#i need him to mulch bestie

[androgynouspenguinexpert]

he can make it work with nine fingers probably

(cw for blood and miscellaneous injuries)

[notsopersonalcharlie]

Attached at the Hip

Steddie!Dads

Notes: ok I kind of ran away with this but basically: girldad!techer!Steve (also little league coach) and boydad!mechanic Eddie having kids who are besties and both of them are sick of the heteronormative bullshit other parents at the school put on their kiddos

Steve pinched the bridge of his nose, glasses dangling from his other hand, as the first grade classroom reached a fever pitch. The excitement for the first day of nice weather was clear, and recess was just a few short minutes away. The kids were supposed to be having free work time, but they had all gathered around the windows watching the kindergarteners play. There were complaints about the “babies” tearing up the nice new mulch and excited squeals about the colorful equipment that had been added to parts of the playground in a much needed renovation two weekends before. Only a few of the kids were actually doing work. Connor Munson was one of them, sitting quietly in the corner reading a fantasy book that was probably several grades higher than the average reading level in the class. 

“Alright kids, one you were just like those ‘babies’ last year and two its independent work time and you should be doing something quietly in the classroom for the next fifteen minutes. I know we are all excited, but we need to finish up the morning before we can run around.” With several annoyed huffs, the kids found their way to the small tables or on comfy spots on the floor. many took up reading, but a few pulled out some materials to do other things and Steve’s head stopped throbbing as he watched them return to a hum of excitement rather than the reverberating yelling from before. 

The first and second graders raced onto the playground, immediately swarming towards the new equipment and the screaming started almost right away. Steve and the rest of the teachers were clumped in a few different spots to ensure full coverage of the playground, quietly chatting. 

“Daddy!” Steve turned his attention to the little blonde who was running full speed, knowing he would catch her into a big tight squeeze. Claire giggled, pressing her face into his shirt. 

“Did you have a good morning?” She nodded as he set her down. 

“I told everyone how you let me bring leftover pizza for lunch!” Steve let out a chuckle, as did the other first grade teacher, Claire’s teacher in fact. 

“Well why don’t you go play. I think Connor went over that way.” Steve gestured in the direction he had seen the little boy go towards and she gave his leg a tight squeeze before skipping off. 

“Oh those two, attached at the hip. They’re an adorable little couple.” Steve tried not to let the cringe show on his face, just plastered on a little smile to keep the peace and made up an excuse to check another part of the playground. It had been going on for two years, the commentary. Connor and Claire, attached at the hip, then immediately to couple. It enraged him, and he knew it made Connor’s father angry too. The heteronormative bullshit had been pushed on Steve throughout his lifetime too, forcing it to take years longer than it should have for him to realize he definitely didn’t only like girls. He did his best with Claire at home. She knew he went on dates with both women and men, and she adored her Aunt Robin and Auntie Nancy, but Steve could see that the six year olds heard the comments. 

The rest of the day came and went. He also ate leftover pizza for lunch, not because he was such a fantastic father, but he hadn’t made it to the grocery store this weekend while he was preparing for the soccer little league. Connor loved soccer, Claire did not, but the girl still did it and Steve appreciated, maybe a little too much, the fact that Eddie Munson would be there every weekend, right where Steve could ogle him without making a playdate excuse.

“Cooooonnooooooooor.” The loud voice cut through Steve’s lack of focus and he looked up to where Eddie Munson appeared, wearing a slightly grease stained shirt, his hair tied up behind his head in, what Robin said was, a messy bun. The little boy who had been sitting beside Steve and Claire leapt out of his spot and ran to his dad, tossed into the air and then squeezed into a tight hug. 

“Hi dad.” Steve stood up, sticking out his hand for a shake as Eddie came over. 

“How was my boy today?” 

“A little angel as always,” Steve laughed, handing him Connor’s backpack. Claire had stood up too. It was a little routine they had, Steve staying after with the kids so that Eddie could finish his shift. There were a number of kids that had parents who couldn’t pick them up at 3 on the dot, since they had shifts that ended on the hour of the half hour, and with Claire and Connor wanting to spend time together, Steve had never had a problem being the teacher who stayed. And if it meant he got to see Eddie Munson one more day of the week, well five more, well no one had to know that. 

