#vegetable plot

[bentbox-co]

[s0fter-sin]

rewatching s1 and in ep2 w*ndigo, dean makes a joke about not bringing provisions into the woods just to pull out a bag of peanut butter m&m’s and stick with me here, it’s why the later seasons’ “goofy dean” loses me

this moment is clearly a joke but if you think about it too much, it also makes some sense; a family size bag of peanut m&m’s is calorie dense and even the high sugar is good to keep you moving which they need on an overnight hunt. it also shows how due to their upbringing, they’ve had to eat lower quality food, things they always had access to that was cheap and also in bulk

what does dean eating ghost pepper jerky then tipping water on himself exist for other than to be a cringy joke? what does smelling old chinese food, testing to see if it's still good then shaking his head with cabbage hanging out his mouth when it isn't serve? it's just to make him look stupid and contrast sam's healthy/clean diet (and superiority but that’s another conversation) which has always existed but it used to be nuanced and natural

we see dean as a child give up the food he wanted to eat so sam could eat it. (“i’m sick of spaghetti-os,” “you’re the one who wanted them,” … “i want lucky charms!” “… there’s only enough for one bowl and i haven’t had any yet!” proceeds to give them to sam, 1x18) we know he hustled and stole food to ensure sam ate. (“so, what’d he take?” “get this- peanut butter and bread.” 9x07)

we also see throughout the early seasons dean teasing sam about his salad or healthy choice while he eats some form of burger or other fast food (or notably, cheerfully eating prison food that sam won’t touch, 2x19). it's typical sibling teasing but it also shows that it isn't new for sam to eat like that and for dean to know he eats like that

sam being picky isn't just a character trait they chose for him, it's a result of how dean raised him; he raised him to like and want healthy food and be food secure enough to reject food he didn't want

but dean eats anything he is given and seeks out unhealthy - cheap, plentiful, filling - food

he is the opposite of picky to the point of it being a consistent bit; they show him multiple times eating when it's socially frowned upon to do so eg. questioning a grieving victim when they're trying to be discreet (1x14, 2x15, 2x18)

a similar moment to the chinese food is in 4x19; dean wakes up in the car while sam brushes his teeth outside and is hungry. sam says there's a sandwich in the backseat, dean smells it and recoils bc it's an old tuna sandwich. the moment is funny on its own but it also exists as a comparison of their lives to adam's; he has a loving mother, goes to school and importantly, a steady stable childhood

it’s a joke with a purpose

it also supports dean's food insecurity; he wakes up and is immediately hungry, enough to complain about it and seek out food before anything else

dean is always hungry bc he never has access to nutritionally rich foods bc he got used to using the money he earned to buy sam's more expensive food. he got used to his cheaper, denser foods and grew up with (and continues to live with) intermittent access to said foods. think of how long it takes to drive from one state to another; how many hours it can take to see another town that offers food, if you arrive at a reasonable enough time for anything to be open. also think how they can’t keep any food beyond what fits in an esky; nothing that needs defrosting, nothing can be heated up. it’s bags and jars and take out for as long as they can trust it

then they get the bunker which has its own kitchen

dean even describes himself as "nesting" when he decorates his room, something he hasn't had since he was four years old, and he uses said kitchen to cook a burger from scratch that he is proud of. he is food secure for the first time in his life and it shows in how often he cooks for both himself and sam

so these moments where they have him acting goofy regarding food are no longer character driven and only exist as a joke which is why they come across as cringy and out of character compared to similar earlier moments

a lot of my issues with dean's characterisation started when they introduced the bunker. the argument can and is made that the reason these jokes happen is bc he feels safe in the bunker, that bc he now has a home he can relax and unmask but that still doesn't feel sufficient. they crank up these sillier moments for both of them, giving them a sort of playing house comedy vibe of two roommates with completely different personalities but it doesn't feel like an authentic progression. it feels forced; an attempt at humour for humour's sake

food stopped being an informed part of their characters and their trauma and instead became flanderised; sam is the judgy vegetarian health nut and dean is his borderline slovenly carnivore counterpart

[spindleanddye]

2025 Garden line up 👨‍🌾

What are y'all growing this year?

I also impulse bought a ton of flax seed a while back with the plan of growing flax to spin but I dont think ill have the room for that this year...

[hr-twink]

idea: Spider survives the head smash but suffers severe brain trauma that limits his mobility and gives him seizures, nosebleeds, yk the drill. Because he lived (again) and getting mega sued by him for the whole tiger team thing isnt great, Taverner agrees to hire him back but relegated to slough house so he can have an income/be somewhere she can keep an eye on him. Spider isn't an agent but kinda works the way catherine did. He recovers enough to go back to work just after season 4 ends, so he "takes marcus's place" (how they describe newcomers in the books id never be that rude to him.) Obviously Shirley isn't happy about this but when she realizes River hates Spider it makes her like him (because shes kinda mad at River because his assassin family fucked up her life.) She also likes Spider because they're both small and deranged and wlw/mlm solidarity. She quickly realizes the river spider situation because she has eyes, and just fucks with them constantly. Louisa and Spider start getting along after she beats him up a little/booby traps his desk or something.

