#those poor plants

[legjames]

plant parents <3

(the plants are children of divorce)

(… CHILDREN OF DIVORCE. I CAN’T—)

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 #plant parents #those poor plants #poor US #i am still crying

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

Sebastian: COMPANY IS COMING! I WANT THIS PLACE LOOKING LIKE DISNEY ON ICE IN ONE MINUTE! Sebastian: DAZAI-SAN IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE YOUR BED THROW IT AWAY IT'S TOO LATE TO MAKE IT NOW! Sebastian: GET RID OF THE COUCHES, WE CAN'T LET PEOPLE KNOW WE S I T !

#ikevamp #ikemen vampire #ikevamp incorrect quotes #ikevamp sebastian #ikevamp dazai #i had a moment of divine intervention #and now i can't unsee it #i cant get over the fact that sebastian really said his life dream was to be a feral housewife in a mansion full of historical figures #I WANT THOSE PILLOWS LOOKING LIKE MICROWAVABLE POPCORN BAGS THREE MINUTES DEEP #literally i can take no comedic credit for this gayle is just iconic and sebastian is channeling their energy at any given moment #i dont care if we have to throw e v e r y t h i n g out. i want this place looking like a new mediterranean fusion restaurant by noon. AAAA #ISAAC PUT SEA SHELLS ON THE DOOR KNOBS #THIS IS A DISH TOWEL. WE NEED A HAND TOWEL. WHAT ARE WE BARBARIANS!!?!?! #WE LIVE OUTSIDE. WE EAT MUD AND STICKS. #i love how the poor puppy in the background is just watching them like ?????? King in the living room like 'bruh' while sebas has a meltdow #*looking at vlad's flowers that were sent as a gift* MC CAN WE GET THE LESBIAN PLANT OUT OF HERE #i dont care how many years pass its always funny #i feel like the comparison is really made by gayle's intermittent screeching throughout too #honorable mention: this is also theo when anything happens to vincent #I DON'T CARE IF ARTHUR'S BLEEDING OUT VINCENT'S PAPER CUT COULD GET INFECTED #SOUNDS LIKE A HIM PROBLEM NOW GET THE FIRST AID KIT HONDJE #WHAT? GAUZE? WHAT IS THIS 1632? YOU COULDN'T FIND A BAND-AID? STOP CRYING IM NOT DONE-- #source: “company is coming” / Chris Fleming

[youngyoo-apologist]

I like this scene because when I was writing it I was thinking about how fun everything would be once Alberu joins the party ahaha

This poor guy will not only have to deal with Regressor Cale, but Regressor Choi Han AND Kim Roksoo. Those three will never let the opportunity to tease Alberu slip by. Also I find this one scene really funny because Alberu is absolutely thinking to himself ‘what the hell was that’ when he made eye contact with Cale, the young master of the Henituse family who is famous for his brutal honesty and words, is smiling at him in a way that reminded Alberu too much of himself.

Realistically, there should be no way the young master knows anything about him, not when they had only exchanged a few greetings in passing. Sure, the Henituse county was rich, but they had no reason to dig for information on him unless he provoked them. So why did it feel like Cale Henituse knew something very important about him?

#the rings of life is a very scary power lol #Poor Alberu #he doesn’t know that Cale already has a part of his secret figured out #anyway I think the rings of life works in a way where the rings of different species have differences #like obviously the rings of a plant and a human wouldn’t be the same #due to the difference between how the two experience time #and as 1/4 dark elf Alberu would also experience time differently from those who are human #since he’s still a dark elf #I thought of it as the rings being closer together #like y’all know how trees got layers cause of the bark they have over the years #something like that but they’re closer together because there’s more years to live #and it’s ’less time’ to them overall #rings of a Regressor would have them overlapping and flickering with the rings of the past and the rings of the present #maybe I should make a seperate post on how I think the power works/ looks even if it isn’t canon stuff #just rambling #tcf #lcf fanfic #og cale henituse #kim roksoo #Choi Han #the birth of a hero #lcf fanart #from [in the borderline] on ao3 #lcf

[ficswithtacotuesday]

Just because you talk about different things to your secret boyfriend doesn't make you special, Spy. No one wanted you to eavesdrop anyway

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 sniper #tf2 medic #tf2 spy #snipermedic #bush medicine #sniperspy #spy: wow what a couple of nerds lol #also spy: so patterned silk was the most expensive textile during those times and... #leave the poor plant dads alone #and yes he is sitting on sniper's vest because there's nowhere else to sit and sniper's not about to let him touch those dirty plank floors

[james-p-sullivan]

just breathe in and out and repeat

i love my cats i love my cats

I LOVE MY CATS

#they were soooooo guilty #byron wouldn’t even LOOK at me #poor babes must have been so scared #but uuuuuughhhhhhhhhhh #ive been having a comically bad morning #and this is just icing on the cake #i may have cried a little #it wasn’t enough that they broke the pots #but they also ate the freaking plants too #all safe for cats #but gfd #cat blogging #those plants were a move in present

[loverbomb]

@obeythefist

oh dear!!! now why would you go and do a thing like that???

