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Effect of Growth Regulators on Rooting of Andrographis neesiana: A Valuable Endemic Medicinal Plant of India
Abstract
The present study deals with the vegetative propagation prospects of an endemic medicinal plant Andrographis neesiana Wight, which is familiarly used in herbal medicine for the treatment of several diseases. Due to over exploitation this plant is disappearing from original habitat hence its cultivation on commercial scale is suggested. Stem cuttings of Andrographis neesiana are advantageous to root. Treatment with Indole-3-Butyric Acid (IBA) and a-Napthalene Acetic Acid (NAA) raised rooting and increased shoot development in greenhouse under intermittent misting. IBA and NAA treated cuttings performed improve in all development parameters compared to control. The highest percentage of rooting was observed in IBA 1500 ppm (68.10%). The maximum root length was noted in IBA 2000 ppm (11.20 cm). The roots were profuse and branched in characteristic. Besides this, the survival rate of IBA treated plantlets was 86.45% and NAA treated plantlets was 72.61% in comparison to control where it was 7.32%. The percentage of rooting and root length upgraded by using plant growth hormones, either separate or together. The present investigation concludes that clonal multiplication of these an endemic medicinal plant is feasible through application of plant growth regulators. The significance of these findings on the propagation and conservation of A. neesiana is discussed.
Introduction
Medicinal plants contain importances that can be used for biotherapeutic applications or which are used as precursors for the synthesis of beneficial (Sofowora 1993). The medicinal characteristics of plants lies in their phytochemicals namely alkaloids, flavonoids in addition to other phenolic compounds that co-opt as to producing particular physiological properties to the body of man and animals (Che Man, 2010). However, analysis of extract of Andrographis neesiana was found to be rich in flavones to the expensive phytoconstituent potentialities of the plant. Andrograhis neesiana is therefore grown as a medicinal species for the curing of many ailments particularly in India. (Alagesaboopathi and Balu 1999; Alagesaboopathi and Sivkumar 2011; Ponvinobala et al., 2012a). Andrographis neesiana Wight belongs to the family Acanthaceae and has been widely used in healthcare traditions. The rooted plants by cottage have various advantages such as faster growth rate (Ooyamma and Toyoshima, 1965), greater stock stand uniformity, improve site matching and true-to-type planting material production (Fielding, 1969). Cuttings can be categorized into 3 groups as comfortable to root, difficult to root and inflexible to root (Nanda, 1970).
Species of Andrographis Wallich ex Nees (Acanthaceae) are used in the Indian systems of medicine namely, Siddha, Ayurveda, Unani, Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Amachi and Modern (Alagesaboopathi and Balu, 1999). The genus Andrographis as a whole is of potentialities significance to India. The genus exhibits antipyretic characteristics (Kirtikar and Basu, 1975). This genus consists 40 species distributed in Tropical Asia (Anonymous, 1948). About 21 species are distributed in India (Gamble, 1982) and all of them available in Tamilnadu. (Henry et al., 1987). Among the 21 species 18 species are reported to be endemic to India (Ahmedullah and Nayar, 1986). Andrographis neesiana Wight (Fig. 1) is an endemic medicinal species (Ahmedullah and Nayar, 1986) found in wild in Shevaroy Hills of Salem district of Tamilnadu (11o45 and 11o55 N and 78o11 to 78o20E) upto 1500 m.
The pharmaceutical industries is widely dependent upon the wild populations for providing these plant species for extraction of their intrinsic phytochemicals. Moreover, herbal medicine practitioners, local medicine men, village dwellers, vaidyas, tribals (Malayalis), forest dwellers, and other traditional healers often use these collection of the plant materials from forests and lacking experiments either to allow the replenishment or propagation, these critical flora are rapidly vanishing. As a importance, A. neesiana declared as an endemic plant in India (Ahmedullah and Nayar, 1986). Therefore, there is an immediate need to enlarge serviceable cultivation techniques for propagation of these noteworthy medicinal floras which will excessively commercial application. Andrographis neesiana has been used in the treatment of aphrodisiac and antifungal property (Alagesaboopathi and Balu, 1999; Alagesaboopathi and Balu, 2000). Several medicinal properties such as cough, edema, laxative, bitter and overcomes trouble in breathing, worms, liver complaints, acidity, burning sensation, syphilitic ulcers, skin disorders and also veterinary medicines have been attributed to this plant in the traditional systems of Indian medicine (Sivarajan and Balachandran, 2001). It is used in the treatment of antimicrobial, antioxidant and anticancer activity (Alagesaboopathi and Sivakumar, 2011; Ponvinobala et al., 2012 a, b).
