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tacocat  ·  2419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Flower Pot of Significant Personal Importance

Imma buy a cactus tomorrow. We can be cactus (and poetry) buddies. I also know a guy prone to abuse parenthetical comments.

There's also an AA joke/advice (it can be hard to tell the difference) about when you're capable of handling certain responsibilities and it usually begins with not killing a house plant for a year.





weewooweewoo  ·  2419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I accidentally said cactus at first but meant succulent but if you get a cactus fuck it lets get cactus's. Let's see if I can not overwater a cactus for a year.

tacocat  ·  2419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't know there was a difference honestly. All cactuses are succulents but not all succulents are cactus is my best estimate. I'm gonna see how much the one kleinbl00 mentioned costs and how hard they are to find. I might just go to Home Depot and find something that looks succulent.

weewooweewoo  ·  2419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Take a picture when you do, haha. I'm terrible at remembering plant names.

Also, here's a poem that reminds me of this thread.

tacocat  ·  2418 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sup cactus bro!

I'm a lot of things. Alcoholic, succulent amateur botanist for about an hour, cat cohabitator. Ambulatory canine exercise technician and detritus disposal manager. Pretentious windbag. Artist. Of the visual flavor. I once wanted to be a graphic designer and studied it and still enjoy it but don't know exactly how to rank my skill. Never noticed the designer part on your profile.

weewooweewoo  ·  2418 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Garbage man and veterinarian? That sounds better than being able to design stuff to justify how pretentious you are. Design is a lot of fun to look and think about though, right? I fell into clients after working as a poster maker for my university, ranking skill is impossible, it's easier to just know what you don't know. It's actually kind of depressing to me right now, I've been looking for a different job to get my mind off design work.

I'll get a cactus tomorrow and send a picture as soon as I do!

tacocat  ·  2417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I learned pretense in art school. It's impossible not to. I deploy it carefully but I studied sculpture so we were the kids who wore boots and drank PBR. We can be very blue collar.

I tend to downplay my design skills. I'm not a slouch and can talk shop. Type set is strangely relaxing for me. I have very firm and obnoxious opinions about typefaces.

One thing I know about cactus is that since they require little water you can put an ice cube in their bowl from time to time to water them. I don't want to tag Kleinbl00 for this he may come back around with actual advice

Devac  ·  2419 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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