#lots of plants ordered

[fuckithomestead]

Plants and Seeds Ordered

Here's a list of everything I've ordered to plant this year. Now to work on planning out the beds.

Jelly Bean Tomatoes

Super Jericho Romaine Lettuce

Diva Cucumbers

Tendersweet Carrots

Chipman's Canada Red Rhubarb

Midnight Snack Tomatoes

Oregano

Acadia Spinach

San Marzano Tomatoes

Crimson Sweet Watermelon

Red and Green Lettuce

Rainbow Heirloom Tomatoes

Elegance Bush Beans

Pic-A-Little Cucumbers

Red Candy Apple Onions

Fort Laramie Strawberries

Roma Tomatoes

Sweet Basil

Chocolate Vine

Giant II Sweet Peppers

Rosemary

Sugar Ann Snap Peas

Chives

Dragonfly Sweet Peppers

Black Magic Zucchini

Candy Cane Chocolate Cherry Sweet Peppers

Red Latham Raspberries

Ice Plant Livingstone Daisies

Magic Circle Alyssum

Whitewell Gem Aubrieta

Blue Carpet Lobelia

Snowcloth Alyssum

Violet Queen Alyssum

Starlette Asiatic Lilies

Night Rider Lilies

Mother Creeping Thyme

Herniaria Glabra

Wild Creeping Thyme

Mountain Wildflower Mix

Roman Chamomile

Tiny Tim Alyssum

Red Carpet Seedum

Cascade Red Rock Cress

Nasturtium Blend

Sugar Snap Peas

Dark Green Zucchini

Purple Tomatillos

Cossack Pineapple Ground Cherries

Green Finger Cucumber

#fuckithomesteading #garden #seeds and plants #lots of plants ordered #gonna be busy #also have lots of ground cover plants #gonna be a pretty yard #no grass #lots of stuff to feed pollinators

[crabussy]

you;re all so sexy

#yeah I’m bisexual #attracted to guys girls genderqueers and renewable energy sources #solarpunk #objectum #climate positivity #IM SO EXCITED FOR A FUTURE FULL OF RENEWABLE ENERGY!!!! I KNOW IT IS POSSIBLE!!!!!!! #in order left to right top to bottom: wind turbines solar panels hydroelectric dam and geothermal power plant #I LOVE GEOTHERMAL PLANTS #from new zealand aotearoa so I see a lot of them #THEY MAKE CLOUDS ^_^

[leier-coyol]

An illustration of an Adeptus Custodes npc for our Warhammer campaign

#custodians are my fave faction so I had a lot of fun working on this lad #we found him on a mine; he was taking care of a little machine #he got ordered by the emperor in a dream to do so #he told us all his names but that took hours and we forgot lol #he's really nice ;___; #he's trying his best to understand our shenanigans #idk if it is because we are complete gremlins but he calls us ''creatures'' #he's also helping me to take care of a plant I found #warhammer #adeptus custodes

[obsob]

a kitty for my new business cards✷

#mine #original #oh ive been busy today!! lots of ordering of things...new prints ehehhe #also yes business cards and more bookmarks ! very exciting stuff #im sleepy...slep...y #a Man is going to be in my bedroom tomorrow bc im having some shelves put up which is like yay shelves #but also. get out of my house. #can move my alter......give my plants better space....hehehe #also for the past like 3 months ive been like wow my neck hurts a lot i wonder why oh well #and then yesterday i was like oh. ive had the same pillow for like 5 years. and it was 2nd hand #so i got a new pillow and now i can like see god #also got some new shorts........theyre....a little slutty...hhehehehehee #speaking of slutty i got some thongs and wow those just like go up ur ass huh #like way more comfy on legs n waist for sure but . ouhhgh. hello. #i need leave in conditioner. this is turning into a shopping list #okay bye

[gregorgregor]

Today hasn't been the best! My car's brake line has started to seriously leak, so that is in for repair. Stopped for tea and a snack on the walk back from the shop and they gave me the wrong cookie. Get home and my shower is leaking as well; I actually have a spare part that I think I need, but the hex socket screw is stripped so I just have to deal with the constant dripping until I can figure that out. 30min walk to the hardware store, but I have a phone meeting around then

#today was a lot #but it'll all be fine #i just will figure out the shower another day #put a bucket under the tap to water plants with so it doesn't go to waste #instead of cooking I'm just going to order food since I've lost all motivation #haha

[balkanradfem]

Do you grow beans? They’re very nutritious.

I do! And I agree, they're a very needed source of protein and iron. I love eating them too!

