#i’m a leaf cabbage stan

[pigeonhome]

pov you finish ur draft while babysitting ur drunk roommate on the floor

task failed tried to hype myself up to write the rest of the rough draft tonight instead chugged 200 mg of caffiene cried started sweating and shaking and am watching the last of us i think im doing this wrong

[samnyangie]

Your (un)helpful guide to rsl’s theatre characters

As many of you might have noticed I’m a stan who is obsessed with theatre sphere of Bobby’s career. Yes I proudly can say that I am.

So this is a list of guide and appreciation of theatrical characters Bobby did. It’s mainly for myself really, just for fun sake haha. I don’t know some of them fully so I might got few things wrong and I just pick the ones I love/find it interesting

Eugene Jerome (Brighton Beach Memoirs)

A horny annoying jewish teenager, but so adorable (at least for me), his goals are: being famous baseball player or a famous writer in case the former goal fails(what a back up plan) and see a girl naked in real life, also is your shopping boy for flours, butter and ice cream.

Eugene Marchbanks (Candida)

A young poet in his 19, a hopeless romantic (aka a simp) for a married woman in mid thirties(I have no rights to mock him thoooo), my favourite passive aggressive, foolish, introverted very much obsessed lad. Nominated for tony on 1993

A. E. Housman (The Invention Of Love)

Another hopelessly romantic young poet in the 19th century, but this time, is in love with his best friend and not aggressive. A role he won a tony on 2001 for (as he should!)

Alexandros (When She Danced)

A Greek narcissistic piano prodigy (the first thing he literally say is ‘I’m a prodigy’) who speaks trilingual: English, Greek, Italian (I think). This means Bobby actually played piano (Two pieces of Bach) and spoke Greek and Italian!! Dklsjsmsjskks oh sir I-

Edgar (King Lear)

My (along with puck) Shakespeare bias, this photo explains everything

Edmund Tyrone (Long Day’s Journey into night)

A dying, fretful, mental young fellow who has family issues and needs desperate (including all of his family) help, nominated for tony on 2003

Don Parritt (The iceman Cometh)

A poor mental teenage fellow who has anarchist mother issues result in a weird obsession on an old man who used to be kind to him when he was a kid… also needs help

Alan Harris (White People)

A liberal college history professor, interested in American slavery history and strong anti-racist, but as his pregnant wife got murdered by a black man, he gets into a conflict between his surfacing hatred and his beliefs, (a play itself is about a 80’s American society on racism, there’re few interviews on this particular play, despite that there’re lack photos;(( I’ll share some at some point)

Alan Hoffman (Prodigal Son)

I saw people joking of it’s being a sequel to dps, in alternative universe where Neil was alive, became a literature teacher guiding the troubled ones, haha and there’s a vague hunch of him being homosexual

Harold Hill (The Music Man)

A smooth talking con man in suittttttttt (white suitssssssss) this video explains everything

Winthrop (The Music Man)

I barely remember anything about him but all I know was he was so adorable so Bobby’s Winthrop must be insanely aborable

Romeo (Romeo and Juliet)

This photo explains everything 2222222222222

Dr Valentine (You Never Can Tell)

A helpless romantic dentist in love for a girl he just met and doesn’t know what’s going on

Gimpty (Dead End)

A street gang kid from ghetto, has a limp so always walks with a cane (hmmmm doesn’t that remind you of someone…), opportunist to the point of betraying childhood friends

Kenneth Talley Jr (Fifth of July)

A gay Vietnam war veteran, has paraplegic leg due to the war, carry a medical walking stick thing(I don’t know the proper name for it;;3), used to had a thing for his friend

Peter (At home At the Zoo)

Your average nice good pacifist family man but (((spoiler alert))) commits murder when it comes to a bench spot

Henry Higgins (Pygmalion)

A frantic, hot headed British phonetic professor known for his elegant eloquence such as ‘you squashed cabbage leaf’, forces an oblivious flower girl into his weird game then get backfired (honestly it’s so funny I love Eliza)

Tom Wingfield (Glass Menagerie)

This photo explains everything 3333333333333333333333333333333

Gar (private) (Philadelphia, Here I Come!)