Two new flavonoids, 2, 4, 6, 2, 3, 4- hexamethoxychalcone and 5-hydroxy -7, 2, 5 - trimethoxyflavone together with a known flavone glycoside, echioidinin 5-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside were isolated from the whole plant extract of Andrographis neesiana (Muntha Kesava Reddy et al., 2003). There is no previous report on use of growth hormones in vegetative propagation of this useful plant. The work was undertaken to result rooting response of A. neesiana under greenhouse using growth regulators and outcomes reported. Auxin is one of the factors for stimulating root productions in cuttings (Hartman et al., 1990). Thakur and Gupta (1998) reported that cutting of Alnus nitida with various concentration of IBA and obtained the maximum root percentage at IBA 800 ppm.
Rooting of stem cutting through action of growth hormones has been undertaken as a protocol for broad scale propagation of this plant following the approach of Senthilkumar et al., 2009; Akwatulira et al., 2011; Saradha and Paulsamy, 2012). Auxins, a category of plant evolution substances are often called as plant growth hormones and performance an important role in coordination of many growth and behavioral technique in the plant life cycle (Tiwari and Kuntal Das, 2010). Indole-3-Acetic Acid (IAA), -Naphthalene Acetic Acid (NAA) and Indole -3-Butyric Acid (IBA) are conventionally the leading auxins which are usable commercially and can be applied with liquid (liquid formulation) or in talc (powder formulation) for rooting and sprouting of stem cuttings (Hopkins, 1999). The present study therefore aimed at ascertaining the most suitable propagation A. neeisana using stem cuttings. In the present study, the stem cuttings of A. neesiana were treated by plant growth regulators (PGRs), IBA and NAA. The aim of this investigation was to test the potential outcome of plant growth regulators on the stem cuttings and to prefer an optimal concentration of plant growth regulators for stem cuttings of A. neesiana
Source : Effect of growth regulators on rooting of Andrographis neesiana Wight. – a valuable endemic medicinal plant of India
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Cordyline fruticosa
The Cordyline fruticosa plants are most beautiful eye-catching evergreen perennial plants with broad leaves. Plant foliage varies in different colors such as red, pink, yellow, white & other streaks.
Good Luck plant
These cordyline fruticosa plants are commonly called Hawaiian ti plant, good luck plant, ti plant, palm lily, cabbage palm, and miracle plant belonging to Asparagaceae. This plant is often believed to bring good luck to the home.
Hawaiian ti plant
This cordyline plant variety prized & beloved especially for its colorful, long-lasting foliage with attractive stripes. The name Hawaiian ti plant name due to the reason that this croton plant believed to bring positiveness, creation, and blessing during those times in Hawaiian culture.
Benefits
The placement of ti -plant croton plant is believed to bring good luck, peace and positivity to home.
Cordyline Ti plants are pests & diseases resistant plants.
The most beautiful feature of this plant is the colorful foliage & air-purifier.