#what did all those poor plants do to YOU! #obeythefist

[pallanophblargh]

Feeling beleaguered, post hoyas.

Despite the ongoing warm weather tantrum, the sunrise decided to grace me with her very first bloom. She kicked off two other peduncles due to being thirstier than I realized, but now I understand that I need to really keep on top of it right now. Sad to be losing all those would-be blooms, but some hoyas are like that. The bloom smelled a little like Froot Loops, but a little spicy? I liked it!

Last photo shows my first bloom of the season from my obovata, who is preparing for quite the season. (6 of 8 peduncles have blooms arriving). A much more easygoing hoya whose only “tantrum” is just turning into a statue for a while. I think the blooms smell like peonies when freshly opened.

The goal for this year is to get all plants to grow peduncles, even though the more reasonable goal is to get all my bloom ready plants to bloom. I’ve had three new plants make blooms so far this year, with hopes to get 4 more!

#hoyas #hoya plant #hoya sunrise #Hoya obovata #plantblr #houseplants #flowers #blooms #the obovata’s name is Doris after my grandma #my poor sunrise nearly wilted the other day but she perked up quick after a soak #scared the shit out of me #I’ve got peduncles on 4 other plants I think #so that means of my 15 Hoyas only three don’t have peduncles yet #I’m amazed actually #really looking forward to the linearis which has no sign of flower activity yet #and the ilagiorum but that one blasted buds due to thirst #I feel awful about that too since I bought the ilagiorum for those red flowers #will I earn a redemption? #probably that’s a tough plant so far #the royal Hawaiian purple pubicalyx doesn’t like me even though it made a single peduncle #of all Hoyas to not like me why pubicalyx? #makes no damn sense

[justareallyboredfangirl]

babysat for a family tonight, the five year old has a fishtank. 5 gallons -nice!! filter, didn’t think to look to see if it had a heater, but it had extra filter carts-nice, and proper tetra food-nice! it was very understocked- nice! BUT…it had only one (1) chili rasbora and one (1) skirt tetra -super not nice😭😭 as well as 3 nerite snails

#guys. #schooling fish need to be kept in SCHOOLS of their same type😭 #at least 6 chili rasboras and 6 tetras #but for a 5 gallon i would say a small school of only chili rasboras would be enough #especially with the nerites #and there were no plants no substrate- i know those poor nerites wont last long #i did show the kid though that he should splash the flakes around a little to make them fall so the fish will eat them #THE FISH WERE TOO SCARED TO COME OUT FROM BEHIND THE FAKE DECOR😭 #ugh idk. dont get your kid a fishtank if you yourself dont even know how to take care of fish #i was just happy that it wasnt a fish bowl to be honest with you #but yeah the schooling situation tho😢

[picory]

i wish i could hang around outside all the time. love and light. peace on earth. nature is wonderful. being home SUCKS

#sans was right. it is a beautiful day outside #quacks #mao peed on do many plants. those poor things

[sunshineram]

growin!! got big enough i had to put up a trellis(wire mesh/chicken wire cut to my window)!! it stared growing its little feelers for vining... cant wait until it blooms :)

bells are goin, slowly, but going nonetheless!! cant wait to see what they look like all big like the sweet peas

and my new addition, evening primrose(pinkladies) hehe :)c couldnt resist, i had the seeds and the seeds that were in here didnt sprout. the dirts a bit low though.. a good inch from the top cause i removed some big sticks and whatnot it had in there. need to fill it back up eventually...

#rams garden adventures #lol #theres so many sprouts in that last photo... #hope they all make it #some of the bells sprouts didnt :( #id get all excited cause a new one popped up then itd be gone the next day #sad... #also you get to see the buckets outside oops #we need to clean those up #gonna go do that after posting :) #someday i need to show yall my other plants... #all. 17 of them #my pothos is going nuts #my jellybeans i need to cut the air roots off of #(its safe its just humid in my room cause of the plants. i researched it to see i was nervous hehe) #maybe ill show yall them once theyre put in their new pot i havent gotten yet lol #i wanna get them a oval pot... think itll look nice with their leaves(?) #my poor bear paw lol... its holding up two jellybeans trying to escape its pot... #reaching out #they keep falling cause they're too long!!! #stop fucking growing !!!!

