#Wilding by Isabella Tree

[goodmiffy]

best book you read last year GO

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

Tree is used to batting away arguments that Knepp’s seismic shift is endangering our food security. “On the planet,” she says, “we’re producing enough food for 11 billion people. We are eight billion people now – we waste 30-40% of our food. We’ve got to stop that. The agriculture we have is not sustainable. We’ve got to move away from intensive livestock. We’ve got to think about our intake of meat and where it comes from.” https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jun/06/semen-flasks-farming-couple-rewilding-knepp-isabella-tree

[bookloversofbath]

The Ruling Passion of John Gould: A Biography of the Bird Man :: Isabella Tree

[onenakedfarmer]

Still Reading

Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell THE BOOK OF WILDING A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big and Small

[valacre]

: ̗̀➛ Invisible Visitors

Sentinel Prime x Reader - Transformers One

The storm has passed, the lightning and the thunder a thing of the past, and yet, there is a creeping unease in the air. It is heavy, thick and uncomfortable, and Sentinel tries to think of it as just the humidity that lingers after heavy rainfall, but no, it is not that.

Still wrapped tightly within your blankets, Sentinel hums in slow awakening as he rubs his cheek against one of your pillows. The first time in your bed had been drastically different to what he had imagined, but it’d been warm and peaceful, nonetheless. Your scent surrounded him on all sides, and it helped keep him calm. You’d awoken long ago, anxious to tend to the chickens who had likely been terrified all night. The sound of them outside was reassuring, though Sentinel felt a twinge of jealousy as he heard you coo at them.

Ridiculous. He was being ridiculous.

It took great effort to leave the comforts of your bedroom, a sacred space in his optics that he’d been finally granted access to, but how much more after this night? It’d been a special situation; his processor and spark were so riddled with fear and love that he’d been a complete mess. You’d had no other choice than to take him with you to bed. He was not ashamed to admit that he didn’t regret how clingy he’d been when you finally laid down together.

A few unsteady steps down your narrow staircase, and he finally found his way outside again, seeing the world completely different than what it’d been last night. The sun was up, the sky clear of clouds, the wind a gentle but cold breeze.

Something clucked by his pedes, and Sentinel looked down to see your fattest chicken pecking at the dirt, Isabella. Her white and brown feathers ruffled as she glanced up at him, the twitchy movement of her head amusing to look at. Without thinking, Sentinel picked her up and nestled her in the crook of his arm before approaching the chicken coop; nestled safely between two great trees which had little to no trouble with harsh winds, their giant roots digging deep and far for support.

You stood amongst the chickens, throwing feed over the ground for them to search and eat, smiling a little as you watched them scamper. The grumpy rooster watched Sentinel closely as he approached, the brute not at all liking him. For Sentinel, the feelings were mutual.

“How are you feeling?” You ask, hearing him approach.

“Better.” He said, setting Isabella down to allow her to eat. “I’m not crying like a sparkling anymore, at least.”

Shooting him a small smile, you give him the basket full of food for the chickens, urging him to throw it out for them. He does, and they go wild, flapping their wings and cooing excitedly. It made him smile a little.

“Wonderful, that means you’ll be ready to help me fix the barn today.”

“Oh… Actually, I feel a little faint. My processor is filled with fog, and my frame aches. I must have come down with the rust plague; can you see any of it on me?” He asks, feigning fainting as he dramatically leans into you, nearly crushing you as you grunt in surprise at the sudden weight.

“Oh, stop it, you drama queen.” You huff and heave him up onto his legs, shocking him with your strength. A questionable look is shot your way, but you only return it with a smirk. “What? I might have a bad back, but my arms are quite strong.” And, flexing your arms, you catch his faceplate flushing at the sight of your muscles. It almost looks like he’s going to swoon. “Huh, impressed?”

“What?” Shaking his helm, he sends you an unimpressed look instead. “Well, I’ve seen better.”

“Uh-huh?” Grinning and raising a brow, you urge him to finish feeding the chickens as you go towards the barn. “Come and meet me in a bit. You’re going to help me with reinforcing the walls and the roof. Last night’s storm didn’t break anything, but if nothing is done, then you’ll find yourself homeless before you know it.”

“Or I could just live inside with you?”

“Fat chance.”