“We’re still on for this weekend?” Eddie’s eyes had gone soft and Steve did a quick look around, all of the rest of the kids and parents had gone. He gave Eddie a smile reserved only for him. 

“Always.” Sure their kids might be attached at the hip, but not because of some stupid expectation that they would fall in love when they were older, more because they were practically siblings at this point. 

[fandom-reblog-central]

I wish there were more af x dp and af x dc content

Artemis is prime adoption material as a child genius with black hair and blue eyes, and the clone and time travel stuff with Danny would slay

Post TLG: “You… overshadowed your clone?” “He was empty.”

Tim may have figured out the Batfam’s identities as a wee lad, but Artemis discovered and finessed a fae government

Holly has to fight a rogue (from either dp or dc)

Danny meets another weird rich person who is at least a little evil and obsessed with something inhuman

Orion and the batkids become besties

Artemis is rich: there could be gala shenanigans

Artemis starts studying ghosts since he’s on better terms with the fairies and the Zone is confused by this pallid living boy and his tank of a Butler

There’s even a chance for reformed rogue nonsense since he was raised to be an unscrupulous figure

Everyone bonding over the massive responsibilities they have despite being children

Bonding over the lack of real recognition

Arty and Timber bond over their absent parents and batshit (heh) shenanigans

Perhaps even Artemis (post character development) bonding over being slightly annoyed about needing to protect and always be better (Danny or batfam tbh)

Liminal!/Halfa!Artemis since he’s died before

Butler and Alfred know each other

Bruce trained at Madame Ko’s for a stint and met Juliet or Domovoi

Danny brings a message from Root/informs the poor man about what Holly is up to with everyone’s least favorite Mud Boy (and maybe angst where they meet again??)

Would Orion be in the Zone?

Arty and Damian bond (first over scathing judgements of others, then over shared interests, or they fill in each other’s gaps of knowledge, and they both have issues with their parental figures that remain unresolved)

Damian bullies Artemis for being weak and having generally bad reflexes (he’s so stabbable)

Artemis helps Danny modify his parents’ inventions (and/or gets into a friendly competition with Foaly and/or Tim to do so, Mulch tries to steal it)

Mulch tries to rob Bruce Wayne and gets in over his head

Goblin in Gotham

Troll in Amity Park

Ghost in Fowl Manor

Constantine is desperately avoiding the LEP

Holly blows up the Nasty Burger in a mission gone wrong (why is the sauce so flammable???)

The Riddler just can’t get one over on Artemis Fowl II

Tucker and Artemis end up in a hack-off with Foaly as the ref (or any combo of that lol—maybe even toss the dc computer batkids in there)

The Batfam finds they can’t speak another language to avoid being understood by Holly

Damian giving into whimsy and trying to disguise it as a diplomatic/vigilante/“just curious” thing when asking Holly about elves

Foaly messes with the batfam or tucker (or even the fruit loop)

Arty and the Bats are allies, find Holly, and when they take her in, she says something like “reminds me of the time Artemis kidnapped me” (Cue concern and confusion from BatFam, or, alternatively, “yeah, that sounds right”)

Batsy adopts another emotionally constipated child with a moral compass that knows where North is most of the time, but doesn’t like facing that direction

Barbara powers through some interference trying to defeat a rogue and discovers the LEP

Portal issues lead to Arty and the gang in the Zone or Gotham

Lazarus is a portal to the demon world, explaining the hair change (and possibly rage)

Dick trains Artemis to get more flexible, Jason bullies him into lifting weights or working on his punches, Damian keeps him on his toes with the whole stabbing thing—

Danny is enlisted by the LEP to tail Mulch underground, finds BatCave

There’s so much that could happen

This was so fun and exciting to think of, but I can’t do any of them justice

I am not a fanfic writer but I want this so bad

If anyone has any more concepts or perhaps even a snippet, please tag me!!

[multimuseum]

THE ALMIGHTY WISHLIST

Under the cut you will find an ever-growing wishlist of muses I would love to write with and characters I would love to see.

I try to keep it relatively organized. Things near the top of the list are preferential to stuff near the bottom.

disclaimer: most of this list is me wanting folks to write ship partners for certain muses. because while i adore crossover ships-- i’ve got some canon ships i’d LOVE TO WRITE. anyone who knows me knows i’m a ship fiend. and i have no regrets about this. 

