trying my hand at writing a video about fern sex again and I’m obsessed with the alternation of generations diagram on the American fern society’s website that (in addition to the typical bio textbook life cycle of just one fern drawn so it looks like it’s inbreeding) also depicts a girls’ night of ferns sitting near one another having sex on a blank background, thus contextualizing the dynamics a group of girlies usually has instead of just trying to show only one. it just brings me joy