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@napoleonbrolo sent me this and it changed my life
2018 MOOD
flirt…?
A coord with my Strahov Library JSK. I will still post on tumblr, but I’ve mostly moved to instagram. If you want to follow me there my account name is @filosophilia
But how old is he now? :thnkung:
>2018 starts with a full moon
>2018 is year of the dog
i’m onto you werewolves
How can something so awful contain something so good and pure!?!!?!
@dominotheninjakitty This might be relevant to you.
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!
WHAT THE FUCK IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE WHY DID SOMEONE REBLOG THIS
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!
when you’re in your twenties and start to realise how young the protagonists of the novels you read are:
8/3 Today we picked the white apples. They have skins the color of old yellowed bones, and translucent flesh so that when you slice them open you can see the seeds through the flesh. Bone-and-glass apples, parchment apples, ghost apples.
They bruise easily, a purplish brown rather too similar to a bruise on human skin. If you pick one up, there’s a good chance the shapes of your fingertips will be marked on it the next day. I want to try writing words on them by pressing on them with a pencil eraser sometime.
They smell very faintly of perfume, maybe roses. They do not smell like apples. Apple maggots never infest them (probably because their growing time is too short to support the apple maggot fly life cycle. It’ll be another month or two before the rest of our apples are ripe).
They’re lovely. They are also disgusting. Mealy and soft, with no flavor whatsoever. They’re not sweet. They’re not even sour. It’s like a mouth full of wet cotton ball. I’m pretty sure I spit it out the first time I tried one.
I hope you all understand how weird this is: even the goats are reluctant to eat them. They’ll eat an apple or two, but then they lose interest (except in keeping the sheep from eating any, of course).
I have no idea why a previous resident planted the ghost-apple tree. If they have any flavor at all, only the restless dead can taste it.
I have to say, I’ve seen, researched, and planted a lot of apples in my time, but I have never seen anything like this.
My best guess is that your tree is a chance seedling with a genetic mutation, given that it is both leucistic/albinoid and early-ripening. I’d hazard a guess it’s also polyploid.
lazyevaluationranch: If you’re able to save some scion wood next Autumn, I’d be very interested in grafting a branch or two of this to one of my trees: not for the utility of it, so much as for the novelty and breeding possibilities.
A little added info: It could be a variety of Potter County White Transparent. From the heritage apple site:
White Transparent, Ghost or Spirit Apple, or Apples of Saint Peter. The Russian Petrovka group are all thin-skinned pale apples that ripen near the feast of Saint Peter, and are offered to Widows and orphans (first fruits) or to the graves of the recent dead of the winter, representing God’s Mercy after trial. Apple associated with Baba Yaga, and with foretelling the past or the future. This Transparent is from Coudersport, Pennsylvania, likely brought as seed with Russian immigrants.
Y’all I reblogged this yesterday and this morning I woke up from a dream about these apples.
I’d been coming out of the woods and saw oblong shapes with two dark spots on the ground, partially obscured by mist. I picked one up and recognized it as a ghost apple from this post, but the spots made it look like a skull. I held it and moved on to another, and another, and another, filling my arms.
A bearded man with a basket of apples walked past me and said “night snacks - don’t eat those. They leave them under the trees at night.” So I carefully put the apples back on the ground and noped the fuck out of the misty apple patch because “night snacks” is maybe the most gross ominous-sounding thing I’ve ever dreamed.
what a rad day to acknowledge how cool aces and aros are
I never want any context for this ever
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO
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you’re nothing less than beautiful.
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