[fisheito]

i can't look at him i can't look at him i can't look at him i won't i can't im not allowed to why is he I CANNOT

[i-really-like-phrogs]

While I have many, many gripes about the annoying love triangles and horrid characterization in Beetlejuice goes Hawaiian; One thing I did enjoy was Cactus— a Joshua tree transformed into a beautiful girl by the Juiceman himself. The idea was so fun, and what can I say? I’ve got a special place in my heart for a bubbly lover girl!

I wanted her to be a little younger than what the script implies, (around mid-teen), so I ditched the bikini for a one-peice. It took me SO MANY drafts before I found an outfit I liked, but I’m really happy with how she turned out!

[dragonsballsz]

realized a second ago that bardock's name sneakily fits into the son family theme and i'm going to need some time to process that.

to elaborate:

goku (悟空) and his sons gohan (悟飯) and goten (悟天) all have the same first character (悟, read as go).

bardock, rather obviously, is named after the vegetable burdock. more specifically, after the greater burdock, or arctium lappa, which is very common in japan. his name, バーダック (bādakku) is just the japanese transliteration of the english word.

what's the japanese word? ゴボウ. 牛蒡. gobou. 悟蒡.

he was one of them all along.

[pinkinsect]

What is shidou's problem

[autisticlalna]

heya Leo, i just binged all of vikings resonance smp and was wondering if you knew why he stopped streaming it? did he just get too busy? because i love Viki Pea and he is in my mind now lmao Also I ask you because i think you seem to archive everything so you mightve heard something lol,

sadly Resonance is the one thing i dont know a lot about because it happened while i was drifting away from being able to keep up with streams, and tbh Resonance's lack of documentation is part of what spurred us to get hugely into archival because SO MUCH happened that is completely evaporated now. i think Myni's death is completely gone, which sucks.

i think maybe Viking got busy or otherwise stuff came up (he did get pretty sick during Res), and now so much has happened in Resonance (it's still going! holy hell) that it'd be difficult for Viki to make a comeback without Viking being incredibly out of the loop. Viki gets mentioned now and then, but a full comeback doesn't seem like it's in the cards.

Twitch chat decided that he's chilling in the void and has befriended Blue, and he did very briefly show up as part of Viking's surprise skin roulette though!

[anhonestdaysworkcomic]

i've done so much research on medieval farming and all it's gotten me is more questions

[scribefindegil]

My ulterior motive with Heretic AU is forcing all my readers to learn facts about brassicas

[changing-my-username]

First a lettuce, then a turnip. Why are all of Liz Truss' enemies vegetables?

[dapperrokyuu]

Read ~60 chapters of Chainsaw Man today, WHEWWWWW-

[mantisgodsdomain]

Apparently there's a fic reading challenge thing this year, but after doing a quick skim of the goals... we don't think we'll be touching it with a ten-foot stick. Some of these goals put a VERY bad taste in our mouth. The idea of a "diversity checklist" isn't supposed to be... literal, we don't think? No? We're remembering that one quote about "listening to people of color being like eating your vegetables for white activists" and we're feeling like it may actually have been understating whatever the hell is going on here.

[pomodoriyum]

jesus christ. good fire mitigation does NOT mean eliminating every green thing near your home, especially if you live in a grassland or semi-arid area, holy fucking shit. like yes. you are reducing the fire load if there's a really hot fire passing thru your area. but you're also drastically increasing the likelihood of fire in the first place by drying out the soil and increasing the ground temperature in the first place. AND you're increasing your energy expenditure on cooling while ALSO REMOVING ORGANISMS THAT REDUCE CO2 CONTENT IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND COOL AIR TEMPS (also a fire reducing tactic. by y'know. cooling things off AND KEEPING THE SOIL MOIST).

like, there are possibly places where removing vegetation near homes is a good idea. parts of california and desert border areas may be good examples of this. but please for the love of fuck if you don't live in a desert don't remove living vegetation that's near your house, unless it's part of a carefully considered brush-clearing operation in like. an urban and urban-interface space. please for the love of fuck have nuance about these things. I KNOW people are running scared because of the horrific fires that have been raging due to hundreds of years of land mismanagement (due to colonialist genocide and exploitative capitalism). but there is a lot of information being spread around like a one-shoe-fits-all-ecosystems, and that's just not fucking true.

[horridwizardthing]

maybe i'll make tarot cards illustrations for the other characters in fruit wars we'll see