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Oh holy shit they found Silphium alive and growing in the wild.
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.
confusedwithglitter asked:
27, 31 and B for Nettle 👀👀👀👀👀
27. What causes them to feel dread?
Oh I love this question for Nettle! They feel dread for a lot of stupid reasons. Bridges come to mind. Hunting horns. Dandelion seeds. The idea of eating cookies.
31. Who are they most glad to have met?
Is it cheating to give two people? They’re fully bonded with their party members, Blue and Herald. The three of them are a packaged deal, do not separate (please Nate don’t separate them again)
B. What inspired you to create them?
OOoooh. Well.
I’d been eager to play a ranger in dnd for a while, and when my DM came with a proposition for a fairy tale inspired campaign, my special interest in fairy tales and folklore took over and I spiraled into character creation. I really like Irish changeling folklore, so I went in that direction, with some added bits from other fairy tales. For instance, they originally were introduced to the party as Jack “the Giant Slayer” Tailor, who’s identity they stole and also who they are infatuated with. The human they replaced originally was Conrad Miller, Conrad being a name I got from a few versions of the fairy tale “The Goose Girl” and Miller because, well, every good fairy tale involves a poor miller’s child. And it’s been really fun to play them!
my two favourite guys
Image description: two digital drawings, one featuring Angus and one featuring Taako from The Adventure Zone. Angus is a young human boy with dark brown skin and short, textured hair, wearing glasses and a blue sweater-vest with a bowtie. He's smiling at the viewer, blushing slightly.
Taako is an elf with brown skin and short, wavy blond hair with dark roots. He wears a blue wizard hat and a blue sweater over a tank top, glancing towards the viewer with a slightly smug grin and holding an apple. End description.
Sorry I'm late, I got added to the Wild Hunt last night and ran and reveled with them for what felt like 100 years plus a day until I landed the killing blow on a stag with bronze antlers then suddenly woke in my bed, willow leaves in my hair, a nameless song echoing in my ears, and my hands still bloody, so yeah, totally missed my alarm and stuff.
i am saying this without any condescension and entirely from affection and concern (please read as the advice of a kind older sister): please be careful when getting into candlemaking
tiktok has a few videos going around about just picking random glasses/ceramics from thrift stores and filling them with wax to make your own candles, which seems darling! and so thrifty! and such a good way to reuse! however, not all glass is safe for candles! if you want a really great overview/guide on why this is and how to pick safe glass, this article is a great resource. nobody wants their beautiful arts and crafts project to explode into shards of glass and liquid wax. that's no fun for anyone.
second of all, PLEASE be careful of additions/decorations, especially dried plants. i know it's very #aesthetic to add in dried flowers or to cover the outside of a free-standing candle with dried flowers, but that means adding flammable material to wax and then setting it on fire. depending on how much you use/where it's located, you could make an inferno without even meaning to. a friend of mine decorated candles with her friends as a girls night in activity and then ended up having to dig out her fire extinguisher bc her LOVELY flower-encrusted column candle became a bonfire on her kitchen table.
candles are fun! do please explore candlemaking!
just also please be careful not to set yourself or your house on fire if possible
also please just. please don't do this.
like you just. you don't need that many wicks. NO ONE needs that many wicks.
"pen surely the addition is just for comedic effect! no one is ACTUALLY making a bonfire candle."
please don't make the housefire candle, guys
beyond me making jokes, there is genuinely math and calculations to be done to determine what size/number of wicks you need for a candle, both for efficacy and safety. here’s a helpful little guide for that.
