Propaganda

Dr. Pete Moss (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY...):

Former college botany professor, disgraced and disbarred after taking the fall for illegal and unethical bio-engineering experiments (plant monsters) that went awry. With no other employment prospects, was roped into the space bounty hunting gig by Emmy Acero, a former student who had also fallen on hard times

Not the step dad, the dad that stepped down from his prestigious position at a scientific institution by order of the board of ethics

Used to look like Magnum P.I. in his younger days, now in his 60s but still 6'2" and built like a former linebacker. You have to carry a lot of bags of dirt around in his line of work

Anyway here's Pete in his very first appearance getting way too into the idea of tree transmogrification

The Bone God AKA It Who Persists (Hope's Hearth):

The Bone God is a dead god whose bones were brought to a foreign planet by a dog that's a moon. The Bone God has anxiety. The Bone God ate its own sibling to save its entire world. The Bone God uses it/its pronouns, the sexiest pronouns. The Bone God is huge and bestial and terrifying. The Bone God is soft and nervous and kind. The Bone God is dating a guy who's basically Trans Steve Irwin and pulled him with its autism rizz. The Bone God is just a little guy, if a little guy could climb on the ceiling and had a halo of fire. The Bone God is learning what it means to be a god in a modern world when its old obligations are no longer who it is.

Verge (Midnight Burger):

COME ON IT'S VERGE

Verge is *supposed* to be sexy and their actor pulls it off in spades. They are a survivor of a planetwide destruction and are hunted by everyone at all times. I feel a little bad for advocating for them as being the sexiest, as they use their charm and sex appeal as a survival tactic, but that doesn't make them any less hot. Plus they're really cute and still effortlessly sexy when they feel safe enough to let their guard down.

Art of Dr. Pete Moss and The Bone God courtesy of @lotsadeer.

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Ox-eye daisies, ribwort plantain, red clover, and cowslips (gone to seed) in a road verge

Plant of the Day

Friday 26 September 2025

This was a great roadside display of Hesperantha coccinea 'Major'. This vigorous cultivar has larger crimson-scarlet flowers.