#growing enough beans to have a year-long stash takes a lot of growing space though #bean plants don't produce a lot of weight per plant #so you need like a field of beans in order to have dry beans available all year #tomatoes on the other hand #one plant can produce 5-10kg of tomatoes #so i can grow a year's worth of tomatoes in my little garden #while I only manage about 1-2kg of beans #which is like #a few meals #i still feel very special when i eat my own beans #but i can't wait to have my own growing space #so i can grow all year's stash #and mine are so colorful too! #i have black white spotted purple #brown green yellow #every year i pick my most beautiful beans and put them in one jar #and then admire that jar excessively on its beauty #its prominently displayed in my kitchen #on the fridge #so i can look at it in awe

[i-still-mask-because]

I still mask because I can't avert my eyes from the obvious signs that it has never gone away since 2020. Like, I'm often not even good at noticing subtlety IRL, but these signs are not hard to find. People are in denial.

AND I still avoid eating in restaurants because eating is the one thing you have to take off your mask for, and I am not doing that in some indoor and enclosed environment where hundreds if not thousands of people have been unmasked that day alone.

Also just... thank you so much for making this blog ^^;;

😷

#i feel this so so much. #people really are in denial and believe they're exempt from reality #frustrating and infuriating feel like understatements at this point. #and i too don't feel comfortable eating indoors at aaallll. #i would need to be the only person in the restaurant in order for me to feel comfortable with that. and even then are the employees masking #if I'm not at home i 100% prefer to eat somewhere as isolated as possible. #ideally somewhere with a comfortable view and lots of nature around me to add a layer of safety and ease. #during this course im taking I've been enjoying my lunch at a street pier and finding some ease with watching the view of the river & plant #it's the little things that help. #also of course!!! I'm so so glad this blog is serving as a safe space for people! :) #fr I'm really happy to hear you're appreciating it ty for letting me know ^_^ #thank you for sharing 😷💛 #covid #i still mask because #covid isn't over #covid is airborne #covid pandemic #covid awareness #ask queue

[botaniqueer]

Seed germination instructions: expect germination within 2-4 weeks

Me: mkay sounds good :)

Also me: [Checking seeds every 12 hours after sowing to see if anything has happened yet]

#it’s 2023!! which means lots of new baby plants! #and also a lot of anxiously checking for germination #a lot of theee are standard food plants but I also got some weird species that are going to be more difficult #like that one post was saying #I ordered Australian wildfire smoke infused vermiculite to see if that helps anything.

[gaytobymeres]

my toxic trait is i dont know many common plant names. im not trying to be pretentious i just actually dont know what youre talking about.

#i love the clarity and the order of scientific names #once you get into the way of taxonomy taxonomic ranks get a handle on genera and families it actually becomes a lot easier #i do love common names im just bad at remembering them #i also love scientific names because so often it's like 'that's a [genus name]? no way!' #or alternatively you see a plant thats new to you and youre like idk the species but i think it's this family or this genus

[somekindafairy]

something something howard ashman writing two musicals about making deals with the devil (metaphorically) to achieve your dreams and then/while working with disney

#little shop of horrors #and #the little mermaid #'whatever they offer you/ dont feed the plants!' #howard ashman #i have a lot of feelings about howard ashman and they just swirl around in my brain with zero cohesion #using 'writing' loosely here i know he didn't do the screenplay on little mermaid but he did a lot #i think something about the tension between an evil corporation and the creative people who work for them #making a deal with evil in order to make your art #but in doing so making the evil bigger #like there is a real chance that disney could have gone bankrupt if the little mermaid wasn't so successful #and now they are well... #hmm

[rawliverandcigarettes]

You said you're excited to spend more time on Sur'Kesh in Empire of Preys, and I'm excited for that too! We only got to spend like a minute on Sur'Kesh in canon, and I've always wished that we'd gotten to see more of that world. What do you imagine salarian architecture and design sensibilities as being like? I won't ask you to spoil the story, but I'm curious about any worldbuilding you've done along those lines that you'd like to share!

HELLO!!

Sorry for taking so long to reply to this wonderful ask! I kind of pondered a lot on what to talk about and how much I should talk about; but since you focused on architecture, I think I'll focus on that!

So, in The Empire of Preys, we spend most of our time (barred from one scene that takes place in a more remote city) in the country of Nkoma. What we call country and what salarians call country differs slightly, however: think of it more as an administrative district that exists more for the sake of resource repartition and ease of organization at a medium scale rather than a place, or an identity with strong cultural attachments that would involve nationalism or things like this --this would be much more true for cities (a practice encouraged and mirror by asaris) and clans in general.

There are two main focuses in Nkoma.

