#look at my new babies (the plants)

[frenchiepal]

28.5.23 🎈 yay a calm weekend! i spent a couple of hours catching up on my lectures (a great opportunity to work on embroidering my jacket) and correcting an assignment for phonetics class

#look at my new babies (the plants) #they make me unexpectedly happy🤧 #studyblr #langblr #aesthetic #study aesthetic #study inspiration #studying english literature #studying linguistics #studyspo #academia #did i go overboard with the effects? they look so pretty 😩 #jaystudies

[luck-of-the-drawings]

IM SO IN LOVE WITH VAMPIRES!! and boy do i love THE SUCKENING!! VERY excited to see the misadventures of sad wet cat, sharp angry cat, and the COOLEST cat i ever did see

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi suckening #some of these were drawn with MOUSE and others were made with my COOL NEW TABLET OOOOHYEAH!! #I JUST FINISHED EP 3 AND OOOHHH MY GGOD. OHHH MY GOOOODD IM IN LOVE WITH EACH OF THESE CHARACTERS #LIKE ARTHUR OH MMY GOOODD ARTHUR FUCKIN BENNEEETTT #SO CONFIDENT SO COOL I FUCKIN LOVE THOSE JUST. UNBREAKABLY CONSTANTLY STOIC CHARACTERS #HIS LIKE CATCH PHRASE. HIS TO-THE-FUCKING-POINT BEHAVIOR #HES LIke a hard candy with TRAGIC GOO TRAPPED INSIIDEEE he is a mollusk to me and i wanna break opEN THAT SHHHEELLL BABYYYY #AND SPEAKIN OF SHELLLSS emizel oh mmy god little guy #i KNOW hes softer than he lets on. and yet i wanna see him bite and attack more people and set things ablaze #i wanna fund his research. and by research i mean arson #AND OOHH SHILLOOO lil prince shilo hes my small baby boy whos okay with death as long as he doesnt have to see #THERES SOMETHING RRRROTTEN AT THE CORE OF THIS BEAUTIFUL APPLE PIE #AND I CANT WWWAIT TO SEE WHAT COMES OF IT #ALSO FUNFACT!! im tryin to make emizel n shilo look more similar #so if u CLOSELY LOOK u will see that their hair is similar. noses n face shapes are the same. they have Heart shapes in their bangs #also unrelated but im a lil in love with deacon keller.... i just rly like cowboys.... like i just think hes neat.... yeehaww #I ALSO LOVE KITTIEESSS ALL THE LIL KITTY SOUNDS IN THIS SHOW ARE SO CUTE... #i heard 'gray cat with round orange eyes' n immediately thought of tama from jjba. yknow the stray cat? dies and becomes magic plant?yeaaaa #cant wait for more. ill scream abt what happened in ffUUUCUKKIGNG EPSIODE 3 LATER BC OH MMY GGOOODDDD!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!

[pallanophblargh]

I have so many things I need to catch up on and respond to (I have severely neglected my email which is NOT good) so I apologize. I will get around to it this week I hope! 

Old followers will know that this is the norm for me this time of year as I once again rally the strength to try and make the most of my severely neglected little urban hellscape of a yard. I mean, how do you recover from the knowledge that ALL of the native milkweed species you planted over the last 4 years has died, never to return? (I can’t stop being sad about this you have no clue, I had 5+ species native to the state!) All that remains is the common milkweed volunteers that have come up wherever they feel like it, and I’m obligated to let them do as they wish. Feels bad, man. I would have killed to see that purple milkweed flower.

Have spent the last 2+ weeks getting my veggie garden and containers up and running (still need to sow beans and more kale) and I’ve got more natives/ornamentals to go into my nearly cleared side yard. I’m really really REALLY hoping my new virginia bluebells don’t die with this heat/likely drought, but I’m pretty confident everyone else will come through okay. I mean, if the cardinal flower can come back for the 3rd year like a champ, what’s their excuse? (Dear self: be thankful, the cardinal flower likes you and you know it shouldn’t and that’s rad. Also the prairie smoke plant is starting to spread and that’s really cool. So is the hepatica. And your ferns are getting big and beautiful! So remember what’s working out, ok?)

I just want my little plot to be the hopping hot spot for all the local wildlife. It’s nice to see so many critters anywhere I look but I know I can do better and that requires A LOT of work. I’ll never be anything akin to a master gardener, but I like to think I’m learning a lot every day and working WITH nature instead of against it. Battling invasives is one hell of task. (Rot in hell, creeping bellflower!)

Now if only it would rain, and I can find a way to get a rain barrel setup! (No gutters in my back yard to access for rain is a major L...)

