#Grape Planting Machine

[oh-a-very-toxic-octopus]

Outdoor exhibits at the Norwegian Road Museum.

That tracked dozer was particularly cool to see as I'd just finished reading Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath when we visited. This machine would be about the same age and overall look as the new tractors that took over from the tenant farmers at the start of the book.

The second orange excavator caught our eye, too. Looking at it — animated not by hydraulics but steel cabling, its scoop set the wrong way around, all the tension pulling in the wrong directions — really makes you realise how refined modern machinery is. I wonder how much faster than the workers that old POS really was. Bet it broke constantly.

[mmwm]

INDEPENDENCE DAYS #62

[fatkish]

Hi there, hope you're well! I always love your hybrid stuff, so I wanted to request (BullHybrid!Tengen + CowHybrid!Wives) x CowHybrid!Reader please! HCs for the bunch of them being a proper little herd.

Tengen + Wives x Reader: Hybrid AU

Life had always been good on the Ubuyashiki Farms. Kagaya Ubuyashiki and his wife Amane were the owners of Ubuyashiki Farms, a hybrid farm

Ubuyashiki farms were mostly well known for their wine, jams, dairy and apple products

Many different hybrids lived here and helped the family out by providing them with things like wool, milk, eggs, etc

Many of the male hybrids helped out in the fields, planting and helping care for the grapes, and various berry plants, while the females helped in the apple orchards

Among the hybrids was the Uzui herd. This herd consisted of Tengen Uzui, the stud bull, and his three female cows, Suma, Makio and Hinatsuru

His wives spent a lot of time helping out in the orchards and helping with the production of wine and jams whilst he spent his time helping with the more heavy duty stuff like manual labor

The hybrids are treated well and highly respect the Ubuyashiki family, since they respect them and treat them so well

Tengen and his girls or wives as he call them, have their own little barn that they sleep in, as do all the hybrids

One day, Kagaya called Tengen over and told him that a new hybrid would be arriving at the farm and that he wanted Tengen to help them get settled in

Tengen agreed to help the newcomer get settled, but he was surprised to hear that the new arrival was a hybrid hybrid

To be specific, they were the offspring of a cow and sheep hybrid, meaning they’d produce wool and milk

Such hybrids were rare and Uzui was excited to see one, and he wasn’t disappointed

You arrived on the farm around midday and you were very skittish, and easily spooked

When Tengen went to greet you, you yelped and tried to hide behind the truck that brought you there

You peeked out at him and were extremely nervous but Kagaya came to the rescue

Kagaya introduced himself as well as his wife and welcomed you to the farm

You sheepishly accepted his welcome and you followed Tengen as he showed you around the farm

The previous farm you came from wasn’t able to properly provide care for you since it wasn’t a hybrid based farm

Your wool is of high quality and you spend a lot of time caring for it and grooming it. You also have horns that you have to maintain and shape with special tools that way they don’t grow too long

Eventually you met Tengen’s wives who thought you were just the cutest with your soft fluffy wool

You’ve since become a part of the Uzui herd

Suma loves snuggling with you and cuddling into your wool

Hinatsuru helps you with grooming the wool you can’t reach and helps you care for it

Makio helps you before and after you get sheared, since you get hot and cold easily. And she helps you sand down your horns

Tengen is the one who shears you, he trims up places like between your legs and trims the fur on your ears before shearing your wool off in one big fleece

You’ve come to trust Tengen and since he’s so much larger than you, it’s easier for him to shear you

After you’ve been sheared, Tengen and his wives will cuddle with you at night to help keep you warm with the absence of your wool

Tengen will wrap you in a blanket if you need it and he’ll snuggle you

You’ve taken to working in the winery and you help make jams. You tend to do more indoor work due to your difficulty with handling temperatures

Tengen is also the one who milks all four of you, he does it by hand since the machines scare both you and Suma

When it comes time to breed you, Tengen makes sure to be through with each of his wives and you

Sadly due to the fact that your a mixed hybrid, you’re infertile, but Tengen still breeds with you since it helps with your milk production due to the stimulation and hormones from breeding

Tengen makes sure to look after the four of you and makes sure that each of you are eating and are healthy

When it comes to nighttime, he makes sure that the barn is secure before he returns to the cuddle puddle, as you and Suma call your guys’s bed

[wonderjanga]

I love your headcanons!!! Do you think that with Fawcett being a time bubble and magical influence and when new technology is introduced to the city that it changes? Like the engineers study magic as well due to the proximity to the Rock of Eternity? I'd imagine like perpetual motion machines do exist and parts of the plumbing system are fantastical magic animals. Like the old telephone wires are autonomous snake-like entities that Marvel has to untangle sometimes. (They do get tangled up). It's all very surreal and dream logic stuff.

I would love to see what's under the hoods of their cars. Do they run on pixie dust or dragon tears? Are there small sprites keeping it all together?

