#five transitions

[ligayagardener]

Roots are strong, tough, resilient and sometimes very hard. They take a little more effort to harvest and prepare than other plant parts.  Some plants have deep taproots (Plantain, Dock) and others have finer,  widespreading roots (Ashwagandha, Mallow), but unless you are lucky enough and the Earth is on your side so that you can pull up a whole plant, roots and all, they mean some digging.  For a plant with such delicate flowers, Chicory roots can be pretty big. If the plant is an annual or a short lived perennial, you can dig out the whole plant. Perennials, like trees, shrubs and bushes need a whole lot of digging and you must be careful to leave a goodly amount of root in place so that the plant can continue to live.  Timing Timing is important in digging roots. I’ve swritten about how a plant’s energy cycles through different parts of a plant throughout the day and the seasons. I’ll recap that a little, here, as it is important for maximising the potnecy of your herbs.  Starting in the morning, a plant’s energy rises from the roots to the stem and leaves, then to the flowers as the day progresses. As the day fades, the cycle reverss. It’s a similar cycle with the seasons and can be seen best in deciduous trees. In Spring, the energy rises from where it was stored the previous Autumn, it rises to the trunk, then the leaves, as they start to bud. Once the leaves have formed, the plant can start producing energy for itself from the sunlight. When the time is right, energy goes into forming flowers and, after pollination, fruit. Once the fruit has formed, the energy reaches a climax and the plant enters a stale time. As sunlight begins to wane and the temperature slowly drops, energy and resources are withdrawn from the leaves, photosynthesis slows to a stop and energyand resources are sent to the roots for storage. With spring, the winter dormancy breaks and the cycle starts again. A TCM perspective We can see this in the Yin and Yang balance and the 5 transitions of Chinese Medicine. Some folks call the transitions ‘elements’ but that suggests a fixed nature to them, which isn’t the case. I called them that for ages because that was how I learned them but now, I use ‘transitions’. Winter is the deepest Yin and is represented by the Water transition. As Yang increases and Yin wanes in Spring and the plant’s energy grows and begins to move upward, we move into the Wood transition. In Summer, Yang is at its peak and Yin is lowest, temperatures have risen and we are in the Fire transition. Late Summer is when things start to slow a bit and reach a fairly stable stage. This is the Earth transition. Autumn is when Yin starts to increase and Yang diminishes, it is a time of change and letting go. We call this the Metal transition and it is a state of change. After Metal comes the solidity and quiet of maximum Yin, the Water transition again. Just like the energy in a plant, each waxes and wanes in a cycle. None are fixed. Yin and Yng aren’t fixed either. We can best see them as proportions. Nothing is fully Yin or Yang, each reaches a maximum or minumum but one is never without the other. Plants store their energy in their roots during the Yin periods, the evening and the Winter. These are the best times to harvest. Actually, I wait for the very first signs of seasonal warmth or the day’s morning energy to harvest. I just don’t like the idea of damaging a sleeping plant, prefering to wait until it stirs. Most of the time, you will need to wait at least into the plant’s second year before harvesting the roots. That gives them time to establish and store a goodly amount of energy in their below ground parts. Golden Seal and Licorice can be harvested in their 3rd year and I’ve been told that Astragalus must wait 4. After you’ve dug Once you have dug up your roots, you need to clean them thoroughly. Naturally, coming from the Earth, they will be covered with it. A good wash and then a scrub with a scrubbing brush is on order, then another rinse, then another scrub – yo...

[yogurthoopsart]

My Trans Roxy Agenda. Remember in Help Wanted 2 how they basically confirmed that the Glamrock endos have developed AI personalities and they choose their own identities (which is why Monty and Roxy exist despite never being characters beforehand)? What if Faz Ent didn't know original personalities could crop up at first. What if the pizzaplex started with the core 4 gang, the og Foxy got decommissioned for whatever reason, and got replaced by a new endo whose personality wasn't perfect but was serviceable. Bro what if the robots were gay. take my hand. come with me on this whimsical adventure.

[chronicowboy]

god no but the blind faith in eddie's expression when buck comes out of chris' room kills me. it's buck. he's the guy who likes to fix things. but more than that he's christopher's buck. he's his kid's safe space when eddie can't be that for him. he's his confidant. he's his best friend and maybe a little more. he's eddie's last hope and you can see in his eyes that he never really considered the possibility that buck could fail here. you can literally see his reality crumbling on his face when buck comes out of christopher's room utterly defeated and shakes his head. and then you watch it dawn on him, the guilt take over as he realises he's fucked up so badly that even buck can't fix it.