[snekdood]

You fucking idiots dont fucking get it. ive been taking care of plants since i was 14. Ive tried FUCKING EVERYTHING. Fungus gnats are just apparently gonna exist around me no matter what i do or try, apparently just like these yerfs who also seem to be breeding like maggots.

#please! non plant experts stfu forever. #please! if you dont take care of a grden or live by a heavily wooded areas and dont have any plants inside too that arent succs- #shut the fuck up forever!! #whatever you're about to suggest! ive fucking tried it!!! #but of course. like the yerfs you are you cant ever take me at my word for my own experiences. its always that yall know whats right always #and never that im actually fucking correct about the shit i talk about. like maybe its just really fucking hard to control their population #did you ever consider that sometimes you have to make sacrifices if you want to take care of something like plants? i have to wake up at 6 #in the morning now JUST to keep the squirrels scared away from my planters. bc if i sleep in at all i risk letting my plants die bc of #their bs. unfortunately theres just shit that comes with plants that you have to decide whether or not your love for plants is greater than #whatever bs you might encounter while you take care of them. and unfortunately one of those sacrifices is having to deal with fungus gnats #and bugs in general. yall think its so easy to control bugs in my apartment. im poor. nothing is sealed here. #i had a fucking mosquito infestation. how does that even happen? i dont fucking know! but it did. #ive had a meal moth infestation. how did they get in? they were breeding in a little bag of old food i had for my hermit crabs. #how did they get in and somehow get to that bag all the way in my room? WHO FUCKIN KNOWS! I SUSPECT THOUGH ITS BC IM FUCKIN POOR #AND THIS SHIT AINT SEALED IN HERE WELL ENOUGH. i have bug problems all the time. #and you're gonna tell me its just suddenly so easy to get rid of gnats. #this is why ik none of yall *actually* take care of plants. like actually truly. outside of what. your succulents and the one palm you have #im really happy that you have plants you can deprive of water for a few days but i have marsh plants! i have swamp plants! I CANT deprive #them of moisture acrually! so its really not that fucking easy to get eid of the fucking gnats! i feel like i should have to fucking #explain this. if you actually took care of plants forreal forreal you would know they are just not fucking easy to get rid of. #but naw. im trans. so that means i never know what im talking about about anything or whatever and yall gotta act paternalistic about #everything i do. meanwhile im sitting over here ripping out my hair about how dumb and juvenile YALL are bc ik for a gotdamn fact if any of #yall ugly fucks ACTUALLY took care of plants outside of the ornamental ones you have this wouldnt be a discussion. #but naw ya saw a jokey post of mine about how i felt defeated in my ability to get rid of the gnats and decided i wasnt actually trying #bc for some reason yall gotta assume that no trans person actually just knows wtf theyre talking about literally on anything. #anyways i hope yall get plagued by gnats forever and all your planrs die from them devouring the roots. #its like yall are new souls coming in acting like you're an old soul and im the actual old soul tryna tell you what it is but yall are just #*so convinced* you're right because everyone says im the crazy old man on the corner so that means i dont know anything or some #dumb reasoning like that. like idk maybe this old man has seen some shit and knows some shit but sure im sure yall little asses know wrf #ur talking about. totally.

[ssaalexblake]

sad that i live surrounded by sheep and i gotta buy sheep wool products from the garden center to stop my veg getting eaten by snails and slugs. 

dear random farmers, can i please buy some sheep wool? I’m not rich but i know how horrifyingly ripped off you are and I can definitely pay you more for some wool than who you’re selling it to now will ever give you.

idk feel like showing up on some random farmer’s doorstep and asking to buy fleece is probably weird 

#chronicles of a vegetable garden #not to pun but they're getting fleeced for their fleeces #and i am poor but even i could fork out more than what companies pay them for their wool #in other news for those who do not know #wet sheep smell rank #but the wool Is a good non toxic and bio degradable way to protect plants

[cantankerouscatfish]

was flipping through a book on edible flowers at work the other day. in it is a recipe for hibiscus rice. there’s some other stuff in there, but basically it’s a sweet treat. hibiscus IS good. might try that one. :9

there’s also a recipe for basil flower fritters... :o

#chives flowers are good!! the book has all these recipes but I just eat them lmao #my squash plants always get borers otherwise I'd cook those blooms #the poor things barely get a chance to make any fruit #sometimes I will pull bits of the petals off and eat them... tasty......