#April rambles #gardening season!!!! #urban gardening #native gardening #attempting a kinda sorta woodland planting on the shaded half of the side yard #got my lady ferns and my maidenhair ferns ready #doing my best to keep my native plants as the majority for the yard but I do splurge on some ornamentals #who can resist peonies am i right? #can't wait for the lupines to take off I need to start expanding the native ones! #when in doubt there are always asters #my columbine got defoliated by sawflies and I'm SAD #it's still alive though but I'm babying it #having a WEED fail to return for you is a major blow to the would-be ego #i hope to fuck my new liatris comes in strong because YES!!!!! #so many tall plants that fall over it's pure chaos #looking at you 5+ feet tall joe pye weed and 6+ foot tall goldenrod #absolute beasts!

[kirby-the-gorb]

new society6 blanket design, link in post source (or link to all soc6 designs in pinned post) :>

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #plants #insects #for sale #I showed this to my wife and she was like 'oh! ohhh!' and took my ipad so she could look closer XD #I'm gonna get it for myself cuz there's a sale on soc6 rn and I Want A Blanket #(soc6 blankets are actually very cozy I have one I received as a gift years ago) #update I showed it to our other partner and they immediately bought it for their friends expecting a new baby :') #both partners like it that means I win at art again!! #favorites

[wythmoonie]

THERE ARE STRAWBERRIES GROWING ON MY STRAWBERRY PLANT!!! I REPEAT, THERE ARE STRAWBERRIES GROWING ON MY PLANT!! I AM NOT A KILLER!!!!

#status update #plants #MY STRAWBERRIES #one step closer to my living in a cabin in the woods as a self sufficent writer dreams #YOU DONT UNDERSTAND #HOW EXCITED I AM ABOUT THIS #I FEEL SO PROUD #MY LITTLE STRAWBERRY PLANT!!@ #tips for garderners pls i am new at this #look at my tiny baby

[ereborne]

for the end of the year ask: 3, 9, 18, 21!

3) Favorite band I started listening to this year: Time is so fake and I'm having a hard time remembering artists I found at the top of the year vs which ones I've had for longer than that. Quite recently I found both Sleep Token and Scene Queen--I already talked about Sleep Token some on a song of the day, so Scene Queen it is! Hyperpop-metal fuckin banger songs: Pink Whitney, MILF, The Rapture (But It's Pink)

9) Best month for me this year: I think probably October. I always love Halloween (and this is perhaps slightly cheating, but my birthday is at the end of September, so by October I have all my presents), and this October specifically came with a lot of relief. Our cat Jo gave us a bit of a scare, but she got a clean bill of health the first week in October (please imagine three fully-grown adults crowding one very disgruntled gray cat telling her what a good bladder she has and what good work she's done not growing rocks in it this time). And my old laptop broke unexpectedly in September, so I spent a fair chunk of October marveling about the speed and coolness of my brand-new computer. A pretty good month all around!

18) A memorable meal: Thanksgiving! I almost said November was my best month but then I realized I was literally just thinking of Thanksgiving. I made a ham, baked mac & cheese, herbed mashed potatoes, squash casserole, onion casserole, green bean casserole, corn pudding, brown-sugar-glazed carrots, pumpkin pie, and a cheesecake, all from scratch in one day in one oven and we got it all hot (well. appropriately-temperatured. the cheesecake was chilled) on the table at the same time. It all tasted exactly as it should, and @kaylithographica came to celebrate with us, and it was the best day.

21) Something new about my room this year: My corner plants!!

#asks #piratefalls #the corner is actually uh. maximalist is probably the best term. and a lot of the small things are new this year #or at least new to be up on the wall for this year #but the plants are definitely new and I'm so so proud of them. I got them from the clearance area at the Lowes and they were all smashed up #and now look at them!!!!!! my babies

[there-will-be-a-way]

Bro, my (ex) roommate (who I successfully kicked out) literally pissed in my bed. He pissed. In my bed. In my bed.

And into the bathroom sink too.

#personal posts #I need to buy a new mattress even though I'm piss poor #and sheets #and I need to organize moving back to the living group #damn #I need to pack my life into boxes again #I sent my mother to look at my apartment today #lots of dirty dishes and empty alcohol bottles but my plants are still fine #and that's what matters #after telling the ward's psychologist all of the problems that have been going through my mind #she asked me 'what's the most pressing issue for you at the moment?' #and I told her 'make sure my plants are okay' lmao #like fuck the childhood trauma and bringing my abuser to court and fuck moving and my addiction #*plants* #literally lost sleep thinking about my monstera because this baby got huuuuuge #and the thought of harm being done to her killed me #(ex) roommate could have trashed my laptop and ripped off the wallpapers #but my plants? #I would have hunted and killed him for that

[rotationalsymmetry]

A couple of my pea plants got knocked over in yesterday's storm, so I went out today and got them hooked up again. A couple more are growing in ways that look decidedly non-optimal, but trying to disentangle their little feelers might cause them more problems, so eh. I'm gonna trust the process.