“Ooh, so I have a chance, and it sounds like it’s fat too.”

“It’s cute how you think you’re funny.”

Wings bristling at your comment, he hears you cackle as he chucks the basket your way, seeds going flying and you jumping out of the way, laughing harder. The chickens scramble after the scattered seeds, and Sentinel grumbles as he goes to follow you, mumbling incoherent words in Cybertronian. He jumps in surprise as Isabella suddenly comes flapping up towards him, hysterical and screeching, though calming once he holds her.

“What’s wrong with you?” He asks her, though he knows he’ll receive no reply. She only looks around, her head twitching, eyes focused on the forest on the other side of the meadow across your farm. Optics focuses on the darkness beneath the canopy of the trees, and he sees a shape standing motionless.

A deer.

Sentinel snorts and looks down at Isabella again, ready to mock her cowardly nature, but she jumps off before he can, scrambling back towards the chicken coop along with her sisters. They are all stressed and on edge.

“What’s happening over there?” You call from the barn, your voice faint as you look for tools.

“Just the chickens being afraid of nothing.” He replies, resuming his walk towards the barn but looking towards the forest as he does so. The deer remains where he first noticed it, motionless and still as a statue, black eyes staring. Odd, perhaps it is afraid of him.

Noon faded and all too quickly became the late evening. Blackness steadily fell upon the land, and Sentinel groaned in annoyance at the wood dust coating his frame. He desperately needed a wash, though an oil bath sounded heavenly, but alas, he would not have that luxury and instead found himself on the other end of your garden hose.

“That water is freezing.” He complained and kept his optics shut as you hosed him down, chuckling as you pointed the stream this way and that. “I demand a proper shower in the barn.”

“Once we’ve finished the walls and the roof, we can think about a shower for you.”

Sentinel opened his optics in surprise, though he quickly closed them again as water sprayed across his faceplate, making him frown in displeasure. “You’re doing that on purpose!”

“Maybe.” You say, grinning and turning off the water. “Don’t worry, we’ve finished cutting all the boards. We’ll get working with them once we’ve finished with the minor details on the roof tomorrow, and then we may begin on the inside with insulation and detailing. Maybe you’ll even get yourself a proper shower before winter ends.”

“Your tone is teasing. I hardly believe that will happen in the next few months.”

“Hah, you have no faith in me, and here I thought I might drive to the nearby town to get you some paint and polish as a reward for being so nice. Tsk, oh well—”

“Wait! No, really?” His optics are wide and hopeful even as droplets of icy water trickle and drip from his frame, and he approaches with an eager expression, though you step back to avoid getting wet. “Will you do that for me?”

“I told you I would, didn’t I?” You say, smiling at him as his optics soften and he smiles so sweetly it pulls at your heart. It made you feel warm inside, fuzzy. He’s cute.

“Embrace me, angel.” Sentinel suddenly said, smirking mischievously and quickly leaning forward. You scamper away with a curse and a yell, sprinting away and rounding the corner as you half-yell, half-laugh at his antics. He can’t help but laugh, too.

Moving to follow you, Sentinel briefly stops as his frame prickles and a sense of unease fills his processor, forcing him to look out past the trees of your back garden and towards the meadow. The deer. It has moved into the open and is easily spotted by him from between the few trees in your back garden.

It stands as it did when he spotted it between the trees of the forest, still as a statue, black eyes staring. However, now that it is closer, Sentinel can see that something is wrong with it. Its skin appears loose, like it’s barely clinging onto its bones, and it’s stiff, with its head turned unnaturally to the side.

There’s only the sound of the wind in the air. No birds.

Sentinel’s servo twitches, and he focuses his optics on the deer, studying it. If it's diseased, he must keep it away from your farm lest it harms either you or your precious chickens, but the deer doesn’t appear to mind him staring back at it. Its eyes don’t leave him, and that is when Sentinel notice how glassy they appear. Non-organic.

“God, you spooked me.” Came your voice, and Sentinel nearly leapt out of his frame as he turned to see you peeking out from behind the corner of your house. You raised a brow at him, coming out a little. “You got so quiet I figured you were hiding so you could jump me.” You say, shaking your head.

Sentinel looks back towards the meadow, prepared to tell you about the deer, but it’s gone.

It’s gone.

