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Becoming one with the bog
It was technically a 'poor fen', not a bog in the strictest sense, because it's ground-and-surface water fed, not reliant entirely on rain. It's still on the acid side of neutral and dominated by sphagnum moss. The acid and lack of oxygen in the water mean the plant matter doesn't fully decay, which forms the 'peat' of the peat bog, and the sphagnums help make sure it all stays that way.
The peat fen is a sensitive ecosystem, and it's totally possible to sink one of the 'dry' feeling hummocks (they're NOT dry, they're lying; sphagnum can hold a huge amount of water), so you don't walk from hummock to hummock; you avoid them and wade through the water and mud.
It makes very satisfying SSHCHLORP and GLOOOP sounds, stealthily tries to eat your feet if you stand still too long, and it bounces. The ground was actually something like 20 feet below us; we were walking on the peat. I think they said that 90% of the water was in that peat, with 5% below and 5% above. Not sure I've got the numbers right, but picture a giant neutrally buoyant sponge. With a landscape on top of it. It is sproingy.
Bounce, and the shrubs and stunted trees bounce with you, or whatever that saying is.
We saw three species of carnivorous plants. I didn't get a picture of the bladderwort, but the left is a Washington native sundew, and the right is sticky false asphodel, which was only discovered to be carnivorous in 2021.
I also took lots of pictures of pond lilies, which aren't specific to this environment but are really cool looking:
They also make it warmer inside their flowers. That's part of why all the lil' bugs are there! Pond lilies be making it cozy. Swamp lantern (skunk cabbage) also generate heat â and they create their own little 'wells'; clear space in the sphagnum hummocks. None of my pictures captured it well, but it's quite weird. Like little variations on the massive "plant shaping it's environment" theme that the sphagnum moss started.
And that, it turns out, is the true lure and danger of the fen. Not just that it could schloop you under (I only fell on my ass once, and it was sproingy). Not will-o-the-wisps. No, the true mystery is the sphagnum hillocks themselves.
Mounds of moss rising a foot or more above the water, red, brown, chartreuse, and yellow. They look like little hills, but it's moss, moss, moss, all the way down. You can wiggle your hand right down inside it. It's incredibly soft, and it's warm.
I can just imagine someone, weary from their bog slog, starting to miss their footing in the gloop, falling prey to the siren song of the Forbidden Coziness. They lay down (crushing numerous delicate plants as they do). They wriggle in. They fall asleep.
Several thousand years later, a lucky archeologist finds another bog body.
#fens#bogs#peat bog#Washington state#botany#become one with the bog#pacific northwest native plants#pacific northwest#plant nerd#so much mud#schloop schloop schloop#carnivorous plants
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Bri and i walked to the dam near the old house to see if after all this rain there was finally some water there....spoiler alert...there wasn't.
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ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE, people dropping mad mad sums of money on gfms and charities and stuff are extremely impressive but that DOES NOT MEAN that putting like $5 towards someone's fund or any good cause is any less valuable, a lot of crowdfunding is about momentum and those single digits add up super fast, you do not need to be Rolling In The Dough to make someone's day!! moving the dial at all is extremely positive!!
#what is ACTUAL POISON to crowdfunding is The Full Stop. when it just runs cold. at that point a single dollar coming in feels like#pushing the wheels out of the mud. all you need is movement. as long as it keeps moving.#this applies to gofundmes this applies to large organizations this applies to people asking for grocery money#moving the needle even just the slightest bit!! is huge!!#take it from someone who gets excited about $1 patrons#sergle.txt#people used to attach Apology messages to their $5 when I was raising money for my breast reduction#as if they should be doing more. but they were already doing so much and I was elated to just see a new donation Of Any Amount#ANY donation is extremely exciting to the person or people actually receiving it!!!!
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LINKTOBER Day 16: Lanayru Wetlands
Rumors have it Zoraâs Domain is besieged by caustic rains. As travelers leave Lanayruâs capital in troves, two plucky (or foolish) adventurers swim against the muddy tide in hopes to learn more about the unnatural phenomenon.
Anyways, itâs raining mud? Whatâs up with that.
(FAMILIAR FAMILIAR AU is a totk what if passion project where zelda does not get sent back in time. Hereâs the masterpost!)
And my patreon, if youâd like to slide me some bucks to buy lunch;
#critdraws#lonks diary#familiar familiar au#art#botw#artists of tumblr#loz#zelda#link#lanayru#breath of the wild au#breath of the wild#tears of the kingdom au#tears of the kingdom#totk#totk link#totk zelda#botw link#botw zelda#environment art#tloz#the legend of zelda#legend of zelda#oh boy its time for the water sage arc#(rubs rat hands together) pls be nice im literally writing this as i go#linda#the qpr of zelink#anyways ever heard of murphyâs law link#thereâs so much mud#somebody get a pressure hose out
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This is after they dried and I knocked mud off. This year is gonna be a STORY.