The bigger ones are over 2 feet now. They're so cool

#garden posting #my little green babies are thriving #well *some* of my little green babies #some of them are not looking great #I mean to be fair I am extremely lucky I live in a place where #gardening in december is even an option #and I was the dumbass who wanted to plant new things in a heavily shaded courtyard #approaching the darkest time of the year

[orcelito]

and NOWWWWWWWW dressing the fic up

hesitating at the fandoms stage bc Sentido had elements of both tristamp and trimax in it, but this fic is almost entirely trimax. it'd probably be misrepresentation if i tagged it as belonging to tristamp too. but i also dont wanna risk ppl missing my fic bc theyre using the tristamp tag as a general trigun tag,,,

#speculation nation #ughhhhhh im probably just not gonna include the tristamp tag. i gotta be real about it #but whyyyyyyy does this fandom have two tags. why cant there be a general one. i hate it #i KNOW it's bc of old fans getting pissy about stampede clogging the tags #and/or new fans just wanting tristamp content. probably a mix of both #but come on i want a blend of ALL of them #but. this fic is very solidly trimax Only. maybe only the slightest of tristamp elements included #like possibly knives and his piano?? and the plants' song?? i love those elements of tristamp so much #but plot-wise and abilities-wise it's aaaaaaall trimax #ugh. ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is so annoying #anhyways yea im posting my new baby soon. look out for it.

[kindnotestoself]

[Today I am happy because: _ _ _]

What made you happy today?

#happiness #small joys #happy #today I am happy because almost all of the cuttings I'm trying to grow took #and all the plants I rooted out front are looking great #several of them are blooming #and I think I'm going to have to repot my snake plant because it had 3 babies #and the lucky bamboo that I moved to soil after 6 years is putting out new leaves #and the cuttings I took from it are growing roots in the water #Lilly has a green thumb and her plants are thriving

[dilfian]

compensation for this shit ass week<3

#xoxo #look at my new babies<3 #1st pic has a mistletoe cactus. blue star fern. alocasia silver dragon. aglomanea/VERY PRETTY variegated chinese evergreen. #2nd pic has a?? shield? alocasia? i forget type. calathea pinstripe. monstera green galaxy. and a ficus. i think its ficus audrey? #have to clean up plant mess b4 parents come home ew.

[machinavocis]

shoutout 2 spider plants: the most resourceful and understanding of indoor foliage companions. 

i can take the World’s Longest Sadness Nap amidst circumstances that leave me too emotionally compromised to go into the household common areas for like a week and a half 

and when i finally steel myself to confront the guilt of what i’m positive will be a roomful of super dead spider plants

somehow those magnificent bastards are all alive and actually look totally normal and fine and it turns out i’ve been melodramatically doomspiraling for several days now over nothing. 🙃🙃

#IF YOU LIKE PLANTS BUT FEAR PLANT PARENT FAILURE I WHOLEHEARTEDLY RECOMMEND THE SPIDER PLANT #i did not know when i got one that they're like succulent-level resistant to non-optimal circumstances #i was just looking for indoor plants that won't poison your cats (if for instance one is a beautiful dumbass #& the other tends to explore every new aspect of his world by first checking whether or not he can eat it) #but they're hella flexible in terms of water & light & temperature & such #i thought for SURE i killed my giant momma spider plant last winter when the first frost took me by surprise #but nope! brought it in the house the next morning & totally fine & still having WAY TOO MANY BABIES GROWING EVERYWHERE. #gonna do like a kid's lemonade stand setup this summer outside my house except it'll just be PLEASE ADOPT A SPIDER PLANT I AM OUT OF ROOM.

[dark-points]

I got the Greek magical papyri book and boy is it nearly useless for my purposes :c . I wanted things like info about correspondences and lists of ingredients used by the ancient Greeks for Hellenistic witchcraft and shit because I want more traditional Ancient Greek things to use for my work with Circe, but 99% of the spells are like bodies of drowned cats and using the fat of a black ass and blood from a virgin goat, not really possible despite the fact I have lots of animal parts already. Don’t have things like that! Interesting, but I can’t really use it! A bit disappointing :c

Anyways, hello! I’m trying to be more active in my craft and figuring out how to make things feel right and more my style, as there are a lot of flavors of witchcraft that are very much not for me. I am part of a local witch FB group and have been getting familiar with things, and there are some lovely people that use language and have beliefs that I can’t see myself believing in. I don’t know what I would call myself as I’ve not practiced very much, I hate to use the phrase ‘casual’ but that’s kinda how I feel compared to others.

