#photoperiodism

[addictedgallery]

Spanish artist Almudena Romero is using her unique plant-based art to push audiences to question their hyper-consumerism whilst showing that it’s possible to create art in an eco-friendly manner.\

[concertphotos]

Autumn Colors along the Blue Ridge Parkway Aerial View by David Oppenheimer Via Flickr: Autumn colors along the Blue Ridge Parkway taken on October 14, 2022 aerial view - © 2023 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions aerial photography archives - performanceimpressions.com

[semprvivum]

update on my tiny autoflower

[scentofpines]

finally sunny 🌱

[sharontheganja]

[darksouls2yuri]

i just made a fish tank journal which i shouldve done like... 2 years ago when i started keeping fish ^_^;

[tonytomeo]

Environmental Factors Silently Influence Bloom

California poppy dramatizes favorable weather conditions. Superbloom occurs only about once every decade or so. It is very unpredictable though. It can happen for two or even three consecutive springs. Alternatively, it may not happen for two decades. It can be as early as late February, or as late as late May. It can last one or a few weeks. Superbloom is as variable as the environmental…

[concertphotos]

Autumn Colors below a Shadowed Ridgeline of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Haywood County, North Carolina Aerial View by David Oppenheimer Via Flickr: Autumn colors below a shadowed ridgeline of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Haywood County, North Carolina taken on October 14, 2022 aerial view - © 2023 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions aerial photography archives - performanceimpressions.com

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The leaves of DNPs have also been shown to produce a graft-transmissible floral stimulus (Table 20.2).

"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.

[semprvivum]

i don't know if autoflowers are supposed to flower at 5 inches tall but look at my tiny weed plant

[tenth-sentence]

Although floral evocation occurs at the apical meristems of shoots, in photoperiodic plants inductive photoperiods are sensed by the leaves.

"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.

[sharontheganja]

[feyresdandelion]

"Elain can’t be with Azriel because she hates violence."

I don’t think anyone in the inner circle loves violence. I would go as far as to say everyone hates it. It doesn’t mean they don’t have to use it once in a while to protect the people they love.

Elain hates violence, yes, but she also stabbed the King of Hybern in the neck to protect her sister and kicked the beasts in their faces with her bare feet to protect Azriel and the human girl. She has used violence to protect the people she cares about more than once.

Also, why are you reducing Azriel’s character to just his job? He is so much more, and I doubt he loves torturing people or violence. That doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have to do his job.

And the fact that people say that Elain needs light and Lucien is light and that flowers perish in darkness but bloom in light (girl what 😭 flowers need light AND darkness, please learn about photoperiodism) and that Lucien, as the son of Helion, is light and Azriel is darkness, and Elain, being a flower, needs light.

First of all, Lucien is not light. His name is the only light imagery he has had this far. He has a lot of fire imagery; he’s said to have inherited his mother’s family fire powers, he is called the Lord of Fire… If we follow their logic, fire kills flowers, so he would be just as bad for Elain as Azriel is.

Second, flowers don’t die in darkness. They need darkness, the same way they need light. Not everything is black and white; sometimes something needs a mix of two opposing sides to flourish.

And third, Elain herself wants Azriel. Azriel wants Elain. Why are people so obsessed with trying to take their autonomy and choices from them?

[foreficfandom]

Alastor Headcanons: His Body, Anatomy, and Sexuality

His Hellish, cervine body has a light, single-coated coat. He would get molts if Hell had photoperiodism, so if you want an Al that gets floof during the fall and winter, then thank the longer nights and cooler air. 

By square inch, deer have more hair follicles than humans, but not Alastor. So even though he’s got visible down on every exposed bit of skin, it’s not particularly dense, making it ineffective at thermoregulating - it doesn’t block enough sun, doesn’t regulate the heat, and doesn’t parse cool air. He’s lucky that he’s a Louisiana-summer-swamp homebody, otherwise Hell’s heat would suck. 

