#a place called winter

[the-molecularbio-kitten]

Just finished a book, “A Place Called Winter”. I picked it up randomly when I was shelf reading during my shift at the library and I— idk man, I thought this was a great book. Took me a bit to get into it but I enjoyed the style of prose and the ending made me wanna cry. Anyway 4 out of 5 stars

[purplesimmer455]

Riley sits with the kids to eat pancakes and Nancy and Haruo both turn to them. “Ri, is it true that there are half fish half horses in the water? Nan told me they live in Brindleton Bay and come ashore during full moons.” Haruo says, his eyes wide and Riley glances at their daughter, who blinks innocently at them before grinning. “No, nooboo. But there are so many real and cool local sea creatures here. Such as the long and short fin squid, winter skates, butterfish*, etc.” Riley says, trying to remember from the website they’d checked out on the plane ride to Joe and Aubrey's house. “Wow okay,” Haruo says and he begins to ask Riley a bunch of questions that they answer as best as they can.

Meanwhile, I hadn’t seen Aubrey in a bit so I clicked his photo and saw that he was still at the park. He was sitting next to a fancy looking sim named Yasmin West, and just chilling. I cheated his needs to full because he’d been out there all night and made him come back home.

[frogonamelon]

It's that time of year again where it gets a little warmer and I remember that Amphibia is a show I very much enjoy thinking about. Have some Anne outfits, as a treat <3

If you would like to see what aspect of headcanon/ au worldbuilding had consumed my consciousness like a pestering maggot, feel free to continue below.

Hello! Welcome to I focus on researching one very specific detail until I burn out!

My entire day has been consumed by figuring out how Amphibia's farming works. Like... amphibians are carnivores why do they have farms?

Well, I'll tell you why! The Plantars grow animal feed for predominantly crickets but also others such as silkworms, spiders, snails, etc. They grow produce like cabbage, mushrooms, parsnips, potatoes, dandelions, and turnips as well as heartfruit, a fruit not found on Earth.

In the past, the original amphibian hunter/gatherer societies found that mealworms were attracted to fallen heartfruit, among others. They began to use this knowledge to make traps and eventually began both containing the worms as well as growing the fruit.

Despite mealworms historical prominence in the farming and feeding of Amphibia, crickets are more popular nowadays due to their higher levels of protein. They also began growing a larger variety of produce to further increase efficiency.

Heartfruit is a kind of tree grown fruit with the color of a raspberry, size of a kumquat, and shape of a peach (hence the name). The Plantar's orchard is the only producer of this fruit as its traditionally significant but not necessary for frog kind. They are Anne's personal favorite of the Plantar's produce, being chalk full of nutrients and somehow feels nostalgic to her.

Speaking of Anne, she survives mostly on the Plantar's produce along with cricket meat (knowing that she can at least eat crickets).

After discovering that the amphibians hibernate, she begins to plant pole beans, blueberries, elderberries, and other produce and herbs in her greenhouse to cultivate while she forages and stockpiles for winter. She preps and stores wild rice, pecans, and sunflower seeds (discovered through trial and error). She keeps spare root veggies and other product in the basement. The Plantars help her do this, once they understand the situation, drying heartfruit and salting and smoking fish as well as making jerky out of bugs that they know she can have.

Anne's gonna learn to survive, even if the first winter is especially hard.

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

sometimes i think about what would have happened if richard had died instead of henry and the rest of the book had been narrated the song of achilles style and it hurts

[theflyingfeeling]

I hate it here sm

[someday-dreamlands]

𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐦𝐚, 𝐉𝐚𝐩ó𝐧

[aoitakumi8148]

...𝓘𝓯 𝓘𝓽 𝓘𝓼 𝓦𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓦𝓮 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓓𝓲𝓮, 𝓦𝓮 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓐𝓽 𝓛𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓽 𝓓𝓲𝓮 𝓣𝓸𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻.

[wonder-worker]

Thomas Penn writes about 500 year old dead historical figures like they're celebrities in a gossip column

[rose-lalondde]

naruto but it's my modern fantasy world au

[chaika-jpeg-shitpost]

The first mahoyome ending really reminds me of a Soviet song "Prekrasnoe Daleko" ("Wonderful Far-away", "The Splendid Distant Future"). The melody, the choir, the lyrics too

I hear a voice from the beautiful future It calls me to a wonderful place I hear the voice, asking me quite sternly, "What have you done for tomorrow, today?" I promise to be truer and kinder And to never leave a friend who needs my help I hear the voice and follow after it swiftly On a road where no footprints yet have been. Oh glorious, distant future Don't be cruel to me Don't be cruel to me Don't be cruel! My heart's desire is pure For the glorious, distant future To the glorious, distant future I begin my journey now.

translation by Fern Simonova (lyrictranslate: English #5)

[batz]

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[disdaidal]

I do love that I'm both freezing and having the worst back pains.

But at least I still have a roof above my head, right?

[beinggayisreallyexpensive]

I'm literally watching my apartment fall apart around me lmao

[moominpopzz]

I wonder if there’s been any times in the PDs friendship where Ashe got really worried she fucked up and, since she probably hasn’t had the ability to keep friends for long at any point since her mom died, she probably assumed the others were gonna leave her and so she started isolating herself again as soon as she thought it to try and not let them be the ones to leave,,,

[theblesseddamozel]

It’s Anna Karenina August

[merildae]

ive been doing really well lately

like for the first time that i can remember things are just good

i dont even know what to do with myself honestly, ive never felt this at peace before in my adult life

anyways, i usually only ever vent about much i hate being alive (the prevailing sentiment ive had for the past decade) so now that things are different i thought id share this as well :)