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[mirrorball-leclerc]

take me back to the city that i call my city, where everybody knows my name

series masterlist

oscar piastri i fear mark is mad at me.

isabella perez i could've told you he would be upset for the 'practical joke' you pulled.

yuki tsunoda ha! and now your mother wants me as her son!

charles leclerc i'm going to die at the hands of mark webber!!

daniel ricciardo-jones don't be silly daniel jones-ricciardo he's going to send someone after you. mark won't get his hands dirty like that. charles leclerc THAT DOESN'T MAKE ME FEEL BETTER?!

ollie bearman does this make charles my grandpa?

lando norris that's wild 26 with a 19-year-old grandson

sebastian vettel this explains the angry 'your spawn stole my kid' text i got from mark

fernando alonso and this also explains the 'you were supposed to keep him out of trouble' text i got charles leclerc and that explains the 'give me my child back anti-christ' text i got

oscar piastri HE CALLED YOU ANTI-CHRIST?

lewis hamilton added one person

charles leclerc HE CALLED ME ANTI-CHRIST! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?!

mark webber i did no such thing

mark webber sebastian control your spawn.

charles leclerc

mark webber snitch

fernando alonso MULTI-21 SEB!! MULTI-21!!

sebastian vettel you just had to remind him didn't you?

lance stroll last time since a multi-21 inchident is down to 0 again.

lewis hamilton does this make seb satan?

sebastian vettel does this make you an instigator?

isabella perez it sure would be a shame if someone added jenson and nico to spice things up.

lewis hamilton don't you dare isabella juliana perez.

logan sargeant added two people

lewis hamilton logan hunter sargeant what did you do?

jenson button so this is the famous group chat.

charles leclerc WHAT IS AN ANTI-CHRIST??

nico rosberg lewis. lewis hamilton nico.

george russell i thought you two were on good terms?

dulce perez just because they're on 'good terms' doesn't mean they can't tease each other.

mick schumacher the family tree expands.

alex albon oh yes, because according to twitter logan is jenson and nico's son. zoya torres what the fuck do you two do on twitter? george russell i have a power point on the family tree!

nico rosberg i have so many questions

charles leclerc starting with, can daphne play long live tomorrow?

daphne jones-ricciardo can you get pole tomorrow? max jones-verstappen can ferrari not screw you over on sunday? is the better question.

jenson button yikes, you people do not hold back.

charles leclerc IF I GET POLE, will you please do a mashup of yoyok and long live?

daphne jones-ricciardo you've got a deal leclerc

mark webber you people are so weird.

nico rosberg agreed.

jenson button i've met zoya. i know how weird they can get.

zoya torres i know that's an insult but i don't care.

isabellaperez, rhysjones, freyavettel, and zoyatorres have posted new stories

my father-in-law is pole for monaco. everyone say congrats and cheer for a leclerc front-row lockout!! just know that i may be in the rb garage but i will be cheering on this silly little monegasque man. FATHER ON POLE IN MONACO!!! I REPEAT FATHER ON POLE IN MONACO!! LET'S GO!! WE'RE BREAKING CURSES THIS YEAR!!

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nataliaruiz little jules pascale leclerc, named after two of the most important people in charlie's life.

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charles_leclerc would you look at that, you were right.

↳ nataliaruiz i'm always right charlie

↳ charles_leclerc well, there's that one time-

↳ maxjonesverstappen1 we swore to never speak of that charles!

user06 and suddenly daniel and charles both have another jules they love.

↳ user54 WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT!! NOW I'M CRYING!!

↳ user79 ALL I DO IS CRY ON THE INTERNET!!

zoyatorres the little jewel of our lives

↳ user88 IT WAS RIGHT THERE IN THE NICKNAME ARE WE STUPID?

sukiwaterhouse she gets her charms and looks from you. i don't know what she gets from the french man.

↳ charles_leclerc this is why your daughter looks more like robert than you.

↳ sukiwaterhouse i actually hate you.

↳ charles_leclerc the feeling is mutual

daphnejonesricciardo and what a beautiful little jewel she is

↳ charles_leclerc she's bejeweled one could say

↳ daphnejonesricciardo that's your worst joke yet

benruiz oh look at my beautiful little niece!

↳ nataliaruiz please tell dad to stop crying over her

↳ benruiz he said to leave him alone and let him cry over his only grandchild. she's getting so big.

danieljonesricciardo what a joy it is to be her godfather ❤️

↳ nataliaruiz and what a joy it is to have you as her godfather 🫶🏼

↳ charles_leclerc if i have to hear her cry over unca da, it's over.

↳ danieljonesricciardo i'm just that loveable charlie.

oscarpiastri i have the cutest baby sister

↳ zoyatorres see i would fight you on this but it's true

↳ freyavettel that is very much true (no on tell my siblings)

olliebearman the cutest leclerc!!

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nataliaruiz when we were little kids and anyone asked you, 'what's your biggest dream?' your answer was always the same, 'to become a formula 1 driver and win the monaco grand prix' then you became an f1 driver and your biggest dream was to win the monaco grand prix, to make your country proud, to make your papa proud. year after year, it was disappointment after disappointment, but something changed this year, this year you had hope, more than you've ever had before. this year you told me, 'i'm going to win this. i'm not taking anything less than a win." you finally did it, you broke the 'curse' that had been bestowed upon you. and i am so glad i got to witness you do it.

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charles_leclerc please don't make me cry again. i just stopped.

↳ natalia_leclerc it's a miracle i was able to post this through my tears.

user12 oh great, now i'm crying again.

benruiz listen, i may hate the little shit because he's dating my baby sister, but i'm still fucking proud of him. congrats charles, you deserved this.

↳ benruiz also, please tell my dad to stop crying. he hasn't stopped since you won. ↳ charles_leclerc let him be proud of me for once! ↳ benruiz he literally cries every time you win. shut up?

maejonesverstappen i'm still disappointed i didn't get to witness my best friend win his home race, but still so proud charlie.

↳ charles_leclerc you were there in spirit!!

↳ user98 these two being best friends is everything to me

user64 track menace charles makes his appearance!

user55 this post just reminds me that she's been there for everything. childhood best friends to lovers go hard here.

↳ user07 2018 charles would not believe you if you told him that not only did he end up with the girl he loves but he also won the monaco grand prix ↳ user55 manifestation works children! comment liked by charles_leclerc

oscarpiastri making the family proud 🥲

isabellaperez YEAH!! LIGHTNING MCQUEEN FINALLY WON THE PISTON CUP!!

↳ olliebearman the piston cup is the world championship, not monaco.

↳ isabellaperez LET ME BE PROUD EITHER WAY OLLIE!

rhysjones sorry to my mom and sisters but LET'S FUCKING GO!!!

↳ alex_albon disney child gone wild.

↳ maejonesverstappen rhys, watch your language!

↳ rhysjones says the one married to max emilian jones-verstappen.

rileykeough congrats charles!

↳ charles_leclerc thank you riley!!

sukiwaterhouse congrats, i guess?

↳ charles_leclerc thanks, i guess??

user71 the hand placement makes me feral.

↳ user84 right?? i wasn't aware lechair was that bold

user05 mom and dad on a night out.

↳ user26 imagine a baby pops up nine months from now?

↳ user05 that would be the funniest shit ever. then everyone will know those two really partied

isabella perez i know that i probably know the answer to my question, but how's pato doing?

gael perez completely gutted

oscar piastri we saw the race

fernando alonso oh patito i'm sorry.

pato o'ward shit happens. it's okay.

daphne jones-ricciardo you're allowed to be sad about this.

pato o'ward oh, i'm fucking devastated. it's a miracle i stopped crying.

charles leclerc FLY OUT TO MONACO! WE CAN CELEBRATE YOU EITHER WAY BECAUSE YOU DESERVED THAT FUCKING WIN.

natalia ruiz forgive him, he's drunk. pierre gasly he's fucking shit-faced.

rowan todd i wonder how he's going to see little jewel if he's drunk

charles leclerc NAT! WE HAVE TO GO! I HAVE TO SEE MY DAUGHTER!!

lando norris now he's quite literally crying in the club.

max jones-verstappen oh he's going to regret this so much

mae jones-verstappen about as much as you regret abu dhabi 2021

lewis hamilton i too regret abu dhabi 2021 esteban ocon oh we remember, 'FUCK MIKEY! FUCK THAT IDIOT! AND FUCK NICO TOO!'

nico rosberg what the fuck?

