#I think I need a flower crown

[invezbin]

I would like to inform you lot, that this shit took me 13 hours

[stupidhany]

Something I have noticed by my recent play through of Ocarina of time is that the happy mask salesman seems rather found of pink flowers especially in the orginal 64 game

They still kept this little detail intact in the 3Ds version but more closer to the light bulbs to make space for the masks which I think it's quite silly

It's as if it was important to keep the pink flowers decoration for his shop

[hayaku14]

I'M LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS CONAN x FRIEREN COVER OH MY GOD

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Hottest JJBA Outfit Bracket - Round 3 Match 11

[apple-orchards-writings]

Kylar seeing you sell flowers and reasoning that you must know flower language and symbolism. They give you armloads of daisies (loyal love), heliotropes (devotion), red salvias (forever mine) and of course red roses. Now what you do with these is up to you, but you do have options they'll favor more, like making bouquets or crowns, compared to selling those. Kylar does smell a little less of garlic now too!

[flores-desyatov]

okay hear me out... candle emojis were such a staple in our cross-platform "🕯️ F/D for SkAm🕯️" campaign.. what if fans who went to see them live brought candles with them like at concerts?

[flowering-darkness]

🎧💕🎀 for clio!!

Certainly, friend!! Thank you very much for these!~

(question source: “Fluffy selfship asks!” by aceselfshippers)

🎧: What’s a song that reminds you of your F/O? - I have a couple of these for Clio! For example, a fair few SOLARIA originals make me think of her, because “SOLARIA with extra gender parameter and a Southern English accent” is in fact my voiceclaim for Clio (and yes it makes for a fun bit of “selfshipping twice at the same time”, given that SOLARIA is also one of my F/Os haha). Examples include Dawn by Circus, especially for the section that starts with “Caught in an avalanche”, and also At Your Word by NEOKIN, though ironically the lyrics of that one make it seem more like something Aria might be singing instead. So I suppose it reminds me of the whole selfship!

💕: Who confessed first? - This depends on which of my selfships with Clio you’re on about! In KHUX’s context (so, arilio), it’s Aria, in quite a hesitant sort of way; she doesn’t 100% understand that what she(?) feels for Clio is love and isn’t sure what to do with the feeling, so it’s actually by trying to express this to Clio that the answers are gleaned, and a confession/becoming girlfriends sort of falls out of the conversation. Clio had romantic feelings for Aria anyway, but was trying not to act on them because she didn’t want to put her(?) under any pressure to reciprocate - so, overall the confession is very (uncharacteristically!) nervous on Aria’s end and then becomes very relieving on both girls’ ends.

Conversely, for the FFXIV version of Clio, she is the one who confesses first to Lorenza (a bit spontaneously), and her doing so is what forces Lorenza to admit her(?) own rising feelings to herself. This happens.. either right at the end of the post-ARR story, or early into Heavensward; considering certain plot points in that area of the game, I can certainly envision some options for how things might get shoved into the spotlight more spontaneously.

🎀: What was your first date like? - Again, this changes a bit depending on the specific verse! (And is also the hardest one of these questions for me to answer, considering I’ve never been on a date IRL or anything.) I think, for KHUX, it would have been something along the lines of the two of us hanging out together in Daybreak Town one evening after coming back from a mission, which is something Aria and Clio would do quite often even before the confession, but usually Livian (Aria’s Nobody counterpart, and both girls’ best friend) would also come with them since the three often did missions together as a trio. So in an instance where they didn’t come along for whatever reason, and the two were doing fairly normal hangout things, I think Clio would pipe up and say “hehe do you think this counts as our first date” and Aria’s basically just like “maybe?? how do dates work???” because she’s desperate to get it right and figure out how to not mess up what she has gained (which is a running theme with her). She gets a lot more confident about it once she has a better sense of what Clio is happy with (which is, helpfully, pretty much everything - since Clio is quite an easygoing sort of girl in that regard, and a lot of things make her happy, which gives Aria the ability to then figure out what makes her(?) happy. And it all works out!)

