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Ren Strapp is a comic artist, designer, and gender nonconforming lesbian werewolf. Her work is inspired by risograph printing and American traditional tattooing. She loves weight lifting and hiking.
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I want to be ficus but I don’t pull off leather and deep down I’m herbs. :/
Sad to learn BoP are not cat-safe but as a Magic the Gathering player may I just say how much I appreciate linking that one to gaming
I have several beloved mystery succulents and one of them is getting ready to bloom! Woo hoo.
I am a day dreamer but was never good at first dates, so that’s semi accurate.
Christmas cactus
Tomboy femme
Reserved when she doesn’t know you
Fiercely loyal friend
Spider plant
Messy bi friend
Generous but unpredictable
Falls in and out of love easily
Banana plant
Kitchen queer
Pickling expert
Shows love through food
Ohhh I’m definitely a Christmas cactus!
Feeling extremely called out wrt spider plant
herbs sun, fake moon, mystery succulent rising
I might be a string plant, but in our yard, we had birds of paradise, which is also kind of me.
me and my windowsill herb garden feel very seen
my tag requires basic math. i was going to say a mystery cactus/bird of paradise mashup (if subtraction is allowed), but @cepperly added christmas cactus, so now i need addition as well.
Just wait til you get into advanced twigonometry
maybe i should stick to cactulus
I always derive great pleasure from seeing which angle you choose to pun from. Are pure math puns aloe’d here or must all puns be rooted in both math and plants? (Does asking make me a square?)
i might not have a green thumb for this, but i’d cosine any contributions; there’s always room to grow.
But do you have a Pythagreen Theorumb?
All puns are welcome, but I always try to find the leaf common denominator
Pythaficus? i don’t know her…
@queergirl comment award for this whole thread of plant punnage
100% string plants
I’m string plants with a Maranta significant other.
Maranta 💅 though a lot-less-high femme in quarantine
Ooh I love this, I think I’m a Maranta and also a Miranda, in that I’m a slightly uptight bisexual obsessed with Cynthia Nixon
Not like, unhealthily obsessed, just a “Yes I will rewatch this recorded stage version of The Women again, and not only for Jennifer Tilly” level fan
I’m a Mystery Succulent [who’s bad at first dates] wing Bird of Paradise
I want to say a Carnivorous, BoP, and Succulent combo. The only thing is that I’m not sure I have first date expertise. Sure, my first dates have all gone well, but can it be expertise if that first date is usually the only date? I’m just not sure.
String plants with a side of herbs <3