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anders in da2: its my fault... i was too angry.... i made justice into vengeance...
justice awakening after being out the fade for 5 minutes: im gonna avenge this man
#justice talks so much of vengeance already anders i dont think this one is on you#but also i remember justice being a stick in the mud and very boring when i first played but he is kinda funny sometimes goihgdfh#F in the chat for the lil jokes he said full serious lost in da2#dragon age#anders#justice#dao#daa#replaying dao
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"Let's fix this drawing" *redraw the whole thing*
#star wars#star wars fanart#star wars the clone wars#star wars rex#wip or finished?#no one knows#sorry for the spam#I disappear a week and come back with *nothing*#But don't complain you're lucky#meanwhile my twitt is without content since a month#Cause I'm battling with illustrations V_v#anyway I went hiking with friends#we end up getting lost and having to go through like a feet of mud#a river#and 4 hours of walking#And my body took it well wtf like zero cramp#But then two days after I think I may have gotten a cold#so idk#still pushed to the gym#tho ofc it's summer now so they are much people#and BOI lemme tell you#for a city were half the population is right-wing elderly#the only people I see at my park are doing handstand on bars or whatever high level jedi sh*t#or maybe it's the only good streetpark at miles around so cool people can only go there#and me a shy potato with my cat-ears headphones and messy hair#anyway#that's it for my life.#good night#or I will redraw his face AGAIN#TAT
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Is it comfortable? Or just what you're used to?
#utena tenjou#utena#revolutionary girl utena#shoujo kakumei utena#sku#rgu#I need to figure out wtf is up with my ipad display settings because the colors on all my stuff are so much brighter and vibrant there#and then when i upload to tumblr and look at it on my laptop or phone its#its like looking at the colors through mud >:/#my stuff
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As a former horse girl I love the Binghorses drawn by @meltedmush because every weird and cryptid suggestion and art of them just existing makes me stop and go: no wait horses will just do that. Horses are so weird. Horse behavior is so much
Horses will just stare at you through a window and if they're smart they can figure out certain doors. There is a specific kind of surreal of watching a horse walk into your house that is both very cute and cursed. SQQ could totally wake up to a Binghorse having broken into his house and staring at him
Horses also are weird and poorly designed biologically so if they sit for too long they can actually crush their organs and won't be able to stand up again. So I can see SQQ fretting over a bingfoal and asking if they're okay. Also they don't have the ability to sense being full. It is completely possible for a horse to eat too much and die. So again fretting mother hen SQQ planning special Binghorse diet only for Binghorse to come back and drop a dead bird in front of him.
It is completely plausible that SQQ can look up one day and see a binghorse sitting in a tree. Both cows and horses will climb trees. Goats too. I don't know why. They just will. The horse loose in a hospital bit is funny because horses on their own will just do that. They do just end up in places. It feels absurd but it's true. Getting jumped scared by a Binghorse totally believable.
Imagine that SQQ sees a Binghorse with a broken leg! The death knell of any normal horse. He can frett over those beautiful terribly designed legs as Binghorse is kept suspended in a swing thing.
And then the moment you combine omnivore snatch hunter it gets even funnier because I'm certain a real horse would if it could. The fact that people are in any way convinced horses are just cute and sweet and not weird terrifying little horrors of biology will never not be funny.
#svsss#binghorse#for the record i learned horseback riding from a poly couple who worked ren fair as a kid#and like it was so weird#SO WEIRD#like watching a 2 year old black clydsdale horse just walk into a horse on its own accord and just steal a coke can will never leave me#like imagine being 9 and seeing a juvenile horse that is still 3x your height squeezing through a screen door#i brought this up with my mom about the horse breaking into a house and she said he was actually a friesian#absolutely beautiful and a complete brat#also the willingness of horses to just be covered in dirt and dust#youll clean a horse ride for 2 hrs let em loose and come back to them covered in mud and grime#my mom and i went on a whole journey to remember this horses name#it was soujke. he was such an ass#im imaging sqq doing hoof cleanings for binghorse#and brushing his skin pelt before and after a ride#soujke was so much. he almost died of collick because he kept laying on his side#horses are so dumb
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ânobody understands meâ but not in the âedgy suffering from teenager syndrome mad at momâ kind of way, but the âlonely isolating young adult realization that the specific combination of mental illnesses and past experiences iâve had have resulted in a pattern of behaviors that are often misinterpreted and misconstrued by othersâ type of way
#maybe itâs the mental illness but boy howdy do i feel like an outsider#as a teenager itâs usually the feeling that everybody else is a stick in the mud and stupider than you kind of stuff#now iâm feeling like everybody else is a real person while iâm only partially a person#like thereâs so much of myself missing and i canât seem to relate with anybody else#itâs lonely feeling like nobody would understand how my brain works even if i tried to explain it to them#idk how to tag this but i hope anybody else can relate#actually neurodivergent#actually neurodiverse#adhd#actually adhd#ocd#mental illness#mentally ill#neurodivergent#đâđ¨#đ
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i keep trying to think of funny/poetic ways to talk about all the things i'm feeling right now but i honestly can't so. i'm really sad about what happened with my partner. i know he was an inconsiderate prick about it and that i didn't do anything wrong and i couldn't have prevented it but i'm just really fucking sad.
