#I have too many

[golswia]

some WIPS for yall ✨

[spideyhexx]

looking at stills of coryo always freaks me out because he doesn't look like tom at ALLL

I KNOW ITS SO CRAZY HOWS RHIS THE SAME GUY

[zeawesomeness]

Imagine a separated AU but it's just Mikey separated living his best life on the surface world

[pearl-kite]

Want to see some neat things about how irises grow?

Remember when I dug up and divided ALL of my irises at my parents' place a few years back? And how I ended up with 50 rhizomes, and I had bought 9 more just a bit before that?

Well, my mom wants to try to amend the soil because it's not great. Most of the irises have just been surviving, but not well enough to bloom, and everything else planted in the area struggles similarly. In order to amend the soil, though, I needed to dig them all up.

Again.

I dug up 44 rhizomes this time, which is honestly a bit better than I expected. I knew that not all of the ones I put in were going to survive, but I was still surprised by how many I just dug up today.

Anyway, the learning bit!

So irises aren't bulbs, they're rhizomes. Each year they put up leaves at one end, and over time they kind of end up migrating in that direction. If they do really well at gathering and storing energy, instead of just continuing forward, they'll fork, putting up leaves on two sides and a stalk with blooms in the center. The following year, the pattern continues, going forward from each side of that fork. If a rhizome does REALLY well, you'll end up with a bunch of forks spreading out.

The one on the left has survived, but not gone very far, and the white at the end shows that I accidentally broke some of the old rhizome off when I was digging it back up. It also happens to be a dwarf variety, so the rhizome is smaller to begin with; all my other photos are of intermediate and tall bearded irises with much larger rhizomes.

The one on the right has done well enough to grow forward for a few years, with the oldest of the rhizome at the bottom (still healthy and full of stored energy!) and the newest year's growth at the top. Looking at the rhizome itself, I'd guess that one is about 4 years (which makes sense, 'cause I think I did the splitting back in 2020).

The one on the left bloomed this year; you can see the flower stalk dried out in the center, and the new fork in the rhizome to the sides. Next year, they'll continue in those two directions, and it won't go forward from the stalk any longer.

The one on the right bloomed a few years back, and though it kept growing forward from there, it hasn't bloomed since. The other side of the fork also died off, and it's now only growing in one direction again.

Last but most certainly not least we have THIS beast. This one has bloomed the last two or three years in a row. I honestly can't tell if the guy at the bottom right is part of the same rhizome or another one I planted too close that got subsumed by this monster, because it took ten minutes to get most of the clay off and there was still more. I'll need to actually rinse it off with the hose to really see if it's all one plant or two.

But I'm 95% sure that this guy is going to bloom again next year because of those nubs down along the bottom. They were below the soil, and they're too thick to be new roots, so I'm guessing that's what future growth looks like. Honestly, this guy should probably be divided, but I also don't want to ruin the chance of it blooming next year, so I'm going to put him back in the dirt as is and maybe divide next year after blooming season.

Anyway, irises are my favorite, and I think it's intriguing how they work. I'm hoping that we can get the soil a bit more balanced and that they'll do better after replanting them, because even though I just dug up 44, we only had 4 or 5 bloom this year. They aren't thriving in the soil as-is, because for as long as they've been established we should have had more blooming than that. It was still the best year since dividing them, though.

I've brought a bunch of them over to my apartment and I'm going to try them out in containers, mostly the dwarf varieties I had. ONE of the dwarfs bloomed this year and it was gorgeous, but I'm hoping the rest will do better in new soil with some extra attention.

[cold--carnage]

man I'm throwing maple cookies at u guys

[krowblud]

Jesus man how many books do you own

A lot I should flex the collection later

[fanciernessa]

invader zim + other miscellaneous drawings for this art dump 🙀 except most of them are crappy screenshots from my instagram because i don’t have access to my ipad right now 🤑

[perpetualproductions]

do u have thoughts on other occult Jordan Li? Werewolf, vampire, fae...

I mean, yeah. I've always been pretty into occult themes and other supernatural stuff. It's always fun to think about how your favorite characters would react to being inflicted with a curse like vampirism or lycanthropy.

I've already seen a couple GenV fics on ao3 with a supernatural setting and they were pretty interesting. For example I read one where Marie was a vampire (which, yeah, I can see with her blood powers and all). But I was thinking what the dynamic would be like if Jordan was a vampire, and Marie is her cool bloodbender self. I just wondered what that would be like.

I did think of Jordan being a werewolf and how that would work, and it is an interesting thing to think about, especially when their main ability is them shifting. Like, they just suddenly find themselves one full moon in massive pain as their bones start shifting around, and they might think it's something wrong with their power but they soon find out what it really is.

But yeah, I'm always daydreaming of different scenarios n shit for GenV and Limoreau specifically. Last night one of them just won over the others and I ended up writing a fic about it. I might share it just for the hell of it, but I'm not sure. 🤷

[ant1quarian]

Y-Y'know my AU's?

My Undertale AUs?

All 60-something of them?

I'm gonna attempt to make them aesthetic boards. And maybe like an anime intro title or something idk

[dindjarindiaries]

Tell me your favorite Din Djarin quote IMMEDIATELY

[annaygan]

i have no idea what to post so here are my plants

[criesinvarable]

forgot i had a tumblr for like 6 months i think

how yall doing im rethinking that mr puzzles au and also might be making another one for a different type of horror: I mean if he stalks and manipulates ppl why dont he just spread rumours about each main character until they are completely alone and no one can find them and then like kidnap them or somthin? could start with the characters ppl forget exists/hate first then slowly work his way up.

[notthatalex]

*starts another nintendogs wip*

[3416]

what set are those cards from??? they are so gorgeous!!

they are from the 2021-22 upper deck credentials.. the mandelbrot fractal version!! you can see the full list of players w those cards here if you're curious.

[unbinilium120]

Actually I'm going to share a little theory I've got about imps in helluva boss (and by extension hazbin hotel)

I've noticed how horns are important to imps with some having massive horns like blitz's dad and stuff. My thought is that horns are seen as a form of status symbol for imps, like having big horns means your old and wise and whatever so the Idea of not having horns would be considered socially bad.

The big reason behind this idea is with fizzarolli, he hides his broken horns under that little jesters cap of his which also makes it look like he still has them. And I'm not saying that he's afraid of being judged because of the horns (I think it's mainly the huge trauma of losing them in the first place) but i do feel like horns could be something important in the world building of the show