ohhh I’m so sleepy you’ll have to rip me apart with your bare hands

on it boss! *breaks alllllll of my fingers trying to pull you apart* bad news boss.

my weakest homonculus you have failed nme yet again

Sustaining a garden required me to get very comfortable with killing plants. I did not expect that going in - if any one warned me, I missed it.

And it's not just the weeds that are constantly intruding and need to be fought back. Sometimes it's the plant that the previous person placed precisely in that portion of the plot that gets the good sunlight and it's just the wrong plant to be taking that space. Sometimes it's the plant that was the right plant but was let grow so wild that it's suckers are going to destroy the rest of the garden unless it is removed. Often it's the many seedlings that were started because, hey, some of them will fail, but now you've gotten good enough that twice as many survived as last year and you don't have room for twice as many.

Plants grow. It's great and rewarding to watch them live out their cycle over the course of a season or years. I work hard to keep them alive and thriving when they're young and not yet established. But there's still so much killing.

listen man, u wanna know a great truth of the universe?

every plant person stands upon a mountain of plant corpses

i have killed endless plants, and once i've mastered one type i inevitably will kill a new type because so many plants have so many different requirements

y'all have no idea how true this is

I am a plant mass murderer

You have to try, and fail, and fail, and fail again. You have to try lots and lots of variations of different things until something works.

It's not even just the learning process, though. I'm trapped in an endless loop of: plant seeds or gather transplants-> plants grow-> too many plants-> some of them die of neglect-> need more plants -> and so on.

I usually lose about half my stock to overwintering cause I can never get arrangements for all my potted plants before the hard freezes hit...

I'm getting it under control though. I have lots of plant recipients now that are more skilled and don't kill my adoptees as much.

Right now my trouble is with the seeds. I launched a huge personal seed starting project this winter and I got HUGE success with some species (jack-in-the-pulpit had near 100% germination!) and huge failure with others (Not a single Scutellaria...)

If you plant 100 seeds you gathered from the wild, it's a reasonable estimate to expect maybe, like, 10-20 plants. BUT you might get 100 plants. Or 1 plant. Or none.

You don't want to be like "Dammit! I wish I had planted more seeds!" But you might end up like "FUCK FUCK FUCK WHY DID I PLANT SO MANY SEEDS"

Oh yeah and the eternal situation of setting out to grow an equal amount of several different species you want to work with this year, but with 1 species you have insane success way overshooting your expectations and with the others you have hardly anything

so you show up to the pollinator garden meeting like "hi here are 50 american bellflowers! and this is Dave. he is a coreopsis. probably"

Digging up a random fern or something before the meeting to round out the selection might make you feel a little less weird about it, but still.

"do you have pet names? how do you call each other?"

Calling all 3 timeskip fans who also ship Mio and Yuuko

American Giant Millipede Complex (Complex Narceus americanus)

Allegheny National Forest - Pennsylvania - April 26th 2024

Alright back to bug posting. Man oh man was I THRILLED to see this beauty. I've seen these millipedes two or three times before but I have only ever seen them dead never alive before this guy!!! It was so thrilling to get to see one actually alive and moving around.

The average lifespan of this species is unknown but we do know they can live to at least 11 years.

If the oranges would never rot, and if the leaves would never fall

you ask a student in april how they're doing and they'll say "oh i'm fine" but in reality they are treating themselves in such a way that violates the geneva convention on treatment of prisoners

when tumblr shutdown scares happen and everyone starts promoting sites that are way worse and shut down quicker

My pareidolia is so strong I immediately saw a tall figure in a blue and white robe or gown BEFORE I scrolled to see that OP also had and drew it. Or are we not outliers and everybody else sees it.

At first glance I thought it was a sculpture. At second glance I thought it was a sculpture in a really weird place. I scrolled down and wondered why someone had drawn the sculpture of a figure as a figure, then I scrolled back up and realized 'debris'.

Supportive bro (and proud father)

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The picture I used as reference btw. I had to make it about svssss