#Flora colossi

[heckcareoxytwit]

How Groot got his speech back

The Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova confront Gardener the Elder of the Universe who is responsible for the Flora Colossi attack and Groot's shrunken state. Star-Lord throws Little Groot and Ant-Man as a tag team attack. Star-Lord, Gamora and Nova join in to attack the Gardener but the Elder shakes them off. When Gardener yells at them, he gets blasted by Rocket Raccoon. Little Groot jumps in and leaps atop of Gardener's chest when he’s down and speaks to him at length, finally transferring his own life energy into him to make him realize that Loki poisoned him. Now healed and back to normal, Gardener in turn revives Groot, making him full grown again and fully articulate. As the Guardians are impressed with this change, Groot turns to battle the other Flora Colossus.

Infinity Countdown #1, 2018

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Long story ahead....

The Gardener was approached by Loki to inquire him about the location of the Soul Stone. Even though the Gardener didn't know its location, Loki poisoned him and drove him mad, making him become paranoid for the desecration of his work by the hand of the advanced societies of the cosmos. Because of this, the Gardener attacked one of the last Flora colossi, the Guardian of the Galaxy Groot, and shattered him. He took all but one of the creature's splinters, and grew an army of violent and morbid Flora colossus. The Gardener first used his army to attack and overrun the planet Telferina. The army was intercepted by the Guardians of the Galaxy, among whom was Groot, who had managed to regrow his body from a splinter, but since his other remains had been grown into evil doppelgangers, he couldn't reach full size. When Groot managed to get close enough to the Gardener, he used his powers to cleanse his body of Loki's poison. With his sanity restored, the Gardener came to his senses, and his first action was to heal Groot's body, thus bringing him back to his original form in the process

[ohfugecannada]

Flora Colossi Headcanon 5/?: Flowers

Being sentient plants, Flora Colossi are capable of growing flowers. Unlike other plants though, not all of these flowers are for reproduction. In fact, a Flora Colossus individual will only grow the specific fertile flowers needed for reproduction a small handful of times across their long lifespan. Most of the non-reproductive flowers they grow are used in a variety of other purposes. For instance, communication and emotional expression.

Some flora colossus will grow flowers that signify friendship and platonic affection to others. Others will grow flowers with calming scents to comfort anxious or stressed friends and family. And in some cases flowers just sprout from certain individuals whenever they feel strong positive emotions like happiness.

There are also some flora colossus on Talunhia (Planet X) that were known to use specialised flowers as signs of aggression and threat displays to enemies. Though this isn’t as common as other more effective threat displays like growing thorns or sharper branches.

[literaryavenger]

Meet The Guardians Of The Galaxy

Summary: The Avengers meet the Guardians of the Galaxy for the first time.

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Avenger!Female Reader

Warnings: Minimal use of Y/N. Language. A lot of fluff. My poor attempts at being funny.

Word Count: 1.4K

A/N: I'm not sure what this is, but I was just thinking how it might go if the Avengers met the Guardians of the Galaxy. It started with the reader cooing at Groot and Bucky being jealous and this is what came out, lol, hope you like it! Needless to say, this doesn't follow the MCU timeline, like basically all of my other stories. Don't ask me how Thor knows the Guardians, the bitch just do. I also just needed Bucky fluff, like always, and I'm really happy how it turned out! Like always I appreciate asks and messages and am always up for it if you have any ideas.

Masterlist

By this point you’re very aware that there’s life on other planets, that the universe is a place much bigger than you ever imagined. Working with the Avengers allows you to see so many things that you never thought could possibly even exist.

Super soldiers, superheroes, enhanced individuals, even Thor himself is a demi-god from literally a different planet.

This particular demi-god is the reason why today you and the rest of the team find yourselves in the common room of the Avengers Compound, a spaceship casually parked in your yard.

They call themselves the Guardians of the Galaxy: Peter Quill, Gamora, Rocket, Nebula, Drax and Mantis, literal aliens currently bickering amongst themselves because they came to earth to visit Thor the wrong day, resulting in Thor not being home for their arrival.

"Is that a plushie?" you ask, a little confused, pointing at a little teddy bear-like thing on Quill’s shoulder and effectively ending their search for who is at fault for their mistake.

He looks even more confused than you and asks "What the hell is a plushie? This is Groot, he’s a Flora Colossi."

You decide, for my own peace of mind, to ignore the latin and instead focus on the cute little thing on his shoulder who is now moving and looking at you weirdly.

"I am Groot." he says in the cutest voice ever.

"Oh my god, you're just adorable!" You say, reaching your finger out for him to hold, freaking out at his cuteness.

"I remember when you used to talk to me like that…" you hear Bucky mumble behind you, which makes you laugh and, with your attention still completely on Groot, you tell him "God, you really are a needy bitch, Barnes." at which everybody laughs.

"Yeah? And you’re just a bi-"

"Hey!" you basically yell, interrupting him and startling Groot.

"I’m kidding!" he quickly says, putting up his hands in defeat. With one last glare at Bucky, your attention turns back to Groot.

"I am Groot!" he says again.

"I know honey, you said that." you tell him.