An Irish inner sardonic alter ego of the actual Gar (Public), unseen by everyone except Gar(Public), obnoxious and chatty usually says stuff which… shouldn’t be said (imagine Bobby speaking in Irish accent haha)

King Richard III (Richard III)

A king who is a dominant tyrant but loves his queen

King Arthur (Camelot)

A king who isn’t a dominant tyrant and loves his queen + sing

Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mocking Bird)

A southern lawyer with strong morals, taken a defence case of wrongfully accused young black man of r**e (I really need to read the book)

Christopher Morcom (Breaking the code)

(FINALLYYYYY) a best friend who a gay genius protagonist is in love for (it’s based on the life of Alan Turing)

[limit-list]

ellie’s master taglist

sooo i’ve always used a bunch of tags, and it recently occurred to me that i should explain my basic tagging system! so here we go, i tend to generally rant in the tags of course, but i have some common ones that i use for organization. tags will be split up by me-specific tags, general atla tags, character tags, tags for stuff in real life, fandom tags that aren’t specifically atla, and my person specific tags

Me-Specific Tags

me tho: anything that relates to me

ellie posts: posts that i’ve made

ellie writes: my writing, these are my concepts and my actual writing

working title: wow he’s hot: this is my ficblogging for “pull my world apart”

concept: my fic concepts that i need other people to write

ellie answers: these are my answers to any asks i get

ellie’s thoughts: my thoughts on random shit

not ellie being sappy: contrary to the title, this is my sappy tag

ellie draws: any art i do goes here, there’s like two posts so far haha

ficblogging: snippets of my fics before they’re posted

im an art nerd: my art nerdiness

ask games :): whenever i do ask games i use this tag

thanks for the ask!!: i’m not consistent with this tag lmao but i use it sometimes

im in this post and i dont like it: exactly what it says on the tin

personal: personal stuff, don’t use this much anymore i dont think

okay im ranting in the tags: not a consistent tag, sometimes i’ll put this in

never have i ever had this many followers on tumblr: i use this tag every time i hit another milestone on here!

General Atla Tags

atla: just anything atla related

atla analysis: includes meta and any speculation or analysis of the atla universe or characters

momo and appa discourse: my fear the lemurs stuff. not a complete list, just everything i reblogged

atla fanart/op is talentbending/everyone say thank you op: atla fanart in general. op is talentbending is my tag for amazing work in general, and everyone say thank you op is my tag for my favorite fan works

atla fic recs: fics i love and want other people to love as well

atla blog recs: blogs that i think everyone should follow

atla aus: general aus

atla headcanons: headcanons

incorrect atla: incorrect atla quotes, funniest things

atla discourse: i keep forgetting to use this tag, but ideally its for general discourse in the fandom. of which there is lots, as you all know hahah

cabbage man conspiracy: my headcanon about the cabbage men, it’d take forever to explain, just check out the tag

long post: long posts of all kinds

Character Specific Tags

zuko bby: zuko

i fuckin love sokka: sokka

zukka: self explanatory

bakoda: self explanatory

uncle of the fire nation: uncle iroh

toph the hbic: toph

aang is a precious bean: aang

fuckin jet: jet

sunflower come get your mans: also a jet tag, but used less frequently as fuckin jet

his royal majestiy sir momo: momo

hakoda(d): hakoda

someone let me punch ozai: ozai

queen suki/suki: suki

fire lord zuko: specifically relating to fire lord zuko

ambassador sokka: specifically relating to ambassador sokka

yo motherofturtleducks: one of my turtleduck tags

katara, yue, gaang, appa, turtleducks, bato, other various characters might just be their names

Real Life Tags

real life: anything that isn’t fandom stuff

lgbtq+: lgbtq+ issues or awareness or anything specific

happy pride!!!!: all pride posts

activism: activism

human rights: general awareness posts or anything with human rights

advice: general advice

reminder: reminders that i sometimes need about life

politics: anything political

shit do i have adhd: things about adhd

Fandom Tags

not atla: anything that isn’t related to atla

writing: writing tips and stuff calling writers out

fic culture: anything relating to fanfic in general

hp: harry potter

httyd: how to train your dragon

kingsman: anything about kingsman. i also have character specific tags, but seeing as i don’t post much about kingsman anymore i don’t think they’re relevant

marvel: anything marvel. i also have character, actor, and pairing specific tags, but seeing as i don’t post much about marvel anymore i don’t think they’re relevant

doctor who: doctor who, not much here cause im a closet stan but it’ll happen

Person/Blog Specific Tags

just me stanning visit ba sing se

hiya vbss :)

hot leaf juice is precious

uncle of the blogsquad

birthdaytoast is my fav

blogsquad antics/extremely fuckin atla: these are both tags for blogsquad stuff. extremely fuckin atla was my blogsquad tag before the blogsquad was founded, and post founding i use blogsquad antics

heyo smartass anon

we love motherofturtleducks in this household

thank ya sifu

it really do be zukka time

hey sunflower :)

momo ily bud

uh... that was really long but i think that’s most of them? i’m likely forgetting something, but this is so long that i’ll just hope i covered everything haha. time to go link them in somehow when i figure out how tumblr works

