Chronic Lurker

why do americans think everyone on the internet lives in the same place as them. just saw someone say honeybees are "not native". not native to where????? the entire planet?????

saw a photo of garlic mustard somewhere on the internet once and americans in the comments were like "fun fact this plant is invasive so you should definitely tear out any you see, WITH THE ROOTS so it won't spread!" whole fucking time i'm living in garlic mustard native range. i don't think i will be doing that.

This drives me absolutely up the wall in r/birdfeeding. Every time there's a picture of a house sparrow, the entire comments are filled with americans talking about them being invasive and how they should be basically killed on sight. But often OP has not provided a location, and house sparrows have a HUGE native range. Here in the UK they're not only native birds, they're on the decline, they need our help and protection.

Me every time I see a post saying that you should destroy your lawn and cram a bunch of native plants as closely together as you can instead. Look, I'm not saying lawns are native to Australia because they're not, but our native plants evolved to burn; they are dry, their leaves are dry, and they're full of oils. If you plant native plants the way Americans tell you to that's a fucking fire hazard and you are endangering yourself and your neighbours next time we have a Black Summer.

My friend @ryttu3k linked me a great PDF on planting a native Australian garden in such a way as to reduce its status as a fire hazard!

tapping onto this, Ry's guide is for a specific part of NSW. Australia is a very very big place and there is a lot of biodiversity. So don't take one guide as The One True Guide because I used to be a ranger and lemme tell you, trying to stuff native plants in terrains they are unsuited for just creates a mess for everyone. Honestly, just google "native planting <your council> " and they will have a guide that is specific to your area.

"Every rose has its thorns" - wrong. Prickles

make your subtitles accurate to what’s being said or i will kill you!!!!

there are some characters who don't need a love story because it doesn't make sense for their character or their story arc but a love story is just shoved in the story anyway, which is annoying. but there are some characters who really, really don't need a love story because why the fuck would they need a love story. do u know who they're giving a love story. do u know.

OLAF FROM FROZEN.

IN WHAT WORLD DOES OLAF FROM FROZEN NEED A GIRLFRIEND. I CANNOT THINK OF A CHARACTER WHO NEEDS A GIRLFRIEND LESS THAN OLAF FROM FROZEN

oh yea just throwing it out there but. if u are a beginning digital artist PLEASE i am BEGGING you to experiment with different methods of making your drawings because i see so many of yall suffering for no reason using what you’re taught because you don’t know to try a different way. like SO MANY PEOPLE people make jokes about how much worse their lineart looks from their sketch and how much of a pain it is to do lineart… if that’s you, then, don’t do lineart! just clean up your sketch a bit, or keep the bits from the sketch that you like the most and only do a separate layer for the things that really need fixing, or just paint right onto it!! endless possibilities. if u keep having trouble with layers? u don’t need them, just merge them and keep going. better at sketching traditionally than digitally? take a picture of ur sketch and draw on top of it. there is no One Right Way to do anything in art except what’s fun and satisfying for you. be free

My art evolved insanely when a friend helped me realize linart was my Fucking Beloathed and color blocking everything in was way easier + better for how my proportions and shit come out. And yet another friend is the LINE ART KING. No right way to do art just do it fun

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I can no longer feel the infinite sadness

idk who needs to hear this, but nutrition doesn't cancel out based on what else is in there. If you ate an entire cake that had four eggs in it, you still had four eggs, that's protein. Could you have gotten four eggs' worth of protein some other way? Perhaps. Would you have done that, being real? Probably not.

and now he has to actually face the enquiry he was trying to avoid

Growing up near the california redwoods gave me some real fucked up standards for how big a tree should be that I am only now in my 30s beginning to unpack

Not gonna lie Seattle, for a very long time I just assumed the trees here were naturally smaller than elsewhere

*walking up to a Douglas fir* "Aww... it's okay little guy. You hang in there. I just know you'll grow up to be big and strong like a real tree some day!"

FYI Ben is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns. Their tiktok is a delight!

i bet it feels good to be an underwater plant just swaying in sync with the flow of water