"I am Groot." he says, yet again, at which Sam answers "Yeah, you’re Groot, got it."

Groot says "I am Groot." again and, before Sam can say something that you're sure is gonna be very rude, you turn to the Guardians and ask "Why does he keep saying that?"

Rocket is the one to answer "Well, he don't know talking good like me and you. So his vocabulistics is limited to I and am and Groot. Exclusively in that order."

His answer leaves you all a little dumbfounded but again, for your own sanity, you all seem to decide to let it go.

Instead Bruce asks "So how do you understand him?"

"We speak Groot." Nebula says like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"How can you speak ‘Groot’ if he says literally the same three words, in the exact same order, in the same way every time?" Tony asks, starting to get a little frustrated, probably because the genius can’t do something that seems to come really easy to a bunch of space idiots.

"We manage." Quill simply says.

At this point Groot reaches his little hands towards you, signaling that he wants to be picked up, so, before Tony can make any sarcastic comment, you look at Quill and ask, excitement clear on your face "Can I?" while pointing at an awaiting Groot.

"Sure." He says, and you very carefully pick him up and put him on your shoulder.

"Be careful not to move too fast, he’ll hold onto your hair for dear life." Gamora warns you.

"Noted." you say giggling a little when Groot sticks his tongue out to Gamora, then she does the same to him, making everyone else laugh too.

"Buck, look how cute he is." you coo at Groot who's playing with your finger.

"’s not that cute…" he says quietly but you hear him, and apparently so does Groot because he says "I am Groot." in a very annoyed tone that prompts a chorus of whoas and protests from the guardians.

"The acorns on you, kid!" Quill says, and everybody just knows he said some really bad words to Bucky.

"Who even taught you that word?!" Rocket sounds like an exasperated parent.

"I am Groot."

"What do you mean, Drax taught you?! WHY WOULD YOU TEACH HIM THAT?" 

"The small tree asked." Drax says unbothered.

"Just because he asks doesn't mean you have to teach him dirty words!"

"How was I supposed to know that?"

"It's really common sense, Drax." Gamora interjects, calmer than Rocket.

"I am Groot."

"See, even Groot knows you don’t have common sense, Drax, that’s why he asked you." Quill says.

"I am Groot."

"I am not stupid, tree!" Drax glares at Groot.

"See, he’s not cute. He’s a disrespectful little shit!" Bucky says, also glaring at poor Groot.

"I am Groot." the guardians snicker, leaving the rest of you confused.

"What? What did he say?" you're too curious not to ask as Groot is now glaring back at Bucky.

"He said he doesn’t understand how a sweet person like you is with someone like him." Nebula translates, earning some gasps and snickers from everyone else too.

You look at Bucky trying hard not to laugh and he looks like he's about 5 seconds away from murdering Groot.

He takes a step towards you but Groot, still on your shoulder, makes the cutest little growl and starts flinging one of his arms around in Bucky’s direction, the other one holding to your hair so as to not fall.

"Oh, he’s ready to fight a bitch." you say unable to hold in your laughter any longer and the others follow you.

"What?" you turn around and Drax is giving you a confused look.

"What?" you say, calming down from your laughter.

"I do not understand. He does not resemble a female dog." he looks at Bucky and then back at you.

"He- I don- What?" you’re as confused as you’ve ever been, everybody else’s faces mirroring your own.

"His people are completely literal, he doesn’t understand metaphors." Rocket explains.

"Oh… fun." Tony says, still a little confused.

"Is it though?" you hear Gamora mumble, before Mantis starts giggling.

"It is!" she says with the joy of a kid on christmas morning.

"It’s really not." Nebula says casually, and from that the Guardians start bickering amongst each other.

You look at Groot who’s still on the warpath with Bucky and then at Rocket, the only one not saying anything.

He meets your eyes and simply says. "This is what I gotta live with."

"Oh, poor little racoon." you coo at him while laughing and that seems to stop the bickering.

"Hey, I am no racoon!" Rocket tells you defensively.

"I am Groot." Rocket groans and Quill snickers.

"Groot’s right, he’s a trash panda." he says knowing the people of earth will know why that’s funny.

Some of the Avengers laugh, but you gasp trying to hide your amusement for Rocket’s sake.

"You know, you might be right, Buck. He’s not that cute and innocent after all." you turn to your boyfriend, who gives you a slight pout.

"I’m cuter than him, right"- he asks you with those puppy eyes he knows make you melt.

"Aww, of course you are, baby." you give him a kiss on the cheek, almost forgetting about Groot on your shoulder until he talks again.

"I am Groot." the Guardians “aww” and coo at him but before you can ask, Mantis explains. "He says he understands now why you’re together."

"He says he can see how much you two love each other." Gamora finishes.

You smile at Groot and he smiles back before making the cutest yawn, looking at Bucky and doing grabby hands at him.

Bucky looks at you and you take his hand and guide it towards where Groot is, he’s uncertain but when Groot climbs on his hand Bucky looks almost like a little kid seeing a butterfly up close for the first time.

He brings Groot against his chest and the little tree gets comfortable and falls asleep almost immediately, while everyone else in the room coos at the two.

