#using herbs

[inusmasha]

Sometimes it’s hard to read fanfic when you’re studying herbalism.. when they have the character preparing a tincture to use that same DAY!!?

Baby those dried herbs need to sit in that jar with high proof alcohol for at LEAST a month!

That’s why before the use of calendars ppl use to prepare their tinctures either on the new moon or full moon. A a full moon cycle is usually 28 days or so. And they would give the moon names so it’s easier to remember when/what month said tincture was bottled.

This is also why herbal medicine is prepare in small batches. You have to take your time preparing your bottles. Making sure everything is clean so you don’t end up with mold. Diluting your grain alcohol. Heckkk knowing when to pick your herbs for max potency! Drying your herbs! That takes a lot of time too!

I didn’t mean to rant lol

[shmowder]

When life gives you lemons

[jade-bright]

Derek, texting: Hey Mom, is it cool if I go to a party tonight?

Talia, texting: Will you be drinking?

Derek: No?

Talia: Will you be doing drugs?

Derek: No...

Talia: Will you be having sex?

Derek: Maybe?

Talia: Then why are you going? Wait, better question, where are you actually going?! And who is really texting me?

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Stiles, turning to Derek while holding Derek's phone: Kochanie! She's on to you, what do you want me to say?

Derek, fighting an omega he was told to stay away from: Just tell her we're fucking and that I'll get back to her!

[casualshrimp-but-undertale]

ok so i said back in march or april that i had an idea for a drawing with forest and tear?? after restarting it multiple times and finally deciding to finish this one (though it went through like 5 different artstyles •-•’) and so there it is?? :DD

(i just wanted to draw forest and tear making flower crowns, that was the idea i had back then :> (more precisely forest showing tear how to make flower crowns ヽ(・∀・))

friendship!!! :DDDD (they made each others flower crowns dkkdjkjdkjd)

forest belongs to @julia-jck

tear belongs to @eriscary

[f4m0u5m0n573rzz]

[lesbianaglaya]

This is my favourite pasta recipe it’s from melissa clark’s dinner cookbook and it’s so delicious + easy. you can sub the burrata for another soft cheese (i use mascarpone) that is less wildly expensive also i suggest dicing your garlic and cooking the white parts of the green onion with the tomatoes but it’s a very forgiving recipe.

[lycanfoe]

gentlemen prefer cherry blossoms

[snakeflower-cottage]

Tired and boring: all witches love jars get them empty jars as gifts!

Current and accurate: all witches love sharp old objects and red thread and bones get them these as gifts!

[ventresses]

Star Wars + Moodboards

Codywan: Desert Husbands

[voguefashion]

Catherine Zeta-Jones wearing Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, photographed by Herb Ritts for American Vogue, July 2001.

[herbcitty]

Here’s my @heropartnerweek make for days 2&3, species swap (squirtle has become sprigatito) and trust!

A little piece for my best friend bc it’s nearly our ten year friend-iversary. =)

[zeroaddzero]

Bruce Springsteen (Profile), 1992. Photo by Herb Ritts

[whotfelsewantedtobelynnyx]

Coven of chaos but a misfired spell turns them into cats. That’s it, that’s the post.

(Who’m I kidding of course that’s not it)

(Semi coauthored by @second-drawer-on-the-left ! (We came up with most of these by ranting at each other like maniacs)

Billy: …Alice?

Alice, from the other room: Yeah?

Billy: I think I messed up…can you come in here?

Alice: Ask Lilia, dude, I don’t know.

Billy: Uh…

*distant mew*

Alice: Wait, wha-

Billy, voice getting rapidly higher: I THINK YOU NEED TO COME IN HERE!

*Alice comes into the room and just comes face to face with this*

(From top to bottom: Agatha, Lilia, and Jen. No, I have little to no explanation for why I chose these cats. They just…are.)

- Rio very helpfully turns herself into a cat (this one) and refuses to turn back. She (unlike the others) retains her human mind and is perfectly capable of shape shifting back whenever she pleases. She just refuses to.

Alice: *flops onto the couch with a groan and covers her eyes*

*a cat jumps up and starts happily kneading on her chest*

Alice, sighing and reaching out to scratch the ears: Hi, Jen.

Cat! Jen: *trills at her from the windowsill, where she’s snuggling with Lilia in the sun*

Alice:…

Alice: *opens her eyes*

Alice:

Alice: RIO-

- Alice repeatedly has to separate Agatha for getting into fights with the other cats. Different methods have been attempted to contain cat! Agatha have included:

• Shutting her in the basement (she escaped).

• Putting her in Señor Scratchy’s playpen for a timeout (she escaped).

