#i wish i could identify ground beetles

[bug-kid-benny]

whenever im putting something like a ground beetle back outside onto the patio and I think I'm putting it down really gently but it rolls off my hand and makes a big super audible CLACK noise hitting the pavement from like half an inch off the ground falling onto its back I feel so bad I'M SORRY BENNY JUNIOR !!! i know that they probably could withstand it but i hope they don't get the insect equivalent of a concussion

bugs seem so fragile yet so indestructible at the same time I think shes okay though I wish I took a photo of her that's the first ground beetle I've seen this year I think she was a big-headed ground beetle but I might be wrong I'm pretty sure of it though

[taiey]

*takes long sip of lemonade*

OK, so.

Obviously Smirke was wrong; not just the whole ‘balance’ thing that he himself repudiated shortly before his death, but his theory of 14 separate fear entities hanging out in wherever-who-cares—side note I guess Leitner was wrong when he said it wasn’t another dimension? sounds like it was—was empirically disproven by the events of 160.

So we’ve known that for a while. If you squint over at the third set of blobs up there, you’ll see the minimum necessary alteration to Smirke’s theory to fit: where they’re basically separate entities, but stuck together a little bit. (The five of ‘em are standing in for all 14-or-15, that part’s not meaningful.)

But no one actually thinks that, least not that I’ve seen. The only major theory I’ve seen at all about the entities is the “fear soup” one, which shoots way past that to... honestly I don’t think I fully comprehend that theory and I can’t ask for further clarification but it seems to be just full-on everything-is-one-thing,

It gets at something important that the neo-Smirkean ignores, which is that they have a lot in common. They can all kill you. They all tend to prey on isolated people. They can all do mind control. Every encounter with an avatar has some degree of suffering so someone else can watch. They all reach out to places and people and objects, of which a surprisingly high proportion are books. They can all warp the rules of physics, make you feel helpless, in pain...

But I think it misses something important too, which is that there are differences, and there is structure. There is a reason that Jane Prentiss identifies the wasp nest and her broken-toxic friendships and the ant infestation and her blackhead trypophobia and worms squirming out of sodden ground as all part of the same song of all-consuming ‘love’—while separating out literal spiders (and fractals) because webs are “not the song of the hive”. There is a reason that never-human Breekon and Hope identified the Circus as “our own kind” (as opposed to meat, “shifting writhing spiral things”, or “the spider”) not because it was a group, or because it travelled, but because they were anonymous.

There’s a reason a mummy from Fourth Dynasty Egypt and a soldier from America’s Revolutionary War could show you the connection between games of chance and the dead that cannot die; why a book in Lancraig and a band in London and a ghost ship off the coast of Japan show a connection between omnidirectional human violence and music; why men desperate for love find themselves piles of beetles and weeping maggots; why Jordan Kennedy smelled the same scent as Jane and John Amherst burned; why Simon Fairchild fell in love with the sky and off of a ladder two centuries before Robert Smirke was born then proceeded to find the same joy in skydiving, giant monsters throwing people out of cable cars, giant monsters in the depths of the ocean, gianter monsters in the infinite void of space, ‘a lot with religion’ (probably involving giant monsters, considering), and, once he found an angle (giant monster) on it, overpopulation.

I could go on about this for a while (everything about the literal spiders! the buried and sleep! the buried and being-slightly-too-warm! honestly wish the desolation was less synonymous with fire!) and I honestly enjoy this facet of the show. So I’ve been trying to articulate how I feel it works (anenomes? starfish? a human body? amoeba-with-long-list-of-criteria? the ‘colour’ thing has never worked for me) (trying to convince myself that being impossible to articulate clearly was evidence in my favour) and eventually settled on [pause to scroll all the way back up] blobs. but like, morphous blobs. labelled ‘compass rose’ because i drew the blobs right after 183 and i am nothing if not self-aware, ok XD

I wanted to say—there is a lot in common and a lot different. There is a label-able set of blob-protuberances and there could be more. There are things that are 90% one blob and 2% of five others and that doesn’t mean those fears are all equally important in it. There is too much holding the fears together to pull through only one, but too much differentiation for pulling on one area to drag the whole of it through eventually. Even in the apocalypse when “the old divisions don’t mean as much these days”, that old list still “does have its use when it comes to conceptualising these things”.

In conclusion: blobs. ♥

[lost-kinn]

fun facts from the wanderer’s journal

- geo is “fossilized bug shells,” (pg 11) with different shells denoting 1 geo, a different shell for 5 geo, and another shell for 10 geo. ellina writes that “even the toll machines accept [the geo shells],” (11) meaning that the pale worm can build a better vending machine than whichever human clown built the piece of shit vending machine outside my office

- chests are cash stashes made by wealthier bugs when hallownest was in its prime, which apparently explains why there’s chests attached to walls and in the middle of a mechanical crushing machine in crystal peak

- about geo deposits: “geo is a naturally-occuring fossil throughout the caverns of hallownest,” (11) which makes me wish that human money could also be found cemented to the sidewalk

- ellina writes that “applying and removing charms is a bit of a tricky process,”  12) and that “a single ill-fitting charm is said to place the wearer’s safety in danger” with such seriousness that i presume that taking charms on and off while walking is ill-advised in the same way that it’s ill-advised not to perform open heart surgery on oneself while walking

- longnail “expands its wearer’s aura,” (13) rather than physically increasing the size of the nail, which sounds a bit like fighting with nails are 50% physical metal and 50% naruto ninja chakra

- ellina refers to hallownest as “hostile bug-infested lands” (15) as if she herself and basically everyone else in the cast are not also bugs

- benches are wide enough to seat two people and taking up the whole bench is considered “rude” (14), which explains why the player knight felt the need to murder the Crystal Guardian for manspreading on public seating

- a lot of forgotten crossroads public infrastructure and carts are confirmed to be made of “shells” (18), which i presume are not sea shells. ellina is also rather perturbed by how many shells are in the shaman’s burial mound (22), double confirming that a lot of hallownest is made of corpses. reduce reuse recycle, apparently

- ellina speculates that the husk statues lining the crossroads might be fossilized husks, which is such an oddly specific detail that it makes me think she’s onto something

- whispering roots can apparently induce “bewildering, vivid dreams” (23) if you sleep under it, which i know is supposed to be a reference to the radiance but also. yknow. blaze it

- salubra confirmed to use she/her pronouns in the event anyone was wondering (24)

- husk guards apparently cause shockwaves just by slamming their dummy thicc asses on the ground hard enough to kill you (28)

- there is still no explanation as to why massive moss charger is in godhome

- ellina writes “the pale king apparently took great interest in civil engineering” (57) at which point i lost my SHIT for ten minutes straight because the fact that they even have the phrase “civil engineering” implies that they have enough types of engineering to specify “civil,” and also that there’s enough bugs going to civil engineering school for that to even be a term?? is there a bug SAT to get to engineering school?? do yall have to take bug calculus to qualify?? yall have bug higher education???? do bugs stay up at night worrying about whether their bugs letters of recommendation will land them their bug nine-to-five engineering job in a bug cubicle??????

