artists who draw botanical and lichenological illustrations are stronger than any us marine
#this is specifically about lichens and mosses but applies to all plants honestly
Informal Ranked Difficulty of Botanical* Illustration subjects:
Entry Level: Fruits and vegetables you can regularly buy at the grocery store, plants that are typical of thier type, A Single Bloom And Two Leaves ™,
Intermediate: Uncommon and complex fruits and vegetables, Orchids that you weren’t gonna show to anyone who actually knows about orchids, plants typical of an uncommon type, Basic seed-to-furiting life cycle of common crops.
Hard Mode: The Whole Plant And Notable Features ™, Anything that involves miscroscopy, diseased or dead specimens, reconstructing from the paper’s notes and the one really sad dead specimen they sent along, Mushrooms.
Masterclass: Whole-ass Tree, Orchids you show actual Orchid People, In-depth analysis of common grocery store crops, Carnivorous Plants, flowers that are really sixty bajillion teeny flowers at once, grasses.
Actual Witchcraft: LICHENS, nonvascular plants, fungi that are not mushrooms, multi-species interactions, plants that are actually illegal, POLLEN, extinct plants.
DEALS WERE MADE WITH UNHOLY POWERS OF DARKNESS IN ORDER TO RENDER THESE RIGHT: Seaweeds and Algae.
*Fungi lived right there too so they’re invited to the party.
vriska serket is homestuck’s kismesis. just… the entire institution of homestuck and its fandom.
this post was made in 2015 and now radiates overwhelming power
I want to hear the Alternian version of Love Shack where it’s a
22-minute epic describing the vast and horrendously complicated Quadrant
Mansion
one undertale fact that’s stuck with me through the years is the knowledge that the Papyrus date originally had a way harsher ending and Toby had to tone it down because one of the testers cried as a result of Papyrus rejecting them
what the hell did Papyrus say that caused that to happen
you know the thing where nt people are like “autistic children are bad at Play because they just take toys and line them up :/” those fuckers. don’t understand. how satisfying and fun it is to put things in an order and then behold them