[witchofmorena]

My fics

Geralt escapes Jaskier in Posada before adventure 

Jaskier meets other witchers and goes to Kaer Morhen (ace!geralt....for reasons)

Fix it fic with a little twist 

Roach is judging geraskier (spoiler it’s not same Roach in each story)

Eskel gets a bard 

Some geraskier fluff (it’s hurt/comfort fic, hint of ace!geralt)

Cuddly soft geraskier (ace!geralt)

Hidden desires (eskel x lambert)

Lambert eats spice to show off

Aiden gets hurt during hunt, Lambert saves him (literally, hurt/comfort, lambert x aiden)

Geraskier werewolf au (just a li’l drabble with protective werewolf!Geralt)

I reach for the skies (part 2 of “Jaskier meets other witchers...”, can be read as separate piece; rating explicit; ace!Coen x Demi Eskel)

Update: Geralt’s purring contently while Jaskier is petting his hair (geraskier)

[andrearrrrr]

harvesting cinnamon

[shitkicker-deluxe]

…How did it ever occur to someone that this was edible?…

[gunsandfireandshit]

I mean, I’m guessing some variation of “hey that tree I used as firewood sure had some good smelling smoke and made the food we cooked over it better, I wonder what else we could do with it … ”

[r4cs0]

Yea, that or

[knightoflodis]

I mean. There’s foods out there that if you don’t cook them exactly right they will kill you. Humans have been trying absolutely everything to see what they can eat.

[weaselle]

there is a shark. The greenland shark. It lives in the ocean where humans naturally die. At depths that would crush a human. In water so cold it would very quickly kill a person. It’s a big shark, 20ish feet. Several have been found with polar bear in their stomach. They live hundreds of years. To keep from freezing, their blood is full of anti-freeze chemicals that makes their meat poisonous to humans.

They are considered by humans living near them to be… a delicacy.

Of course you have to bury it for six months to let it ferment the poisons out.

i swear to gods, if it’s on this planet, we will find a way to eat it.

did you know, the first scientists to find a whole frozen mammoth out in the tundra … cooked some and ate it? Like, they found it and excavated it, and while still on site these 2 professionals with degrees said to each other, oh we gotta eat some of that. It was like 17 THOUSAND years old. They said it tasted bad. No shit. But that’s humans for you.

anyway, the cinnamon harvesting is awesome, never saw that before

[dovewithscales]

Humans are one of the most accomplished omnivores on the planet.

[underthehedge]

Two things. The first is that huh, I guess you kinda coppice cinnamon, which makes a lot of sense now I think about it. The second is that we eat almonds and cassava, both of which are, in their wild state, hilariously toxic.

Both contain copious amounts of cyanide, or more accurately, compounds that release cyanide when you eat them. And yet? Cassava became a staple for people in the Amazon and beyond, because despite the fact that eating improperly prepared wild cassava will straight up kill you, people worked out that if you grind it up into a wet paste and leave it covered for several hours to offgas its cyanide. Though some domesticated varieties can be detoxified just through proper boiling and discarding of the water, a lot of domestic strains still require this whole involved process to not fatally poison you.

Meanwhile almonds, wild almonds, are also deadly poisonous. It takes about 50 to kill and adult but as few as 5 bitter almonds can be fatal to a child. Thing is, wild almonds occasionally produce plants that aren’t stuffed to the gills with cyanide. But still, it feels insane to me that people who lived off the land in the places where wild almonds grew found out that some of these plants wouldn’t kill you, because idk I feel like my instinct there would be to not even try And yet? Almonds are a thing. (almonds were a very early domesticated fruit tree and there’s some features of almond propagation that make this even more insane)

If something is potentially edible, and I really do mean capital-P-Potentially here, someone, somewhere figured out how to eat it, even if figuring that out involved a truly ludicrous string of steps and/or luck to not just fucking die from it.

[findingfeather]

I feel like it’s worth drawing out explicitly that there’s a very simple reason for this: for the vast majority of human history, there would be regular patches of time when at least part of the population would go through a state where “I might die if I eat this” took back-seat to “I will die if I don’t eat something.” 

