#oxeye

[tofreezetime]

flower field

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Pennybright: Has anyone else heard of leaving an "example lobster" when cooking lobsters? Pennybright: Sapwood claims that plenty of people do it and he learned it from Oxeye but it’s a ridiculous and horrifying process.

Pennybright: For those who haven’t heard of it, it’s when you buy lobsters to cook by boiling them and you leave only one alive. They would always set the lobster down in front of all the cooked lobsters and make it watch while they ate all the other lobsters. After that, they put the lobster in a cooler and drive it to the beach and send it back out into the ocean. The "joke" is that the lobster is supposed to tell the other lobsters of the horrors it saw. Has anyone else heard of this or was I born into a family of sociopaths? [later] Pennybright: I have concluded from people’s reactions that this is not standard procedure by any means and we’re all a little bit insane.

[faguscarolinensis]

Heliopsis helianthoides / False Sunflower at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[cgogs]

IT'S HERE! and to the anon who wanted a tracklist, here is the playlist I looped while writing. ENJOY EVERYONE! and thankk you so much for showing so much love to oxeye in the first place. i hope this can hold a candle to the original

[theotherpages]

Today’s Dose of Nature: The Back Garden

A sampler of this weeks blooming things - tropical milkweed, Mexican Flame Vine, Buddleia, red passion flower, Silver Sea Oxeye Daisy, Tassel Flower, Desert Rose. This time of year in South Florida, Monarchs, Heliconia, Sulfurs, and White Peacocks are the most common butterflies.

--Steve

[debarbora]

Handmade jewelry

Gemstone jewelry

Ox eye stone bracelet and necklace

Gemstone bracelet

Gemstone necklace

Joyeria artesanal

Pulsera y collar de ojo de buey

Tienda 👇

https://debarbora.mercadoshops.com.ar/ojodebuey

[unorthodoxpengu]

Flower Faces

Tulip, Ox-Eye daisy, Carnation

Plumb blossom, Cactus

Sunflower,

Orchid

[promethibot]

Tried uploading on mobile the other day, but it looks like the app is messed up. Not dead!

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Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum)

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ox-eye daisy

2024/05/10

[michaelnordeman]

In the garden. Värmland, Sweden (June 14, 2014).

[tofreezetime]

flower islands

[huariqueje]

Oxeye daisies - Alexandra Buckle , 2024.

British , b. 1984 -

Linocut print lightfast water-based inks, 69 x 49 cm. Ed. 20.

[daily-mc-block]

Potted Oxeye Daisy

[cgogs]

I was reading Oxeye Daisy today. It absolutely broke me.

I found the fabric about three months ago, and for some reason, I couldn’t read it. Every time I tried, something told me, “not yet, but soon.” At the tune, I was in a really bad mental state, and my brain knew I would need to be fully mentally capable in order to digest your fic.

Today was apparently that day. I read it over the course of my day, reading a snippet in a checkout line, reading a chapter when I was in a deck chair, and finally finishing it when I got home.

There were many moments that struck me in this fic, but this one stood out to me the most. It was when young Dream’s wish slipped out of the music box, the one he wrote as a child. To me, that moment encapsulated the tragedy of this fic. That, although they always loved each other and will never stop, it isn’t enough. For reasons beyond their comprehension, their love cannot be enough to sustain them.

For a long time, I didn’t understand why people love tragedies. I thought, “Why read a sad story when the world is already sad?” But, after reading another fanfic that equally touched my heart, it dawned on me:

We read tragedies to make the sad stories matter.

Unfortunately enough, many individuals will have their lives end unhappily. They will live awful lives, and at the end, there will be no happy ending. Despite the progress we have made, people still suffer and die for no reason. No purpose.

But, when we write tragedies, we give those meaningless deaths purpose. We show that, even if the story ends unhappily, the story still matters.

Even though Dream and George may never get their happy ending in your universe, their love still mattered. It still deserved to be seen for how beautiful it is.

I have been in fandom for a long time, and there are certain fanfics that, to this day, I continue to think about. Fanfics from fandoms that I have left long ago, but their stories still remain.

Your fanfic has been added among to these fanfics.

No matter where you go in life, know this: you have changed my life. I will spend the rest of my life grateful that I got to know your story and your words. I know that this small ask won’t ever be enough to repay what you have given me, but maybe one day I will be able to give back what you have given me.

With the sincerest regards,

-Reina

Thank you so much. I don't even know what to say. I'll reread this every time i have writers block. Im so glad you enjoyed and was able to absorb something deeper ohhh thid means so much to me 😭😭

[aisling-saoirse]

Sea Oxeye in the Moonlight - February 22nd 2024