"This might be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen." you whisper, not wanting to wake up Groot, and Bucky looks up at you and flashes a smile bright enough to light up the whole of New York.

"I guess he is kind of cute." he says looking back down at Groot’s sleeping form, leaving everyone else snickering as quietly as they can, while he imagines how it would be to be like this one day with a baby that’s his and yours, and you can’t help but think the same thing.

Part 2

[theladyheroine]

Other Aliens in Transformers? 🛸

Hi everyone! I know I already posted a little bit ago, but I just thought of this rn! So, I understand there’s a lot of prompts about Transformers & humans being friends, but I do wonder what it’d be like if the Autobots crash landed on another planet?

These are just some examples of alien races, that includes

Na’vi from Pandora

Tamaranians from Tamaran

Twi’leks from Ryloth

Inhumans from Maveth

Wookies from Kashyyyk

Kryptonians from Krypton

Flora colossi from Planet X

Amazons from Paradise Island (I know they’re not aliens but they’re kind of close? 😅)

Asgardians from Asgard

Symbiotes from Klyntar

That’s all I have for now but I hope you have fun with this! Bye! 👋🏽

[raccoonfallsharder]

this question just came to my mind and has been lingering around in my noggin so

if rocket raccoon were to get his own solo movie, what kind of plot would you want to see???

CLOVER BLOSSOM! i missed you ♡ i hope life is treating you to a hundred gentle kindnesses and tasty snacks. this is a great question — thank you so much for asking it!! — and i really wrestled with it. because i think it’s actually so important for our guy to be part of an ensemble cast? he’s been solo for far too long? the map of rocket’s entire life and so many pieces of his identity (especially in the mcu) are based on this aching, painful tension between loneliness & connection: the forced alienation at the hands of his abuser and an uncaring universe; the self-inflicted isolation of his survival strategies and fears and guilty conscience — versus love, empathy, support, communication. joy-sharing. trust. friendship.and not only finding these things, not only offering them — but letting himself accept them, too. letting himself embrace them for himself.

so i think any movie i’d like to see with mcu-rocket would have to have some sort of relational component. (not me, writing way too much raccoon-smut.)

i’ll be honest. i think we got robbed in not seeing gunn’s short film about rocket meeting groot & tibius lark. i would love a rocket & groot film so much, and i'd love to use this as the (really long) cold open for the start of "my" movie. we would zip through the star-systems and asterisms, zooming in on whatever rancid incarceration-space-station gunn had in mind [feature coordinates here], and sink straight from the stardust right down into the pit-prison. rocket, groot, & lark would already be there — rocket trying to figure out his own escape.

i broke outta eleven prisons. this one ain’t no different.

lark will start storytelling, explaining his history with groot — then extracting rocket’s promise to take care of the flora colossus. perhaps, in the course of this conversation — a word i use loosely — lark would express a certainty that rocket would benefit from groot’s company as much as groot would benefit from his.

it’s good to have friends, lark might remind him.

once he’s secured rocket’s promise and groot’s safety, lark dies — which is when rocket uses lark’s leftover (robot) bodyparts to build a means of escape. then, as gunn described, rocket and groot burst upward from the pit, escaping their prison.

[roll marvel opening logo, with all the superimposed images in the letters being frames from rocket & groot comics]

we’d reopen in space, in some ship rocket had stolen from the prison. our two heroes have gotten far away already, and are about as safe as two fugitives with bounties on their heads can be. rocket would be trying to come up with a plan to get rid of groot while still honoring his promise to lark (more or less). he hates what he’s gotten himself saddled with, but he’s not going to break his word, either. lark had mentioned that groot had come from planet x/taluhnia, so rocket decides he’ll take the flora colossus back to his home planet and drop him off — wash the dust from his hands, and go back to hunting bounties and blowing up moons. good deed complete.

groot tries to protest, but rocket doesn’t understand him yet. still, groot’s distress is obvious. rocket only rolls his eyes and pushes onward, more and more irritated by his new ward.

unfortunately, when they arrive on taluhnia, rocket discovers that groot's people are long gone, and his planet is being systematically destroyed: flora colossi slaughtered, forests leveled in the name of planetary harvest. enter our villain: something more-or-less (depending on how cartoonishly-comicky you want to go) inspired by beavertron incorporated, under the advisement of shareholder castor gnawbarque (from blue river score, 2017). a little hacking on rocket’s part informs the duo that taluhnia is not the only planet beavertron has its hands all over. the company's a real piece of work, colonizing and destroying dozens — maybe hundreds — of cultures and planets in order to seize their natural resources.

groot is horrified by this additional information, of course: so many planets, at risk of being destroyed like his own. rocket is starting to understand groot a little better — he can at least read his body language and expressions — and though our little ringtailed guy is disgusted by beavertron, he still tells the flora colossus not to overreact.

don’t you know anything? this is just how people are.

rocket does, however, get super-frustrated when he realizes that his plan to dump groot on taluhnia can no longer — under any stretch of the imagination — be considered sufficient in keeping his promise to tibius lark. it gets him incredibly pissed, i'm sure — pulling his whiskers, probably kicking some grass — before finally sighing with his whole fucken chest and admitting that he guesses he's gotta blow up a frickin' coorporation now, 'cause how else is he gonna get rid of his adopted idiot?

