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The Alnwick Poison Garden is pretty much what you’d think it is: a garden full of plants that can kill you (among many other things). Some of the plants are so dangerous that they have to be kept behind bars. [x]

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office affair au with isofka and dumonte

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Francesco Scognamiglio (2011), Pamella Rolan (2018), Alexandre Vauthier (2018), Oscar de la Renta (2020), Iris Van Herpen (2015), Jean Paul Gautier (2016)

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primadonna girl…..yeah

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SWEET TOMATO

*ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ*˗ˏˋ 🍅 ˎˊ˗*ฅ૮ ･ᴥ ･ აฅ*

This is an appreciation post for my sweet tomato black cat.

hehe welcome to your theme birthday party that I've been preparing for the longest time. this is probably the first time I have organized sth like this so as you can see, a lot of cháy chương trình that happen lol, (sori bb make you wait so long)

as you already know and experienced it, it's a grocery core theme birthday, it's tapping into one of our oldest conversations about the ideal date is grocery shopping tgt, and then making meal. sth about the grocery just so lovely and nostalgic and it make us lost int the place with so many options. i don't know about you but the grocery was the most magical place growing up for me, maybe the sign of capitalism just pop up at a really young age lol. and also it also went back to the time we went grocery shopping tgt, then cooked and absolutely wrecked bottles of soju and the hmo cake this year =)))))))))))) overall, cute aesthetic,, fitting into the tomato theme, and nostalgia. i guess it is just my way of saying I love to hangout w you in all these fun places, but I would love to go through the most mundane part of life with you, grow with you day by day, and even the most boring task is so enjoyable with you in it.

and tomato is because youre the tomato to my strawberry, we like they look so alike yet still so different, like us. if I'm being honest =))))))))) I have so many more things on the list of tomatoes I want to buy for you, but the box is already full and as you can see I barely manage to pull this off, so probably next year, or I just drop it little by little to you. ANd it's way more fun to collect things little by little than just a huge box of everything one time right =)))))))) see this as your dandelion girl's first shelf of crayon, my tomato girly. things like a sticker book, tomato washi tape, and tomato pen,... for months I create this elaborate shopping list and scratch half of those out bc it's not special enough =))))))))))) honestly the hunt is so fun and I hope you experience the thrill like I did. that reminds me. i bought moldable plastic and shrinkable paper to make phone charm for you, the crochet took too much time and too much wing-it energy for me to make those, so hmu when you wanna do a little art and craft workshop =)))))))))))) with this we can basically make any shit we want =)))))))))))))))))

(at one point I did consider just give you the actual tomatoes box I bought =))) but decide not to bc I'm afraid it might rot/squish into other things lol, I end up making tomato soup on your birthday)

But honestly, i want to use the excuse that, this is a milestone birthday so I want to go all out, but you know for me every birthday is a milestone and you my baby deserve everything in the world that I can get you, my absolute attention and affection. i love you a lot. (not sure where I'm going w this but let's go no beta we die like all our favourite characters) I think you are and the only one that get me, get my excessive gift giving habit and only with you can I show my affection so unfiltered, or worry about the implications or social norm or some shit. you are very dear to my heart and I just plan to show you how much that is.

i think we have had this conversation before but we are just so alike and parallel in almost everything, and I'm so glad we are, we bond together, grow together until we have such a strong and lasting bond that even when we are no longer in sync (like, we are at a different phase of our lives, living our lives/ dealing with our trouble on different pace,..) I don't have the slightest of doubt that we wont be there anymore or thing would fall apart (which you know it's like the biggest nightmare and insecurities of mine) I don't ever think I could ask for a better friend, a better soulmate, a better twinflame.

