never totally understood the preoccupation with swords as exclusively phallic symbolism to be honest. this is clearly scissoring.

The Discord reacts to Stede getting his shirt ripped up during an episode 2 watchalong

We celebrate David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Prince for their gender-nonconforming amazingness as we should, but let us not forget

Annie Lennox

Grace Jones

Sinead O‘Connor

Dolores O‘Riordan

Patti Smith

Tracy Chapman

Please add if you like, i do not own the photos

Big Mama Thornton (photo credit unknown)

Joan Jett (photo credited to Brad Elterman)

Pauline Black (photo credited to Ebet Roberts)

Meshell Ndegeocello (photo credited to Raymond Boyd)

Tanita Tikaram (photo credited to Bernard Weil)

Gladys Bentley (early 1930s, photo credited to Sterling Paige)

Jackie Shane (1967, photo credited to Jeff Goode)

Nina Hagen (1983)

Phranc (1985, photo credited to Frank Gargani)

k.d. lang (1993, photo credited to Richard Young)

Lil Nas X should not be allowed to be this funny

Reblog if you've found friendship because of your fandoms.

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American Crow on the fence by my house

Grant Gustin in A Mother’s Nightmare

A cartoon from 1914 that could have been written today

Wild strawberries are a Dionysian orgy of sweet flavorful delight compared with the insipid, hellish store bought strawberries.

Most of my wild strawberry plants' flowers failed to pollinate for some strange reason (I guess there's not very many strawberry plants in the surrounding area?) but the few strawberries I did get tasted like a strawberry starburst but tangier and better

@ace-of-bass Ah...you probably have encountered the plant known as Mock Strawberry

You can tell it because the flowers are yellow and the berries point upwards, whereas with "real" strawberries the berries grow downwards and the flowers are white

Contrary to common belief, the mock strawberries are not poisonous, they just taste like water.

Hey I didn't know this! Thanks for making me one of today's lucky 10,000. :) I will now have to find some actual wild strawberries.

They like wet lowland areas that are sort of rocky and partly shady, and tolerate trampling and being run over but not mowing. I found some 1) in my Mamaw's driveway next to a drainage ditch, 2) on the side of the road near a creek, 3) on the border of a gravelly area that used to be a gravel parking lot located in a floodplain, and 4) in a floodplain field with compacted soil in a place where the deer go to lay down for the night.

birds and rabbits love them, they overwinter well, so you can track how the yard is doing by their greening leaves, and they’re low enough to be a groundcover alternative to your lawn while increasing biodiversity

my yard is 1/5th wild strawberry, not planted just wild, my parents sucked at lawn care but hey it fostered an interest in nature in the kiddos, the area “used to be” wetland and other loamy soil wetland plants do well here, so if you see them growing wild they can be an indicator species of what ecotypes to prioritize

to propagate wait for the fruits to get overripe and the seeds to darken, this’ll be late summer, the seeds are on the outside of the fruit, crush the fruit and put in a ziplock bag to overwinter, then scatter after frost has passed, over hardpacked soil, a good berry can have 15-25 seeds,

only downside is if you have an early shift you will be jumpscared by Peter Cottontail and could spill your coffee

Seconding the idea of a wild strawberry “lawn” because ours has been casually creeping up on and overthrowing the grass for years and are now sitting comfortably at 30%

(They’re only the very tiny ones, the biggest berries are about the size of my pinky nail but they are sweet and delicious and wonderful)

Ours are also “pollinated” by the dogs, who love to throw themselves vigorously onto a patch and roll around, during flowering and then later in the summer to make jam

They have been instrumental in the takeover of the strawberry “lawn”

Our tiny little wild berries do extremely well in sandy soil, full sun, shade, and everything in between, they like it wet but haven’t been even mildly deterred by our heatwaves or heavy winters

They’re actually out growing the mint

Oh, and you can finger-pollinate them and also the regular larger berry plants you get at the store. I know this cuz I got my mom one for Mother’s Day once and kept it alive and producing berries for 5 years as an indoor plant

(However, if you’ve never had a bullshit-enormous Japanese strawberry you simply have not lived

Fist sized or bust)

Yeah it's such a strange thing about strawberries, they seem to love to be laid on and trampled by animals.

I bet that explains why they are overall SO rare and hard to find in the USA relative to how they used to be (when colonizers first came...there were strawberries EVERYWHERE, it was one of the dominant plants they mentioned.) There is such a big strawberry patch in the place where the deer like to lay down ...and in other areas where they've been trampled and such...

Makes me think of today's post about the bison wallowing and how bison create special habitats in the spot they like to roll around...

Please note that the "full sun" recommendation varies depending on how strong your sun is!! I'm in Australia and full sun here kills the strawberries in my yard; my strawberries thrive on dappled sun, or in any of the spots that get the morning and afternoon sun, but not the late afternoon sun.

Also seconding marching lawn strawberries -- lawns dotted with self-planted strawberries are GREAT and I recommend them

I wanted to share my video here as well, thank you for all the love and kind comments I’ve received so far ~ by katharinawallen

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This warms my heart ...

As two guys who have undergone torture themselves... "Subversion"

Bonus:

love your local tree (by conwest_john)