TheInevitableAsterisk
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TheInevitableAsterisk
@tomwoodstock1.bsky.social
Twitter escapee. Remainer. Vaguely leftish. Half Man Half Biscuit. Amazing Blondel. XTC.
And a bonus:

Blandly pretty, but a victim of disastrous branding. Cabbages aren’t white, and naming it after its preferred diet comes perilously close to fat shaming. Anyone enquiring after the whereabouts of the seven dwarfs needs to ask themselves some serious questions about their life choices.
July 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
1. Marsh Fritillary.

If Noddy Holder and Rodney Bewes had a love child who grew up to be an interior designer, this is what her wallpaper would look like. See also her brother, Heath Fritillary, a professional photographer who only got where he is because his dad had money.
July 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
2. Brimstone

Quite where the lepidopterological imperative came from to evolve an ability to blend against those glow in the dark socks so popular in the 80s we’ll never know, but we’re all the better for it. Iconic, though naming it after the archaic word for sulphur possibly a mistake.
July 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
3 Common blue

Definitely blue, no longer common. Possibly why it’s blue. A living, flapping pass-agg admonition of man’s cruelty to the natural word.
July 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM