#cattail!!

[xaeyrnofnbe]

yeah you could call me a gamer

[angelcake10023]

MK and Bai He sibling dynamic… my beloved…. 🩵💛

[bowiestarzzz]

😸

[tomohirosibuyahappyanimals]

香蒲 / Typha / Cattail / Bulrush

[microgeneration]

Farm Day (1991)

[garyzbathroom]

pumpkin carving

[ssseriema]

he looks pretty good for a dead witch <3

[vyva-melinkolya]

Ontario

[wings-of-fire-confessions]

Im owning up to this one lol

I don't get Cattail hate. Like why she should care about Clay, Mudwings allow there dragonets to raise themselves and the parents don't take a big role in there upbringing . It's just how her culture works. She is not a bad person for not acting like the average mother meeting her long lost son. And sure maybe selling him off wasn't the nicest thing to do knowing he would grow up away from his tribe and sibs but I'm sure the Talons would have stolen him anyway and she assumed Asha would be watching over him.

And I know when you read it from Clays perspective she is single handedly crushing all of his dreams about his parents and family and not the kind of mother he expected or wanted. She is not likeable to him because therefore she is not presented as likeable to us because the book is written in his perspective. But she is not a bad mother for Mudwing standards.

She is not mean or rude to him in any way she tells him the truth about what happened to his egg and how Mudwing culture works. She is kinda cold but its what Clay needs to hear. She's not going to pretend like she missed him or that Mudwings are loving parents to spare his feelings. She never uses her son's fame for her own gain or tries to take advantage of his attachment Not a big fan of her design in the comics tho.

I have also heard the take that Glory should have made the Rainwing keep and raise their own eggs After she became queen. I believe that there is nothing wrong with the way Rainwing raise their dragonets. None of the dragons in the rainforest seem neglected, unhappy or even care about their bioparents. (Except Glory but she got over it)It's much better then Sandwings that have starving orphans running around the Scorpions Den.

I would go on but this is getting long so I'll just say that Rainwings and Mudwings aren't bad parents.

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[loafbud]

I got a hc that Frye once tried to eat a cattail cause shiver once told them that they were corn dogs but they ended up with a mouthful of fluff instead

I like to think Frye thought it was a nice surprise!

[lake-lady]

[moonamite]

Choose which one gives you top surgery (or Who’s coming out crying first idk. The gay old farts are fighting.)

[diesel-fang]

Krampy <3

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

How much of our scientific thinking has an unconscious religious bias?

This is in response to this post, from @headspace-hotel, about campaigns to eradicate Hybrid Cattails as an "Invasive Species," even though both individual species hybridizing themselves are native plants (But I didn't want to muddy a discussion about science with a rant about religion. So: a separate post it is)

I sometimes wonder if our dominant views of "natural vs. unnatural/invasive" were shaped, are shaped, by the particular theologies of Protestant Christianity...

You Know, the theology that teaches / believes:

Our world was created by a single, all-knowing god

Humanity Fell by disobeying that god, and thus tainted the world with Sin (so Humans are now apart from Nature [aka the Garden of Eden])

The Protestant Christians fetishized the North American Continent as an example of what Eden was like "Before the Fall," and the people who were already living here were Noble Savages.*

So now, anything that evolves in response to human influence (such as brackish cattails hybridizing with freshwater cattails), is considered "unnatural," as if it's been tainted by our sin.

I sometimes wonder what our environmental understanding would be like in an alternate universe where the sciences had evolved in a polytheistic culture.** Would we be more generally accepting of the idea of coexisting forces constantly intertwining, and changing, rather than there being a single, fixed, "pure" world, that must be protected from contamination?

[BTW. I've become an atheist in this last third of my life, so I don't think any one religion is "more true" than any other: they're all metaphors that help us frame and understand the actual world we live in; they are very powerful metaphors, and for some, can be helpful and emotionally healthy ... for others, not so much.]

*(even though the abundant environment the colonizers found here was actually deliberately managed and curated by humans -- it's just that it wasn't managed in the form of fenced off square plots, and straight rows of crops).

**If you don't believe scientific thinking can evolve within a polytheistic paradigm, check out (what survives of) the writings of Democritus and Epicurus. Their philosophies weren't following what we now consider the Scientific Method, but they were already drifting in that direction.

[ruthytwoshakes]

Good morning americaaaa ka kaw!!!!! I’ve been gaming recently so. I made more . mor of the guys! In the style of the game I was playing!!! Woooohooooooo

I got Cattails: Wildwood for chrissmiss ,aand it’s been so much fun to play. It’s like stardew valley but with cats AND you get to design a whole town AND you can marry god. Think it’s still on sale on Steam for those who wanna check it out! Go check it out. Go che. Oh and on the switch B)

I made these first drafts tonight of some fan tf2 characters for the game! I can combine anything. Oorah. Still haven’t got the style of the game down, I’m too heavy handed on the lineart lol, but a good first attempt nonetheless! Definitely wanna revise some of these designs, looking at you pyro. Should be out soon! (Along with lore dumps for each of the kitty kittys yay)

[shrimpu-art]

Hunt. 

Illustration I painted back in 2019 for Cattails: Wildwood Story.