DOUMEKI & WATANUKI

I write for both. I want someone to bounce things off of. Either a Wata or a Dou. I’m not picky. Himawari interactions would be cute and interesting. Same for Kohane. Gimme platonic things. I’d like to do stuff specifically with Haruka or Sayaka-- because I do write the THREE Doumeki we see in the series.

LEFOU

An active BatB 2017 Gaston. I want Gafou goodness. Like hot damn. Give me post-fall things. Gaston realizing he might’ve fucked up hardcore. Beast!Gaston-- Y E S. All the OUAT things. Let him hang with OUAT peeps. Cuz yeah. I NEED GAFOU. I’d like to see something post-film with Belle our Maurice. That’d be awesome.

LAURENT

A Damen. Just. Please. Or Charls. And Charls. And Charls. Someone acknowledge my prince baby. Someone be his friend. I know he’s a frigid and traumatized POS but he deserves that much. SERIOUSLY THO A DAMEN.

ARTEMIS

Ok but my crossover BrOTP is Alex Rider meeting Artie. Please give me. Anyone? Holly? Butler? Give him someone to interact with. MULCH. MULCH. Oh boy Mulch. Cuz criminal buddies. FOALY. I don’t care. Anyone. Tho fair warning I don’t ship Arty/Holly romantically. They’re friends? Also different species? So uh-- yeah. Let’s keep their love platonic.

RICHIE

Give Richie a boyfriend 2k18. Let him meet other superheroes. Any members of the Justice League. Mind you I’ve got a live action verse for him set on one of the Earths of the DCEU.

PITCH

Some Guardians to screw with would be fun.  Nightlight. Manny. Tooth-- Anyone really. I’m interested in 0 ships. I just wanna write my villain boy.

DARREN

Same as above. Give me Cirque du Freak muses! From the novels OR the manga. Not the movie. I hate the movie. I will never acknowledge it.

ALICE

Anyone from AYA. I’m probably gonna have this statement for a lot of the muses I write for. Because they’re from obscure series and I’d be jazzed to write with anyone. Top of the wishlist is Hatter tho. I LOOOOOOOVE Hatter.

GINJI

Ban. Banchan. I want a Ban Midou. Terribly. Akabane is also acceptable. Like I said a portion of these wishlist items are gonna center around PEOPLE JUST KNOWING THE SERIES. 

BEN

A Rex. Or Rook. To write with and plot things with. Bevin. Cuz I’m trash. Some folks might not ship it but I DO. I’d love to build it up-- have things evolve organically. Ugh. Just a legitimate romance. GIMME GRANDPA MAX. 

AX

Fucking Animorphs writers. ANYONE. I’D BE HAPPY WITH ANYONE. EVEN FUCKING CHAPMAN. Give me a Tobias. I need shorm shenanigans. TBH Anyone from Animorphs.

KANAME

A Sousuke would be GR8. Especially with the new series coming out this year. Anyone from FMP would be a godsend.  Plz someone love my fighty dottir.

EDWARD

Bebop folks. FAYE FAYE. Give Ed good interactions. A TINY TINA WOULD BE THE BEST. I’ve debated on making a Borderlands verse for Ed and realized that she and Tiny Tina would get along SO WELL. Let them be happy orphan besties together?

DATA

A Geordi. Would make. My fucking. DAY. Same with a Picard? Anyone??? ANY STAR TREK AT ALL??

[my-own-character-in-everything]

The Overwatch YouTube AU That Didn't Need To Happen

Inspired by this and this. (Also, I’m supposed to be writing an essay right now, but my brain won’t stop thinking. So here is this garbage instead.)

This is a long ass post so here:

Genji went to beauty school after high school and now runs a beauty channel. (Much to the disappointment of his father. Whoops.)

He lives with his girlfriend Angela who is too busy being a doctor to run her own channel, but she is typically associated with Genji’s side channel. There, she features frequently enough in vlogs that no one asks where she is or how she's doing.

Hanzo also appears on the side channel a lot. He works as a simple geometry teacher, but eventually starts his own channel to post videos explaining math, Japanese, and other random stuff to people. Of course, it’s a side thing for him, so he doesn’t upload nearly as frequently as his brother does. Despite this, he’s actually very popular. Probably because they like listening to a hot tattooed older guy talk, Genji says. Hanzo doesn’t get it, really.