We also ported knowledge forward, mind, from our pre-human ancestors. Other primates are more than smart enough (while also going through “I gotta eat SOMETHING” phases) to know about That One Almond Tree That Doesn’t Kill Us, and to pass that knowledge on through generations; other primates may  even smart enough to figure out through trial and error that the smushed up cassava under the leaves didn’t kill me, so maybe if I smush it up and leave it under the leaves for a bit I can eat it later. 

So are other animals, mind, and we got really good at watching what other animals got away with eating, which is I suspect how you got the shark thing: other meat-eaters eat the fresh shark, they die! Then the famine hits and you notice that the fox or the whatever else is digging up that shark that washed up that you buried ages ago except now it’s NOT dying and you figure, what do I have to lose? Especially since by that time you’ve got thousands and thousands of years of cooking science behind you - of the collective knowledge that fermenting, cooking, freezing, drying, and doing other things to potential food makes it more or less poison or edible.

(Tumblr won’t let me add a link on mobile right now e.e but https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/science/explorers-club-mammoth-dinner.html it’s worth being a LITTLE sceptical about stories of eating mammoth or giant sloth or whatever meat. There are “credible” stories about it from the early days, but.) 

[fremedon]

For Greenland shark specifically, “bury it in the sand with salt and let it ferment” is also a way of preserving fish that are edible in their unfermented state. (This is how gravlax gets its name–literally “buried salmon.” It isn’t generally prepared that way any more but that is the traditional method.)

“Let’s see if the technique that makes edible foods tastier/more digestible makes poison ones edible” is a pretty obvious experiment.

[findingfeather]

Oh good point!

[headspace-hotel]

There is also the fact that in between “poison” and “food” there is “medicine”

Back when contracting parasites was more of a regular thing, people would eat a bit of a poisonous plant to basically flush out their digestive system and get rid of the parasites, and since poisonous plants can have a variable amount of poison, it makes sense to develop means of reducing the potency so you can just eat more for a higher dose

Doesn’t even have to be a purgative/laxative, the main concept of most abortifacient plants is “poison you just enough to cause your body to reject a pregnancy”

Generally if you eat too much of a medicinal plant, that’s poison baby!

Sooner or later someone figured out “hey, if you boil pokeweed 3 times and replace the water every time, you can actually just eat it” and poke salad became important food for poor people

Side note, but it’s really interesting to me how so many medicinal plants have such a wide distribution e.g. Yarrow, makes me wonder if they might have been spread by humans tens of thousands of years ago

[ghrugirlclub]

So.

Y'all know that one meme of the tank being dumped off the ship saying "I go kill submarine for the motherland"?

If not, here it is:

The origins behind this image are utterly fascinating.

This is not a soviet built tank despite what the meme implies, it is actually a chinese built tank, a T-69-2 to be more specific.

What you don't see in the image are the further 24 tanks that are also on the barge about to dropped into the water as well.

These tanks are being dropped in on personal orders by Queen Sirikit, the queen mother of thailand.

No, for those worried, this was not them discarding old unusable tanks, at least in this instance. Rather, each of these tanks have selected and prepared to make an artificial reef. Rather than melt them down for scrap, in 2010 there were pushed into the water off the gulf of siam to create a home for hundreds of sea creatures. All the internals are gutted, including the engine and transmission, don't worry.

If you looks a little closer into the image, you'll see that all the hatches are open or removed, probably to make room for sea life.

If you want anymore info, I'd suggest checking out ConeOfArc over on youtube, he has a lot more on this and many more fascinating subjects such as the origins behind the panzer of the lake.

Y'all find this as cool as I do, right? Like, this shit is just so damn cool. As a wee bit of a tank nerd, it does make me sad that these are being dumped never to be seen again, but at least their still being used for something rather than being turned into tin cans.

[trans-ratatouille]

Call that a fish tank

[hungwy]

about 60% of web browser users are using chrome as of 2020, as opposed to only 4.5% firefox

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

As of 2020, 2 years ago

[hungwy]

March 2022: chrome 64.9%, firefox 4.1%

[sangotori]

This is your daily reminder to download Firefox on your desktop AND on mobile. You can import all your bookmarks from Chrome very easily. For mobile browser on Android you can install extensions like AdBlock and they also have a YouTube extension that lets you watch picture-in-picture without the YouTube app and listen to videos with your phone screen turned off.

