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Watching it burn, Konstantin Korobov

Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902), "A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie" (detail), 1866

Kyle Scheurmann - Falling Stars Made of Ashes, 2024 - Oil and cedar ashes on linen

Hermann Kaulbach Martyr on the Cross

Oil on thick cardboard, ca. 1880, 25 x 36.5 cm

The naiad Cyane disolving into tears after the abduction of her playmate, Persephone.

Theodor Kittelsen - The Ash Lad and the Wolf (1900)

art by theodor kittelsen in a book i thrifted

John Singer Sargent - Brenva glacier (ca. 1909)

You really need to make non-tragic past for your characters, significant people and events that impacted their lives, non-dramatic mundane moments that shaped them, happy memories, bitter memories, embarrassing memories.

Like yes the space princess lost her whole civilization, but did she have friends before that? Favorite place? Does she miss the sound of her favorite music she use to listen to?

The knowledge of some common plants

Since many people don't know most of the plants around them, this is information on some plants that are commonly seen in many places throughout the world

This is Lamium purpureum, also called Purple Deadnettle.

It's called deadnettle because it looks like a nettle but it doesn't sting you

This plant is a winter annual—it grows its leaves in the fall, lasts through the winter, and blooms and dies in the spring

Its pollen is reddish orange. If you see bees with their heads stained reddish orange, it is likely because they have visited Purple Deadnettle

This is Trifolium repens, white clover

It is a legume (belongs to the bean family) and fixes nitrogen using symbiosis with bacteria that live in little nodules on its roots, fertilizing the soil

It is a good companion plant for the other members of a lawn or garden since it is tough, adaptable, and improves soil quality. According to my professor it used to be in lawn mixes, until chemical companies wanted to sell a new herbicide that would kill broadleaved plants and spare grass, and it was slandered as a weed :(

It is native only to Europe and Central Asia, but in the lawns they are doing more good than harm most places

Honeybees love to visit clover

Four-leaf clovers are said to be lucky

This is Achillea millefolium, Common Yarrow

It has had a relationship with humans since Neanderthals were around, at least 60,000 years, since Neanderthals have been found buried with Yarrow

Its leaves have been used to stop bleeding throughout history, and its scientific name comes from how Achilles was said to have used Yarrow to stop the blood from the wounds of his soldiers. A leaf rolled into a ball has been used to stop nosebleeds

It is a native species all throughout Eurasia and North America

This is Cichorium intybus, known as Chicory

The leaves look a lot like dandelion leaves, until in mid-spring when it begins growing a woody green stem straight up into the air

Like many other weeds, it has a symbiotic relationship with humans, existing in a mix of domesticated or partially domesticated and wild populations

It is native to Eurasia, but widespread in North America on roadsides and disturbed places, where it descended from cultivated plants

Its root contains large amounts of inulin, which is used as a sweetener and fiber supplement (if you look at the ingredients on the granola bars that have extra fiber, they usually are partly made of chicory root) and has also been used as a coffee substitute

A large variety of bees like to feed upon it

This is Phytolacca americana, known as Pokeweed

It is easily identified by its huge leaves and its waxy, bright magenta stem

It can grow more than nine feet tall from a sprout in a single summer!

If you squish the berries, the juice inside is a shocking magenta that is so bright it almost burns your eyes. For this reason many Native American people used it for pink and purple dye.

It is a heavy metal hyperaccumulator, particularly good for removing cadmium from the soil

All parts of the plant are poisonous and will make you very sick if you eat them, however if the leaves are picked when very young and boiled 3 times, changing out the water each time, they can be eaten, and this is a traditional food in the rural American Southeast, but I don't want to chance it

British people have introduced it as a pretty, exotic ornamental plant. I think that is very funny considering that here it is a weed associated with places where poor people live, but maybe they're right and I need to look closer to see the beauty.

If you see magenta stains in bird poop it is because they ate pokeweed berries- birds can safely eat the berries whereas humans cannot

This is Plantago lanceolata, Ribwort Plantain

It grows in heavily disturbed soils, in fact it is considered an indicator of agricultural activity. It is successful in the poorest, heaviest and most compacted soil.

The leaves, seeds, and flower heads are said to be edible but the leaves are really stringy unless they are very young. Of course, it is important to be careful when eating wild plants, and make sure you have identified the plant correctly and the soil is not contaminated

I have also heard the strings in the leaves can be extracted and used for textile purposes

and that's some common plants you might often see throughout the world

A reminder why she is fighting in the first place

Hazel McNab, Last Light, linocut.

Thinking

hopital

september 2024 marks a year since i started writing my current wip!

In a year i wrote 73 pages (aptos font size 12 on my word document), which is already as big as the biggest wip i'd ever worked on before.

73! Woagh.

Spent as much time feeling like some sort of pythia as i did feeling like a circus clown.

Understood Things about The Act of Writing and Reading. Well maybe "understood" isnt the word. Definitely felt like me and my style underwent a transformation though.

To many more years of this. Until it's complete. If a text can ever be complete.

ahad

Frederic Edwin Church Drawing, Blue Hills and Gray Clouds, Jamaica, May-August 1865

A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) (1966) - Claude Lelouch

Joseph Alanen (Finnish, 1885–1920) - The Escape of Jaakko Ilkka

Frits Thaulow (Norwegian, 1847 - 1906) - The sentry

The Hanged, circa 1907. Painted by Marian Wawrzeniecki.

september 2024 marks a year since i started writing my current wip!

In a year i wrote 73 pages (aptos font size 12 on my word document), which is already as big as the biggest wip i'd ever worked on before.

73! Woagh.

Spent as much time feeling like some sort of pythia as i did feeling like a circus clown.

Understood Things about The Act of Writing and Reading. Well maybe "understood" isnt the word. Definitely felt like me and my style underwent a transformation though.

To many more years of this. Until it's complete. If a text can ever be complete.

James Baldwin talking about love

i made it btw and even transcribed everything i wrote since late june! +29 pages added to my word document

i think come september i'll have reached the point i want to reach before college starts

Fingerslayer Ranni