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Some people warm themselves at the expense of watching the whole world burn. Like a desolate winter night where the air is gelid it tears the skin and gnaws through the spirit’s bone, and one skitters through cracks craving for fire in a catacomb dearth of warmth. You dream of subtle heat to peel off the cold on your body. Though fire burns and blisters, in dark hours, one has to wed the…
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#Anguished Cries#Battlefields#Blistering Fire#Bone-Chilling#Craving Fire#Cruel Illusion#Dark Hours#Desolation#Empathy Houses#Erwinism#Extinguished Glow#Flesh Walls#FYP#Gardens of Trust#Gelid Air#Glass Castles#Human Kindness#Inspiration#Learning#Life#Locked World#Love#Mangled Lives#Motivation#Progress#Prose#Puppets#Searing Tides#Subtle Heat#Sun Shadows
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Stourhead National Trust
#nature#naturecore#national trust#nature photography#aesthetic#dark academia#flower garden#academia aesthetic#botanical garden#gardens#autumn foliage#autumn landscape#autumn leaves#autumn vibes#autumn#fall foliage#fall aesthetic#fall vibes#stourhead#english countryside#countryside
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Maltober day 4!! Hospitals and Helping hand (:
How yall feel about a Frankensteinian human John who puts himself together (with the help of Arthur of course) piece by insufferable piece??
#malevolent#malevolent podcast#john doe malevolent#had a lot of fun with this one#I struggled a lot with day three so this was nice lol#also I’m trusting yall with this drawing of a foot#don’t get weird about it#art garden
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Prompt 218
“Moom, there’s yellow-eyed creeps fighting ninjas outside the window again!”
Danny sighed, taking a deep breath- in for ten, out for eight- as he set the pot he was cleaning back in the sink. Dan- currently six- came running in from the living room of the apartment, where he was watching TV. Or he should have been if not for the bullshit outside.
He sighed again, picking up baby Ellie- currently closer to two- out of her highchair (even if she could just float out) and let his oldest drag him to the window. Sure enough, another fight was happening, with no vigilante in sight stopping it. Look, he knew most people didn’t live here, but it was still rude.
“Jordan, remember how I told you how violence isn’t always the answer?” Danny asked sweetly, Dan’s expression shifting to a wicked grin as he opened the window. “Feel free to practice tossing some fireballs while I clean up your sister, yeah?”
Ah, the sweet sound of surprised cursing and startled ecto-signatures. Maybe they’d be polite enough to take their spar elsewhere.
#DCxDP#DPxDC#Danny: I’m going to be a better parent than my parents & not get distracted by work#He has a couple of the clones’ cores too#Does it count as mpreg?#Danny has a garden shop/bookstore at ground level#He’s gotten better at cooking but he doesn’t trust them not to come alive so he sticks to drinks#Halfas are like phoenixes when they have to retreat to their core#They come out as babies thanks to having to rebuild their human flesh body from scratch#Why yes they’re in Gotham- he’s lived in several different cities over the last few decades#Doesn’t look a day over thirty somehow (it’s the ectoplasm)#Space Core Danny#Sun Core Dan#Moon Core Ellie#Why yes he named his clone-sons after stars#Shadow Core Orion#Bed Sheet Ghost#Earth Core Rigel#Monster Ghost#Light Core Algor#Tiny Ghost#Sun Core Draco#Yes Danny is an adult with a pair of small children & 4 more on the way what of it#dad danny#Mom Danny#He is both#prompts
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cassidy nation. how we feeling.