#Cordyline rumba#Andrea#Care & Maintenance#Soil#Watering#Sunlight#Propagation#This croton variety propagated through the methods such as Tip cuttings#Stem cuttings & Air-layering.#Tip Cuttings#From mature plants take the tip cuttings. Take tip cuttings from 3-4 cm of the plant. And plant the cutting in potting mix or soil.#Stem Cuttings#Placement#Repotting#Fertilizer#Dust Removal#Disease & Pest Control#These plant varieties do not contain major pests & diseases. The plant occasionally gets leaf spots#mealy bugs#spider mites#and scales are infected.#Benefits#The placement of ti -plant croton plant is believed to bring good luck#peace and positivity to home.#Cordyline Ti plants are pests & diseases resistant plants.#The most beautiful feature of this plant is the colorful foliage & air-purifier.#Cordyline fruticosa-ti plant crotons#Blog Completed By: Santhionlineplants
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Uploading all my Tomgreg art at once from the past few week before season 4 hits, who knows in what kind of mental state i'm gonna be once it does :')
#tomgreg#succession#dont even talk to me i started watching this show when i had nothing to do at work and now i watch it with averiel my good friend averiel#and we are going to watch s4 together and i feel physically ill from bein so excited#so ya thats what ive been up to... anyway. i love these idiots they desever nothing but the worst (affectionate)#im also a tomshiv lover btw. im the one who yells 'THIS IS HOW TOMSHIV CAN STILL WIN' while they are actively losing on screen#thats the kind of person i am#dont look at me (lying on the floor)#okay i was not going to say stuff in the tags and let the art speak for itself but i NEED to point out details in the wine Painting..#i put a lot of work into that one. thinly veiled metaphors and symbolism yknow..#greg is gripping the stem of the wine glass with his full fist. tom and greg are dressed in the same outfit (sock garters included)#greg look appalled but he is not doing anything about the spill. tom is fondly pouring greg more and more wine. he is doing him a favor#i colored the red wine the same way i would color blood :) oh and tom is not really touching greg#only holding the chair in place. greg is making himself look smaller than he is like usual#oh and @ the person who said that it's the inverse of the tom and nate scene i love the way you think. i did not think of that before#but god. yeah. i actually thought about the scene change from when roman uhh.. christens his office in s1. the one with the coffee machine#i always go insane at that cut. this is not exactly the same since it's more.. about emotions but yknow.. it can be.. the same...
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I think that like, the major reason why benrey got so mischaracterized by the fandom at hlvrai's peak popularity was because they forgot he acts like a dmv employee
#sixtyt-en#hlvrai#like people would hone in on him being a gamer/eldritch creature thing/gay dude but#overlook his condescending/hypocritical/aloof demeanor towards gordon.#which is sad because thats where a lot of his humor stems from#at least in the beginning of the series. during my last rewatch i noticed that he gets more like. absurdist? post hand-getting-cut-off
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support women’s wrongs or else
#she’s a woman of scientific pursuit#women in stem and vine and leaves etc. etc.#art#digital art#da2#da2 merrill#da2 fanart#dragon age 2#dragon age merrill#merrill#SHIT the content warnings.#cw blood#tw blood#cw cutting#tw cutting#tw self harm#cw self harm
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My life’s stem was cut
Helen Dunmore
#alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry#poem#poetry#poems#poet#poets#anthology#tumblr poetry#poem of the day#poetry blog#my life’s stem was cut#cancer#Helen dunmore#poemblr#poetic#poetblr#illness#life#health#plants#flowers#gardening
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nathan encounter with obscura 2.0 goes about as well as the day he killed his parents, more at 11
taglist (opt in/out)
@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart;
@lestatlioncunt, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman;
@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;
@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree;
@jacobseed
#tew#art#art:nathan#nuclearocs#nuclearart#blood //#if you've played tew2 then you know who obscura is. i do not like that thang. and neither does nathan#in my own tew3 he goes into stem and just IMMEDIATELY gets trapped in a location with it and he's like I'VE HAD ENOUGH#manages to cut it into little pieces and well. gestures at the art. this is the aftermath of it. he's not very happy#drawing wet or at least sticky and gross hair is so difficult so like please don't kill me for it i tried my BEST#and i got lazy with the blood but i don't care about that. it's not about rendering it beautifully it's about traumatizing my princess
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Circuit Cutting for Efficient Quantum Circuit Simulation
In previous blog posts [1, 2] we talked about quantum circuit cutting - a technique to "cut" quantum circuits into pieces to run them on smaller quantum devices. In particular, for NISQ devices this is a nice method to run larger quantum circuits than usually possible with the limited number of qubits as well as diminishing the effects of noise during the computation [3]. However, such techniques come with the cost of having an exponential sampling overhead in the number of cut wires or gates. Thus, such methods are limited in applicability - namely they work best for shallow, easy to partition, circuits.
