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I worked at a landscaping company and guess what!

Everything about American landscaping is a scam that places you in a constant cycle of maintenance (that results in either YOU performing the back-breaking labor or paying someone else to do it) all in worship of the monocrop that is bluegrass (which I’m sure is fine within an actual ecosystem. Just. Not planted all on its own).

So many people just accept this as the standard and pay into this idea when it’s bad for the environment (water, pesticides & land usage), bad for the consumer (all that stuff about mulch and weed barrier? frequently needs to be done EVERY. YEAR), and honestly not great looking.

Want to mow or pay to mow several times a week? Want to spend money on pesticides and fungicides and weeding and etc. because your monocrop, by virtue of what it is, is naturally weak to being outcompeted by every other plant (“weeds,” but anything native or invasive better adapted to your climate)? Want to water it sometimes multiple times a day during the summer when you’re already paying other more vital energy costs? What about incidentals, where your yard isn’t shaped enough and you gotta tear up all that grass, bring in other soil and rock and etc. to shape it, then replant all over again? Is your yard hilly or weird-shaped? Congrats! Shaping issues like erosion control require more specialized solutions!

And that’s just the grass, not getting further into the bullshit @headspace-hotel is talking about with those isolated island plant “beds.”

I don’t have a yard of my own to start experimenting, but I’ve been to parks with different environments and I’ve seen “overgrown” gardens and there ARE options so please. I’m begging. Whatever the societal pressure in yard culture to worship grass just. Do something different if you can. You’ll save a lot of time and money in the long term if nothing else.

Imagine if baking bread was a skill any person living independently in their own house needed to have at least a passing familiarity with, so there were endless books, blogs and websites about how to bake bread, but none of them seemed to contain the most basic facts about how bread actually works.

You would go online and find questions like "Help, I put my bread in the oven, and it GOT BIGGER!" and instead of saying anything about bread naturally rises when you put yeast in it, the results would be advertising some kind of $970 device that punches the bread while it's baking so it doesn't rise.

Even the most reliable, factually grounded sources available would have only the barest scraps of information on the particularities of ingredients, such as how different types of flour differ and produce different results, or how yeast affects the flavor profile of bread. Rice flour, barley flour, potato flour and amaranth flour would be just as common as wheat flour, but finding sources that didn't treat them as functionally identical would be near impossible. At the same time, websites and books would list specific brands of flour in bread recipes, often without specifying anything else.

An unreasonable amount of people would be hellbent on doing something like baking a full-sized loaf of bread in under 3 minutes, and would regularly bake bread to charred cinders at 700 degrees in an attempt to accomplish this, but instead of gently telling people that their goal is not realistic, books claiming to be general resources would be framed entirely around the goal of baking bread as fast as possible, with entire chapters devoted to making the charred bread taste like it isn't charred.

Anyway, this is what landscaping is like.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Naruto Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Haruno Sakura/Uchiha Itachi Characters: Uchiha Itachi, Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, Uchiha Shisui Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Demon Summoning, tiny hint of kabedon because I couldn't resist, ...and they were pactmates!, ItaSaku Week 2022 (Naruto) Summary:

Day Four - Devil summoning AU (Oct 27th): One hand cupped his jawline, the other brushing feather-light from the ridge of his nose to the edge of his lips. Letting go of him, she brought a finger to her mouth to lick away what he realized abruptly was his blood.

“Nice to meet you. I’m in your care, Uchiha.”

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ItaSaku Week 2022

Welcome to ItaSaku week 2022 hosted by the ItaSaku Discord Server!

R U L E S

The event is open to everyone. If you’re an avid ItaSaku fan, please feel free to participate! You can submit the following works:

Art

Fics

Poems

GIFs

AMVS

or whatever else you can think of!

E V E N T  S T A R T

October 24 - October 30.

P R O M P T S

The following seven prompts are the prompts for this event! You don’t have to complete all prompts–simply pick whichever speaks to you and go wild. You can also combine prompts! It would be great if you could post your contribution on day of the prompt.

OCTOBER 24: Hokage!Sakura/ANBU!Itachi

OCTOBER 25: Getting kidnapped really messed up their to-do list for the day

OCTOBER 26: Konoha introduces mobiles -> wrong number -> suddenly texting buddies

OCTOBER 27: Devil summoning AU

OCTOBER 28: Misunderstanding the mission objective

OCTOBER 29: Casino AU

OCTOBER 30: Partners in Crime

BACKUP PROMPTS: Can’t make it work with one of the prompts? Try one of the back-ups Victorian AU - Cop!Ita/Surgeon!Saku - ANBU - The Library’s Restricted Section - Senpai notice me - You knew?? - Kabe-don

T A G G I N G

We’ll be compiling all of the fiction on AO3 into the ItaSaku week 2021 tag, so please tag your works with “itasaku week 2022″ so we can add it in! If you’re uploading elsewhere, please make sure to add the tag “Itasakuweek2022″ or tag @fm-white​ if your blog is set to private to ensure we will gather all of the works!

Q U E S T I O N S ?

Hit up @fm-white​

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Day 3 | Fake dating (real jealousy)

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a redraw of my pouty Shen Jiu!

. Twitter / Kofi

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Some BingJiu based on @acernor's fic Point of View, which widened my already open eyes for the potential of this ship. This fic is so amazing it felt just right to make a fanart of it.

[ remember to mind the cw ]

Full drawing on my Twitter or Pillowfort

Uncensored on my Patreon

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On falling

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So. This is an AU now: Shen Yuan shixiong AU

Shen Yuan transmigrates as a wealthy merchant family's third son. He spends a few years with them, until the system's first mission appears: "Be accepted as a Cang Qiong Sect disciple".

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I miss them

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gossipy husbands

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✷ Ticklish Lan Zhan!?! The mighty and noble Lan Wangji brought to bubbling laughter by the mischievous Wei Wuxian! ✷

Mini comic raffle prize for twitter user @/solarlwj! Based on their fic about CR study arc era wx getting to know each other better while developing a platonic relationship with hints of something more, and lwj overcoming his touch-starved inhibitions! You can read the fic [ here ]

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Mutual Adoration

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here it is, my greatest creation.

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LQG saved A'Jiu from slavery AU

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Under the flower mask  

🌺pairing: liujiu

🌺rating: teen and up

🌺tags: mistaken identity, fluff and angst, (prejudices), crossdressing, 

🌺summary: Shen Qingqiu’s reputation preceded him… and he gets quite exceeded about it. The women of the brothel offer him a way to fulfil his need for anonymity that he takes in stride, even when his lies get entangled with the monkey-brained Liu Qingge.Until his heart yearns for which it cannot have.

🌺 7/9 chapters!!

(The art is a sort of cover :p)

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