oh rocket. i love it when you try to justify why you're doing something good.

anyway, highjinks ensue. rocket and groot probably manage to incapacitate gnawbarque — maybe there’s a collective somewhere that will pay good money to put this monster on trial. maybe beavertron collapses without gnawbarque, or maybe it hovers in the background to return for a future movie (perhaps volume two or three involves a heist at beavertron headquarters — trying to get some information down the corporation for good).

when the chaos settles and justice has been (more or less) administered, groot stands in the midst of a flattened taluhnisan old growth forest — bereft. rocket stands beside him, grappling with the increasingly-clear knowledge that groot really is the last flora colossus, and maybe this is the moment that our guy begins to realize how much he has in common with his new friend. i imagine rocket tries to offer some comfort — like he did for nebula in infinity war. a gentle, awkward pat on the hand, which groot tenderly and gratefully accepts. i imagine groot seeds as much of the forest as he can with his glowing spores, helping the leftover plantlife grow into something lovely and alive — but not sentient. the planet of taluhnia becomes a bittersweetly-beautiful living memorial.

and i imagine they both cry together. and perhaps that's when rocket begins understanding groot’s speech — fully, for the first time.

and then — standing side-by-side, silhouetted under the taluhnisan sky — rocket says, you know, i could probably bring in some bigger bounties if i hired some muscle. make more money that way.

oh rocket. i still love it when you try to justify why you're doing something good.

and then my babies fly off into the stars together.

[roll credits]

our post-credits scene will just be a montage of groot and rocket in various prison cells, with rocket nonchalantly saying i broke outta ## prisons. this one ain’t no different. on repeat. ad nauseam.

[encrucijada]

been meaning to send u this ask for a while but if you want to could you please ramble about zaccai and ismene from your #guard dog relationship tag 🎤 👀 you posted a snippet of writing of them and i’ve had worms in my brain ever since i don’t even know what specifically i want to hear about but i just need to Know About Them (<- girl who is being normal about it)

*pulls up my powerpoint* i'm glad you asked

zaccai and ismene aka guard dog are the god/worshipper dynamic @teddywriting and i decided to create one day because i pointed out we didn't have any, quote, "guard dog dynamics". you know those posts where it's like the dynamic between the guard dog character and the object of their affection who is often incapable from stopping said guard dog from killing whatever they deem dangerous to the object of their affection. yeah those.

their story has been baptised as let sleepers lie. it's high fantasy. it's post-apocalyptic. it's the result of shadow of the colossus being my favourite game and also tears of the kingdom coming out, teddy and i just kinda went insane over botw/totk zelink. here's the summary i wrote for it!

Sword of the Gods, Zaccai, has only one purpose instilled in him: give his life for that of the godling the Old Ones left behind after ending the world. In the wake of a land trying to learn how to live again is Ismene, all that remains of divine blood, and what she is meant to do for the people is unclear. They are alone with all the gods left for them being a temple, a ruined land, and each other.

now what does that even mean.

in this world there used to be gigantic gods people call the "old ones" now, as their language has been lost and no one remembers what they were called. they are what happens if you put the nature gods from princess mononoke (like the wolf chief moro), the colossi of sotc, won shi tong from atla, heavenly warriors from nausicaä of the valley of the wind, and dormin again from sotc in a blender. the main feature of gods in this world is their golden coloured blood, their "old blood", which is burning to the touch—basically what if fire was a liquid. these old ones had their temples built around them and once built the temples were just big enough for them, meaning they could move about inside but could never leave. why exactly they ended the world is inconclusive, but ismene suspects it's because they’d gotten fed up of the situation they were in. godhood is just a gilded cage etc etc.

ground zero of the cataclysm is virtually a wasteland, covered in silver flora. this plant life includes the silver grass and silver trees, which existed before the end of the world and were kind of like a gift the gods gave to the humans as every single part of the flora could be utilised or eaten (ismene and zaccai subsist on the silver trees, basically). they live in the temple from the summary, which was built for ismene but has the dimensions of an old temple... meaning it's way too big for just two (2) people. the cataclysm basically rotted the land and so only the silver flora can grow without being affected. think... nausicaä of the valley of the wind's toxic jungle.

ismene was born from a human woman. what are the details of her conception? no idea. maybe it's a virgen maría situation. she's called "the godling", the olympian to the old one's titans. she looks like a human person, except for the fact she's got golden eyelashes, golden freckles, her eyes shine at certain angles, oh and her blood is also golden... and she's burning to the touch. touching ismene's bare skin is like sticking your hand in an open flame. her tears are also golden! but they're more sparkly. she's has severe agoraphobia and social anxiety from being raised in the temple. the feelings of the old ones sorta translated into her and they were used to being trapped, so she was basically born as a caged animal. she's also very good at sitting still for hours and is bad at human physiological tells, like hunger.

