forneverold

It's not punk to poison the soil, dude.

I see lichens painted over so often and it breaks my heart. They can't photosynthesize under there, y'all! Please check for lichens/rock crusts before you graffiti!

This poster describes animals like Pliny the Elder and honestly I'm here for it.

Unironically love this

a jstor article is like a beautiful wild horse and a control+f search is like using a sugar cube and a calming voice to tame it

Ekphrasis

I love leafing through my old diaries like “what was I up to on this day X years ago?” and stumbling upon important childhood nonsense I would never have remembered otherwise. In July of 2001 my cousin & I found a nahuatl dictionary at our abuela’s house and naturally started looking for insults, but it was hard to find them since the dictionary was nahuatl -> spanish, so we ended up elevating random entries (like ‘flat blade’, or ‘owner of [thing]’) to the rank of insults. Other children (cousins + temporary summer friends) were annoyed by our private joke at first, we’d be like “spoken like a thing-owner 🙄” or don’t be such a flat blade / I don’t talk to iguanas, etc, but then our insults became this cool in-group thing. Vanilla pod was somewhat friendly; at the other end of the slander spectrum was owner of something / dueño de algo, for some reason this one was a one-hit KO. It took like 2 days for a whole new slang to appear in this one Mexican town in the summer of 2001 and then it disappeared without a trace (save for my earnest diary entries) at the end of summer when this little linguistic community scattered