are you still doing those? you better be

74 + 88 + 98

74. Huddling for Warmth, 88. Erotic Dreams, 98. Curses

omg caju you greedy and you like to be a challenge BUT I THINK I FINALLY GOT IT TOO

Okok, I cant believe Im gonna say this, but I will take inspiration in Tangled and Shrek. Martín can be a cursed prince waiting in his tower and Luciano can be some handsome bandit a king has hired to bring Martín so he can have his hand in marriage, we know the drill.

Martín doesn't really want much to do about the king, so maybe Lu tricks him a bit going "Oh, excuse, did I say he wants your hand in marriage? My bad, I meant he's your father and wants his special boy back" or whatever. Which sounds more interesting and listen, Martín has been wanting to leave this tower so he takes the deal unknowing that Luciano will "betray" him in the future (Spoilers: he doesn't because he ~falls in love~ but of course Martín finds out in a dramatic misunderstanding that eventually leads to a heartfelt confession).

So now we get to enjoy their adventure as they go back to the castle. And yk how adventures are, sometimes you gotta huddle in the cold dark night from warmth. And here's the fun part, remember I said Martín is cursed? Well, he has been cursed to feel and see the things going through the minds of the people he touches. Which yk, makes him share very interesting dreams with his horny savior as they cuddle close as lovebugs for the night.

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

apollo’s confidence in court: oh my god i’m the worst lawyer ever my client is going to go to JAIL because i can’t even do my JOB

apollo’s confidence outside of court: i’m the only smart one here, i’m the most normal guy in the world and NO ONE is doing it like i am, investigations are EASY, klavier gavin wants me carnally

What a difference six years makes

new james apology video huh

"You don't need to worry about me. I can take care of myself now."

So Cater's new groovy...

Oh, I see you TWST.

Ok, something something feeling of drowning, trapped, trying to call for help, no one listening, something something.

so evil of illumination to rob us from a luigi revolution subplot

ft bonus interaction:

I don't know what this is all I know is that LimL Joel makes me really emotional

i keep thinking about hobbies and how i often spill over myself to pick up new ones. i have adhd, i end up trying something for like a month and then just getting far enough in it that i move on, satisfied.

and that should be fine; but it's never fine.

i am a pretty decent artist; but i can't just make art for my dnd campaign, i should be selling dnd maps and character designs and scene setting pieces. i can't just make my friends matching earrings, i need to get an etsy and ship them internationally and take bulk orders. i make pretty good props and decorations and use them to throw my friends parties - but i should be running a party planning business and start taking paying clients and networking and putting my skills to actual use.

for some reason, i never figured out the specifics of pottery. it was a fun class and i enjoyed myself - and still, i'm embarrassed, years later, that i put in all that useless effort. everything i make has to be stunning. stellar. i should have applied myself more. maybe i'm too lazy. maybe i'm broken and selfish and needy. actually creative people would have kept going; they would be bettering themselves at every possible opportunity.

we find ourselves in this trap, even accidentally: we need to commodify our time, because it is a commodity. if we spend our efforts and our time not earning, isn't that the same thing as burning free money? and god forbid you ever take up a hobby that ends up being more expensive than you thought. you sit in your car and you look at the receipt and in your head you hear a conversation that isn't even happening - your mom or your friend or your partner all saying oh great. not this shit again. it's always something with you, and it never actually means anything.

i have realized this horrible thing, recently - i'll get excited to start a project, pick up a new hobby. and then i just... stop myself. i start thinking about the amount of time it will take, and how it'll look in my monthly budget. what if i can't even produce a good enough final product. sure, it's exciting to think about how i could make my friend her own custom dice. but i'm just polluting the earth if i don't get it right. better not bother. better not try.

restless, i get caught in the negative space. the feeling that oh god, i want to create. and that horrible sense - yeah, but i don't have the time to just put to waste.

i'll be real, i always hated it whenever media tries to "critique" Christianity while portraying all Christians as bigoted, misogynistic and irredeemable. its why it matters a lot to me that my own angels have some nuances to them.

Sera is very puritanical and obsessed with showing her devotion to God, but she's still a caring and well-meaning angel.

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Not all who wander are lost. Some who wander, however, are extremely, extremely lost.

[Day 156]

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ok this sounds insane but in 2018 i went to a few carnivorous plant talks at the botany conference in minnesota. i got caught up in conversation with one of the guys there who was a huge nepenthes guy who told me a story about another collector in the pacific northwest who'd been buying poached plants, like a huge amount, and eventually got staked out by the fish and wildlife service and arrested and had all his plants seized and went to prison for it. idk if i ever talked about this on this blog before-- i know i liveblogged a lot from that conference but cant remember what all i posted-- but ive avoided talking about it since then because i was never able to find like, news articles or anything covering it, but behold.... we now have proof it was real, and im like 80% sure this was this guy he was talking about. the raid happened in 2016 and they'd been staking them out since 2013. he had nearly 400 plants and had been sourcing many of them from poachers in indonesia and borneo.

remember folks: poaching happens with plants too! it's a huge problem not only in carnvirous plants (nepenthes especially, which this piece is dedicated to talking about) but also in native plant populations in the US, including native carnivorous plant populations (north and south carolina's venus fly traps, california's darlingtonia, and sarracenia from the east coast), native orchids (historically one of the most poached categories), desert plants/cacti/succulents, and slow-growing woody ornamentals (cycads, for example). never buy bare-root plants off ebay or facebook! your best bet is local nurseries (which usually purchase farm-raised plants that do well in a wide range of conditions, and as a result have a healthy population in the wild) or specialty greenhouses (more expensive, but at least in the case of carnivorous plants offer young plants bred from established adult plants in-house, raised in captivity).