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.”
The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t give two shits about the English Royal Family, but this PR crisis they’re in right now is just wild. Every time you think they’re done digging themselves deeper, they haul another bucket of shit up from the bottom of the well they’re in.
Is Kate dead? Of course not. Is the PR team still, for some inexplicable reason, acting like they’re covering up her murder? Yes! And I for one find that fucking hilarious.
did people in the past gossip about weird baby names? were medieval villagers whispering in the town square like 🙄 can you believe mathilda just named her daughter ermengarde
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I actually gasped, this is SO embarrassing of them
Like you’re telling me you’re renovating a house, renovating a backyard, and all you can do is mention one (1) of the 12+ plants you’re putting in and be like ‘heehee pretty leaf’ and nothing else?
Give me more gardening on the home and gardening channel dammit
Like I was talking to my mom about it and you know the kind of show I’d love to see?
A team of landscapers and environmental/rewilding experts. Maybe they’re teamed up with NWF or something I dunno. Maybe depending on where they are they team up with different people.
They find families or organizations that wanna convert spaces to wildlife friendly spaces, or big pollinator gardens, or whatever. People who are maybe experiencing problems with their current landscaping that they don’t know how to fix or with what.
The team comes in, get an idea of what the family wants (butterfly garden? Wildscape? Something neat but helpful? Cool with a wild look?). They talk with each other about what to plant and why—say, part of the yard stays dry, so some cool natives would be purple coneflower and others, maybe considering color combos and such. Then show the process of planting things in, maybe have the family pitch in so they can learn about what they’re planting and how to maintain it. Maybe they try and make sure each garden can be a certified wildlife habitat, or a certified pollinator waystation, and they make a nice deal of putting the sign in every episode.
It’d be really nice if they popped in again a few months or a few years later to see how things are filling in and developing as well.
At the end of every episode the team hops into a van and drives off into the sunset to go work on another project.
Okay but I’m thinking about this more.
Imagine the variety of projects. They could do family garden spaces. They could do big projects for season finales, like big farmhouse style gardens or hospital landscaping or a big park area and such.
You know how some animal shows have info fun fact cards about random animals right before or right after the commercial break? They could do that but with a particular plant they’re adding to the garden, or a particular animal they’re trying to help? Farmhouse wants to encourage barn owls? Fact card during commercial breaks. Pollinator garden project? Highlight some of the host plants they’re planting, or the butterflies they’re aiming to attract.
Idk how the laws around showing shop logos/business info is, but they could have a segment where they go to a local nursery focused on native plants and talk to the owners about their project to help find what they need, which would be a cool way for these nurseries to get more attention (though I can see how the overflow of attention could be too much).
If they’re doing a project where they’re fighting an invasive, talk about the invasive and what they’re replacing it with and why. Talk about common non-native (imo boring) landscaping plants and what interesting cool native plants you’re replacing it with, and how it benefits the environment and is still cool and fun and nice for the people living in the space!
I hope every 19 year old is ok eventually I’m so fucking serious. If you’re 19 stay safe out there it’ll be ok love you
btw this doesn’t apply when my university campus gets crowded and there’s nowhere for me to sit down and eat. I hope every freshman drops out and goes home
a good sumerian inexplicably donated five packs of 500 temporary tattoos to the classroom, each pack featuring identical pictures of a different invasive species of bug
i meant samaritan you jackasses i was typing with one hand bc i was putting on one of the temporary tattoos and it got autocorrected
I’m kind of a christ figure, in that people are a little surprised by how mundane my past profession was and want to kill me with nails and spears for reasons almost entirely unrelated to it
I’m kind of like a tree, in that when I’m outside in the sunlight naked, I nut.
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