#cassidy will live guys TRUST.....#project eden's garden#project: eden's garden#p:eg#kai monteago#cassidy amber#diana venicia#jean delamer#jett dawson#wolfgang akire#wenona#wenona p:eg#grace madison#mark berskii#damon maitsu#peach is in the garden
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More doodles for the one piece spy x family crossover
#one piece#spy x family crossover#revolutionary sabo#portgas d ace#monkey d luffy#still debating on a spy codename for Sabo. since WISE seems to enjoy times of day I want it to have something to do with dawn or dusk#but that might be a bit on the nose#sabo’s walking stick is like his replacement for his pipe. blunt bludgeoning weapon that he can carry around in broad daylight#ace as an assassin decides his disguise is just going to be. being shirtless#plus those silly sunglasses but the main thing is the shirtless mess#because if he can’t be shirtless during the day in society then he might as well be shirtless when he’s out being a badass#the three of them are dumbasses (affectionate)#the only reason luffy looks as put together as he does is because sabo helped him pick the outfit and it’s extremely comfortable#mostly to help luffy get jobs. luffy does whatever job he feels like doing every day!#some days he’s a waiter some days he’s a gardener some days he’s a cashier#when Lois eventually gets over his paranoia over luffy popping up everywhere and finds out luffy is sabo’s brother he starts#paying luffy to babysit Anya. which of course means sabo is babysitting the both of them because trusting luffy to watch a child is maybe#not the best idea.
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it's about...longevity? stability? it's about natsume believing he'll be somewhere long enough to plant flowers and see them bloom. it's about him taking touko seriously when she asks him to tell her what flowers he wants to plant. it's about making something with his own hands, building a future with the fujiwaras. it's about him repairing a rundown home for someone else, restoring it because it's beloved to them, because it's the home of someone they love. it's about him seeing touko's joy and thinking about the youkai saying we'd like to look upon her happy face forever. it's about the box garden making him think of the fujiwaras' garden and his parents' garden, about the flowers being both the memory of flowers that bloomed there before, and the flowers that he and the youkai planted earlier that day. it's about him waking up in both worlds with sensei. it's about touko finding the petal in his hair. it's about him feeling how he falls short and the youkai saying, but you have such gentle hands...
#watch this right after the ephemeral ones to die instantly. i assume. i haven't tried it#i feel like so many of the emotional beats that destroy me in this story come down to impermanence#accepting loss and change. finding the beauty in transience. treating every encounter as something precious‚ knowing it's ephemeral#and this chapter is about...also accepting renewal? allowing oneself to think about the possibility of love lasting#allowing oneself to put down roots. nurturing what is there. building foundations. doing it for and with people#god you know what else you shouldn't watch this after if you don't want to keel over dead probably. the childhood home arc#natsume can now think of the memory of sitting with his father looking at his mother's garden#and associate it with warmth instead of pain. because he's no longer afraid of losing it. because of the trust he has built#because he knows he can build something. the people here have made it safe for him and he has and he is and he will#i am crying so hard i should be collecting my tears for water reclamation purposes#natsume's book of friends#natsume yuujinchou#natsuyuu meta#my posts#f
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Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Bristol, North Somerset, United Kingdom,
Bob Fowler Photography
#art#design#architecture#history#luxury lifestyle#style#luxury house#luxury home#country house#gardens#landscaping#united kingdom#somerset#bristol#wraxall#tyntesfield#bob fowler#national trust
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*during the tyrant's tomb*
meg, standing over a semi-conscious apollo with a medicinal cheese grater in one hand and a very hungry expression on her face:
apollo: why do I feel like a FUCKING PLATE of PASTA at OLIVE GARDEN-
#apollo#lester papadopoulos#meg mccaffrey#the trials of apollo#trials of apollo#toa#the tyrant's tomb#percy jackson and the olympians#heroes of olympus#pjo#hoo#poor apollo#poor lester#under no circumstances should meg be trusted with a cheese grater#getting a bit of an olive garden vibe here guys#the tyrant's tomb was def my fav book <3#his belly flab betrayed him once again😭
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some more spoiled milk characters for fun. Cross's upstars neighbor , and Geno. :]
#my art#utmv#spoiled milk#all will connect in hte end#trust#anyways reaper has a small garden on the roof :]#geno tutors kids with error while hes currently on leave from his job
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One thing that I feel is really interesting and often forgotten about Essek is that fundamentally, his characterization has been from the start based upon his desperation for external perspectives and connection, which, along with much of his narrative and mechanical positioning, means that he actually has an extraordinary and almost (but not actually, as I'll show) counterintuitive capacity for both growth and trust.
(Buckle in. This is a long one.)
In particular, I would argue, knowing now that many places where the plot touches Ludinus have long been marked for connecting back into the current plot, that he was quite possibly built as a prime candidate for radicalization by the Ruby Vanguard. He felt isolated from his culture, he was desperate for other connection, and he was certainly of the type to believe he was too smart to be drawn into such a thing, given his initial belief that he could control the situation and the fallout. If things had gone any other way, he easily could've been on the other side by now.