I’ve actually never really thought about this but here are some ideas! I think they would study magic when getting engineering degrees cause I’m pretty sure they’d just think of it as apart of engineering maybe. Like for example, when building houses they’d make fairy doors in certain places. I also think that instead of Lightbulbs for street lamps they hire fairies every night to make themselves light up. They get payed in pretty stones. Detectives can hire ghosts to help solve crimes. I think their cars run on either, but they’d be higher quality gas so most people would use normal gas. I also think there would be lawyers who work specifically with cases about fae. There’s gonna be lawyers to get that first born back. People might use magical herbs in everyday cooking too. Like someone might get a dried leaf called mystic petals because when ground up, they taste similar to sugar. (The plant makes hair, skin, and eye color more vibrant) One of the teachers at an elementary school is a Lich that has nothing better to do but teach. Or a Centaur works as a PE teacher. I also think that Fawcett could be so affected by magic that the buildings and sidewalks could be sentient. Like a little kid’s about to trip on a crack and the pavement moves the crack out of the way. Or someone who’s vandalizing a building gets hit in the face when the building pushes a brick out. Certain roads seal up their potholes, and maybe Billy is running down an alley being chased or something and the alley walls close up behind him cutting his pursuers off. The flowers grow all year around in a certain part of a city, it could be hot all the time in another, it could snow frequently in another, and trees could start turning orange and letting leaves fall in another because of the presence of spring, summer, fall, and winter fairies who split Fawcett up into small kingdoms. Billy oversees their diplomatic affairs. You find Santa at the grocery store buying cookie mix because “it’s cheaper here than at the North Pole”. The Spirit of Halloween would start pestering people in beginning of September to put up their Halloween decorations. The Easter Bunny would be a local attraction to go see, as it would be in a meadow every Easter making eggs and giving them to other bunnies to go hide. There’d be tones of restaurants in Fawcett with from from multiple creatures. You can go to a small place on 45th, where you can order from fairies who make sandwiches and soups using traditional fairy recipes and herbs. Or a small stand ran by orcs who sell Owlbear on a stick and roasted Blood Hawk legs. There could be a pair of yetis who sell snow cones using snow from the Himalayas. They have human flavors like grape, and yeti flavors using fruits grown from their tribes. When zombies crawl out of their grave, there’s insurance for both the damage to the coffins and the ruined grave and for people who get bitten. Doctors tweaked the polio vaccine for zombification. Wind elementals help people they favor when they fall. Water elementals help move snow from roads. Earth elementals help with construction. Fire elementals help melt down metals for jewelry stores and factories. Harpies sing for crowds. Gelatinous Cubes can be used as lubricants for machinery and extremely strong glues. I also think the rock messed with time. There are dinosaurs displayed at the zoo. Certain buildings look like they’re from different eras. Gothic architecture, favored by vampires. Victorian architecture. Neoclassical architecture. Also there are wyvern. Though they’re all the size of vultures. They’d have multiple different scale colors which have been made into jewelry or bags. Animal rights activists heavily protested that, and did the same thing they would do to mink coats in the 90’s to the dragon scale items. They threw paint on them. Mimics have exterminators to sniff them out. Shapeshifters wear certain tags while in magical form so they won’t get flagged for animal patrol. There’s also a bunch of other races such as lamia, gorgons, lizard people, homuncules, and goblins.

[plague-karm]

Minos Ultrakill Headcanons Because I’m Bored

•I like to believe that his and Gabriel’s character arcs are inverses of one another, Gabriel started off kind to others and slowly got weighed down by the authority that loomed over him while Minos started off matter of fact and reserved as the judge of hell until the Minotaur incident finally woke him up to his past regrets and his longing to help his people turned him into the kind man his people knew and loved.

��Minos didn’t look down upon other husks for looking less human than him, he saw the humanity that was buried deep down and wanted to show them that while those above may have forgotten them, they can make meaningful connections here as a new start.

•He’s still reserved, but he’s very sociable. His palace must’ve been HUGE so he liked visitors a lot.

•His snakes are called Ariadne and Deucalion.

•His people confided in him regarding their past sins and he often advised them on how to make a better path for themselves going forward.

•Was close friends with the husk who painted his and Sisyphus’ portraits.

•He died before machines even entered hell but if he had to converse with them he would be very confused (albeit welcoming as ever).

•Had a secret portrait done of Pasiphae that he keeps in the darkest depths of his palace as a permanent reminder of his previous sins as to not stray from this path he built for himself.

•He sometimes wonders if some of the husks were subjects of his when they were alive and they just can’t remember it.

•Is the only one who can understand his snakes’ language.

•Really likes plant life, he wanted his people to experience even the smallest of luxuries after all the work they put into rebuilding the city of lust as a paradise (grapes were plentiful).

•The only layers he didn’t travel to in person was Wrath and Violence. Wrath because of its raging waters and overall air of dread reminds him too much of Poseidon. Violence doesn’t need explaining.

•He didn’t feel any kind of dread regarding the return of heavens watchful eye, his heel turn made him believe that if someone who was once as cruel as himself could change, so could those in heaven

•Gabriel knew of the lust Renaissance prior to him being sent down to kill Minos. I like to think the two knew each other pretty well to an extent, meeting when they were at equal levels of whimsy. And when Gabriel began to grow more dower Minos would try and confront him about it but Gabriel would refuse to indulge him every single time (this would be when it’s getting drilled into Gabriel’s head that he’s above everyone around him).