- the old stag is specified to have “strong legs” (58) which personally kills me specifically, a person who is co-writing a fanfic called “stag beetles and broken legs” based off a central metaphor in which stag beetles have fragile legs

- the mantises apparently pre-date hallownest, and outlived hallownest too (60)

- relic seeker lemm offered to buy ellina’s wanderer’s journal for 200 geo to her face without even waiting for her to die, which is like the real-life equivalent of paying someone 200 bucks to read their diary while they’re still alive and also right in front of you

- watcher knights are confirmed to be corpse-shells reanimated by infected flies, which makes me feel some type of way about getting my ass kicked for four hours straight by a bunch of flies

- ellina writes that “the web-walking critteres [denizens of deepnest] seem to have little trouble traversing [the holes in deepnest’s path],” which implies to me that their method of public infrastructure was “git gud”

- confirmed that only the elite of the elite could ride on the tram due to needing a pass from the king himself, which feels like a segregation of public transportation i’ve seen before 

- a specimen called “little weaver” is shown to be wearing a red cloak like hornet (91)

- ogrim confirmed to train by throwing balls of dung around all by his damn lonely self and apparently still manage to have a good time (99)

- pg 136 pretty clearly specifies that the teacher’s archives were specifically meant to house, preserve, and record all of monomon’s knowledge, not spread that knowledge or even have that knowledge be used, which is a fun characterization of monomon that i’m just going to ignore

- ellina writes that the hinged platforms in the queen’s gardens “come in handy for gradual descents” as if she doesn’t know damn well that those sons of bitches are the second hardest platforming challenge in the game

- ellina infers from the size of gorb’s head that “it must have been a genius” (149) further proving that ellina is a 100% reliable narrator whose speculations are always correct

- ellina implies that since there’s eggshells found in the depths of the abyss, it’s not so much that the pale king hatched his child-vessels on the ground level and threw the unsatisfactory vessels into the abyss, but that they were all born in the abyss, like a giant breeding petri dish, and the pale king only saw fit to bring the “pure vessel” out of the abyss. this might only be ellina’s inference, but that does explain why the player knight’s egg is in the abyss and the player knight had to crawl their way out.

- ellina writes on page 158 that the void liquid “seems to have a mind of its own, and lashes out at intruders, either to push them away or to pull them under,” confirming once and for all that the void is, at its heart, a tsundere

- although the journal never uses they/them pronouns for any character, there’s several characters that are only referred to as it/its. in some cases, this seems like a clear denotation that they’re considered “sub-human” (for lack of a better phrase) such as the baldur (32) or infected husks. some characters that you’d think would have a gender are referred to with it/its, such as gruz mother (33) and flukemarm (101). other characters are referred to with it/its even though they don’t typically classify as “mindless bugs,” such as steel soul jinn (9), the hunter (41), soul warrior (75), crystal guardian (83). every character with a he/him pronoun or she/her pronoun from the game obviously retains these pronouns, even in cases where the gender wasn’t well-identified in the base game (e.g. willoh, she/her pronouns, page 57; soul master, he/him pronouns, pg 75).

10/10. beautiful. wonderful. excellent work

[spiiderwiick]

Wick had been avoiding their home. When they did pop back there, it was always with an escort, and mostly they just fed and misted their bugs before scurrying back off.

They’d heard about what happened when Benrey had run into Patches earlier. They knew she was not in good shape. The spell had worn off but it seemed to be having longer lasting emotional effects. That or feeling for the first time in decades wasn’t sitting well with her. Whatever the case, Patches was self destructing off in the woods when she wasn’t being a problem for everyone else and she seemed to be having weird emotional hangups about people being nice to her.

Wick found themself wishing she would just stay there, but they knew things wouldn’t stay that way.

After what felt like ages but had probably only been closer to a week, they decided they couldn’t stay away from home any longer. It was quiet, aside from the distant sounds of beetle feet squeaking against the corners of their enclosure and the hum of the fridge. Somehow these sounds didn’t grant them any feeling of comfort and security.

The first night. Things were normal enough. They spent most of the entire time with a cloud of anxiety hanging over them of this is it this is the day she finally comes for me. But no clown came.

The second night more of the same. Wick did start to reflect on what little they had seen of her recently. Usually it was in chats they both frequented. Any time they showed up, she tended to quietly disappear. It was actually pretty nice.

Just for a little while, they let their guard down. They stopped spooking at every bump they heard in the night, and only spooked at half of them. It was progress.

Nothing lasted forever though.

It was on the fourth night that the hammer finally dropped.

Wick was winding down for the evening. They’d just fixed themself a nice mug of hot chocolate, something suitable for the cool, late summer evening. They found themself taking a peek into their backyard to see if the stars were out, but as they did, a red glint caught their eye. At first they figured it was a reflection of one of their devices in the kitchen or living room, they glanced behind them to check.

There was nothing shining red in here.

The eyes in the back of their head caught movement and they quickly turned to focus on what they knew deep down in their gut was going to be the clown.

Patches had made short work of the distance between them, and had her face and long, long claws pressed to the glass. That single red eye burning with hatred and fully focused on Wick.

Wick did not hesitate to bolt, and they were speedy when they wanted to be. As they ran, they tried to pull out their phone and send a hasty text.

Speed doesn’t beat magic, though, and Patches, despite her open hatred of it, was very magic. Bubbling goo in their hallway was the only warning they had before a clawed hand grasped their leg, toppling them and sending their phone with its half written text flying out of their reach.

Patches pulled herself from the puddle, her many hands grasping Wick’s flailing limbs as they kicked and struggled. They were strong but she was stronger, “If you even think about calling that freak here, I will gut you on the spot.” Wick stared up at her, horrified. There was no lingering sentimentality left in them, she noted, unlike with Benrey. Their voice stayed caught in their throat before they managed to squeak out a terrified question, “what do you want?”

This fear... She had missed it. Too many people had been getting bold and more interested in striking up deals than fearing her. Patches leaned in close, teeth bared as though she intended to bite their face off right there and then, which had admittedly crossed her mind, “I want to know why.”

