the fact it’s taken me nearly a year to figure out that Ghost became my comfort band bc their music isn’t so saturated with “sad love & break up songs” like the stuff i listened to before then is kinda sad but also it’s just given me a massive “ohhhhh” moment so that’s fun, +++ i wouldn’t change it for the world tbh i fckn love them and this fandom too much now

Saying random and/or extremely specific numbers in songs is hot. Like, what you doing that for? Are you reciting the equations that unlock the secrets of the universe or are you counting shit or are you just saying some random bullshit just in a really cool voice?

I don’t care. That’s my shit right there.

16: deicide

Prompt: Deiform

Word count: 204

Short and sweet (and late), spoilers for the Aglaia alliance raid.

Thal conjured up a thousand prayer candles to flare brilliant blue and explode in her face, and Hanami thought, what a waste. Flashing lights and pyrotechnics wouldn’t make her flinch any more than the glittering domed ceiling or grand gilded scales had. So far the most irritating thing he—Nald or Thal, whichever, she still couldn’t tell them apart half the time—had done was bleed when she cut him, which wasn’t disturbing in itself (the blood wasn’t even red, scattering golden across the floor like coins) but it did make for treacherous footing when she slid around in it, at least until he blasted the whole room with fire again and flash-evaporated the stuff. Courteous.

He hissed at her again, about the hells and her soul and unworthiness, and Hanami took the chance to cut a gouge into the other face, the one currently serving as the twin-god’s back. Let him play with illusions and sparkles like he thought it would impress her, like he thought she was one of his incense-addled acolytes from Ul’dah. Nothing this so-called deity could do would frighten her.

If she wanted to see a god of flame and death, all she had to do was look in a mirror.

they/them Mary absolutely fucks

how we feelin today gang

Mirinda >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fanta    fight me

waking up next to someone >>>>

cindy never misses

Wrote a character's last line before they died and something about it being so in-character for them is making me infinitely sadder than if it had been something generic

Fuck being praised by your gf, have you tried bring praised by your tattoo artist for sitting Well?

I gotta make myself a playlist of music voiced by delinquent characters

MAN THAT REALLY COLORS THIS RESPONSE IN THIS CONVERSATION SO DIFFERENTLY FOR ME

Pining…

That’s it. That’s the post

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).

my favourite soapghost trope is soap accidentally seeing ghost without his mask and instantly covering his eyes so he doesn’t see anything

happy pride month to all the queer coded characters in media you’ll be replaced by ACTUAL queer characters one day