"Cutting" for Classical Simulation
No matter the (dis)advantages, the idea of "cutting" circuits into pieces cannot only be applied as a "compilation" step to run cut algorithms on real quantum devices. In contrast, "cutting" can also make classical simulations of quantum circuits of suitable classes more efficient. Why might it be desirable to simulate smaller circuits on a classical computer? The simple answer is that storing statevectors on classical computers requires an exponential amount of RAM, i.e., 2^n amplitudes for n qubits. As only limited RAM is available - similar to the limited number of qubits in NISQ devices - running smaller simulations/computations is desirable. However, there is no free lunch here as well, since cutting also induces an exponential overhead in the classical simulation case - meaning that an exponential amount of smaller subcircuits has to be run and subsequently reassembled again. Thus, the reason why one wants to cut circuits for classical simulations is a bit more intricate: Reducing the RAM requirements can also decrease the runtime of simulating gates (i.e. by matrix-vector multiplication) but as pointed out before, one has to run an exponential amount of circuits which is increasing the time cost again. Therefore, cutting quantum circuits for classical simulation is not always useful; instead, there is a tradeoff between reducing runtime by reducing RAM and the exponential overhead - thus, such techniques are usually only useful for quantum circuits with limited connectivity such that only a manageable number of cuts must be performed. In the literature this cutting is usually denoted as Hybrid Schrödinger Feynman Technique (HSF) [4, 5, 6] - still, the underlying ideas are quite similar to quantum circuit cutting. Let's look at the core idea of cutting circuits for classical simulation and where this aforementioned exponential overhead comes from.
How to Cut Circuits for Simulation
Conceptually, classical cutting of quantum gates (contrasting quantum circuit cutting, one is usually not considering wire cuts for HSF simulation) merely requires performing a Schmidt-Decomposition on the gate(s) to be cut. Considering the CNOT gate, this can be done quite easily by just factoring out properly as follows
where we just wrote down the CNOT gate in Dirac notation and factored out the projector P_0 and P_1 respectively. This can be represented graphically in a circuit diagram as
With this illustration it becomes more apparent what is meant by cutting. We decomposed the CNOT gate, which originally acts on two qubits jointly, into a representation with two contributions (terms) in which each one is bipartite: The first term is just the projector onto the zero state on the first qubit and nothing on the other. The second term is the projector onto the other computational basis state as well as a separate Pauli X gate on the other qubit. You can see that the qubit wires are not connected anymore in the separate contributions that constitute the cut.
If you have a larger circuit that you want to partition into two smaller parts which should be simulated separately and they are connected by a single CNOT gate, cutting would give you two pairs of bipartite circuits. Each of them is smaller than before, thus, faster to simulate. This toy example has a pretty small overhead in the number of simulations, often also denoted as "paths", namely only two. If more gates are cut, this grows exponentially as the number of paths per gate has to be multiplied. Mathematically speaking, this number of paths is determined by the Schmidt-rank of each cut gate. As mentioned before, the Schmidt Decomposition is the core tool to perform cutting and thus, we briefly look into how this Schmidt Decomposition is done in general.
Classical Cutting in General by Schmidt-Decompositions
In order to spare you tedious notation with a lot of confusing indices, let's consider the general case in graphical notation only. Any quantum circuit can be represented as a tensor network [7]. Each quantum wire can be interpreted as leg of a tensor with physical dimension 2 (since qubits have a basis with 2 vectors). Consider some operator A with n=6 qubits (the logic applies for arbitrarily many qubits) as shown in the figure below. Assume that we want to cut this operator in the middle. Originally, operator A has 2n legs , but we can reshape those legs/wires according to the desired cut location as shown on the right-hand side - resulting in two "big" legs with higher dimensions than before. The dimension of the upper and lower big leg is determined by the number of qubits n_a in the upper partition and n_b in the lower partition respectively, in our example n_a=n_b=3. The upper big leg has dimension 2^(2n_a) and the lower 2^(2n_b).
