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[evenlyevi]

Goodnight.

[aestheteasteria]

seeking, yearning, reaching hands

[catchymemes]

[spicymochi]

lil baby hippo and penguin

[landsccape]

[gulistan-blog]

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[natureell]

[vangoghcore]

by jhamilbader

[lanndscape]

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Hey, if you do crafts (especially things like crochet, knitting, embroidery, etc), make sure to look up how to identify when a listing is AI generated. You do NOT want to waste money on an incredible looking kit or pattern that is physically impossible to make, especially if you're on sites like etsy hoping to support an actual artist.

[sun-kissy]

🌺 — bucky barnes x reader where they play games like minecraft together :3 just general hcs on what bucky would be like gaming

thank you for the request lovely! just a heads-up, i know close to nothing about gaming haha so forgive me if this is all wrong :’)

bucky barnes —❀— gaming headcanons

𓇼 when you first show him a controller, bucky is super confused. his face would slowly set into a frown, and he’d be like, “why are there so many buttons??” while looking like a pouty puppy haha

𓇼 once he gets the hang of it, he gets super competitive. if it’s a co-op then he’ll carry the team, but if it’s pvp then he’ll do anything to win

𓇼 i think he definitely rage quits sometimes lol. if it’s something really stupid (like those toad mushroom things in mario kart) which make him lose, he’ll just put down the controller with a frustrated sigh haha. but he’d be desperately trying to hide his smile when you start laughing (to no avail. he can’t not smile when you laugh like that!)

𓇼 and he curses a lot when he’s concentrated (he’ll be cursing in english, russian, romanian etc… basically every language he knows)

𓇼 if you’re playing shooting games then he’s like reaaally damn good because of experience as the winter soldier

𓇼 bucky would love games with an emotional storyline, though he’d never admit it. when a character dies he would be like, “they didn’t deserve that. who wrote this?? how could they let this happen???”

𓇼 if you’re playing online, he gets really pissed and protective of you when someone is mean/toxic on voice chat etc

𓇼 whenever he gets nightmares can’t sleep, he goes to game. and if you join him it ends up being a late night gaming session till the wee hours of the morning, and he’ll force you to go to bed when you start crashing out

san’s 1k ocean odyssey

[evenlyevi]

Dandelions

[anipgarden]

Some of you may have heard about Monarch butterflies being added to the Threatened species list in the US and be planning to immediately rush out in spring and buy all the milkweed you can manage to do your part and help the species.

And that's fantastic!! Starting a pollinator garden and/or encouraging people and businesses around you to do the same is an excellent way to help not just Monarchs but many other threatened and at-risk pollinator species!

However.

Please please PLEASE do not obtain Tropical Milkweed for this purpose!

Tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)--also commonly known as bloodflower, Mexican butterflyweed, and scarlet milkweed--will likely be the first species of milkweed you find for sale at most nurseries. It'll be fairly cheap, too, and it grows and propagates so easily you'll just want to grab it! But do not do that!

Tropical milkweed can cause a host of issues that can ultimately harm the butterflies you're trying to help, such as--

Harboring a protozoan parasite called OE (which has been linked to lower migration success, reductions in body mass, lifespan, mating success, and flight ability) for long periods of time

Remaining alive for longer periods, encouraging breeding during migration time/overwintering time as well as keeping monarchs in an area until a hard freeze wherein which they die

Actually becoming toxic to monarch caterpillars when exposed to warmer temperatures associated with climate change

However--do not be discouraged!! There are over 100 species of milkweed native to the United States, and plenty of resources on which are native to your state specifically! From there, you can find the nurseries dedicated to selling native milkweeds, or buy/trade for/collect seeds to grow them yourself!!

The world of native milkweeds is vast and enchanting, and I'm sure you'll soon find a favorite species native to your area that suits your growing space! There's tons of amazing options--whether you choose the beautiful pink vanilla-smelling swamp milkweed, the sophisticated redring milkweed, the elusive purple milkweed, the alluring green antelopehorn milkweed, or the charming heartleaf milkweed, or even something I didn't list!

And there's tons of resources and lots of people willing to help you on your native milkweed journey! Like me! Feel free to shoot me an ask if you have any questions!

Just. PLEASE. Leave the tropical milkweed alone. Stay away.

TLDR: Start a pollinator garden to help the monarchs! Just don't plant tropical milkweed. There's hundreds of other milkweeds to grow instead!

[cansu-m]

[spicymochi]

lil baby hippo