I am starting to work with Circe, as non human ‘shapeshifting’ (like mentally and in dreams of course) is my number one goal I am seeking and honestly always has been in general. Always wanted to not be myself! I’ve been getting good feedback and she definitely is the right person for the job c:

#witchblr #greek paganism #hellenism #personal post #I’m finding some things online that are more what I’m looking for #but was interested in things straight from the horse’s mouth’ so to speak #as I was told maybe things less generic green witch and more specifically Greek things would be better for her #I just want to do plant/potion things for her right as that’s not something I am familiar with as a baby witch #I am very pleased with the alter I am crafting I am very good at those kind of offerings #and I have some excellent little items in my home to put on her altar #like it’s very funny I just happened to have a lot of things I think are appropriate for her #but potions and stuff are very new to me and I’m not sure if that will be something I like #and she is hella into that #I hope she’ll be cool if I just try my hardest :c #I’m still getting to know her so I’m not sure #I think believing In correspondences in things like crystals make them real to a certain extent #but things like vibrations and use for medical purposes are things I can’t get behind #no hate at all it’s just Not A Thing for me! #I have so many animal parts and definitely feel so very good and connected to my dead friends c: #they are like my family honestly #animal based things will definitely be a focus #I’m a vulture as in vulture culture #so kinda think vulture witch is something I might work towards #I have some books on the topic that are interesting I really should sit down and read #I also have no idea how Hellenistic I have to be to properly work with her #I don’t know if I can see myself going full on #but I want to do right by her

[onepiexe]

ok i did like. a good fraction of my plants in the shower<3

#logbook #the rest are either looking ok or i'm going to leave them for another time. #and the rest rest im going to water in the kitchen sink bc they're too tiny and i dont want them to croak on me #also i repotted 2 babies who really really needed it and they look so good in their new pots<33 #i think i can salvage a lot more plants then i had hoped. andddd only one plant needs to get tossed. a baby i wasnt that fond of anyways. #letting my last 5 dry out and then i'll go to kitchen time. #the ones im watering in the kitchen. . .im honestly not too sure abt them unfortunately. #i think a few begonias croaked. but i also had some in a weird place and forgot they dry out quickly.

[daughterofsarenrae]

Leo found a seed from the catfish's slice of zucchini and is now playing with it

#hes been doing this for like 10 minutes #just spitting it out and grabbing it again and carrying it around <3 #i love him!!!! hes playing!!!! love play behavior <3 #also look at all my beautiful new plants. i spent so much money on this tank yesterday #sorry for the bad videography i was laughing at him and also he kept hiding in plants #baby: leo #I LOVE HIM U GUYS

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: April 15

"Something in the Way She Moves" by James Taylor

#song of the day #it's been two weeks + two days since the last song of the day #the issue is you see that I started the songs up again in December because my insomnia was fucking up my perception of time #and I wanted some kind of regular marker to help me keep track #and then what happened two weeks + two days ago is that I lost all track of time and subsequently the songs of the day failed #I'm gonna see if I can keep up again for a bit now that I've re-restarted without an alarm on my phone #but if I miss any this week I'll just give in and turn the alarm back on #updates from the last two weeks are going to sound so chaotic let's see #I got a new project at work /and/ I got demoted /and/ I got added to a higher access level /and/ I'm in charge of a new database #yes all of those things together. I'm to be an accountant now! not instead but in addition to my other stuff. should be interesting #I didn't get April Fools off like I was scheduled to because all my scheduled vacation got unapproved #(I was here for about twenty nonsequential minutes to boop people and I'm glad I made time for it. extremely fun to boop) #I lied shamelessly to get eclipse day off and we went on a full-day roadtrip and it was wonderful. everything I dreamed and more #I killed one of my baby succulents through clumsiness and rabbits ate my pea plants but my sage and cabbages look promising #got a massive pot of mint flourishing on my porch and the horseradish is gorgeous #got Duncan lights and plants and a filter system for his frog tank but we haven't set up the substrate yet #so there's just potted plants sitting inside a terrarium. very amusing honestly #I've been playing a little Stardew and eating a /lot/ of hot sauce and tofu #drinking tons of klass aguas frescas--especially the soursop one. holy shit is it good. the mango and hibiscus also #and these past few days I've been sleeping better #for most of those two weeks I was getting a handful of twenty-minute naps each workday and then crashing unwillingly on the weekend #I haven't read any comic books since February :'( this weekend we're going to costco and then I'm reading comics until Monday #what have y'all been up to? I've missed being around #edit: oh shit the actual song part. anyway this is James Taylor! makes me happy and helps me settle. good vibes songs #I'm half-panicked about work all the time recently and then also today was tax day (Nick's taxes. blegh) #James Taylor doing some heavy lifting round here