#seed to harvest

[thunderandsage]

i recently found all four patternmaster books in one volume so i’m re-reading wild seed and just… getting fucked over again at the sheer strength of butler’s writing. doro as a character is especially fascinating, both because of his utter disregard for human life and autonomy and because of his proximity to anyanwu who is his opposite in nearly every way that matters except for the main point that they are the only two immortals, and though they despise each other there is no other person in the world who can comprehend their eternal existence… and i adore anyanwu’s ferocity and love and bitterness, a healer who can at the same time deliver spectacular violence and who clings to her beliefs even under the rule of a man who sees them as obstacles to be eroded… just. fucked up, but in the most interesting way

[busyasabii]

But for now, they would go on being abysmal parents, neglecting and abusing their children not out of cruelty, but because they hurt too badly themselves to notice their children’s pain. In fact, they were likely to notice that pain only as a new addition to their own.

Seed to Harvest by Octavia E. Butler

[valtsv]

there should be a national day off to go berry picking in september

[couthbbg]

x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x Andrew Garfield, to Jesse Eisenberg during the filming of the The Social Network // The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! By Sufjan Stevens // In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 7 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson // Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson // Trevor Zegras about Jamie Drysdale // Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; “The Fear”

[wallskeepshifting]

2024 WILL be the year of the slenderman renaissance WHO’S WITH ME

[hodiedodie]

I love talking with people about Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon because we sound like when humanity found out that agriculture exists

[humblewonderer]

Me when trying to call someone friend: augh what if they don't WANT to be my friend and by doing this I'm forcing them to accept my friendship when they don't really want it

Me when someone calls me friend: oh sick new friend!!

[satyr-hole]

Just got accepted for a practically unattainable, hotly contested internship so this is your reminder to take a little risk and that you can do whatever you set your mind to

[kennyomegasweave]

Okay, listen, I am a Certified Way Hater and have been since like episode three, at least, but the man better not die on Friday. If he dies, Babe will never get closure working through everything that was their friendship, and he deserves that. Dying is also easy and I want Way to have to live with what he's done. And Pete will be sad. And I refuse, REFUSE, to see Pete be sad. So, Way must live.

Way can get shot, as a little treat to me specially, but he can't die.

I'm manifesting that.

[lacebird]

#speaking it into existence

[marejadilla]

Lesley Thiel, "Harvest", 2024, oil on aluminium panel. Born in England, she now lives and works in Ireland.

[busyasabii]

People will think before they attack a man—even a small man. And they will not become as angry if a man gives them a beating.” He had laughed, but he knew she was right.

Seed to Harvest (Patternist Series) by Octavia Butler

[babyb1ues]

nobody talks about how the mc became queen of philos through MARKETING

[wildrungarden]

7/13/24 ~ harvest 🧺

[tomorrowsgardennc]

my dad made me a display 2.0 for the seed packets and omg 😭😭😭😭😭

[kimberlyannharts]

This one image has so much power

They honestly should have ended the main series after this because no arc since has even come close to how good the Forever Pink arc was. Mat Groom was so iconic for ending the worst era of the main series on something THIS GOOD