•This is why Minos tried to reason with him without fighting back, he was genuinely caught off guard by his actions, someone who he once saw as a trusted confidant hurting him in this way, and so publicly as well…

•This is why there’s a defaced Gabriel picture in the Greed layer, they saw him as their saviour for so long only to be shown the ugly truth that he is carrying out the very will that keeps them all oppressed. The murder of Minos was THE key event that made most sinners open their eyes to this (except for those in Limbo who are doomed to toil in their delusions until their very bodies wither away to nothingness).

•His disdain of Gabriel isn’t because of how he betrayed him, its because of how he abandoned his once pure beliefs for the hollow words of an oligarchy who cares naught for the god he adored so much, only for the power his influence could give them. He knows Gabriel is better than this, or so he once thought, he made his death public intentionally, he purposefully inflicted horror and grief onto his people just to make a point. And that enraged him beyond belief.

•The Flesh Prison was very tiny haha tiny prison go brrrrr.

•His prime form isn’t very personal to him because his own desires weren’t the thing that pushed him to get this intense a level of determination beyond a physical form, it was his will to do right by his people regardless of the pit they were left in due to his own naivety and pacifism.

•Minos’ voice doesn’t just sound gravely because of his age, it’s because of the eons worth of screams and wails of pain and grief he let out in the flesh prison as he was forced to watch all he and his people worked so hard to build wither away to dust as if none of it mattered.

Case in point this old man deserved better and whatever second life he has it better be in a cottage where him and his snakes wear little hats and get to relax after the classic Greek tragedy that was his previous life.

[samkat10423]

More SV-Victorian

So, I'm back! Went out-of-town for one of those family vacations. This time, it was a camping trip. Luckily, I was well prepared with a bottle of wine for each day of the trip. Anyway, once I got back, I unwound by working on SV.

This little lot was originally created by that group of simmers who made that Disney world a year or so ago. The original name of the lot was Casey's Corner Store, and it was one of the grocery stores in the Magical Kingdom part of their world world. I got rid of the rabbithole building in a basement, since 1) I use rugs, and 2) I made this into a small wine shop. Then I recolored the whole thing. Originally, it was pink and bright white and reminded me of a bottle of Pepto Bismol that had just exploded. But I liked the building. It fits in well with the rest of the town. Since it is a nectary, I added that tiny vineyard to the side of the building using @grandelama's grape fencing and all of the game's grape plants. I still need to add a few spawners.

Inside, was more of the Pepto-pink - that I got rid of. Other than that, the layout is the same. I just got rid of all their furnishings and placed my own. Same with the tables outside. The only thing I kept were the counters where the cash register is. And viola! It was done! Go, me!

You probably noticed that there are currently no wine bottles in the racks. That's because I build stuff in one town, save the finished lot to my library, then place it in my "play" town. So, there will be bottles eventually.

Then, over where the Roomies used to live in modern SV, I placed this lot. It was built by Kyria for her St. Mary Meade world that she and some others built ages ago. It's her Tennis and Cricket Club.

Well, we don't have cricket in our games, but we do now have functional tennis courts thanks to @riverianepondsims. So a HUGE thank you to her! Anyway, I basically deleted the fake tennis court and fake bleachers that were here in the back of the lot, and placed river's court. Then, where those tables with umbrellas now are, there was that game that came with base-game - pins sims can knock over. Can't remember what it's called, but I already have it in Central Park, so I decided to give my stupid sims something else to do here.

There wasn't much inside - just that bar and 1 table. So, I gave them 2 activities - a poker game, created by @mspoodle1 and that dominos game that came with one of the later EPs. Upstairs there were even less items - a weight machine and treadmill. And since I already have a gym, I deleted them and placed some tables and a buffet. And another lot done!

If you're wondering about all those plants you see in the first 2 pictures, they are from the adjoining lot. It's where that apartment pool used to be. It's a really pretty, little lot. I not sure if it currently has any spawners, but placing some will be all that I do to it.

[macaroonsims]

Making a part two as it was requested, and I had a lot of fun making part one!

Complete all generational goals; cheats are allowed (I genuinely don't get people being like you can't cheat!!! it's just a game)

Gen One: Pochacco

traits: active, clumsy, loves the outdoors

Aspiration: extreme sports enthusiast

career: athlete (any branch)

master fitness skill

adopt at least one dog

date a sim who also has a dog

live in mt komorebi

have three children, oldest will be the heir

Gen Two: Tuxedo Sam

traits: proper, good, goofball

aspiration: friend of the world

career: style influencer- stylist branch

live somewhere by the sea (tartosa, brindleton bay...)

