#Early Blight

[ofinkandstars]

I burned the blighted plant today,

And to the Great Mother I pray

That blackened fungus stays away!

[ruushes]

i'm sure there's a canon timeline but dao is a springtime game to me

[farmerstrend]

Comparative Analysis of Blights: Early Blight, Late Blight, and Gummy Stem Blight

In the field of plant pathology, the ability to differentiate between different diseases is essential for efficient crop management. This article examines the traits that differentiate Early Blight, Late Blight, and Gummy Stem Blight. Early Blight Early Blight, caused by the fungus Alternaria solani, is a common disease that affects a wide range of plants, particularly those in the Solanaceae…

[iguanastevens]

oh I saw this tomato for sale at the farmer’s market

this is my son gunch who has every disease.. plaes help

[quirinah]

ummmmmmm guys this dungeons looking a little dark here..........................ummmm..... hello??? guys??

[talaofthevalley]

I have no clue why they didn't make Amity more akin to a rival character instead of a bully. Because it would have solved A Lot of problems in regards to Amity and Willow, and Lumity becoming a thing.

The thing is that Lumity feels Super Weird at the start when Luz is trying to befriend Amity long before the girl shows any remorse for bullying Willow and making up for it. And it's not something easily brushed off when Amity is introduced being condescending and a dick to Willow. The bullying isn't something of the past, it's still going on.

Willow comes off as an afterthought in this dynamic, when she's the one who's been wronged by Amity the most. Their arc never feels like it resolves itself either, it just kinda peeters out.

If you've watched Little Witch Academia, Diana is who I think Amity should have emulated more. Diana is the top student at the school, she's stern and no-nonsense, a bit stuck-up, she comes from a prestigious family, she gets in conflict with the protagnoist, Akko, not because of bullying but because they have very different personalities and butt heads because of it. Akko considers Diana her rival, but this is one-sided on her part.

Willow and Amity could still have been friends in the past, but Amity instead pointedly ignores Willow's existence after their friendship has ended. She doesn't call out her friends for bullying Willow(that would make it seem like she cares) but she doesn't participate or encourage it. She's still not a good person, she still has to apologise to Willow, but changing their relationship from 'active bullying' to 'pretending Willow doesn't exist' would do a lot going forward for them I think. Still terrible, but more palatable in my eyes.

[itslilacmoon]

myosostis hexsquad in their college years live rent free in my mind,,, they're so silly goofy together. everyone is having a great time trust me

[pinkfey]

i may be obsessed.

[wizardsix]

I might make an edit later but I can't believe I forgot to mention in my review post how much I hated the first "big decision" in veilguard where you have to choose between treviso and minrathous and whichever you pick immediately destroys the other city and cuts the companion off from support/romancing but doesn't seem to have an actual effect other than being an annoying inconsequential decision in the long run .

whoever you don't help is hardened but it really doesn't feel like it, and I was thinking this would come back later and we'd have to choose between other companions so by the end we'd have a few hardened companions a few not which would really add some conflict but then. nothing happened. this mechanic is ultimately useless. another thing is that it happens so fast like Right after you recruit davrin, which is fine if they wanted to spring something on us to make us think fast but. there's no choice no strategizing. we're fucked either way lol. and why does rook Have to be there to save the city. we literally split up. are you telling me my companions are too weak to help? is that what the game is saying? we have these allies for a reason are you fr that they couldn't at least hold off the dragon until rook got there to deal real damage (if bioware really wanted rook to be the hero about it)?

I'm not buying rook being some all powerful being that can hold off a Blighted Dragon solo. sorry. especially since the dagger doesn't even matter here. you're telling me the crows can't handle themselves? you're telling me a fortified city like minrathous, home to all-powerful magisters and opposing shadow dragons can't do shit? where are the guards? templars? literally any kind of defence? all this choice tells me is that our allies are incompetent, nothing else. (and it's one thing to want to show how oh so powerful the gods are, which, we know that they Can nuke a well defended city we're not stupid but this choice was just unnecessary and poorly executed)

[ectoimp]

Gonna scrub my skin off because I stuck my hand inside a completely rotted soupy potato.