As such, he has been hallmarked by being fairly open to suggestion, perhaps for this reason, but the thing about that kind of trait is that it is both how people are radicalized and deradicalized. This is certainly true of Essek, who experienced genuine kindness and quite frankly strangeness from the Nein and was able to move from the isolation the Assembly had engendered to meaningful and genuine connection, largely propelled by his own internal reflection. By the time Nein are aware of his crimes, he's already begun to express regret to an extent and, furthermore, doubt in the Assembly, including explicitly drawing a line against Ludinus, even in a position where he was on his own and probably quite vulnerable.
Similarly, when the Nein reach the Vurmas Outpost some weeks later, he has moved from regret for the position he's ended up carrying a heavy remorse. This makes sense! He's fairly introspective, seems used to spending a lot of time in his own head, and was left with plenty to mull over. It's not some kind of retcon for him to have progressed well past where the Nein left him; it just means he's an active participant in the world who has done his own work in the meantime.
This is another interesting aspect to him. I've talked about this a bit before but I cannot find the post so I'll recap here: antagonists in D&D have significantly more agency than allied NPCs. Antagonists are active forces, against which the party is meant to struggle; allies are meant to support the PCs, which means they tend to be more passive in both their actions and their character growth. Essek was both built as an antagonist, in a position that gives him significant agency, and also was then given significant opportunity to grow specifically to act as a narrative mirror for Caleb's arc. Even when he becomes a more traditional D&D ally, he still retains much of that, though he occupies a supporting role.
I believe that this is especially true because of the nature of Caleb's arc, which I've already written on; the tl;dr of this post is that Caleb is both convinced that he is permanently ruined and also desperate to prove that change is possible. Essek is that proof, because he is simply the character in a position to do so. But this also means that his propensity for introspection and openness is accentuated! He has to do the legwork on his own, for the most part, because that's where he is in the meantime.
But he still ends the campaign necessarily constricted; he is under significant scrutiny, he's at risk from the Assembly, and he goes on the run fairly soon after the story ends. He spends most of the final arc anxious and paranoid, which is valid given the crushing reality of his situation. It would be very easy to extrapolate that seven years into this reality, he would be insular, closed off, and suspicious of strangers, even in spite of the lessons he's learned from the Nein and their long term exposure.
So seeing his openness and lightness now is surprising, but at the same time, given this combination of factors in his position in the narrative over time and his defining traits, it's not by any means unreasonable.
But one thing that I found so delightful is how much trust he exhibits, which is obviously a wild thing to say about Essek in particular, given much of what he learns is both earning and offering trust, which was something he says explicitly in 2x124 that he's never really experienced: "I've never really been trusted and so I did not trust." It makes up much of the progression of his relationship with Caleb, and the trust that he is offered by the Nein in walking off the ship is the impetus he needs to grow.
But I think it's easy to talk about trust when it comes to people who have proven themselves to you or to whom you've ingratiated yourself, and that's really the most we can say about Essek by the time he leaves the Blooming Grove. There is this sense in a lot of discussion of trust (not solely in this fandom) that it is only related to either naivete or love, but there's far more to it. Trust at its best is deliberate—cultivating an openness to the world at large is a great way to combat cynicism and beget connection instead. It allows a person to maintain curiosity and be open to experience, but it can be incredibly difficult to hold onto.
It is clear that the Essek we meet now is a very pointedly and intentionally trusting individual. He trusts Caleb and by extension Caleb's trust in Keyleth, as he shows up and picks up a group of strangers from a foreign military encampment and walks in without issue. He trusts the Hells to follow his lead moving through Zadash and to exhibit enough discretion so as to avoid bringing suspicion upon all of them. He trusts that Astrid will respond well to his entrance, but he also trusts himself and the Hells enough to execute a back-up plan in the case that she doesn't. In the end, he even trusts them enough to give them his name and identity.