always wear your formal outfit when outside (exceptions made for swimming, freezing or really hot temperatures)

complete postcard collection

visit all vacation worlds

Gen Three: Chococat

Traits: Insider, cat lover, outgoing

Career: detective

aspiration: master maker

Form your own club

master baking skill

have at least one cat, one dog, a hamster, and a rabbit home in your garden

have three kids, youngest will be the heir

Gen Four: Hangyodon

traits: romantic, goofball, genius

aspiration: curator

career: comedian

master fishing, robotics, and comedy skills

complete fish collection

Try all dishes from the chinese food stand in San Myshuno

have two kids, oldest will be the heir

Gen Five: Pekkle

traits: good, dance machine, music lover

aspiration: muscial genius

career: music

master baking, piano, singing, and dance skills

build a rocketship and use it at least once

never go swimming

have two kids, oldest will be the heir

Gen Six: Cogimyun

traits: foody, gloomy, neat

aspiration: master chef

career: chef

become a spellcaster

master baking skill

live with parents, younger sibling, and grandparents until your young adulthood

live in an apartment

have a strawberry plant

have a pet fish (ebifurai)

Gen Seven: Hanamaruobake

traits: creative, lazy, ambitious

aspiration: renaissance sim

career: teacher (any branch)

Die in your young adulthood (any means, up to you) and complete goals after you have become a playable ghost.

master baking skill

Have a cherry tree in each residence

(to have the next heir, you can adopt, make one in case, use cheats, or have one before death... up to you)

Live in each habitable world at least once and visit all vacation worlds

Gen Eight: Wish me well

traits: clumsy, good, polite

aspiration: best selling auhtor

career: romance consultant

complete message in a bottle collection

own a bird feeder and the flock of wild birds object

Gen Nine: Usahana

traits: dance machine, cheerful, foodie

aspiration: freelance botanist

career: entertainment- any branch

live in sulani

master gemology, baking, dance, gardening and painting skills

visit the lighthouse in brindleton bay

have tulip and grape plants

Gen Ten: Moppu (Marumofubiyori)

traits: lazy, geek, gloomy

career: none, make money and become famous by making vlogs and videos

aspiration: world famous celebrity

master dance skill

own two stuffies as a child (the oversized ones) and befriend them

live with a roommate throughout young adulthood

Thanks for playing! :)

[nogacheloveka-blog]

The Bad Sanses somehow ended up in the Backrooms. №14

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This is the translation of the another post from Russian to English. I understand English, but it is very difficult for me to write in English, so I asked chat GPT to help me. I have corrected some parts, but there still may be mistakes.

There will be no romantic lines in this story. I don't think it's appropriate to introduce romance, the story just isn't about that. Perhaps there will be some hints (I love some pairing and polyamory in the gang), but this work is just a research and hobby for me, a platform for experiments. Killer is just fooling around because he gets an interesting reaction in return.

Well, now I want to experiment with the number of images. I will be adding more relevant illustrations to the text. For now, I'll start with two or three and see how it turns out. I don't think I'll have time to add the gang to all the images, but perhaps in the future, I'll do.

What Error identified as an "exit" turned out to be a broken arcade machine. The power cable was torn and led to a small dirty puddle, one of the walls was scratched with claw marks, as if a wild beast had sharpened its claws on it, and the coin slot was overgrown with moss. But Error was convinced that this thing could serve as a way out of here (he sees more than the others), when they look around. After all, they have just arrived. However, level 25, where the arcade machine presumably led, was a good opportunity to choose their own path ahead (Nightmare was happy to have the chance to predict his own life).

The description of level 23 in the database described the ruins of a past civilization. Engaging in archaeology would not be amiss. Moreover, in addition to items, human organizations hunted for information (Killer understood their curiosity). Old bricks, ruins, a couple of rusty coins, sketches of various architectural styles - the group looked with admiration (except for Error) at their boss, who surprisingly well oriented himself in the value of archaeological finds.

Many of them sometimes forgot that their boss had lived a long life and loved learning new things.

The group's inventory, although it allowed carrying many items, was limited and had already been filled with essential items. They had to choose. Some things were discarded based on data from the Backroom database, some did not represent historical value. Mostly, the subordinates of Nightmare were engaged in the search: Killer brought everything he saw, while Horror enthusiastically searched for edible and medicinal plants.

Dust was the only one who purposefully searched for artifacts. He admired Nightmare's skills and was interested in learning more about history from him. Forest butterflies flocked to him. It even seemed to Dust that they were trying to help him in his search within their capabilities. Perhaps it was his imagination. But he managed to find a couple of interesting frescoes and fragments of some strange tools, which Nightmare identified as "valuable".

Some of the finds resembled musical instruments, some looked like weapons or tools. They seemed damaged, but Killer's attempt to break one of the ancient items failed: they turned out to be surprisingly strong.

Horror found wild grapes and a bunch of snails on them. It took him a couple of days to prepare the snails (each of them knew about snails from the old lady), but the berries tasted good. As if the plant came here not from the forest, but from the plantation. That explained the snails.

Error used strings to catch animals and let Horror cook it. It was just rational. The big guy could cook well. In a way, Horror bought Error's loyalty. For now.

Overall, they stayed in these forests for about two weeks and did not notice any signs of a possible way to get to their home dimension. It seemed that the human settlement was also too far from the place where they were (Enrico could have had a hard time). And everything that people knew, they immediately published on Reddit or the knowledge base, and they had not yet come across any secret communities. The latter was very disappointing Nightmare.