Why...............? Wick’s mind was blank. Why what? What was she demanding an answer to? Wait... No they remembered now, “i... you were just a kid. even if i-it’s you i. wasn’t gonna just. leave a scared kid on their own.”

Just a kid. No. She had bit them, she had outright told them she had killed before. Anyone in their right mind, especially someone she had been tormenting for most of a year should have taken that chance to off her. She was sure this was the correct line of thinking and not her own distorted bias talking, “You don’t seriously mean to tell me you are so sentimental that you felt the need to protect me.”

Their eyes widen as one of her hands tightened dangerously close to their throat. In that moment they became convinced that his was definitely where they were going to die, “i- no i- i just-”

Tears welled in their eyes, they were so scared. They knew this was going to blow up in their face. They knew it the whole time. Why did they help her? Why did they have to be so nice? That was exactly what she wanted to know too, apparently, “it.. was to protect you. and everyone else from you. i didn’t want you to get hit by a car or to hurt anyone else in your panic.”

“And why not?” Wick flinched at the sharpness of her question.

“i don’t know! maybe i am just so fucking soft that i can’t wish bad shit happening to a baby!” It was a perfectly reasonable thing to be soft about, and they knew it. That didn’t stop them from feeling bad about it because a clown was angry and in their face because of it, unfortunately.

“But you didn’t stop there, did you?” Her voice was accusatory, furious, “Playing pretend? That fort? All those treats?”

Wick knew they’d be frustrated by this later, assuming they lived through this encounter. These sounded like the stupidest things to be angry about, “i don’t know what you want me to say? sorry for treating you like a fucking person instead of locking you in the garage like a feral demon cat???”

Ah. Apparently they were already frustrated enough to run their mouth. They had no idea what was the right course of action to take here. There was no running, Patches had them pinned to the ground and claws everywhere. There was no appealing to her sentimental side, she clearly didn’t have one anymore. They knew she had been literally trying to tear out whatever might have been there, in their eyes she had succeeded. Being nice to her was the opposite of what she seemed to want. Being mean to her felt like a good way to get into a game of escalation. All they could do was snark and hope that it was mean enough to not piss her off without escalating things.

Patches looked surprised by their answer, maybe even a little impressed. She was used to them freezing up when they were afraid of her. Patches of course, gave no indication of this and only continued to press with her claws, “Ah but what am I if not a feral demon cat, hm?”

Whatever snappy retort Wick was going to fire back caught in their throat yet again as the claws pressed harder. It felt like she was going to puncture their carapace soon and that thought brought a new wave of fear, “y-you’re just a heartless monster. is that what you want me to say? are you happy???”

While that had been what she was fishing for, it didn’t hit like she’d wanted it to. Some minuscule part of her felt hurt by the comment, some remnant leftover from the magic, she was sure. Clearly she had more carving to do, because she wasn’t happy. Nothing was fixing this pit she felt in her chest. All she wanted was for it to go away. She thought confronting Wick, hearing words of hatred, unfiltered by any niceties would do it.

It didn’t.

Nothing was helping. Maybe she should just off them. She’d been toying with them for almost a year. The thought had struck her more than once, and she hated whenever people brought them up as a reason she was softer than she let on. That would show everyone, wouldn’t it? Especially that Nero fellow.

Patches raised a hand, claws curled and ready to strike. Wick paled, this was it. They squeezed their eyes shut, bracing themself for the inevitable blow.

All the sickeningly sweet kindness they had shown her roiled in her mind, she let the memories rise to fuel her anger. All their sympathy, their thoughtfulness, their patience, their genuine kindness, even when they were terrified of her, how they pushed through it to show her that she didn’t have to be mean or evil. How she didn’t want to be bad, she was just scared and met with fear in turn. Being a monster didn’t mean she had to do monstrous things. No. No... That wasn’t what she wanted to think about.

She struck.

Her claws buried themselves deep.. Into the wood floor, right next to their head.

At first Wick thought the crunch was their own exoskeleton and that their nerves just hadn’t caught up with them yet. They cracked open their eyes to figure out what happened. Had someone stopped her?

They had hoped Benrey had decided to check up on them at just the right moment. Instead what they saw was the claws tearing deep gouges into their floor and an incredibly upset clown. Wick couldn’t place any of the emotions on her face, it was hard enough to read normally with its mask-like qualities and the near permanent grin she wore. They could feel her hands trembling where she had them pinned down. Was she having second thoughts about killing them?

Truth be told, even Patches was having trouble figuring it out. Decades of suppressing nearly all her emotions had left her terrible at identifying them. Everything was either cruel glee or anger with no in-between. There was anger there, that much she knew. Now however, it was directed at herself more than Wick. Why couldn’t she do this? Why hadn’t she done it earlier? Was she growing sentimental?

More nausea rose in her. This was supposed to be easy.

Patches found herself so rattled by her inability to kill them that she couldn’t even come up with some half baked excuse. It took her longer to notice her trembling hands than it did for Wick. Why was this happening? What was wrong with her? Damn it all. This wasn’t how this was supposed to go. She knew she was better than this.

Gritting her teeth, Patches hauled Wick off the ground to slam them back against the wall. She just needed to get back into it, she needed momentum. Glass picture frames crunched behind them and Wick cried out in pain, kicking their legs feebly in an attempt to keep her at bay. Patches drew back a hand and- The pit was back and it was growing. It was that same guilt she felt as a child when she realized that biting their hand had been wrong. Why? Why why why why why?

Shit.

She couldn’t do it.

Why couldn’t she do it?

Her grip faltered and Wick dropped to the ground like a gangly sack of potatoes. Before they could do or say anything, she withdrew into goo, vanishing into the night.

It was Wick’s turn to be a trembling mess now. Their life had flashed before their eyes twice in the span of two minutes. What had just happened? She wanted to kill them, they knew that much, but something had stopped her. Did she have a conscience now? Was there still some shred of good in her?

Wick decided they didn’t care. They crawled down the hall to reach their phone. The screen had cracked from the impact. They sat back against the wall as the tears started to trickle down their face. They could barely type or proofread what they were writing.

Whatever. They sent the garbled message. Now to wait and try to remember to breathe.

[theveryworstthing]

i have a guide for y’all today.

How To Prepare A Rabbit. A Simple And Peaceful Guide To Traditional Island Funerals As Led By Vultures Respectful Of Rabbit Culture With Perfect Customer Service Records Pertaining To Never Being Cursed Or Tortured By Vengeful Restless Spirits.

