#do i like shrubs?

[pacificwaternymph]

That moment when you realize you've forgotten a very important plot device because you were writing from a different perspective for a while where it wasn't relevant, and now you need to go back and rewrite a chapter and a half to include it.

[imaloregremlin]

something I think people often forget about Shrub Berry is that she is not defenseless. I cannot count the number of fanfics I’ve read where she’s a scared, traumatized, terrified gnome who’s seperated from her people and is almost entirely helpless. This is a crucial part of her character, but she’s also so, so brave. Take episode 17 of Empires (Xornoth showed me the future of our empires!) Shrub is continuing her daily life in the midst of this incredibly traumatic experience. She is farming, watering her flowers, and mining, even as the threat of Corruption grows ever-closer. When Xornoth appears, she starts to run away, before realizing that’s exactly what they want. She starts fighting back, insulting Xornoth, and telling him to stop Corrupting the empires, arguing for him to let Joey She keeps them talking, even now, trying to probe for weaknesses. She defends herself and her wolves, in the midst of tragedy and death. She keeps going. It takes so much courage to keep going after your life has been ripped to pieces, it would be so much easier to just let the Corruption win. To lie down and let Xornoth kill her, have her body overrun with Corruption, to join the rest of her people, but Shrub. Keeps. Going. she fights back in any way she can, and she tries to bite back against the darkness, a cornered wolf, the last of her species, and the bravest little beacon of hope in my life when I was fighting my own demons and reminding me that bad doesn’t always have to win, bullies don’t always triumph, people can fight back and make a difference. Shubble literally kept me going when I wanted to just…give up fighting because of how bullied I was in school about three years ago. I know it’s a silly Minecraft smp, I know it was never meant to be so deep, but Shrub Berry literally saved my life. Thank you.

[thursdaylast]

finally figured out a Bdubs design! not sure if i'm happy with it yet but oh well! he is extremely glare coded to me but like in a scary shadow creature way and I love that for him <3

[boughclan-clangen]

moon 0, page 4

>the doctor is in.

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[doodle-list]

The shrub angst is real 😔

[little-miss-buffy]

//These two were a thing in the 70s. You can't change my mind.

@multi-royalty-main @sonofmikael @dhampirslays @wecanallbeherosandvillains @thatslayer @violentvervain

[munchboxart]

Since Twitter is down, I'll let you guys peep this

[anipgarden]

Cringe gardening confession that becomes more evident the longer I read this book: I just can’t find it in me to give that much of a shit about trees.

[sheyri]

The Sun Coast

Not much to say there. It's pretty and green and warm and friendly.

And there's Castle Goldenford up on the cliff. As well as a famous corpse.

[little-miss-buffy]

Trying to use these more....

Made by @malka-lisitsa

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

every once in a while i remember that scott’s life series+empires characters being aro is not actually a hc that has occurred to most people and it really does throw me for a loop. there are very few characters where my personal hcs about their queerness so heavily affect how i analyze them but scott being aro really is a massive contributor to how i see his character and i see takes about him i agree w/ relatively frequently so i. forgot. this is at least partially because i have curated my dash well and rarely go into the tags but that is not the point.

[little-miss-buffy]

"Yeah, you didn't hear any complaints RIGHT after," Buffy sighed out of frustration. "But, he's confused NOW because one minute, you're talking to him, one minute you want nothing to do with him and he doesn't want to bother YOU about it, so he's asking Willow and I for advice about how he should behave around you. He doesn't know if you want to be friends or not have anything to do with each other. I'm not you, Faith. I can't answer that and it's FRUSTRATING!" She paused to catch her breath. "This is between you and him and I'm somehow in the middle. I don't belong in the middle. I belong within a thousand feet in the middle. I just want you to talk to him and set things straight with him and keep me out of it. WAY out of it. In-another-state out of it. Is that too much to ask?" She was aware that she was rambling, but it wasn't anything that wasn't true. She didn't hate Faith for it. Faith had her way of doing things and that was fine, but it wasn't Buffy's business. She just wanted out.

@faithie

@little-miss-buffy​ liked for a starter.

         “Look B, I get it. Your pissed. Xander was just there and I heard no complaints. Not before, during or after, so ya gotta let it go or you and I are gonna have problem.” warned the younger slayer. Doe eyes laced with the irritation from the cold shoulder that Buffy was giving her.

[snekdood]

i need more friends that i can give the responsibility of perennial native plants and perhaps shrubs and trees to

[little-miss-buffy]

Buffy immediately took her hair down. "Well, I'm kinda cold, Jer. I'm not used to this kind of weather." She was from California and she was on the east coast in the Fall. Of course she was going to wear a turtleneck. "So, how old have you decided Elena is?"

"Because your logic is a result of you doing shrooms," Buffy self-consciously patted her hair. "It's because of the hair, isn't it? Why you think I'm fifty-two. I have mom hair, right?"

[onepiexe]

sometimes you just gotta. breathe.

[rorleuaisen]

Okay I don’t think I can be normal about this because I fucking love goats. I love managing nature with nature. I love stewardship. I love humans living with nature.

I just!!! And goats!!! You can hire goats to clear underbrush!! You feed the goats!!! They don’t even know they are working because this is their thing!!! I love this. I love this so much. We don’t have to fight against nature, we just need to relearn how to work with it.

https://ktla.com/news/california/goats-unleashed-by-san-manuel-tribe-as-part-of-fire-prevention-strategy/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaJJAE-Kl55wk4vm1cYc0zjGRUEv8w6ps0HX0z-rxwwa7YXnTDCsgIU2vs_aem_0djT-2NoD-E87Ic6UeeqGw

Firefighting goats have been deployed by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians to protect tribal land and neighboring property from potentially devastating brush fires.

The goats are unleashed by the San Manuel Fire Department to eat up dry brush and grass that would normally be ideal fuel for fires — a recent fire was actually partially stopped once it reached an area cleared by the caprine crew earlier this year.

The herd, officials said, is about 400-strong and is made up of generations of goat families.

On Tuesday, the goats were treated to a feast of fruit before being sent on their brush-eating mission.

The goats will spend the next several months trimming and thinning out vegetation on the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Reservation and nearby properties in San Bernardino.

Tribal officials said the brush that covers the hillsides in and around San Manuel property is thriving and diverse, boosted by the recent history-making rainy season. The plant life is an ideal food source because goats prefer food that’s at their eye level.

The Tribe has used goats as a natural, environmentally friendly fire preventative tool since 2019; the plants get trimmed in a sustainable fashion, which allows them to survive and recover naturally overtime unlike most chemical sprays.

Tribal officials called the practice an extension of the Tribe’s “culture of lands stewardship.”

“Caring for the land is a sacred duty of the Tribe,” said Lynn Valbuena, chairwoman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. “Stewardship is a responsibility given to our people by the Creator. No matter who owns the land.”

San Bernardino County residents shouldn’t be surprised to see the goats in the mountains fulfilling this divine task from now through the end of fire season.