With some caution (the dimension-killer could play a trick on them, but going all the way back was too tedious. They were, after all, Sanses), the group returned to the arcade machine by a shortcut.

It was standing there.

Waiting for them.

Error could not make it work just like that. He saw the executable code for moving to level 25. But the Backrooms did not allow him to change or initiate anything. Fortunately, there was a real thing in front of him. And the code for moving was launched manually. He just needed to reconnect the wires and microchips that would do all the work for him.

Error stuck his hands inside the broken machine and released the threads. They slid inside, weaving through the broken parts. The power source was still working - the cord outside was decoration.

The mechanism seemed complex, but Error only needed to fix what was involved in executing the code. It took some time, but the Destroyer managed to do it. The machine still looked deactivated, and its screen remained dark. But inside, music could be heard, and the coin slot glowed with light bulbs. One of the ancient coins they found managed to squeeze inside. Now they just needed to press a few buttons, simulating the game. Killer happily pounced on the levers and keyboard. After a few actions, Error began to reboot, and Killer got into the game - it seemed that the arcade machine contained some kind of fighting game. It was difficult to orientate oneself by the sounds of battle, but the skeleton got carried away and played until the transfer worked.

They all appeared in the hall, level 25. The second crossroads of the Backrooms. Many arcade machines, billiards, mini-bars, soda machines, ping-pong and other entertainment.

Killer immediately offered to play something. He playfully used his body as a bet.

Nightmare belongs to Jokublog Killer belongs to RahafWabas Dust belongs to Ask-DustTale Horror belongs to Sour-Apple-Studios Error belongs to CrayonQueen Cross belongs to JakeiArtwork

[spacemonkey005]

I have my headcanons about Henry J. Waternoose IV, also known as Roger Rogers, on his resume his mother's name is Wendy Rogers Waternoose, it is not known if his mother is alive or deceased, we will not know that until there is a third season or a third Monsters Inc. movie.

Well, as I was saying, one of my headcanons is that Roger Rogers is neurodivergent and has borderline intelligence with mild signs of ADHD.

On his mother's side, Roger is a monotreme marsupial type monster, because he hatched from an egg and was the size of a grape, and was inside his mother's pouch for nine months.

As for his parents, he is the son of Henry J. Waternoose III, the former CEO of Monsters Inc., and Wendy Rogers Waternoose (née Campbell), an idol in her youth who retired and became a well-known scarer throughout Monstropolis, until the day she was murdered in cold blood by a human child, being brutally stabbed directly in the heart with a knife.

Roger's childhood was very difficult, he saw his mother killed in cold blood by a human child, when he was only 4 years old, he suffered bullying at school due to his neurodivergence, that made his father take him to countless psychologists and neurologists in order to "fix" him, but seeing that no specialist could "fix" him, his father was very strict and authoritarian to the point of being abusive, doing everything possible to "make him normal".

His relationship with his father deteriorated when one night after all the employees of Monsters Inc. finished their work day; Roger was walking through the factory when he moved one of the tools from the secret door to the laboratory, he walks inside towards the secret laboratory, when he heard the heartbreaking scream of a human child and another muffled scream of another human child, he got closer he saw how a child was wearing a kind of oxygen mask in his mouth sucking his screams until he had very pale skin, eyes and hair nuclear white, and at the other end is another human child screaming and crying at the end of the secret laboratory; Just when Randall puts the other human child to the machine, he sees his father in the secret laboratory, Roger discovers his father, and he tells his son that Randall and he have created the Scream Extractor, his father tried to convince him to join his plan, but Roger refused discovering that the reason why that child killed his mother was because they believed that monsters were bad and he did it in self-defense and because he was afraid, and he plans to warn the CDA of this, But his father and he start having a very heated argument, they fight, hitting each other and shedding blood. When the fight ends, Roger screams with tears in his eyes, saying that he hates him and runs away from the secret laboratory and the factory. His father screams angrily and tells him that he is a disgrace to the family and that he will disinherit him from the family business. In response to that, Roger packs his bags and runs away from home, and goes to live with his uncle and aunt in New Squealand.

5 years later Roger Rogers returns to Monstropolis because he received a phone call from Mike and Sulley, saying that his father had put him in prison for the kidnapping and murder of human children with the scream extractor plan; When Roger arrives at the factory he talks to Mike and Sulley about the energy of laughter as an alternative energy to screams, and at that moment Sulley brings little Boo in his arms, at first Roger is scared that she can kill him just by touching him, but Mike and Sulley tell Roger that humans are not toxic and it is completely false, they tell him to make the girl laugh, so Roger takes out his ukulele and sings a song to Boo to make her laugh; Months later Roger works as a MIFTer at Monsters Inc., he lives in an apartment paid for by the company, his apartment is a loft decorated with plants and a collage of photos of the things he does, on his nightstand he has a photo of him with his father and mother when he was a child at the entrance of Monsters Inc.

Roger calls his father on the phone every 15 days due to prison rules, and usually visits him once a month, because he is his only living father and he has always been attached to him since his mother died.