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i know 2023 and 2024 were throwing you a lot of hardships, each year had it own challenges that are thrown at you. it's the on and off of the workforce that affecting you so much, 2023 was too much and 2024 was too little. i know you have a lot of stress about it and sometimes I was not there to support you. sorry honey pie. but I'm so so glad that no matter how hard life gets, no matter how down in the pit you was, you're resilient enough to get back and make it your bitch. and I feel like that was because you are becoming more and more in touch with your feelings inside, and allow yourself to feel and process stuff, make boundaries with friends and be able to say how you feel and what you want. I'm honestly so glad and so proud of you for that. like compared to the stuff I wrote for you years ago, I can see so much progress in you that I cant help but to cry a little. And this time around, 2025, you got a new place, a new job, basically close a chapter of your life to begins the next one, and I'm so excited for you about that. i hope this time around the new job, you get to enjoy more of your surrounding and do what you like rather than just survival mode for another ten hours shifts every day. it seems to be a tough and challenging job, but I have no doubt you gonna ace that job since being chronically online is what we do for free everyday and now someone is paying you to be it, dream. it's really a year we follow our career now and I have nothing but the best wish for us in the future. you're as tough and mature as I can strive to be, and I hope you will never lose your childlike spark wonders when the world is hard. I'll right by your side to remind you that, and enable each and every behaviours of yours. I'll be here to witness all the phases of your life, all the personalities you choose, all the lifestyle you made, no matter it's orange, black cat, tomato or anything more in the future, I cant wait to meet you and love every part of you

*ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ*˗ˏˋ 🍅 ˎˊ˗*ฅ૮ ･ᴥ ･ აฅ*

from your strawberry.

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Dick hums the same little tune every time he visits Jason’s grave. When Jason returns as Red Hood his first play is to capture Nightwing, Batman’s star pupil, his golden boy. While he’s waiting for Bruce to react, Jason hums it to himself. Nightwing goes still, a moment before he breaks free of his bindings and pins Jason to the wall, snarling “how do you know that song?” Jason blinks at him a few times before responding, surprisingly, both because he’s caught off guard by Dicks reaction and because, well… it’s the truth. “My big brother used to sing it to me. While I slept.” 

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Bruce is known for bottling up his emotions, shoving them aside in favor of the greater good, the work that needs to be done, getting rid of his own so he can deal with other peoples. But… emotions have to come out, they always do. And bruce knows that. And plans for it. And after Jason’s death… he shoves it all down, shoves it away, so he can focus on Dick, and Alfred, and Gotham, and Tim, who’s newly introduced into his life, and then… and then he shoves them all out of the house, for one day. Asks for one day. Gives Dick and Tim bonding time, forces Alfred to finally take a “sick day” and meet up with some old military buddies. But Tim forgets his phone, and heads back into the Manor to grab it, telling Dick to wait outside.

And he goes down to the cave, because thats where he left it last-

And stumbles upon bruce, kneeling on the floor in front of Jason’s memorial case, his old robin suit clutched in his hands. 

Tim almost speaks, almost goes closer, when Bruce tips back his head and screams, the sound so bone chilling and frightening- that Tim almost thinks for a moment hes been mind controlled or something- but it devolves into sobs, heart wrenching, horrible sobs, as he screams his hatred and sadness at the world, his wrath at his son being taken from him, his sorrow that it was so soon. 

Bruce wails in mourning, every pent up emotion from everything just exploding outward. 

Tim retreats back up the stairs and lies, tells Dick his phone was in his pocket the whole time.

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people don't talk enough about how fucking funny it is that bruce can sub in his kids as batman when he's too busy. like can you imagine it from the league's perspective? imagine you have this really mysterious, geniusly scary guy that you know next to nothing about, never cracks a smile and yet always comes out on top, and one day he shows up to a league meeting and there's just something... off. about him.

you can't pin it down because he's literally acting exactly the same as usual and there's no reason to think there's anything wrong, but maybe he shifted in his seat one to many times, or he looked just a tad bit too bored during green lantern's case review, but something's just... odd. so you quietly ask superman after the meeting if anything's up with the bat bcs you know those two are closer and also clark can hear heartbeats so if something's wrong surely he'll pick it up? and without hesitation he leans over to you and mumbles 'yeah batman was busy, that's his 17 yr old son. he's a crime lord and kills people sometimes though so we're not allowed to let him into the weapons department.' and then walks away like it's normal.

