One Who Walks Among the Dead

@anubisthejackal

Show me the Champion of Light, and I'll show you the Herald of Darkness.

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One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· 15d

Before and after street cat was rescued:

Photograph of a Siamese mix tabby cat. aside from its front legs and head, the body is a creamy tan color. This is because the cat only has guard hairs and is malnourished.

photograph of same siamese mix tabby, from behind, months later. his fur is now a rich, dark sable. only his chest and parts of the legs are still a creamy tan color.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· 16d

This plant is magnificent to me. It was gifted to me a number of years ago by a bird's butt. Every year since, it comes back bigger than before - a notable feat given that the main stems are hollow and not wooden. The berries are toxic to mammals.

photograph of a mysterious plant that's freaking huge. Its main stems are burgundy-red. to the sides of the photo are bunches of flat topped green berries. the stem on the bunch to the right is pink. behind the plant is a small tree. the mystery plant is at least 7 feet in height.

close up photograph of one of the bunches of green berries. the stem is bright pink. the plant's leaves are long spear shapes.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jul 17

Even the baby robins can't believe how hot it is

Kind of blurry photograph of 3 baby North American robins in a nest of twigs, nestled securely in a crux of thicker branches. One of the baby birds has his big mouth open all the way.

Photograph of 3 baby North American robins in a nest of twigs. All 3 have their mouths open, with one in the back in the standard pose of baby birds: neck stretched up, head back

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jul 15

The baby robins are getting noticeably bigger each day. Their eyes have been open consistently for the last week or so, and each is now MOSTLY covered in patchy fuzz.

zoomed in photograph of a North American robin's nest. It contains 3 fluffy babies. In this photo, one is clearly visible to the right. Another's head is just visible (as an open mouth) behind a tree branch. The third is not apparent because they're laying down with their back to the camera.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jul 10

I think it's wild that I'm alive at a time when people are combining opera, rock, heavy metal, and folk together to ... make a song that's actually pretty cool.

Screengrab of album artwork for "Last of the Wilds", by Nightwish, a "rock opera" genre band.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jul 10

I will never not associate this song with the original The Matrix movie.

Screengrab of album artwork, shown on Pandora, for the song "Clubbed to Death" by Rob Dougan.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jun 29

2 years ago, a tree in my front yard died and was removed, the stump ground down to chips. I'm now in Year 2 of trying to fill / cover the spot with native wildflowers, but what's funny is, despite all the above-ground stuff, the fungus that (might have) killed my tree is still doing very well.

photograph of some big ass wood mushrooms. No idea what species, but this cluster is about the width of a standard dinner plate.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jun 27

If obligate carnivore, why eating so much grass?

photograph of a Siamese mix cat on top of a brown metal table chomping on some potted grass

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jun 25

Who's watching who??

stalker style photograph of an American Robin on her nest of twigs, on a tree branch. She is facing to left, beak hidden, but eye ... watching.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jun 25

When a mourning dove flies over your head, then lands on the apex of the roof.

photograph of a Siamese mix tabby looking upward at something out of frame, to the viewer's left.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jun 24

Well, after taking last year off, a robin has once again made a nest in the tree right outside my bathroom window. This branch is MAYBE 4 feet from the glass.

A zoomed in and slightly blurry photograph of a North American robin. She's sitting in a nest of tigs and grass, and this is on top of a tree branch.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jun 19

Threw down some wildflower seed in a layer of cheap topsoil on top of where a tree stump was removed, and after a month, this is what I have. Coming in pretty nice, and hopefully all of them tuck away enough nutrients to survive a Midwest winter.

Photograph of a patch of mixed wildflowers.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jun 16

Still more pods are opening.

photograph of a big bunch of living, planted lilies. The flowers are huge, six petaled, and very magenta.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jun 11

As they say, I guess this is now the sports app:

screenshot of trending topics page on BlueSky, with all 5 being about "sports" and the Knicks NBA games. The banner at the top says 2026 NBA finals

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jun 10

It's lily time. This is still probably less than half of the flower pods open. Over the next couple of weeks this will become the most interesting set of plants in my yards. And then they'll go back to looking like an odd weed. This lily began as a single bulb, and is now 27 individual stalks.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Jun 4

Fucked around this year and threw some "wildflower" starter pod into a cleaned out Costco jumbo candle jar. Working better than I anticipated, and I might actually go to the effort of digging it out of the vase and putting it in the ground, in fall.