[bumblehoneybee]

How strange that since you got your new visitors none of your grape plants seem to be giving fruit. You don’t want to accuse anyone, but your Junimo friends love your homemade raisins and are so sad there are no more

So you just address the group very gently and ask they leave a few bundles on the vine for your friends and maybe for you as well

And thus later they all carry a guilt-stricken echidna to your feet and demand he apologize to you. You just pat his head and promise to whip out your ice cream machine when the summer hits so he and the Junimo can get some lovely grape-y snacks

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Stoop Labor in Cotton Field, San Joaquin Valley, California

1938

Dorothea Lange (American, 1895 - 1965)

"An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion was published by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor in 1939 as a collaborative effort between "a photographer and a social scientist." The book was divided into six sections—Old South, Plantation under the Machine, Midcontinent, Plains, Dust Bowl, and Last West—each containing a portfolio of captioned images by Lange followed by a historical text by Taylor. The pictures in the first section consisted of field laborers and poor homes photographed in Alabama and Georgia. The anonymous cotton picker seen here serves to illustrate Taylor's essay, appearing just above his opening paragraph. Lange's view of the man's form make this difficult, exhausting work look graceful; the coarse cloth of his overalls and heavy bag crease and hang in beautiful ways.

In the revised and expanded edition of An American Exodus, issued by the Oakland Museum in 1969, this picture is accompanied by a caption from Taylor's field notes from the San Joaquin Valley in November 1938: "Migratory cotton picker paid 75 cents per 100 pounds. A good day's pick is 200 pounds. CIO union strikers demand $1 per 100 pounds." According to The WPA Guide to California, the state had been producing an important variety of cotton (Alcala) since it was introduced in 1917; in 1937 the average yield per acre was nearly twice that of the rest of the country. Although Lange did photograph workers planting and harvesting cotton in Southern states, this image was actually made of a migrant laborer in California.

The work of picking cotton occupies a chapter of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Like other seasonal labor, it was a possibility for the Joad family, who had fled the dust bowl conditions of Oklahoma. In a conversational style, seemingly from the migrant picker's viewpoint, Steinbeck describes the process: "Now the bag is heavy, boost it along. Set your hips and tow it along, like a work horse. . . . Good crop here. Gets thin in low places, thin and stringy. Never seen no cotton like this here California cotton.""

[missemyei]

One Match Away - Chapter 3: About to Expire

By Miss EmYei G Rating: M (18+)

🔗 Previous: Chapter 2 - Silver Among the Vines 🔗 Next: Chapter 4 – Harry and Ginny in Sydney - New Life, New Roots

Chapter 3: About to Expire Ginny always said the cure for a bad week was rosé and cheese. Hermione took the wine. Left the dairy to the braver souls.

After a week of playing corporate chess, side-eyeing gym selfies, and dodging dating profiles featuring dead fish, she deserved this. Deserved a couch. Deserved this soft pink wine dripping down her throat like it could rinse out the ache.

"So?" Ginny asked, casual as sin, swirling her glass. "Still swimming in the Sea of Limp Wands?"

Hermione almost choked on her grapes.

"There was... one," she admitted.

One.

One weird, familiar, heart-thudding ghost in the machine.

S.M. Vineyard. Dog. The kind of eyes you remember even when you spend a decade trying not to.

Ginny crowed over the profile like it was a new TV show. "He could have my passwords and my plants," she declared, unabashed.

Hermione smiled, but her chest tightened.

Because she knew. Knew without knowing.

That sometimes the past didn’t knock. It just slipped into your feed, swiped right, and dared you to open the door.

twenty minutes to detonation

Work dragged her back into calls and tasks. But under the deadlines, under the polite nodding, was him. Or maybe not him. She didn't know which was worse.

Ginny had called it fate. Hermione called it reckless curiosity.

Twenty minutes left on the match timer. Her finger hovered.

The screen pulsed like a heartbeat she didn't want to claim.

sunset confessions & old ghosts

Across the world, Draco was doing the same stupid dance.

Wine bleeding into his blood. Heat sticking to his half-open shirt. And Theo—good old Theo—snickering over the rim of his beer.

"You matched with Granger?" "You matched with Granger?"

Draco didn't laugh. Didn't smile.

He knew those eyes. Knew what it meant to be pulled back into gravity he thought he'd outflown.

Sixteen minutes left. A lifetime or a second, depending on who you were asking.

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Hermione zipped her laptop closed. Checked the clock.

Fifteen minutes. Fourteen. Thirteen.

Fear tasted metallic on her tongue. The fear that if it was him, she would come undone in ways no therapy could ever stitch back together. And if it wasn't him... well. Disappointment was an old friend too.

She didn't let herself think. Just typed:

Hi.

Two letters. One word. A beginning.

Or a mistake.

Or maybe—maybe—something else.

Send.

She stared at the screen like it might catch fire.

Somewhere, miles of vines away, someone else's phone buzzed.

And the world, just slightly, tilted.

💬 Like, reblog, and yell in the tags. I read every whisper and every scream. 💚

[mydonkeyfeet]

Plant Fertilization

As a gardener and plant-lover in general, I've been realizing more and more that my school teachers failed to adequately teach us about plant reproduction, flower fertilization and fruit formation. I'm pretty sure it's because they themselves didn't understand it, so they were just repeating mindlessly the words in the books: stamen, pistil, anther, making us label mindless diagrams the same way we labeled countries on a map. From the ignorance of other adults, I'm guessing it was similar for them.