like the whiplash the league must go through every time they realise that no, this is not their fearless dark and brooding leader, this is in fact one of his dipshit kids being forced to sub in bcs the real batman broke an ankle, is incredible.

wonder woman: so that's my proposed plan, what are your thoughts batman?

batman: hn. i think that- *voice raising two octaves* oh shit hold on my phones buzzing

the league:

batman, answering the phone and immediately dropping the Bat Posture™: what do you mean- aw come on little wing that's not fair! but- no, NO DON'T YOU DARE TELL ALFRED I'LL BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU- IM SORRY OK I'LL BUY YOU MORE- *catches sight of the league watching him, baffled* *stiffens* ok listen i promise to replace them but i gotta go, please show me mercy iloveyoubye *hangs up*

the league:

batman:

batman: *coughs awkwardly*

superman: *sighs*

batman, to superman: ...red hood found out i ate his chocolate pretzels-

superman, shaking his head: just... just stop.

the flash: so this isn't batman either, is it?

wonder woman: if this one's also a criminal im losing my mind.

superman, tiredly: no no, this one isn't a criminal. this one's actually a cop.

batman: *sinks down in his seat* b's gonna kill me

green lantern, mystified: where does he keep GETTING you all from!?

'batman' dick, who made a pact with jason to Always Fuck With Bruce Whenever The Opportunity Arises: batman is a whore.

they think they've finally sussed out all 2 of batman's kids and then one day during a meeting 'batman' ends up on a 30 minute rant about different hacking methods this tech villain could be using that results in him half way through a sentence breaking off to say '-oh uncle clark could you pass me that pen- thanks, anyway so-' and then five minutes after that when the league have all been exchanging incredulous looks he finally freezes and is like. SHIT.

wonder woman: you're different from the other two, aren't you?

batman: maybe i am maybe i'm not, you can't prove it.

wonder woman:

green lantern: so like, are you new or have you just managed to avoid sub duty up until now?

superman, coughing: actually, this is this ones ninth occasion of replacing batman. you've just never realised before.

the league:

batman: yeah actually the other two are kinda mad i lasted longer than them...

the flash: how the fuck does he keep getting kids with the exact same build as him!??!?

'batman' tim, spent 20 minutes padding the suit out so he would look the part, still mad that bruce keeps palming WE work off on him: oh he forces us to take steroids for it.

the league, concerned:

superman, pinching the bridge of his nose: now come on red robin-

batman, fully tearing up and looking distraught: PLEASE uncle clark, it HURTS, you can't keep COVERING FOR HIM!

superman, frantically to the league: this one lies.

bonus

the league, squinting at batman:

the league: ...

superman: *head in his hands, too disappointed to do anything*

the league: *silently exchanging looks, wondering if anybody's brave enough to say anything*

duke as batman, fully aware this is fucking stupid but jason and tim fell on the floor laughing when dick came up with the idea and frankly, he wanted to see if anybody would have to guts to call him out: so, are we all ready to start the meeting?

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Thread and bone by Choro Choi

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THIS IS HORNIER THAN THE KISS WTF

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Relativity Falls AU but we got the Gravity Falls Golden Girls, deadbeat dad-isms, and geriatric Dipcifica

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Week 10

Team's presentation

Reflect on your and your team's presentation: What you have learned, and how you can improve for better results.

This is the final step to our project. We prepare with extreme care for this step, we made a presentations slides includes every products, even include a GIF of 2 products, and we made a look book

I think we did a pretty good job, Song Linh's presentation is very condensed and smooth, slides of Mi Do and I is really easy to read, the photo and mock-up was very convincing, and especially the lookbook turns out very professional. and it seems that both the client and lecturers were very pleased with the outcome.

i think the only thing id want to improve is the time management, had we had more time and got the photos exactly right inn the first shoot, everyone wouldnt be so rushed and sacrifies so much off their time. i wish i could say it's an avoidable shortcoming, but we tried our best to do what we could, and the results was amazing.

