This Idea Was So Fun How Could I Resist!

forgot to post this a bit ago uhhh yoppie flower husbands!

PLEASE REBLOG!!! ^_^

Out of curiosity rb and put in the tags how many fics come up when you type your last name into ao3. Apparently even though my last name is uncommon there's like 500

TODAY'S THE DAY🔪

Chirstopher Eccleston as 9

I miss the world before AI image generation

Secondly, I also miss the world where AI image generation was just incoherent blobs and obvious fakes

Thirdly, I miss when I had a spark in my eye

So. Storytime for guerilla gardeners and solarpunk enthusiasts. This story comes to me 3rd hand but I believe the basic shape of it is true, even if details may be off.

So there’s this guy who lives in my parents’ town. Wanted to have a pocket farm but lives on an urban lot in a small city instead because y’know jobs and stuff. He could definitely get a few raised beds in the backyard but nothing all that impressive and the front yard is on a very busy road with the expectation that it’ll look reasonably traditional (plus planting food by busy roads isn’t always a good idea).

However

After he’s lived there for a while, he realizes his neighbors are all older people who maybe have more challenges taking care of their yards than they used to. So he goes to his next door neighbor and offers a deal: I’ll mow and maintain your front yard for free if you let me knock down the fences between our backyards and plant them both with food. And you’ll get a cut of the produce.

Presumably the neighbor already knew and trusted this guy because he said yes. So he starts mowing and maintaining his and his neighbor’s front yards and planting food in their now-shared backyards. After a season or two this goes well enough that the next neighbor down the street asks if he can be in on this too.

So now there’s 3 front yards to mow and three backyards full of produce. And it keeps going from there. Dude gets a rider lawnmower and does everyone’s front yards, and meanwhile he’s maintaining an entire block’s worth of produce in the back. His yields got so high that he was able to start offering boxes of produce outside of the block’s residents too. This is how I heard of him: my parents’ next door neighbors were picking up a regular box of produce from him.

I love a couple of things about this story:

Offering to maintain people’s front yards for them allows baby boomers to feed their thirst for keeping up appearances while still getting food production into the neighborhood

As homeowners age offering services like this is legitimately good community building

BLOCK-LONG POCKET FARM

These exact circumstances might not be replicable everywhere, but I love thinking about how these principles could be applied.

The best post so glad for it to have graced my dash

Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*

My cat: Father is…evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

Hey I'm in a little bit of an art slump right now so send me asks of things to draw of you want!

I'll do fandoms: Saiki k, PJO, doctor who(up to season twelve 2001 ver), she-ra, helluvaboss, hazbin, gravity falls, wicked, Mario,esmp

Also oc drawings just give me things to draw!!!

(they'll be better then the above drawing that's just a doodle)

intresrting! poor chiyo 4 divorces no luck maybe she learn to be less reliant on romance over time tho it does seem to be part of her soul pour Chiyo will forever be a hopeless romantic :(

a reading that describes chiyos future romances... i would love to know more abt this! r some of these potential futures that may or may not happen? or is this all for 1 future that miko thinks chiyo is down the path for?

some of these seem to describe chiyo in her future romances and others seem to describe her future partners, at least i think so unless chiyo is the abuser freeloader marriage scammer with a gambling addiction. i wonder which r which, is chiyo the 1 who will be divorced 4 times or is 1 of her future potential partners going 2 be some1 whos already divorced 4 times?

has any1 who speaks japanese and has the manga clarified b4 what she means by "chance of success: 2%"? this 2% is what was shown to be shun and chiyos "compatibility", so if these r rlly the exact words she means then is that what "compatibility" rlly is?

Trying to hold cat girl back as she randomly decides she MUST bite that man over there

furry species ranked by how difficult it'd be to take them anywhere

Canada does too!

do other countries have a groundhog day? do you all gather on February second and watch with bated breathe as a groundhog emerges from its hole? do you forecast the next six weeks of weather based on if the groundhog is frightened by its own shadow and returns to the hole?