But also I went to a Christian school and maybe they were just paranoid about talking to kids about anything remotely sexual? Maybe those teachers didn't even know there's plant sexual activity or different sexes to different parts? I'm pretty sure they didn't understand it at all. And we definitely didn't have an educational garden to observe. (Also no sex ed.)

Anyway, I decided today that if I were teaching kids about plants, kids too young to know about sex, that I'd frame it like the plant being a capsule vending machine that has a free coin available (male), a coin slot (female), and the ability to produce capsules (fruit) with a prize inside (seeds!)* The flower has a coin on one side, a coin slot on the other side, but how is it going to dispense a capsule without someone to put them together? That's why we need pollinators! BAM, I'm a genius.

(This vending machine has not been fertilized)

In the case of pine trees, they just send coins shooting out everywhere and hope some of them fly into coin slots, but that's as far as my knowledge of pine tress goes.

*or no seeds, in the case of things like seedless grapes or watermelon, which I assume are hybrids or something too complicated for this children's lesson. See also unfertilized chicken eggs that we eat, if it was biology. They're empty capsules. Also I realize there are sometimes male or female plants, but this is just the basics.

[justkeeponsimming]

Hex has just enough gardening skill to plant most of the crops in her inventory.

She took a gardening class whilst she was at university, thinking it would be a couple of extra, easy credits. Little did she know that her skills would really come in handy for a future business!

Strangely, as per the instructions on her nectar making machine, apples are the main ingredient for most nectar types. All of the grapes she foraged from her family’s farm on Windenburg Island are no use for now!

Luckily, the Sim God has visited the family farm frequently to add to the produce variety. Hex has perfect crops from most of the sim world updates. One day, she’ll have a tree full of perfect apples to make the best quality nectar in all of Chestnut Ridge!

After a long, hot afternoon, Hex finally finishes planting all of her crops. She wipes her arm across her forehead, smearing dust across her face. She makes a note to make a staff bathroom with a shower a priority once the business makes money!

Hex won’t have time to visit the New Appaloosa Nectary until after her wedding. She snaps some photos of her progress and sends them to her criminal contact, Gabriella Avila. Hopefully the progress of her business will show how dedicated she is to opening up new opportunities for the Llama Gang!

[muchi13kitty]

Name: Fake Mead❁w

(His real name is Eddie)

Age: 118

Birthday: May 19 Gender: Girl ♀

She measure: 1.75cm Weight: 55kg

She speaks: Mexican 100%

(she speaks it very nice)

English 90%

Japanese 5% (when he speaks japanese his becomes like cinnamoroll from sanrio)

Italian 20%

She is half: Jack Russell terrier, abyssinian kitten, axolotl, weddell seal and a Little bit of human

powers: electrocute (only sometimes electrocutes) multiply (that is, make a million clones of himself) with his plasma from his hand he can launch a large rainbow thunder with butterfly sweet flowers kompeitō and cute things (something like things from Sanrio) he can also Heal anyone like their hug can also explode like a nuclear bomb. Those who have butterflies, many colors, flowers, etc. but it can start an apocalypse of joy where everything becomes beautiful, colorful and cheerful and can read your mind only sometimes can become is a lion called Shido that only turns into a lion on October 27 and ends on November 5

her skills: Fake Meadow knows how to play the trumpet, the saxophone, the violin and the piano she learns very quickly she knows how to cook very well she knows how to fly in her an old umbrella (yes she has an old umbrella but it allows her to fly very high like an airplane) she knows kung fu and taekwondo with 2 taekwondo kicks he is destroying you your face he can change on the walls and the ceiling he knows how to escape from trees and land on his feet like a cat he has the nose of a dog and knows a lot about smells he can smell blood like sharks if he If you cut off a leg or an arm, someone will quickly believe him. He knows many remedies to cure you. He can talk to animals and can understand any language, even alien language. His fangs have poison with a single crunch. You can die. He sometimes sucks a little blood knows how to do Morse code or sign language knows a lot about mathematics has an elephant's memory, that is, having a memorable memory capacity, being able to not forget anything knows how to write with cursive letters and can turn its head like an owl she can revive plants and flowers with a single touch She can dodge anything without making any movement and she has good aim, meaning she can hit anything from a distance she can break many things with her head she can break can make magic dust that can make anything fly up to the ticket box She knows how to do super epic parkour, she dances very cool, she can even break dance, she can also climb a rainbow and also find the end of the rainbow Fake Meadow can also turn into a can if a machine crushes her she will turn into a can.