dulce perez if you hadn't won in 2016, lewis would already have his 8th.

jenson button oh my god, please just kiss and make up

mark webber maybe once nico stops thirsting over lewis on live television they can kiss.

nico rosberg i do not thirst. isabella perez sure, and charles isn't currently shitfaced.

pato o'ward why does anyone ever take you people as serious racers?

charles leclerc WE ARE PATITO!! carlos sainz WE ARE SO SERIOUS!! penelope trevino forgive him, he is also shit faced.

arthur leclerc mexicans everywhere are crying because of checo's dnf and pato being robbed.

gael perez i am crying. that's my boyfriend and uncle.

pato o'ward that is true, he hasn't stopped crying. rossi is concerned for him.

dulce perez make sure he drinks lots of water.

pato o'ward on it

daphne jones-ricciardo you people are so much to handle.

daniel jones-ricciardo WIFEY I MISS YOU!

sebastian vettel is he also drunk?

lewis hamilton days like today make me wish when seb was on the grid sebastian vettel days like this make me grateful that i am no longer on the grid.

mick schumacher oscar is the most boring person to party with.

oscar piastri I DON'T LIKE CLUBBING! ollie bearman LIVE A LITTLE !! GET FUCKED UP!! YOU WERE ON THE PODIUM IN MONACO!!

isabella perez and he is also fucked up.

jenson button oh how i miss being a driver.

fernando alonso because you were whore.

jenson button fuck you bitch. you were a whore too.

mark webber i hate all of you with a passion.

sebastian vettel that's a lie. mark webber correction, i hate you and anti-christ with a passion. freya vettel HE DOESN'T HATE ME!! A WIN IS A WIN!!

charles leclerc i fucking love you people!

daphne jones-ricciardo aww, love you too charlie ❤️ congrats on the win once again.

mae jones-verstappen sorry we couldn't be there but congrats and sorry again pato.

pato o'ward hey, i'll bide my time just like charles! clearly it worked for him.

charles leclerc YOUR TIME IS COMING PATO!! I PROMISE!!

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¡leclerc-s speaks! CHARLES LECLERC WON MONACO AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO COPE!! I'M STILL CRYING OVER IT!! long live and yoyok being the surprise songs the night before charles won monaco is like the win was fate for me. also, i can't handle another sad pato edit on tiktok, the pain hurts.

¡disclaimer! this is in no way making assumptions about the people involved in this story, this is all fake. it is a fanfiction please don't take any of what is said seriously. this is all for entertainment purposes and as a creative outlet for me. enjoy!

[probablyasocialecologist]

Do you have any book recommendations for someone who's just finished Entangled Life and The Mushroom At The End of The World and is looking for more fungi/possibly lichen related reads? Thanks as always for running a truly amazing blog!

Ones that I can think of at the moment

Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich

Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer

Wilding by Isabella Tree

Special mention to A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals, a paper all about holobionts.

[acti-veg]

Hi hello! To be honest, I feel a little bad personally asking for your help, but your book and blog have been really helpful to me in the past and I can’t find anything anywhere else. I’d really appreciate hearing your thoughts on a certain argument I’m confused about right now. :(

Lately my non-vegan (vegan-curious?) brother has been asking me a lot of questions about the ethics of carnism. While I’m able to do my research on most of these questions, there are a couple things that I’m a little stuck on. If that’s ok, I’d really appreciate if you shared what you know and think.

He recently watched a video about how it’s possible to give animals better lives while still eating their meat (this one: https://youtu.be/5sVfTPaxRwk?si=dUOp_Y90ndWIFBK6 ) (I honestly disagree with A LOT of points in this video and I wish my brother watched a vegan documentary instead, but he’s just not really interested in those, at least for now) and now that’s exactly what he’s arguing for.

The obvious issue I see is that even in perfect conditions, it’s not possible to kill animals both painlessly and quickly enough to produce as much meat as we currently do for the same cheap price. Of course I believe that exploiting an animal for our benefit is STILL wrong (and horrible!!) in general, but that’s not really convincing to him. He doesn’t think there would be anything wrong with farming animals for meat/milk/eggs as long as each animal has enough space to free roam and has access to food and water, etc. I’ve found an extremely similar argument (“eating animals is justified as long as they are treated humanely”) debunked in your book, but I’d like to hear your thoughts about another part of it.