[blorbos-shoved-ina-drawer]

what if i said i feel like five as a character lost a lot of what he was seasons 1 and 2 when they took him out of the schoolboy uniform

[bloo-the-dragon]

roccs

(inspired by this post)

[ozzystar2]

I'M GETTING MY TOP SURGERY IN AN HOUR!!!! TRANS FUCKIGN RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!

[send-me-a-puffalope]

me when i get attached to doomed characters, knowing that Vanessa will likely eventually don her own fursuit and there’s nothing I can do about it

[secretly-a-trekkie]

its a work in progress

[kiyomitakada]

impromptu meta at 2 — oh wait 1 in the morning thank you daylight saving time

the thing about light yagami is that we all know he is repression incarnate. and we also know that kira was born out of his desperate need to justify sort-of-accidentally killing two people. and so therefore kira isn't what light's repressing, not at the outset; kira is an extension of his repression.

and the death note and his need to hide it very quickly takes over light's life. so it's easy to say that light is light yagami on the outside and kira on the inside, and maybe light feels that way. but. kira is just as much a persona as light yagami. a more hidden persona, but still not the real him, whoever that is.

and the thing is that no one sees past that. ever. most people obviously fall for the charming boy act, but even the detectives — L, near, mello — god, even ryuk stops at part two. i think a lot about how L set up the mock execution because he thought that kira would have killed his own father if necessary. can you see light doing that? eighteen-year-old light yagami who said "if anything happens to you, dad — i'll see that kira gets the death penalty. i swear it."? remember when ryuk laughs at how good an actor he is afterwards and light doesn't look at him?

light never thinks kira is evil. even in yotsuba arc he acknowledges that they think very similarly, just that kira has gone too far. (ha, ha.) for all of death note light yagami is light yagami, who says if kira wins then kira is good, who has convinced himself he is doing the right thing. he gets frustrated when other people don't perceive him the same way — lind l tailor, misa killing police chiefs while pretending to be kira — but the anger has nowhere to go other than murdering more people.

light yagami is kira is light yagami. but L, ryuk, everyone doesn't manage to see through kira in the end.

and after L dies, well. no one will ever measure up to L, in light's eyes. he almost idolizes him in the weirdest way possible. so maybe, he thinks, if the only person in the world who could ever possibly see all of him (this isn't true, it's just what light believes) thought he was just a murderer, then maybe —

i think he hollows himself out in the second arc. in the anime he seriously considers killing sayu; in the manga he never does that but justifies his unwillingness to himself by saying that this way soichiro and light won't come under suspicion (they weren't going to in the first place). light doesn't really have a sense of self. L said he was evil and of course L is wrong — was wrong — will always be wrong — but isn't it easy to play into that stereotypically evil image of himself? especially after soichiro, his last moral compass, dies: isn't it easy to nullify misa's memories, to say she's not intelligent enough to be my partner, to kill kiyomi in the most painful way possible?

("light would have done the same things in the first arc!" sure. but not with that much callousness.)

it's just. it's tragic, you know? light has always pretended to be nicer than he is but he isn't the cold any-means-necessary person they thought kira was either. he is constantly playing someone he thinks he is but he can never escape being light, in the end.

does this make any sense do i sound insane

[girlfailurefelix]

cotard’s solution/dr sunshine double feature

[couldtransitionsaveher]

PHONE GUY from FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S

JUSTIFICATION:

"The animatronics would've been too afraid of/intimidated by her transfem swag and wouldn't have killed her in the Night 5 phone call. I wholeheartedly believe her life would've been saved if she just went on E" - @mb-blue-roses

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[smallandalmosthonest]

i have been a tommy-is-abby’s-tommy truther from the start idc about “ooh well why wouldn’t she know anyone at the 118” or “oooh why wouldn’t she have mentioned her ex was also a firefighter” idgaf it would be so fucking funny and im manifesting that this is one of the bucktommy hurdles let us all join hands in prayer 🙏🏻

[biblically-accurate-dca]

sb humanizations + various vannys :3

[luisleyyaoi]

Love trans Michael Afton. Like his dad may be a child murderer but at least he isn’t transphobic

[couldtransitionsavehim]

Could transition have saved him?

Propaganda: Look. Nobodys gonna say it was remotely intentional. But George wants to be a boy, hates being called a girl, loves being "mistaken" for a boy, it's not a reach. Made me transgender.

[georgekirrin]

For those wondering who George Kirrin is: may I present 8-year-old me's hero, a 1940s children's book character