JACOB GELLER IS ALWAYS RELEVANT!!! To me an honorable member of the philosophers’ guild that is the witch hat gang 🙂↕️❤️ and if you do play proximate Sean I’d love to hear your thoughts! Another favorite video essayist did a wonderful video about it (and many other great games hehe) and it really is 🥹❤️
HEHE I WILL TELL THEM HELLO!!! we were having a lovely time in the night grass, cackling at the plants (we were outside because we had wanted to look at the full moon with binoculars 🙂↕️❤️) AND YES!!! I love to see how colloquial names come about!!! And yes our sticky mouse-ear,,,,our silly messy guy 💖
A small hand-tied bouquet of several spring flowers and greens including: veronica, hyacinth, tulips, daisy mums, narcissus, stock, tweedia, and silver dollar eucalyptus
The same hand-tied bouquet now put together into an arrangement
Sometimes your favorite local florist is at the farmers market and so you ask yourself, cautiously, if you still got it. And wondrously, thrilling, you still do 🥳
#scarlethollow #scarlethollowspoilers
SEAN ARE YOU ROMANCING DR KELLY???????????????
To me, I’m a fan of mixed species swards and non-full-grass lawns at minimum, so I’m quite charmed by their lovely form, color, and feel! Fun fact, I identified this in the middle of the night with my partner and our flashlights and was thrilled when I got it correct! 🥳💖
Apparently, this and similar varieties are edible to both animals and humans (do NOT take my foraging knowledge without a grain of salt), which lends itself once again to the internal question of what use is a plant to you! Agronomic, ornamental, forage-able, environmental—all worth consideration! 🧵
A top-down, flash photo of mouse-ear chickweed (C. glomeratum) against grass. Its fuzzy leaves are visible in the light.
A basic plant ID page from Picture This, a plant ID app
In a joyous return, the flower of the day! Or should I say, plant of the night! This is some mouse-ear chickweed, a charming common “weed” around here if you have an open heart and mind, characterized by its shape and soft, fuzzy texture! Remember, a weed is only a plant where you don’t want it! 🧵
The paper-perverts of the Peregrine Coast recently informed us of a breakthrough in paper technology: glassine bags are recyclable, biodegradable, and provide your zines with some extra protection while they make their way to you. Expect to see your packages from us take advantage of this new strat.
—that the game views it as a stupid reaction to have, but I think a lot of online conversation has a tendency to go a similar way. It’s easier nowadays to be ironic than emotional. I’ve been doing better in trying to catch it in myself and engage more genuinely 🙂↕️❤️
—thinking a lot about this game called “Proximate,” which has A Lot going on in it with a very cool concept (I think you’d find it nifty too!!) but there are these two characters in it when faced with a choice that could mean their death, respond to it by meme-ing the whole time. It’s very clear—
Gosh thank you sean 🥹❤️ it really is something tricky, as we’re so often told that humor can make the best of a bad situation, and it’s true! However there’s a lot more nuance there. What kind of humor? Is humor being used as a deflection or distraction for genuine engagement? I’ve actually been—
Despite it all, it really is :’) I think as I get older, I really do see the difference between religion and spirituality and that real reverence exists in all the little things in that love :’)
Thank you so much Sean :’) I love you dearly and am so grateful to call you one of my best friends ❤️
Sean this is that galaxy brain post and the largest one is that they’re southern/Midwestern and you’ve always been a genius to me
I’m also hit especially heavy by this today as I’m realizing I just passed the ten year anniversary of making the choice to stay here and keep going. So much has happened. There is so much beauty in this world. I’m so, so happy to be here ❤️
Through heavy, heavy tears: the beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also thinking about (once again) Piranesi in the context of Bradbury and Geller’s video The Future is an Empty Room, and how these structures can contain us and show us beauty but there is a far scarier and more beautiful place beyond as well. It will be painful. It will be worth it.
Being 15 years old curled up on our old couch at home with an already old copy of The Martian Chronicles from our high school library and feeling the closest thing to spiritual that someone that age independently can be. Even thinking of it now makes me ache with bittersweet wonder
Catching up with jacob geller videos instead and nearly bursting into tears at the mention of both The Veldt and There Will Come Soft Rains. I’ve been reading Bradbury for almost exactly half my life now, and his images of the world still mean everything to me
A close up of a fondant-like topping of a pig for a bath bomb. His silly expression mimics my illness-induced ramblings for iron lung the movie
A bit under the weather today and I want to watch iron lung again. I miss the blood ocean of eldritch fish!!!!
A lot has been said about the queer undertones of Iago/Othello’s relationship (from myself as well) but Caitlin Fitzgerald’s performance of Desdemona is really driving home the point of love and trust loss. Genuine delight and despair when she and David are onscreen together. Incredible chemistry!
Intermission. Feeling insane. David Harewood you are HURTING ME!!!!!!! What a performance oh my GOD Tony Jones is also slamming it, his Iago is making me chew glass OOH!!!!
OTHELLO TONIGHT!!!!!
The REAL tragedy is that it’s capped at 1500 words. Heartbreaking.
Gearing up for our next big paper, which is specifically a grassland report, and truly I’ve never felt so excited for an assignment. All my prior research has come down to this. I’m gonna get strange with it!!
Othello starring David Harewood in the cinema tonight and live in person performance of Macbeth next week!!!!!
May see TWO plays in the next week because life CAN be so beautiful, and it’s been about since I experienced the healing power of theater
requiem for vanished birdsong
There are those a lot more well-read than me who can speak on these travesties, but intersectionality is the key. Climate change IS an anti-AI issue IS a capitalism issue IS an anti-war issue IS a human rights issue. To fix one, one must fix the foundational structures they belong to.
—and I’ve been thinking about how even if we dislike Sybil, I think she was also put in a place where her agency was slowly stripped away. I think about what the “original” Sybil would say now if she saw what her choices had wrought. In a way, she’s a perfect villain to me 🙂↕️