Doing this not only fixes the cut position but is a way of matricizing the previously higher rank object - allowing to perform a Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), which can be applied on matrices (having 2 legs) only. An SVD decomposes a matrix into three parts, two isometries, U and V as well as the diagonal matrix σ containing the singular values (shown diagramatically below). The number of singular values fixes the aforementioned Schmidt-rank [8] of the original operator/gate A which, in turn, determines the aforementioned overhead, the number of paths in the simulation. The isometries can be absorbed into the top and bottom and the remaining sum can be made explicit such that we end up with a bipartite representation, similar to the one shown for the CNOT gate. This allows to decompose the gate into two parts, at the cost of a higher number of paths for the simulation.
Conclusion
Now you know how circuit cutting can be applied for classical simulations as well - it merely requires performing a Schmidt Decomposition in order to find bipartite representations of gates to be cut. Interestingly, performing cuts for classical simulation induces an exponential overhead - similar to quantum circuit cutting for real quantum devices. Even though conceptual differences are present between both approaches, this parallel neatly shows that one can never avoid the exponential complexity of quantum systems: We can merely shift the complexity (e.g. memory complexity into time complexity as for HSF simulation), to hope for nice tradeoffs and computing advantages - but no method can get rid of the inherent exponential complexity of quantum systems.
References
[1] Blog Post "Cutting Quantum Circuits into Pieces - Why and How?"
[2] Blog Post "Quantum Circuit Cutting - with Randomly Applied Channels"
[3] Bechtold, M., Barzen, J., Leymann, F., Mandl, A., Obst, J., Truger, F., & Weder, B. (2023). Investigating the effect of circuit cutting in QAOA for the MaxCut problem on NISQ devices. In Quantum Science and Technology (Vol. 8, Issue 4, p. 045022). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/acf59c
[4] Aaronson, S., & Chen, L. (2016). Complexity-Theoretic Foundations of Quantum Supremacy Experiments (Version 2). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.1612.05903
[5] Markov, I. L., Fatima, A., Isakov, S. V., & Boixo, S. (2018). Quantum Supremacy Is Both Closer and Farther than It Appears. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.1807.10749
[6] Burgholzer, L., Bauer, H., & Wille, R. (2021). Hybrid Schrödinger-Feynman Simulation of Quantum Circuits With Decision Diagrams. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). 2021 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/qce52317.2021.00037
[7] Blog Entry Pennylane, "Tensor Network Quantum Circuits"
[8] Nielsen, M. A., Dawson, C. M., Dodd, J. L., Gilchrist, A., Mortimer, D., Osborne, T. J., Bremner, M. J., Harrow, A. W., & Hines, A. (2003). Quantum dynamics as a physical resource. In Physical Review A (Vol. 67, Issue 5). American Physical Society (APS). https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.67.052301
#physics#mysteriousquantumphysics#quantum physics#quantum#quantum mechanics#stem academia#stemblr#quantum science#circuit cutting#quantum circuit cutting#quantum computing
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what if i drew myself stress relief musical sapphics.... what then....
