#Seed to Seal

[ventii-impact]

mfw the lore behind wine (particularly dandelion wine) in genshin only serves to further reinforce venti's connection to memory and time and him being an alcoholic isn't just a funny character trait but also ties into his themes 🤯

[thegreatyin]

I want to give the scoundrel a little kiss on the forehead and tell them they're doing great, before vanishing never to be seen again. I want to see the long term effect of that. I think it would be funny.

there's a 50% chance they melt and go all lovey-dovey and a 50% chance they complain violently the minute you leave because you just LEFT IT THERE?? RUDE??? get back here and love them more immediately

[lady-bee-holmes]

Back by request with a new update on the whales, this time with this lad’s Final Ultimate Form!

The edging is done with size 11 glass seed beads. There’s two couched outlines and one picot edging. Needless to say, couching takes a very, very long time, lol 🐋

[perenlop]

It's such a crime that these pieces of official art were made but are never shown ingame anywhere and are mostly inaccessible to fans

[harocat]

Wanna write a canon divergent LBFAD fic where DFQC isn't sealed thirty thousand years ago, and Xiyun awakens way earlier, but I don't want to call her Xiyun instead of Xiao Lanhua even though that's the only name she'd have. I'll do it though.

Would you believe this is the biggest thing holding me back. I have hangups.

I've already created a convoluted (but logical, I swear!!) reason why DFQC calls her XLH as a nickname, at least.

Since there's a short(ish) plotline in it where Xiyun has a mortal incarnation, I also need a name for her there as well. I want to find something that sounds and looks at least a little bit similar to her actual name, so it isn't as jarring for readers to see her referred to by it.

[fallowfield]

what they have done was not approved by the vatican

[ commissions and ko-fi unavailable atm ]

[deputy-morgan-malone]

“Who is worthy to open the seals?” and “Another seal has been broken” and “set me a a seal upon thy heart, and as a seal upon thy arm”

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[passengerpigeons]

she jack my pine (P. banksiana) till my serotinous cone's sealing resin melts at 50°C (122°F) allowing my seeds to disperse and colonize shortly following a stand-clearing fire (Larsen & MacDonald 1998).

[lyonnerileyauthor]

as it's done every 100 years, you are given to the dragon prince in exchange for your kingdom's safety. your marriage will make him a king, and you'll help to continue his family line. the dragon prince wants as little to do with you as you do with him; this was forced upon both of you.

while the vows of marriage may be the accepted way to seal a marriage bond in your own country, it is not so in the land of the dragons. there, such lifelong vows can only be sealed with the body.

when you return to his homeland, the dragon prince leads you to a raised dais plush with pillows. surrounded by heads of state, he shoves that fat, textured cock of his inside you. in front of everyone, he begins to fuck you—but the deeper he sinks in, the more this perfunctory mating is driving him wild.

overcome by how blissful and wet and tight you feel, now he's rutting you, stifling your moans with his mouth, clutching you with his claws as you soak him up so sweetly. then, he fills you full with his seed while the other dragons watch, making sure all of it stays inside you.

now, the bond is truly sealed, and perhaps this marriage won't be so bad.

[nanamiscocksleeve]

Fresh Cream

Warnings: MDNI, PIV sex, creampies, pussy eating, cum eating, clit play

Sylus, who's a sucker for eating you out after giving you a creampie. His teeth are gritted as he sets up a delicious rhythm inside your gummy walls, engorged cockhead brushing your gpot with each stroke.

The way he grips you, fingers sinking into your soft skin, all the while growling his pleasure into your ear leave you weak in the knees, knowing how much you turn him on.

"Fuck, so tight for me kitten." His low, raspy voice fills your ear and you arch your back like an animal in heat, your cunt clenching around his hard velvety cock. A ring of cream gathers at the base of his erection, mewls of pleasure leaving your lips as his fingers start to toy with your sensitive clit, already tender from a previous orgasm.

The pads of his fingers are gentle on the swollen nub, gathering your combined fluids that are leaking onto his shaft and pushing it onto the throbbing bud in circles. Your body feels unbearably hot, feeling the warning flutters of your impending orgasm pulsing inside your pussy. A keening moan escapes you as his hips angle upwards and his tip kisses your cervix with each stroke.

Sylus lets out a guttural groan, then whispers hotly in your ear, "You're close. I can feel you on my cock. Are you gonna cum all over me?"

The words are so crudely stimulating and you manage to nod. "That's my good kitten. Go on now, show me how much you want it."

His balls slap against your folds with each thrust and the coaxing circles on your clit are overwhelming, and in no time at all you cum hard on his cock, walls spasming pleasurably as you savor your release, the breath tearing from your throat.

"I'm almost..." Sylus grunts, his hips stuttering to keep up his rhythm. "Kitten, you're going to hold whatever I give you."

Your mind is in a fucked haze, and you shake your head, trying to concentrate. "What?"

"Hold what I give you. I'm going to fill you, and when I pull out, I need you to clench as hard as you can. Hold it all in until I tell you to. Can you do that?" His voice is breathless like he's struggling to form the words.

You're confused but agree. "Ok. I'll hold it."

"Good girl." Sylus starts to rut into you with abandon, his hands tightening almost painfully around your waist, then with a growl of satisfaction, he buries himself to the hilt as his hot seed pours into you. You can feel him twitching inside you as he empties himself, then he strokes yuor back tenderly.

"Remember what I told you," he murmurs then slides out of your well-fucked hole, and you quickly tighten your walls, holding his seed as best as you can. Sylus ensures you're steady on your hands and knees before he slips between your thighs, his face underneath your glistening pussy. His lips kiss your messy folds while his tongue parts them and you clench tighter, trying not to relax too soon.