zaccai was originally a troublemaker boy named aleister living in a town like a week's travel away from where the temple is now. he lived with his aunt maeve who runs the inn at the town. he offered himself as a volunteer to be the sword of the gods and they proceeded to basically... make him anew. don't you love it when characters are weapons. all that's required of him is to be good with the sword and to love ismene so much he would die for her, just an average healthy relationship. he likes plants, he doesn't remember aleister's past concretely but he has positive associations to plants so he latched onto them... so he's a gardener. he does most of the things around the temple as ismene is basically a living statue, she's an object of worship and that's it. he cooks, when they travel he manages the camping site, etc.

they're autism4autism 🫶

tidbits about the made-up religion

ismene wears a veil. think a wedding veil but richly laced, ismene makes them herself as it is something for her to do with her long hours of free time. regular people aren't supposed to see her, this simulates how old ones were generally hard to look at as they were... uncanny. but also because members of the highest hierarchy in the old religion wore veils. generally only takes it off around zaccai. she likes wearing it around strangers because it gives her the illusion of privacy

springs and pools! prayer and other rituals are done in the water. there's a pool room in the temple ismene sits in for hours at a time praying. only high priestesses and prophets are allowed into the water without permission, and also zaccai. they can be manmade or natural, natural are preferred.

imagery of the gods is allowed, the springs usually have statues rising from the water to mark them as sacred. the temple has stained glass windows but those are of the "eyes of the old ones". these are inspired by the talismans from the last guardian. they're basically like what crosses are for christians or the triforce are for hylians, they're the Religion Symbol. faithful will have them in their homes, etc. not two are the same.

others besides ismene wear veils too like i said, high priestesses and prophets. though their veils are less... busy?? you can better see the person's face.

the old ones are genderless! but they can be worshiped in male and female capacities for specific means. they are also amoral! they don't work by our code of ethics, they have no code of eithics. they're gods.

after making ismene the old ones went to sleep. where? unclear. underneath the earth is how i've been thinking it, but they could have also jumped into the stars like the giants from hilda or retreated into the ocean. the point is they're asleep, kind of like lovecraft gods, and that's why the book is called let sleepers lie.

the proper way to address ismene is "your grace", zaccai uses "my grace". you call old ones "your majesty". it's fine to also call ismene "godling" or "the godling", older characters have also used "little goddess".

teddy and i had done a few rp threads but we've kinda rebooted and started from scratch, using the previous threads as a loose outline. here's what's happened so far:

ismene and zaccai have been living together for at least two years. ismene thought zaccai was a god like her, the minor god to her primary god. except oops, when they had sex he bled and his blood... was red. not a god. this is know as the Red Blood Incident.

this created a bit of a rift between them they are trying so, so hard to mend. they are all each other has. but they weren’t socialised enough as puppies.

they leave the temple for the first time in those 2(ish) years. they make it to the mountains where they find a commune of faithful who say they live with and worship an old one. among these faithful is a girl around ismene's age named amaryllis (she's important).

ismene and zaccai are brought to the old one... who happens to just be a regular woman. turns out that when you destroy the world and leave it to its own devices so you can raise your new god creates some religious anarchy and people are opportunistic.

ismene is horrified at the sight of this false goddess who has been lying to these people, taking their goods and love and time. ismene orders zaccai to cut off her tongue. so he does! the girl amaryllis helps him hold the false goddess down.

it starts to rain and so our duo is invited to stay at the commune. they find out telling people everything they believed in was a lie, thus shaking their way of life, makes things complicated. zaccai and ismene hang out with the faithful. meeting caspian, who'd been promised by the fraud he could one day have his dead children back. amaryllis tells them the fraud had promised her she'd be reunited with her lost sisters (and also that she'd be a prophet). they meet naida, who had found purpose with the fraud and is pissed now. silas, a painter who came here after his mother died. vesta, the cook who teaches zaccai food just doesn't have to be silver tree byproducts.

silas asks if he can paint ismene so they can have a reference to make a statue out of her. silas doesn't see a goddess. silas sees a hot girl he thinks he can charm but she's too autistic and demisexual to know what flirting is. (he tries to lift her veil to look at her face and zaccai almost kills him lol).

they visit the fraud who is being cared for by a man named rupert, who happens to be a doctor. ismene learns her name is rosa and she did this because, why not, if she could make a place for herself at the top of the food chain why not take it. she gave people purpse. zaccai meanwhile is getting his arm treated by rupert because ismene burned him to prove she was the real deal, rupert implies he knows zaccai. they don't discuss further.

smaller details

"knowledge or faith" is the philosphy of the task ismene (and zaccai by proxy) have set upon themselves. they need to find the knowledge of the old religion the old ones did not explain. they need faith for the new goddess

"do you wish my skin was like hers?" not being able to touch is Killing them. ismene and zaccai share a bed because it's safest (and also because they were literally made and built codependent). meeting amaryllis did no good to ismene's self-esteem. that's a girl who can touch the man you love without hurting him

ismene just burned zaccai on his shoulder blade for stepping into the pool without her say-so. act of incredible violence carried with the intimacy of a lover or whatever

"maybe i am not a god you pray to."

totally unrelated: the amount of times teddy and i have said "weird possessive sex would fix them" is unreal

