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I do have a piece of writing advice, actually.
See, the first time I grew parsnips, I fucked it up good. I hadn't seen parsnips sprouting before, right, and in my eagerness I was keeping a close eye on the row. And every time I saw some intruding grass coming up, I twitched it right out, and went back to anticipating the germination of my parsnips.
But it turns out parsnips take a bit longer than anything else I'd ever grown to distinguish themselves visually. It's just the two little split leaves, almost identical to a newly seeded bit of kentucky bluegrass when they first come up, and they take a good bit to establish themselves and spread out flat before the main stem with its first distinctive scallopy leaf gets going.
I didn't get any parsnips, not that year, because I'd weeded them all out as soon as they showed their faces, with my 'ugh no that's grass' twitchy horticulture finger.
The next year, having in retrospect come to suspect what had happened, I left the row alone and didn't weed anything until all the sprouts coming up had all had a bit to set in and show their colors, and I've grown lots of parsnips since. They're kind of a slow crop, not a huge return, but I like them and watching them grow and digging them up, and their papery little seeds in the second year, if you don't harvest one either on purpose or because you misjudged the frost, so it's worth it.
Anyway, whenever I see someone stuck and struggling with their writing who's gotten into that frustration loop of typing a few words, rejecting them, backspacing, and starting again, I find myself thinking, you gotta stop weeding your parsnips, man.
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'do you think you're superior for not using AI in your work' thank you for asking! yes i do
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revolution in fashion: european fashion 1715-1815 - the kyoto costume institute (1989)
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“what’s posted on the internet stays there forever” is true for everything except that one piece of fanart you saw when you were 10 that changed the trajectory of your life forever. you will never find that again it is gone forever
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mutuals always making masterpieces and I think wow. and you're following me too. wild stuff
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BLEACH! issue 3 is live!
#obsessed obsessed obsessed!!!!!!!#literally can't pick a favourite bit to quote here because i think it would just turn out to be the whole poem#i love the mundanities of trinkets in a room#beautiful writing as always
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the epic highs and tragic lows of literally just being in my head on a perfectly normal day
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Loisy, Paris
Jacques Henri Lartigue
October 1964
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It’s all good 👍 I held onto it in my heart until it became a part of me
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victorian mussel shaped vinaigrette in handcrafted silver, engraved 'Lucy'. 1876.
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CHIVALROUS AND SINGLE KNIGHTS IN YOUR FIEF WANT TO PLEDGE THEIR FEALTY TO YOU‼️ CLICK HERE NOW‼️‼️
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what if someone loved me so much and wanted to love me forever lol what if
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recipes will be like "prep time: 5 minutes" beloved it took me 10 just to get out the ingredience dont underestimate me
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