Pandemic Gravy

The blog of a panromantic demisexual. Majority of posts are not mine. Fandoms, sex, drugs, and everything else. Some stuff may be nsfw.

[phenomenaaa]

unbelievable

[avenging-fandoms]

my personal favorite

[mierac]

someone had to pick up Carrie Fisher’s mantle and by the gods, Pedro Pascal did it. 

[phenomenaaa]

:) this is my favorite comment on this post

[headspace-hotel]

People see that agricultural technology in the 20th century basically eliminated non-human-caused famines (correct) and conclude that current agricultural practices are ideal and that improving them is impossible (devastatingly stupid)

[headspace-hotel]

The US agricultural system is in crisis right now because common agricultural weeds are developing resistance to basically all safe herbicides. "Roundup Ready" corn is already obsolete in some states.

I'm reading a book called Where There are Mountains by Donald Edward Davis and some of this guy's takes on Native American practices feel really simplistic, and he says a lot of things that have me like, "Hey. I bet you could just ask a Cherokee person."

But he mentions that early settlers thought Native Americans were lazy because they didn't weed their fields, and outlines how that is wrong because the common "weed" species were themselves semi-domesticated and used as supplemental food sources.

Amaranth (a genus with several species) is one of the worst agricultural weeds in the Midwest, and huge amounts of money and pesticides are spent trying to contain it.

It also happens to be edible, and grain from it may have been the main source of calories for some pre-columbian civilizations.

THEY WON THE WAR ON WEEDS. BY RECRUITING THE WEEDS.

[headspace-hotel]

This past year, when we first tilled our vegetable garden, literally thousands of Amaranth plants popped up. An absolute WALL of them. We couldn't weed the garden fast enough to keep them down.

But this was the year I started hardcore delving into learning about nature, and, okay, several things:

Amaranth is the first plant in the ecological succession process. It thrives in the most devastated, empty environments but the mycorrhizal fungi hate it, so it disappears in places that don't get tilled or disturbed.

The Japanese beetles usually skeletonize our bean plants. This year, when the Amaranth got out of control, they were all over the amaranth and mostly left the rest of the garden alone.

This shit pops up by the thousands in any tilled patch of soil, and is almost unkillable. The more the soil sucks, the more the Amaranth thrives.

And you're telling me it's edible?

[habbadax]

This is one of the most potent paths to madness because it's basically an infinitely nested rabbithole of how unbelievably fuckstupid industrial agriculture is. By the time you reach the end of the path you can no longer form coherent sentences and you're frothing at the mouth an you just wanna shake a corn baron until all the stupid falls out. Some of the greatest ecological damage on the planet is being done because the dumb motherfuckers in charge of all the farming don't know jackshit about plants.

[neolithicsheep]

Even aside from all of this, the most endangered biome in North America is not in fact forests but grasslands. Because we're constantly plowing it under for monoculture high input industrial ag. This is a significant problem since these grasslands actually sequester as much or more carbon than forests because of the massive root systems on the grasses. The prairies of North America were once a carbon sequestration machine on the order of the Amazon rainforest and we've destroyed them. And yet we constantly blame countries in the global south for destroying wild lands that sequester carbon when we need to be looking A LOT closer to home.

[dougdimmadodo]

Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus)

Family: Dog Family (Canidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Found in arctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America, the Arctic Fox’s appearance varies dramatically between seasons: during the winter and spring it develops a coat of thick white fur which provides insulation and aids it in camouflaging against snow, but when the snow melts during the summer it molts into a thinner brownish-grey coat that helps it to camouflage against grass, soil and rocks (the image above, taken by an iNaturalist user in Svalbard, shows two individuals with different coats during the transition between seasons in the early summer.) Adaptable and omnivorous, this species feeds on berries, seaweed and a range of smaller animals (particularly rodents, although fish, birds, young Ringed Seal pups, carrion and dung left by larger animals such as Polar Bears may also be taken) and typically lives in pairs or small family groups. During the late spring and early summer Arctic Foxes breed and construct expansive burrows in which to raise their young, after which they produce a litter of 7-15 young (known as kits), which are born with thin coat of dark fur resembling the summer coats of adults and reach maturity at around 9-10 months of age. As winter approaches members of this species build up thick layers of body fat to provide them with insulation, and may increase their weight by over 50% between autumn and winter.

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Animal Advent Calendar - Day 9

Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/233598-Vulpes-lagopus

[uiruu]

hallowed be thy ween

[cicadianrhythm]

you’re gonna hollow out my what

[uiruu]

your ween

[ms-demeanor]

By the way, while I am angrily college-posting:

(this isn't angry, just a thing you should know)

I've heard something like twelve professors say "the only students who do the extra credit are the ones who don't need it."

Now, there's probably some observer effects there, but there's also a lot of truth to that statement.

Every single professor I've had since I started going to school again has had a big section in their syllabus that says "the last week of school is too late to save your grade! Don't come asking me for extra credit when you find out you're failing the week of the final!"

Friends. Buds. Fellow college students:

Do the fucking extra credit.

Do it as soon as it's available, turn it in as early as possible. Do the extra credit and turn it in early because even in online classes the professors notice the names of people who turn in extra assignments and are going to be a bit more forgiving when those folks screw up a citation or ask for an extension later in the term.

