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Yes, come on in!

Ok

Yes, yes, come in to my cabin, watch your step please.

You Have A Lovely Hombe

Thank you, Horace. Sit, make yourself at hombe. Or would you like to play a game of Billiards in my special room over here?

Oh I Just Love To Play Balls

We’ll get along splendidly, then.

Some wine?

Oh Enough Chit-Chat And Lets Talk Creams.

Go on.

Well I Just Love Creams. Well They Taste Good. And. Oh The Texture An-

…

*Shrnf…*

Smells Of Steel.

*All pretense and friendly affect is dropped, eyes fixing coldly on the boar*

*Advances*

Well I Simply Knew All A Long

*And Horace Delivers A Series Of Funny Kicks And Rageful SMACKS To The Assailant’s Solar Plexus And Hip Bones*

AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! DEFL…AAAA…a.aa….aaating….

Hm Hm Hm That Aought To Teach You Scoundrel

*Horace Turns His Handsome Snout To Face YOU*

Rememboar: Dont Go In A Strangor’s House Or Something I Forget

op how much sleep are you getting

Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.

Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together.  Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.  You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits. Frankentrees.

As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.

On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.

But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:

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I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be

I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.

I need to be more like tree

I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.

what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?

Sounds like y’all’ve never heard about the Tree of 40 Fruits. Well, it’s exactly as it sounds. Sam Van Aken, an artist based in New York, decided to try his hand at grafting (e.g. the process by which you attach the branches of a different tree to a host tree).

As artists are inclined to do he decided to push some limits and over the course of a few years he grafted over 40 different fruit onto the host “ including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.”

It has a fruiting period lasting from July to October and this is what it looks like when blossoming.

Shit’s tight yo.

Also we have a group called the Guerrilla Grafters. A group who started in San Fransisco with the goal of grafting fruiting branches onto non-fruiting trees of the same type.

Most cities have fruit trees that simply don’t produce fruit because having all these would be a mess and inadvertently providing unregulated food to people comes with a lot of legal risks I suppose. These grafters seem to think otherwise and have taken it upon themselves to try and bring fruit trees back to urban areas.

HOLY SHIT

THE LAST ONE

Solarpunk as fuck!!

Reblogging for “I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.”

Improvise, adapt, overcome

What in the sacred icons is this ?

This is utter and absolute bullshit and Caster Semenya and all the other women who will find themselves in her position in the future due to this absurd, discriminatory ruling deserve so much better. I am so angry and so sad for her.

Kinda thinking of that post that’s saying the Pokemon in Detective Pikachu are good because they’re “cartoony” when in reality they’re pretty realistic, but keep a good balance between their cartoonishness without the creepy hyperrealistic renderings we’re used to seeing out of edgelord artists. Ironically, the people who did this movie took a lot of cues from an artist on Deviantart who did hyperrealistic-looking Pokemon.

I dunno, these look pretty realistic to me. The key is they render the cartoony elements (like Majikarp’s eyes and the shape of his fins) pretty accurately so it doesn’t just look like a rat hauling a weird fish, you can tell that’s a Pikachu and a Majikarp.

They also did a good job keeping most of the cute Pokemon looking fairly cute,

although you can still get moments where Aipom and Jigglypuff appear legitimately creepy and threatening when angered.

Then there are Pokemon who are odd-looking because they were always meant to appear odd-looking

And the ‘scary’ Pokemon actually look like dangerous, powerful monsters!

What I like about these designs is that they’ve got a good balance of traits that make them instantly recognizable enough that any Pokemon fan can name them at a glance, but given just enough nuance and realistic elements that presumably wouldn’t render very well in a cartoon. (For example, the little hairs on the inner part of Jigglypuff’s ears, Pikachu’s fluffy fur, and Charizard’s rough, dinosaur-like scales).

You can tell the people behind the design choices are really passionate about Pokemon and wanted to create characters you could easily suspend your disbelief to accept and also fully enjoy with the original ‘flavor’ of Pokemon as a long-time fan.

And anyway I just wanted to talk about how cool that all was.

