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@organoleptic.bsky.social
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Differentiable woman of the second kind. I'd like to form an affine connection with you!

ฉันนักเรียนภาษาไทย แต่ว่าพูดไม่ดี โปรดอดทนกับฉันหน่อย และพิมพ์ช้าๆ

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i block people who put political text in images to make it really big. if you're wondering, that's why
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organoleptic.bsky.social
HE HAS A JOB NOW
On a tea tray, a teapot sits atop a pad. To the side, a funky rainbow-whale-dinosaur-creature sits grinning like a doofus. It is holding in its mouth a toothpick for use with the teapot. It sits on a tea towel, and there is a teapot lid stand beside it.
September 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
gyokuro my beloved tea
mandatory luxury
open a tin and it will demand
full attention for two weeks

you must drink it every day...
or it will spoil

such a peculiar ethos for a tea
Gyokuro, dark green needles of tea, in a shiboridashi, a white, flat brewing vessel. The vessel is so wide and open it could be mistaken for a small plate. It's on a brown slotted tray. The lid is off to the side, out of view. Gyokuro that has been brewed once, now a much lighter green, fluffier. More of the leaves are flat and expanded, but some needles remain.
July 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
what a pleasure this cup is to drink out of, and what a pleasure this tea is, too

dinggu dafang via @sweetestdewtea.bsky.social. I'm so glad I've got more of this stuff on the way
Tea leaves in a bowl of tea. The tea leaves are resting at the bottom of the water, fully unfurled, and the tea is a mild yellow-green. The cup has an unglazed textured orange exterior with a white glazed interior. The glaze just crosses over the rim of the cup. The cup is sitting on a tea tray.
July 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
new cup / chawan from sazen tea
A straight-walled clay cup holding perhaps 200ml to the brim. The cup has a sun-orange exterior and a rough surface. The inside is smooth and white, and the smooth white bit just crosses over the lip of the vessel to the outside.
July 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
A tiny droplet of oil coalesced on the top of the water film during today's tea session
A tiny droplet of oil with a rainbow sheen set on top of a thin film of water suspended in a tiny copper ring.
July 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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This is Crimson Lotus Tea's troublemaker brick, which looks like this normally
June 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
Fangcha close up. I was curious to know whether the lettering on fangcha actually broke the leaves in the corners, or just bent them. Seems pretty clear the leaves just fold when they're pressed!

Img 1: A raised line
Img 2: A raised corner
Img 3: An indented line
June 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
A first attempt at color balancing this microscope camera. It has a tendency to oversaturate reds when under dim light. Unfortunately wet tea leaves have serious glare under bright light, so I need to work around it.

This leaf should be green. It's a bit too blue, but it's a good first pass
June 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
Here is a photo of a 1980s ripe puerh leaf. Some hand-forming processes for cakes use mesh fabric to press leaves together under steam, and sometimes this leaves a physical impression of the fabric mesh directly on the leaves

You can see the impression as a repeating pattern in this image
June 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
With some really stupid image processing techniques I've drastically improved the image quality
June 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
organoleptic.bsky.social
hongshui taiwanese oolong
ball oolong, unrolled 1, unrolled 2
June 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
some dinggu dafang leaves close up
June 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
organoleptic.bsky.social
dinggu dafang close up
June 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
organoleptic.bsky.social
little bug says "munch crunch"
All four pictures in this set show a wrapper of a puerh tea cake that has been partially eaten away by bugs, which have left little trails on the wrapper. Four different shapes of munch crunch. This one looks like a little cat's face. This one looks like a cup sitting on a countertop. This one looks like a hand with a comically large arm muscle. This one looks like a supernova remnant.
June 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
I made this Tak board, too (and now we're playing on it!)
A game board setup. On the left, 30 white wood tiles made of maple, and 30 red pieces made of padauk. The game board is a flat six by six grid. There are no lines; they are marked instead by brass dots. On the right is a box for the pieces, and atop it, a chess clock.
June 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
Holy shit @leslielevings.bsky.social these tea pets are PERFECT, goofy lil guys. Now to find mine a home (and pack the other one off for @wordkerfing.bsky.social...)

Serious thanks to y'all for running the Tea4T fundraiser, very important cause, and an excellent way to find cool artists too
A pair of tea pets sit on a wooden slab table. Difficult to describe but I'll do my best. They look a little bit like whales or tadpoles, but they have big toothy grins. They also have legs and feet. Possibly those feet have toes? They also have four spines down their back to the tail. They have lil beady eyes on either side of their head. Color-wise, the base shade is a light blue, transitioning through yellow, finally reaching a red at the very tip of the spines. They also have orange freckles on the tops of their heads, and a little down the sides. The background of the image is a kettle and a tea setup.
June 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
I built a tea table
A wooden table with tea paraphernalia atop it. The table is made of one solid slab with a light white edge and yellow red banding through the middle. It has a side that's relatively straight and a side that's slightly concave. It is in a living room, between a chair and a couch. The center of the table has a tea tray and a couple cups, a tea towel, and a pot/lid stand. To the left, there are some cups on little posts and a copper wastewater vessel. To the right, there's a pile of smaller cups, a scale, a kettle, and a miniature tea set. The table has a shelf underneath, but the objects on this shelf are mostly obscured.
June 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
dinggu da fang
delicious chestnut lemon broth
faded fast
some spent green tea leaves sitting in a pile on a copper tray. the leaves are long needles and are a little stringly
June 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
same plant
nascent leaves that are folded up in a claw shape. they sit on top of the petal-like remains from which they were unfurled expanded reddish-green leaves long and drooping, with a light fringed border each
May 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
I have no idea why ferns make me so happy

every time I see one growing uncultivated it makes me very excited

fern fern fern fern
two ferns curled delicately upon themselves facing the sunlight, like a dancer bent over while a neighbor bends backwards. soon it will expand and face the sun in full, but not quite yet
May 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
yellow tea from @onerivertea.bsky.social that isn't sold anymore to my knowledge: mapo spiced.

Lemon, grass, cream, squash, spiced meat. It tastes like a soup.
needle-like dark green leaves in a white shiboridashi.
May 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
TWO FERN
FERN FERN FERN
I LOVE FERN
TWO FERN. FERN IS GREEN. VERY GREEN. DIRT IS BROWN. THERE IS A LITTLE GROUND COVER. A SNEAKY PURPLE FLOWER POUTS IN THE BACKGROUND.
May 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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this is the steeping from the end of the third liter of water. I... I guess it can keep going....?
a tea tray with objects upon it. from left to right: a teapot sitting on a loofah with leaves stuffed in it; a pitcher with a steeping pf tea in it, but the color is difficult to see; a cup with some clearly brown-gold tea in it; a tiny frog tea pet on the tray's corner.
April 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
bookmarks
cedar with oil finish
six cedar bookmarks hanging from a knotted string to dry. they are natural wood, streaked red and white. some bookmarks have little knots in them, again a natural part of the wood
April 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
organoleptic.bsky.social
I'll trade you for this Japanese-style tetsubin
April 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM