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Let’s make some color-changing botanical ink using grape hyacinth (muscari) flowers!

Ingredients:

1 cup grape hyacinth flowers

1 cup water

2 tablespoons vinegar

1 teaspoon salt

2-4 drops gum arabic (not necessary but USEFUL)

2 drops wintergreen oil or 1 whole clove (also not necessary but useful)

Instructions:

Add the flowers and water to a non-reactive pot (stainless steel, ceramic, or enamel-coated). Pots that are aluminum or copper can affect your colors!

Bring to a boil, and add the vinegar and salt. Boil for about five more minutes, then turn down to a simmer, stirring occasionally (again, the spoon should be a non-reactive material like wood or stainless steel).

Simmer for 10 minutes, at which point you can test the color by dipping in a strip of paper to see if you like how it looks.

If it looks good, congrats – you’re done! If you want a more intense color, continue simmering, testing with a paper strip every 15 minutes or so until the color is to your liking (this shouldn’t take more than an hour).

Remove from heat and let the mixture cool to room temp.

Filter the flowers using a fine mesh strainer. I use a stainless steel coffee filter for this purpose and it works great.

Pour your ink into a sterilized glass jar and add 2-4 drops liquid gum arabic, which is a natural binder that will 1) keep the liquid and pigment together and 2) thicken the mixture and make it easier to work with.

Add 2 drops of wintergreen oil or 1 whole clove, which are natural preservatives that will help extend the life of your ink.

Label your jar and store it in the refrigerator if not using right away.

YOU DID IT! Now go forth and have fun with your muscari ink.

** The ink will appear very purple, but when put to paper dries in varying shades of blue. If you want to experiment with color further, add an acid (lemon juice) to produce shades of pink, and a basic (baking soda) to make shades of green.

*** Because of the changing nature of the ink, what your painting/writing looks like will change over time! I have muscari paintings that started bright blue/purple but have faded to almost entirely green. Some have stayed blue. That's the fun of it!!

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BOYCOTT THE 2024 EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

It has been announced officially that israel will be participating despite the many calls and petitions against it due to the genocide of the Palestinians that they are conducting.

Russia was banned because of the war with Ukraine, why not israel?

BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT

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from 'a midsummer night's dream' by shakespeare

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obsessed where stories where it is like. the mistakes are unfixable and the worst thing that could happen happened and nothing can go back to how it was. but there was still love in this and love will continue after this and love endures always.

#Philtatos #I hope we get the happiest of endings though

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Holy shit.

Researchers at the University of Chicago have been able to create an ‘inverse vaccine’ that can remove the immune systems memory of specific molecules.

Reading that, sounds like a horrendous bio weapon in the making. But the plan is for it to be used to treat autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, type one diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.

This was already proven to be able to prevent autoimmunity but the new work shows it can be used to treat ongoing autoimmune issues.

Source.

#oh WOW #this is so cool #heck yes

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when i was 20 i hadn't transitioned yet but i had a dream where i died and saw my own spirit leave my body and my spirit had the form of a silhouette of a young girl in a sundress and even without any context i felt inherently that that was "me" and then i woke up. a very cisgender experience

#trans #I had one of these as well and it was #illuminating

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the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

#diogenes #My beloved

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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio † Prose by @bebx (♡)

#Philtatos #sometimes nothing is close enough

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they never tell you abt The Skeleton's Curse (bone pain)

#ah yes and #the curse of the time traveller (nausea) #I am plagued by curses

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here's to pretty girls who went to our heads here's to witty boys who went to our beds

#barricade boys #my beloveds #You can take the gays out of the barricades #but you can’t take the barricade out of the gays #or something

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Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

#philtatos

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never let the haters get to you

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this is targeted tumblr content

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everybody loves stabbing as a sign of homoerotic longing. but when I, Brutus,

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You are Gaius Julius Caesar, and it's a lovely day in March.

#so everyone knows Julius himself was #in fact #a fairy #and he SHOULD have realised Brutus was coming for him #not to mention I doubt that man went anywhere without a knife so #walrus it is

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Second controversial opinion that has already been stated by others but beats repeating:

If you write a story with zombies and dragons and magic but feel the need to claim historical accuracy through homophobia and misogyny that’s a cop-out. Just say you enjoy those tropes and want them in your fantasy for the love of all that is holy you built an entire world where death is impermanent and there are gigantic flying lizards and magic is real™️ your choice to include different sorts of discrimination is very much a choice and you should at the very least stand by that.

#yes this is about Game of Thrones #Listen I’m #tired y’all #historical accuracy sorta loses its entire point when it’s about a fantasy universe #and I realise this is a lukewarm take at most but I’ll stand by what I said. #game of thrones #fantasy #homophobia #I guess #misogyny