The first one is the city of Talat, considered a hotspot of diplomacy (where the administrative body called the Grand Symposium has its seat --basically where the Salarian Union is being ruled), business and tourism that spreads from the remnants of an old volcano all the way to the seaside coast. Its main landmark is a huge water dam used to control the level of the internal lake, assist with irrigation of the agricultural activity spreading around the city, and also partially turned into a luxury hotel. It's also the city that looks the most like the Citadel, Thessia, Armali, and every huge metropolis in the galaxy: it has tons of immigration and is the most overtly capitalist, with the least amount of relics from their past that isn't directly turned into museums.

The second is the city of Leyjung, which is Nkoma's second biggest city (and the biggest focus of the two within the narrative). It is much deeper inlands, deep within the rainforest --it's actually pretty close to the STG quarters that we see ingame (and MAYBE, maybe, we could see it in TEoP as well....)

It's a very old city with tons of history: it is roughly divided between the old town (tucked inside a valley following a large river) and the newer town that looms over it from the cliffsides. Both towns are riddled with technology; it's just that the old town still preserves a lot of its ocher-based and troglodyte buildings that allows for natural temperature regulation on top of being monuments to the city's past as a huge capital of the (since defunct) phassen empires.

The traditional structure of the salarian clan does not account for individuality. Therefore, the oldest kind of salarian building is the House: a very long building built over generations that try to account for the needs of the clan, a place where every salarian with a clan is always welcomed (but they have, for example, no concept of individual bedrooms; though people with importance within the clan have individual offices). The whole clan very rarely live together all at once; they generally have small individual open rooms that will sustain a dozen of salarians at a time (for example a ton of small kitchens rather than one big room where everybody eats all at once, and no real concept for group meals except for big celebrations). They also include walk-in showers everywhere; the goal is just to let water splash over you for a few seconds to cool off, and you're not even expected to remove your clothes while doing so (they also have communal pools for longer soaks, where public nudity is 100% fine).

Leyjung still has a large number of old clan Houses that have not been repurposed into commercial hubs or broken into smaller apartments like in Talat; most notably, the biggest Linron House is still in use while being considered a remarkable historical artefact as the history of that clan and that town stretch back for at least a thousand years.

One of the biggest challenges of the architecture of the town is to account for the extreme humidity: the rainforest surrounding and permeating the town is so dense that, twice a day, once at dawn (feshe qer) and then a little after midday (selecat qer), huge clouds of vapor start rising from the surrounding canopy as the air gets more and more suffocating, until it all breaks down into a brief torrential rain that soaks everything back late in the afternoon, and makes the evening and night the most pleasant temperature-wise. It happens... basically every day.

The town's architecture is therefore very concerned with avoiding wind and thunder damage, as well as trying to prevent stagnant water from swamping down the infrastructure. For example, hydrophobic plexiglas is very widely used. A lot of streets meant for pedestrians, especially in the older town, kind of follow this format (sorry for the janky perspectiiiive I'm bad at thiiis)

Using a lot of non-corroding mesh fence and avoiding to put salarians directly on ground, using a lot of triangular structures to let the rainfall glide to canals that are pushed back to the main river, with a ton of plants to absorb the excess humidity as much as possible and provide some relief from the heat.

The main problem that Leyjung face is: when is modernization too much modernization? What is preserving tradition, and what is refusal to change? What's opposition to galactic gentrification, and what is straight-up xenophobia? What's power to the individual VS what is the destruction of the collective?

Let's have Elections about it, maybe!! Surely that will solve everything!!

#salarians #salarian #salarian oc #sur'kesh #the empire of preys #halfway home #my writing #asks #thank you for the aaask!! I have more but I think that's a fun first overview #lots of plants #lots of tradition VS modernity #lots of people sweating together #also pretty wack city fare in leyjung #they do be gutting a giant river fish for funsies #and bathing in psychedelics and absorbing it through their amphibian skin #while glueing fluorescent scallop-parasites over them and dressing up as non-binary demigods of ancient times #in order to make the jungle fear them back

[anhonestdaysworkcomic]

i've done so much research on medieval farming and all it's gotten me is more questions

#but that's work for tomorrow #luckily the more i learn about what goes into a medieval farm #the more natural i can make the lulls in my comic be #cause there will be a lot of character interactions that will take place over chores #so i gotta know what would be accurate daily and seasonal chores #ALSO i realized recently that so many of my plotting problems got solved simply cause i got a calendar for the Celts #because there's events i need to take place to teach Dante lessons #but they dont need to actually be in any particular order because it will happen regardless #the only things that follow a necessary timeline is Dante's emotional learning curve #so by getting my hands on The Celtic Book of Days #(i actually now own two copies cause the authors targeted this subject very differently from each other so there was benefit in having both #i can now plug my scenes into a sensible order cause harvests happen in the summer (during Beltane) and in the fall (during Lughnasa) #and vegetables also get planted in Beltane and Lughnasa so anything related to planting sowing and harvesting will be within this timeframe #and then winter starts with Sanheim (both as a fesitval and also the name of the season) which is what set off the final arc #because Sanheim is the start of the year (November 1st btw) which is perfect in my opinion to finally resolve the original conflict

