Bluebell Stained Glass Plant Stake // ZokaKurylov
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Playing around with making some flower stakes- pretty happy with this first one but think going to have to make a trip to the store for a thicker stem.
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I would take a pic of the new organization but because I added stakes to that monstera when I repotted it, its leaves are facing a bunch of random directions now like it has plant bead head. it needs a few days for its leaves to turn toward the light and look less goofy.
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Glass caterpillar Plant Pot Stake // Adamodart
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Here's a dialogue writing tip, from me to you.
Most of the time I just "Yes, and..." my dialogue, but there are times I need it to go in a particular direction, or sometimes it's just going in a direction I don't like. It's really amazing how powerful phrasing can be as a tool.
For example, I started with Character A asking Character B "Do you think we were wrong to stay so long?"
But instead, I could use:
"Should we have stayed so long?"
"Should we have left earlier?"
"Would it have been better to leave earlier?"
"Do you think we should have left earlier?
These are all technically asking the same thing, but you can see that each of these might lead to a very different response! All I'm doing is turning the question around from different angles, and adding more or less objectivity to the ask, but depending on your circumstances, there may be many other ways to come up with variations.
Sometimes this is useful on the very basic level of you're stuck, and this can be a brainstorming method for getting unstuck.
It's also useful, though, when you need to craft a scene to have a certain mood or outcome. Think about, first of all, what is the asking character trying to get out of this interaction? Are they actually looking for an answer, or are they fishing for a particular response? Is it a leading question? Are they looking for reassurance? Are they being accusatory? What are their motivations, what are the emotions at stake?
Then, you can look at the other character and do the same thing for them. You can also look at the relationship between them and the dynamic you're going for here. If you want to set up some angst, Character A is looking for comfort, but phrases the question such that Character B sees it as assigning blame and reacts defensively. Or if you're trying to set up some clever banter, different ways of posing the question give different springboards for the other character to jump off of.
I am very fond of the piece of writing advice that if you get stuck, you should look for the problem three lines back, but the problem isn't always self-evident (or it may not even be a problem, it's just that you wrote a series of lines that led you to a dead end). Anyway, this is a technique I use sometimes in that situation.
As a final note, it's best to just use this in choosing between a number of equally naturally phrased options. There's an advanced form of this technique for use in say, comedies of manners, where you are purposely setting up misunderstandings that hinge on certain phrasings and you may really have to engineer a sentence. This is kind of a dangerous thing, because it can come off sounding phony, but on the other hand, if you're actually good at this stuff, this is exactly why we like writers like Oscar Wilde and P. G. Wodehouse. In both the simple and advanced case, it's always a good idea to look back later and say to yourself, "is this a thing that the character would actually say?" and "does this fit in with my general prose style."
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So I have a philosophical conundrum regarding urban foraging…
I live in a suburban area with a lot of little patches of “woods” (it’s more like scrubs and trees that have sprung up around drainage ditches) and there are a lot of random berry patches- including a massive snarl of wine berries behind my house. They are delicious (think raspberries, but smaller) and we love picking them, but they are also invasive. Unfortunately I can’t really do anything about them because we rent and the drainage ditches are the property of whichever corporation runs my city.
Does harvesting them count as solarpunk even though they’re invasive? It seems like a lot of people focus on foraging native plants (which is good) and I can’t figure out if it’s in the spirit of solarpunk to rely on an invasive berry for yearly summer treats. Does this count as “eat your foes” if I’m not actively eradicating it?
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there’s customers every day who don’t seem to understand that plants grow. like you’ve got people who think they can cram 300 plants into one pot because they’re all pack plugs. some of those will get 3 whole feet tall and around by the end of summer. read the tags.
and then there are people who spend ages hemming and hawing over two pots of whatever. which looks better? which has more buds?? here’s a fun fact: neither of them will look the same in a week. in two weeks. by the end of July. there is no way to know which will grow better for you. they are living things. there are too many factors at play here. pick one and do the best you can.
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