Fuck You Is Why

very obvious that carnivorous plants live in the wild but none of my times seeing carnivorous plants in various commercial and enthusiast settings had prepared me for almost stepping on them at [redacted southeastern US location] i got to go to on the conference plant field trip last weekend. they were actually eating flies and stuff next to like mud and grass and some sand. sundews and pitcher plants there too. just in the bushes. crazy stuff out there folks

pov you're a fly or other suitable creature and you're approaching the mundane perennial grass patch that kills you instantly. no thoughts and why would you have any

I would like to see carnivorous plants in the wild, but sadly I don't think there are any anywhere near to me (and I am not touching the entire North American continent with a ten-foot pole right now). Do you know of any carnivorous plants native to Australia?

you need to go view Cephalotus follicularis right now. the cutest of the bizarre independently evolved pitcher plants and they are scaling sandy cliffsides on the southwest coast of your country as we speak. also all the other sundews and stuff but it's hard to compete with that

@fickdichistwarum

For Aussie / Kiwi carnivorous plants, the blog Fierce Flora documents lots of sites with them!

I believe Cephalotus is the Albany pitcher plant found only in southwestern WA specifically, but there's Drosera in the Grampians (VIC), in the Southern Highlands (NSW), Mt Arthur (TAS), in Cape York (QLD).

they're mostly in the big remote national parks, but I'm fairly sure you can find some in your state, because carnivorous plants are crazy diverse. They're everywhere!

Check out Fierce Flora!!!

Thanks! Looks like I'm about 2000km too far south for Cephalotis, sadly, but there looks to be a whole lot of bladderworts and some sundews around SE QLD. Which also finally answers the question of what the pretty little purple flowers I sometimes see are. I now have a lovely new thing to hyperfixate on, and also a potential solution to the damn fruitflies that keep getting into my kitchen.

something about that one narrow staircase in Spadina station is deeply haunting to me, what do we think?

I think if those fluorescent lights flicker even one time I'm gonna invent teleportation and clip through the wall Bethesda-style at the same time and the noises will NOT be dignified

#I'm getting those stairs pregnant#stairs

bruh

19,514 votes and just a 0.4 difference i think ive just participated in the internet’s closest poll 😭😭

oh my god it's STILL closer than the 1995 quebec referendum

Spotted or Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), family Dasyuridae, order Dasyuromorphia, found in eastern Australia

Threatened.

photograph by Charles Davis

Quoll! I love quolls! I live in the region they're native to but I have never seen one. I would like to though. I think they're cute.

watching a video on brewing Mesopotamian beer and look at this orange man (his ass cannot guard the barley)

Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

The fact that there's a large, vocal subsect of fandom that openly calls for censorship and has absolutely no concept of media literacy is both unsurprising and frustrating, even more so when those same fans also identify with any type of minority population (PoC, gender/sexual identity, etc.)

Learn to curate your own experiences, FFS.

Signed,

An Elder Fan who is So Very Tired of Purity Bullshit.

If you censored anyone writing about illegal things, you'd get rid of whole genres like mystery, thriller and horror. Also most historical fiction, since if it's at all accurate then there's going to be people doing shit that's illegal nowadays.

Also, illegal according to whom? Are we banning all depictions of gay people because homosexuality is illegal in large swaths of the world? Are we banning any mention of 18-year-olds drinking because it's illegal in the US, even though it's perfectly legal in most of the rest of the world?

i took my friend to Hocking Hills state park yesterday and on our hike I talked all about the (now retired) park naturalist who mentored me years ago, along with the professor who also mentored me and how they got me my first job in my field after college, like I went on and on about my memories of them and the time I spent with them in the park, and then we got to a cave and they were both inside. I hadn’t seen either of then since I moved away seven years ago and then I went back to the state park for the first time since and they were just there. in a cave. they went to the cave together. one of them saw me and said “oh hi! what are you doing here?” like hey fancy us all being here in this cave together huh.

i can’t express how much this felt like a video game cutscene encounter. i established the lore for two hours about these specific two Guys and then they appeared, like, in their map.

it was this professor btw

Let's cut the bullshit though. Haunted houses can definitely become pregnant.

