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monarchy sucks as a social system but i suppose it would be funny if royally-named animals got more democratic names. renaming the emperor penguin and monarch butterfly into the president penguin and the democratic butterfly

prime minister penguin has a really nice ring to it, actually. societal anarchy butterfly may need some workshopping though

#tribune butterfly!

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it works well enough that we kiss on the mouth yes

nice

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cherry season allows me to bring out my only move of flirting with my friends which is to eat cherries and tie the stem in my mouth and then nonchalantly put it in their hand 🍒🍒🍒🍒

but does it work

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it's honestly such a nice break to be playing a character whose first reaction to being in a jinn's palace is "ooh, free food!"

#my main character is SO concerned with Responsibility and Justice and Self-Control #i love her (so so much) but it's nice to make bad choices once in a while

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countdown to cherry season

#i am simply WITHERING without them

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Planning on it, anyway!

"purl seven together" are you insane

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"purl seven together" are you insane

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I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth

#SAME #we're currently in a 3br so we each have our own office (for now) #and it's *perfect*

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#some of these are cheating a little because they are Not in the standard rep #but you know

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my garden has been pretty happy for a week so now i must have more! more plants! for the growing!

#my current plan is to get a second raised planter for things that want more water #i need so much more basil

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#art #!!

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A Chorus Line but for a chorus in a Greek play

#posts for no one (except maybe zach)

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no thoughts only 2011 San Francisco Opera Lucrezia Borgia costuming

#gennaro goes between this and this but with a giant sun in the boob hole #it's incredible.

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I had a bunch of meltdowns yesterday so my husband took me to see the ferns of the Sonoran desert. Here they are. You probably didn't know that the desert has ferns but it definitely does! They're super cool and adapted to high heat and little water. There are many species but we only found three right now. They like rocky outcroppings underneath trees and they frequently grow near seasonal creeks. Nobody grows these guys unfortunately. They're much more interesting than the ferns for sale in most nurseries, I think.

Here's the first fern. Pellaea truncata. Spiny Cliff Brake. It has a very unique look. Notice the bluish leaves that help handle excess light. There was a lot of this guy!

This fern was growing right next to the first! It's Myriopteris fendleri, we think, but we're not a hundred percent sure. Fendler's Lip Fern. These guys are a more traditional looking fern, but very small. Here's a pen for scale.

This one I found all by myself! A big milestone for a new fernhead! This is Myriopteris covillei. Coville's Lip Fern. Look at the back of the leaves! I think they recently made spores!

Anyway, I will keep you posted on my fern adventures. Sadly desert ferns are not much studied or cultivated by the native plant people. Not one of these are at any of the local botanical gardens. It's very sad.

#hey these guys rock! #ferns

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the online equivalent of the gom jabbar test is whether you're willing to refrain from dunking on an article based on the headline without reading it first

#on the discourse

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any knight born after 1200 can’t achieve the holy grail, all they know is feasting, charge their horse, kill, have affair, go mad in the forest & cry

#arthuriana

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taking out my anger on the people who fuck up my day at work by scribbling scary and inhuman architecture on a piece of paper. once i get good enough at it they will go there in their dreams

#average twilight zone episode