Latest Posts by caspers-ghost-4ever - Page 2

Would like that second monitor though

+ sunglasses n cigarettes n a bag = first date in the local woods

Wall of Hearts Volunteers have been hand painting 150,000 hearts on Memorial Wall to represent each life lost to COVID in the UK. Matt Fowler lost his father, last year after he fell ill in March. As tribute Fowler began the memorial wall last Monday morning, painting the first of 15,000 hearts drawn that day.

i'm sitting on my bed reading. it’s almost midnight. it’s summer. my window is open and the cool wind is blowing. it's cloudy but i can see the moon shining through the clouds. the crickets are very loud but very soothing. my room smells dusty and warm and no one else exists. the feeling never goes away. everything is quiet and i'm at peace.

small things can be healing.

a warm, sunny day with a light blue sky / stargazing while laying in the cool grass / the look of natural beauty you only get with blooming flowers / a comfort meal you make for yourself / newly cleaned sheets / socks still warm from the dryer / the smell of your favorite person on your clothes / a cool shower after a hot, busy summer day / the immersion into a story when you start a book you can’t put down / contagious laughter that just keeps getting fueled by itself / the first scene of your favorite movie starting

even little details mean so much. they can mend a person bit by bit.

富士山とソバ畑

“At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.”

— Edgar Allan Poe, from The Sleeper in “The Complete Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe”

Dénesh Ghyczy (German, b. 1970), Private Pool, 2020. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 99.1 × 139.7 cm

Source

If they touch my daughter, I burn everything

[Mexico] February 2021 / March 2021 #8M2021

- @Emily_Lykos

can we talk about the way we encourage women to enter stem fields but then do nothing to change what makes stem environments hostile to women

““Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs upon the reasons they are dying.””

— Audre Lorde’s 1984 essay, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via blythebrooklyn)

“At its most basic level, all of this emotional labour is saying to another human being “you matter. I will take my time to show you that you matter.” And maintaining that glue is something that devolves mainly onto women, 24 hours a day. It feels like most men are taught (ex- or implicitly) to do emotional work only when it gets them something they want now, whereas most women are taught to do emotional work as part of an ongoing exchange that benefits everyone.”

— Emotional Labor: The MetaFilter Thread Condensed (via anti-capitalistlesbianwitch)

Tina

Timelapse of my Datura (D. inoxia) blooming🌜

Diver convince octopus to trade his plastic cup for a seashell

Digitalis (foxglove)

From: Lawrence, S., (2020), Witch’s Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, p.133:

“Goblins’ thimbles, fairy weed, snoxums, snompers, fairy’s petticote - the local nicknames for Digitalis have to be some of the most evocative of all plants.

“It’s a clever plant; the female flowers at the bottom of the stems contain the most nectar, persuading the bees to visit there first and then work their way up the flower spike to the male flowers, pollinating as they go…

“…It was unlucky to bring foxgloves, especially white ones, into the house, as it encouraged witches. they could be useful, however, in a somewhat risky method of identifying a changeling. The child was given three drops of foxglove juice, put on a shovel and swung out of the front door three times, the parents crying, “If you are a fairy, away with you!” If the child was a changeling, it would die. If it was a human, it would be traumatised for the rest of its life. The child would be ill, at the very least. Digitalis contains toxins, including cardiac glycosides, which increase heart rate. Nausea, headaches, diarrhoea and visual, heart and kidney problems are just some of the symptoms caused by ingesting the plant. Nevertheless, the leaves were useful to bind around fresh wounds. Placed in a child’s shoes, they were said to guard against scarlet fever.

“While those cardiac glycosides could be fatal, others have been developed into pharmaceutical drugs. it’s possible the Egyptians knew about foxglove’s ability to stimulate the heart - but in 1775, Dr. William Withering, searching for treatments for dropsy (oedema), began systematic trials using Digitalis. The resulting An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses (1785) proved a game changer in the treatment of certain heart conditions. His memorial, in St. Bartholomew’s churchyard in Edgbaston, is carved with foxgloves.”

(These plants are extremely dangerous. Do not attempt to use them in any kind of home remedy, and use gloves if you do have to handle them)

sleepy rat redraw 🐀🧸🌷

Just going through boxes and boxes for bags and bags of soils to put in smaller bags.

Space [1881] by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot

is there ‘the messiest studyblr’ contest because I think I could win it

bold of my professors to assume i can read

Experiencing a moment of happiness, the grad student is immediately consumed with guilt.

I fucked this up. Present me is pretty pissed at past me.

i can not and i mean i can not stress this enough… make a bibliography as you do your research. i mean, make a fully formed, correctly cited bibliography as you work. just do it. i know i know you’re being lazy or you hate making citations or you’ll just get to it later or you don’t want to get distracted etc etc etc

whatever your reasons just make the fuckin bibliography

and while im at it… put the footnotes in properly as you are writing. just… do it. for future you. please. for your sanity. do it.