can you tell i've been. hmmm. stressed this week LMAO (anyways if you recognise these pairs like that's awesome and you're so cool genuinely! but this is so self indulgent who am i kidding xDD)
#six the musical araleyn#araleyn#araleyn fanart#six the musical#six the musical fanart#anne boleyn#catherine of aragon#lydia deetz#beetlejuice#ship: hello little girl#i love making things up about side characters as always... it's awesome. enrichment in my little artist cage#not trek#so happy with the first araleyn one!!#also can you tell im hugely sappy. theyre wearing each other's colors..... OUGH#oh and each other's imagery. im a SUCKER for that ok#ive also like NEVER in my life felt the urge to draw any of my blorbos getting married. but apparently skydia is just that powerful#lydia x sky#rarepairs keep me together mentally tbh where would i be without my little finger puppet gays#btw it's a reference to that scene from the addams family where mortricia cuts off the flower blossoms and leaves the thorny stems#lydia falls in love all over again on the spot and i think that is very nice#that is also lydia's mom's old dress but altered!#and beej gave her the overcoat. sky's dress is a family heirloom that she adores#semi headcanoning that both of them are nonbinary btw i do what i want#yay
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#Photography#Oct. 2018#Outdoors#Trash Can#Trash Bin#Garbage Can#Garbage Bin#Bushes#Vines#Leaves#Plants#Stems#Cut Grass#Sunlight#Silhouettes#Nature#Bins#Trash#Garbage#Grass#Shadows#My Snaps#My Photos#My Photography
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if anyone does anything that makes me feel even remotely out of control it changes my brain chemistry about them forever even if I know they mean well and want so badly for things to go back to the way they used to but they can never go back and I hate myself for that
#ill literally ruin every friendship ig#does anyone else experience this bc it’s actually so fucked up I hate it sm#and like im good at pretending it’s ok so even if the other person goes back to normal I never am#it’s like the grudge just stays forever no matter how much forgiveness I logical have#and the association w the person just feels sickening even if they r so full of love#and I think that talking about it will help but it just digs a further hole#like it always get resolved on their end but somehow I feel worse#I’ve lost some of the greatest ppl bc of this :(#like ppl make mistakes#and sometimes it’s not even a mistake or anything wrong im just insane#and then I feel I don’t treat them as well but not in ways they would notice ugh idk im actually fkd#hence I mostly cut them off bc I don’t wanna treat them badly they don’t deserve it#but im also sick of cutting ppl pff who r genuinely so nice and made one off comment#bc I’ve made plenty of off comments im sure bc im human and yet other ppl r ok w it like y can’t I be#anyways usually the whole reason they have even said anything that has put me off them is just their reaction to me being mentally ill#so it kinda all stems from me everytim LOL yay
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grian we will keep u AWAY from flora after that 😭
Right 💥💥💥 she is not able to gauge how weak or strong players are, she’s very much like, I can do it, why can’t you do it ? 🤔🤔🤔
not a good mindset to have..
she comes from a twilight forest server, shes survived on her own for a long time as a player, but grian comes from a community of friends, so there’s an obvious difference in their abilities.
she’s not gonna kill him or cause ~severe physical harm, but they don’t get along, u can see Why 😭
#Ask#she thinks he’s too soft for a Watcher and it annoys her.#which just stems from her own issues she’s projecting on him#he’s literally 5 whole apples tall this is cruel and unnecessary#but there’s gotta be reasons he runs away 🤔#Aether doesn’t teach him fighting bc she doesn’t want to hurt him so she sticks to like. The education side#despite Aether literally being the warrior one of the duo. Aether routinely played death games and enjoyed them#a mum with a very dark bloody past but she’s quite soft now. She cuts his fruit into shapes idk how she does it#All I do is ramble around here 😭💥
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AND because my university is EVIL and STUPID my hours at my second job might be cut 🤣🤣🤣🤣 basically last year they fucked up their budget immensely (like . millions of dollars immensely) and overspent and have been operating on a deficit all year . and so their solution is to impose budget cuts across the board . despite the fact that admin genuinely lost millions of dollars. and it was completely their fault . and so now they’re cutting the budget at my second job (the disability resource center BY THE WAY!!!!) and i might have my already minimal hours reduced . LMFAOOOOOOOO
#STUPID STUPID FUCKING PLACEEEEEEEEE#it’s been like a running joke all year about how broke the university is#and how departments are feeling the brunt of it.#but the thing is like. we’re not broke. we’re a flagship university with r1 research status#and endless funding#they just choose where the money they do have goes#and bc they FUCKED UP they’re establishing cuts to anywhere they can get away with it#but you know what i bet hasn’t felt this at all? stem departments and sports 😁😁😁#so anyways . needless to say everybody’s mad as shit but we’re all doing our best .#hopefully my writing center job can just give me more hours bc like. i need that fucking money bro#and it’s not my fault that they lost . i cannot stress this enough. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
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“You trust me?”