[blighted-elf]

My heart actually sinks every time I get a VTMB2 notification that sounds serious.

[drachenfalter]

"It's not about Home Security"

(AO3 Version here)

“I was wondering when you’d come here.”

Lilith was surprised to hear a familiar voice when she sank down into the booth, a pint of apple blood in front of her. 

It had been some time since she’d really talked to anyone outside of her sister and the colorful group currently living in the owl house. She told herself it was a safety precaution — most of her friends and acquaintances were high ranking members of her former coven, people loyal to Belos. Not people she could trust.

Or maybe that was an excuse she told herself, a reason not to let them see her in her current state.

But this was not a former colleague.

This was someone she had known since Hexside.

“Odalia?” Lilith watched as the green haired witch took a seat opposite of her. “Didn’t think I’d meet you here.” Her childhood friend had never been shy about her disdain for this hole-in-a-wall place.

“Well, yes, this place is a shithole,” Odalia said. “Exactly the place to look for a disgraced former Covenhead.”

Lilith winced and took a long swig from her apple blood. Not nearly as strong as the stuff Eda liked, but still enough to get a nice buzz. “Are you just here to insult me? Or is there something you want from me.”

Odalia rolled her eyes. “You always think the worst of me. Maybe I’m just trying to catch up with a friend? Maybe I’m concerned about an old friend who just lost everything?”

Lilith gave a humorless laugh. “Hah. You. Concerned. Very funny!” Lilith knew her better than that. Odalia looked at her, unaffected by the implied insult.

Lilith took another sip. “But I guess you are the first one to actually ask. Even my own mother didn’t bother,” she added in a low voice.

 “So. What happened?”

“You already know what happened. Everyone knows. Belos wanted to petrify Eda, and I couldn’t let that happen,” Lilith explained.

“Yes, I know that, obviously,” Odalia cut in. “I’m trying to figure out why you would throw it all away like that.”

“She’s my sister.”

“And a wild witch. Like all the other witches your coven captured and petrified in the last few years. Really, what did you expect to happen?” Odalia gave her an incredulous look.

“I- Belos promised he would heal her curse, if I got her to join,” Lilith argued. “I had to try, okay? How was I supposed to know he would go back on his word?” And then, realizing what Odalia said, she added, “And — and also, the last public petrification was thirty years ago.”

Odalia gave her a look. “You know you don’t have to spew his lies anymore, do you? I’m not part of your coven (Lilith coughed), sorry, former coven. But I know my customers. I notice when they disappear, and I know the difference between a statue and a fossil.”

Lilith balled her hands, feeling new guilt well up inside her. “We — he said they were irredeemable. Too dangerous to risk ever escaping.” Lilith shut her eyes and sank her head. “Oh Titan, I was such an idiot.”

“Yes, yes, Belos is a crook, what else is new.”

That stopped Lilith, because it was new. At least from Odalia. In their over thirty years of friendship, this was the first time she had ever heard the oracle talk so disrespectfully about the Emperor.

“I - what?” Lilith needed a moment to. "You knew? Know? But you never said anything to me."

“You were his Headwitch. Loyal enough to sell out your own sister,” Odalia stated. “I’ve gotta think of my own. And you wouldn't have listened, anyway."

“Hmpf. I guess that’s fair.” Lilith took another long gulp from her apple juice, the glass looking almost empty now.

"Not that it really matters. Crook or not, Belos is still the most powerful witch on the Isles." Odalia didn't sound particularly happy about it, Lilith noted.

They sat there in silence for a few moments as Lilith continued stewing in her thoughts.

“You know that you’re the first one of them to approach me?” she eventually said, bitter. She didn’t feel the need to specify that she was talking the small group of friends they were a part of since Hexside.

“Really?” Odalia sounded genuinely surprised.

“Yep.” Lilith finished her apple blood. “Not even my own mother sought me out. Not a word, not even a text or letter.”

“Well, I can’t speak for the others, but Alador has been very busy with work lately. Not that he’s ever been the social type, mind you.”