THERE IS WAY MORE BUT I AM GONNA LEAVE IT THERE AHHHH THANK YOU CRÉME ILY 💖

[florasentinel]

it’s important i reiterate this here as this blog may take from different canons but tends to gravitate more towards the hidden gem storylines molded into the muns own canon. also , it is essential to note that groot ABSOLUTELY does not have relatives out there who are like him. some comic interps suggest that there are other tree organisms that are not groots , but are twig like beings that will say ' i am twig ' or simply just ' twig ' just as one example. it takes away groot’s own rarity if everyone suggests he is the last of his kind but then also there are other flora just like him. :(

planet x , where he comes from , was destroyed and all of his kind were destroyed with it . . groot is very sensitive to endangered species and has a desire to cultivate life as much as he can. he is / was nothing like his kind and actually attempts to save many human lives , going against his predatory instinct. groot also never used humans as a food source. he prefer(s) to eat regular vegetables that he made , but that would also mean he would not grow into his full and most fearsome form like his brethren had willingly. groot is a true pacifist of his kind. hannah , the first human he had truly come to adore helped groot realize his desire to cultivate life rather than destroy it.

his kind was FEROCIOUSLY AGGRESSIVE towards humans and anyone outside of their wicked circle. groot can trigger many evolution forms. here are the forms that will be adhered too.

sapling groot - his tiniest form. this is the form he takes if he happens to lose his life and is replanted. it is the beginning stages of his rebirth after his twig grows.

baby groot - this is the first form that groot takes with legs. he is still very small within this form but that does not mean he is not strong with his roots. watch out if you make him angry !

adolescent groot - also known as teen groot. growing bigger everyday ! this groot is a bit more moody.

adult groot - normally this would be where the evolution tends to stop. adult groot has seen many moons. he has the capabilities to grow bigger , but he chooses mostly to stay in this form as it is his happiest.

kaiju groot - groot's terrifyingly monstrous form. he is devastating and tends to not be able to control himself. sometimes he may make the decision to hurt his own allies. groot does NOT prefer to be in this form.

talking more about kaiju groot , i want to put here what to expect when seeing him:

this is the form that many of his fellow flora colossi family members took. groot himself does not prefer this form unless it is completely necessary. hurting his friends may prompt this as a last resort. this groot is incredibly tall and incredibly strong.

rocket is one of the few individuals who can coax groot out of this form.

[tangleweave]

@smolcuriouskitten (continued from here)

Groot cannot blame the woman -- she is youthful to his eyes -- for being momentarily frightened. The trees of this world are not Flora colossi and do not move with either swiftness or conscious intent. They remain asleep, and likely shall continue to slumber for millennia. To meet one, then, that is awake, alert, and curious? To be startled by this is as natural as it would be to be startled by a pile of rocks that sat up and began to talk.

Most humans have never met a Kronan, either. Groot thinks fondly of Korg for a moment.

The tap upon his face by the woman's digit is unexpected, but it is obviously not meant as an assault, not when she cringes instantly and apologizes for disturbing him. The apology, he finds an amusement -- she could not have known what she had nestled against. He had been as steadfast and motionless as any other tree here. If anything, he would prefer to apologize for startling her, but likely as not, she would not hear his offering of a nuanced tonal mixture of chagrin, conciliation, and hopeful introductory salutations. Not when most everyone only seems to hear...

"I am Groot."

His speech is not precisely speech. Where mammals have vocal cords, he has bark. Where they have lungs, he has cavities. And where they have teeth and tongue, he has corewood and vine. Other Flora colossi would be able to hear every layer of his communication, perceive every shift and flavor that makes the sentence unique and tailor-made for this moment.

To most mammals, it is a wasted effort.

But perhaps there is another peace offering he can make, one which does not rely on his limited capacity for verbal exchange. He detects in the air immediately surrounding her a blend of scents derived from plants he recognizes. He has sampled many throughout this arm of the galaxy; the flora adorning Earth is no exception. And the practice of wearing perfumes is not restricted to this world. For every sense that exists among sentient beings, there is a market dedicated to the manipulation thereof.

It is his observation that humans adore flowers for both their visual and olfactory beauty. This one is clearly indulgent in the latter form... so perhaps that is a good place to begin.

Groot reaches out with a cupped hand. From the center of his palm, there arises a green stem that blooms into a delicate white flower with startling speed, reaching full maturation in the time it takes for his hand to come within reach of hers.

[trisskelp]

Hey uuh since you also ship grocket, have you got any headcanons about them? ❤️🌳🦝

OMGGG sorry for answering late but YES i think groot is verryyy physically affectionate and will just scoop rocket up and hug him whenever. rocket will pretend he hates it but he spends more time on groots shoulder than he does on the ground …no one had ever looked out for them before they met so they both take care of each other in any way they can like rocket will make sure they spend as much time on sunny planets as possible and groot makes sure rockets eating well. i think in flora colossi culture they believe in soulmates and groot knows with everything in his heart that rocket is his - rocket never believed in the idea before but he knows him and groot were destined to be together.