He doesn't scan as someone who has spent half a dozen years living like a prey animal, afraid of any shadow he runs across in an alley, withdrawn into himself and an insular family, which would've been an easy route for him to take. He scans as someone who has learned the kind of trust borne of learned confidence and a trained eye for good will and kindness, which are crucial weapons one would need for staving off cynicism in his circumstances—as if he has survived thanks more to connection and kindness than paranoia and isolation. (If we want to be saccharine about it, he scans quite poignantly as a member of the Mighty Nein.)
So it is easy to imagine this trust and openness as a natural progression of his initial search for perspectives external to his own cultural knowledge. Though he makes those first connections with the Assembly to try to vindicate his personal hypotheses, he finds in them exposure to the deepest corruption among Exandrian mortals, which could've—and did, for a time—turned him further down that same dark path.
But it's also this same openness to exposure from the wider world that allows the Nein to influence him for the better, and in spite of the challenges he's certainly faced simply surviving over the past seven years, he seems to have held onto this openness enough to move through the world with self-assurance and a willingness to extend the kinds of trust and good will that he has been shown.
(I would be remiss not to mention that I was reminded about my thoughts on this by this lovely post from sky-scribbles and their use in the tags of 'light' to describe Essek's demeanor this episode, which is really such an apt word for it.)
#something something hope is a weapon hope is a discipline hope is a garden to cultivate!!!#HE'S SO GOOD HE IS TRULY EXEMPLAR OF THE WHOLE PHILOSOPHY OF THE NEIN AND I DO NOT THINK THAT'S AN ACCIDENT#truly just like. enormous proponent of letting trust and curiosity into your heart regardless of the horrors.#it's hard and it makes you more vulnerable and sometimes it hurts so so much but it will also save your fucking life!#cr spoilers#critical role#essek thelyss#cr meta#I was gonna apologize for the length but I'm not sorry. I'm also not sorry for being insane about him but he's so special to me.#head in my hands he's so GOOD HE'S BEST BOI! GUIDING LIGHT NORTH STAR!!! LOOK AT HIM!!!#also truly if i had two nickels for a span of time with no essek sightings where I wrote a lot of fic#with deliberate personal acknowledgment that I was writing some pretty maximal arcs for him in terms of character growth#and then end up getting essek for half an episode and having to go OH WE'RE GOING THAT FAR ACTUALLY. FUCKING INCREDIBLE.#yanno. two nickels. but good lord I am thriving that it's happened twice#augh this is ONE of the pieces I need to write this week. we're not gonna talk about it
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Anglesey Abbey - National Trust
#nature#flowers#aesthetic#light academia#flower garden#academia aesthetic#botanical garden#gardens#naturecore#national trust#english garden#english countryside#soft girl#academia#nature photography#secret garden#scenery
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Modern Elucien would be the hottest, most stylish couple at every social scene. But they would also be the couple that unironically wears matching Crocs.
#elucien#elucien head canon#I will not be accepting criticism at this time#he fishes and she gardens…that SCREAMS crocs#trust me I know because I wear them
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Dahlia
#dahlia#flower#flowers#plants#nature#Wentworth Castle#garden#gardens#national trust#colour#red and white#red#color#tim dennis#canon#photography#lensblr#tim dennis.tumblr#70d#canon 70d#original photographers#pws
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Hey remember when Sasha spent almost the entire Dover arc sopping wet, holding Zolf's trident, and making not-so-subtly violent threats towards Barnes?
#rqg#rusty quill gaming#sasha racket#wanted to draw something a little more ghibli-esque than usual#and then threw a few sketches in to fill in the empty space#also the fact that zolf trusted sasha to hold onto his trident is so important to me#I kinda wish she'd been his visitor is the garden of yerlik#I did this
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Lu Li La Lu Li La to watashi wa utau no
#vocaloid#hatsune miku#evillious chronicles#master of the court#clockworker's doll#the most underrated evillious song and its not even close btw#its called Miniature Garden Girl#go listen to it#probably one of my favs from evillious in general mothy is very good at the slow pretty songs he should do more of those#also yes i know the glass should be red and the mirrors should be yellow.#it would fuck with the color scheme and draw to much attention when the doll should be what your eyes look at first so i tinted them blue#i trust most of you are smarter than that but the evillious fandom can be like that sometimes#dont look in the comments of old uploads of re_birthday or servant of evil if you value your sanity
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