#mosscoric

[losergendered]

ID: a set of 8 images in 4 pairs. each has one image of the listed muppets character with a white outline in front of their corresponding flags, and a second image which is a blank flag splice. END ID

Gonzo from The Muppets Show is an autistic, hyperempathetic, nixpangi, gibberishstimmic, nindyne, genderqueer, transneumascfem, weirdbeing, chaostix, genderfunny, sillyesque, thingperspesque, fluxpercimale loserthing with ADHD and special interests in daredevil stunts, explosives, cannons, and performing, and he uses he/him, it/its, thing/thing’s, boom/booms, Gonzo/Gonzo's, and we/weirdo pronouns!

It is good friends with Kermit The Frog, an autistic, binonmanswitch, fem transmasc, frobloomgender, greenpresentic binary green-boy vernipondic, mosscoric, frogcoric, frogtix, darcian, fem 2 masc, gwanwynfluid, T4TW/T4TF, malewifemascic, transmasc gaybian with OCD and generalized anxiety disorder who's prone to explosive outburst and relies on Gonzo to calm ribbet down; he uses he/him, ao/aos, ribbet/ribbets, and hop/hops pronouns!

Kermit is married to Miss Piggy, a femmetalgender, girlbossfemic, femintire, masc transfem, loverighter, feingender, müllerian, cerisic, julietian, genderqueer femme, genderselkie, girlflux boygirl, femact, helianfemme, amorsiable, artdecoaesic, T4TM, binaryn’t gal with low empathy and BPD! She uses she/her, shi/hyr, fey/feir, and kir/kira pronouns, and her favourite muppet is Kermit! 

Kermit and Miss Piggy are raising their adopted nephew Robin The Frog, an autistic, transtidal, nocstuffic, adorafaun, parsummria boy with social anxiety, misophonia, and PTSD! They have a special interest in frog scouts and swamps, and they use he/him and they/them pronouns! Robin often refers to Gonzo as their "Auncle Gonzo"!

[hobohobgoblim]

"A Cluster Of Rats" is an extremely impressive Japanese Netsuke (small sculpture) from the late 1800s 🐀

[mistysolitude]

my mom said we can hide in the woods, cast ancient spells, be embraced by moss and befriend eldritch creatures if it's ok with your mom

[charmed-n-zesty]

[calliopes-diary]

moss!!!

[greenteacryptid]

This environment is incredibly hostile to a creature such as myself (there are fluorescent lights)

[the-crow-in-the-blooming-tree]

Brittany, France

[theenbyroiderer]

Almost done now! Then I can start to assemble all the parts of the moss wall!

[schistostegapennata]

can you talk about moss poaching i'm actually really curious

How can I refuse! Absolutely!!! It sounds kind of ridiculous, but it's actually very sad.

So, let's start off with some numbers. Every year, the moss black market is estimated to garner up to $165 million for trafficking approximately 82 million pounds of moss.

I cannot even wrap my mind around how much moss that is.

You might ask, why does moss poaching exist and why is it so lucrative? Well, the quality that has made mosses the prey of an illegal trade is simply their aesthetic appeal. Soft, velvety, and moist, mosses are extremely pleasant to the touch and calming to look at. Some people are willing to pay large amounts of money to collect them and put them in private gardens. However, most of the mosses that move in this underground black market are actually sold to companies/wholesalers for use in potting/gardening soil, plant nurseries, decor, and as craft materials. The majority of the preserved mosses in your run-of-the-mill chain craft store, planters, floral wreaths, or very-much-dead living wall decorations are gathered illegally, bleached to death, and then dyed green. This goes for a lot of prepackaged peat moss and soil mix blends as well.

Even though it is illegal to gather moss in public places (in the US, at least), people still harvest it. Why? Probably because there's a fair amount of money to be made and the consequences are very rarely enforced, and when they are, they are quite light--usually a $50 fine at worst if you're caught. Most of this black market moss is actually poached from the national park system, with Appalachia and the Pacific Northwest usually being the hardest hit regions.

Mosses play vital roles in many ecosystems, provide homes for threatened species, regulate water distribution in forests, and help with erosion, so their loss is a terrible blow. Additionally, moving such large quantities of mosses from one location to another may spread unwanted, invasive hitchhikers, like insects that lay their eggs in the plants, or even seeds and spores.

I'll end on this thought:

It can take 20 years for a small patch of moss removed from a fallen tree to grow back with the right moisture conditions.

How long would it take to regrow 82 million pounds?

[the-fae-can-have-me]

[dustyaulos]

[charmed-n-zesty]

[oracle-fae]

Andrea Camacho

[visionsofnightfall]

Diamonds atop a bed of moss.

instagram.

print shop

[elixir]

Moss waterfall © Ben Humphrey — 2007

[the-crow-in-the-blooming-tree]