When his mouth is in position right under your core, his nose firmly lodged against your clit, he gives you a command, muffled against your moist cunt. "Unclench."

You relax, and immediately feel the sticky fluid drop down your wet channel, dripping it's way outside your body, then realize, with a jolt, what Sylus intended to do and it brings a blush to your face. His mouth opens to receive the sweet cream, catching the droplets on his tongue, savoring the taste as it slides down his throat. His lips seal around your hole and he sucks, drawing out every last drop he had given you, and your helplessly being tongue fucked, your clit bumping into his nose with each move.

Primal instinct takes over and you rock your hips on his face, enjoying the grinding friction, exposed and overstimulated but you can't stop yourself, unashamedly moaning his name, feeling so filthy knowing what he's drinking from you, and the combination is too much. With a cry, you cum on his face, and he eagerly laps up the liquidy juice like an offering.

You gaze down at his messy face, watching him lick his lips clean, ruby eyes glittering in a pussy drunk fog.

"Get some rest kitten. You'll need it if you plan to survive the next round."

© nanamiscocksleeve original work | no copying, plagiarizing or translating

@theimmortalbuns @sweets-kozume @supernaturalbaesduh @ladyparamount

[agatharkn3ss]

Nicky's Rio son too.

I feel there were so many lines that imply this and the finale is starting to make more sense - especially because the dandelion in the trial!

Jen explains that Green Craft™ is about the cycle of all living things - growth and decay in constant flow. So it's not just about dying but being born too.

So it would track that Rio's love for Agatha was so strong that it actually created life - Nicky. However, there would be consequences to this because proper balance had to be maintained somehow. Rio probably even warned Agatha about it, but Agatha always believes she is above the rules so in her head she probably thought she had every right to Nicky (maybe even her "prize" that she alludes to in their final confrontation). This would really add to Rio's hurt - Nicky was her son too. She thought she was giving Agatha a gift of life, but instead Agatha sees her as this cruel "evil" that "gave her nothing". To her Rio is the one who just "took."

It feels like it is also implied by Rio at the start of the episode when she says "This walk with another woman's son on a road that doesn't...". She could be referring to Nicky being her son.

But I think Agatha finally accepts her truth during the final trial when she sees the dandelion seed in her cameo. She even says "Out of Death - life" as she grows it because she finally understands the literal implications of that phrase.

That Dandelion is representation of Nicky. And sure enough, as soon as the flower grows and blossoms, it quickly enters the final stage - when it turns into the seeds that can be scattered by the wind again and continue the cycle of life. Because guess what, "dandelions produce seeds asexually by apomixis, where the seeds are produced without pollination, resulting in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent plant".

When Nicky is born, we could probably assume it was indeed asexual reproduction - Agatha says she didn't use a spell or incantation, but instead he was made from scratch (obviously a clever nod to his name). On one hand it could be read like Agatha is astonished how something this magical could happen without actually using any witchcraft. However, this also feels like a suggestion that maybe she is just amazed at how he could possibly exist. Kathryn Hahn in her recent interview alluded to how the witches didn't need men, babies were just born. So it was Rio's "dandelion seed" that made it happen.

It is the second characteristic of dandelion species is what seals the deal for me - "the offspring being genetically identical to the parent plant". Nicky as the offspring of Death needs bodies to survive in this realm. During his birth Rio says she can offer only time, because she can maintain the balance, as long as Nicky gets his bodies.

That's why she hates Rio and calls her evil - not because of Rio herself, but because of what her "genetics" did to Nicky. Agatha would rather have people believe that she is this evil witch killer that traded her child for the Darkhold, than anyone to know the awful truth that it was Nicky who was the cause of the killings.

In the flashbacks, there are those remarks about how they haven't "eaten for days" and that whenever Nicky was poorly he said he was hungry. Agatha said she couldn't create the food for him (and protect him from what's coming). She could've cooked that goat they had with them if they were really that hungry (btw, I still believe that goat is Senor Scratchy), but that wasn't the "food" that Nicky meant.

And just like Billy, Rio couldn't just take Nicky. He had to "turn himself in". It was his choice not to kill any more witches. On the day Nicky dies, he says "My mother needs me home". I think he is talking about Rio here, since he usually calls Agatha "Mama". This is the moment the decides for himself and goes home to Death.

I feel like this opens the possibility that we will indeed see Nicholas Scratch in the future (and have a role similar to the one in the comics). That maybe even he might not have "died" because he is an offspring of death, so he just exists in some Underworld realm, where he no longer needs bodies to survive. Maybe Agatha might have hoped that by killing more and more witches, she will bring Nicky back to life/this realm?

And the Ballad really was a protection spell she made for him too?

This would also be a more plausible explanation why Agatha went to kiss Rio when Billy asked "Is this how Nicky died?". I feel this was more of an apology to Rio for hating her for Nicky's treatment, because she finally understood why she had to do it?

[roseunspindle]

What I Watched in June 2023

Very good, loved it. ^_^

Poor Trunks (though I still wonder why during the androids reign of terror were theme parks and such still open?)

Not bad and I loved Mavela, but what was with him spying on our main girl, freaking her out via spying, and then pursuing her even though she said clearly she was engaged? kinda soured the movie for me a bit. 

this movie really made no sense?

watched episode 1, it was okay but didn’t really catch me

I’m up to episode 25 and I adore this!!!

still love it, 

neat

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[bogleech]

Holy shit this giant Himalayan “noble rhubarb” makes its own “greenhouse?!” the pale translucent leaves create an insulated sealed environment kept hot by the sun, and also its pollinators are fungus gnats that “parasitize” its own seeds almost like fig wasps!? wtf are any plants doing how are there just these guys around sometimes