#Orchid Speaks

[sensaina-ran]

So I've been thinking more and more about messing with the middle/end of Killing Morph and rewriting/continuing it, so I finally started! Here's my fic, Isomorphism, where I start in the middle of the manga, ignore the forest hotel and ending, and rewrite and continue it the way I want to.

If you have ideas for anything you wanted to see in Killing Morph, let me know and I may consider it :D

[orchid-morningstars]

oh no, I created another blog

@flowers-for-lesbians is my main

#Orchid speaks -Reblogs

#Orchid awnsers -Asks

#out of character

[bandofchimeras]

holy God it is taking 3 cars full to get my stuff moved. I did not think I had this much 🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫 monks knew what they were about taking vows of poverty

[orchid-harmony]

You’ve been drowned :3

I can't swim :D

[orchid-morningstars]

your telling me your band mates haven't mentioned it? it's in 2 days

Hi, we're both opening a show for [band name] in a few weeks. I just wanted to reach out to just get to know you

~Isla (@orchid-morningstars )

oh? alright thank you for telling me Isla, that’s the first time I’m hearing about it-

[taylornation]

Our Speak Now (Taylor's Version) album collection is growing into a beautiful bouquet with the addition of this new Orchid Marbled Vinyl Edition! Pre-order now while supplies last at store.taylorswift.com. 💐💜

[aceblueorchid]

when they regrouped near spawn, i thought its endearing that Mumbo grew taller and Rendog shrunk. It REALLY shows their play style. Mumbo jumps alot while chatting, always moving, never sitting still. and Rendog sometimes shifts while talking to players or to the camera/audience.

[fallen-kingdoms-crk]

To pitiful vanilla : Does the orchid take away your soul jam ?

"..."

[A vine starts to inch towards you before Pitiful Vanilla quickly swats it away with a slight panicked look before looking at you with a seemingly forced smile]

[said Orchid looks very displeased with his actions]

"My, my... you're certainly a curious one! why don't we talk about something else? like... how you got here? how you feel?"

[spiffyspidr]

This is one of my rarest orchids, known as Eulophia quartiniana! (:

It's a terrestrial, deciduous orchid that's native to Ghana. In the wild it normally would grow in grassy plains.

This species almost disappeared from the wild many years back, but was reintroduced again more recently!!

121 small plants were grown by seed, and 100 of them went back to Ghana. My neighbour was the one in charge of growing the orchids for their reintroduction, and was allowed to keep a few of the smallest plants for his collection.

My orchid is one of those few he kept from the 121 seedlings he grew, and I believe it is somewhere around 20 years old now and flowering for the first time! :D

[bumblingbabooshka]

The Queen and her Advisor / The Explorer and her Knight

[sensaina-ran]

I’m a little obsessed with Senmu’s work but I just don’t know much about it, so I’ve decided to jot down a list with some details for my reference

A Classroom Bereft of Angels (top fav, also longest) - just great overall. Who really killed our perfect class president and why?

The Curse of the Three Sisters - creepy and gory, chef's kiss. Why challenge an urban myth?

The Euthanasia Facility - starts slow and picks up near the end, sad. Leech girl appearance. Is death what you really wish for?

I'll Always Be With You, Okay? - not bad. Is an imaginary friend always just imaginary?

I’m Not Scared! - interesting, not my fav. Is being completely fearless a good thing?

The Path I Walked - interesting, sad. Leech girl appearance. Would you choose to redo life if it meant things could change?

W H I Y M / What Hides In Your Mind? - surreal, cryptic. Leech girl appearance briefly. What does it all mean?

When You Grow Up - not bad. Do childhood dreams always come true?

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

I don’t know if anyone following me keeps orchids but I’ve gotten these three as birthday presents and I’m obsessed ✨✨ the red and white one smells like raspberries and chocolate

[bandofchimeras]

it's rly normal for me to throw my desires and my needs and emotions under the bus, easy. when someone tells me their boundaries or needs so nonchalantly - it squeezes that iron band around my heart like fuck, oh I could be doing that too. a reminder of how small and convenient I've tried to become. terrifying to realize it's all swelling there under the surface - but also promising. hopeful. opens a door into a shimmering future where maybe it's okay to want, to need, and to ask without so much shame.

[ask-orchidthemew]

ASK: Pffftt- wow! Good job leaving the only people who wanted to help you, Orchid! Good luck getting your memories back now!

ORCHID: Oh boo-fucking-hoo, I seriously doubt that smooth-brain and his band of shut-ins were gonna be oh so instrumental in helping me get back my memories. Didn't need him to find that scroll either, did I? Where the hell is it?

PALI: I knew it.

AQUA: Oh, that didn't take long!

ORCHID: The scroll. Where is it?

PALI: Yeah yeah, here. You left it back at the temple. You're lucky some other mon didn't make off w--

ORCHID: Save it. Who the hell said you could take it at all?