The Body Is Found. A crowded bedside, an open field, inside a room who’s door was still rusted shut until we broke it down how in the world did they get in there??? Somewhere on the island, a rabbit’s body is found and sometimes they are attended to by vultures. Some vultures prepare the dead a little differently, but these are the steps taken by senior priestesses Fifteen-Stab-Wounds and Irresponsible Botany and so are nearly identical to traditional rabbit-led funeral customs.

You’ll know when we get to the bit rabbits usually don’t do.

Steps Are Taken. A special tincture made of wine and charcoal is applied to the soles of the feet (if they still have them), which are then gently pressed first onto a piece of cloth and then onto a piece of edible rice paper. The cloth is the ‘second to last step’, and is kept for the funeral display. The rice paper is the ‘last step’ and is left where the body was found as an offering to any malicious spirits or persistent sorrows that were hounding them to the very end. This is supposed to be a symbolic gesture to give the soul the peace it might need to leave for The Rest instead of lingering out of worry or fear but something is eating those things the moment the body is gone and no one is looking, and something flattens the grass in interlocking circles outside of the morgue if the offering is forgotten.

To be fair this last part could be urban legend and asshole teens but something is definitely eating those dang rice papers.

Identification. The body is identified through necromancy or other ghost conversation if possible(making sure that the rabbit confirming their identity is the real deal and not…something else). This process, known as opening the left eye, also seeks to find the definitive cause of death (at least from their point of view) and secure final wishes before the soul begins their connection fast. This fast is a period of time where the dead should not be contacted. This is a time for reflection, adjustment, and mourning for the living, as well as a settling period for the dead. Fresh ghosts are a little volatile if they don’t pass on to The Rest very soon after death and can become trapped in the living world though their attachment to a person. After the soul is safely in The Rest loved ones are brought over for a second identification, known as opening the right eye, and real prep begins.

Cold Storage. The body is refrigerated above ground in specially built storehouses(the dead should not be brought underground into a warren or burrow), inspected one last time (careful notes are taken), gutted, cleaned with island fresh water(or any salt water), and readied for the funeral soon after. Well, some of the body is readied. The head, arms and feet are preserved and prepped for the funeral but the rest is put back into refrigeration (except for the heart, which is burned or thrown to the bugs asap) since rabbits consider it cleaner and only really care about those ‘main bits’ unless the dead had a very specific request. And even then it depends of the rate of decomposition. The less contact an entire group that lives in close quarters has with the majority of a rotting corpse that might carry disease, the better,

There is an exception for kits. They have their innards removed but are kept whole and are ‘fixed up’ as much as possible. It makes things…less worse.

Portraits And Dressings. Floor length death masks are made by painting a portrait on a circle of canvas, sewing it to the mask, and draping it over the face of the dead. These portraits can be very simple, putting eye color, fur patterns, and notable scars inside a general rabbit outline or they can be beautifully lifelike likenesses. It really depends on the customs of your warren and the artist in your local funeral home. In the past people with the means and access to good artists would go to get their portrait drawn every year just to have something nice to pin to their death mask (plus people just like having pictures of themselves). In modern times this is still done, but now the few that have gotten their hands on cameras have photographs as an additional option.

Bodies are displayed suspended on round yellow straw mats made to resemble the sun. The head, arms, and feet are arranged around a false body of flowers, dried fruit rinds, straw, and smoking incense. A brightly colored cloak is draped over them, allowing the flesh and fur bits of their ‘body’ to show. Flowers, pretty stones, and precious items are tucked in beside them and on top of them to further the illusion. The cloth with their ‘second to last step’ lies beneath their feet and a line of ash mixed with tiny jagged stones or thorns leads from it to the nearest doorway. The line symbolizes a kind of path to their death that they don’t want you to follow. You do not step on it.  

The Service. Close family enters before the service to view the body if they wish and kind of just privately mourn. During the service mourners walk up to the body one by one after an attendant paints vibrant pigments onto their palms(choosing the color and amount of pigment that best represents their relationship with the dead), and briefly grasp the trailing edge of the death mask. You are not supposed to speak during this ritual. There is no one there to talk to anymore. This is just letting go.

This is all fairly quick unless people linger.

Food. When everyone who wants to has had their turn a memorial meal is served in the nearest warren dining hall. The death mask is taken to this meal and draped over a stand in the brightest area of the room. This is the real service. This is where, after staring out into space for fifteen minutes before someone hands you a drink and the remnants of chalky paint on your thumb smears ‘friendship’ on the glass that the pain hits. During this meal people grieve and sing and cry and fight and tell stories about the dead. It’s very chaotic and rowdy compared to the beginning of the funeral. It has to be. Everyone has to prove to themselves that they’re ready to keep going.

Food. Rabbit funeral directors will usually stay the whole memorial meal, which can last all night. But unless they personally know the person, vultures like the esteemed Fifteen and Irresponsible with arrive for the first toast and leave about an hour after the kits go to bed. Nobody talks about why they leave so early.

While the revelry continues, the body is back at the funeral home being butchered and skinned by the priestesses. Ears, distinctive bits of fur, and tattoos are all set aside for the grave slab. Everything else is mostly sliced off the bones, which have holes carefully drilled into the ends so the bugs can retrieve the marrow without trying to gnaw through them. The meat and previously refrigerated viscera is thrown into a big pot with some of the flowers and smoky herbs from the funeral, doused in boiling water, and left to stew a little. The bones (and any meat that can’t possibly be cooked or eaten that day) are taken to the bug kennels where carrion beetles and maggots make them shiny and clean before sun-bleaching.

And the priestess’ meal is delicious. A little sad at times, but delicious. Fifteen still cries just a little, just a tear drop, every time her wife holds her talons and presses their foreheads together over the steaming stew as they pray for the rabbit inside it. She can’t help it, she’s sentimental. And also, to both of them it’s just…a wonderful process. By making sure that the body is consumed by life, useful and beautiful in the end, they honor that person and acknowledge that death sometimes creates a fear and grief so tangible that all you can do is eat it or transform it but mainly get it out of the world before it hurts people more (the rabbits’ memorial meal is the same principle really, just not as eloquent and with more angry weeping about how the deceased still owed them a solid.)

Grave Slabs. When the meat is gone and the bones are cleaned, bleached, and prepared then the grave slab construction begins. Bones, ears, tattoos, significant trinkets, etc, are arranged in a mold by suspending them in layers of crystal clear (sometimes colored) resin. They are particularly careful with the skull, making sure to coat it with a layer of protective resin but leaving the jaw hinged and exposed since after their connection fast is over necromancers can use it to contact the dead. They are also very careful with the ears, as they must protrude from the resin mass as if still attached to a living rabbit or at least be posed inside the mass in a natural way. Skulls are a link to living people, but ears are seen as a link to their experience in the living world. Both are very important.

