your tan france name is your favourite colour followed by a place you wanna visit, for example mine is grey jordan
this is the only post i’ve ever made that i’m glad got popular because every comment and tag on it is entertaining to read. and the stupid comments aren’t even like frustrating or hurtful, they’re just even more entertaining. im begging the person who wrote “Frog Fuiji” to tell me what the fuck they think a colour is and also where to find fuiji on a map
me: i have, yes. while i cant deny that it was certainly good for me to exercise at a point where its hard for me to make myself do anything at all, it didnt make me happy and usually just left me with less energy
neurotypical: have you tried to just be happy?
me: yeah. i went weeks pretending i was happy to convince myself and those around me that i was feeling better, but this made me feel miserable and vulnerable because the seeds of my depression lie in several different areas of stress which, while pretending to be happy, were not resolved.
neurotypical: i see. im sorry i couldnt help.
me: it’s ok, depression is a complex topic and the steps it takes to fight it can vary wildly depending on the person. its next to impossible to get the magic cure for it in a single conversation. i appreciate you taking the time to share some things that have helped you in the past in hopes that i might be able to use the information too. regardless of its direct usefulness for me specifically, i thank you for your time and for caring.
Wow this is so wholesome and not at all how I expected it to go
Same. A lot of people aren’t informed on depression so it’s not fair to get angry with them when they are just trying to help. I know it gets tiring to hear the same things over and over but still
Mr Incredible helped his clients find loopholes in their insurance claims because it was the closest thing he had to being a hero in a long time
*third eye opens* Mr. Incredible originally joined the insurance company thinking that it was the closest he could be to helping people and found out that insurance companies were the real villains and did everything he could to dismantle the opressive establishment.
Interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Me: I used escapist fantasies as a coping mechanism to get through years of trauma and therefore never learned how to plan for a real life future
Alternatively: I went through periods of depression so frequent and intense that I never considered that I’d actually make it to my 20s so now I’m kinda just making it up as I go
actually, that’s an effect called fasciation, and it’s relatively common in the world of plant mutations! it’s characterized by the accidental fusing together of tissues on the stem/organ in question, which can lead to the weird funky/siamese twin flowers you see in the post. more specifically, it happens when the hormones in a plant’s growing tip (the apical meristem, for those plant physiology nerds out there) get messed up for whatever reason and the plant gets confused on what to separate, which results in a ‘crested’ flattened/fused organ. for example in certain plant illnesses it’s directly caused by a bacterial infection; the hormones secreted by the bacteria living in the growing tip mess up the plant’s chemical signaling and cause the fusing effect. it can also happen through all sorts of stuff, including viral, chemical, fungal, and genetic causes.
i’ve seen three plants in my life like that: two were dandelions living by the side of a parking lot at my high school, and one was a branch of a bush that my plant pathology professor brought in to show us. it was on a plant in his backyard, and it had become infected with a bacterial infection that’s known for causing it. he was pretty excited lmao
fasciation happens like…in a SHITLOAD of plants, as long as they’re vascular (meaning not mosses, basically), which makes sense, because the mutation needs a solid stem structure to happen. here’s a fasciated palm!
and a fasciated rose! (no flowers on this one, although i think its really interesting that the plant still managed to make some thorns, if a bit tumultuously):
and of course, gotta have a saguaro cactus! apparently this one lives happily in a botanical park in phoenix, arizona. good for her, out living her best life. shown here next to a normal cactus of the same species.
EXTRA fun fact, you may have seen THIS bad boy at ur local greenhouse, called Celosia argentea var. cristata, or ‘cockscomb celosia’ for short:
well guess what it is??? a fasciated version of Celosia argentea grown commercially specifically for its rad ass appearance!! the normal, unmutated plant looks like this:
seeing the two side by side makes it really easy to see how the plant could have messed them up just by failing to separate the flower stems right.
side note: these are not to be confused with the other variety of this plant, Celosia argentea var. plumosa, which is also popular in north american greenhouses for their funky little floofs (this pic shows a few different available colors, some of which the fasciated version are also grown in):
so in short…. those pics are real. plants just be fucked up like that.
Yay fasciation! Here are my weird fasciated rudbeckia hirta. Someone in a gardening group told me that rudbeckia hirta will fasciate if you so much as look at them wrong, so I was relieved that it wasn’t something to worry about.
There are people who like a game and there are people who love a game so much they get emotional just thinking about it and they never stop talking about it, their favourite characters and their experience and they bother everyone with their shit and I am one of them
Time's Vengeance 