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I do have a piece of writing advice, actually.

See, the first time I grew parsnips, I fucked it up good. I hadn't seen parsnips sprouting before, right, and in my eagerness I was keeping a close eye on the row. And every time I saw some intruding grass coming up, I twitched it right out, and went back to anticipating the germination of my parsnips.

But it turns out parsnips take a bit longer than anything else I'd ever grown to distinguish themselves visually. It's just the two little split leaves, almost identical to a newly seeded bit of kentucky bluegrass when they first come up, and they take a good bit to establish themselves and spread out flat before the main stem with its first distinctive scallopy leaf gets going.

I didn't get any parsnips, not that year, because I'd weeded them all out as soon as they showed their faces, with my 'ugh no that's grass' twitchy horticulture finger.

The next year, having in retrospect come to suspect what had happened, I left the row alone and didn't weed anything until all the sprouts coming up had all had a bit to set in and show their colors, and I've grown lots of parsnips since. They're kind of a slow crop, not a huge return, but I like them and watching them grow and digging them up, and their papery little seeds in the second year, if you don't harvest one either on purpose or because you misjudged the frost, so it's worth it.

Anyway, whenever I see someone stuck and struggling with their writing who's gotten into that frustration loop of typing a few words, rejecting them, backspacing, and starting again, I find myself thinking, you gotta stop weeding your parsnips, man.

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This was a painful one to put together. My short autobiographical comic for the anthology "When I Was Young..." Edited by Michele Abounader. I'll share the link for where to buy the full book when it is available.

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motherfucker said PROFESSIONAL

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I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.

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Allen's hummingbird enjoying the rain

🪶 Hawk Force

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I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

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This is the level of hyperanalystic bullshit I live for

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Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

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by @CORVICIDE_ [commissions / shop]

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I was so exhausted literally yesterday that I poured like a quarter of a fresh mug of hot tea slowly over my knee as I wondered why my leg felt warm. I was at work, too, so the best I could do was dab it with paper towels and hope I didn't smell like spoiled milk by the end of the day.

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

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Autumn leaf origami birds by Inori.

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Pretend I’m not here after a sudden burst of motivation when I’m supposed to be studying

Any TMA fans around here while we wait for tmagp s2 hi I did a thing

Little extra sketches (don’t pay attention to the gap between the time stamps or the way I gave up halfway through luci’s page):

Charlie looks radioactive wtf

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the ellipsis is the most powerful of all the punctuation…so versatile…i’m pondering…i’m omitting…i’m implying…i’m trailing off…

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Atla nation, come get y'all's juice