#ramble#i think knowing that he was awful and that it wasn't my fault should make all the sad go away actually#i'm in such a weird fragile state right now that last night i looked at my flip flops that are still covered in mud#and i just started crying bc last weekend he carried me over the mud so they wouldn't get ruined. KNOWING he was going to do this to me#sorry i try really hard not to overshare but i don't want to keep bothering anyone in my actual life about this and idk what to do#when it happened it didn't hurt this badly and i just assumed i would be fine#idk i think it's just sunk in how much of my future i don't have anymore and that's like#a bit scary#because i was Just calming down and thinking maybe i would be ok in the long term and now it's all gone#i'm in that weird place between desperately wanting him back and plotting where to bury the body parts#i'm also mad bc i wish he'd left me before the festival. there were SO many gorgeous metalhead trans girls that i could've kissed
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Iâd appreciate fics criticizing the New Mandos more if they gave actual facts and stopped being Obi-Wan buttlickers and making Satine a whiny brat who canât do anything but complain and hide away while Obi fights
Itâs just a tiny bit annoying, just a tiny bit
#star wars#am I gonna say itâs bc sexism?#or bc of extreme blorbo glorification?#or they just want to make a character they donât like even more unlikable?#idk#either way it literally kills the entire mood for me#I really wanted to read the fic but hhhhhhhhhhhhh#there is so much potential for clan wars-era satine#but nooooooooooooo#letâs put the blorbo on the pedestal and drag the woman in the mud#fuck off#obi wan kenobi#satine kryze
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Sorry boys fan content wouldâve gone crazy during that one specific mcyt period where people thought everything Wilbur did was an arg
#stupid snake talk#like when Tommy just did a bit about being in the mud and ppl ran with it for so long cause it was wilbur who called him#im just saying#so much of sorry boys content could be used like that even tho itâs rlly mainly just bullshit â¤ď¸
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What he said
#having so much trouble focusing on work this month i jst want to draw the same 5 things in my sketchbook over#and over again....#a doodley#also ive been so TORN bc i work loosely in sketchbook...of course...i dont make any ''finished'' pieces so everything is just Whatever#but i keep seeing ppl say its bad to draw without purpose....#which is true....bc practice makes permanent#i fear im getting my wheelbarrow stuck in the mud. or whatever that one post/quote was. hope u know the one#was it mud? or cement? either way it was SOMETHING about how if you wheel down the same path over and over again#itll be hard to break free
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Iâm a very city girl and now Iâm imagining going to the country side and meeting farmtale SansâŚ
You moved there for some reason and need a place to stay, Sans was kind enough to give you somewhere to stay with some chores to do to lower your rent. Youâre not experienced and youâre not that good with the chores- sometimes farm animals freak you out (cows are big, theres so many chickens, what iS THAT GIANT SPIDER?!), you canât move heavy stuff around, even the tools are heavy for you.
And⌠Sans thinks youâre cute. He can do the work you do much faster than you could, but he likes your company. Every time you drop a stack of hay and panic he canât help but chuckle and throw it on top of the pile in his arms. He likes how youâre impressed by his skill with tools and the fact that he can drive tractors. You may not be good at your job, but he likes that you want to learn anyway. You like the animals when he teaches you how to read their behavior better.
He really likes it when he saves you from a giant bug and you give him âmy heroâ eyesâŚ
âthose darn eyes are gonna be the death of me.â
#cityfolk where you at#im scared of bugs but i like running in the mud if thats anything dsjhdff#ive always been in the city#its kinda embarrassing when a country person mentions how Bad I am at farm stuff dsjhf#brain: BUT WHAT IF HE FINDS IT CUTE#me: but what if he finds it cuteâŚ#heâs got rough phalanges#youâve got soft âi havent touched dirt in 20 yearsâ hands#you sit down a lot because your backâs aching#from raking/moving vegetables into a truck or something#Sans: *moving whole crates into the truck on his own* what an angel sheâs makinâ work so much easier for me#ofc hes big stronk skeleton⌠hoheheheh#aka writing
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im abt to rb a post on this anyways but tbh i dont know how you can finish isat and go âsiffrin wasnt punished enoughâ.
the fella has killed themselves several times, what more do you want from him?
#ok yes thats an optional thing you dont have to get. but still#act 5 is basically dragging siffrin through the mud over and over and over and over and over again#what do you MEAN ââhe wasnt punished enoughââ#like yeah what he said was awful and he did do bad things during the loops but like#he was literally killed several times and had to watch bonnie die bc of himâŚ. i think he HAS been punished enough actually#the game ending on such a sweet note after everything hes been through is what made it so impactful to me#also like speaking as someone who has been deeply hurt by ppl having a hard time mentally in a similar way the party was#and took much longer to forgive them⌠i think what the game gives us in terms of their reaction is just fine#they reserve the right to be mad. he apologized profusely. they all acknowledge that he was experiencing hell and give him some leniency#thats perfectly acceptable to me. if the game said ââoh their pain doesnt matter bc they didnt suffer as much as siffrinââ then thatd be one#one thing#but no. siffrin IS held accountable. just not by going through even more trauma than they have#echoed voice#isat spoilers#suicide mention
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