Somebody post negatively about the ocean, I have a meme I want to use

The ocean is bad and puts sand in my hair

…OH MY GODDDDD not to vague but like. just because fanfics are free doesn’t mean in the SLIGHTEST that it is inherently better. “media is junk fast food” says that this user doesn’t care about the actually fucking good media that gets produced that isn’t the 974389th Marvel movie. yes people are underpaid but just because a worker is underpaid doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t do ANYTHING about it but create fanfics??? they don’t intersect. 
Using unpaid workers to further your point that fanworks are better is disgusting and devalues the struggles they have. Instead of saying they don’t make any good work maybe bring awareness to unions and rally for better work conditions if youre soooo worried about them! “home baked meal” get your HEAD out of your ass, fanfic writers can be good and even excellent but over-glorifying it makes you look like a fool Because the medium doesn’t make it it glorious, the content does. anyways fanfiction and original media are neither inherently better or worse, they are neutral mediums that aren’t automatically glorious or trash.

A very curious octopus.

Watch this and be blessed

“Why he smoosh my head??? Wait smoosh my head again.”

Update from hell town

….I want to know what could have possibly happened that didn’t only prompt the closing of the McDonald’s but it’s over night demolition and Erasure

well i know why since i live here but im not going to tell you

But… But why not?

im shy.

its may which means happy asian and pacific islander heritage month! reminder to white people that:

1. our cultures and languages are not some hip trendy aesthetic for your instagram

2. dont act like youre an expert in our culture just bc you like, eat pad thai once a week

3. dont use asian names bc you “think they sound cool” or “want to protect your identity” or bullshit like that

4. darkskinned asians are real and exist. so do mixed asians

5. asians are not “poc lite.” racism and colorism have and still do affect us

if i see any of the clownery listed above this month or anytime at all really i will beat you into the ground with my big asian fists!

if your favorite ship doesn’t boil down to ‘they’re both stupid but they help each other be less sad’ then What’s The Point

TIL the two centers of the brain responsible for depression and anxiety respectively are both slightly bigger than each other, which explains a lot.

via reddit.com

Bigger than each other what? Whats bigger than what? Anyine able to parse this and explain it?

They’re just larger in size from one another I don’t know how to simplify it more than that.

I think they’re asking which one is larger, which is… fair.

The one that’s bigger is the larger one.

How can they both be bigger than the other? For one to be bigger, the other needs to be smaller.

no they’re both too large to be the smaller one

The link isn’t even helpful

have you tried clicking it?

just say if the depression center is begger than the anxiety one!!!

i’m afraid it’s not that simple, you see, they’re both bigger than each other.

hello…

I eat Moss

finally, an adult.

I love when people intentionally typo words to get across the instinctual reaction as something similar to a feeling?

Like “i want to Tuch”

“Tumby”

“Creeture”

“Flufy”

“Packige”

Idk i just. Feel it.

thatse gobling core babey!!

every time…

Some Gremlin is best

omfg I can’t BELIEVE I hadn’t reblogged this adorable addition to my post yet. I love the balloon and the flower crown.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

REBLOG THIS IF you love your DnD character, are making a DnD character OR you have eaten approximately 12 D20s

Item: cargo hotpants

Me showing up to my next forestry internship

It’s only been one day and one of my classmates called me out for this because she saw it on a forestry memes page amazing

#1 rule of freelancing is that you have to be dead fuckin serious about getting paid. do not assume everything is going fine and they will pay you eventually. follow up as many times as you have to until the money is in your bank account. if you catch yourself thinking, “oh, i don’t want to bother them…” kill that thought and b o t h e r them. send uber-polite, grandma-is-watching e-mails along the lines of, “Hi! Hope this note finds you well. Just wanted to check in re: the status of my payment. Do you know when the funds will be available?” every few days until you get your money. 

also if you’re freelancing for a client based in new york city they’re legally required to pay you within thirty days of receiving your invoice so put a note on your invoice that says, “Per the Freelance Isn’t Free Act, payment is due within thirty days of completion.” if they go over that deadline or they just don’t pay you at all, you can file a complaint with the city’s department of consumer affairs and have your lost wages recovered. go w/ christ brah. 

Also in general, if you’re like… legit freelancing and drawing up a contract, familiarize yourself with a “Net 30″ or “Net 15″ clause and agree on what the timeframe for payment is before you’ve even started the work.  It’s awesome that NYC has legislation about that, but you can definitely hold your client accountable to pay you regardless of where you live!