#really fascinating

I wasn't trying to see you, I just wanted to call, to hear your voice, to tell you what I think, without thinking about if I sound funny or naïve... I wanted things to be real, you know, where you can... well, die, in order to do something big, transcend fate. I'm fed up with this empty talk where words don't mean anything.

.. do you think this might've been part of why they made the no girls rule (that they'd end up breaking anyway??)?

𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒉, 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅.

This is like the sweetest ask, I swear.

I do not have a soil science background, but yeah, I have a soil science interest. Tbh just in general, in ecosystems, biomes, and once you’re interested in biomes, you kind of become interested in the minutiae of biomes (or I do), like substrates.

I started to find all of that interesting as a kid, but I started researching the science of it as a result of bushwalking. I live in Western Australia, on the Darling Scarp, and where I live most of the ‘soil’ here is actually nutrient poor, fossilised white sand-dunes (which is why most of my bushwalking photos show bushland growing on white sand that you could easily imagine was very close to the ocean, when it’s an hour’s drive away).

But also I just...like...naturey science stuff. Just like a recent character in Falling Falling Stars really resonates with books on nonfiction, so do I, it’s something he and I very much share in common (in fact I own that hot pink / blue jellyfish myself, lol). And while I read armchair science, I also sometimes read academic texts or government texts (like say, textbooks for farmers on what all the different kind of substrates on their farm are in Western Australia, and how to deal with them and when to leave them alone, lol).