#love learning new plants!

[captain-lovelace]

one thing that having fish and looking up fish advice online has showed me very tangibly is that if you love something but you know nothing about it and don’t learn you will hurt or kill it in trying to do something good for it. So many people over-feed their fish to death because their fish “look hungry”, or prevent their tank from cycling fully because they’re doing 100% water changes every week and end up with fish dying of ammonia or nitrite spikes, or love their pet fish but have no clue that it’s actually going to grow up to be a foot long and will need a much larger tank, etc etc etc. And obviously a good many of these are neglect or poor assumptions about fish as pets and most could be solved with looking shit up, but there are always some cases where the person in question loved the fish but was woefully misinformed, or panicked, or thought they were much more prepared than they were, or any number of things, and they’re devastated by the fact that they’ve hurt something they care deeply about. Often, though, I see these cited as either cases of “loving them too much” or “not loving them enough” or with a veil of “anyone who really loved this animal wouldn’t do this to it” and I think that’s… incomplete? Because the problem isn’t how someone feels or whether they care, the problem is how much work they put in to finding and filling the gaps in their knowledge. The problem isn’t loving something too much or not enough because the love isn’t relevant. Someone can NOT love their fish and take amazing care of them, and someone who loves their fish desperately can be a TERRIBLE fish keeper. I don’t know how generally applicable this is as a theory or even a metaphor but I do think the problem of knowledge vs emotion does extend further than fish.

[teathattast]

just wanna dance with you all night

when everyone has their disguise

i'll show you my heart is real

i'll show you how this could feel

[field-guide-to-mud]

let the rain fall and bring life

[elliott-the-creature]

school is kicking our collective asses time to sleep for 10 hours and be lazy and regret not doing schoolwork wheeeeee

(more context in tags cuz we feel like it lol)

-K (📺📚, 🍁☮️)

[melveres]

I’m so invested in wizard101 and its denizens that it has got me researching actual irl science and engineering so i could depict magic better

[solarpunkani]

Saw your tags on that post about swamp milkweed about having trouble getting it started--you may already know this, but milkweed seeds need light to germinate! They only need a light dusting of soil on top of them (and putting them somewhere with a lot of light helps!); if you can't see the seed through the soil, it's buried a little too deep. They basically want to be laying flat on the surface of the soil rather than poked down into it, with just enough soil on top to help them retain moisture. Yes this does make it kind of annoying to manage moisture because you don't really want them drying out either (sorry 😭) but I hope this helps!! I mention it because this is the most common issue I see with people trying to grow milkweeds from seed. They also want 4 weeks of cold stratification (cool temperatures like in a fridge while also being in contact with moist soil; you can plant your seeds, pop the whole pot in a ziplock/cover it with cling wrap, and just refrigerate it for a few weeks) so don't forget to do that!

You know

it's really funny

because i like to call myself the self-proclaimed milkweed queen of tumblr (at least on my gardening blog but still)

And yet

I

constantly fucking forget about the light thing

IDK if that'll fix all my problems (the soil at my house is pretty sandy so I think that's the problem when it comes to transplanting at least) but regarding getting those little shits to germinate??? that might be the ticket

(one of the other problems I face sometimes is the seeds deciding to mold when they're in the fridge cold stratifying, i lost a good chunk of seeds to that last year but i don't see any signs of it happening yet this year so fingers crossed everyone)

[rat-rosemary]

Wait I have more silly thoughts about that dnpn au

Punz slowly start getting inhuman traits the longer that he is a devout of the Dteam ("Why are my eyes weird?! What did you do!?" "What? That happens naturally to every devout, their Gods' power leaks into them and they get changed" "..." "...Is this not a thing anymore" "NO!!") and he starts getting a lot of dragon like traits, which leaks into the petnames dnn call him

So they will call Punz their "golden guardian" and he will look up at them from where he's literally sitting on the palm of Dream's hand with the most lovesick autistic eyes

[littletinyguydude]

How to blow up a pipeline harlivy au… need more ecoterrorism and dismantling of the systems that cripple the environment in depictions of the girlies

[dutybcrne]

Forever love the idea of Kae being an absolute nerd once you get to know him. Dude acts all suave and charming, then upon getting home, his time is most preferred spent reading the latest rec Jean’s given him with a cup of tea in hand and a plushy tucked under his chin. Or is constantly abt .5 seconds away from infodumping or smth, esp the more he gets attached to sb.

[flowercrowngods]

So, any manufacturing center can be a plant. Cars are built at car plants. Also where electricity is generated, not just nuclear power. There are coal burning power plants, for example.

Because it's Indiana in the 80s, I kind of expect the plant Wayne works at to be a steel plant, or someplace that builds agricultural equipment like tractors. I believe Indiana did decent amount of automobile manufacture, as well.

the face i made reading this!! :D

that’s so interesting!! thank you, that genuinely helps understanding and writing wayne, whose background is largely comprised of fanon anyway

thank you, friend! 🙏🤍

[poured-my-past-down-the-drain]

opinions on animals in general?

My favorite EVER 🥰🥰🥰

I love animals very very much. I have so many little facts about them rattling around in my brain :)))) god forbid I remember what trigonometry formulas are, there’s only room for cattle and bugs and other little guys :))))

[zelzelez]

:))))))))))) I'm so happy. I'm so in love. I feel so safe, motivated and enthusiastic for the future. I am so thankful.

[dietrichs-fanclub]

curry is a plant :)

[cj-kenobi]

fucking love late night conversations gotta be one of my favourite socialisation types

[great-and-small]

Spending time with kids always reminds me how much I love the way they play. I’ll be like “hey kid look, this little bug is called an isopod it’s related to crabs and it eats dead plants” and they’ll immediately respond with something like “cool let’s play isopods we have to collect dead leaves as fast as we can and if we don’t get enough we die of starvation and have a bug funeral”

What an amazing way to process new information or explore an idea! It’s important to remember these kinds of games are not random or pointless; playing is how kids learn.

[the---archive]

More weeds!!

11) Actual Knotweed(s) lol

Note: knotweeds grow pretty big so there should be plenty of space to hide your werewolf sex if you'd like!

12) Broadleaf Plaintain

13) Curly Dock

14) Lambsquarters

15) Poison Sumac

16) Stinging Nettle

17) Wild Violet

18) Purple Deadnettle

19) Buttercup

20) Death Come Quickly (AKA Herb Robert, among other names)

entry level weed for beginners