#too many house plants

[mylifethroughasquare]

Everything is tucked in. I have waaaaaaaay too many house plants and I already got rid of a bunch and about to give more away to Blossom and Oteria and anyone else. I also have two beautiful Boston ferns this year that I started from itty bitty babies and they blew up and I don't want to toss them so hopefully someone will give them love.

[sweetest-honeybee]

This is such a random question, but how would you describe Frank and Eddie's house? Is it a big one, decent sized? I wonder how they decorate the little kiddos room once they get him!

Okay okay but actually I think about this ALL the time

Because I never pictured Frank with a house. I always pictured this little apartment because they live in the city n stuff. Like the whole exposed brick walls kinda vibe but it’s incredibly small and I wanna draw it once I have a moment. But that’s where Frank lives. It’s all the space he needs for one person and whatever shitty landlord he has doesn’t really come for inspections so it’s pretty easy to hide all the murder junk when he needs to

Eddie on the other hand also has an apartment but I feel like it’s a little larger. Which like doesn’t necessarily match their jobs early on but hear me out

Frank is the type to make pretty good money and not buy really big and expensive things. Like his clothing is his nicest stuff aside from purchasing things for murders. Eddie on the other hand doesn’t selfishly spend or anything but he puts in a lot of money towards his living space to make it really comfy

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Treehouse Gardens

[not-in-front-of-the-klingons]

Im not only a trekkie, i am also a plant human

Plant spam:

[sidetongue]

her favourite place in the house 

[raymondshields]

me: checks serebii to see how the pokeradar works in platinum

serebii: did you know there's extra furniture for your house if you go and do things like hatch thirty eggs or plant thirty berries

me five hours later at 3am: hee hoo I tried out the whole battle frontier for you :)

[lowdowndandy]

My parent accidentally made me into a survivalist by buying me every book they saw on the subject.

[doctorweebmd]

My morning glory flower is looking so healthy and beautiful 🥺

[sybbi]

Someone in my neighborhood posting about how they "just rescued a dog but actually they can't afford to buy it diapers all the time does anyone want her :((" and I'm seeing red

[machinavocis]

shoutout 2 spider plants: the most resourceful and understanding of indoor foliage companions. 

i can take the World’s Longest Sadness Nap amidst circumstances that leave me too emotionally compromised to go into the household common areas for like a week and a half 

and when i finally steel myself to confront the guilt of what i’m positive will be a roomful of super dead spider plants

somehow those magnificent bastards are all alive and actually look totally normal and fine and it turns out i’ve been melodramatically doomspiraling for several days now over nothing. 🙃🙃

[crutchie-morris]

canning is fucking hard as shit y’all

[47-protons]

talking about “ranting on stream” as if I didn’t go on about pesticide applicator licenses for nearly half an hour this past winter

[piiovra]

You'd better not destroy my new Monstera Deliciosa, Carmilla.

[mushangaa]

Planting lil seeds in the rearing dishes in the dark of the night. Grow my babies grooow.

[ketchuppee]

During the 2008 recession, my aunt lost her job. Her, her partner, and my three cousins moved across the country to stay with us while they got back on their feet. My house turned from a family of four to a family of nine overnight, complete with three dogs and five cats between us.

It took a few years for them to get a place of their own, but after a few rentals and apartments, they now own a split level ranch in a town nearby. I’ve lost track of how many coworkers and friends have stayed with them when they were in a tight spot. A mother and son getting out of an abusive relationship, a divorcee trying to stay local for his kids while they work out a custody agreement, you name it. My aunt and uncle knew first hand what that kindness meant, and always find space for someone who needed it, the way my parents had for them.

That same aunt and uncle visited me in [redacted] city last year. They are prolific drinkers, so we spent most of the day bar hopping. As we wandered the city, any time we passed a homeless person, my uncle would pull out a fresh cigarette and ask them if they had a light. Regardless of if they had a lighter on hand or not, he offered them a few bucks in exchange, which he explained to me after was because he felt it would be easier for them to accept in exchange for a service, no matter how small.

I work for a company that produces a lot of fabric waste. Every few weeks, I bring two big black trash bags full of discarded material over to a woman who works down the hall. She distributes them to local churches, quilting clubs, and teachers who can use them for crafts. She’s currently in the process of working with our building to set up a recycling program for the smaller pieces of fabric that are harder to find use for.

One of my best friends gives monthly donations to four or five local organizations. She’s fortunate enough to have a tech job that gives her a good salary, and she knows that a recurring donation is more valuable to a non-profit because they can rely on that money month after month, and can plan ways to stretch that dollar for maximum impact. One of those organizations is a native plant trust, and once she’s out of her apartment complex and in a home with a yard, she has plans to convert it into a haven of local flora.

My partner works for a company that is working to help regulate crypto and hold the current bad actors in the space accountable for their actions. We unfortunately live in a time where technology develops far too fast for bureaucracy to keep up with, but just because people use a technology for ill gain doesn’t mean the technology itself is bad. The blockchain is something that she finds fascinating and powerful, and she is using her degree and her expertise to turn it into a tool for good.

I knew someone who always had a bag of treats in their purse, on the odd chance they came across a stray cat or dog, they had something to offer them.

I follow artists who post about every local election they know of, because they know their platform gives them more reach than the average person, and that they can leverage that platform to encourage people to vote in elections that get less attention, but in many ways have more impact on the direction our country is going to go.

All of this to say, there’s more than one way to do good in the world. Social media leads us to believe that the loudest, the most vocal, the most prolific poster is the most virtuous, but they are only a piece of the puzzle. (And if virtue for virtues sake is your end goal, you’ve already lost, but that’s a different post). Community is built of people leveraging their privileges to help those without them. We need people doing all of those things and more, because no individual can or should do all of it. You would be stretched too thin, your efforts valiant, but less effective in your ambition.

None of this is to encourage inaction. Identify your unique strengths, skills, and privileges, and put them to use. Determine what causes are important to you, and commit to doing what you can to help them. Collective action is how change is made, but don’t forget that we need diversity in actions taken.

[totallyfluxd]

thinking about the time my elderly neighbour asked me to repot her barrel cactus for her, and I said sure I'm doing my own today anyway, and then she handed me a pot containing what can only be described as a paper globe, held upright by the way the spines of this ex-cactus interlocked. like. this was not just a dead cactus, this was the dessicated skeletal remains of a cactus that had died years ago. and when I gently asked when she had last watered it, she said with all sincerity, "oh, never, it's a cactus"