• Wrapping her in a blanket like a naughty burrito (she escaped).

• Locking her in the bathroom (she screamed so loudly that Sarah Proctor passed by the window and glared disapprovingly at Alice).

• Putting her in Señor Scratchy’s playpen with Rio for a timeout (she escaped and bit Teen’s ankles just on principle, then went back to cuddling with Rio).

• Borrowing the panini press of shame from a neighbor who’s a vet (seriously, google cat catcher nets if you’ve never seen one, they’re hilarious)

Obviously, none of the above have proved effective yet.

- Lilia keeps climbing to ridiculous high places and causing Teen ENDLESS amounts of stress. No amount of coaxing, pleading, or bribery will get her to come down until she’s good and ready.

- Jen is just the BIGGEST attention whore and demands it CONSTANTLY from Alice. When Alice is sitting around, she drapes herself around her neck. If Alice is petting another cat, she butts her way in. If Alice is drinking coffee, she shoves her head in to steal a sip. If Alice is reading something, she lays across it.

Alice: Jen.

Cat! Jen: *relaxed trill*

Alice: Jennifer.

Cat! Jen: *blinks innocently*

Alice: I need my laptop to turn you back into a person.

Cat! Jen: *disinterested yawn*

Alice: C’mon, J, get off the keyboard…

Cat! Jennifer: *stretches and lazily bats her with a paw*

Alice: *exasperated sigh*

(She gets Jen off the computer and Rio immediately steals her spot, prompting indignant meowing from Jen and more exasperated noises from Alice)

- Alice hears distressed meowing and walks into the room to see all four cats crying at a bug they can’t reach. She takes a video and saves it for blackmail.

- Agatha figures out how to open doors and cabinets with her paws and immediately causes chaos.

Alice, repeatedly rereading Jen’s notes in hopes of finding a solution:

*muffled mewling from somewhere in the house*

Alice: *groans*

Alice, wandering into the kitchen to see Rio on the table, Lilia looking disapprovingly on from the window, and Agatha sitting suspiciously in front of a kitchen cabinet: Who was just yelling at me?

Rio: *licks her tail*

Lilia: *continues to look disapproving*

Agatha: *swats at the suspiciously rattling drawer with her paw*

Alice:

Alice: Where’s Jen?

Agatha: *blinks innocently*

Alice: Agatha, I can and *will* scruff you, where’s Jen?

- Alice moves Agatha and frees Jen (who started wailing pathetically from inside the drawer as soon as she heard Alice’s voice and insists on being held for the next two hours in order to be pacified)

- Agatha escapes and gets into Herb’s rose bushes, prompting poor Teen to have to sprint across the street and make up a lie about being Agnes’s cat sitter to retrieve her (she hisses, shrieks, and tries to scratch them both the entire time).

- Alice tries to leave the cats with Teen to entertain them so she can go take a shower. All four sit outside the bathroom door and shriek until she gives up and lets them in (at which point they sit outside the shower door and shriek).

Alice, opening the shower door with an irritated look on her face: Do you actually *want* to come in here? I don’t think you do!

Cat! Agatha: *gives her a disgusted look*

Alice, trying not to get soap in her eyes: That’s what I thought.

Cat! Rio: *waltzes right in and flops down in the water*

Alice: …of course.

(She eventually gives up and just takes a bath so that the cats can sit on the side of the tub and paw at the bubbles)

- Lilia chases Agatha around for half an hour just to pin her down and groom her while she whines dramatically about it (Alice saves the video of that for blackmail too).

- Billy fucks up again and turns himself into a kitten, leaving poor, stressed Alice alone with all the cats.

Alice, walking into the room: Hey Teen, I think I found a spell that might work? If we-

Four cats and a kitten, staring at her:

Alice:…please no. Please tell me that’s not-

Cat! Agatha: *squashes the kitten with her paw and begins aggressively grooming him*

Alice: Nope, definitely is. I need a drink.

(Cue Alice trying to keep three of the five cats out of her glass of wine)

Bonus:

Kitten! Billy

Kitten! Billy and Cat! Agatha

Cat! Agathario

What Cat! Alice would look like (that cat has unlocked the secrets of the universe and would like you to lock them back up thank you very much)

[pyre-of-pages]

Am I the only one kinda frustrated that frost miriam and elves ear herbs can be found in every goddamn kitchen in Skyrim, but not a single food recipe calls for them?

[artaintfartwarriors]

Pebble Heart, Owlstar, and Sparrowstar? The siblings ever-

Sure! siblings coming up

[bedupolker]

Wow they finally invented kratom that tastes good