Toralei glanced up at the ghoul before her. Clawdeen Wolf had placed her hands on the werecat’s shoulders, and was staring very intensely into her eyes. Her expression was serious, but her golden eyes shimmered with unrestrained glee. That both delighted, and terrified Toralei.
She’d expressed to her ghoulfriend not too long ago about wanting to cut her hair. It had grown out considerably in the last few months, to the point where it started to graze her shoulders. It had been fun for a while to experiment with different styles, and finally being able to put it all up into a ponytail was interesting, but now she was over it. She typically cut it herself, much to her adoptive mother’s dismay, but upon hearing Toralei’s desire for a new hairdo, Clawdeen insisted upon cutting it for her. Unable to find a justified reason to decline, Toralei hesitantly agreed.
And so there they were, in Toralei’s bedroom, a small tarp laid out on the floor, courtesy of Mr. Stripe, and Toralei in her desk chair in the middle of it. Clawdeen stood before her, the gold hairdressing clippers in her hand looking particularly menacing as they glinted in the sunlight streaming through her window.
Forcing a smile, Toralei answered her with a less than confident, “Yes?”
Clawdeen threw her head back and laughed. “You should! As if I’d be caught alive dating someone with a busted head of hair anyway!”
“You have been for the last few months,” Toralei quipped back. Then bit her tongue upon realizing she'd just roasted herself. Clawdeen erupted into laughter once more.
“You said it, not me,” she agreed. She ran her fingers through Toralei’s red-orange locks. They had already washed and conditioned it, leaving it damp. The werecat’s scalp tingled at her touch, and she let out a low purr. Clawdeen smiled at the sound of it. “Your hair is super uneven. The left side is choppy, and it’s a lot longer in the back than on top. You could probably rock a killer mullet if you wanted.”
Toralei scoffed. “And be called a Holt Hyde wannabe? No thank you.” She paused. “…Well maybe after graduation.”
“That’s not my vision for you anyway,” Clawdeen announced, that determined expression returning to her face.
“What is your vision?” Toralei asked warily.
“It’s a surprise. You ready?”
Toralei did not like surprises. Cats rarely reacted well to be surprised. But she liked Clawdeen, and the feeling of her clawed fingers running through her hair. So, uneasy as she may have felt, she forced a smirk and nodded. “Ready!”
#monster high#monster high fanart#clawdeen wolf#toralei stripe#clawdeen x toralei#toralei x clawdeen#toradeen#this isssss old#been in my drafts for months now#mainly because i wanted to write more but couldnt work up the motivation#i think its fine as is#this mainly stemmed from me wanting to draw them with these hairstyles#clawdeen has a LOT of hair#idk if thats even considered a wolf cut tbh#my art#sabz art#id in alt!#goddamn when was the last time i posted any art???
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shit changes for the worse sometimes
rodent by the menzingers / dorothy at forty by cursive / boy staring at an apparition by goya / the rat by the walkmen / millstone by brand new / i've got it all (most) by modest mouse / down in it by nine inch nails / how to disappear completely by radiohead / lives by modest mouse / cowboy dan by modest mouse / between aging and old by jack gilbert / beware of dog by john brosio / wasted days by cloud nothings / development by john brosio
#btw this is entirely inspired by a jason todd meta abt how the crux of jasons motivations stem from the sheer horror and disgust at seeing#how the world has not only moved on from him but has actually changed for the distinct worse in his absence#also i heard the rat for the first time a couple months ago and was like whoa that line reminds me of millstone#and then i just slowly started collecting song#i wanted more art but i love music so much i had to cut down on the songs i picked lol#web weaving
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