One of his main arguments (and the one I’m unsure about) is that if those animals lived in the wild, they would be killed by predators in much more brutal ways and wouldn’t live as long as they would in captivity, so being kept by humans could be beneficial for the animals too. The animals get to live a better life in captivity than they would in the wild while humans in return get to use their milk/eggs and/or meat. Therefore, being kept by humans is in their best interests. Of course in our current situation this is completely hypothetical, but he believes that this is something our society should strive for.

I just wanted to ask your opinion on this because I’m a little stuck. I personally understand that exploiting an animal would still never be ok in general, but other than that, how ethical would that scenario be really?

Thank you so much in advance! Also this isn’t really time sensitive so no rush. Hope you have a good day :)

Hey anon, I’m glad that my resources have helped you out. I’d be glad to weigh in on these arguments, no need to feel bad at all - it’s what my blog is for!

You’re right that it would not be possible to provide even nearly enough meat for everyone under a system like that - that makes the central premise of his argument false. There are farms now where animals are allowed to freely roam, they live longer than factory farmed animals do and they are in general treated better. I’ll quote from George Monbiot’s excellent book Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet on what that looks like:

‘Only when livestock numbers fall so far that their husbandry scarcely qualifies as food production is animal farming compatible with a rich, functional ecosystem. For example, the Knepp Wildland project, run by my friends Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell, where small herds of cattle and pigs roam freely across a large estate, is often cited as an example of how meat and wildlife and can be reconciled (..)’

'If their system were to be rolled out across 10 per cent of the UK’s farmland, and if, as it’s champions propose, we obtained our meat this way, it would furnish each of the people of the United Kingdom with 420 grams per head, enough for around three meals. This means a 99.5 per cent cut in our consumption (…) If all the farmland in the U.K. were managed this way, it would provide us with 75kcal per day (one thirteenth of our requirement) in the form of meat, and nothing else.’

Even under such a system, the idea that it is better for animals to be exploited their entire lives then killed for profit than to be free to pursue their own interests is wishful thinking at best. Most of them are killed when they’re not even adults yet, and that would remain the case under any system when meat is even close to affordable for the average person. It is not up to us to decide on behalf of billions of animals that it is better for them to die for our interests than to live and serve their own. It is just not our place to decide that. Most of the animals we farm also don’t (and can’t) exist in the wild either, so any argument about what they would experience there is a bit redundant.

The most relevant point though, is this: You can’t justify the actual based on the hypothetical. Even if this kind of system were viable at scale without massive land use, emissions and affordable only to the rich, that isn’t how meat and dairy is produced now. If this is the system that your brother thinks would make meat, dairy and eggs ethical, why isn’t he boycotting animal agriculture until that happens? I assume he’s eating the same factory farmed products from restaurants and the supermarket that everyone else is? Why?

“If we do X in this way, then X would be okay,” does not make sense as an argument to justify doing X now, when we are not doing it in that way now. If your brother earnestly believes that this is the way to make meat and dairy ethical, that means he is admitting that our current system is not ethical, and therefore, it is unethical for him to be buying and consuming these products now. It is nonsensical to justify an existing system using some sort of unrealistic, future utopia.

This is what you need to pin him down on. Dismiss any talk of how things ought to be as irrelevant and focus on what is the case now. This is not a hypothetical. When he eats a slice of bacon, it has come from an animal who has almost definitely been factory farmed, has lived a miserable, short life before having their throat slit for profit. Never mind what could be done, that is what is being done now, that is what he is eating. How does he justify that now?

[skyward-floored]

ok so i have just finished rewatching encanto and i have so many ideas and akdndkdn but i need to reread what you’ve said to make sure it’s compliant but!!

who’s all who, if you’ve figured it out, and can you put it in a family tree? :D

I’ve figured out mostly everyone, though there’s still some stuff I’m... unsure about lol. And nobody is like, 100% in their role, there’s little things that I have to move around to make sense and stuff.

But here’s a quickly scribbled family tree and the rundown!

