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elisabethdeep-blog · 2 days ago

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No yknow what here it is:

Picking Blackberries

By Seamus Heaney

Late August, given heavy rain and sun

For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.

At first, just one, a glossy purple clot

Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.

You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet

Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it

Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for

Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger

Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots

Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.

Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills

We trekked and picked until the cans were full,

Until the tinkling bottom had been covered

With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned

Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered

With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard's.

We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.

But when the bath was filled we found a fur,

A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.

The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush

The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.

I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair

That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.

Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.

I have foraging instincts on par in intensity with herding dogs' need to herd. It doesn't matter where we are or who I'm with, if I see a wild berry or edible plant I recognise, you can bet your teeth that I will not rest before I have either picked those things or you have physically removed me from the premises. As much as neither of us want this to happen, I have monkey brain and nimble fingers and excellent colour vision and I just spotted some bilberries. Here we go.

#Poetry #Seamus heaney #Picking blackberries

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elisabethdeep-blog · 2 days ago

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In year 11 my English class read Seamus Heaney's 'Blackberry picking', in which the speaker recounts picking absolute arseloads of blackberries only for everything to moulder Immediately.

I remembered none of the words and in fact had remembered the author wrong until I checked myself just now, but the sin and gluttony and hedonism of it sank into my soul.

I have foraging instincts on par in intensity with herding dogs' need to herd. It doesn't matter where we are or who I'm with, if I see a wild berry or edible plant I recognise, you can bet your teeth that I will not rest before I have either picked those things or you have physically removed me from the premises. As much as neither of us want this to happen, I have monkey brain and nimble fingers and excellent colour vision and I just spotted some bilberries. Here we go.

#blackberries

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elisabethdeep-blog · 2 days ago

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had a dream last night and i don’t remember any part of it except wherever i was a song was playing on the radio called “just like randy johnson.” it was about how if your love was unrequited you could tell your feelings to a bird and it would explode. just like randy johnson

#Just started pissing myself #Is Randy Johnson the gif man? Which is funnier...#Imagine that being your legacy #Fuck #Just like randy johnson

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elisabethdeep-blog · 2 days ago

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"honey I think it might be fee-niks actually"

"NO mummy, that's how *I* say it!"

Someone should publish a pronunciation guide for bookish children with words like boatswain, victuals, epitome and so forth. It could probably just be a slim pamphlet, but it would save a lot of nerds a lot of embarrassment down the line.

#Fauxnix #Foenix #I did this a lot and had really little patience with being corrected.

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elisabethdeep-blog · 2 days ago

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playing pokemon go is so funny simply for the reason that it MUST be played outside, in well populated areas. if you play you know exactly what I'm talking about, because every community day the downtown area is FLOODED with people and once you learn to recognize the way people playing pokemon go hold their phones you can never unsee them in your day to day life.

The grip this game has on our local downtown shops/communities is so massive, and it's one of the only games you can actually SEE that influence because we HAVE to be there. There are at least 3 shops downtown in my city that do special pokemon discounts every community day. Some of the stores will load their stock out onto the sidewalk to sell/display, because they know there's gonna be a ton of people walking around, aimlessly, and hey we might as well stop in for a drink or snack or something. Our local history museum allows hosted pokemon go events on their campus. There are carts selling pokemon go themed merch (including handmade!). Somehow that game is still going and is probably a not insignificant surplus into our local economy

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elisabethdeep-blog · 2 days ago

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I saw a sunset rainbow the other day.

It was raining in the east as the sun went down and the only colours to split were sunset colours.

looked like a firefall, like the one at Yosemite.

#gotta keep that head on a swivel #rainbow #eldeepo

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elisabethdeep-blog · 2 days ago

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"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence."

whatever whatever the “dopamine addiction” industry is lying to you the point of life is to have as broad a range of pleasures as you can. the problem with dependency is not that it’s evil to be dependent on something, it’s that it can be unhealthy to rely completely on a singular source of happiness/pleasure/escape. this does not make the desire to escape inherently evil or some kind of inherent weakness. you are not addicted to dopamine you have a habit of relying on one thing for all your needs and that is a habit you can change slowly over time without complete ‘abstinence’ so to speak. and comparing any of this to a substance addiction is unhelpful + unhealthy + will get your local addict (me) to kick you in the shins very hard

#This line changed my brain chemistry #It rings in my head All The Time.#Immortan joe #Mad Max: fury road #Gosh I'm terrible I can't even go thirty seconds without Breathing Air #I really find that if a day goes by without me Laughing that's a bad day. I think I have a Problem. I'm laugh-dependent.#Joy is habit forming #And then if you dont experience joy you go I to potentially fatal withdrawals.

