#seed box

[christadeguchi]

i watch baseball for the side quests

update: i think you should look at the reblogs for more important baseball hijinks

[digany]

Cat grass planter Seed Sprouter Tray for Seedling Planting Soil Free Hydroponic Cats Grass Box

[botanyshitposts]

today i found a plant growing in an alleyway downtown that gave me this delightful little seed pod that looks like a little banana about an inch long but it splits down the front to reveal hundreds of flat little seeds with little papery wings seed wings and theyre all stuffed into neat rows in a way that makes the pod look like an overfull expanding file and if you run your finger over it seeds fall out. the plant had like 6 of them going overhanging this one sidewalk and some of them were huge, like multiple inches long. anyway plants are still just making stuff outside it seems

[ambrosiaque]

when your friends affirm theriotypes you don't get connected to often >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[lulu2992]

Greg Bryk was in episode 25 of Podcast141, co-hosted by Marwen Heni, Mars Lipowski, and Jim Boeven, to talk about his acting career in general, but also and mostly his role as Joseph Seed in Far Cry 5.

Since he’s already shared a lot of anecdotes in interviews and live videos on Instagram, I thought I wouldn’t learn anything new... but I did, so here’s a summary of what he said about his experience playing the Father.

We knew that the dev team (he specifically mentioned Dan Hay and Drew Holmes) had struggled to find the “right” actor for the role, but what I don’t remember ever hearing before is that, after two years of unsuccessful search, the project was almost cancelled for this reason!

Thankfully, that was when Greg Bryk auditioned. He had already said the script they gave him (and that he thought was “amazing”) was what became Joseph’s monologue in the mission “We Must Be Strong”, but he gave more details about what was originally in it. In this early version of his backstory, Joseph was 23 years old and working two jobs to support his family. One night, exhausted, he fell asleep on the couch as his pregnant wife went out to get ice cream. He was then awoken by a knock on the door, told she had been in an accident, and taken to the hospital. The rest of the story is what he says in Far Cry 5: when he arrives, his wife is dead, their premature daughter is “stuffed with tubes”, he hears God’s calling, and understands he has to make this sacrifice.

So he got the role, and when they called him again to record a sermon (my guess is it was this one, but I’m just speculating), he saw what the game looked like and thought everything and everyone was “incredible”. Over time, as they got to know him, they even changed the character and partly rewrote the Father specifically for him.

The team was also very accommodating. For example, the scenes are usually shot in the huge performance capture studio, but for the Heralds’ eulogies, which are much more intimate, they built a small room so he felt like he actually had something around him instead of a big, empty space.

A day before the game came out, the cutscenes were already available online and he watched some of them. He was very impressed by the last eulogy (or, as he calls it, “snot monologue”) in particular because of how “vivid” and “human” it felt. It brought tears to his eyes and he recalls his wife was “blown away”; it was “special”.

As for the fans, he thinks they’ve been very supportive and welcoming. Some have told him they felt heard and seen by Joseph, and he believes it’s because he’s a character who loves people for who they are. At this point, he and the co-hosts agreed that being an actor was a gift because it gives an opportunity to make people’s lives better, especially in video games because there’s a unique connection that doesn’t really exist in movies or TV series.

Marwen Heni mentioned that, while most villains want you to hate them, Joseph, on the contrary, wanted you to reflect and think that he might be right. Greg Bryk admitted that he believed everything he said, especially about family and technology. Sometimes, people are isolated or only have online connections, so having someone tell them, “I see you and I love you for what you are” is powerful. In his opinion, this message resonated with a lot of players because it’s a simple truth and we all want to be part of a family.

Joseph doesn’t control his followers with fear, Marwen Heni commented, but with devotion, and that too makes him compelling. As he was playing Far Cry 5, he started questioning whether or not he (as the Deputy) was right for opposing the Father, which is something Greg Bryk says he saw a lot in comments. He believes there’s “an intimacy to the relationship” between Joseph and the player, a “seduction” in the sense that we all want to belong. He’s humbled by the impact his work had on people.

When asked if he would be open to reprising the role, this time, he answered, “Absolutely”. In fact, and this is news to me, he revealed there were discussions about turning Far Cry into a TV show, and the different games would have been standalone seasons. That said, he added that, at a certain point, it’s necessary to let characters go and that he was grateful for what he had already experienced playing the Father.

Marwen Heni then asked if Joseph, who is very complex, was entirely fictional or if it was Greg talking through him. He answered his characters are always him, to a degree, because he wants to connect with the material so he never lies and can work from things that matter to him. He never judges them and tries to think about what he wants to express through them. He’s interested in their humanity and what motivates them. “We’re all broken,” he said. “Some are much more broken than others, and sometimes those broken pieces are very sharp and jagged, and they lash out.”

He also revealed he had “very specific rituals” to help him become a character and then let them go. He mentioned a few prayers that one of his friends, who is a Wiccan, taught him. In fact, and all the co-hosts agreed, it can be very hard to “disconnect” from a character sometimes because actors aren’t just pretending; they’re using real emotions.