In FFXIV, on the other hand, I think it might actually be Lorenza who takes the lead in setting up that first date, because I think it would take place somewhere in the Pillars of Ishgard, near the start of Heavensward. Even though things are somewhat tense at that point in time because of the aftermath of the bloody banquet, the matter remains that Clio and the others are guests of House Fortemps and do therefore have the right to be in Ishgard - so, why don’t they behave as any other wards of the High Houses would, and go explore the city and court each other and so on and so forth? (Clio may not particularly care for any of the typical stuffy noble nonsense that might feature in Ishgard, and Lorenza doesn’t too much either, but.. there is a certain element of something almost nostalgic about being in such an environment, given that she was once a noble’s daughter before the Flood of Darkness destroyed the Thirteenth. We don’t play along completely for the sake of it, though; it’s about blending in but also having a good time in our own rights.)

I hope that this answers your questions well, friend!! Thank you so much again for sending them in!~

[summertimemusician]

Linktober Day 8

Constructs

Way too late if ya ask me because Nayru and Hylia have decided to forsake me but it's done. *Collapses* This one did NOT want to write itself no matter how hard I tried even if I have so many feelings about constructs, in the end Hozier, the SS and TOTK soundtrack carried this to the final stretch even if it's just a small drabble lol.

Mostly referenced this time though, something soft and nice about Sky and Reader and Constructs, can be interpreted as platonic or romantic. Day 9 and 10 prompts will be released on the same day if it all possible though depending if I actually get some darn rest and have the time (because Legend is being a bit difficult on the Linktober Shadow one in contrast to how deity is going and I have irl stuff to get done, hopefully this is good enough until then.).

Wild’s Sky Archipelagos couldn’t be different from Skyloft, though no less breathtaking. The eternal beauty of the sky ringing true and everlasting over the cloud barrier enforced by Hylia, though if the sky found in your favorite Godslayer’s was beautiful due to the life that thrived in the loneliness in spite of it all, of creating a community that would outlast the wish for entropy Demise attempted to enforce into the world with the black hole heart of his greed, then Wild’s was because of the echoes of what once was there, that it was lovely and beautiful even in ruin as nature reclaimed what belonged to it by right. That even if the people were gone they existed, they thrived and lived and loved and even in tragedy, that mattered.

And nothing reflected that better than the Constructs which of outlasted the civilization. Made out of now decayed copper and sturdy ceramic, made cute, so the people would remember to treat their new helpers kindly, and made sturdy so they’d remember the people who loved adored them and their built in sense of duty and kindness to aid any guest of friend in need and given voices so they could listen to them speak, to make them just a little closer to humanity.

‘Many of them are deactivated now,’ Wild had told you, the first time you’d all stepped foot onto the main island, it was disorienting for you and most of the Chain (except for Sky, because of course your heavenly, cloud trailblazing boy would have taken to the abandoned, atmosphere cold and echoing sun gold clear beauty of the sky island the quickest like a fish whom was questioned on their ability to swim or a falcon on their ability to hunt, you were almost jealous if not for the fact you or Four always made lunges for his collar – Crimson didn’t come with through the portal after all, nor First’s Russet’- when he attempted to follow Wild’s lead and in consequence give you heart attacks), the little beings of ceramic and old bronze completely non hostile, going about tending to the islands with their faint whirs of gears and whistles of self sustaining magic batteries, voices cold but calm, almost comforting and the first pieces of technology far away from Sky’s them that weren’t immediately hostile towards your boys, ‘Mostly the soldier ones, the Stewards have remained though. Carrying on with their duty, making the place homey even if the people are gone.’

Something about that gave you pause, lagging behind your group in a long abandoned garden, the scent of Sundelions and lavender tickling your nose and a deactivate Soldier Construct coiled up in slumber. Remembering the ancient robots in Sky’s Era, carrying on in their little pockets of time, unaware that the people they were created to aid have long since gone, that their time had long gone, of Fi, everlasting, ever sleeping Fi, bound to duty, always remembering the one’s who created her, of Sky who treated her as a friend, and always watching as people so very unlike him but achingly similar came and went, unable to do anything. Loving like a ghost.

