Sustain-the-stain - Sustain The Stain

Turning Red was so freaking cuuuute and fun!! ✨💕

Ugh, as if the early 2000's nostalgia didn't have me in a chokehold enough already..

We love animated movies about abolishing generational trauma 💅🏽

when i was a teenager and i learned about how light pollution and a certain billionare’s satellites obscure the night sky and all of its glory that humans have looked up and admired for hundreds of thousands of years, i always kept the mantra ‘they would steal even the skies from you’ hidden deep in my gut like a warning

but now i’m in my 20s and in the midst of a plague, having to watch corporate entities like space x and jeff bezos scramble for a piece of the infinite vastness of our universe while we’re all down expected to toil for their gains, live in an age of widespread sickness where we can’t be granted healing or rest without a profit, have every single piece of our lives cut up and dressed for sale like a butchered animal, from basic human needs to human expression. and now that same mantra comes to mind, but now instead of a cautionary warning it sits in my chest and my throat bc it has gone from a warning to a certainty. they will steal even the skies from you.

AAAAAAA my school club that i've been working on since last year is finally happening i'm so excited!! :))

i'm struggling so much with who i am it's like super painful. 😃

Felt like I needed to post this here, too.

[ID: A set of screenshots of a Twitter thread. The Twitter users display name is "Stevie!! Angry Cripple" and their username is adonyann. The thread contains five tweets, which say:

I have been made fun of for not understanding people because I can't process speech sometimes. Snapped at/ yelled at for taking a while at the till because I have arthritis and can't move my hands as fast, or because I use a cane and that makes getting out of the way slow. Told off by people for dropping things in a store because my hands cannot hold on sometimes. Belittled by staff for getting locked in a bathroom because the accessible one wasn't in order or available and I can't always open locks. Told that if I can't handle walking up 3 flights of stairs when the lift is broken I'm probably not cut out for education. That because I can get around with a cane, using my wheelchair is deceitful. That because I can stand for a short time I'm not entitled to a seat. These are a few examples off the top of my tired, currently foggy, head of the way people have used words to belittle, joke about and dehumanise me for being disabled. Words are not "just words" when they humiliate or hurt vulnerable people who are suffering already. Things like this lead to less accessibility, support and resources for us. Ableism isn't "just words" and it never will be.

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Buying seedlings for your garden.

So if March was the time to talk about starting seeds, April is the time to talk about buying transplants (reverse as needed for southern hemisphere obviously but y’all aren’t planting for spring now anyhow). I’ll make a few notes and then open it to others to add.

1. You don’t want blooms on your vegetable starts. If it’s blooming now, it’s reached the limits of its growth in its current pot and decided that this is as good as it gets and started to put its energy into reproducing. If there are blooms, you should pinch them off, but the plant is likely to have limited growth even so. The same kinda applies to flowers but I do recognize the difficulty of knowing what you’re buying without blooms, and also, a lot of modern flowers are bred for long flowering periods.

2. Short and stocky is better than tall. Tall means the plants have been crowded. Spindly means the plant will be less sturdy. The ideal tomato seedling, for example, is relatively short, with a thick stem.

3. Some things are not worth buying starts of. Sellers realize that a lot of people feel more comfortable with transplants–you don’t have to have faith in the magic of the seed that way. But it’s ridiculous to buy cucumber and squash seedlings, for example. Those are plants that can’t be put out until after danger of last frost anyway, which time hasn’t even come where I am, and their roots don’t really like to be disturbed. Tomatoes actually thrive on being replanted, so they make great transplants. Cucumbers not so much. Big seeds like peas, cucumbers, squash, etc. come up fast and will establish roots better in situ. Have faith in the seed.

4. Prefer small local places and actual nurseries to big box stores. The big box store offers varieties based on what will sell, as decided on the national level. They buy the seedlings en masse and take minimal care of them with the expectation of high losses. The little local place is in it because they love plants, and probably knows what varieties are actually good locally.

@ahedderick , @turtlesandfrogs , @not-quite-wild , @kawuli , anyone else wanna add?

Something I will never get tired of in games like Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword is the animation of Link unsheathing his weapon when the boss looms over him and roars in the intros to the boss battles. 

Angel of radical truth

i wish trends would stop. i wish things would stop being popular for two weeks and then time moves along like it always has. i wish things would last longer. i wish some trends or popular things would stay main-stream forever. i wish i just had more time.