[11ersfilmkritiken]

I Am Groot (2023) oder ein Flora Colossi mit weiteren kleinen Abenteuern

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[lamilanomagazine]

Marina di Grosseto: venerdì 18 agosto 2023, ore 21:30, al Forte di San Rocco, in concerto Stefano Di Battista

Marina di Grosseto: venerdì 18 agosto 2023, ore 21:30, al Forte di San Rocco, in concerto Stefano Di Battista. Venerdì 18 agosto al Forte di San Rocco di Marina di Grosseto, Grey Cat Festival in collaborazione con la quarta edizione di San Rocco Festival presenta il concerto di Stefano Di Battista. “Morricone Stories” è il suo ultimo album, un matrimonio perfetto tra jazz e una selezione tra le oltre cinquecento colonne sonore morriconiane: da film come “C’era una volta in America”, “Il buono, il brutto e il cattivo”, “The Mission” e “Veruschka” fino al brano “Flora” che il Maestro scrisse proprio a Di Battista. Le musiche da cinema di Ennio Morricone sono una miniera inesauribile, un tesoro di fantasie del pensiero associate a immagini di ogni genere, e sono anche oltremodo versatili, disponibili a essere trattate, ritrattate, riscoperte. La musica di Morricone significa esaltazione di tracce melodiche spesso fortemente emozionali, in una trama di armonie intelligenti, ed è esattamente quello che fa il jazz, e ancora di più quello che fa uno come Stefano Di Battista, che con i temi del Maestro ci gioca come se fossero materia magica, sostanza di quella speciale e misteriosa zona della musica che ci riempie quasi inspiegabilmente l’anima. E non c’è neanche per forza bisogno di attingere ai colossi dell’immaginario cinematografico. Stefano ha scelto in qualche caso temi marginali, o meglio film marginali oppure dimenticati. Ricercatezze certo ma molto preziose, e naturalmente c’è il godimento puro di ascoltare temi che conosciamo benissimo che diventano perfetti standard jazz, come “Metti una sera a cena”, swingante e ironica, oppure “Il buono il brutto e il cattivo” che si rivela come un duello di improvvisazioni, col sax che prende la parte di quel breve spunto di note che all'origine fu ispirato dal verso del coyote, prima di sciogliersi nell’emozione purissima del Tema di Deborah di “C'era una volta in America”, che è una delle più belle invenzioni di Morricone, alla quale teneva moltissimo perché esprimeva molto bene il suo ideale di melodia scritta con un esiguo numero di note col massimo risultato. Per non dire della delicata rilettura di “The Mission”, con un elegante passaggio dall’oboe originale al sax soprano, fino alla sorpresa di un inedito, un pezzo intitolato “Flora”, che il Maestro regalò a Di Battista. Alla fine pare un meccanismo perfetto, che potrebbe continuare per altri dischi, come una serie, come se una parte del pensiero di Morricone fosse stata sempre, magari senza saperlo, votata al jazz. Prima del concerto sarà possibile partecipare ad una visita guidata al Forte San Rocco. Ingresso: € 12 – ridotto soci Arci, Under 25 € 10 Grey Cat Festival è promossa dalle amministrazioni comunali di Follonica, Scarlino, Grosseto, Roccastrada, Castelnuovo Val di Cecina, Castiglione della Pescaia, Massa Marittima, Monterotondo Marittimo, Montieri, Roccastrada, Suvereto, (coinvolgendo ben tre territori provinciali) e dal Parco delle Colline Metallifere. L’organizzazione e la gestione del festival è curata dalla Associazione Music Pool, la direzione artistica da Stefano “Cocco” Cantini e vanta una ricchissima serie di collaborazioni, tra cui il FAI – Delegazione di Grosseto. Il Festival è sostenuto dalla Regione Toscana e, nell’ambito dei progetti di Music Pool, dal Ministero della Cultura e dalla Fondazione CR Firenze.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[ohfugecannada]

Holy hell! This article talks about the possibility of a Groot centric film and how Planet X and the Flora Colossus might be explored in the MCU.

I had an idea for a gotg vol.4/groot-centric movie pitch stewing in my head about groot ii being taken to Planet X to punished for his (biological) dad’s crimes and the new guardians having to go rescue him and fight the evil flora colossi there. The flora colossi are just a fascinating species to me and there’s so much you could do with them story/lore wise.

I personally love the idea of some flora colossi as villains or their society being corrupt or flawed in a way, like their treatment of the Marian e mammals or (in some versions of groots origin) their abduction of other life forms for experimentation. Not only would it be a great call back to the villainous groot of the 1960s and be in line with groots origins in the comics, but they’d also probably incredibly intimidating villains for the guardians of other heroes to face off against based on their powers alone, considering what we’ve seen the guardians’s groot is capable of on his own.

Also please Kevin Feige, if your reading this, please get Guellermo Del Toro to direct and/or produce the movie so we can get some actually cool and sexy Flora Colossi designs please I’m begging you-

[ohfugecannada]

One of the best things Jonah Lobe added to Groot lore is the idea that, like trees on earth, Groot is a biome in of himself and his bark houses many other organisms including fungi and animals. Which is shown in Lobes book Marvel Anatomy with a squirrel chillin in Groot’s chest cavity.

[madness-on-the-milano]

Name of the Game Chapter Forty One Is Up!