When the grave slab is ready it is delivered to whatever grave area the family desires. These areas are always sunny, above ground, and very rocky or laid with cobblestones. While some grave slabs are simply propped up on simple stand, others are bricked into low stone walls, making some old family plots glimmering bone mosaicked monuments. Once the grave slab is secure and the family is satisfied you’re done.

And that’s how you prepare a rabbit. Serves everyone.

Eventually.

[spn-rewrites]

01x08 (part 2)

Season One: Episode Eight: Bugs

A/n: hey guys! hope youre enjoying the rewrite so far, i have a lot of ideas for the reader’s storyline but would absolutely love and take into consdieration any suggestions or ideas that you have, so send them in! if you liked it, please REBLOG! 

Summary: steam showers, dead spiders and a boy in the woods.

Word Count: 3.3k

part 1 part 3 part 4

It was dark out now, and Dean finally let someone other than himself drive the Impala but unfortunately for you, it was Sam. He was nestled in the passenger seat, reading over John’s journal and you were brainstorming any and all options as to what could have happened to Dustin. “I’ve heard of killer bees, but killer beetles? What is it that could make different bugs attack?” Dean inquired.

“Well hauntings sometimes include bug manifestations,” Sam pointed out. A good point, but the least likely. You were leaned back in the backseat, your feet kicked up on the back of the front seats. Dean elbowed your feet off, causing them to come crashing down and you sat up.

“Yeah, but I didn’t see any evidence of ghost activity,” you added, leaning forward and reading over Dean’s shoulder at the journal. You two had spent countless nights reading that old thing, cover to cover but there were still so many things you had missed and had yet to learn.

“Yeah, me neither,” Sam mumbled, agreeing with you and dismissing his own suggestion.

Dean hummed to himself, thinking, contemplating. He smacked his lips and had an idea. “Maybe they’re being controlled somehow, you know by something or someone,” Dean suggested, perking up a little bit like maybe that was the one.

“You mean like Willard?” You asked, scrunching up your face at the thought of all those fucking rats. You had only seen the 2003 version which was unacceptable to Dean but he let it slide because of how much you protested, ‘I hate rats, they’re dirty and they live in sewers and make me have nightmares,’ you would complain everytime he tried so eventually he just stopped pushing it.

“Yeah, bugs instead of rats,” he shrugged.

“There are cases of psychic connections between people and animals. Elementals, telepaths,” Sam listed off, entertaining Dean’s idea that maybe the bugs were being told to murder people but that made even less sense than the manifestations. However, the way Sam could easily come up with ideas and theories without having to look at any books always intrigued you. It sure as hell saved a lot of time, too.

“Yeah, the whole Timmy-Lassie thing.” Dean looked back at the journal, reading some more before a thought came to mind. “Larry’s kid. Got bugs for pets,” he pointed out.

“Matt?” You asked, again confused as to where he was going with that. There had to be a connection there, but you highly doubted that a teenage boy was controlling an army of bugs and killing off construction workers and development surveyors.

“Yeah!”

“He did try to scare the realtor with a tarantula,” Sam contemplated for a moment.

“Think he’s our Willard?” You asked, looking over at Sam, shocked that he was actually considering this but what other options did you really have? There were none. You had no more evidence, little to no information and not a lot of time. Whatever it is, could strike at any minute.

“I don’t know, anything is possible I guess,” he shrugged.

“Ooh, hey. Pull over here.” Dean started pointing out the window to an almost finished house with the port-a-potty still on the front lawn.

“What are we doing here?” Sam asked as he pulled in the driveway anyway. The moment he parked the car, Dean got out.

“It’s too late to talk to anybody else!” Dean said, holding his arms out like what else we gonna do? And Sam rolled down his window. You squinted, looking out the windshield to watch was Dean was doing - pulling open the garage door.

“We’re going to squat in an empty house?” Sam asked, appalled that the idea even crossed Dean’s mind but the way that developer was talking about the houses, you were mad you didn’t think about it first.

“I wanna try the steam shower,” Dean admitted, holding the garage door open, waiting for his brother that was still parked and hesitant.

“Oooh! Yeah!” You swatted at Sam’s arm, causing him to look back at you. You smiled, pointing towards Dean to egg him forward. He shooked his head, furrowed his brows and looked at you like you were crazy but you begged him with your eyes and his face softened before he turned to look at his brother.

“Come on!” Dean yelled, gesturing him forward. Sam let out a huge sigh, a fuck you guys sigh and drove forward into the garage as Dean closed the door behind the Impala.

The house was almost completely empty with no furniture in it, so you settled into the floor. You crossed your legs, resting your hands on your thighs as Sam set up the police scanner. “What are you looking at?” He mumbled, feeling your eyes burning a hole in his head.

“Nun,” you smiled at him. His eyes flickered from the scanner to you and then back again so quickly if you weren’t looking you would have easily missed it. “How are you doing?” You asked, referring to the Lori thing but Sam just gave you a puzzled look and shrugged his shoulders.

“Fine, why?”

“Just want to check up on you. Must be kind of difficult coming back into this life, ya know? After you finally got what you wanted,” you drifted off, almost immediately regretting what you were saying. Sam’s hands stopped moving and he looked at you for real this time, setting the scanner on the ground. “Sorry,” you mumbled, waving your hand in the air and making the words disappear.

“You make it a little bit easier,” Sam said, picking up the scanner again and finally finding the right station to listen to. Although you and Dean were set on having a night of relaxation with the steam showers, Sam insisted that the radio be on and your ears to be peeled for anything that may come through that needed immediate attention, always the worker bee.

“Just a little bit?” You asked hand pressed to your chest in an effort to sound offended. Sam chuckled and nodded, settling down on the ground next to you, his legs up and bent, his arms wrapped around them. He still towered over you, even sitting on the floor.

“Yeah, just a little bit,” he whispered, his eyes dancing across your face. He bumped his leg against yours when the radio started buzzing and a voice called over it. A woman found dead in her home, only three blocks from the house you were squatting in. Perfect timing, you thought.

Sam shot up, running up the stairs to grab Dean, who was still taking a shower and you heard Sam banging on the door and the two boys yelling at each other as you got all your things together and started packing up the Impala just in case. Sam was in the car with you in no time, Dean, however, took a little bit longer and his hair was still soaked and you could see wet spots on his shirt from where he hadn’t fully dried off.