[wellamarke]

Hey Joni :) Long time no speak, but wanted to see if you had any advice. I'm thinking about owning a stick insect, do you have any suggestions? such as, should I get more than one or are they happy being on their own? Do you use a heat mat under their tank to keep it warm? (also as Im planning to total own giant snails and giant leaf insects if I can in the near future but thats a step up! - are giant snails quite easy to look after?) x

[2/2]Hey Joni, You know that ask about stick insects and giant african snails I sent you a little while ago, can I add in a question? Ive read that snails carry salmonella bacteria like reptiles, does this make it difficult to keep them? I’m a bit of a germaphobe so salmonella makes me a little nervous but I’m absolutely in love with giant snails! Thank you!

Hellooooo! Sorry it’s taken so long for this to materialise. This is my third attempt at writing this, since my phone decided to eat it twice. Apparently I’m cursed. But now I’m here in a different app, praying that I’m not about to write an essay for nothing….

I thought I would post the reply publically so that anyone else who finds themselves interested in stick insects or snails can read it too. It might end up serving as a little FAQ section if my bug-keeping ways ever become known enough to be asked about frequently, heh heh heh.

So, here goes. Take three.

Stick Insect Suggestions

Plurality In terms of what they actually prefer - I’m not sure they mind much. I’ve kept them in pairs, triples, groups and - in the case of the recently departed Douglas - singles, and they seem to go about their Insecty business much the same, unencumbered by feelings of loneliness or rivalry. So I suppose it’s up to your preference how many you keep! Here are a couple of factors to consider, though:Babies sometimes die inexplicably. Well, perhaps to a doctor of stick insect ailments it wouldn’t be inexplicable… but through no fault of the owner, some nymphs don’t shed their skins properly, or fall from their tank roofs and damage themselves, and there’s not much you can do about it. So it seems best to start off with a handful of insects to ensure that you get at least one or two who survive into adulthood. (I still don’t know what happened to Carolyn, one of my original five. She developed a strange dent in her back that made her look as though she’d been snapped in half, but other than that seemed fine until it was time to shed her skin, which she couldn’t do. Babies are fragile, I guess. Once full grown they’re much less prone to random dying.) Ease of cleaning out. Once Douglas was alone it was soooo much easier to change over his leaves, because there was only one of him to keep an eye on why I did so. Cleaning out a tank while six of them are crawling all over the place requires a lot more presence of mind, obviously! Usually with just Doug I waited until he was in a convenient position where I didn’t have to disturb him too much, like on the roof or in one of the corners. If he was on the roof it was perfect because I could dump all the old leaves and swill out the whole tank. If he was in a corner I could at least wipe it. I tried not to bother him too much in his old age, otherwise I suppose I could have just moved him where I wanted him. This, too, would have been easier to do with just him to worry about.So you see there are advantages to having a group and having a single. Although you could get around the group difficulties by having a secondary container to deposit them in while you cleaned out their proper tank, I suppose.

Heat MatsHere is a secret about stick insects: they are easy to look after. Apparently on the internet, this is a secret. On the internet people like to overromanticise their Foreign Exoticness™, and would have you installing a heat mat, a miniature gymnasium, a salad bar and a skating rink for the comfort of your Foreign Exotic™ pets. But truthfully they are not fussy creatures, in my experience. Unless you live in the Arctic, your home is probably not too cold for them. I have never had heat mats for my sticks. I would say you need to guard against them getting too hot, rather than too cold - and I live in England!When I was about twelve, I had my very first stick insects, Stan and Laurel, for a rather brief amount of time that was cruelly cut short by them dying of heatstroke. They were left in direct sunlight for a couple of hours, and cooked. Meanwhile, the insects I’ve had since then have survived English winters with no ill effects - and no heat mats. Of course, mine are Indian Stick Insects, the most basic kind money can buy. I claim absolutely no expertise on any other kind of stick (or leaf, or indeed otherwise shaped) insect - possibly, some of the ones that truly have a degree of Foreign Exoticness™ will be glad of a good heat mat. Don’t quote me unless you’re buying Indians. Probably don’t quote me at all, lest the Righteous Exotickers descend on me…! But I would honestly say Indian stick insects are fine in most climates without a heat mat.

Other things:

I very rarely handle my stick insects - the few times I’ve touched them have mostly been accidental! Maybe it’s me projecting my touch-phobe ways onto them, but Douglas lived four months longer than the average so I can only guess that he was pleased to go undisturbed for most of his life. My defence here is that if I wanted a touchy-feely pet, I would have got one with fur. (Also, I read somewhere once that sometimes being picked up can scare them, and they’ll just drop a leg and run away, hopefully regenerating the limb later but if not, their attitude is “oh well, at least I got away from the scary human with my other five”. I have no idea if this is true, but I don’t touch them with my hands if I can help it. If I do need to move them I try and tempt them onto a leaf first. Though if a stick has decided it wants to be somewhere, you often have a job convincing it to move.)