McCree runs a steadily growing cooking and baking channel. Which has absolutely nothing to do with why Hanzo started to get into YouTube. Of course not. What an absurd idea.

Now obviously, what kind of Overwatch YouTube AU would this be if Hana didn’t run a gaming channel? She also likes reviewing vinyl figures and other random pieces of merchandise.

Lúcio posts song covers. He often collaborates with guest singers and instrumentalists, remixing each backtrack to fit the guest’s sound. Because he cares like that. Also he does a lot of charity livestreams with Hana because they’re besties.

Fun Fact: In this AU, Lúcio has a girlfriend. But for all the internet stalkers in the world, no one can figure out who it is. (It’s not Hana because Hana’s shy boyfriend can sometimes be heard speaking Korean to her in the background of her Snapchat stories.)

Mei has an art blog where she’s trying to improve her English. Her channel is mainly speed paints, and her art is mostly naturescapes and quiet urges to care for the Earth. She rarely speaks on her channel, but when she does, she’s usually apologizing because English is not her first language. Like Hanzo, however, it’s more of a side thing: a break from her work as a climatologist.

Ana runs a gardening channel.

Reinhardt is her frequent and enthusiastic assistant. He mostly just carries bags of dirt and mulch, but he likes being helpful. Ana’s trying to get him to convince DIY home improvement and landscaping tutorials.

You would think Fareeha has a workout channel or something, but she actually just works as a cop. The internet knows who she is, though, because she appears a lot on her mother’s channel.

Zarya is the one with the workout channel. Surprise.

Gabe’s channel is literally just him pranking Jack, while Jack’s channel is literally just revenge pranks. Because they’re both super petty I don’t know what you expected.

Also, in this AU, Morreyeson is pretty much biggest gay YouTuber ship since Phan and Septiplier. Jack doesn’t mind it, but it’s Gabe who thinks it’s hilarious. He likes teasing and joking about the ship (sometimes Jack plays along) because the internet has yet to figure out that the two of them are actually married IRL.

Speaking of marriage, Amelie technically has a channel, but it’s pretty much run by Gerard, and what began as an idea to promote Amelie’s ballet studio eventually just devolved into Gerard being the biggest fanboy ever and gushing over how perfect his wife is. (Fortunately, Amelie is not aware of this fact, and people find their relationship super cute.)

Bastion runs a channel for an animal shelter. The videos are mainly footage of the animals, with edited text telling the stories behind each rescue and cheery music playing in the background. Bastion never talks in the videos, but the animals are cute, so of course the channel is successful.

Zenyatta runs an advice channel. Surprise.

Orisa and Efi, Zenyatta’s neighbors, are frequent guests on his channel. People like how straight to the point Orisa is, and Efi is just plain adorable.

Torbjörn doesn’t even run his channel. He’s too busy being an engineer, I don’t know. It’s literally just videos of the random things his eight kids get up to. The whole thing is basically a messy archive of home videos.

Junkrat’s channel is dedicated to cars that come into the mechanic shop to be fixed. Sometimes how-to/DIY tutorial videos, sometimes showing off pet projects.

Roadhog is his boss. He rides a motorcycle. Also, no one has ever seen his face. And he doesn’t have a channel. His voice can be heard in the background of Junkrat’s videos and someone may or may not have made a horror game featuring his voice

Satya has a crafting channel and uses a ruler for everything.

Tracer does parkour, while her girlfriend Emily is a food blogger. They also feature in each other’s travel vlogs a lot. The internet loves them because they’re super cute.

Winston doesn’t have a blog or channel or anything. He’s too busy being a scientist. He does appear on Tracer’s channel from time to time though, typically during the holidays.

And I don’t know how to end this post so...there you go

[treeyo]

When its been six months since your last blog, where do you even begin?  Many changes happened in my life and am still processing them all but very much in the forward motion with the learning lessons acquired.  With that, well I finally moved to Treasure lake, like finally really landed this March once I got my vehicle situation sorted and its been practically non stop work since.  I will try to keep it short by using headers and pics then be more regular with it all so its not so much to cover and more valuable detail can come out. In essence, this places sheer beauty continues to amaze me and the people who observe and interact with it are a true blessing.