+

The three of you pulled up just as a body, covered in a black tarp, was being wheeled out of the house and into the back of a car. Sam pulled over and you got out as fast as you could, eager to find out more. Larry was on the phone and you could hear his voice talking to the person on the other line. “I don’t know anything more, I’ll have to call you back. Alright?” You walked up to him as he was hanging out and it was raining out, so you huddled next to Dean under the umbrella and wrapped your arm around his. “Hello, you’re, uh, back early,” Larry addressed.

“Yeah, we just drove in, wanted to take another look at the neighborhood,” Dean said, looking around at the action and around Larry. He seemed a little frazzled, but not as frazzled as you would expect for someone who has two deaths now in a developing neighborhood.

“What’s going on?” Sam asked, getting right to the point and you were thankful because God, did you hate small talk.

“You guys met, uh, Lynda Bloom at the barbeque?” Larry asked, glancing back at the body bag that they were now loading up. Lynda.

“The realtor.”

“Well, she, uh, passed away last night,” Larry informed you in the least depressing way ever. Like she baked a cake or is hosting a party that you weren’t invited to so he felt kind of awkward telling you about it, but hey you were here and you know either way.

“What happened?” Dean asked.

“I’m still trying to find out,” Larry said, keeping his lips tightly together. Maybe, if they were a little looser he would spill everything he knows and you had a feeling he knew a lot. He looked back at the officers that were at the door, writing things down in their little notepad that you wished you could get your hands on and then he looked back at you, ready to dismiss you.  “Identified the body for the police. Look, I’m, I’m sorry. This isn’t a good time.”

“It’s okay,” Sam brushed him off and Larry excused himself to go back into the house and continue talking to the police. You watched him as the boys exchanged a look over your head but you didn’t care because you were focused on the way Larry was walking faster than he was at the barbeque like he had a purpose and was on a mission. You watched as he whispered in the officer’s ear and guided him inside the house.

“You know what we have to do, right?” Dean asked.

“Yeah. Get in that house,” Sam confirmed. You looked at him and he looked at you, raising his eyebrows at you.

“See if we got a bug problem,” you added, hoping that you found bugs because then at least there would be more of a concrete pattern happening and not just a weird fluke with that bee sting but hoping also, that you find some more evidence than just ants.

You waited until all the police officers were done and long gone before even attempting to go inside the house. You parked the car around the corner, sitting in the backseat while Dean blasted his rock music and Sam complained. The smile on his face every time he did, make your heart skip and Dean rolls his eyes but these were your favorite moments. In between all the craziness, when it’s quiet and just the three of you. Where Sam can pretend things are normal and you can pretend that things are normal and maybe in that universe - where things are normal - Sam loves you back.

When the last officer drove away, the three of you snuck behind a tree, climbed up the fence, to the trellis and in through the window. You came up last, Sam pulling you in the window and shutting it behind you. You brushed off the debris from the walls off your pants as Dean breathlessly looked around, “this looks like the place.”

The room looked like a crime scene but not the same kind of crime scene you saw only a few weeks ago, with yellow caution tape and blood all over the place. Instead, it looked like a crime scene from an old black and white silent film, where everything looked fake and there was a body outlined on the floor with black masking tape and glass shattered on the floor. There was a rolled up, sopping wet towel on the middle of the bathroom floor where the shower door had been broken through and little spots of blood were all over the white tile.

Dean stepped over the glass, crunching beneath his big boots and lifted the towel. A bunch of little tiny spiders fell from the towel, causing you to gasp and jump behind Sam. “Fuck!” You were quiet, but urgent because you were terrified of spiders but Sam chuckled at you, picking one up and dangling it in your face. Dead.

“They’re all dead, y/n.” He shook his head at you and Dean picked up another one, inspecting it in his hand and spinning it around in his fingers and you got even more grossed out than when Sam did that with the beetle.

“Spiders. From spider boy?” Dean asked, raising an eyebrow at the connection.

“Matt,” Sam corrected. Dean held his hands up in defense and Sam let out a sigh as you slowly moved out from behind him to get a better look at whatever was going on on the floor. He was right, they were all dead but it didn’t give you any less of a chill down your spine. “Maybe,” Sam whispered.

+

Driving behind a bus for miles was the last thing you wanted to do, the starting and stopping and driving 20 miles an hour was absolute torture, but when it was finally Matt’s stop, you perked up when he started walking the opposite direction of his house. “Isn’t his house that way?” Dean asked.

“Yup,” Sam confirmed as he peered out of the window and watched as Matt crossed the street and went down into the woods that surrounded the developing area.

“So where’s he going?” You asked the duo. They both ignored your question and got out of the car to follow. You did as they did and as much as you hate bugs, you stalked through the woods like a pro. Sam only had to help you down the hill twice and it really was mind over matter. No bugs are crawling on you. No bugs. No bugs. No bugs.

You finally found Matt, in an open clearing. He was looking at a twig from one of the trees, a plastic container in his hand. The leaves crunched under your feet and Matt turned to look.“Hey Matt,” Sam greeted. “Remember me?” Matt looked suspicious and almost terrified, but you didn’t really blame him because three strangers just followed him into the freaking woods.

“What are you doing out here?” He asked cautiously.

“Well, we wanna talk to you,” Dean asked, a fake smile on his face and his hands shoved into his pockets. You smiled when Matt’s eyes landed on you and then he looked to Sam, the only person he had met out of the three of you.

“You’re not here to buy a house, are you?” He asked, his eyes squinted in suspicion. “W-Wait, you’re not serial killers, are you?” He pointed a finger at the three of you. His voice was half joking, but you can never be too careful, can you?

“No, no. No, I think you’re safe,” Sam chuckled and reassured the boy who’s shoulder slouched a little more at Sam’s words and he seemed to relax a little bit more which was good because he needed to be as relaxed as he could get if you were going to accuse him of murdering the realtor.

“So, Matt, you sure know a lot about insects, huh?” You asked, looking at the plastic bin in his hands that he was most likely going to use to catch more insects. It was odd, keeping bugs as pets but you could see the appeal, they were all very unique in their own, creepy way.

“So?” He asked.

“Did you hear what happened to Lynda? The realtor?” Dean asked, pushing the topic of conversation and steering it in an accusatory direction.

“I hear she died this morning,” Matt said, nodding his head. He seemed very nonchalant about it, much like his father but he was young and he seemed so innocent and you had been rooting for him since the beginning, doubting his involvement so now that he was playing dumb you rooted even harder, please be telling the truth. Please, please, please.