He had already said his son Dempsey had done the mocap for John and Jacob in the Collapse DLC and that he felt carrying Ethan’s body in New Dawn was a way for him to honor his “boy”, his dead dog Lucky, since he deeply regretted that he couldn’t be there to take him to the veterinarian the day he passed. What I didn’t know, however, is that it was Greg himself who had asked if Joseph could carry Ethan, and the team made it happen. He also explained that, when it was time to play this scene, he tried to imagine what it would be like to actually lose his son.

But who is Greg Bryk’s favorite Far Cry villain? Well, when he auditioned and started researching the franchise, he was interested in Vaas because of Michael Mando’s performance. He still doesn’t know him personally but has a friend who worked with him and who spoke about “how electrifying his talent was”. There’s something “unhinged” and “primal” to him as a performer; he’s a “wild” and “special” actor.

Finally, when told he was born to play Joseph, he confessed he felt he was indeed “called” to play this part but wants to give credit to Dan Hay, Drew Holmes, and Jean-Sébastien Décant for creating such a “terrifyingly human” antagonist in the first place.

[gardening-guy]

garden update & plan || 09/05/2024

okay prepare thyselves for a reaaaally long post with my plans for the fall/winter garden! please feel free to reblog with ideas, suggestions, and constructive criticism!! <333

so i still have at least 2 more raised garden bed frames to put together and prepare, but in total, that means i'll have 6 raised garden beds, my greenhouse box, a bunch of pots, and my two in-ground garden beds (one in frontyard, one in backyard) to utilize for the cold season!

i've already decided to grow for sure: walking Egyptian onion (already planted), early shortneck garlic (to be planted in the next two weeks), copenhagen market cabbage, blue-curled scotch kale, chinese pink celery, and cilantro out in the raised garden beds!

i also now discovered thanks to @tomorrowsgardennc that the dill i've had is not a summer crop (ty to the store that lied to me augh) and is actually a cold weather crop, so i'm thinking i can just plant the little bit that remains into one of the raised beds, but i have to decide on where and which crops it'll go well with.

i'm planting the onions with the celery, and the garlic will grow with the cabbage and kale (or maybe i should plant the garlic by itself?? idk). orrrrr i can also plant the kale with the cilantro? and the cabbage will stay with the garlic!

i'm planning on not doing a uniform planting method of rows, instead my goal is to utilize a bunch of companion planting guides and plant my crops fairly close together.

i also have a nasturtium plant that i could plant in one of the raised garden beds OR i can separate it into different pots and place strategically around the raised beds to deter bugs!

so ultimately: raised bed 1) is for onion and celery, raised bed 2) is for garlic and cabbage, raised bed 3) is for kale and cilantro and maybe dill, raised bed 4) is already for my flowers, raised bed 5) is either more flowers or something else (suggestions are welcome), and raised bed 6) is actually going to be used by a friend of mine

i also still need to get a ton more soil and collect more cardboard

does anyone know cold weather perennial flowers that i can grow from seed during the fall?? i want to sow it directly into the ground ideally...

i also hope to grow some hot peppers in the greenhouse box, and i've already put a few things in there (bell pepper plant & tomato plant) and i want to move my basil into the greenhouse eventually as well

i have absolutely no idea if there's anything i should do with the garden beds in the backyard. ideally, i'd love to try to redo them in the spring, cover them with cardboard & start partially anew (keeping room for my perennial plants that are already established there), but idk what i can do during the fall and winter, if anything...

once again, any advice, suggestions, ideas, and/or constructive criticism is appreciated!! and tagging @tomorrowsgardennc bc i promised this post like yesterday lol!

[morethansalad]

Bento Bowl with Sesame Tofu (Vegan & Gluten-Free)

[spittyfishy]

could you do gundham trading presents with the devas? :o

I couldn’t wait any longer to start posting the Christmas gift requests so starting off strong with Gundham and the devas!!

[claypigeonpottery]

a little pomegranate to hold your trinkets?

[devileaterjaek]

[rabid-dog-steve-horn]

Here are a few interesting horror movie collages I came across I thought I'd share with everyone here on Tumblr.

Enjoy.

[kurt-stims-archive]

Jacob Seed from Far Cry 5 stimboard.

🎼 | 🪖 | 🥾 🩹 | 🐺 | 🎼 🪖 | 🥾 | 🩹

[alien-ally]

made daisy apl to go with daisy aroace! aaa battery bracelet set is complete. also completed my aro/ace/aroace dainty trinity. plus some other fun combos cause i couldn't stop. ANDD, I FINALLY HAVE ARO AND ACE RINGS TO PUT ON MY MIDDLE FINGER!#$%#&@! will keep up with this lil series: part 1

[alibonbonn]

Heracles visits his mentor Chiron, they have a good time and absolutely nothing bad happened.

[mcybree]

@spacetrashpile scott aro headcanon incident fanart from oku isn’t this a beautiful world. its also depicting me as the next target which can only spell out good things

[commodorez]

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