People share 10 subtle signs that someone has a genuinely kind heart

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"Desires lies at the heart of all that's made of glass, she decided; glass is simply need given substance. You blow into it, and it assumes new shapes. Strike it in the wrong place, it shatters."

β€”Mick Herron, #RealTigers

#AmReading #Bookstodon #SlowHorses #SloughHouse #FragileThings

β€œAs happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”

β€”John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

#FragileThings #FotoMontag #PDX #IceStorm #Rhododendron #Leafsicle #Plants #Florespondence

Mossicle giving me Southern Reach Trilogy vibes. Winter has come to Area X.

#Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #PDX #IceStorm #FragileThings

Phantom of a new year's morning visitor.

#FragileThings #Hummingbird #CalypteAnna #BirdsOfMastodon #Birdstodon

The Fragile Things Centaurworld zine is now in print, and you can read my contribution right here on my blog! #Centaurworld #FragileThings #fanfiction #zine #fanzine

https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/2023/09/02/to-be-taken-seriously/

To Be Taken Seriously

A few months ago I mentioned that I’d submitted a piece of fanfiction to Fragile Things: a Centaurworld Zine, which was taking pre-orders at the time. (If you’ve never come across Centa…

Damon L. Wakes

The rain has finally returned to Portland and the bumble bees are decidedly damp.

#PDX #Pollinators #BloomScrolling #Florespondence #Dahlia #BumbleBee #FragileThings #MacroPhotography

Today in small garden #spooder doings: I found these three juvenile bold jumping spiders, #PhidippusAudax, each tiny cutie hanging out in their own #Dahlia petal palace. I wonder if they're siblings...

#PDX #Arachnids #FragileThings #Spiders #JumpingSpiders #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence

Today in small #spooder doings: #SalticusScenicus, a juvenile zebra jumping spider, regarding the world from a #dahlia petal.

#PDX #Arachnids #FragileThings #Spiders #JumpingSpiders #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence

Today in itsy-bitsy, incy-wincy #spooder doings - I'm beginning to spot #AraneusDiadematus spiderlings around the garden. I found this one on the tip of a #clematis leaf.

By autumn the surviving females will be grand gravid beauties, their namesake mottled cross marking evident on their large orange abdomens. They'll be hanging out at the center of their magnificent orb webs or carefully tucked just out of sight, a single elegant claw hooked onto a signal line alerting them the moment something touches their web.

But right now, while they're all so incredibly small and translucent, I'd swear they're made of at least 50% sunlight.

#PDX #Arachnids #FragileThings #Spiders #CrownedOrbWeaver #CrossSpider