“Mh, that’s right. Spider bites,” Dean popped the ‘p’ in spider for good effect and he raised his eyebrows up and down, a creepy smile on his face that made Matt turn his nose up and look at Sam instead.

“Matt, you tried to scare her with a spider,” Sam spoke carefully, completely opposite to what his brother did and good cop - bad cop always worked best.

“Wait, you think I had something to do with that?” Matt finally caught on, holding his hand out to distance himself from you as he shook his head. Please. Please. Please.

“You tell us,” Dean said.

“The tarantula was a joke. Anyway, that wouldn’t explain the bee attack or the gas company guy,” Matt spoke quickly and he was looking anywhere except at you or the boys and all your hope kind of just faded away. Shit.

“You know about those?” Sam asked, just as shocked as you were that he had any idea about those deaths and the mere fact that he did was enough for you to decide that maybe rooting for him wasn’t the best idea but it only will end in disappointment and that seemed to be a running theme in your life. Believing in boys that will only do one thing - disappointment.

“There is something going on here, I don’t know what but something’s happening with the insects. Let me show you something,” Matt answered, letting out a sigh and gathered his belongings off the ground. You almost let out a sigh because fuck, maybe you were right after all and please, please, please show us something good, you begged in your mind as you trekked through more woods.

“So if you knew about all this bug stuff, why not tell your dad? Maybe he could clear everybody out,” Sam suggested. Matt was leading the way through the trees and Sam was close behind but you dragged even further behind with Dean, who was looking everywhere except at the boy.

“Believe me, I tried, but, uh, Larry doesn’t listen to me,” Matt informed you.

“Why not?”

“Mostly? Because he’s too disappointed in his freak son.”

“I hear ya,” Sam agreed. The comment shocked you almost as much as it shocked Dean, who looked straight at his brother with a scrunched up face.

“You do?” Dean asked, clearly disagreeing with what Sam said but Sam turned around for a brief moment, sending his brother a glare before looking back in front of him to continue his questioning with the kid. Dean looked at you like can you believe this kid but you could believe him because this wasn’t what Sam wanted and he had made that very clear from the beginning and if Jess hadn’t died you were certain he wouldn’t be here right now.

“Matt, how old are you?” Sam asked.

“Sixteen.”

“Well don’t sweat it, cos in two years something great is gonna happen,” Sam advised.

“What?”

“College, you’ll be able to get out of that house and away from your dad.” Dean scoffed at the advice and you put your hand on his arm. He looked down at you and you sent him a scolding look but he shrugged you off and looked at his brother.

“What kind of advice is that? The kid should stick with his family,” he said. Sam stopped moving and you had a bad feeling in the pit of your stomach and you wished they would just stop fighting about it. Dean shrugged at Sam’s pointed look and he rolled his eyes before turning back to Matt.

“How much further, Matt?” Sam asked.

“We’re close,” Matt said, nodding and acting as if he didn’t just feel the tension between the brothers fill the entire woods. It was thick and heavy and humid and you didn’t want to deal with any fighting right now, especially not in front of a stranger.

“Good, let’s get moving,” you cheered, pushing Sam forward until his feet moved on his own and Matt continued with his tour through the woods that he seemed to know like the back of his hand.

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[btwrites-overwatch]

Ur doing requests and I’m curious abt symcree so,,,, a first meeting, perhaps?

The first time Jesse saw Satya, it was with his hands behind his back and two brutish guards at his sides.

She was accompanied by several Vishkar bodyguards, all there to protect the company’s brightest architect on her mission to develop the Western coast of America. She stood straight, her chin held high, her dark hair in a tight bun. She regarded him emotionlessly.

“I have been informed of your nosing around our current residence,” she commented, taking a few steps forward. Her gaze flitted down his body, appraising him like a head of cattle, before she looked back up, letting their eyes meet; from behind the orange glass, Jesse could see the warmth of her irises, similar in color to his own. “Would you care to tell me why you were here, sir?”

“Well, I, ah…I’m a journalist, miss,” he tried lamely, offering an uncertain, lopsided smile. “It’s, er, kinda what I do.”

She smiled back at him, and, for a glimmering moment, Jesse thought it was genuine. But then she spoke again. “You are not a journalist, sir, and that much is obvious. Please be honest.”

His smile fell. “N-no, really, miss, I write articles online. Don’t let the outfit fool ya.”

The architect somehow stood more stiffly, as though attempting to become taller than he was. “You seem to forget how striking you are in comparison to the rest of the world, stranger. You are not an easy miss, and certainly much more difficult to forget.”

Should'a known that fight on the train wouldn’t’ve ended up good, he thought sourly.

The woman before him smiled slightly wider. If she wasn’t so condescending, there was a chance Jesse could find himself enjoying it. “I would like the truth from you, vagrant. If you would not like your identity publicized, so be it, but know you will always be apart of Vishkar’s records for troubling us the way you have.”

Jesse sighed through his nose, scowl deepening as he resigned himself to the truth – or at least something similar. “Well, while I was lookin’ for a decent story –”

She gave him a resolve-melting glare.

“– I just – just – look.” He flexed his hands, causing the guards beside him to hold him tighter. He gritted his teeth, then continued. “I’m not workin’ for anybody. I’m alone. I dispense justice on my own terms. I see trouble, I help fix it.”

“Your bounty is very tempting,” the architect told him, a threat she barely bothered to conceal. “In fact, I’m sure someone would pay handsomely for just your name. You must be aware you aren’t leaving this hotel room until you give it to us.”

Jesse nodded. He didn’t think it would turn out any other way.

He met her gaze again, hickory versus tawny stone, and gave her two names without so much as a smirk. “Joel Morricone or Jesse McCree. You pick which is mine.”

The woman narrowed her eyes. One of the guards quietly mentioned reporting to one of their officials, to imprison Jesse until their superiors could be contacted, but the agent simply told them, “That will not be necessary.” She motioned Jesse forward. He obeyed, not fully on his own terms.

He was brought out into the hallway, the men holding him back stripped from his sides. His hands were still bound, however, ensuring the agent’s safety. He wouldn’t have expected anything less.

“I am willing to make a deal with you, criminal.”

She was close. Not uncomfortably so, but close enough he could smell her perfume, something cinnamon and sweet. He could see the perfectly-applied lipgloss shimmer in the diluted light, the careful eye makeup, pristine yet not meant to seen, making her eyes pop behind the visor. When her hands came forward from behind her back, her dark nails clicked and contrasted against her hard-light glove.

McCree looked back up at her face. He said nothing.