PALI: I could ask the same thing of you.

ORCHID: Whatever. Fuck you and all that.

PALI: Hey, wait! I'm not done with you! Why did you need a scroll about some empress from the old empire!? Did you know her? Did you know her children? They all died and mew society went to hell around the time I was born. Did you have something to do with that? For Palkia's sake, Orchid, ANSWER ME!! Give me something! You owe me that! I deserve about my past, about my father, where I came from, just as much as you!

ORCHID: I don't owe you SHIT. You want answers? You want "closure"? Figure it out on your own. Don't whine to me about it.

PALI: Orchid! ORCHID!! Why that insufferable-- Don't think you're getting away from me that easily, you arsehole. I've hunted you down before, I can do it all over again.

[krogans-give-the-best-cuddles]

Reading the Orchid Thief and lemme say. So fascinating to see someone like. Try to come up with a Reason Why humans like orchids. Two chapters here in a row pretty much treating Orchid hobbyists and plant hobbyists in general like one would an entirely alien culture- and don't get me wrong I understand why to an extent. Trying to make this book marketable outside just plant circles and what have you. But some of the way the camera is angled here is just. Fascinating.

Like, she explains how there are so many unique ways orchids evolved, as an attempt to contextualize for a reader why people might go crazy for them in specific, and describes individual species unique mating strategies, and the inability of them to self pollinate- but while I think that context is interesting it doesn't explain a damn thing. For one thing, having an extremely specific mating strategy is not solely an Orchid thing- a LOT of plants do it like that. Lots are flexible but I would say a vast swath are not and require specific things. For another- apples also don't self fertilize, but you don't have hundreds of thousands of apple varietal collectors.

She discusses their beauty as a reason they're collected- I won't deny that being a factor for sure, plants that humans like the shape of have a tendency to get collected and overcollected all the time- but like. A lot of people collect things that are traditionally ugly or even smell bad- and if it was exclusively a shallow pursuit, no one would work as hard as is required for an insane amount of orchids.

Part of the reasons orchids in particular are popular has to do with colonization. I can't articulate it all myself bc I haven't done research- but a genus that largely exists in tropical regions, that became popular in the late 1800s, that, in order to get in homes, white men would travel to all sorts of regions to take plants out of to get in the home? That is gonna help it get more popular than tomato or apple varieties for sure. I'm sure she's gonna touch on this eventually, given that the story she's covering actually involves the Seminole nation so I'm not holding it against her.

I suppose I'm just fascinated by her approach so far as to trying to understand why anyone would. Work to grow something? Really like something? I mean she pretty explicitly states that she "wants to want something" as much as these people want their plants- describes hobby communities and the idea of like. Working a hobby into your schedule or having friends related to the hobby as a "religion". She's baffled by like. Putting time and energy into a hobby and gaining joy and community from it and is trying to like. Break down orchids into their component parts to understand what makes someone. Want to grow a plant? And get community out of a hobby?

I'm going to be charitable and not make presumptions that she doesn't know like. The concept of loneliness and therefore a longing for community. Or that on some level she must know what common signs of autism are (ignoring her having spent several paragraphs describing several different people with classic signs and symptoms and then settling on "weird"). But it makes me want to turn the camera lens around for a moment. What makes someone presume that it's Orchid "obsession" (the word hobby is rather rare in the book acrually) that is particularly strange or more obsessed than other obsessions? What makes one abstract others hobbies and interests as needing a solve while the ones you surely have seen all over and even participated in aren't worth that examination? The line between "normal" and "abnomal" is entirely one made by dominant society

So this is why hobbies and kink aren't so different in the way they're perceived-

Orchids are an obsession to this author, to be highlighted and examined, or a hobby, to most people. They get a noteworthy category because they are seen as atypical. Sports-watching, however, is like. Never discussed as hobby. Watching football, watching soccer. It's just normal. No one says "that's my hobby." Even if a guy had a room full of memorabilia he would be noted as a "team fan" not a hobbyist. Sports has been declared normative, so it's not really considered a hobby by anyone. Plants? Non normative, therefore the same exact behaviors will get you considered unusual and a hobbyist.

Kink is the same way. People who are attracted to women being interested in breasts is so assumed to be normal and natural that no one calls it a kink. Breasts, the fatty deposits intended for feeding young, are expected to be hidden bc this kink (which everyone refuses to call a kink or a fetish or what have you) is seen as so universal. It's seen as immutable fact that there is a sexual nature to them. Feet however? If someone's into that that's a kink or a fetish if you're feeling kind, an obsession that makes you strange and worthy of examination and explanation if you're not.

I'm not arguing for doing away with calling things hobbies or kinks- I'm actually advocating for calling more normative things those words actually- I think it's just helpful to see where the framing of something, the way in which we choose to examine it, also has a lot to say about that which we leave unexamined, and unnamed. Because we don't categorize the normal.

[toestalucia]

this is the greatest event theyve ever written