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So, gentle reminder/warning for beginner gardeners that rosemary, where perennial, will easily get 4 feet tall and wide with time. In fact, several of the plants pictured above want much, much more room than they've been alotted.

I beg of thee, as a life long gardener and landscaper, to consider the mature size of your perennials when you're making your garden plan. I love your enthusiasm and excitement, and I just don't want you to get disappointed by the results of a planting perennials this close together.

As an alternative to planting rosemary, sage, and lavender six inches apart thus leading them to a bitter fight for light and space, consider planting them far enough away that they can reach their mature size, and then plant annuals in between until they fill the space. Or, plant a low growing ground cover like creeping thyme or brass buttons or sedums. Or just plan to move the perennials when the time comes, but that's my least favored option.

You CAN build and grow a wonderful herb garden that will bring you joy, it's a fantastic idea, just, please, give the plants some space.

A mouth-watering fuck-ton of hand angle references.

But since D&D has become, by far, the most influential and popular expression of fantasy in current times (perhaps not literature, but most fantasy people interact in videogames, etc. is directly influenced by it), the register and tone it uses (classifying everything in game terms and in a 'scientific' way) has become widespread, which means that some of the magic of fantasy, including supernatural things that cannot be defined in gaming or 'scientific' terms, falls through the cracks.

* Something something square cube law, I'm not a scientist and I'm just going stream-of-consciousness here, sorry.

In most cases, the Spark organelle just smooths things over a little bit, providing the scientific justification for anything that might have to be explained as "well it's just magic i guess" or "maybe a wizard did it".** Species that evolve a way to magnify the Spark are liable to develop other implausible abilities over time in order to leverage the excess of divine energy they now have available to them. It is possible that they will then develop more effective ways to magnify the Spark in order to fuel those abilities, in a kind of positive feedback loop that, on long evolutionary timescales, bootstraps them from "animal" to "animal with some weird tricks" to "creature of magic" to "semi-divine being" to "actual god".*** This is why dragons can not only be implausibly large flying lizards, but also breathe fire, develop advanced intellects, &c. &c.

** This is how, e.g., something as heavy & non-aerodynamic as a pegasus can fly, or a twenty-foot-tall giant can walk bipedally, or unlikely hybrids like manticores can come into being.

*** There may be a point in this process where the organism in question has the power & intellect to start steering or accelerating their gradual apotheosis -- either on an individual or species-wide basis -- or there may not be. It is possible to reach full godhood without actually developing sapience or an understanding of what godhood is.****

**** Put this in your D&D setting to allow a Cleric of Giant Slug. Giant Slug has no commandments or doctrine; it's just a species of really big slugs. One worships them by attuning one's own Spark to theirs, which mostly involves studying them, interacting with them, & engaging in Slug Behaviors when practicable. Giant Slug does grant spells, but as, like, a reflex -- the slugs have no understanding of what they're doing, but autonomic processes leverage divine energy to benefit Giant Slug, & due to the nature of divinity this includes the empowering of worshippers.

Everyone is always saying that they are scared of sharks and don’t want to help them.

But, this is a serious issue.

Sharks aren’t he only ones who are affected by the actions of hunting and shark finning, but the entire ecosystem.

So everyone, PLEASE REBLOG!

I keep dreaming for the sharks…