[sanstropfremir]

wait tell me more about your undergrad thesis play you did

ok i can't actually say too many details because it will doxx me (the play was deeply specific to the city i went to undergrad in) but i have to lay some groundwork first:

i did not actually choose to do this play. if given actual agency i would not have done this play, it was a bad play

hilariously, not every design program grad actually got to do a final/thesis show. our program only did three shows a year, which meant that a maximum of 3 students per discipline (set/costume/lighting) got to do a show. and usually it was less that that bc there were graduate students and occasionally a professor stepped in if the student crop was weak (it usually was). this is how you obtained a final show (for set design):

duking it the fuck out in a no holds barred semester long competition IN the set design class where the prof pits you against each other in every critique to see who can design the best show according to the director's specifications.

no i am not joking

i was not particularly enthused by any of the show selections in my graduating year (the season is picked in advance by a committee of staff+directors) but i sure as hell am ambitious so i decided i was gonna do preliminary designs for every show. and also interview to try and get a costume design slot, but the department literally stepped in and told me i couldn't design two shows in a year.

anyways. i go above and beyond building prelim models for these three shows, but again i get sidestepped by the department and told that i can't design more than one show, so i have to pick which one i want to do, so i went with the show that would become my final show bc the director was very adamant about working with me.

the play is a REWRITE of the government inspector by nikolai gogol, and that rewrite is being done by the director herself. the rewrite is set in the literal city that my university is in, part of it revolves around a very famous historical landmark

all of this happens a year in advance to the actual show (second semester of my third year, the show's run dates are late second semester of my fourth year), so i have the entire summer and all of the first semester to tidy up the prelim design and get it approved etc etc. here are a select few of some of the insane stories than happened over the time it took to make this show:

the director does NOT finish the script until about a week before rehearsals start

the director invites me to a 'design meeting' that actually turns out to be a private meal at a very expensive sushi restaurant and possibly the most expensive meal of my entire life. the director treats me to some extremely expensive fish and two bottles of sake, which i drink all of. i should point out that i am 21 at the time and the director is anywhere between the age of 65 and 85, no one actually knows. also the director IS LITERALLY MY PROFESSOR

the director will not decide on what she wants on the floor (has to function as both indoor and outdoor space, the floor is also a nearly 30ft diameter turntable (not my choice) so any patterns HAVE to match a circle) and when we finally settle on a mandala pattern she makes me draw FORTY DIFFERENT MANDALAS over a three week period before she decides on one.

i make the props department order over a thousand dollars of fake plants. it takes up a third of my budget, but they are most of the set pieces 🤷‍♀️

the head of shop somehow gets the actual city council to lend us real actual city lampposts. like real real ones made of aluminium and glass and shit. they get wired up with portable dimmer packs and put on small platforms so they both actually for real light up AND roll around the stage

there's a fuckup with the scenic painting class + the rehearsal schedule (the rehearsals are running behind and there are not enough scenic painters) so the mandala painting has to happen in only two days AFTER 10pm. i end up painting most of the mandala myself in those two overnight shifts that go until 4am

oh and there's also a fuckup with the new set design prof that's coming in so i'm literally left without a supervisor for an entire semester while the show is in pre production.

#there are so many other stories the whole year was a fucking nightmare sldkfjsdlf #the costume designers (there were two in an effort to try and make it 'fair') literally shat the bed with the costumes #so much so that they had to redesign outfits after technical rehearsal. aka WAY TOO LATE in the game #the turntable ended up getting cut from the fucking show bc an actor sprained their wrist being stupid #so all of that perfect symmetry point mandala work was for NOTHING (except a gorgeous floor im actually still very proud of that floor) #in addition to all those fake plants i had the poor first year grunts make over 100 custom giant ivy leaves #and when i say giant i mean 1.5ft across #in the final show literally half of the scene changes were just moving huge potted ferns around sldkfsdljf #oh and one of the costume designers tried to throw me under the bus at a production meeting by saying i didnt give them the colour palette #when i literally hand made booklets of paint chips and fabric swatches for BOTH of them #it was a right fucking mess #i was also designing another (smaller thank god) show at the time that literally opened on the same day #so if you ever wanted to know what theatre school is like: it's like that! #plus like at least ten more ethics violations. that school was a fucking mess #text #answers #non kpop questions

[reasonsforhope]

"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.

Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.

“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”

Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.

The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.

These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.

Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.

“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”

At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.

“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.

The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”

And the urban planting continues to this day.

The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...

“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”

Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”

The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...

In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]

There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterfly.

Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.

“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024

#colombia #brazil #urban #urban landscape #urban planning #cities #civil engineering #green architecture #green spaces #urban heat #urban heat island effect #weather #meteorology #global warming #climate change #climate hope #climate optimism #climate emergency #climate action #environment #environmental news #city architecture #bicycling #native plants #biodiversity #good news #hope #solarpunk #ecopunk #hopepunk

[a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e]

sldkfjjh I feel so bad for venus flytraps, imagine being the only plant to grow a mouth so this massive race of apes spends all their time sticking random shit in there

#personal potatoes #I mean I'm still laughing but those poor plants lol