In The Future, Children Will Think Our Ways Are Strange. "Why Do Old People Always Grow So Much Milkweed

In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

i call this one “nobody likes you when youre 23”

I’m done. I fucking did it. I spent like 30-40 hours making a video essay and it was terrible and also something im prouder of than anything i did in gad school. Holy shit that took forever

If you are interested in

Spire: The City Must Fall, by Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor

Babel: An Arcane History, by RF Kuang

Portrayals of imperialism in fiction

Textual analysis of tabletop games and the implications of their settings

The futility of moderate resistance to liberal governments

Mushrooms

please check out this video, oh my god i worked so hard on it and i think its pretty good, and i know im not the only person in ttrpgs doing cool projects but i do think this essay is special!!!

Transcript here if you just wanna read it

There's a user called Erika Horn (@erikahorn.art) on tiktok who made a "duet me" challenge so technically impressive that all of the duets are exactly like this LMAO

I ordered a sample and these were my first comments to @laurelwen:

"I smell like Skynet's pussy. I smell like an alien abduction operating room."

"It's uncomforting. It's alien."

"It's the foreplay at a latex play party before the thunderstorm rolls in."

"It's the traces of blood lingering in a top flight Arasaka ripperdoc's office. The promise of metal and straps and transformation."

In short: Marc-Antoine Barrois's Ganymede gets my highest possible recommendation. I can't remember the last time I was head over heels for a scent like this.

completely enamoured with this thread

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