weird to think we're all on here interacting with australians. any given user on ur dash could be an australian, if you think about it

Chat, is this true?

because we don't want too many twitter-attitude people here, everyone rebog this with rent lowering gunshot posts please

we say faggot and death and other Mean Words™ here

WHAT THE HELLY

Attack the Block (2011) dir. Joe Cornish

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.

yeah this goes on tumblr

tbh I really dislike how aphobia tends to be discussed whenever there's some kind of incident that makes it visible to general society. The most common response seems to be some variation of "why would anyone hate asexual/aromantic people, they aren't even doing anything" and it just always sits wrong with me. It paints such a passive picture of our existence and feels like a comment influenced by the level of invisibility that aspec people have in society. Why would you be annoyed by someone who is practically invisible? Just go back to ignoring their existence, it's easy!

But despite the invisibility, aspec people are actually doing quite a lot of things that will piss off queerphobic, right-wing and religious people (and hell, even left-wing people). And the most obvious point is that we are actively not performing heterosexuality the way they want us to. People who's entire world view is "cis men and women should be in monogamous, heterosexual marriage and have (white) babies" are not going to lean back and say "oh but those asexuals and aromantics are fine". They will also hate our guts, and they will come up with all sorts of reasons, including insinuating we're all secretly into bestiality, or mentally ill, or not human, or attention seeking children. It's just plain old queerphobia, and like all queerphobia, there's no inherent logic to it which you can worm your way out of by "not doing anything".

And like, there's a lot more that aspec people do which people hate. Raising awareness about amatonormativity? People feel attacked, they hate it. Asexual people having sex? Or not having sex? People hate it! Aromantic people being in (seemingly) romantic relationships? People fucking hate it! Aromantic people having sex? Ohh people hate that!!

I guess the existence of aphobia can be confusing when you haven't spent much time thinking about asexuality and aromanticism, but in the end, these are identities that aren't heteronormative and they will be hit with the same or similar bigotry as any other queer identity. I just get tired of this response after seeing it recycled for 10 years without ever seeming to go any further.

day 3 of drawing my faves with garfield: jerma985

new boycott infographic posted by bds today

keep in mind that this list isn't exhaustive; it's only listing US-based companies

omg i just remembered u used to not be able to see peoples tags in your notification tab like does anyone else remember just going through peoples reblogs of your post one by one to see if anyone said anything nice/funny lmfaooo

commission for @griimlin!

i had so much fun working on this ♥ super honored to draw their way past cool OC Alben with my own Loop! their color palettes look really nice together imo 😌

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Beware his panaka blast, okay?

Many thanks to @cottoncandylesbo , @cryptotheism , @radiofreederry and of course @jame7t for donating their time to and participating in the 2024 American Heart Association charity drive, everyone who donated financially during it, and Jame again for captioning this video!

I love it when a character has been through something they can’t speak about. There’s a unique kind of torture in not being able to talk about your trauma, but allowing it the power to steal your words—to haunt your thoughts but never be able to explain what’s bothering you.

More skills! Soon we'll be able to make a second amnesiac drunk with a completely fresh type of derangement. Let's accomplish this wonderful goal.