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You guys!!! I finished my Christmas fic!!!!! With time to spare, even! I’m so pleased, hahaha! It...

You guys!!! I finished my Christmas fic!!!!! With time to spare, even! I’m so pleased, hahaha! It needs edits and whatnot, but even most of that is done! I predict a Wednesday or Thursday posting! Wheeee! It’s currently sitting a little over 17,900 words! :D :D :D :D :D

livingabovetherest:queenofthesaiyans:Literally meThey...

livingabovetherest:

queenofthesaiyans:

Literally me

They nailed it.

Lol. Apart from having things like a job and suchlike, but the rest of it is

skold:yr locked in a room alone with three adult men but you feel perfectly safe. who are they...

skold:

yr locked in a room alone with three adult men but you feel perfectly safe. who are they

Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, and Chris Evans. That took me about 2 seconds to come up with and I’ll stand by it.

When you’re scrolling tinder and see a profile so horrifying that you automatically nope the next...

When you’re scrolling tinder and see a profile so horrifying that you automatically nope the next five in a row on the sheer strength of your reaction

johnlockismyreligion:This is one of the best thing my eyes had...

johnlockismyreligion:

This is one of the best thing my eyes had ever seen.

The canon we and they deserved

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leh-sarah:

clownfactories:

clownfactories:

i need a himbo

i’m holding out for a himbo til the end of the night

He’s gotta be strong. And he’s gotta be fast. And he’s gotta be dumb and polite

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bethanythemartian:

systlin:

gallusrostromegalus:

systlin:

bad-wolf-moment:

systlin:

sidhe-of-the-sonoran:

systlin:

charlesonmambo:

systlin:

In regards to the expensive nature of saffron…

‘stares into distance, takes a long drag off of what is, if you look closely, in fact a candy cigarette’

what if I told you…that saffron…is actually not that hard to grow at home for your own use. 

Oh look a place you can buy the bulbs. 

If you live in a climate colder than zone 6…as I do…plant them in containers and move the containers into a basement or garage during the winter. 

They bloom in fall, and are quite lovely. And also you get saffron. 

Can Saffron handle Zone 13?

They grow it in the deserts of the Middle East (with a bit of irrigation.) It can handle the worst heat you can throw at it. 

What it does NOT like is wet feet all the time. If the soil is soaking wet too often, it will rot. So if you live somewhere with a lot of rainfall, I’d try raised beds or pots that can be protected from excess rain. 

So my Arizonan (Phonecian to be precise) ass should be perfectly fine, then?

Not only fine it would probably love the shit out of your area, so long as you threw it some water now and then. 

Seriously, here’s a saffron farm in the desert of Afghanistan, and the saffron is happy as shit there. 

What’s zone 6?

Growing zones are a measure of how cold it gets in a given area in winter, which is a limiting factor in where many things will grow. 

Zone 6 means that the minimum expected temperature will not get below -10F. 

Here is a gardening zone map of the USA. 

I’m in zone 5, supposedly, right on the tip of Iowa’s nose where it bumps out into Illinois, but more realistically given our not-uncommon cold snaps here we’re about a zone 4. 

So if you live in any of the light green through pink-orange areas, saffron will grow just fine for you on its own in your regular old dirt. It will grow in hotter zones as well, but the continental US only goes up to zone 10 and so most US based companies will advertise plants as ‘being suited for zones 5 through 10′ even if a plant can take hotter temps. 

First of all, it’s always a delight to see you encouraging agricultural anarchy on my dash.  Please continue.

Second: I can’t speak to most of the US but if you’re on the CO front range and put Saffron in the ground, you’re going to have Saffron forever.  It’s literally coming up out of my parent’s lawn and has completely overrun a neighbor’s garden.  This is the opposite of a problem.

Third: Bees love it.  Honeybees, bumblebees, little bees and big bees.  Late-season butterflies and moths love it too.  support your local pollinators.

Fourth: It’s worth growing for the sheer, visceral delight of giving your friends that cook a lump of homegrown saffron for free and telling them you grew it yourself and watching them go >:O as they are both tremenously impressed with your ability to do plant magic and enraged by the bullshittery that is the modern agricultural market.

Agricultural Anarchy is a hell of a line, exactly what I stand for, and I may have to make t shirts with that on them. 

…well. I guess I’ve got some yard work to do here pretty soon.

I love this post, apart from the completely americentric map that seems to think that the continent ends above North Dakota there… here’s my question: what about inside? Could a person grow saffron in a pot, indoors?

A Sad Story

So, I have a winter jacket. It’s my medium-winter jacket. I also have a full-blown parka, and a windbreaker, and that’s my entire collection of outerwear. I’m poor, what can I say. Anyway, my medium-winter coat - which was a cheap, poorly-made, probably-stitched-by-a-child, Walmart jacket (because again, poor) developed a hole in the left pocket which my glove and phone kept falling into. So I stiched it up. I have no great sewing prowess, but I can stitch up a hole. I have exactly one colour of thread, black, but all my clothes are black, so it all works out. Anyway: I fixed the hole. 

Not two days later, in my One Permitted Leaving Of The Apartment, aka my daily walk, the damned hole opened itself up again. Today I was in a session of all day meetings with the full staff, so, knowing that I would be bored and fidgety, I got my black thread and my one needle and my jacket and went to town on repairing the hole again, but way more thoroughly this time. I sewed the hole closed, then I went back and reinforced the entire thing, and then I did a third layer of stiches, nice and tight. 

Skip to the end of the day. The meetings ended, and I, now stir-crazy and very excited to go outside for any reason at all, even on a cold, grey, icy-but-no-snow kind of day, went for a walk. I put on my boots and my medium jacket, made sure I had my phone and my keys, and found the right glove in the right pocket where I had left it… but there was no left glove in the left pocket. 

And then I had a terrible thought. 

Sure enough, I patted around down near the bottom hemline of the coat. 

YOU GUYS. I sewed my damned glove into the interior of my coat. I hadn’t realized that had fallen inside again, and it was down there the entire time. And then triple-stitched the hole of the pocket shut.

rho-nin:Every time I see Sir Ian McKellen, in any form, I become a Hobbit child sprinting after his...

rho-nin:

Every time I see Sir Ian McKellen, in any form, I become a Hobbit child sprinting after his firework-filled cart shouting “GANDALF” with desperate joy and jockeying for a bear hug.

… was not aware that there was another possible reaction to seeing Sir Ian…

thecutestlittlebunbunfairy:Merry Christmas y'all

thecutestlittlebunbunfairy:

Merry Christmas y'all