#ash bloom

[frogoru]

used this template so i could branch out a little bit... got it from this post

(elster from signalis, mitsuba sousuke from toilet-bound hanako-kun, camilla connor from i love amy, ashlyn gund from bloom, vaggie from hazbin hotel (i don't support viv btw i just like vaggie :sob:), and basil from omori)

[darkwingsnark]

Perfect families in your view, Makes you question what you knew. Kingliness when you’re a prince Makes it harder to convince Having the upper hand of a deal When ice cream for one lost its appeal.

Commission for the ever wonderful @pforest282, illustrating a scene from ‘Ashes That Made the Trees Bloom’.    

I recommend giving it a read, especially if you want to see the cutest portrayal of Baby Bowser I’ve ever seen.

[lgbtqreads]

Happy International Nonbinary Day 2024!

Early Reader Batcat by Meggie Ramm First in a full-color graphic novel series for emerging readers about accepting yourself and others from up-and-coming author-illustrator Meggie Ramm, creator of the comic strip The Littlest Dungeon Guard and cohost of the Pop! Whiz! Bang! comics podcast. Batcat loves being all alone in their home on Spooky Island. Up in their tree house, they pass the time…

[peterborough-scapes]

Bright White

The American Mountain Ash (Sorbus Americana) flowers at Jackson Park. ©2024 Ken Oliver

[ace-lost-in-motherfucking-space]

truly i am a huge fan of characters who need to crash out more often

[angelicdevil]

Commission info || Ko-Fi || Redbubble || Artfight

Put up all my SU OCs onto my Artfight, and damn do some people work fast because two of them got attacks almost as soon as they were uploaded

[isan0rt]

I saw your Dedue post you made recently and OMG THANK YOU SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT. I’d love to message you further about your other 3houses opinions cause gd your mind.

Honestly like lmao I wasn't specifically trying to call anyone out in particular but it's so so so hard to find interpretations of Dedue that like. Actually consider that perhaps he has complex reasons for talking about himself like he does before the time skip, that rationally follow from his experiences and aren't just like, oh he's got such poor self esteem. Dedue's not Bernadetta, he's as assertive as it's safe for him to be given PEOPLE EXPLICITLY WANT TO KILL HIM for just fucking existing.

If Dimitri wasn't protecting him he would have gotten straight up murdered well before he learned to tank as hard as he tanks, and that's not even counting that first time Dimitri intervened in people actively trying to murder Dedue after successfully murdering his family for the crime of Existing While From Duscur. Like, hello!!!! He's been isolated from his community, from his language, from his culture, surrounded by people who hate him, but with nowhere else to go. Literally everyone else he knew died and his homeland was burned to the ground.

Dimitri is the only person in the WORLD who wants him to live. Of course he's neurotic as fuck about Dimitri. Dimitri is literally all he has left in the world to cling to, and people keep trying to kill Dimitri! It's 100% reasonable for Dedue before the timeskip to feel like he has fucking nothing if he doesn't have Dimitri. Objectively that's true!!!

Like, after the timeskip, he comes back having spent time back among his own people, seeing that his culture isn't gone and he does have something to fight to preserve. He survives because his community comes to save him. He comes back wearing VERY expensive full-body armor (like for real that's absurd amounts of steel and master craftsmanship) with Duscur's motif enameled on the pauldrons, wearing Duscur-woven clothing and accompanied by a whole group of his countrymen fighting alongside him to reach Dimitri. His post-timeskip design screams that he's been reintegrated into his home culture. Of course he's in a better place after that!

None of his emotional development happens in a vacuum! Dedue struggles with his self-worth when he's cut off from his community, and is able to self-actualize only after reconnecting with his community. Azure Moon has so many themes about community healing after trauma, and about relying on support in order to lift all boats together. All the Lions start the game fractured and damaged because of the breakdown of the social contract in Faerghus and improve through Azure Moon by banding together and healing the fractured relationships. Dedue can't be his best self when he's isolated from his roots. Ignoring that I feel like really misses the themes Dedue brings to the table.

[landgraabbed]

[ultrabananapudding]

Clarachel | Halloween

Setting: Rachel buys rare ingredients from Clarice for her potion making business. The Forest Nymph doesn't ask for money as payment, so Rachel gets creative with what she could offer in return.

[can-i-use-ur-nuns-bog]

tagged by @capriclonus

rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favourite

this is a pretty unhinged selection so v curious as to the outcomes! honourable mentions in the tags cos i struggled with this 😅

tagging @chiefofboatwatsonstittymug @lizardkingeliot @inkandcayenne if you fancy it

[coolbonnieart]

Though I would show of a small animatic I've done for booming ashes ( my studio ghibli inspired pizza tower au)

Bonus doodles of "The man" ( aka the aus version of pizza head)

[darkcozyforest]

Slowly marking off my TBR pile on my nightstand

Thanks people for the book recs. I have finished the first three in this list. Let’s see how the rest go 🖤 📚 📖

[bcrnt-petcls]

❀

[irldragonart]

dont you love when a new character shows up just to mess up the already layed out story yet also add a fun new dimension to it

[wiproaringreading]

And my TBR for this month, January, for the 2nd for the JOMP involves finishing my library loans from... the end of November. And making the bed I guess.

[forecasts-daily]

11 PM : A gentle wind picks up what had been in bloom, crumbling in the air. Expect little to remain come the first light of dawn. Expect little to remain come morning.