-is into this to support locally sourced food, better farming practices, etc.
-is NOT into this for some “manifest destiny” bullshit
-is NOT an ecofascist
-supports indigenous land rights and supports paying reparations to bipoc
-supports labor unions
-supports better conditions, pay, and protections for all agricultural workers including undocumented workers
-is LGBTQ friendly
Because cottagecore is a sweet and lovely aesthetic but we cannot be silent about the racism and facism that this community promotes with its “traditional values” crap. I like fresh picked flowers on my table, I like honey lemon tea, I like pictures of baby goats. But if you disagree with the above list then your “cottagecore” blog is trash.
This photo was taken by the owner of the hive. The beekeeper forgot to put the frames in which the bees collect honey, and the bees built their own architecture from the honeycomb, which takes into account natural ventilation, so that the air can flow freely and maintain a stable temperature. This is the heart!💛
16. if you had to get a tattoo right now, what would you get and where
I’m mulling over getting a tiny parasitic wasp, specifically Aphidius colemani, on a finger or maybe the back of the neck. Slightly larger than life size, so you could actually see it.
30. if you had to dye your hair an unnatural color right now, what would you choose?
A very pastel and faded out lavender. I don’t like primary colors.
32. how old do you get mistaken for?
I am baby. not actually, just cursed with the babiest face. I’ve been given a children's menu at restaurants way further on into my adult years than is at all acceptable. Biddies be asking me what I’m going to do when I graduate high school. I’ve had my B.A. for years!
Hey hey hey hey. What the FUCK is up with maize. Im terrified for my life. As a British person the closest I’ve ever got to that was belly crawling thru a mustard field which was weird lmao but only about 4 foot high. I crawled because it was really tangled. Crazy. Anyways the way you tag and talk about stuff sounds very British
a very good quote:
“Modern corn is so highly domesticated that it has in a sense become a biological monstrosity. Although it is superbly adapted for producing grain, it could not survive under natural conditions because it has no satisfactory mechanism for dispersing its seed. If an ear of corn is left on it’s own under conditions favorable for germination, it will give rise to a group of seedlings so densely clustered that they will compete among themselves for water and soil nutrients, with the result that all may fail to reach reproductive age. Without human intervention modern corn would become extinct in a few generations. Corn can survive only if man removes the kernels from the cob and plants them.”
-Dr. George Beadle, the dude who initially proposed the hypothesis that modern maize was domesticated from the native mexican grass teosinte and then fought with other corn scientists in various heated (sometimes public) debates about it for decades until it became the accepted predominating theory in the niche field of corn science, talking about maize, the very thing he fought other scientists about for decades, while calling it a biological monstrosity and stressing that although it is an objectively good crop it is such a weak little baby bastard of a species that leaving it to its own devices in the wild would hypothetically end with it killing itself in its intense confusion about how to be a real plant. which is true, because it’s been domesticated for 9,000 years, but still. the experts have spoken
It’s natural, harmless, and even beneficial to the world as a whole for there to be non-grass flowers and plants in your lawn, caterpillars and beetles chewing on your shrubs and yes, even insects and arachnids living inside of your house. The vast majority have absolutely zero means of harming or even inconveniencing you and the sooner people get over the compulsion to keep a sterile, lifeless property the better it will be for the ecosystem.
I am greatly enjoying my sister being home because she does majority of the cooking (and enjoys it) and I’ll like chop the veggies at that’s it but I just chopped the JUCIEST onion I’ve ever encountered in my life and I’m pretty sure I’ll wake up tomorrow still crying
There was a kildere “dying” (not really) in the stairwell, and I was so bothered by the inconvenience of a “dying” (not really) kildere in the stairwell that I didn’t get pics so no one will believe that it happened!