why are the most powerful people in the world all such whiny fucking babies now
They always were, but now they have twitter. Also the standards of their dignity have fallen enough that reporters are more candid about what they say to them.
Holly Mop is never eating her normal food for us ever again, is she?
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Oh, she’s never eating for us again.
Also I don’t think I told Tumblr, but Holly Mop stole my niece’s beanbag chair. We have tried her with lots of different dog beds over the years and she’s been ambivalent about most of them. But my niece’s $50 beanbag chair that lives up at the cabin?
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That’s hers now.
My FIL keeps referring to it as Princess Holly’s Throne.
And she cried so much when they tried to leave without it, my MIL brought it home with her for us to keep. The dog stole the wean’s chair and won.
publisher: I’ve been looking into tumblr, have you thought of using Blaze to promote your book?
me: NO
publisher: But it seems like an efficient way to get this in front of more eyes-
me: people on tumblr hate Blaze.
publisher: There is no algorithm and you can’t pay to promote a post? I don’t understand how anyone advertises anything on tumblr.
me: That’s the best part. They don’t. They can’t.
(trying to make him understand that we do not control the attention. We just have to show something shiny and gay enough and if people are interested, they’ll reblog.)
(Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a deconstruction of the colonialist cowboy mythos dressed up as a sapphic romance.)
update with picture of a pet!
This is Cosmos, my publisher’s dog.
He barks at my publisher’s phone notifications. So every time a book is sold, Cosmos barks.
It’s been days.
I think you guys would love to know that when you buy a book, a dog barks in Vancouver, Canada.
Puppy play but the dog partner just puts on a vest with SERVICE ANIMAL printed on the back and sorts their partner’s mail and does their taxes and then goes home
Do the duties change outside of tax season?
Yes they also make scary phone calls and order and put away groceries.
Robot play but the robot partner just makes roomba noises and cleans all the floors in the house while the other partner watches tv
Does the robot also get a service vest?
From what I’ve seen with some roombas, they might have googly eyes
we all hear about kudzu being introduced as “erosion control” in the South but I don’t think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means
these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled “stop gullies: save your farm”
It was Bad.
Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.
For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.
A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don’t know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)
Yes, the destruction of Canebrakes was a direct cause of this erosion we see here. Canebrakes were destroyed, using slave labor, to make room for cotton plantations. You can read about it here.
Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.
The erosion we see in these pictures was a result, very much directly, of the Canebrakes being destroyed.
This is a case study in how violence against ecosystems goes so closely hand in hand with violence against people. The violence against the indigenous caretakers of the land, and the violence against the enslaved captives that were forced to clear the Rivercane and work the cotton fields that would degrade the soil into nothing.
Alexandre Hogue, Crucified Land, 1939
This painting was added in another reblog chain, it’s good to have it on this thread
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