If you're in a large class, or if you're in a class that is very impersonal, you do not have many opportunities to show your professor that you are taking their class seriously.

Extra credit assignments are that opportunity!

There are probably a hundred people in your class, but probably only twenty of them are turning in the extra credit. That makes you stand out! That makes you memorable! In a good way!

And here's the thing: even if you do a shitty job of it and only pull off half the assignment 20% of the extra credit points is still more free points than you had before! There is literally no penalty for failing an extra credit assignment, and even if you get 50% on the assignment that's still a bonus to your grade!

Anyway. It is approximately midterm season. NOW is the time to talk to your professor if you are failing. NOW is the time to ask if there are extra credit assignments available. Everyone who realizes they're getting a D is going to email the professor a week into December. Show that you care by being the one student to reach out in early November.

And good luck on your midterms, buds.

[stonerfae]

reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a little pumpkin 🧡

[maculategiraffe]

(me, my parents, my sister, and the baby are sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch)

baby, pointing at the light fixture over the table and signing "on": o.*

my sister: we actually can't turn that light on right now, because the lightbulb inside is burnt out! it needs a new one.

baby: ighbu.

sister: yes, lightbulb! granddaddy said after we eat he's going to climb up there on a ladder and change it, and then the light will come on!

baby: gadada! adda, uuu! ighbu o!

sister: exactly!

baby, signing "on" and pointing at the light and then my dad, with increasing urgency: GADADA ADDA UUUU. O.

my sister: we're going to finish eating first though, ok?

baby: nonono. O. gadada adda uuu.

[a split second goes by]

baby, pointing to himself: ba. adda uuu. ighbu.

me: you're going to climb the ladder and change the lightbulb yourself?

baby: dzyeah. *pointing to the buckle where he is buckled into the high chair* ububu.

me: unbuckle you? so you can change the lightbulb?

baby, highly businesslike: dzyeah.

*pronounced like "on" without the n

[synthetic-blanket-hairs-deactiv]

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[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I am trying to work on my Skyrim alchemy skills and I am not made for this. This is not my skill. I am aware that you can't get the Purity perk until you hit level 100 but fucking hell, all I seem to do is create the most absurdly, uselessly fucked up potions imaginable. I'm like "Let's make a potion to heal me!" and then what I get is half a gallon of dubious liquid that's like "Will heal 27 hit points, deplete your stamina, clear your mortal enemy's skin, and legally change your name to Uriel Septim the Ugly."

Weirdly these potions are nonetheless quite expensive

I am BAD at alchemy

[fledgling-witch]

And yet you’ve stumbled upon Skyrim’s most lucrative profession: quack snake oil salesperson who sells healing potions that also paralyze you, slow your magica regeneration by 117% for 58 seconds, and somehow improve your carrying capacity by 17 points, that’ll be 649 septims thank you

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

My latest batch included a Potion of Resist Fire that gives me 50% fire resistance for 60 seconds AND 42% weakness to fire for 27 seconds.

It also fortified my blocking skills

[lilyvonk]

Well I haven’t made a comic in what feels like forever, but as I’ve gone more thoroughly into old H.P. Lovecraft’s work recently I felt compelled to share my experience so here’s a random lil one off

[katelyn-danger]

The DSA in my city is setting up "guerrilla art" of empty tents in high traffic areas to raise awareness of the homelessness problem. They got $10,000 to do this. None of that money is going towards helping the homeless. Just "raising awareness" and telling people to vote blue.

What a joke.

[miss-marzana-hypno-deactivated2]

Reblog to make a trans girls tits grow.

[campyvillain]

well would you look at that

[campyvillain]

“Crypto is decentralized!”

“Crypto is unmonitored and not being controlled by anyone! That’s what makes it exciting!”

>literally collaborating with fucking ICE

[luggaas-art]

LATE COMMISSIONS!

Oiiiiiii I got out of my shitty situation and I just recently got back on my feet. It’s come to my attention that I never finished some of your commissions!!! PLEASE hit me up or DM me if you ordered one and still haven’t received it!!!!! I have a terrible memory, especially under stressful situations! I just got an email about missing one, and I want to make sure I have everyone’s done!!! 

[luggaa]

Same goes for this account because I know some of you commissioned me here as well!

[moschicane]

[princesskuragina]

Do you guys even know his name is klaud. Do you even care.

[princesskuragina]

Have some fucking respect

[princesskuragina]

[maggi-cube]

[loafed-beans-deactivated2020082]

One of my favorite scenes from Letterkenny

[raiseyourweapon]

This show hurts my brain

[cool-ghoul]

Can’t blame you, it’s like a shakespearian comedy about nothing, sped up, with the Middle English replaced by equally obfuscatory Albertan slang.

[zahracusdottir]

Excuse you that ain’t Albertan that’s the wrong coast. It’s Ontario slang.

[space-is-out-there]

DO YOU WANNA GET STRIKED

[trekkette]

Having grown up in rural Ontario, Letterkennny is a documentary.

[bubblegum-discoqueen]

Squirrelly Dan is fucking right! Garlic and herb butter but I prefer a reverse sear where you do most of the cooking in the oven and then sear it up real nice in a pan with your herbs and butter n shit. Also white shirt with a cigarette is correct in that yeah you salt and pepper that shit what kinda fucking heathen wouldn’t

[apas-95]

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