Community

You know the hokey part of permaculture about community and all of that social permaculture.  Well it’s so true in the end.  My Cincinnati, city based friends, have largely disappeared from my life, all but a select few now that i have properly moved here (only 35 minutes away).  My Northern Kentucky network grows constantly.  And to state it plainly, much of my successes or this places growth hinges upon selfless acts from others, service, community.  Gifts beyond value but that also save on finances allowing me to stay with this project fully during the growing season. (Yes foreshadowing). It’s quite a mix here and i honor diversity and am enjoying this blend of Appalachian and river town culture scores to the city.

Past student and dear friend Kaila from BC, Canada stopping on her way across country. What a reunion, giving her a glimpse of the KY culture

Gil, such a generous person, getting ready to transport a beehive from his land to the lake to support both the garden and ecology here

Annie and her rolling around ways in the garden

Mike Lobb, a fishing enthusiast and proud supporter of the lake. and and his restaurant wastes help to feed the worms

Tom and his crafty skills and silly look helping me build artificial fish habitat

permablitz implementation of mushroom beds in hedgerow. it was almost all people from my town of Petersburg, Ky

Mary and Luke, two beautiful souled people who volunteered here often

Bryan and Daniel, two of my besties, jamming together. love them both

Stream Rehabilitation

Over the winter myself and part of the Berea, KY crew, who actually are connections from Portugal, implemented heaps of what I categorize in the PDC as restoring natural hydrology.  The one rock dams, large and small woody debris jams have simply worked.  The sediment has been trapped, the lake hasn’t muddied other than in the crazy amounts of rain that break or meet records.  It’s helped as well with the nutrient overload which to deal with this problem we met it with these elements but also microbial blocks and pellets and also ducks.

one rock dams working to hold sediment back

Pools forming

one rock dams and small woddy debris

stair stepped approach

Animals

How much duckweed could a duck weed if a duck could weed duckweed?

Well it’s a lot and they do weed duckweed.  As the nutrients pour in from the large watershed of the lake it causes each year relentless growth of duckweed.  And I have been eating duckweed through the eggs that the ducks have steadily been producing.  These ducks, mostly pekings, were gifts from the community and their rich golden eggs have delighted many.  The golden color comes from the high amounts of lysine in the duckweed, just as I teach it in the PDC.

Also goats were lent to me and are fun, productive in their clearing, good at leaving fertility behind, but also a lot of work.  Part of that comes from their sheer numbers, 17 in all. They require a lot of fencing moves to keep them on fresh pasture and their health in good shape. I have been really enjoying it but it in the end is consuming lots of hours.  I did, of course along with the help from my NKY community, move their cages which had been in the same place for a few weeks.  Instead of cleaning the cages and moving the manure to the compost area I decided to leave it right there and mulch on top so it didn’t all wash away in the rains just after the move.  Next year i can carry seeds down there instead of manure to the compost area.  an idea….

Alex welcoming the goats on their first day

Goats from the boat, having cleared back lots of weeds, mainly invasive

Compost

As always, as my students know, I am making, along with the help of many, lots of hot compost, completely square on the edge and at least one cubic meter in size.  I did invest in a compost thermometer which has been helping with the quality control.  The best compost piles have been coming from the lactobacillus rich beet kvass wastes from my friends at fab ferments.  It quickly finishes and i am stockpiling lots of it right now for future use.  Annie, the lead gardener of her brand Dark Wood Farm that leases land from us, has even used a bit.  Also vermicompost has been expanding.  I have the unique opportunity to sell worms to the fishing customers or simply give them away.  We have scaled up to 275 gallons.  Next door to fab ferments is La Terza coffee and their wastes have also been helping to feed the worms.

Beet Kvass waste

loading up the worm bin with Romain

Business

All these farming ventures of perennial systems are running concurrently to the running of the business here already.  Pay fishing lake, bar, camping and events to be exact.  It’s a lot of work and requires me to answer the phone, market, mow, weed eat, provide customer service and provide a better experience for those who come.  It’s been a good year, the camping helping a lot in terms of revenue.  And of course through community, Daniel, one of my closest neighbors has helped bring a lot of bar business in the last month or so through starting a tuesday night ping pong and a friday night open jam.  Eternally grateful to him and his extended family as well as his front yard that has no grass in it which i drive by when i do leave the property.  And the event production, we have many successful concerts, parties, weddings, and educational events.  Plant based, not permaculture as i just cant seem to get people to sign up for my permaculture courses around here.  And that is ok, i needed a break and its fun to have such a diversity.  but yes its a lot of work.  I work every weekend from friday morning to sunday evening here at the bar/ fishing lake/camping registration.  I sneak away for farming ventures on the weekends by leaving my number on the door which is part of why i haven’t written a blog in so long.