I have recently taken to setting some stems with leaves on in little containers of water, which makes them last much longer. But the insects could drown in more than a few drops of water, so the containers are covered, with just a few holes in their lids to let the stalks through. I don’t know if that’s a good enough description, maybe I’ll add a photo here later of this setup.

They love to drink tiny water droplets, so a spray bottle is a good thing to keep on hand. You can get away with only changing the leaves every four or five days if the spray’s there to break it up.

They have cute little faces. Once they’re adult it’s big enough to see. Make sure you cherish their faces and tell them often that they are beautiful.

Don’t worry if the top part of their front legs start going red. I thought Doug and his siblings had developed some kind of disease when I first noticed this! But actually red “armpits” (as I began calling them) are a sign of healthy adulthood. If anything it just means you can stop worrying that they’ll die during skin-shedding, because they won’t need to shed anymore. (Again, I can only speak for Indians… perhaps in other stick species red legs is a sign that the End Times are upon us!)

I have recently taken to covering the floor of the tanks with tissue paper. I never bothered before this generation of babies hatched, but when they did I read that tissue is a good idea, because if they fall on it they’ll be protected. Now I just kind of do it anyway, even though they’re all about the same age as Douglas and Co were when I got them. Not only does it protect them a little from falling, it makes clearing out the droppings ten times easier, especially if they insist on staying put when you’re trying to do so. As mentioned, they are stubborn beasties. I wonder sometimes if they were called stick insects because their feet stick to things, and then we named wooden sticks after them because of the resemblance, rather than the other way round…

Giant Snails!

Are they easy to look after?Yes, I think so! They eat most kinds of fruit and vegetables - exhaustive lists can be found on Snail Forums, but mine are especially fond of lettuce and broccoli. They’re not that bothered about strawberries or cabbage, I’ve found. I don’t know if this is typical or just Snailsa and Shelemiah being awkward. It’s fun to watch them eating, and I just take out uneaten food once it looks a bit old, before it goes mouldy on them. I also don’t give them the outer leaves of lettuce etc, because it might have pesticides on. The other thing they like - for some reason - is flakes meant for exotic fish. No idea why, and I probably wouldn’t have thought to give it to them, but the people we adopted them from sent them with a tub of fish food, and sure enough, they can’t get enough of the stuff. If they’re sulking about something and won’t eat, I sprinkle a bit of fish food and suddenly everything is forgiven. Strange but true.They also need a sprinkle of calcium every now and then on their food, to help keep their shells strong. Everywhere you look people recommend cuttlefish bone too, and I have given mine some, but I’ve never seen them actually use it so for good measure I still sprinkle a little calcium. They like to be kept damp, so every day I spray them with water. Sometimes if they get too hot they seal themselves into their shells, and then they need a good dousing from the spray bottle to coax them out. The first time it happened I thought they were dead… but they’ve revived each time, and I just try not to let them get too dry for too long. I also have to check for eggs every few days, and they should be removed and frozen. (I’m not sure how easy/legal it is to breed your own baby snails. Everywhere I’ve read, it just says not to. You definitely can’t release them into the wild, because they’re not part of the ecosystem here.) I actually haven’t ever found an egg… so I’m not sure how often they’re supposed to appear?!I think snails do prefer to live in pairs or more, for what it’s worth. They are, to quote something I read online, “gregarious”. Love that word. Never seen it used in regard to stick insects, but… The snails have the kind of peat/soil stuff sold for large spider care, in the bottom of their tank to bury themselves in or dig around. I change that when it gets old but I’m not sure how often it should by rights be changed. Usually ends up being every other month or so.

SalmonellaYes, they do carry salmonella, which is a little unfortunate. I have a supply of plastic gloves that I keep with their tank, and I use them the whole time I’m handling them or their stuff. Then afterwards I still wash my hands with soap, because….. you never know! I’m not usually a germaphobe at all but I’m being unprecedentedly careful over the snails, heh heh. Maybe I’ll get lazier once I’ve had them a bit longer (as I’ve heard of other people touching them with their bare hands etc), but at the moment I’m taking the double precaution. It’s not much of a bother really, in comparison to how cute they are to look at :D

Well, I think that’s it, and woohooo, my phone has left it alone so far! Now let’s see if it will post. Doubtless I’ll come back and add more things as I remember them, but for now… this has been a Sticks & Snails PSA! Thank you for your attention.