[guinevereslancelot]

planted all my plants for spring ☺️

#i have had a hydrangea in a pot waiting to go in the ground for ages and some little tiny native trees #i have one thing i forgot to plant and a few things in the mail tho #but mostly everything out of the way before starting my new job so that's good #i did order a whole bunch of roses and tbh im not totally sure where i'm going to put all of them #and then i have 500 christmas trees lol #but that is a problem for tomorrow me 😌 #also i cleared up an bunch of branches from the winter storms and such #so everything looks nice now :) #anyway #startung to get a bit anxious abt monday but not as much as i was for the other job #hopefully this one will be easier <3 #i still have a lot of cleaning and organizing to do at home tho my space is a mess #and i will have no energy once im employed fr lol #also my plan for tonight was to be in bed by 8 to magically fix my sleep schedule which is...not realistic lol #maybe 9 tho idk

[perilegs]

every time i try to do something scary on purpose for my social anxiety the universe decides to add in unexpected situations 😔

#i was supposed to go pick up a package and then i was like. ok wait. ive gotten good at buying something while pickiing a package up. what #if i also buy stamps #bc you have to ask the cashier for those (same as with the package) #and it was just at my cornerstore so it's a safe nonscary environment #well. as not-scary as any store can be. #but. there were a lot of ppl there. which! i thought would be fine bc the line was still relatively short but. what happened was that they #opened another register. #and i was queuing for the reguster that had stamps and handles packages #and i would have loved to stay at the queue. but. only one person went to the queue of the new register. so there were 2 ppl in line before #me. one already had their stuff on the conveyor belt and the other was about to put their stuff there too #and the person who went to the other register only had like 2 things to buy. so. it was me. in line behind 2 people. versus an almost #empty register. so. i had to switch to the free register before the cashier had the time to b like 'there's a free register here!' #bc i don't have a script for hearing that and saying 'no' !!! #so i just. switched over and bought my snacks. leaving the store with no package and no stamps. #bc if i hadnt i would have had to say something i dont have a social script for and probably stumbled on my words and gone red and dizzy #which. not ideal. #and this sucks ass bc all i really needed was one (1) success in a social situation #bc this week has been kicking my ass social anxiety wise #usually when i go and get coffee from a coffeeshop they dont ask me shit and just make my order to regular milk which. ok. i dont have an #allergy or anything. i just think plant alternatives taste better in coffee #but this week. i got asked 'do you want that in regular milk?' and i was not expecting that #so i was like 'yes please 😊' and drank my grossly milky coffee dreaming about what i could have had #and that happened TWICE #after the first time i did think about it and decide i could have said 'do you have oat milk or something' and then the barista #could have either said yes or no and both of those would b easy to answer #but instead of asking if they have oat milk i just said yes. again. #can you guys imagine some people speak without being scared #some people even go to the store without feeling even an ounce of fear. imagine #leevi talks

[officialbabayaga]

my blood work shows that apparently my cholesterol is too LOW which i didn’t even know was a thing but i’m supposed to eat a lot of eggs now

#i’m not a vegetarian or anything but thinking about it i do get a lot of my protein from plant-based sources just because meat is expensive #so maybe that’s it #i’m ordering a burger today though bc i don’t have enough iron either #which makes sense! i’ve been convinced i’m mildly anemic for years but my hematocrit has always come back in the normal range #but it turns out my stored iron is super low which no one has caught before so. thanks psychiatrist ! #getting prescription strength vitamin d too bc that’s how low mine is 💀 #zoe stuff

[diocletianscabbagefarm]

Btw now that I’ve suddenly become a bike advocacy blog for a couple hours let me point out there’s more to bike infrastructure than a bikelane - even a separated one with protective barriers. So much more.

#something very basic a lot of infrastructure fails at is that failing at this basic premise: #the infrastructure must be continuous; preferably uninterrupted as much as possible; and to go to destinations people wanna go to #and also the design of the car infrastructure must be geared to slow down the driver when necessary #not just through the use of signs #but by physical and psychological nudges that cause the driver to subconsciously slow down #such as narrowing the road in order to make the driver feel like they’re going too fast to be comfortable #or by changing the road surface to one which causes the driver to automatically take notice #or even by planting trees close to the road