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How do you preserve the food from your garden so it doesn't go bad before you can eat it?

  • You are wildly underestimating my ability to go fucking feral about fresh produce. I don’t think I even brought snap peas into the house last year. Just ate them right off the vine.

    Though I did end up freezing the strawberries/blue berries as they ripened, but even those were consumed within the week.

    The only tough one was the potatoes, but that was resolved by just foisting potatoes on everyone I knew. Much more welcome than Zucchinis.

  • Oh this is why every gardening person I know keeps trying to give me the food they grow

  • That, and we love you. Homegrown produce is a love language.

    Unless it's zucchini. Then it's a cry for help.

  • Tomato (June) - I think highly of you; treasured friend

    Tomato (September) - you are a warm body that is nearby

    Fresh new asparagus - romantic love

    Artichoke - fondness

    New rhubarb with leaves removed - flirtatious potential

    Rhubarb with leaves left on - the bloom is gone

    Swiss chard - I have made mistakes

    Perpetual spinach - declaration of animosity between our houses

    White-fleshed potato - you are a neighbor

    Blue or red fleshed potato - as above, but with overtones of camaraderie/affection

    Kale - you are a person who was nearby when I had kale

    Raspberries - you are a person I admire

    Strawberries - you are a treasure

    Onion - I am confused

    Young French beans or young peas - I thought of you especially

    Runner beans - mild criticism; familial ties; gift from parent to child

    Pumpkins - overt romantic, sexual or childhood-bestie interest; highest declaration of loyalty

    Prettily coloured popping corn, I.e. glass gem - let this seal the breach between our houses

    Zucchini/courgette - cry for help, resignation

    Novelty pumpkins - marriage proposal

  • (chortle)

  • Me: huh. Why is this getting a rash of notes all of a sudden?

    *discovers paper bag full of zucchini on doorstep*

    Me: Ah. That time of year again.

  • asked

    hey neil!!

    the historical flashbacks are some of my favorite scenes in season 1 and season 2 of good omens, so i was wondering if there were any time periods you’d really like to portray aziraphale and crowley in that you haven’t already???

  • Quite a few. Ones that we had planned as possible for Season 2 (that either didn’t get written or didn’t get filmed) included a Wild West one, a 15th century Papal one, an Arabian Nights one, and a 1960s American one with Crowley and Aziraphale female presenting. And we have the whole of human history as a canvas. But for now the ones you’ve got are all.

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    Decided there’s not enough of my sketchbook in here so I’m posting pages as I finish them. I gotta find some that fell away but first up: genshin doods and a couple ladies, trying out a style that I adore but absolutely isn’t mine 😬

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  • I was going to just leave this in the tags but no, I've seen too many people misunderstand this and it's very simple and easy to explain so I don't know why anyone who shares this fun fact doesn't use this analogy.

    so if you took a few leaves and threw them into a blender and pulverize them to as fine a paste that you could they would still be green. this is because chlorophyll has a green PIGMENT in it. now I can't speak to the base color of blue jay feathers so we're just going to talk about blue macaws for this example. If you went and put a Blue macaw feather in a blender and pulverized it to the finest powder that you could you would get black powder. this is because blue macaw feathers have black pigment in them, but they reflect blue light because of a microscopic bubble texture on the surface.

    to explain it further, have you ever seen one of those little rainbow hologram things? like how they'll put a holographic Crystal or sparkle pattern on like a Pokemon card?

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    yeah that motherfucker, if you tried to scrape the top layer of this card off to get the hologram "pigment", you wouldn't get bubkis. in fact if you scrape the top of this card very lightly, the yellow part would still stay yellow because it's yellow because it is PIGMENTED, but the hologram where you scratch it will stop being holographic. now it will still have the pigment underneath it because that is pigmented but the rainbow effect comes from a TEXTURE on the top.

    you could even put these kind of holograms on chocolate, are you following? it's a texture!


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    it's the same reason that bubbles are rainbow colored despite being too thin to see pigment in them.

    IT'S A TEXTUREEEEEEE!!!

    blue pigment will always be blue, you can crush up a Rose and use the Rose goop to color something else the color of that Rose! leaves, bones, clay, rocks!! that's pigment! disturbing its structure will not change the color because its a PIGMENT!!!

    but a blue macaw? a pigeon's neck? a raven's feathers? and a blue jay apparently? that's a texture.

    "yeah that's how color works" NO!! bubbles are clear!!! they just happen to have a broad spectrum iridescent TEXTURE, and some bird feathers have a short spectrum of iridescence.

    bird texture

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