@woozletania @grootiez @trashpandaorigins @enigma731 @netbug009 @mattchewystuff @cherrycoloredsoot @jillianspina @caffeineandconceptart @astarprince @rogertaylorswift

Rocket makes a plan. Kylam attempts reconciliation with Gakhsi. Stakar and Aleta are reunited.

The First Line

There was nothing hotter than Stakar when he was angry. As she watched him pick off the same people who had almost gotten her killed, she felt a growing sensation she hadn’t felt for some time and wished the moment could last forever. ‘I should get shot more often,’ she thought. He only ever got this riled up when she got hurt. Her shoulder chose that moment to flare up with pain and she ground her teeth and allowed her second-in-command, a Xandarian named Sama to help her stand. She staggered, but the other woman took her weight easily and walked her to the pod. “Isn’t he the sexiest thing you’ve ever seen?”

Read the rest here!

[vinodiriso]

"I am Groot." The sour grimace along with the deep frown are evidence enough. Sorry Ashe. Groot absolutely hates the hat.

@curiopeculiar || unprompted asks I cherish immensely.

ASHE. ♤

Cue her absolutely confused, little one, ‘cause she doesn’t understand how can one look so pissed when they’re introducing themselves. BOB, on the other hand, is just frantically signing Groot to drop the act.

“Well— nice to meet ya, Groot. I’m Ashe.”

[nimata-beroya]

Star Wars Writing Resources

Note: None of the resources below are mine. I just assembled them in one place for your and my convenience. Feel free to use and reblog. If you know of any other useful site missing from the list, let me know and I'll gladly add it.

NOTE (05/17/23): There's a new, much more comprehensive version HERE.

Places

Interactive Galaxy Map by Henry Bernberg

Map of the Galaxy

List of planets and moons [Wikipedia /needs expanding]

Planet Name Generator 1 [SciFi Ideas]

Planetary System Generator [Donjon]

Character Development

Star Wars Name Generator 1 [Donjon]

Star Wars OC flow chart by @thefoodwiththedood

Star Wars Name Generator 2 [FantasyNames]

Star Wars Name Generator 3 [FantasyNames]

The character creator

Droid Name Generator

Star Wars Randomizer by @aureutr

Clone Trooper face/helmet template pack by @fox-trot

Clone Picrew by @batdad

Character Picrew [Twi-leks, Zabraks, Torgutas and Nautolans] @/megaramikaeli

Star Wars Character Templates by SmacksArt [the ULTIMATE battery of template for any human/humanoid original character in any era. From troopers to droids, from Jedi to Sith, from KOTOR to the sequel Trilogy. 100% RECOMMENDED]

Miscellaneous

Standard Calendar and Holidays [including month names!]

Galactic Standard Calendar [wookiepedia // including week day names]

Date converter according to SWTOR [Google sheet]

Hyperspace Travel Times (to calculate how much time would take to go from point A to point B within the GFFA)

Materials (fabrics, leathers, silks, plastics, construction, metal composites, etc.)

List of TCW Opening Quotes

Ship Generator 3D

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Republic Military Hierarchy Flowcharts by @cacodaemonia

Languages; Phrases and Slang; Vocabulary

Coruscant Translator (from/to Basic from/to Old Corellian, Proto-Basic, and Smuggler's Cant; Catharese and High Cathar; Cheunh and Minnisiat; Echani and Thyrsian; Mirialan; Flora Colossi, Ortolan, and -everyone's favorite- Mando'a)

In-Universe phrases and slang [Google sheet]

List of phrases and slang [wookiepedia]

List of equivalents to real-world objects [wookiepidia]

Star Wars Menu Generator

Helpful blogs

The amazing @fox-trot, who not only makes astonishing art and write an amazing fic, she also responds to medical questions and gives all kinds of references for writing medic characters.

@writebetterstarwars, which seems to be inactive, but there are a bunch of references there.

@howtofightwrite The place to find out how to write a good fight scene.

@scriptmedic no longer active, but it has a great deal of useful information.

@scripttorture for your whump needs. Major trigger warning for all its content.

Writing in General (For those who don't want to die like Stormtroopers)

SlickWrite: Completely free; online. Checks grammar, punctuation, flow, and writing style according to different settings (including fiction writing).

ProWritingAid: [RECOMMENDED] One of the most thorough online proofreader I've ever used. Although when using a free account gives extremely thorough feedback, it gives +20 different in-depth reports for only the first 500 words for free. However, you can earn a premium account license (for a year or for life) if you get 10 or 20 new users signing up for free; (if you wouldn't mind doing so using the link above and help me earn mine, please). The settings allow you to check your writing according to your needs, from general to formal to creative. It has a bonus that you can check depending on the genre you're writing. For example, in creative, you can choose romance or sci-fiction (there are 14 sub-genre in total). And just like google docs, you can share a document, and people can view, comment or edit.

LanguageTool: [RECOMMENDED] Another excellent proofreader. It also has a word limit in free accounts, but if you use the add-on for Google Docs, it counts each page as a new document, so hitting the limit is nearly impossible. It helps you to rewrite a sentence, even if it doesn't raise any flags; it's very useful for when your sentence is grammatically correct, but it doesn't feel quite right.

Grammarly, Hemingway Editor: No so great, but they do the basic job.