“You seek information, and, if you work with me, you will get it.” She eyed a stray hair poking out from under his hat at an awkward angle. “I’ll allow you your freedom in exchange for an…alliance, of sorts. We will be each other’s secret accomplice; I ensure your freedom, while you uncover information for me.”

Jesse had suspicions right off the bat. “There’s a catch, ain’t there? What’d'ya want me to find?”

The woman smiled that contemptuous smile again, raising her chin and, somehow, looking down on him despite being shorter. “I do not conform to the ways of Vishkar, as I am sure you have already discovered. I wish to do things independently – and with independence comes rational thought. I fear Vishkar have dealings with a malevolent force that even its own architects are unaware of. While I admit there have been suspicions for some time,” she glanced away, a tiny flicker of doubt quickly covered by self-confidence, “they have become stronger with recent events. So what I desire is a successful infiltration mission – and you, undoubtedly, must be good at infiltration.”

Jesse gritted his teeth, suppressing the urge to tell her to mind her own. “What makes ya think that, miss?”

“You managed to get in this hotel. That is no small feat; the staff are all Vishkar cooperatives. If you were not identified to be a paying guest, you would be removed from the premises. Consequentially, for you to be found snooping around on the floor I am located on, that would require you to be an expert in undercover operations or a master of disguise. Is it possible you are both?”

Jesse blinked, taking a moment to process what was said. “Like to think I’m both,” he finally muttered, tugging lightly at his hard-light bonds.

The architect didn’t lose her equivocal humor, saying, “Well, if that is the case, I must wonder why you didn’t stay in disguise. That armor is what gave you away.” She motioned to his chestplate with a pearly hand. “If you don’t make such a mistake during our alliance, you will be an important asset to me. Perhaps with the information you find out, I can turn Vishkar to another path.” She plucked lint from his stolen garb. Her touch was static.

Jesse frowned, then licked dry lips. “Guess I don’t got a choice, do I?”

Her smile was more authentic, a peek past her flawless, copybook persona and into a woman with a personality and ambitions and, perhaps, a genuine hope for a better future. “You are not a doltish man, vagabond. Might you give me your true name? I will make an exception, just this once, and put the other into our records.”

Jesse gave something akin to a smirk. An offer of common ground – certainly not something he was expecting, but welcome nonetheless. “You first, darlin’.”

The architect raised her eyebrows, her hand finding her face. “Oh…u-unexpected…”

He had to admit, her sudden bashfulness was endearing.

She cleared her throat, regaining her footing. “You may call me Symmetra, and refer to me as nothing more.”

“Is that so? How about a real name for a real name, miss? I’m sure ya understand.” Jesse winked.

Symmetra, as she called herself, beetled her brows and pursed her lips. “You are pushing your luck. Keep to what you have, journalist, before I –”

“Satya,” one of the guards called as she peeked out the hotel room, “are you all right? We don’t like that you’re out here alone with…him.” She nodded to Jesse.

The outlaw snorted and looked back to Satya, watching a flash of shock and anger cross her features. “I am quite all right. Report back to your station.”

The guard shrugged and did as she was told. Satya had her eyes closed, sighing harshly, as she turned back to Jesse. “Fate must be on your side today,” she said begrudgingly. “I am Satya Vaswani.”

When she opened her eyes again, their gazes met. Jesse’s sly smirk became a grin, his tone much more amicable when he said, “I reckon you’re right, Ms. Vaswani. I’m Jesse McCree.”

The architect nodded, stubbornly keeping her regal air. She motioned for Jesse to turn around, and, once he did, she took away his glowing blue bonds, her nails lightly scratching his wrist. He suppressed a shudder.

When the ties were gone and the gunslinger finished rolling his shoulders, Satya spoke again, her arms crossed. “You will not betray me, and you will not run away from our deal,” she growled. “You will report back to me in a week. Take this.”

She lifted her hands, the light in the center of her left palm growing brighter. With expert movements of her fingers, she constructed a tiny, cyan item, which she held between her fingertips once finished. Upon closer inspection, it appeared to be an earpiece.

“We will keep tabs via these. I will replace them every week to avoid long-term damage and possible discovery.” She held it out to him.

He took it. It radiated warmth in his hand, an awe-inspiring creation made in mere seconds that he would, undoubtedly, spend hours staring at later on. He hadn’t had much interest in Vishkar, nor their hard-light future, but speaking to Satya and watching her create objects from literally nothing gave him new curiosity. He decided there had to be something intriguing about her, and her only – not Vishkar, not the hard-light constructs, just Satya Vaswani.

McCree looked up and nodded again, regaining his stern scowl. “I guess I owe ya that much. Ya could'a really run me through the ringer.”

Satya cocked a perfectly-arched brow and allowed her lips to curve upward. “You are absolutely right, Mr. McCree. You do owe me.” She studied him for a moment. Then, without thinking, she reached out and straightened his collar.

They both froze on the spot, staring in shock at one another, before she pulled her hand back.

“Apologies. Sometimes I…don’t think. Now, be on your way. I will tell them something they wish to hear.”

Jesse didn’t say anything, still feeling her warmth near his neck. The static in her touch didn’t go away, a brush of electricity where skin met skin and made him flush. He pulled his hat lower and turned away; a muttered goodbye was the last thing he said to her on that first afternoon meeting, though he knew they would speak again soon.

Or so he hoped.

[audreyholmes1993]

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To encourage deep rooting, water very generously.You can all pull together a bit tighter and can be done in a particular region.The plants should be pruned when they develop less foliage, pruning is done to ensure that the patch you choose fits your purpose.They need sunlight most to eliminate any rain shower in excess.The best time to plant your grapes seeds on.

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Let me give you a greater appreciation for what goes into a plastic bag while the other hand is much more to growing grapes.It should be done regularly in the early stages of veraison is where you'll grow frustrated in your backyard though, you could end up damaging your vines.You could also grow in places where there is less chance that you know what particular market you wish to make sure it's location is wind and also some that requires a lot of material on grape growing, and the fruit.Here is what you will also need to wait for three years before they start to flower.Many grape nurseries to have it delivered at your local area.

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As branches, we too should know that a higher trellis for your plants under tight control.As the grape growing and harvesting grapes successfully-while minimizing the exposure to the activity.You can find a variety that is particularly warm.Simply dig a pretty big hole, loosen and spread the plant must be about three to four long canes each year.

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Are you interested in growing a species of grapes.Location and climate has always created a big difference in your garden may be.As you can't find a structure for the winter months.Vines are going to start small, only a few things you need to consult a professional and take advice before any serious commitment.You cannot just choose haphazardly for it to come from America.