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Week 8

Progress checkpoint

Document your learning for this week. What theme, common to all of your work irrespective of subject or media, can you identify in all your own work?

This week im dealing with silhouette cutout illustration, which is something im not quite familiar with, and im also developing the tote bag to be BSNB background inspired. i have to admit drawing scenery and background is really hard, im not entirely sure what perspective id use, or what kind of style im going for. my usual style is watercolor based and even when i switched to digital, my redering technique still resemble watercolored a lot. In our project moodboard, we had a lot of Camelia Pham works, because i think her works altho resemble traditional method of rendering, look really mature and classy, suitable for our sudden change of target audience. i tried to learn and incorporate her style into my illustrations, but what i thought was a very quick and easy process requires a lot of experience and developement. Her works are very textured and detailed oriented, compleately opposite to mine, which is very soft, dreamy and dont mind much details. so when i finished with the totebag, i felt very off and defeated.

it was not up to my expectation and plus the foggy mind of covid just add more to the failure i felt.

i decided to draw the 2nd version with another composition

it still look really weird and out of charcter, so i developed entire different sketch hoping it would turns out better

And then i have too much on my plates with theprinting i have to outsourced it to Song Linh

They really finish the painting the way i expected it to be. and honestly im very disapointed that i wasnt able to do it. But i think it's a lesson for me to plan better and do not crumble under pressure. It would be ideal to develope more into the style if we have time, but since our timeframe is very limited, i should've sticked with things that works.

For the common of my usual style, one thing very recognizable is it's very dreammy, round and colorful. since my base was watercolor transit into digital, my works has a very sheer and dreamy, translucent. and it's often nature-oriented.

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Week 7

BSNB fieldtrip

HIghlight of BSNB trip

We drove over to Ninh Binh to meet with the BSNB teams and study more about the bear

Day 1: Meeting up with clients in Hanoi

youth program, we leared how to asset an animal keeping facility, and practices on the animals currently residing in Thủ Lệ. The conditions r only for survival and it barely qualified for the wild animals to live there.

Day 2: BSNB trips

We go on a 2-hour ride to get there. the first thing we did when we got there was relearn the core values and BSNB mission. We went over some rules of the sanctuary, and were introduced to how normally a rescue mission gonna go and the medical procedures for the bears. Then came the walk around the sanctuary, we observed moonbears in their semi-natural environment, and learned about each individual's story. There were some special need bears due to circumstances, mostly from the mistreatment they received since birth as bile vessels. Some bears dont even have full limbs because they were harvested to cut the costs for the farmers. but now they have found their forever home and got treated with the best facility, trying to reconnect them with their instincts, and habitat,...

after that we had a talked with Ms.Trang, finalized our projects and try to find common ground on Target Audience. Since the begining, our TA is all age and more specified in the younger generation group, it took us by surprise that our client changed it to government representatives, donors and press, age around 40s and older. Our project theme is watercolor children book so it took us by surprise. We also cut down some deliverables to be more suitable with the target audience and talked about vendors, requirements and regulation.

During this whole presentation and negotiation, we encountered our first risks. Linh Tran presented the client with a brand-new idea and potentially jeopardize our whole process. This idea was came up in week 6, and all members has turned down the idea, yet she still proceeded to go over group decisions and presented clients with it. She wanted to change the tote bag idea to reusable polyester shopping bag even though the tote bag is already in the process and the group has already found a place to execute it. It was a very unprofessional and selfish decision for the group, especially it was already half of the given time and we were already behind the original schedule.

after this we had a meeting together to resolve this, and had to write an email advised the clients to stick with the original plan

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Week 6

Risk Management

How might I use the Quality, Time & Risk Management techniques I learned about in class to improve my life? What do I want to do when I graduate? What existing risks are preventing me from succeeding in my plans? How do I mitigate those risks?

i think i can use thiss technique to manage my life projects better. As of now i have many many big personal projects that could last years and decades but the workload seems overwhelming. i havent had time to break it down and tackle it. not to say balancing everyday life, personal project, professional projects and studying. i think i could benefit to section everything into bite size and achievable tasks rather than 3 or 4 giant sections.