“Guest?”, came a little mechanical chirp, you blink yourself back into awareness, a Steward floating over with a tilted head, jade ceramic earrings clinking, “If I may, you look troubled. May I offer unsolicited aid?”

You can’t help but chuckle, shaking your head gently, an idea stitching yourself in your mind like threads of silk upon a gown, “No no, sorry, I’m alright, I was just wondering. Is it alright if I come on by to pick some flowers? They’re lovely, you did a great job caring for them.”

It inclines their head, chiming, something close to delight, as much as it can express as a machine, “Ah, I see you were admiring them. If I may offer a bit of trivia, Sundelions were the queen's favorite, you may. Will you take care of them?”

You smile, gently reaching a hand to pat it’s head with a nod, it clicks and whistles, surprised, but doesn’t pull away, “Of course, may I ask you a few questions as well? I’d like to know how many Soldier Constructs are resting now.”

You should also ask Sky what Fi’s opinion is on flowers, as well.

It might be a bit silly, but they deserve it after so long.

(Later, much later, when the Chain notices you’re gone after talking to Zelda in the Temple of Time high up in the. Sky finds you in the garden, gently weaving blossoms into a crown, the construct from before amicably chatting with you as it tends to the Sundelions with a ring of flowers around it's long, long neck.

He joins you, and when asked what his and Fi’s opinion is on flowers, he tells you she won’t mind, much less him.

Later that day, Fi’s gains a crown of yarrow, bluebells and morning glories

It’s not much, but it makes Sky smile, you hope she likes them.)

[king-of-the-mouseboys]

i lo v e men

[airawisteria]

[ID: 2 drawings of Naminé from Kingdom Hearts in a field of purple and orange flowers. She is wearing a white dress with frills and a flower crown with a flower crown in her hand. Her body is facing towards the left, but her head is turned to look forward. She has a smile on her face. Her shoes are covered as the grass seems to be quite tall.

The drawing on the left is set at night with balls of light representing fireflies while the drawing on the right is set at day with a camera flare giving the impression that someone is taking Naminé's photo in that image, unlike the one on the left.]

[graveyardrabbit]

y’know, I’m really happy with my current style, and I don’t know if I’d ever want to go back to having long hair, but I do think this particular selfie from 2019 is the best picture of myself I’ve ever taken

[otwdfanfic]

The fire lilies used for victory crowns on Caldera Cay aren't exactly a real flower, but they're pretty close.

My main inspiration was a PBS documentary about forest fires that I saw a few years ago, which showed these amazing South African fire lilies (Cyrtanthus ventricosus) which only grow after a fire because their growth is triggered by smoke. The image of their bright red flowers across a blackened hillside was amazing and I immediately knew I had to include them in my version of Caldera Cay, with a few alterations.

While googling the kinds of flowers that grow after fires, I learned about 'Ohi'a lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha), a Hawaiian flowering tree that is able to grow right on the lava fields! Like the fire lily, their flowers are bright red.

Feeling super inspired by these plants, I wrote the fire lily into The Downed Dragon. It's the perfect symbolic flower for the Defenders of the Wing because it grows over recently-burned areas of the volcano, as well as the basalt lava flows. Its striking red color makes a unique victor's crown (though it might clash against Baldur's hair haha). This red lily is how I imagine them while writing.

Thanks for reading! I just wanted to share the two super cool flowers that inspired that bit of world building.

[biblically-inaccurate-crangel]

*They're just about to head off for another futile attempt at stumbling around the village to find Altair's house when a gust of wind smacks a map of the village right in their face.*

₣ł₦₳ⱠⱠɎ, ₴Ø₥Ɇ ₱ⱠØ₮ ₵Ø₦VɆ₦łɆ₦₵Ɇ!

[ironforest4]

Wish I knew how to write for a wider target audience but unfortunately all my brain knows is gay spider and gayer egg

[wcvensouls]

when your husband rubs off on you ( @sorrymcm )

[littlestarxmilkyway]

I'll randomly remember that I secured them both and just get so excited.