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elisabethdeep-blog · 3 days ago

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we need a name for the opposite of a blorbo. an anti-blorbo if you will. a character you’ve been forced to encounter in dashboard wilderness so often it's now anathema to your fandom instincts. not a blorbo but a "hell no not this fucker again"

#Kriki from my nos #Kiki and Bouba #Kriki and blorbo

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elisabethdeep-blog · 3 days ago

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When I was a kid I thought there was a real job like an entomologist would do where someone could just draw insects all day long, and that’s what I told everyone I wanted to do when I grew up

and then later in highschool biology I was really really good at drawing diagrams from class dissections and I thought maybe I could do that for like… textbooks and stuff someday. And anyhow I never made it there but I have a new notebook to doodle in at work that doesn’t have any lines in it

#Goddammit #The value of a dream man #Amazing

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elisabethdeep-blog · 4 days ago

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elisabethdeep-blog · 5 days ago

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dont piss me off. next time you go on a trip im filling your house with galapagos finches. by the time you return, they've evolved to fill your niche. they're a better spouse to your partner. they're a better parent for your child. and? they're a better friend to me than you ever were.

#Evolution #yea i'll reblog that

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elisabethdeep-blog · 6 days ago

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Today's fears; boba tea and ppl who are nice to you.

I am, as an individual, easily frightened by the boba tea straw sound

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elisabethdeep-blog · 6 days ago

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I mean its natural in the sense that it... happened?

It's natural like teeth, or gynandromorphy, or left-spiralled snails. Or meteorite strikes.

It happens. It's natural. Lots of parochial things happen once and are weirdly persistent for reasons that owe little to adaptiveness. Lots of things that aren't adaptive occur over and over and over again. That doesn't make them 'the natural order' and even if it did... so?

It sucks. So did smallpox.

If you claim yourself to be a feminist, please repeat this after me:

The.

Patriarchy.

Is.

Not.

Natural.

Or.

Biological.

Please, I am BEGGING you. Understand this. Humans have not evolved for patriarchy. The assholes who tell you that do so to uphold the patriarchy. It is the patriarchy trying to claim so. Athropology is VERY CERTAIN that humans have not evolved for this. Humans have lived in a matriarchal OR gender-equal society till about 12 000 years ago. (After which most humans still continued - just a few started patriarchy.)

Stop spreading this misogynic myth of patriarchy being natural. You are not helping your cause.

#evolution #humans have big dicks which isn't consistent with patriarchal social structure.#teeth are common to us but they only arose once. Everything with teeth shares a common ancestor #Hooray lets be pedantic about words whilst clearly agreeing with the OP's actual position that's not annoying especially if we lampshade!

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elisabethdeep-blog · 7 days ago

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No no the colour of the wiggle totally works, what do you think colour is if not wavelength?

Wiggle

#Do you love the colour of the wiggle #Long post #Yay #Wiggle #Oscillation

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elisabethdeep-blog · 7 days ago

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What the fuck else are you gonna do?

Be honest do you think that actually learning things in high school is important

yeah dude or else youre gonna be that coworker people post about

#What are you gonna do during high school time that isn't learning? And like. Why?

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elisabethdeep-blog · 10 days ago

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AAhHaha I feel this way about almost everything just every emotional experience 'oh yea I just. Yknow. Don't? Feel it? Skill issue' and eventually, slowly, realised I was a shoo-in for Olympic dissociation.

But hey I don't have wrinkles. My face looks like I've never had any experiences at all.

As an aroace person I actually never had that feeling of being broken. I thought everyone was the same way and some people were just dramatic 😭

#Also ace but like also the dissociation #Dissoci-ace-shon #asexual #Dissociation

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