Tobi

counting … horses?

guessing etho’s age 🤔

tango etho mean girls tag team scar

So I tore through both The House in the Cerulean Sea and Somewhere Beyond the Sea and when I got to this line in SBtS this was all I could think of.

i think most people have a vague sense that a shamrock is a clover. this is also the most common traditional identification. however, most images of shamrocks are actually of wood sorrel. there is some debate about whether the clover or wood sorrel is the Real Original shamrock, but the point remains that people generally treat them as the same thing.

"this is a minor mistake," you may think. "they are both small and have three leaves. they must be closely related." they are not. they are not only in different genuses, not only in different families, but in different orders. their nearest shared clade is the fabids, which isn't saying much as that clade contains over 50,000 species. clover and wood sorrel are as related to each other as they are to oak trees, pitcher plants, kudzu, pumpkins, peanuts, blackberries, and poinsettia.

also, fun fact, wood sorrels are edible and delicious with a lemony flavor (disclaimer: do not eat if you have kidney problems. always make sure you can 100% identify a plant before you eat it) while clover is not edible and tastes like grass. trust me if you are snacking on them you learn the difference real fast.

in this google image search for "shamrock," the red squares are all wood sorrel, and the single yellow square is an actual clover.

so below, for all your know-it-all needs, is a crash course in recognizing wood sorrel:

*twirling hair around a finger* so there's this book--

under the whispering door by tj klune

I really wanna send them as reaction images 🐌👍🏼

Here's my current collection so far but it's very sad

ccwau Lizzies vamp outfits are so much fun. I love her aaaaaaahhh. Bampires needed a bit of a redo even tho it was just a month.