Very close up shot of a beautiful golden wildflower, a blood red blotchy circle of color surrounding the core (pistals?) The "eye" of the flower is black, so may be a wild version of a black eyed susan

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· May 14

Here's a cat croissant

A curled up silver point lynx mixed domestic short hair cat. The face is fully hidden under a front leg and paw, with a long lemur tail wrapped around that. This particular cat usually forms an archetypical croissant shape when napping.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· May 13

Time to bust out one of my favorite memes:

Doge-style meme where the big muscle dog says "I shot a lawman with his own gun and won an immortal horse in a poker match with the devil", while the wimpy crying dog says "IF YOU DON'T STAND FOR THE RED WHITE AND STARRY BLUE THIS INSTANT I WILL PEE MY PANTS AND START CRYING"

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Apr 30

look at this fucking magical shit happening right in my own yard. A plant that is basically immortal and regenerates itself every spring also has hydrophobic leaves that do stuff like this.

Close photograph of a big bulb of a water drop, sitting on the scoop-shaped expanse of a frog green hosta leaf.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Apr 23

When I put this solar light in place, I did not anticipate how much rain we were going to get, and how aggressively this phlox was going to grow.

photograph of a decorative concrete terrace with two different kinds of flowering phlox: on the left is a very pale lilac, and on the right is fuschia. in the middle is a half hidden red glass mushroom light

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Apr 20

Some people consider phlox a weed - can you believe that?

photograph of sunlight patch of phlox, a spiky ground cover plant. the background half of the phlox is pale "lilac" pastel purple, and the foreground half is closer to fuchsia. A glass decorative mushroom light, red in color, is half visible - part of it is obscured under the phlox, which has gotten so much rain that it's growing upward as much as outward. A giant green hosta is at the top left edge.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Apr 16

Reality is fucking wild. A Ukrainian studio is currently making a game series about post-apocalyptic Russia, based upon the work of a Russian author ... ... who is living in exile because he was sentenced to jail ... ... for criticizing the invasion of Ukraine.

screenshot of a website post (from PlayStation) that is discussing the forthcoming videogame "Metro 2039". The shown text is talking about how the author of the Metro novels is a Russian that was sentenced to 8 years in prison (in absentia) for being critical of Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Apr 9

The lilies are here.

Portrait image looking from extreme foreground to distance showing various conical leaf cones emerging from gritty, dry dirt

Landscape photo of various green and burgundy leaf shoots and cones emerging from gritty dirt.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Apr 1

It's ... back ...

Photograph of dry brown dirt with an oddly regular series of sharp purple and green cones protruding up in an arc. This is the crown of a formally dormant hosta emerging for the year.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Mar 30

My rescued street cat is living his best life now. Open window with a 1.5 story view down upon the world, warm breeze, sun, and big plump abdomen (he's a chonk now because he was literally starving to death outdoors).

Photograph of a black and sable Siamese mix cat, back to camera, head facing toward a screened but open window.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Mar 26

It's officially spring when the hostas pop out of the dirt, and when this red locust tree starts producing its distinctive purple flower buds. (this is actually a very important tree for bumblebees, which are waking up, because it produces flowers before leaves, & before most other plants)

close up photograph of a gray tree limb. There are no leaves, but center of photo is a three headed cluster of flower buds. They are a rich burgundy tinting to purple color. When fully opened, the tree will be covered in dark purple flower clusters. Shortly thereafter, the tree will become a feast for bees and other pollinators.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Mar 26

"Trump is excellent for the economy!"

screenshot of the NASDAQ composite showing a line graph for the last 1 full month. the line zig zags a lot up and down, but if you were to plot an average trend line, it would be very clearly going down. The screenshot also shows that the NASDAQ has lost 6.55% of value in the last 30 days

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Mar 21

Very happy to see that my outdoor deck catnip, technically two plants in the same box, survived the winter and is already emerging.

Photograph of the inside of a soil filled box. Old leaf and seed debris is scattered about. at the left and right are two short croppings of dead plant shafts, but scattered among those in the dirt are tiny green leaves.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Mar 10

It's officially spring when the hostas break through the earth and feel the sun again.

photograph of what appears to be some dry, dead dirt next to a rock. However, if you zoom in ...

... we see that a few conical purple and green protuberances pushing through the dirt. These are the leaf cones of the hosta plant - which is very old, doesn't use lignin, but comes back every year with a fresh crown of leaves.

One Who Walks Among the Dead@anubisthejackal· Mar 3

Did you know they sometimes hide books, pamphlets or other papers inside of appliances? My washer has a secret book taped to the inside of the outer panel, and my dryer had this poking out of the space between panels behind it.