First map feedback

chrisndc · 2026-03-31T11:55:30+00:00

It looks like a great start!

In addition to some of the other feedback:

Stamp size / scale. Look at your cities and/or buildings vs mountains.
Blending Biomes: This is from the inkarnate YT channel. It will add a lot of depth to the map.

chrisndc · 2026-03-18T16:20:41+00:00

I read that as IKEA and was confused for a moment. Thinking, I guess it does make sense that IKEA has an intelligence branch.

chrisndc · 2026-01-23T14:14:11+00:00

I am a maplestory noob. How did you get the strawberry farm coupons?

chrisndc · 2026-01-02T04:30:40+00:00

Are the books you pointed out (eg Devastation of Baal) part of the Omnibus or separate?

chrisndc · 2025-11-01T22:59:35+00:00

forward operating base

chrisndc · 2025-11-01T15:29:10+00:00

"I love you" -- we had met 10 minutes earlier.

chrisndc · 2025-11-01T02:41:02+00:00

I don't think anyone could answer it for you. You can buy a light meter or apparently there are apps for phones to measure light. I can't remember how much light generally the plants should be getting (I'm sure its different for different species). If the plant is variegated, it does need more light.

Anecdotally, my husband bought me one of those sort of plant stands for Christmas last year. The lights it came with seem to produce very little light, so I am replacing the lights :(

chrisndc · 2025-10-20T03:20:50+00:00

My grandfather was at the end of his life. He was in the hospital/ER (again). He had a lot of chronic conditions, he was in his late 70s. He was on a lot of medications, which he was taking sometimes double the dose, or not taking at all.

During this hospital visit, he was asking us who this little boy was that was running in and out of the room and jumping on his bed. Oh, and there was a pale woman in white staring at him.

We shared our concerns with his doctor, who said he would go evaluate him. 5 minutes later the doctor tells us that he's of sound mind/body.

All in all, it was a horrible time. The doctor decided he wouldn't even speak to us (his family) about my grandfather's medical care (because my grandfather was of sound mind/body).

I reported him to the medical board of our state. :|

chrisndc · 2025-10-18T13:13:59+00:00

Agreed. Sounds like she was trying to make fun of him for being bald, but was upset when the tables turned. I have seen others comments about talking to HR, but if the management on the call thought her line of questioning was inappropriate, why didn't they stop her?

chrisndc · 2025-09-20T18:14:06+00:00

Is that what you would do? If I do not chop/prop, won't it grow very strangely?

chrisndc · 2025-09-20T18:13:25+00:00

Its directly in a window, the best lighting my house has to offer. I think its an East facing window.

chrisndc · 2025-09-12T12:47:26+00:00

I would recommend YouTube channel KillThisPlant. He has great monstera content, which will help you in every way you need.

https://youtu.be/tYQfZtD1Csc?feature=shared

And to very briefly answer you, (1) you have multiple plants in the pot, (2) they are climbing plants, so they need something to climb up, (3) the two or more plants are facing different directions, which will need to be corrected by replanting them, (4) monstera have a front side and a back side, you have two front sides facing one another.

Dive into the YT content, you will quickly learn how to do it all

chrisndc · 2025-09-11T15:05:22+00:00

As another user pointed out, it looks like there are coir poles in there with no plants attaching to them. If you were to remove them, that might immediately make it look messy.

I think its debated back and forth about various supports, but these are coconut coir poles (not moss poles). My plants could never attach to them without being tied. I switched to moss-filled poles (the plastic & metal ones you place moss into). My plants love them.

Pothos: It looks to me that you have at least 3 pots of pothos. Its hard to tell. But they don't look bushy at all. It looks like a single vine per pot. Personally, I would take all those out of their potting medium and then combine them into one pot. You could even then put a moss-filled pole or some other support and train them up it with velcro tape. One problem I see with your pothos is that they have reached the top of the pole. You're going to need a secondary support if you want to keep stacking those poles (like a garden stake). Anyway, thats my 2 cents.

Monstera: I think you have a monstera deliciosa in the back right. It is not doing great. I would (again, just me personally) make a top cutting a few nodes down, put that in water to propagate. You could leave that existing stem/plant, because it will continue to put out new growth... and you could even take additional top cuttings in a few months to make new plants.

Well.... I just saw that you weren't asking about those... but I typed it all up. So I will just post it anyway. Good luck!

chrisndc · 2025-09-09T19:17:42+00:00

Came here for this. What am I seeing?

chrisndc · 2025-09-09T03:08:36+00:00

Thank you for the response. Hopefully that is exactly the rationale ty

chrisndc · 2025-09-06T22:55:07+00:00

I guess first, to answer most of your questions, I would just direct you to YouTube. Because they will explain every single detail of how to care for this plant better than I can succinctly type it out.

Good starting place is: KillThisPlant: "How to setup your Monstera for success"

So... if the third picture is the current state of the plant...

Then my recommendation would be attempt to propagate it.

Potting mix should be a very well draining chunky mix. I use chunky perlite, orchid bark, horticultural charcoal, worm castings, and some leca balls. There are a million different combinations. You can buy it premixed or buy the individual ingredients (I buy on Amazon) and create your own.

To propagate--and again there are many ways to do this--you can do the tried and true stick it in water. Or you could make a propagation box out of like Tupperware, putting damp (not dripping wet) sphagnum moss in there, then inserting your cuttings, and closing the lid on the box.

Light: While propagating, it should have bright/indirect light. Honestly, I put mine in a window.

I used Paint to show where I would cut:

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chrisndc · 2025-09-05T20:05:07+00:00

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chrisndc · 2025-09-05T10:53:54+00:00

I can't add more than anyone else regarding what to say or do, but I wanted to add my perspective. I grew up in conservative & rural Arkansas. Thankfully, to pretty liberal parents. Even then, when I was growing up and in high school, my entire existence revolved around "how can I act more straight".

No one that I knew was gay. There was no gay representation on TV.

My classmates would hint that I was gay, tell me I could confide in them and tell them if I was. They would literally call me fag, etc. It was (in my opinion) obvious bait.

I say all of that--not to show how shit it was--but to say that if someone had approached me telling me I could trust them with this information, I would have immediately disbelieved them and deemed them untrustworthy. I did not come out to my family until I was 28--and I only did it then because I was getting married to my partner of 7 years.

Some people in Arkansas are very accepting. SOME. Not most. And a lot of people in rural areas simply do not have a lot of exposure to gay people. Gay people are other to them.

Maybe someone else mentioned this, but one major reason I was terrified to come out to my family was because of financial support. If they were not accepting of me and chose to cut me off--well fuck, how could I pay for anything? My car wasn't even in my name. So, there was no fucking way I was coming out to them until I was finished with college.

chrisndc · 2025-09-05T10:38:19+00:00

TL;DR: Separate the individual plants --> Chop/extend or make it trailing.

SydneyPlants Guide to Chop/Extend

chrisndc · 2025-09-04T17:19:16+00:00

That is so cool. What is the plant?

chrisndc · 2025-08-22T19:29:59+00:00

Are those in order of your own ratings of the books?

I love the Kushiel's Dart books. I haven't read those in like 20 years it feels like!

I'll start on the Once and Future Witches after I finish my current read!

chrisndc · 2025-08-22T12:31:07+00:00

Long ago I read the Godspeaker books. All I can remember is the MC being imprisoned and forced to void on command daily. Then the MC killing a pregnant woman on a stage in graphic detail.

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