If Al ever took a modern health check whilst alive, he’d learn he’s prone to hypotension and high cholesterol. Casual cocaine consumption also messed up his gastrointestinal system, putting him at a high risk of ulcers and hernias. Luckily, he never got one of those ‘cause the surgeries available at the time for ulcers had a whopping 33% mortality rate. He did have repeated potty problems, though, and it was public knowledge that cocaine was the cause. Didn’t stop him.

Heck, I’m not sure if I headcanon Hellaverse bodies as having the same properties of their living counterparts. If they do, then Al’s high meat consumption + cocaine use = nasty shits. He’d be constantly dehydrated, with a horrible acid reflux. And that’s not even taking into account if he drinks alcohol, coffee, or smokes tobacco. 

When mortal, Alastor’s body hair was curly, and there was a single very sparse stripe of minimal hair down his sternum that really only betrayed how svelte his figure was, if anything. By adulthood, he had long since accepted that he’d never be the image of masculine fevor. 

And yes, the dick has also changed upon death. It didn’t outright turn into an actual deer’s dick, but it now rests inside a pouchy sheath to protect its coat-less flesh. He actually likes that development. Extra coverings. Nature’s own athletic cup. 

His asexuality + his age (early forties) means that he has trouble getting it up. If he’s ever getting down and dirty, half the time it’s ¾ mast at most, and it won’t stay hard for long. A lot of his cums are dry, limp ones, and only if he makes the effort at all. 

Sinner bodies change based off of what they like about themselves, what they don’t like about themselves, and are largely intended to be ironic caricatures. Alastor’s very aware of the whole ‘deer symbolism’ thing he’s got going on. As the years went on, he also noticed that his chest expands in direct relation to his antlers, and so does his scrotum. Yeah, you heard me. 

Basically, I headcanon that Hell sometimes takes a Silent Hill-esque tulpar approach to a sinner’s body. A buck’s rack is symbolic of masculinity, and so is violence. The more bloodthirsty Alastor feels, the more his body morphs its superficial masculine traits. Popular fanon has Al’s father been abusive whilst his mother a supportive and loving figure. In Alastor’s world, violence is masculine. 

And by the way, did you know that deer antlers are actually a controlled form of cancer? It begins as cartilage supplied by blood vessels and living tissue, then turns into bone and dies, sitting there as dead weight until the skull decides to sever it. Alastor’s antlers aren’t bone, they’re carbon - the hardest element in mammal bodies, lightly conductive to electricity, and a great transceiver for radio signals. His talons are the same. Sharpened carbon/iron is very deadly. 

Alastor’s radio powers have a hard limit on their bandwidth - he can only use the lowest and widest wavelengths. So no atomic powers for him. He can’t even microwave his enemies. Radio waves can transmit very far and deep, but have the lowest effect on atoms. AKA, they’re perfect for relaying sounds and images without irradiating a country. 

Now, radio waves need a transceiver to broadcast. Alastor’s entire body is one big transceiver, with his antlers acting as antenna, his body bulk encoding the frequency modulation, and his feet electricity conductors that receive energy from the ground. If none of his body is connected to a power source (like, he’s floating in the air or something), he can still do radio shit, but only AM waves, like real-life radios before electricity. 

Now, all that frequency translation takes its toll on the body. Constantly passing low-vibration waves throughout his organs mean a weak heart, varicose veins, brittle bones, lung inflammation, and more. All that, combined with his low BMI and poor diet means he is a sickly man. Tuck into the bedsheets like a dying Victorian child sort of sickly. A doctor from his lifetime would be prescribing him a diet of milk toast and citric acid tablets. 

You know he’s letting huge walls down if he so much as coughs whilst in your presence. In public, he’d never be seen rubbing at his aching chest or slouching from his cramping intestines. He’s got an Image to put on, after all. 

Don’t coddle his various aches and pains. He knows perfectly well why his body is fucked up, and he doesn’t intend to do anything about it. To him, his wack deer form is riddled with battle scars, proof of his power and hard work.