Mash + Cream Puff, match made in heaven

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My Dungeon Meshi group was missing an Izutsumi! I needed to fix this! I always love drawing her trying to eat a food, blame the fact that I have cats and that is ALWAYS the conflict.

Inutade added to keep her company :3

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I'd argue that none of those are isekai? Just going to a strange place isn't enough, you have to inexplicably show up in another world with an outside perspective that challenges the status quo.

So, like, John Carter of Mars is an isekai (and after Twain).

Gulliver's Travels is a fantastical travelogue, like Sinbad.

the comedy in particular is not an isekai, because the whole point of the poem is that dante is not dead and that the places he visits are concrete parts of this world

allegorical places, sure, but also concrete physical ones. odysseus is in hell and he died on a last sea voyage that brought him in sight of the mountain of purgatory.

I Got Isekaied One Town Over And Can't Believe How They Celebrate Sports! Revolutionizing Tailgating or Die Trying! Again!!

I'd argue that none of those are isekai? Just going to a strange place isn't enough, you have to inexplicably show up in another world with an outside perspective that challenges the status quo.

So, like, John Carter of Mars is an isekai (and after Twain).

Gulliver's Travels is a fantastical travelogue, like Sinbad.

I swear, a conspiracy-inclined part of my mind is suspicious that "geneticists revived extinct species!" is a propaganda ploy to make people okay with projects that are obviously destructive/harmful to endangered/protected species & habitats because "oh, we can just revive them with science!"

Eugh.

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new dimension 20 bbeg just dropped

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"

This can be applied to pretty much every endeavor.

"How did you get to be such a good artist?" I drew a hundred pictures and hid or burned 99 of them.

"You're such a talented knitter!" No, I've just unraveled these same socks twenty times.

"I could never bake like that." I had to throw out so many biscuits, they were literally hazardous to eat.

And so on and so on.