I heard this theory, about how the spirits of slaves are not at rest and that they’re embodied in the winds of hurricanes. This is supported by the fact that most hurricane winds start on the coast of West Africa, travel the same routes as slave ships and generally hit the southern states that held slaves in America.
Upon doing more research on this theory, I read a title so beautiful, it said: “Hurricanes; Beautiful, also, are the souls of my black sisters.” If nothing else, this theory reads as poetic but personally, I believe in anything that suggests my ancestors are wreaking havoc.
New hobby idea: using phrases that sound like down-home folksy expressions you learned from your grandma but are actually just nonsense you just made up
– that man really salts my melon!
– you know what they say, it takes a bushel of corn to feed one chicken
– a louse will live on any head it lands on
– don’t put down a salt lick and say you ain’t got cows
– there’s a guy who eats half the berries and says the pie shell’s too big
– like digging a pond and hoping for ducks
This was supposed to be a joke and all but as a southerner, these still make sense.
its weird these don’t mean anything but you can still kind of intuit what they would mean if they were things people actually said.
The Demon Rose is waking up. You can just about see the first hint of electric pink starting to come through in the bud.
You can also see where she’s pushing so hard up against the house she’s dislodged the window screen. What a clingy baby 😀
Oh, I showed one of your posts about the Demon Rose Bush to an organic gardening friend. She’s recommending massive pruning until it gets under control, but considering how high that bitch is I don’t think that’s feasible.
Hahahahaha, we tried to kill this thing when we first moved in back in 2015 by cutting it all the way down to ground level and etd tried to kill the roots with literal poison cause we didnt want to try and deal with pruning something where the largest thorn was the length of my pinky finger. She grew back taller within 4 months, absorbed her trellis into her vines and continued to bloom right up until December. In Minnesota.
Last year she retained her blooms until January of this year. Everything else besides the neighborhood evergreens was dead, and we had hot pink blooms in -20’c weather, in several feet of snow.
Ain’t shit gonna kill this thing, and since Tumblr adopted her as my plant familiar to go with the rest of my weird ass house (the tags new folk are looking for are #the house that cthulu built and #demon rose) I’ve started talking to her and she’s the god damn healthiest most terrifying thing in our yard. I love her.
I’m going to attempt to do some delicate pruning this year and nudge her back onto a trellis (several trellises…trelli?), cause the way her thorns tap against the living room window when the wind blows is a tiny bit unnerving, but yea, nah. 6ft Demon Rose is here to stay. I’ve made my peace with this.
Especially after last year when I made the comment in passing about needing to kill the lily cluster by the side of our house that had spring up in their hundreds (I am very very not good allergic to all lilies), and she expanded outward and quite literally throttled them with her roots. That was…considerate of her…
Holy shit I have a rose in my back garden IDENTICAL to that.
I call it the Felony Rose, since I kindasortamaybe technically stole it.
They were gonna bulldoze an old farmhouse that had this huge (15×20) rosebush growing alongside it. So, I rolled up with the truck and a shovel and a pair of hedge clippers around midnight.
Dug that whole monster out (which involved much sweat, blood, and swearing) whacked it back to a manageable size, and took it home.
It is now in my back garden, eating my coral bells and lilies and cackling to itself as it spreads.
It is also electric pink. It barely even wilted, despite it’s rough treatment.
Also, in the lot they bulldozed to build that new house, suckers of the fucker are coming back.
Yep! That’s Demon Rose foliage, except 6ft tall and more wild cause all attempts to tame her thus far has resulted in “when was my last tetanus shot and do I need stitches?”
I’m hoping to explain to her this year that we’re not trying to kill her, we just want her to calm down and hug a trellis or two so she can grow in a more controlled and healthy way for her. But we’ll see. She might absorb those trellises into her vines too.
Okay I might need y’all to take DNA samples of both demon roses … Cause that’s some hellish levels of resistance, yield, and growth And like… I might be interested In comparing their genome and Gene expression to the ones of regular roses, cause isolating those factors might help understand adaptability (if no one else did a study on this of course)
PM me your contact info and I’d be happy to send you some bits I pruned off of her for testing.
I’m also going to need a clipping or two of this bush, it could use more family.
I can try to root some cuttings for anyone who wants their very own Demon Rose
I feel like we’re giving in to their plan for world domination but I am okay with this.
I am so here for Lawful Evil plant familiars. XD
I’m curious, does this rose smell like candy/possibly sweet pears?
hey American followers – if you like public libraries I’ve got some bad news for you
the Trump administration’s proposed budget plan for FY18 includes cutting all funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) which is….. bad. I’m my library system, IMLS pays 11% of our total annual budget, which doesn’t sound like much, but in a lot of rural areas or states without as much state-level support for libraries, IMLS is responsible for the bulk of their operating costs and loss of this funding could mean the complete closure of central branches and loss of library resources for entire communities
I talk about this a lot on here, but libraries aren’t just free books – they’re a crucial service for under-served communities, they provide job search assistance to job seekers, crucial early learning and literary skills to kids, they provide information and access to people with no other way of getting them, they provide free internet and computer access, a free and safe place to be for homeless people, for teenagers after school, for families who can’t afford expensive daycare, and many of them provide free lunches for kids in the summer who aren’t getting lunch because they aren’t in school, and countless other things
there are so many communities out there who cannot afford to lose this funding and to lose the support that their libraries provide
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [TOWN/CITY].
I’m calling because I support federal funds for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. I ask Senator Chris Van Hollen to defend libraries by signing the “Dear Appropriator” letters supporting funding for the Library Services and Technology Act and the Innovative Approaches to Literacy program.
Thank you for your hard work answering the phones.
[IF LEAVING A VOICEMAIL: please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied]
The Carving Witch 