So we have—

Abuela & Pedro: Hylia and First

Julieta & Augustín: Malon and Time

Pepa & Félix: Sun and Sky

Legend is Bruno but I have no idea where he fits in yet

Isabella, Luisa, & Mirabel: Warriors, Twilight, and Wind, respectively

Dolores & Camilo: Four and Wild

and Antonio is either Hyrule or Aryll, I haven’t figured that out yet either 😅

[dsudis]

May reading roundup

Books:

Derring-Do for Beginners - Victoria Goddard (reread)

The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers (reread)

Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers (reread)

Busman's Honeymoon - Dorothy L. Sayers (reread)

Clouds of Witness - Dorothy L. Sayers (reread)

Over My Dead Body - Rex Stout

Wilding - Isabella Tree

The Book of Wilding - Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell

Fic (a sampling):

The Accidental Warlord and His Pack by @inexplicifics (yes all of it) (yes in under a week) (look it was that kind of week) (reread) (mostly)

Fingers Crossed That I'm Something You'll Keep by @thefourthvine (IT Movies, Eddie/Richie)

the fourth dimension by @the-apocrypha (Dreamling) (for meeee!!!)

[miss-may-i]

Miss May I: Season 5 Part 5

Isabella: I can't believe I'm at my first bachelorette party.

Isabella: I just thought it would be a little more exciting than playing at the park with a 2 year old.

Julian: What were you expecting? Drugs and hookers?

Isabella: Well, no. But maybe at least some music and dancing.

Julian: I just don't think it's that big of a deal. Noah and I have already been living like a married couple for a while now.

Isabella: What do you think he's doing at his party?

Julian: He just said he was hanging out with some guys from work.

Harley: Hey man, I know we tend to stay out of each other's personal business, but that was a nice ring you bought for your lady and I sign your checks so I know how much you make. Pay for it with your gig on the side?

Noah: You're right, we do stay out of each other's personal business.

Harley: Come on, don't be like that. It's your bachelor party, your last night to go crazy. If you can't go wild tonight then when can you?

Noah: You're not supposed to get high on your own supply.

Harley: See? I knew it. Just one little bump. What do ya say?

Noah: One bump and I mean it. I'm not letting this shit ruin my life.

Harley: I hear ya man.

Noah: Did I wake you up?

Julian: Maybe just a litte.

Noah: Where's Jasper?

Julian: He's in bed. It's way past midnight.

Noah: Why are you still up then?

Julian: To make sure you got home safe.

Noah: You mean you just couldn't wait to see me again.

Noah: You know, they say the fastest way to make a baby is to give the mom the best sex of her life.

Julian: Jasper is proof enough that's not true at all.

Noah: Ouch.

Noah: Well, with this one we said we're doing everything right this time, including how we make it.

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[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🇵🇸 Palestinian Fiction Books for Your TBR 🇵🇸

✨ Fiction stories can make an individual's experience universal and easier to understand from an outsider's perspective. We learn about one another's histories, realities, and cultures through fiction stories, even if we don't realize it. As a way of educating yourself and empathizing, here are a few Palestinian fiction books you can add to your ever-growing TBR for read Palestine Week.

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🌙 Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 🇵🇸 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan ✨ A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa 🇵🇸 The Sea Cloak: And Other Stories by Nayrouz Qarmout ✨ Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh 🌙 The Parisian by Isabella Hammad 🇵🇸 Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba ✨ Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 We are All Equally Far from Love by Adania Shibli 🇵🇸 My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh ✨ Where the Bird Disappeared by Ghassan Zaqtan 🌙 Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat 🇵🇸 Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry ✨ You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

[ruiningsalads]

completely unprompted and past my bedtime, but based on a convo in the @dadrunkwriting discord about the DA2 characters working at Walmart.

inspired by @midmorninggrey

"Excuse me, can you tell me where the bread is?"

Marian Hawke looked up from where she was restocking some dried soup packets, on an end cap of an aisle with a large sign overhead that read "Bread, bagels, English muffins".

"Oh, you know what, we might be out!" She looked around in feigned distress. "Let me go check the back. You stay right there."

As she raced into the employee-only corridor in the back of the store, she made sure her "Carver" nametag was securely in place. Her brother had been missing it for a little over a month, but so far, he didn't suspect her.

Serves him right for transferring to the meat department and leaving her alone in grocery. The meat department manager, a woman named Meredith, was notoriously difficult to work with; but he claimed it was better than the endless restocking amidst the unwashed public.

