#early wave start

[balkanradfem]

I'm still okay, and I've started my first seeds of the year!

My first ones are: chilli pepper, horn pepper, dwarf tomato, cherry tomato, climbing triple crop tomato, purple cabbage, cabbage savoy, kale, broccoli, basil.

For the most of them I'm using the 'paper towel method', which is when you take the seeds, write down which seed they are, put them in a paper towel, spray with water, and then pack up in a plastic bag. This is the most efficient way of getting the most seeds to generate, because they are warm and constantly damp, so the conditions feel ideal to them to grow. It also works faster than putting them in the soil.

I have to check on them every few days to see what germinated, and then I'll put those in pots. I immediately put basil and kale in pots because it felt correct.

I have a plan for chilli peppers and dwarf tomatoes to grow on my balcony; they're both small enough to grow in a pot efficiently and they look so beautiful too! It's almost like a decorative plant except it also gives you delicious food.

And for others, this is just for a very early wave, if they succeed great! If not, I'll start more of them later.

There's also a new thing I'm trying out; I'll try to sprout a sweet potato. I got one from the plant lady, and I found out you can have them grow new seedlings, if you put them half-buried in the soil, or if you put it half-submerged in the water. But, they need to be in a very warm and humid place!

So I put it in a milk carton, because that size felt appropriate, and then on top of a radiator, which is the warmest place in here, and then I also added this 'cushion' pad to make sure it doesn't get too hot, and a bag to keep the humidity. But I take bag off continuously so it doesn't grow mold. I hope it works! Slips should be starting to grow in about two weeks.

[watermelonlicker]

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[catboygirljoker]

fuck.

[whitehartlane]

karlsruhe (h)

[starleska]

bro i've been stressing for weeks about trying to make the perfect Despicable Me OC to work with Maxime - but i've seen such an unexpected amount of people just drawing straight up selfship with him, which is amazing!!! perhaps i ought to do that first to break the dam 🙈💖

[psychopomparia]

he's like this because he got stuck while I was exploring:

the evidence:

The general is okay now

[c1trvswurld]

This is so stupid but one thing I notice a lot of overwatch fanfic and fan writing in general is how sometimes they forget that the game takes place in 2070s. So sometimes I think the technology they're using while I'm reading a fanfic would be the equivalent or even older than a dial up phone. With the rate of current trends in technology I'd be surprised if the next big phone wasn't as thin as a sheet of paper. Or maybe their would be a boom in retro nostalgia idk

Anyways this was just my excuse to ponder on how every day technology that isn't weaponry and how weird the political landscape would be in overwatcg times

[nogenrealldrama]

Do you ever see a piece of media get released that triggers a physical need to pack it up and send it by time travel post to teenage you? Because while the Thing is excellent now, it would have been Groundbreaking to you if it came out 10 years ago. It would have rewritten your DNA. But 10 years ago, the damn Thing didn’t even exist.

[ruvviks]

updated my pinned. removed my byf. everyone fucking behave please so i don't have to put it back

[wokestraightpuffy]

I failed puffmonth sorgy 😔

[sonknuxadow]

category 5 autism event

[laugtherhyena]

Game rec; SPLATOON!! any of the games. I have a soft spot for splat 2, seeing as it wad the first one *i* got, but splat 1 and splat 3 are also good!!

I LOVE SPLATOON

I never played any because i don't have the consoles they're in but i remember being obsessed with this game when the second one came out and i briefly went back to that when the third one released, i just like the characters a lot and the weird ass little world they live in

[kitchensinksurrealism]

can never describe enough how excited I am for the inevitable 2010s revival of the future

(also this turned into a massive ramble accidentally?)

[amyylinchen]

Mornings.

[sonknuxadow]

i havent been paying attention to anything related to the live action monster high because i dont really care but i just saw an advertisement for the second movie on tv and why does movie toralei look like they just shot the animated design with the live action ray when everyone else is just inspired by their doll/cartoon designs and arent trying too hard to be exact copies of the dolls in terms of the outfits. like it's not a bad design or anything its just funny

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I’m sorry but if there is one thing the Tumblr left needs crucially, it’s the ability to celebrate.

I remember when marriage equality was called and there were waves of rainbows and love wins posts. When we successfully defeated Donald Trump, there was lukewarm relief, a reminder that you were only allowed one or maybe two days to celebrate and then it was back to work. That is if you were even a good person for voting Biden. We never did settle if he was better than Trump. (We did.). We didn’t celebrate student loan debt relief or any of the accomplishments of the Biden administration, or any of the times Trump was blocked, or other countries succeeding in keeping fascists out of office. Who cares if we had successes? It’s not good enough. Back to work!

And this anti-celebratory attitude stretches back to the past. On the 100th anniversary of female suffrage in America, we were reminded that not all women had the vote and so we weren’t allowed to celebrate. The only post I saw about Juneteenth was reminding us that there were enslaved people who were killed instead of freed and therefore celebrating the end of chattel slavery was wrong, and besides, we have prison labor so nothing really changed or got better and there’s nothing to celebrate anyway. Trans Day of Visibility comes with Trans Day of Remembrance so that people don’t fill the tags with hate crimes and death. So on and so forth. Nothing gets better. Nothing changes. Back to work!

So of course when we have a major setback, we fall apart and have to start frantic damage control. Frantic discourse ensues over how much people are allowed to unplug before it becomes bad and selfish. Yes, maybe you can have this one day off Mr. Cratchit but you better be here and miserable early the next morning. Like abusive bosses always insisting you squeeze out more, more, more, and any achievement is just proof you were lazy the other times and impetus for more work.

If we are never allowed to acknowledge any of our victories, how are we supposed to survive our defeats?