With a haunted shed? Or a haunted granny-flat?

very obvious that carnivorous plants live in the wild but none of my times seeing carnivorous plants in various commercial and enthusiast settings had prepared me for almost stepping on them at [redacted southeastern US location] i got to go to on the conference plant field trip last weekend. they were actually eating flies and stuff next to like mud and grass and some sand. sundews and pitcher plants there too. just in the bushes. crazy stuff out there folks

pov you're a fly or other suitable creature and you're approaching the mundane perennial grass patch that kills you instantly. no thoughts and why would you have any

I would like to see carnivorous plants in the wild, but sadly I don't think there are any anywhere near to me (and I am not touching the entire North American continent with a ten-foot pole right now). Do you know of any carnivorous plants native to Australia?

i think i got the major ones

i realize this is probably not the most exciting poll i've ever done

It sounds like a joke but the "Comic Sans Hack" of "writing your drafts in Comic Sans makes brain flow better" actually works.

if you love downloading pdfs you are likely to never use again you have GOT to get into knitting

if you like opening tabs and downloading files. by god is ravelry the website for you

Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

oh leonid, we're really in it now

Leonid, you really understand it.

Save me Leonid, from my empty Word document

Leonid what should I do about the emails

Babe are you okay? you reblogged Leonid Pasternak's Torments of Creative Work again

Leonid Pasternak is the best! My favorite of his is The Night Before The Exam (1895).

My man Leonid continues to be relatable

nautilus reading lamp by tiffany glass and decorating company, new york city, united states c. 1899-1902.

I remember meeting a guy at a bar a year or so ago who told me he worked at the international consortium that does the porn parodies of all the top-grossing film releases. He said that the whole Barbenheimer situation presented his combine with some spectacular highs and lows. Because he said that with Barbie, right, the thing about Barbie is that there's already kind of a three-way ideatic, structural parallel between the curated artificiality of Barbie as a children's toy, the curated artificiality of Barbie as a mass market film, and the curated artificiality of pornography as a genre. Add on top of that that Barbie as a film is already feeling this tension, right where it's trying to be about a character graduating from the platonic sexlessness of a children's franchise to the functional-and-frank sexuality of being a living human woman, but it's also being bogged down in the "Everyone-is-beautiful-no-one-is-horny" aesthetic restrictions of any contemporary big-budget mass-market film so the two states end up looking pretty similar, he said. I mean the film itself is very aware of that tension, right, with that joke about how "casting Margot Robbie is the wrong move if you want to make that point," all that jazz. So, all that in mind, Barbie-themed pornography, he said, is in a weird way actually kind of complementary to the extant project, gesturing at unaddressed tensions and ideas, a dark mirror, the shadow self it wants to deny but can't, there's a lot of room to play in the space. He used the adjective "Lynchian" a couple of times, he seemed super stoked, he was talking with his hands. Oppenheimer, on the other hand. Oppenheimer he said presented a problem. Because obviously you can eroticize the detonation of an atomic bomb, we're all probably three mutuals removed from someone on this site who does exactly that, but obviously that's a niche market, and moreover it's a market that has a ton of overlap with high-minded thinkers who treat the historical use of atomic weapons against Japan with the level of gravity that atrocity demands. So they were stuck. They were really stuck. He told me that they'd been pulling their hair out for months trying to square the circle and all they had to show for it was a big whiteboard with the phrase "Grope-nheimer" written on it

....but.... why?

To quote Cave Johnson: "Science isn't about why, it's about WHY NOT!"

I want a knife gun.

For an updated Ides of March

The Ides of March: Reloaded

brutus is back and this time….. he doesn’t need the whole senate

Happy Ides of March for those who celebrate <3