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Love Is A Mystery

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Sherlock. it's all about Sherlock. it's always about Sherlock. || okay and Benedict's hair. and eyes. and hands. okay, it's about Benedict too. || ship and let ship. || guess I’ll be screaming about Star Wars a lot too || I don't even know what I am doing here. you tell me. || a random mess it is. just deal with it. ||
An - too old for this shit - Vienna, Austria
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why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh

You’ve never heard of The Bog?

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the what

EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD

This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.

thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,

oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.

His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs. 

This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.

Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.

So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”

“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”

happy international workers day to the cranberry bog spiders

I want any cranberry farmers reading this to know, really truly know, that “are you cool with spiders” is not a specific enough question for this situation.

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If y'all liked the unidentifiable yellow glitter goo you'll love the time I made wine out of marshmallow Peeps

...how???

Well you see. The ingredience for wine are:

-yeast

-sugar

-time

And it turns out the yeast aren't really that picky about what kind of sugar you give them, as long as there's enough of it

Peepswine moodboard

It ended up tasting kinda like a very mild, sweet white wine, with a faint but unmistakable aftertaste of marshmallow

The 100% true and honest answer is someone said the phrase "fermented peeps" around me at exactly the right time and I went "ohhh that's a sin I simply must commit"

This has hit a big subreddit, I'm told, so hi! If you came here looking for the peepswine post, here it is

The...the peep eyeballs floating on the top...

#excuse me!

#that WAS entirely the wrong question #the correct question #a very very important question #seriously #is WHY TF NOT?!? #also to which the answer is: #BECAUSE THEY CAN!

#now where do i get those marshmallow peeps here in antediluvian austria?!? *sigh*

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stlamb

i'm seeing a lot of new ppl join tumblr who aren't making any spontaneous semi pathetic, oversharing personal textposts whatsoever and i just want to say you're doing it all wrong... this is not like instagram like meant to be some shiny highlight reel used to make u look good its supposed to be an incriminatingly revealing dark intimate look into your life & inner psyche while simultaneously no one knows who u are or gives a fuck... anyway hope this helps some of u get on the right track

We are cringe here sir

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The Skull - (2023)

Today, I bought an app called Rebelle 6. It emulates in a beautiful way oils and watercolors. This is not going to help me get through my "fine fabrics, embroideries and 19th century painting" phase but still, I love it. 😁 Here is my first work using this app.

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finalproblem

It's Sherlock Holmes’ Surprise Birthday Party Mega-Watchalong! 🥳🎂🎈

Fans of the Great Detective's have long celebrated his birthday on January 6th, and BBC Sherlock made the date unofficially-official for their version. (When they, uh, carved it on his gravestone.)

In honor of this momentous-ish occasion, let's spend the weekend watching our way through all of the Sherlock episodes. Three times!

BEGINS: Friday, January 5 at 1:00 a.m. UTC (London time) / Thursday, January 4 at 8:00 p.m. US Eastern (New York time)

ENDS: Monday, January 8 at 6:30 a.m. UTC / 1:30 a.m. US Eastern

Instructions for taking part (it’s easy!), a detailed schedule, and time zone conversion links are at finalproblem.tumblr.com/megawatchalong.

wahooo i‘ll try and might pop in there. it‘s been ages that i actually did a watchalong. and I miss The Giant Chat of Sumatra, it‘s great. 😊

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