my botany professor: cork is harvested from the tree Quercus suber, most commonly in spain and portugal. the cork comes from the thick outer bark the tree produces; harvests are very technical and have to be done by hand, because removing all the bark without harming the tree is very intuition-based and can’t be accomplished via machine. instead, teams of highly skilled workers are tasked with using axes to carefully harvest the bark. it grows back completely in 10-15 years, whereupon the next harvest can take place. the trees can live up to 200 years and can undergo over 10 harvests in their lifetimes 

me, rehearsing in my head: Debit. Debit. Debit. Its debit. Wait, is it? *looks down* yes its debit. Debit.

I think one of the things I really like about Stardew Valley is the way it handles not being straight. A lot of other games with dating elements will have the NPCs be “playersexual” and not really think anything of dating a player of either gender, and while Stardew obviously does this to some extent, it also acknowledges homophobia, compulsory heterosexuality, etc in a really lowkey way depending on the character’s gender. Abigail will tell a female character she never knew she liked girls until she met her, Leah will say “Oh–you too? That’s good to know” if you try to kiss her early on as a female character, and if you marry Alex as a man his grandpa George will say he’s changed his views on gay marriage because of you.