'girlboss is out girlfailure is in' please please please can we discuss female characters in media outside of soundbites im begging you can we form complex opinions about the role of women in narratives
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i do not remember the plot of scum villain because i read it in 2020 and it feels like a fever dream now so my characterization is entirely based off of the fanon on my dash.
hualian are my favorite but i do feel that bingqiu deserve the win. tgcf is VERY yuri, but svsss has gender as a main theme and both characters keep getting compared to maidens. overall there are more explicit references to women regarding bingqiu.
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ok this sounds insane but in 2018 i went to a few carnivorous plant talks at the botany conference in minnesota. i got caught up in conversation with one of the guys there who was a huge nepenthes guy who told me a story about another collector in the pacific northwest who'd been buying poached plants, like a huge amount, and eventually got staked out by the fish and wildlife service and arrested and had all his plants seized and went to prison for it. idk if i ever talked about this on this blog before-- i know i liveblogged a lot from that conference but cant remember what all i posted-- but ive avoided talking about it since then because i was never able to find like, news articles or anything covering it, but behold.... we now have proof it was real, and im like 80% sure this was this guy he was talking about. the raid happened in 2016 and they'd been staking them out since 2013. he had nearly 400 plants and had been sourcing many of them from poachers in indonesia and borneo.
remember folks: poaching happens with plants too! it's a huge problem not only in carnvirous plants (nepenthes especially, which this piece is dedicated to talking about) but also in native plant populations in the US, including native carnivorous plant populations (north and south carolina's venus fly traps, california's darlingtonia, and sarracenia from the east coast), native orchids (historically one of the most poached categories), desert plants/cacti/succulents, and slow-growing woody ornamentals (cycads, for example). never buy bare-root plants off ebay or facebook! your best bet is local nurseries (which usually purchase farm-raised plants that do well in a wide range of conditions, and as a result have a healthy population in the wild) or specialty greenhouses (more expensive, but at least in the case of carnivorous plants offer young plants bred from established adult plants in-house, raised in captivity).
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pet names that kn8 men would call you (i think)
hoshina — darling. love. dearest. beautiful. baby.
reno — sweetheart. honey. angel.
gen — babe. sexy. prince(ss).
iharu — babe. baby.
haruichi — beautiful. gorgeous. darling. sweetheart. honey.
aone — sweetheart. gorgeous. love.
kafka — honey. sweetheart. love.
TY @/BIOLUMIEN FOR CHECKING THEM & ADDING !!
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Y'all are all "billionaires deserve to die" until they actually do (and of their own doing!!) and then it's all clutching your pearls when the average person doesn't give a shit that they paid a ridiculous amount of money to be trapped in a metal tube with no locating device and knew all of this going in.
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How do you think Steve felt the first time he realised that Tommy was going to be celebrating his birthday without him. He didn't have to go shopping for a present, didn't have to help plan his party. They weren't best friends anymore. Steve likes the person he is now, it was a good decision to cut Tommy off, but fuck it hurts.
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