I identify the most with the woman who has a green velvet ribbon around her neck and keeps being like "DONT untie my neck ribbon or something really bad will happen" and then her husband unties the ribbon and her head falls off. this is extremely real to me. spent my whole life like "please don't do this thing to me or really bad stuff will happen" and everyone around me being like "that sounds fake" and doing it anyway. and then my head fell off!

they should make a video game where you play as an autistic character and there is a meter that shows you how close to a total meltdown you are due to the overwhelming stimuli and another matter that shows you how much of a weirdo you look like to others and you have to try to balance between having a meltdown and completely masking. and also you’re trying to solve a murder or something

I think it should add challenges but not be game breaking if you decide to sacrifice weird meter for meltdown meter.

Band called ship of Theseus who replaces one of their members with every album release

Danny hears somebody refer to his intangibility as 'density shifting' and he just pauses for a moment and goes 'Wait. If that's what this is- Could I do it the other way? Get like, MORE dense instead of less dense??'

Then later somebody tries to shoot at him, only to have the bullet literally fucking bounce off, and he just. Grins at them. And says 'Stop that. It tickles.'

And immediately gains like +1000 aura.

Too much movement makes your joints hurt and too little movement also makes your joints hurt. This would imply that there's an optimal amount of movement that allows your joints to not hurt. This is a lie.

Collecting those rn

tbh potato is easily in the top 10 reasons to live

if you are stinky and wretched please remember to wash your you. then you may still be wretched but at least you won't be stinky.

A wizard that discovers a potion that has no other trait than giving you 15 minutes of intensely gay thoughts. It doesn't seem to work on anyone else.

It's not magical. The brew just contains plants rich in iron and several key nutrients and vitamins that the wizard is chronically deficient in.

I find it a funny thought that female vtubers are probably some deeply isolated dudes' easy introduction to interacting with girls. Almost like giving a dog a pill wrapped in cheese. Talking to women is scary? What about one you don't have to directly interact with, who's presenting with an anime girl avatar so you don't have to get stressed about how that's a real person over there. She also kind of sucks at being alive, almost died while trying to cook a real meal all by herself once at the age of 26, doesn't know what time zones are, and she's always 3 minutes away from getting hospitalised again because she doesn't know how to drink water.

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.