.

Not my fault you’re two-dimensional people that respond to criticism with tasteless memes as if it were a reflex. You’ll more than likely do it again.

[imjthm]

[fidgetspeener-deactivated201804]

Thank you literally all you’re doing is proving my point that you do this out of reflex without any thought (not that you’d have any) and by innate design you just recycle everyone else’s jokes because again, you use humor as a defense mechanism and honestly you can put that under my comment again if you want I’ve already had my point proven I’ll be sleeping like an angel tonight, thanks.

[blackfairypresident]

[archosaurians]

[everythingfox]

“Bunnies flop over when they feel completely safe beside their protectors”

(via)

[magnetictapedatastorage]

The equivalent of Antarctic research stations but in fantasy worlds like for example there’s an evil terrible region of rotting and nightmares but like nine miles from the edge there’s a very ugly little building optimistically called Observation Center 1 and it’s full of normal humans just vibing. for like 90% of the year they can’t leave because that’s Death Fog Season but it balances out because they can study the ghost migrations and also hear the whalesong-like calls of The Unspeakable Ones asking you to come outside for a game of checkers but thankfully the checkers set is kept locked up to slow down anyone that gets tempted

[unclefather]

disney: we’re taking all of our movies off of streaming services and we’re going to charge you $10 a month to watch them on our own streaming app

me: 

[rinokami]

More like

Disney: “We’re going to take all our movies off of streaming sites INCLUDING THE ONE WE ALREADY OWN (Hulu) so we can put them on a separate one and milk even more money out of you.”

Me:

[bubblycowboy]

[haylyay]

[trustmeimafraggle-deactivated20]

Disney owns everything, and even if they didn’t own it, they will eventually

[boogiepopular]

Holy shit.

[germanmoonhowler]

I think it would be easier to list what they DO NOT own….

[lesbiansandpuns]

version of the graphic that you can enlarge

[runcibility]

If you were to resort to piracy over being exhausted over the various streaming services recreating the nickling and diming of the cable television industry (and I’m not saying you should - just… if you happen to find yourself there), a full VPN is not required.

You can have your torrent activity go through a proxy (while the rest of your traffic isn’t shuttled through there) using services like BTGuard. All the torrent activity is run through the proxy:

If your ISP has bandwidth caps, you’ll still run into those. But they won’t know what you’re transferring.

Just… information out there that you might find useful, in the age of ten-thousand different streaming services that all want you to keep adding more paid subscriptions.

[surnumanaja]

(via @sansael)

[catasters]

[pulse-and-conjure]

BINGUS NO

[needlepointcursewords]

Et Tu, Bingus?

[mudfleas-deactivated20171217]

[netoey]

A controversial theory: Worm on a string are furby larvae

[favoritesticle]

Hi Would You Like To Talk To Me About Dinosaurs?

[butchflirt]

Yes Absolutely

[mak-to-the-future]

i scribbled this out so fast this is such a funny concept

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[rain-wolf-deactivated20210611]

There’s something beautiful about the molten glow of lava. It’s a great color and moves in such a way that is satisfying, but its also terrifying knowing that i could touch it and die very quickly

[eosofspades]

forbidden hot sauce

[arcaneglitch]

[xxtc-96xx]

I want to put my hands in it

[chimo-ver2]

Clean it up!

[pangur-and-grim]