happy 10 years to my favorite catws post ever

Okay this is gonna make no sense, so here’s to me posting random comics about AUs I pulled out of my ass 🥂🥂i spent the entire day sitting in a car and was suddenly just like, what if it was Sam who ended up in Purgatory with Cas? That way I can finally daydream about them having some (traumatizing) bonding time which they sooo needed after Cas destroyed Sam’s wall and then took on his cage scars. Then I remembered how pissed I was when they made purgatory to be this forest with nothing to do but fight each other, then I realized I can have Sam and Cas actually explore purgatory in my AU bc I’m sure Sam would be much more into it than Dean and here we are idk what I’m doing :’) also Cas is depressed after but what’s new. Here’s my comic about it sidhkvndfgkj

Something that gave H.P. Lovecraft nightmares is the work of my favorite artist. In "At the Mountains of Madness" he specifically mentions "the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich."

This is what Roerich's paintings look like:

#hp lovecraft thought penguins were grotesque and horrifying#he was not a difficult man to frighten

Do not cite the old magic to me. I was there when it was written.

The /gardening subreddit is actually full of hippie anti-plastic anti-lawn freaks (affectionate) and I find it enjoyable and I saw a nine-word horror story I thought tumblr would enjoy

The emotion in this photo

IF YOU NEED TO GET RID OF MINT, USE OTHER PLANTS IN THE MINT FAMILY!!!

Related plants like lavender, sage, and thyme are immune to mint’s phytotoxins and will crowd out the mint. Rosemary is my favorite mint-killer since it grows fast and wide (regular pruning helps it cover more area).

These plants are perennials, but they are likely to die after a season since mint can harbor root rot that will affect other Lamiaceae but not mint (or plants outside the family). Leave the plant waste to provide soil cover, the mint rhizomes may still be dormant (but will die out soon). The spring after your mint-killers die, you should get some colonizing vegetation. Once those plants fully take root, you’re good to plant whatever your heart desires in the soil!

IF YOU NEED TO GET

RID OF MINT, USE OTHER PLANTS

IN THE MINT FAMILY!!!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

I once read a bit of ancient Roman folklore that thyme (I think, it might have been rosemary) is so tough and contrarian that if you want it to flourish, instead of talking sweet to it, you hurl curses at it.

My ex just texted me a picture of her new garden bed and excitedly shared she'd planted pansies, tulips, and MINT

Today I learned that mint is toxic to other plants. That's not the kind of knowledge I'm ever going to use because I have in fact dried a cactus and therefore I do not trust myself with any plantlife.

I don’t think it’s so much toxic to other plants as it simply spreads so fast and is so hard to get rid of the roots, it outcompetes and smothers out everything else. Mint is up to things underground and even if you dig out most of the roots, it’ll find a way to come back.

Anything that spreads by rhizome can get out of hand pretty fast in certain conditions. Mint has been known to crawl out of its pot and root into nearby ground. You have to practice SCP containment.

idk but like seeing sam in s7 vs. dean in s4 makes me distinctly. less interested in dean's post-hell anger arc

like if you're showing me a guy who went to hell for 180+ years and came out the other side even more kind and understanding vs. a guy who went to hell for 40 years and came back even more angry, I'm gonna choose the kind guy idk what to tell you

and to clarify i don't mean this in a dean-hate way, just like a personal tendency to kinda find the guy who tries to be good despite everything more compelling than the alternative

Um...I DO totally mean it in an anti-dean way tbf ...you know why? - coz SAM literally had NO ROLE MODELS for his kindness n empathetic growth from his (justified) angry young man that he was- it only ever always GOT WORSE for him over the years n he STILL modelled himself on his own beliefs:"you're what you do not who you are"....

Whereas, in contrast - DEAN had 4xyears with his mum and then BOBBY(who canonically liked him better) and most importantly, Sam himself, who was always there being a "pain in his ass little brother" ie his conscience and his go-to for treating others with empathy n kindness ....ie he had SAM as his role model also...

N yet, DEAN CHOSE VIOLENCE N ANGER despite having people around him who were showing him,telling him how he could choose otherwise....

just sayin....

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A handy guide for your Jewellers and Gem Cutters.

I accept payment in trillion-cut black diamonds.

Chop chop.

Useful!

People... watch out for these things!

The saying applies with more than usual force here: if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer: you're the product being sold. (And maybe you're the product being sold even if you are paying for it.)

DO NOT MAKE YOUR PERSONAL PHYSICAL DATA AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE WHO COULD THEN SELL IT TO THOSE INVESTED IN USING IT TO SURVEIL YOU AND POTENTIALLY CHARGE YOU WITH CRIMES.

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

Actually, fuck it, here

If anybody is interested in Chinese folklore, here you go!

Have all the old scans I have of stories from my chinese literature, folklore, and popular culture class.

It may be short, but we've got a new promo for Walker!

This change in approach really improved my fitness ability several years ago.

Instead of keeping my numbers (sets & reps) the same, I kept my intensity the same - fairly high.

In order to maintain this intensity, I would do fewer sets and use more harder variations as I got stronger. This gives us a clear path to progress!

Just some thoughts. Have a wonderful day!

i'm listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a "habitat restoration". when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.

later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.

then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner's garden.

This quote really got me: "The owner is a man who loves mosses, and the exercise of power. I have no doubts of his sincerity in wishing to protect them from harm, once they conformed to his landscape design.  But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the sovreignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and diminishing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone, and walked each day to see them."

- Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

I bring you… my silly little comics. Saw a tik tok this morning about British Museum recognizing emperor Elagabalus as a trans woman 🏳️‍⚧️, and I just had to draw this.

I honestly did not expect this to happen

The story made TIME, too.