#desperate improvising

[mayhaps-a-blog]

Do you ever do something while thinking "this is the most logical and obvious thing to do", and then afterwards look at the result and go "hm. perhaps only to me."?

Anyway, funny story!

I've been dealing with a fungal gnat infestation; these are little harmless flies that like to hang around houseplants, which I unfortunately prefer to keep right next to my desk to ward of The Void (seasonal depression), which means that I've had a lot of fungal gnats hanging around In My Face, the worst place for a gnat to be.

So I've been idling my way through possible solutions, limited by the fact that I am 1) cheap 2) too busy to run to the store 3) keep food plants and worry about pesticides, which I also tend to dislike for environment reasons and don't want to spend a lot of time researching. So the fungal gnat problem has remained unaddressed, except that I've been keeping my eye out for cheap carnivorous plants.

Because a carnivorous plant would not only solve my problem but also mean getting another plant! Win win!

Most carnivorous plants available in my area are butterworts and go for around $20, which was more than I was willing to spend on a plant (that might die, my track record is... variable). But then! I saw one on Facebook for $5!

So of course I jumped on it, and less than 24 hours later, arrived home with two little butterworts.

Unfortunately, since this was an impulse purchase, I did not do my research before buying the plant, or before going to the store. Which I'd tied into picking up the plants, and was therefore not inclined to do again for at least a week.

Butterworts, for those unaware (such as myself as of a few days ago), are very particular plants. They require high-drainage soil (can't use regular potting soil) and ONLY distilled water. Or rainwater.

I did not have distilled water or rainwater.

Also, if they dry out, they die. Cue panic.

It was past 10pm and I was not going back to the store for some damned distilled water, even if I could find a store that was open.

So I did the ~logical thing~

I pulled out my largest tupperware, poured in some boiling water, floated a small bowl inside, covered it with plastic wrap and used a piece of candy to slope the plastic down to the bowl, thereby improvising a solar still. To get improvised rainwater. In case my new plants dried out in 12 hours or less. (They didn't.)

It wasn't until I was standing proudly over my creation, set on top of my heating vent since the Sol in solar wasn't available, to realize that. Huh. That's probably not the solution most people would jump to.

But hey, I got two tablespoons of water out of it! And got distilled water on the way home from work the next day. Butterworts are doing well and already doing their job, so all's well that ends well!

[etchif]

I know I'm late but I felt should still draw something to celebrate the occasion here's this komaeda I drew in fuckign. tux paint

[prince-liest]

Current writing priorities, should they manage to stay the same for any reasonable length of time, in no particular order:

666 #7: genderfuckery + Vox finally realizing his dreams of getting fucked

666 #8: drunken antics + electrostim, finally

I put Alastor and Lucifer's post-finale traumas into a box and shake it violently

Al and Mimzy's final convo in I Love Her, I Love Her Not

[erraticprocrastinator]

More random writing stuff: As much as I love to pre-plan and plot out what happens in my stories, I also love it when I encounter natural breaks when writing. It sort of helps breathe life back into the hobby for me. Oh, this part should really just end here? Cool. This scene could actually be done from the next POV? Even better than my original plan. Turns out I was struggling to write this because it was dragging on without me realising? The whole thing just flows so much better now. Sometimes it’s just great when my brain throws a little spontaneity into the mix. I’ve come to realise that outlines are best viewed as a guide and not step-by-step instructions.

[hawkyon-days]

"ERICA HELP!" will always absolutely devastate me. Because on any rational level, Erica isn't even there bc Lucas already sent her to get help, and it's not like his 11 y/o sister could do anything to fix this anyway.

Just. The sheer desperation. Any rational thought gone. Just wanting someone to do something anything about this. Because Max is dying and there's nothing he can do to help, to stop this.

But there is no one. Nobody could fix this.

[frommybookbook]

Short King Hamilton Burger climbing on a ladder THAT'S IN EVIDENCE so he can get a better look at Perry's antics will forever be one of my favorite bits in the entire canon.

[stelmao]

wanted to show the baby alice doll i commissioned from my friend on twt :)

[thatgirlonstage]

Thinks about arms outstretched and has to lie facedown on the ground for nine hours again

[shadowpeachyuri]

god LBD is such a cool well written character. she’s absolutely terrifying. she’s a chessmaster, who’s been planning her takeover for years and years. she’s an opportunist, who changes her plans on the fly whenever mk and co try to change the game. she’s always calm, always collected, always in control- until it looks like she’s about to lose, and she flies off the handle.

lbd is a character who, at her core, is about control. she controls dbk, then spider queen, then macaque, then wukong. she 100% believes her destiny is to save this world, except she’s gone so far in following it that this goal has become twisted, and whatever means she uses are justified by their glorious end.

and then, at the end, it is just her and mk, on equal ground, and her faith has been shaken by her defeat and by just how hard the people she’s “saving” have fought against her. and she manages to shake mk’s in return, probably more than anyone else has. (and then she fucking dies so he can’t even get the last word.) (even in death, even defeated, she still had control- at least over that conversation)

[sapphire-weapon]

Fuck these Aeon shippers tell me how u think Ashley and Leon would spend their first Valentine’s Day together LMAO

it involves an open box of assorted chocolates on the table and Leon telling Ashley "one of them was hollowed out and then re-filled with toothpaste, and I'm not going to tell you which one."

and she just stares at the collection of chocolates in front of her and starts reflecting on all of the decisions she's made in her life that have led her to this moment.

but it ends with the two of them going to some remote, secluded area away from the city -- maybe innawoods or at the shore -- where they just hang out and bullshit under the stars and eventually fuck in Leon's car.

[firebirdeternal]

Is there a better feeling as a DM than finishing a session and then seeing all your players immediately go to a discord server you happen to all be in and start gushing about how much they enjoyed the session? Because I'm pretty sure there's not.

[rimouskis]

something that on the surface really isn't a problem but is secretly annoying is how I can totally fixate on one meal and make it for like, weeks on end and it'll fit into my life SO WELL and then suddenly boom I'll drop it like a hot potato and won't eat it again. it doesn't happen for all foods but it's happened to a fair handful

[kleefkruid]

I ordered a UV light dome so I can cure more resin coated hangers at the same time but they're actually meant for acrylic nails so bc I got a cheap set it came with a bunch of presumably shitty tools and now I own five different nail buffers and some other shit I don't know the function off. This is just in my life now.

[suswous]

I just want to be in a toxic homoerotic queerbaiting enemy ship with someone

[dccontramundum]

tag drop.

[the-spookest-of-souls]

Shh, you didn't hear or see anything about this from me hehehehe >:D (need 5 VAs and 2 animators)