That, and it kept him away from the produce section. The produce manager, Orsino, often got into shouting matches with Meredith over trivial matters: who got to use the dolly to unload a truck first; who got to park under the lone shade tree in the employee section of the parking lot; and whose department was displayed first in the weekly ad.

Marian wandered along the back corridor until she came to a large, walk-in freezer. She eased the door open to peek inside, and was delighted to see Fenris organizing boxes of frozen food.

"I'm hiding," she confessed when he raised an eyebrow at her.

"Then by all means, join me," he replied with a smirk. "What is it now? Did Dumar tell you to smile more?"

"I think he learned his lesson last time. That new HR lady, Elthina? I don't know what she said, but he looked about ready to cry after."

"Good." He swung a heavy box up onto a high shelf as if it were nothing. "Then what brought you here this time?"

"An idiot," she sighed.

"Carver?" he guessed.

A delighted cackle bubbled out of her. "Oh, I wish. But no, a customer."

"Are you two making out in there again?" Isabella poked her head in and wrinkled her nose at them. "It's too bloody cold in here. At least go to the break room like normal people."

"Not everyone likes to be watched," Marian retorted as she emerged from the freezer. "What are you doing back here? The liquor department doesn't get deliveries to the freezer."

"I heard Dumar was looking for you, so I made a wild guess." She smirked as Fenris emerged from the freezer next. "You know, those freezers aren't sound proof."

"They haven't heard us so far," Fenris deadpanned while Marian giggled.

"Marian Hawke to customer service," the harried voice of Dumar crackled from the overhead speakers. "Marian Hawke to customer service."

"Shit," she sighed. "Maybe I should get a job at Target. Maybe the people there are less dysfunctional."

"You could ask Varric," Isabella suggested. "He's been working there for, what, a month now?"

"Maybe I'll text him," Marian mused as she set off to face her angry manager.

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Reading

Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell THE BOOK OF WILDING A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big and Small

[mythologeekwriter]

Continuing with @batmanisagatewaydrug’s book bingo, I’m checking off animal on the cover with Wilding by Isabella Tree.

This is a non-fiction work about the author and her husband wilding their farm, after it became financially unsustainable, and the wider implications for conservation. I found it a very interesting read.

There were a couple of places where she touched on topics such as the British Empire (in that case, in connection to the history of using oaks for ships and buildings) and then moved on in a way I didn’t love. Obviously I don’t expect the author of a book about conservation to dive into the topic, it’s not what the book’s about, but I’m not sure she needed to bring it up.

Overall though, it was a good read. Despite the subject matter, and the discussion of the sheer devastation that is being done and has already been done to nature, it was ultimately optimistic, which is always reassuring. There’s a lot of information in there about the impact of nature on people’s health, and the damage being away from it can do.

Her perspective on this is really interesting, and she writes with real insight about why the kind of move she and her husband made isn’t widely practiced, and the difficulties in getting people to support this kind of wilding project.

From a personal perspective, the local farm here has been doing some work alongside the nature reserve, so it’s cool to see some of the roots of that kind of project.

[nenenenely]

I was rewatching "Encanto" and I relate the gift they own with the personalities they have if they wouldn't have any gifts.

- Abuela Alma: she's the matriarch of the family. Distant, cold and no jokes at first look but deep down she's a wild and naughty character.

- Julieta. She's the cook of the family. Everybody's waiting for her meals and as my own mom says: "even brings back the death ones" aka it's really really good.

- Pepa: she's the temperal of the family. She needs to control her emotions bc It brings a lot of fights in the family.

- Bruno. He's, kinda, the freak of the family. He's sensite and when abuela finds out the future patriarch of the family is like that, she became dissapointed and they argued a lot with Bruno leaving the house.

- Isabella. She's the golden child. Abuela likes her a lot of bc she resembles her in her past. She has to be perfect and be obedient with every decision abuela makes.

- Luisa. She's the strong one, one thing the abuela doesn't like but she finds out she can be useful so she lets her be.

- Mirabel. She's the normal. Nothing remarkable. She's only 15 so abuela may find something she may be able to do.

- Dolores. She likes gossip but she's the source of the information of the family. She recollects every piece of information.

- Camilo. He's the buffon of the family. He always makes abuela laugh.

- Antonio. He's the youngest of the family. He has a great connection with the nature. He convinced his dad to make a tree house.