“He’s not overworking himself again, I hope?” Lilith continued, happy for the excuse not to talk about her own pathetic life for the moment.

“Please, that man is never happy unless he’s elbow deep in an abomination goo or tinkering on some new invention.”

“Sure. But you can still have too much of a good thing,” Lilith argued, speaking from experience. She’d definitely overdone it a few times while studying under Flora.

“Pfff. He’s not your husband, okay. And it’s kind of out of my hands now, anyway,” Odalia grumbled.

“Out of your hands?”

Odalia sighed and leaned forward, beckoning Lilith to come closer. “We recently had a visit from your least favorite upstart at the factory.”

Her least favorite– Oh. “The Golden Guard?” Lilith whispered back.

Odalia nodded. “He threatened to investigate our business if we don’t comply - not that we're actually doing anything illegal, of course - and now we’re selling exclusively to the Emperor’s Coven.” She leaned back. “At least they pay decently. But still. The audacity of that guy.”

“Huh. So, the Emperor’s Coven is buying home security…” Lilith mumbled more to herself.

“Don’t be ridiculous, Lilly,” Odalia interrupted her with a cold laugh.  “They’re not buying home security."

Then the business witch got serious.

"They're buying an army. "

"And I’d really like to know why.”

[simplylaunchpad]

Hunter: “Hey, Willow! Check out what I found in the basement!! I hear it’s an ancient relic… it dates all the way back to the early 2000s!”

[cam-the-orange-cat]

okay

so i'm writing a DCU fan fiction, and (as I often do) I got so stuck in my own head about writing the DCU characters "accurately" that I ran myself straight into a creative brick wall. To combat this, I started reading the comics of the characters I'm using and oh my god...

I've made a lot of jokes that DC "writes fan fiction of their fan fiction"—like, it shouldn't be called The Detective Comics Universe. It should be called the Detective Comics Alternative Universes. But I had forgotten how truly inconsistent and difficult to track some of these stories and arcs are. Don't get me wrong—I absolutely love DC. I'm a die-hard DC fan, always have been and always will be.

BUT OH MY GOD

I SWEAR

I'm convinced the writers have like, a singular piece of scratch paper and they're essentially playing a game of narrative telephone between comic issues. It's absolute whiplash sometimes. I got through a major arc and am still not entirely sure what I just read.

And I feel much better about writing these characters.

[welcometogrouchland]

something something fire magic as a representation of toxicity in amity’s life (which sounds really far fetched BUT! here me out:

She's practicing a fire spell in Adventures in the Elements where she unknowingly passes on the isles elitist/fantasy abelist ideas about magic to Luz, making her insecure in her magical abilities to her own detriment. Amity is also insecure in her magic this ep

She uses the fire spell AGAIN in Understanding Willow and like. Idk if I even have to talk abt the symbolism of fire in this ep. Amity literally ends up nearly killing her former best friend, with fire, bc of the way the isles toxic ideals of magic and strength split them apart, and Willow literally has every emotion other than anger burned out of her body because of this.

She uses fire magic in Eclipse Lake (I can't remember the exact scene but I do know that in FatCDP kiki refers to her as the "little fire starter") where she is, again, falling back into her pattern of needing to justify her existence, though this episode marks a definite turning point for her, in that she reaches out to someone going through the same thing as her and. Y'know. She almost gets through to him! She ends the ep in a better place than where she started though

and then we don’t see her use fire magic for the rest of the show, to my memory, bc she’s breaking free of those patterns fully from EL onward, even if she slips back into them occasionally (like in Labyrinth Runners). Last piece of "evidence" is how Boscha’s often associated with fire magic (her grudgby attacks teach Luz the fire glyph and she threatens to. Set Luz's eyes on fire in FatCDP) and also constantly bullies ppl like Willow for not fitting the isles idea of what a witch should be, and tries to drag amity back into her toxic circle in FTF just so she won’t feel alone anymore)

[cecils-dragons]

Best boys time! It’s time for Loblolly and Sun Blight!!! I’ve been distracted by story and new characters but oh my god these two have such a special place in my heart. They bring me so much joy and I tend to pull them out when I need a pick me up.