You can tame with: heart-shaped cookies with jams candy-shaped candy and heart-shaped gummies (It's her favorite snacks)

She eats: apples carrots cucumbers bones I know of human animal or creatures frogs candy Taro waffles cookies meat pizza tortillas tacos tortilla chips nopales chops beef head hearts pears shrimp bread nachos grasshoppers (I'm from Mexico and here she eats grasshoppers like a snack) oranges grapes watermelon lemons (Fake Meadow doesn't taste sour to a lemon, it's like she's eating candy) pineapple piranhas fish sandwiches jam honey mangoes papayas prickly pears dragon fruit peanuts acorns hot sauces corn sunflowers pumpkins kiwi strawberries etc.

some facts about her: Fake Meadow has a skull and her skull is super hard and impossible to break something like the Pachycephalosaurus Fake Meadow likes to hug others and her hug is so relaxing that she can calm you down Fake Meadow is very kind and friendly no she has enemies, he is like a capybara, he also has great intelligence that has even surpassed a robot. Fake Meadow smells like flowers, honey and strawberries. Fake Meadow is very fast, he runs like a bullet in the air and he also knows how to fight very nice. Fake Meadow is an expert swimmer and can even live in water without any problem. Fake Meadow eats piranhas. Fake Meadow has two hearts, one is made with lollipops and the other is a realistic heart that marks the life of fake Meadow and we kill it and tear it out. Acquire two hearts, a virus will be activated like a zombie, only this is the virus of the joy (based on a Gumball episode that is my favorite) Fake Meadow becomes a kind of happy zombie Another thing if there is a zombie apocalypse and a zombie bites Fake Meadow she won't become one Fake Meadow's blood is pink with glitter and tastes very sweet like a caprisun his pink eye allows him to see lost things and dangerous things. no boss can't defeat Fake Meadow because of his great kindness

Her blue bow looks like candy but that bow serves as a key that can open something

This pair of giant cotton balls are called "Mopon~ ÑOM" they are very cute and one of the two has a bell inside but it is impossible to know which is which and which is not sometimes it rings on one side other times on the other but oh well These also have feelings and can be prey the same as Fake Meadow

It has a pocket that can store many things Fake Meadow in its pocket It has bandages Band-Aids It also has 2000s flip phone It also has a piece of Metal and a tentacle (Please remember these two objects) and Chips for robots. A curious fact about Fake Meadow is that every time he picks up something metallic or a robot, Fake Meadow gets sad and feels very nostalgic.

Inside his Fake Meadow chest he has a very powerful element that is kindness, it looks something like this

Fake Meadow belongs to the "Flower Clan" she is the boss who can be whatever she wants and make her own rules there no one will do you any harm unless you are a person like Pizzahead because you can stay like that

Fake Meadow hates people like pizzahead

Meadow canssidy she loves Fake Meadow very much because she is his best friend

THE LIFE OF THE FAKE MEADOW

In an abandoned laboratory lived a mad scientist who was a Lesbian and her name was Tesshi (Tesshi looks like Pizzahead) One day she wanted to do something new, so in a cloning machine she put a lot of Glitter. Powdered sugar, a lot of gum, a little Meadow's hair, tired human blood, human eyes, axolotl veins, a small drop of baby Weddell seal blood and finally a Jack Russell terrier puppy and an Abyssinian kitten When Fake Meadow came out of the cloning machine Tesshi named her D-234 the first few days Tesshi loved Fake Meadow but then Tesshi became crazier than she already was and started torturing Fake Meadow

torture 1: Beatings torture 2: Electrocuted torture 3: Stretch muscles torture 4: Beaten with whips torture 5: electric water or hot water like lava torture 6: Tests like rabbits torture 7: they gave him knives to swallow torture 8: dog muzzle torture 9: abuse (she was abused once a month) Tesshi forced Fake Meadow to do something she didn't want

a Fake Meadow fell into the depths of the abandoned laboratory where he lived

but a giant octopus appeared accompanied by a rabbit with robotic parts because of experiments that attacked Fake Meadow but Fake Meadow hugged the giant octopus and they became best friends every afternoon Fake Meadow went to play with her two best friends one they decided give names but they all had names from experiments the octopus was named milan the rabbit Ray and Fake Meadow Eddie but one day Millan fell ill with a mysterious illness Fake Meadow tried to revive him but it was too late and two minutes later Ray died and with a painful heart Fake Meadow tore a tentacle from Milan and tore a piece of metal from Ray to remember his friends. 2 best friends One night Fake Meadow had a deep dream where she was in a field, flowers, clouds, etc.(it was the direct path to heaven) but Tesshi was electrocuting Fake Meadow one day Tesshi made a mixture that had a lot of chlorine acid shampoo and other things Fake Meadow had a plan to escape from that place the plan was going well but Fake Meadow tripped on a screw and Tesshi was able to catch her and Tesshi injected the strange mixture into her eye and her eye turned pink and the vision became increasingly blurry and bloody. Then Tesshi put Fake Meadow to sleep and performed an operation, he opened Fake Meadow's chest and Tesshi put a clock in Fake's heart. That clock seems to Fake Meadow to be her state of life and so Fake Meadow was tortured for 15 years. Tesshi hurt her Fake Meadow for Love one day Meadow canssidy entered the abandoned laboratory and when Meadow was fighting Tesshi Fake Meadow told Meadow to please get her out of that damn hell Meadow canssidy save Fake Meadow and that damn place and they became best friends

THE END.

Another fact about fake Meadow is that she went to heaven 19 times but then came back alive