Firefox is great here's a link for the desktop version. Their website also has a link directly to the app store for the mobile browser. Have fun y'all 🦊💕

[sangotori]

My first reblog isn't showing up in the notes I guess bc I included a link to their website but please download Firefox 🥺

[sewer-swan]

Next time some condescending amazon ad tries to sell you audible or whatever, consider getting firefox as a fuck-you. The adblocking's been great for my general mood.

[scumtrout]

fun fact about aging: you don’t perceive yourself as being older but you perceive young people as being younger. today I was in a zoom meeting with a bunch of young men and I kept thinking ‘who put beards on these children’.

[randomslasher]

Correct. High school kids are WAY younger than I was when I was in high school. So are college kids. When I was in high school and college we were full grown adults. But now that I’m almost 40 the high school and college age kids are actually babies. It’s crazy how that happens. 

[sandersstudies]

I remember when I was in middle school I would hear my dad calling college students and 20-something employees “kid,” as in “oh yeah this kid that just started in marketing is really talented,” or “the Johnsons’ son is a really nice kid” talking about like a 22-year-old and at the time I was like “what haha those aren’t kids those are clearly adults”

And now I’m a 24-year-old who sees my 18-year-old coworker as a baby and I’m like ah. I think I am coming to an understanding.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Everyone on planet earth currently is the oldest and most mature that they’ve ever been. And they always will be.

[adi-fitri]

“IT’S A SWORD, IT’S NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.” My favourite scene from The Hogfather. ___ See how this comic was made here.

[ghastmaskzombie]

an obviously stolen copy of this crossed my dash last week, and i wanted to reblog the real thing. tracking down an image that originates in social media is a bit of hassle, but i am the citation fairy (sort of), and this is her quest. and she had to do whatever it took on this one. that only turned out to be less than 10 minutes, but she was prepared to put in a few hours. the hogfather lit the spark of her creation, and this is his night.

[adi-fitri]

Thank you, citation fairy!

[postpostirony]

[apas-95]

I love the people in the notes going 'uhm actually he was German' because it's made fairly clear by other points in the post that it's not referring to Marx (Marx didn't write about monopoly-capitalism forming into imperialism, and Marx wrote closer to 200 years ago than 100) to the point that, in as much of a Gotcha as it is, it implies they themselves've never read Marx, let alone Lenin.

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

[catchymemes]

[autumngracy]

The zoom out left me slack-jawed tbh

[dankmemeuniversity]

[someplace-warm-deactivated20220]

A N G R Y

C A T F I S H

[galileoace]

Oh no.

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[daco-showman]

literally nothing funnier than a newly born aquatic mammal realizing they've been cursed to live in water

[words-and-pages]

Listening to The Amazing Devil in the summer is great but listening to them in the autumn when there’s a crisp chill to the air and the evenings are drawing in and you’re walking outside looking at the yellows and reds of the leaves is a whole just other experience idk what to tell you

[depsidase]

[laughconfetti]

environmental storytelling

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

Hate to be Old on main but more uquizzes need an “i have no idea who these people are” option for questions like ‘pick an artist’ like please kids i literally haven’t been up to date on whats Popular on the radio since 2014

[hispanicdisorder]

[modogoblin]

why must we play god

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Artistic representation of how the lemon was invented in the first place

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

"citrus are whores" is not something i expected to see on the hellsite today

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I’m not wrong though they are EASILY the sluttiest fruits. You don’t see Rosales pulling this shit. I mean yeah apples will breed weird new apples but nothing fucks around like citrus.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#so we’re slutshaming the fruits now? 

Tags that look homophobic without context

[ofdirtandbones]

oooooo what a cool post my mutual just reblogged ! I think I will reblog it as well !!! oooooh who did they reblog it from ? That username seems familiar,,, hohoho it's me ! from an hour ago !

[iwantyoutostony]

haven't thought you would like the first one, but there's the second part of Denis Gordeev's 'the witcher'