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food and poetry

I have a coworker who is from the same place I used to live in a different country. She is one of the nicest people I have ever met. She shares her food with me, the food her mother in law made. These delicious meals that are nothing like what I eat at home.

I told her I liked writing and she was thrilled to ‘know a real author’ and it made me so happy. I’m going to print out a short story so she can read it.

She told me that she writes poetry in her native language. I do not have the skill for poetry, and I cannot understand her’s. With food, mouth can taste what she shares with me. With poetry, neither my ears nor eyes can ever understand this though.

the poems already write themselves at this rate.

Some audio dramas to pick up on your next rainy day! 🌦

VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT

('The drawings match no known plants' - MAYBE THE AUTHOR IS JUST BAD AT DRAWING - botany drawings are hard!!!')

I'm barely halfway through this episode and I can already feel this stupid dumb little book becoming my newest obsession.

I don't care if many smarter more qualified individuals have looked at it! let me look! surely i can find something!

tbh it's just very FUN

LOOK I've cried multiple times over Linear A and I love old science theories and texts - this is the perfect distraction from everything else in my life

Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth: I am a queen. *The king of Scotland existing* Lady Macbeth: I will be a queen.

Not born great, don’t achieve greatness, and don’t have greatness thrust upon them - but a secret fourth thing.

(not great at all)

he...he got a slurpee

Nettles (alive, dead) and dock leaves

The stinging nettle (Urtica dioica): A bee sting in plant form. Both give you acidic stings, but whilst a bee will die after a single sting, the nettle holds no such melodrama. Importantly, the underside of the nettle has no stinging needles - using this, a nettle leaf can be folded and eaten. Quite delicious, but like oysters, it is best to only chew them just enough to experience the flavour. Unlike oysters, it is an established tea.

The dock leaf (Rumex obtusifolius): The apologetic, unassuming, elder sibling of our funny little trio. Never too far behind the stinging nettle, growing in the same habitat, it is a welcome gift for the unlucky or unwary. Simply crushing it's flat, broad leaf, arranged in small clumps, low to the ground, and rubbing the remains on the sting will greatly ease the pain. Unfortunately, as some kind of earthy punishment for irresponsible agricultural practices, or maybe it's simply prone to seasickness, it did not accompany the stinging nettle on its torment to Australia.

(Important note: it is NOT a certified doctor, and, in fact, does not hold any kind of medical certificate or degree).

The dead nettle (Lamium purpureum): Surprisingly, edible, and harmless enough. It's pretty pink-ish-purple flowers will ruin its disguise in certain seasons, along with its ever-present diminutive size. The dead nettle relies on the terrifying reputation of the stinging nettle to warn away anyone and anything. Yet, it you touch one, you will find no sting. Like if the spirit of the plant it pretends to be manifests in that sting, it finds itself lacking something it will never achieve. However, for the dead nettle, once that sting is proven absent, it's likely already dead - possibly uprooted for its uncanny skill of growing in driveways.

OMG SRSLY??? I watched the video, then went on tumblr and looked up wish and saw your meme

thanks again to coleydoesthings for keeping me aware of fandoms everywhere

I've watched so many youtube videos on wish now it's probably not a good thing lol

On a hot air balloon, September 21st 1783

Sheep: Dear heavens, there is fire. What is happening. Rooster: Hey, hey, hey, watch this. Duck: Why are we here Sheep: WHY ARE WE FLOATING?!!! Why am I here?!!! *The sheep was chosen because it was believed to be a reasonable approximation of a human's physiology and psychology*

I imagine the rooster and duck were chosen because, presumably, birds would remain calm when flying in a hot air balloon.

Someone show me a rooster that has ever been calm.