After graduations, im planning to further my studies into animation and game making, since Design Studies is a very general and overall Course, meaning i know a bit of everything but not particularly specialized in anything. My final directions is still animation, and illustrations, so im planning to study master in those. illustration is cool and more to my liking but im not sure if i can sustain myself by just being an illustrator, so I'm refocusing onto Animation, specially 2D animation. The reason why 2D and not 3D is bc i feel like in recent years the 3D animation industry has been oversaturated and asking for sth new, so they r developing the mix betwwen 2D and 3D or multimedium. And to be able to adapt to the everchanging and demanding industry, i have to had my basic first, therefore 2D animation. for me 3D is just a skill to add on the skillset, but to be really good and unique i have to start with 2D. so my plan for the near future is, getting internship in a 2D studio in Hanoi (Deedee animation would be great) > work to get experience first > once i feel like im all prepared and equipped with basic knowledge > animation master oversea (Singapore/France/England/Hongkong) > get a job in some animation studio and deveope my portfolio and personal project. During this plan i definitely have to develope some personal project to strengthen my portfolio. Honestly, im scared, I have all this plan but i dont know where to start and everything seems so overwhelming. i know i should start w bitesize baby step but it would be a lie if this isnt still overwhelming to me.

Anyway, project update

We just got update on the question list and the chosen brief in Dec 2nd, and it's Chuyện của Gấu. We r currently behind our schedule 2 week, so we will have to push our productivities up. I called for a quick meeting/ update to divide our workload and readjust our timeframe. also tell my team mate to do more research into BSNB, moonbear and Mường culture.

Our task curently

As of now, we divided into 2 group

task 1 - Calendar - Nhung Nguyen & Linh Dinh

task 2 - GIft box - Linh Tran & Mi Do

each person will get 4-5 tasks, this can be change accordingly in the future if anyone is/is not able to finish their task.

additional tasks: research and questions for client on BSNB fieldtrip

nhoong's personal task: communicate w clients and other leaders to agree on a day for the field trip; preparations and collect drafts from members and organize to present to client first draft on field trip

2 key dates this week:

9 Dec: client meeting 1 - Introductions and Hanoi zoo filedtrip

10 Dec: BSNB fieldtrip

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Week 5

Phase 2: team work

Working together you will need to design and produce your client's final deliverables in the coming weeks. How do you feel about this challenge? Do you have all the skills and knowledge you need to complete the tasks? What learning opportunities does the project offer for you as an individual?

In this week, we've just finished our presentation for our client - Four Paws/ BSNB. We expect to have feedback and a chosen brief within this week and hopefully can kickstart our project right away. For me personally, i am really excited for this project, the cause of the organization is definitely something I've been caring about for a while, and it's such a relief that such a big organization contributes to pushing back illegal bear bile farming. So for me to participate in a project like this and somehow contribute to the cause of the environment, I'm really pumped and beyond happy. I'm confident in myself and my teammates to bring the best possible result to this collaboration.

Although getting this brief is quite unexpected because it was not fully in my skillset, (my skillset is illustrations, animation, 3D so i if im being honest i was aiming for brief 2) but im up for the challenge of product development and packaging since it was also something i want to develop as a side profession. i definitely gonna have to research more into product design, packaging, budget, printing both on different materials like paper, cardboard, fabric, etc. Other than Design industry learning opportunities, i think this project will offer me in depth knowledge about the environment in general, and moon bear habitat and situations in Vietnam, AND opportunity to research more on Vietnamese culture because im planning to incorprate local myth, folklore and holiday into our project.

Project update

It's the 2nd week we havent got a respond from Jeremy about the chosen brief and everyone in my team and other teams is nervous. The thing is we dont know what content of which people gonna be chosen to proceed with the projects. We've been trying to contact BSNB trying to push them for an answer but we still havent got any feedback yet. So we r listening to our lecturers to push some fixed design up first, like Thank you card and stickers, some of our members r finding vendors and how to execute our products.