Bryan in serious prep mode for our July 4th event

Park here!

Positive reaction laying down on our fourth of july event

the lists that make it happen, my goodness this project management is intense

Maria and Ron post marriage ceremony at the campsites

entrance to the bar

Campsite 2

biodiversity

As always my pursuit of biodiversity rages.  I am still hacking away at the invasive and overcrowded natives.  It helps my paw paws.  Paw paw paradise is coming to fruition.  We also planted in our some of our wonderful forest native medicinal herbs.  Ginseng, goldenseal, bloodroot, blue and black cohosh, and wild ginger.  They have done ok but are so far away its hard to get to them.  It’s definitely a zone 4 and future plantings will be on the edge of zone 1 in sandy soil.  I have also planted a hedgerow with different tree crops, berry bushes, and perennial vegetables.  Taking care of the one we planted in the fall of last year also has been a continual maintenance. We also did quite a bit with mushrooms through both logs of oyster and wine cap on wood chips.  It’s definitely developing a nice zone 1 for me around the edge of Annie’s 1 acre market garden. And in general this place is alive, teaming with biodiversity to create stability, resilience, and abundance!

More wooded wood chip beds and remay cloth covering logs to keep woodpeckers away

mushroom spawn in chunks of wine cap being placed in between layers of cardboard and wood chips

caterpillar on milkweed, i guess monarchs?

Phoebe babies in the same nest spot as last year on the back patio of the bar

the beaver is back!

freshwater mussel shell, food for other wildlife

oyster mushroom logs

Foraging

You cant have a paw paw paradise and not then go out and harvest.  Hauling well over 50 lbs from the lake property and already another 20 or so lbs from 1 tree at my parents house, its been great.  I have been saving the seeds and these will turn into hundreds, maybe 1000’s of more paw paw plant for the land and for sale.  I am saving seeds of the big ones and random ones with great flavor.  We also have stumbled upon some great mushroom patches and will we get to the spicebush harvest with all that is going on?

25 lbs plus haul in one morning, mainly thanks to the beavers chopping trees down years ago to give this patch space

native black capped raspberry that went in Annie’s CSA fruit add on

just a bit of the paw paw on the bar, giving lots away

huge wild fruits at the lake. giving thanks to the natives who once lived here and probably worked on the genetics

Abby and me looking for paw paw just before our successful event. thanks abby for referring a spark for foraging

Holiday

I end with the vacation i got to go on to the Asheville, North Carolina area for the SE Permaculture gathering.  It also included a professional gathering and i loved meeting others from the area and finally meeting Courtney Brooke who Robina McCurdy, our common mentor, connected but we never got to meet in person until then.  They have a great culture built down there and was inspiring to say the least.  I know it will grow here, we have done an amazing work in this area over the years but i look forward to treasure lake being a growing point of culture.

Zev talking mutual aid, this guy is on it

So thank you to all who have contributed with volunteering, attending events, paying to go fish, to camp, to drink, to rent the place out. There is more for sure that has happened but i had to get this one out to press refresh on releasing these update blogs more often .  I also pressed refresh on my life by moving back here, staying in one place for over a year, which basically hasn’t happened in almost 20 years and seeking help with my mental health. Never be afraid to do that.  gardening is sometimes not enough, nor traveling the world and living your passion.  I am glad i did it, i am blessed to have this place to experiment on.  The development goes on here and please contact me on how to get involved.  thank you to the community and the treasure lake experience.  Never forget the final message of my patterns slideshow, LOVE.  and that includes love for yourself.  sounds simple but it takes effort that is well worth it!

ps the tip jar at the bar is going well with it being tips for tree planting.  so this fall,

#letsplantsometreesyo

Project Update: A long Overdue one for Treasure Lake When its been six months since your last blog, where do you even begin?  Many changes happened in my life and am still processing them all but very much in the forward motion with the learning lessons acquired.